Not long after the gunshots rang out, Li Mingyuan heard the news from Wang Xiaoshan.

"Order, Chen Guozhu, Zhang Ansong to attack the mine gate immediately."

The situation on the battlefield is changing rapidly, a little hesitation may bury a force, with the sound of gunfire, the troops in the mine must rush to the city gate for reinforcements, the more enemy reinforcements, the greater the difficulty for the Taiping army to capture the mine, so although the strong attack will pay heavy casualties, Li Mingyuan can only give a decisive order.

The reason why Li Mingyuan prepared to lead the Chinese workers to riot in two months was actually a decision made after careful consideration.

The Paraguayan War, which began in 1864, had been going on for more than three years, and over the course of more than three years, both sides had paid a large number of casualties.

As the initiator of the war, Paraguay suffered more than half of the casualties, from 520,000 before the war, to only 200,000 at the end of the war, and only more than 10,000 adult men were among them, and Paraguay almost destroyed the country.

The current president of Paraguay, Andrés López Jr., is still facing off against Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay, but a few months later the war led to a crushing defeat for the Paraguayan army and the occupation of the capital by Brazil.

Li Mingyuan wanted to take advantage of Paraguay's ability to support it, gather more than 100,000 Chinese workers in Peru, and form an alliance with Paraguay at a critical moment.

According to Li Mingyuan's memories of his previous life, two months later, Argentina and Uruguay would withdraw from the war because they could not bear the losses, leaving only the Brazilian army to attack Paraguay.

At this time, Brazil was the weakest, because although Brazil was huge, the more than 20 states that made up Brazil had a great deal of independence, and the Brazilian emperor, as the leader of the central government, had little control over the following states, and if history did not change, the Brazilian emperor would be overthrown by the Brazilian states more than ten years later.

The Paraguayan war was supported and opposed, and the Brazilians did not start the war as hard as they expected, and tens of thousands of Brazilians were killed and wounded in order to carry out the war.

Unlike in the 21st century, South America is now dominated by white immigrants, and those who can join the army are local whites, and in order to maintain white dominance, each country in South America will leave enough troops to deter Indians and black slaves.

If the white casualties are too great, it will shake the foundations of the country's rule, and then the oppressed Indians and blacks will rise up in rebellion.

The reason why the war can continue is that the proponents of the war see the hope of victory, and now that the war is stopped, the Brazilians cannot stand it, and the materials and other necessities consumed by the war are bought by them by pledging their national interests to the European powers, and if they cannot achieve victory, then their losses will be too great.

In fact, the Paraguayan War can be said to be a lose-lose war, after the war, Paraguay collapsed, and Brazil's economy also suffered a huge blow, before the war Brazil's rapid economic development, per capita income reached the average level of European countries, but after the war, Brazil in addition to getting some land, but also paid huge casualties, the process of national modernization was interrupted, the original rich country was burdened with a huge amount of foreign debt, so that Brazil missed the golden time of development, reduced to the economic colony of European countries.

The European powers did not want to see a strong Brazil rise, and Li Mingyuan used this opportunity to help Paraguay eliminate the invading Brazilian main force, and then occupy the southernmost province of Rio Gran do Sul as a base without too much interference.

The European powers hope that Brazil will be as chaotic as possible, and as long as the Taiping Army led by Li Mingyuan resists the counteroffensive of the Brazilian army and proves its strength, the European powers will also be happy to see it.

With the existence of Li Mingyuan's forces, Brazil will be more dependent on the European powers, European countries have been fighting for thousands of years, and what they are best at is balancing, if Li Mingyuan behaves deferentially and protects their interests, they will not take action against the Taiping army.

"Shizi, the enemy's firepower is very strong, and Uncle Chen asks to slow down the attack." The herald's words interrupted Li Mingyuan's thoughts.

"Go, follow me to the front." Li Mingyuan waved his hand, and the reserve soldiers behind him quickly followed.

In front of the position, five or six cannons of the stone tower attacked the Taiping soldiers under the city, and the soldiers who were hit by the cannons and muskets constantly fell on the way to attack.

"Shizi, the enemy's firepower is too fierce, and a strong attack will lead to huge casualties." Chen Guozhu's face was blackened by the artillery fire, and he said excitedly.

Li Mingyuan looked at the artillery that kept firing, and said to the artillery platoon commander without turning his head, "Cannon, are you sure that you will bombard the six cannons on the city gate for me." ”

"Shizi, the city gate is too far away for our artillery to reach."

"Damn" Li Mingyuan cursed, feeling aggrieved,

The quality of the munitions bought from the Prussians was indeed good, but there was no heavy artillery for the siege, and time was running out, and if the tower could not be taken quickly, the siege would have failed when the Peruvian reinforcements arrived.

"Uncle Chen, we can't wait, the longer it drags on, the more unfavorable it will be for us, I order everyone to prepare to attack immediately."

"Shizi ......, if you lay down the mine like this, the brothers won't have much left." Zhang Ansong persuaded.

Li Mingyuan exhaled lightly and kept his brain sane,

"Uncle Zhang, Uncle Chen, the Taiping soldiers sitting here are all my brothers, I know that a strong attack will pay a lot of casualties, but if we don't do this, we will only have a dead end in the end, between life and death, there is no room for women's benevolence, immediately I will personally lead everyone to attack the city, if it fails, I will accompany everyone to die together."

"The ,...... of the Prince"

"I've made up my mind, don't persuade me again."

"Yama, check the weapon, as soon as my pistol goes off, all charge"

"Yes" Wang Dashan shouted, looking at Li Mingyuan with a firm gaze.

"Shizi, you see, the Peruvians themselves fought." Li Mingyuan took out his pistol, and was just about to give the order to attack with all his staff, when he heard an excited voice, and when he looked up, a fierce exchange of fire sounded in the rear of Peru, and the city gate slowly opened to reveal more than a dozen Chinese figures.

"Brothers, the Chinese brothers in the city have opened the city gates, everyone rush with me." Li Mingyuan shouted, and the Taiping soldiers next to him noticed the changes on the city wall and immediately rushed up.

The city gate was opened, the Peruvian army on the city wall was obviously out of proportion, and hurriedly sent more than 100 soldiers down to support, at the moment, the Taiping soldiers quickly rushed up, a row of bullets hit over, the Peruvian army near the city gate was killed and wounded more than 20 people, and the remaining Peruvian soldiers saw that there was no hope of seizing the door, and ran back in a swarm.

Because of the help of the Chinese in the city, the Taiping army captured Duraya without paying heavy casualties.