After successfully capturing the second line of defense, the attacking Chinese soldiers rested for half an hour and launched an attack on the third line of defense of the Bolivians.

The third line of defense was close to the mountain city of El Alto, and the number of Bolivian soldiers defending the city reached 800.

The attacking Chinese Independence Army soldiers cooperated with each other, using the tactics of the morning to deplete the number of Bolivian soldiers little by little, and after an hour of fighting, the Bolivian troops with 200 casualties had to withdraw from the defensive line and retreat to the city in order to preserve their strength.

With three lines of defense in one day, the rapid offensive ability of the Chinese Independence Army (CIA) startled Melgarejo, who had arrived in La Paz, and he personally ordered the lord of El Alto to defend the mountain city and not to go out of the city to engage the Chinese Independence Army.

After losing the first battle, the weaker side often took the initiative to attack the enemy by night attack, but the defender of El Alto, after receiving a strict order from Melgarejo, gave up his intention to go out of the city at night to recapture the defensive line, and mobilized the Bolivian young men in the city to help defend the mountain city, repelling the subsequent attack of the Chinese Independent Army.

For two days, the two sides engaged in more than a dozen battles around El Alto, but no progress was made, and the situation entered a stalemate.

When the strong attack failed, Li Mingyuan gave up his plan to capture the city of El Alto in a short period of time, sent troops to block the passage between La Paz City and El Alto, and at the same time reconnoitred the cavalry out to investigate the movements around La Paz.

The night was dark, the cold moon was high, and two figures sneaked out of the woods and headed for the mountain road to La Paz.

"Dengden," the sound of the horse's hooves sounded from far and near, and for a moment surrounded the two men.

"Sneaking around in the middle of the night, it must be a spy who delivered the news to the city of La Paz, tell me honestly, who sent you?"

The Chinese cavalry led by the Chinese cavalry pointed at the two men with their sabers, and regardless of whether they could understand it or not, shouted in Chinese.

In the last two days, the soldiers of the reconnaissance battalion have found seven Bolivian troops that have rushed to support, with a small number of four or five hundred people and a maximum of one or two thousand, but they have all been annihilated by the Chinese troops deployed on the periphery.

"No, we are not the president's subordinates, we were sent by General Adolfo to cooperate with your army."

To the surprise of the cavalry officer, the surrounded Bolivians were able to understand what he was saying.

"Squad leader, they won't lie to us for their lives, will they?" A cavalryman said uncertainly.

The cavalry officer nodded, feeling that what his subordinates said made sense,

Approaching two Bolivians on horseback, raise your whip to teach them a lesson.

"No, I'm not lying, I'm really a messenger sent by General Adolfo." Seeing that the whip was about to hit him, the Bolivian hurriedly argued.

"Who is General Adolfo? Why did he work with us? The cavalry officer lowered the whip in his hand and asked.

"I can't tell you, I can't tell you until I see your leader."

Fearing that the news would leak out, Adolfo waited until four days after Melgarejo left Sucre before launching a rebellion under the central part of the coalition army and engaging the remaining forces loyal to Melgarejo.

Melgarejo supported the city of La Paz and took most of Sucre's troops with him, but later the war was unfavorable, and Melgarejo continued to draw troops from Sucre, resulting in a lack of Sucre defenders, and was suddenly succeeded by Adolfo's rebellion.

Adolfo took one day to capture Sucre, and in the early stage of spreading Melgarejo in Sucre City to sign a traitorous treaty, he did not encounter much obstacle when launching a rebellion, and quickly quelled Melgarejo's forces in the city.

In initial control of Sucre, Adolfo sent three groups of messengers to contact the Chinese Independence Army, and the cavalry cavalry encountered two Bolivians were the first to set out.

The cavalry officer interrogated the Bolivians again, and when he had no useful information from them, he handed them over to his commander.

Adolfo's capture of Sucre could not be concealed from Melgarejo, and upon receiving the news, Melgarejo immediately summoned his generals to an emergency meeting.

"Adolfo and Frías launched a rebellion, General Sama was ambushed by the rebels unexpectedly, the remaining troops were all wiped out, and Sucre has now fallen into the hands of the rebels, you all discuss, what to do?"

Melgarejo finished speaking, staring at the dozen Bolivian generals in the hall.

The news of Sucre's fall was so sudden that if it hadn't been announced by Melgarejo himself, they would have thought it was a prank.

"President, General Sama has two thousand soldiers under his command and a thousand security forces to assist, how can he be defeated by Adolfo!" A fat man with a fat face said angrily.

"Hmph, Sama is a fool, half of his 2,000 soldiers were rebelled by Adolfo, and he was killed by a black gun in the back when he led his troops to quell the rebellion." Melgarejo said resentfully.

Sama died too much, and none of the Bolivian generals present sympathized with him, blaming him for Sucre's fall, and scolding Sama for being a fool and not even controlling his own subordinates.

"President, the rebels have just captured Sucre, and we should take advantage of the rebels' unstable foothold and quickly send troops to recapture Sucre to minimize the impact of this matter."

As Melgarejo's own brother, Baliviaan's current position and power are all due to Melgarejo, so while the other generals were still arguing, he was the first to propose what he had suggested.

It is necessary to go back to quell the rebellion, and the key is what to do about the defense of La Paz after taking away the army.

Bolivia's army is undernumbered, the previous president reformed the economy and eliminated a large number of troops, and Melgarejo has been busy pacifying the country's generals since he came to power, and has not had time to expand the army, so the current dilemma of overstretched troops.

Melgarejo glanced at the Bolivian generals in front of him, his brow furrowed even deeper.

Thirteen generals, except for their younger brother and three cronies, the others sat firmly in their seats despite their angry expressions.

Melgarejo understands what they think, anyway, everyone is a big warlord with real power, and whoever comes to power must win them over, otherwise without their support, neither Melgarejo nor Adolphus will want to sit firmly on the presidential throne under their butts.

Melgarejo was disgusted with these two-sided grass, but he himself was the spokesperson chosen by these Corowi.

If you offend them, you will be immediately ousted by their joint efforts without Adolfo's crusade, so although she is dissatisfied with them, Melgarejo does not dare to attack.

Fighting brothers, this sentence applies everywhere, it is impossible to expect the warlords who are firmly in their respective positions to help them fight against Adolfo, and with these warlords on the battlefield, Melgarejo is also worried that they will turn against the water halfway, give themselves a black gun in the back, and end up with the same fate as Sama.

After much consideration, Melgarejo decided to send 3,000 soldiers under Balivian and 2,000 under his own command to counterattack Sucre and put an end to the rebellion started by Adolfo.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the situation is urgent, I have decided to take 5,000 troops to quell the rebellion, and the rest of the troops to defend La Paz City and El Alto, and the specific matters will be discussed and decided by Medellín and the generals."

La Paz was an important base for Melgarejo, and after the transfer of Balliviaan, he had to leave a trusted subordinate to guard La Paz, so Melgarejo left his close subordinate Medellín to command his army in La Paz.

The transfer of 5,000 troops had some impact on the defense of La Paz City, but after mobilizing the city's residents to assist in the defense, the gap in strength was completely filled, so the general who was present nodded in agreement with Melgarejo's arrangement.

When it mattered, after Ballevian selected 3,000 soldiers and handed over the remaining forces to Medellín,

and Melgarejo made peace, and rushed to Sucre overnight.