While troops were being organized in Germany, the Chilean Civil War began.

On February 1, 1891, the Chilean parliamentarians declared President Balmaceda unconstitutional, and formed the Chilean Revolutionary Council, which began to carry out administrative and state affairs independently of the Balmaceda government, and Monte became the chairman of the committee. The parliamentary faction and the presidential faction officially turned face.

Immediately after becoming chairman of the Commission, Monte issued the Joint Declaration of the Chilean Navy on State Matters, calling for the resignation of President Balmaceda. Balmaceda did not sit still, and the Chilean Army, loyal to the president, quickly began to assemble, and a large number of armed militias began to operate.

In response, Monte went to Iquique, the capital of the Parliamentary stronghold of the Tarapacá region, and the Chilean Navy was put on full alert, and the situation in Chile was on the verge of eruption.

In order to control the naval fleet in the port of Valparaíso, the presidential army from the capital Santiago launched several attacks on Valparaíso, but in the face of the counterattack of the prepared naval garrison, all of them were in vain. In order to avoid the naval fleet falling into the hands of the army. Monte immediately ordered all the ships to leave the port and head north to Iquique, the capital of Chile's northernmost Tarapaca district, where the Chilean Civil War broke out.

Later, the president from Santiago sent the most elite 5,000 Chilean troops to attack Valparaíso, and Valparaiso was lost. After capturing Valparaiso and clearing the parliamentary forces near the capital, the presidential army shifted its objectives and prepared to attack Antofagasta, a town with a large number of pro-parliamentarian merchants and aristocrats. As the support of Balmaceda was only the underclass that benefited from his reforms. As a result, Balmaceda has no source of funding. Antofagasta, on the other hand, had a large number of aristocrats, landlords, and merchants, and the capture of it would solve the problem of funding for the president's faction.

The parliamentarians, of course, could not give up here, after receiving the weapons and ammunition from Germany. After a simple reorganization and training of the formed parliamentary army, these poorly trained cannon fodder were sent to Antofagasta.

Just when the parliamentarians were feeling powerless in the face of the offensive of the presidential army. A German advisory group arrived in Iquique. For a mere 500-strong force, the parliamentary faction did not actually pay attention to it. However, as the chairman of the Revolutionary Committee, Montt still had to make a difference, so he personally went to the port to meet the German advisory group that arrived.

As soon as he arrived at the port, Monte met the German advisors, who had disembarked and had finished their procession. For a moment, Monte didn't know how to describe the small force in front of him.

The 500 men were dressed in two uniforms, apparently not from the same unit, and the uniforms they wore looked strange, unlike the Chilean army in bright uniforms, which were all dressed in green with mottled color blocks. The same military uniform with mottled color blocks, a small half of the 500 people was different from the others.

Each of the 500 people carried a bulging backpack. But some of those small groups had a seafarer's bag at their feet, which was also stuffed to the brim. The crates that were constantly being removed from the ship were supposed to contain their weapons. I don't know what to bring with me to fill two bags.

Even more bizarre: Some of them are holding their weapons directly. Although it was contained in a cloth bag with the same mottled patches, Monte could guess from the length that it might be a rifle. But others did not carry weapons with them in this way. And it seems abrupt that the rifle is preserved in such a special way.

The 500 men stood quietly on the docks, not making a sound, not making a movement, a feeling that was hard to describe in words, but Monte knew that this was the elite of the German army. And the elite marines in his eyes, although he can't say what is inferior to the Germans in front of him, but Monte does have a feeling that he can't compare.

The lead officer of the German advisory group was a German Army colonel named Remos von Wolch, who introduced himself as a staff officer of the German Army General Staff. Among the 500 men were from the German Army and the German Marine Corps. Due to Jochen's pursuit of the need for mysticism in special forces, the name KSK is not intended to be disclosed to the public, and it is classified as a member of the Marine Corps.

Fifteen army officers and five naval officers, including Walsh, will remain in Iquique as part of the German Military Advisory Corps with Monte. Among the remaining troops, a reinforced company of some Army and Marine Corps personnel would go to Antofagasta to assist and direct the revolutionary troops in defending the city. The remaining part of the Marines would move freely under the command of German officers.

It was not surprising that the Germans did not listen to their commands, and Monte was naturally prepared. Walch said that because of the long journey by sea, the German soldiers needed three days to rest and recuperate, and then they would set off. Monte nodded in agreement, and said that the Germans could ask him for anything, and then asked his lieutenant to lead the Germans to a makeshift camp to rest.

The 480 German soldiers, as in the procession, followed the Chileans to the camp in a neat and silent manner. Over the next three days, Monte received a report that none of the Germans had left the camp, and that they had been very disciplined every day in getting up, practicing, eating, resting, and then tidying up all kinds of things, very honestly. This made Monte even more interested in these strange Germans.

Three days later, the 480 men set out early in the morning, and the 480 people were divided into two phalanxes, one with a larger group and the other with a smaller team. The larger group was made up of a mixture of men in two uniforms, and after three days of communication with the German advisory group, Monte was able to tell where they belonged.

Those who wore what was known as the European tricolor camouflage uniform were from the Army, while those who wore what was known as the four-color jungle camouflage were from the Marine Corps. They all wore helmets wrapped in cloth of the same color as the clothes on their bodies, and wore the same harness and backpack. The strange and bits and pieces he carried were all the same.

However, the helmets of the Marine Corps and the Army are slightly different, and the weapons they carry are also somewhat different. The weapons in the hands of the Germans consisted of rifles, machine guns, some round tubes and brackets, and a type without a bolt and with a larger caliber, as if firing black. Firearms with gunpowder bullets.

On the other side, there were fewer people, and the group, all dressed in Marine Corps uniforms, was even stranger. They did not wear helmets, but rather flattened round-brimmed hats of the same color as their uniforms. He wears a strange waistcoat full of pockets, and a glove made of leather and braid that exposes the index finger and thumb of his right hand. Those with weapons in bags also belong to this group. These are of course the KSK on whom Jochen has high hopes.

As the most elite equipment in Germany. It was also the KSK that carried out the most dangerous infiltration missions, when there were no assault rifles and submachine guns as melee weapons, and the Maxim machine gun had a long way to lose weight. KSK does not have any heavy weapons, and the only high-powered weapon is a grenade.

Complementing its melee weapons, the KSK is heavily equipped with the latest Fli.88 pump-action shotgun (Note 1), which is what Alvarez sees as a strange firearm. And every soldier wore an M1883 revolver. The M1883 is a modification of the M1879 Imperial revolver, which is said to be an improvement, that is, the barrel length is not the same. Jochen was very dissatisfied with the fact that he had to first pull out the axle pins and then take out the empty shells one by one to reload.

Jochen's original idea was to go to the United States to buy a Colt revolver, but it was clear that this mention could not be used. Fortunately, the 10.6x25 pistol rounds fired were so powerful that Jochen had to compromise and let all KSK soldiers carry such a stupid thing, and the only thing Jochen could do was equip each soldier with a revolver rapid loader, and the specially made zuò revolver holster could fit three quick loaders into it, so as to save the pain of reloading one round after another.

In addition to weapons, KSK is also extremely thoughtful in other equipment. Fighting knives, crossbows, compasses, binoculars, insect repellent potions, and even castanets for making secret signals are all available.

Looking at the oddities of these geared Germans, and thinking about their "elite" marines who only had Spencer rifles, oh, now reequipped with German Gew.81s, and wore simple military uniforms, it suddenly occurred to Monte that maybe this German unit of less than 500 men might really make a big difference.

Walch told Monte that the reinforced company, which was larger, would set off for Antofagasta with the Chilean marines, while the remaining group would continue south as an advisory observation mission, landing in Lower Carisal, and then disperse to conduct reconnaissance missions in the direction of Coquimbo under the command of the president.

For this kind of mission to penetrate deep into the enemy line, Monte saw it no different from sending him to death. But the Germans were willing to do so, and they couldn't intervene themselves. So I could only say a few polite words wishing them a triumphant return.

Then all the Germans and Chilean marines boarded the transport ship and then went to Antofagasta under the escort of the Chilean Navy.

The journey was smooth and after reaching Antofagasta to unload the combined reinforced company of the German Army and Marines, the transport continued south, reaching the sea off Lower Karisal during the night. This is a nondescript seaside town, because there are no port facilities, and in order not to be discovered, KSK disembarks 5 nautical miles offshore, lands in a dinghy, and buries the dinghy on the spot after landing. After then gathering together and regrouping in the night three weeks later, they dispersed into several teams and infiltrated into the night, disappearing into the dense jungles of Chile.

Note 1: Fli, the first three letters of the German shotgun Flinten, was actually not equipped with a shotgun in Germany until the end of World War II. Although the M30 three-hole survival gun equipped by pilots in World War II also fired 12-gauge shotguns, it was actually ** plus a barrel that could fire rifle bullets. Therefore, it is difficult to count it as a complete shotgun. So Germany does not have an official number and abbreviation for shotguns. The shotguns now equipped by the Federal Republic of Germany are directly under the original model designation. In this case, Fli is used as the number of standard shotguns.