In the cold wilderness of the mountains, a long army walked into the avenue between the two mountains.

Dadini's 30,000 men were Pedro's descendants, and the troops were better equipped than the average local army, but they were slightly less than the rearmed Chinese Independence Army field troops.

Pedro, as the president of Peru, has to maintain a large army, and the huge military expenditure makes it impossible for him to purchase military equipment on a large scale, so among the 30,000 Peruvian troops, there are 2,000 cavalry troops, and the artillery scale is not large.

In this nighttime attack on the Chinese Independence Army, Dadiny brought out 20,000 soldiers, and the remaining 10,000 remained in Arequipa to consolidate the newly regained lost territory.

Dadini marched in the center of the army with 2,000 cavalry, when smoking earthen grenades were thrown into the Peruvian army.

The grenade has a long history, first invented by the Chinese.

Grenades filled with black powder appeared in Europe in the 15th century, when they were mainly used for fortress defense and prisons.

In the mid-17th century, some European countries equipped their elite units with field grenades, and called soldiers who were specially trained to use such ammunition grenadiers.

By the 19th century, with the development of guns and the reduction of castle offensive and defensive battles, grenades were once given a cold reception.

In the Russo-Japanese War of 1904, grenades played a role on the battlefield again. In World War I, grenades were widely used due to the rise of trench trenches.

The grenades used in the ambush of the Peruvian army were urgently processed and produced by Li Mingyuan on the orders of the Arequipa military factory.

In Li Mingyuan's original plan, he wanted to customize grenades to Western countries, but after discussing with Liu Pu and others, Li Mingyuan decisively gave up this idea.

Because the manufacture of grenades is simple, only three parts are required: gunpowder, iron shell and fuse, and any small arms workshop can complete the manufacture of grenades.

During the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the Taiping army used the same principle to fill gunpowder in iron coffins and bury it under the city wall to blow up the city wall.

After listening to Liu Pu's explanation, Li Mingyuan also recalled that in the past, when the Chinese New Year was celebrated in the countryside, many children dismantled the firecrackers they had picked up, poured gunpowder into a small iron box, and then added firecrackers to ignite the core, the sound was huge and the power was not small.

The grenade used this time was made of black powder, and the power was slightly different from that of grenades made of high-performance explosives.

After the explosion of this kind of grenade, it is generally divided into seven or eight fragments, which is difficult to kill the enemy directly, but it can cause a lot of damage to the enemy and make the enemy temporarily incapacitated.

The smoking grenade caught the attention of the Peruvian soldiers, who had just picked up the grenade that had been thrown at their feet when they heard a deafening explosion and fell to the ground and rolled back and forth.

As the first grenade exploded, explosions continued to sound in the Peruvian army dozens of miles long,

The roar startled the two thousand cavalry of the Peruvian army, and Dadini's horse was frightened, and he jumped forward and flipped Datini off his horse.

Fortunately, the guards around him were quick to pull Datini out, otherwise Dadini might have become the first Peruvian general to die from a horse kick.

The grenades were thrown by the Chinese troops who were ambushed in the middle of the mountain, 3,000 soldiers, each throwing five grenades, and 15,000 grenades were thrown in two minutes, which immediately disrupted the formation of the Peruvian army.

The reconnaissance battalion and the special brigade were concentrated in the central part of the ambush position, and after the grenade was thrown, six hundred soldiers of the special brigade and the reconnaissance battalion appeared from their hiding places and quickly rushed to the main road in the mountains.

While the Peruvian soldiers were still stunned, they rushed to them and used their rifles and broadswords to kill the enemy in front of them.

The Chinese Independence Army chose the mountain road for ambush, which was about 400 meters wide, in which the Peruvian army lined up with 30 men in each line and marched within 100 meters of the center of the mountain road.

The 100-meter radius on either side of the mountain road was rough and full of rubble, which made it difficult for the Peruvian army to march and hindered the Chinese Independence Army's attack.

The special forces soldiers were good at camouflage and concealment, and they used boulders and pits to evade the search of Peruvian vigilant soldiers, so when they cut the Peruvian army in two, the Chinese soldiers who were lying in ambush halfway up the hill had not yet rushed down the hillside.

After the initial attack of the Chinese Independent Army, the Peruvian army quickly reacted, and at the interface that was cut in half by the special forces, the Peruvian troops in the front and rear gathered five or six hundred soldiers to attack the special forces.

The mountain road occupied by the special brigade and the reconnaissance battalion is about 300 meters long, and the soldiers of the special brigade are responsible for the Peruvian soldiers on the east side of the mountain road, and the reconnaissance battalion is responsible for the Peruvian troops on the west side of the mountain road.

"Bang Bang," a hundred rifles fired at the same time, and the Peruvian army attacking the reconnaissance battalion immediately fell sixty or seventy soldiers, and the offensive formation of the Peruvian army was relatively concentrated, and the first round of shooting made the soldiers in front fall a small half,

But these Peruvian soldiers seemed to suddenly become brave, stepping on the corpses of the dead Peruvian soldiers in front of them, and continued to rush forward.

"The first row of musketeers crouched, and the second row of muskets fired."

The Chinese officer commanding the battle calmly issued the order, and the musketeer, who had finished firing, quickly crouched down, put down the musket in his hand, and took out the grenade that he was carrying in his waist.

Special forces soldiers charge ahead, it is inconvenient to carry heavy weapons,

In order to avoid casualties, Li Mingyuan equipped each special forces soldier with 10 grenades, and as long as the special forces soldiers delayed the Peruvian army for three minutes, the Chinese troops on the mountainside would be able to rush to the battlefield and complete the operational purpose of encircling the Peruvian army.

The Chinese Independence Army ambushed 20,000 troops, and although the number of Peruvian troops was less than Li Mingyuan's estimate, if they were to eat them all, the Chinese Independence Army would have to pay some price.

Therefore, in Li Mingyuan's plan, the Peruvian army was divided into two parts by using the offensive of the special forces, and the superior forces were concentrated to eat the Peruvian army in front and let go of the Peruvian army behind.

After three rounds of musket fire, the Peruvian army attacked within fifty or sixty meters of the soldiers of the reconnaissance battalion, and at this time, the soldiers of the reconnaissance battalion also suffered more than a dozen casualties.

"Release," the reconnaissance battalion commander threw a grenade, and then the sound of "boom" reached the ears of the attacking Peruvian soldiers.

The sound of "boom" continued to sound on the mountain road of more than 100 meters, and when the sound passed, none of the Peruvian soldiers attacking in front of the reconnaissance battalion could get up again, and all of them lay on the ground and screamed in pain.

The resistance of the soldiers of the special task force and the reconnaissance battalion bought time for the Chinese soldiers on the mountainside,

By the time the Peruvian army on the opposite side of the reconnaissance battalion organized another attack, the Chinese soldiers on the mountains on both sides had already rushed to the mountain road.

The earth-shattering shouts of killing reached the ears of the Peruvian army as the Chinese soldiers slaughtered down the mountainside, and as far as the eye could see, there were countless Chinese soldiers on both sides of the mountain road.

It was dark at midnight, and the Peruvian soldiers who were rushing to kill on the mountain road only thought that the mountains were full of Chinese troops, and the courage to attack had just been forced by the commander with a gun disappeared in an instant, and they turned around and retreated.

"The general is still in the encirclement of the rebels, and he is not allowed to retreat." Commanding the assault on the reconnaissance battalion's position were Dadini's cronies, who were in a hurry to shout and waving his short gun in his hand when he saw that the rebels were growing stronger.

The gunfire and explosions on the mountain road were so loud that the Peruvian soldiers who had retreated in front could not hear the commander's shouts at all, and continued to retreat.

"Bang Bang Bang" A volley of muskets fired at the retreating Peruvian soldiers, and suddenly a group of soldiers fell.

"Resist it all for me, if you don't rescue the general, you will all be finished." After a burst of gunshots, the Peruvian officer wielding a short gun was shouting wildly, and suddenly one shot at him, and the Peruvian officer immediately lost his voice and fell straight down.

The shot was fired by a platoon commander of the reconnaissance battalion, whose identity was revealed by the shouting of Peruvian officers, which led to the early end of his life.

"Well done, I'll give you credit after the battle." The reconnaissance battalion commander happily patted him on the shoulder and encouraged.

"Thank you, Battalion Commander." The Chinese platoon commander said with a smile.

Without the officer's command, the Peruvian soldiers, who did not want to fight hard, suddenly had no worries, no longer considered Datini who was trapped in the encirclement of the Chinese troops, and spread his legs and retreated to the back.

The Peruvian army lined up in a long queue of more than 20 miles, and when the front army was attacked by the Chinese Independent Army, there were still many soldiers behind who did not enter the ambush circle.

The Peruvian soldiers who fled in front disrupted the formation of the army behind, and listening to the exaggerated news from the fleeing soldiers, many Peruvian soldiers followed and retreated.

Then the Peruvian soldiers, who could not figure out the reality of the Chinese troops, were carried back with them, and by the time the news reached the Peruvian officers in command in the rear, Datini had become a prisoner of war of the Chinese Independence Army.

Although the Chinese Independence Army has scavenged a lot of war horses, because it has to go through thousands of kilometers of transfer, the number of military horses and pack horses is naturally as large as possible.

Dadini, who had been saved by his men, did not escape the fate of being captured, and when the two thousand Peruvian cavalry had just entered the ambush circle, they were noticed by the ambushed troops.

As soon as the battle began, many Chinese soldiers first rushed towards the Peruvian cavalry, the narrow mountain road was not suitable for the cavalry to deploy, and the violent explosion made most of the Peruvian cavalry lose control of the horses.

Therefore, the first thing the Chinese soldiers who rushed down the mountainside was not the charging Peruvian cavalry, but the war horses that were startled by the explosion and ran back and forth.

Controlling the surviving Peruvian cavalry, Datini was surrounded by a group of Chinese soldiers in a small space, and Datiny, who knew the times, did not choose to die honorably, decisively identified himself to the Chinese soldiers, and then laid down his arms and surrendered.