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"How's it going?"

Li Mo put down the book, looked up at Chen Ping who walked in, and frowned.

"I just received a telegram from Simmons that Zhao Long and his team had landed in Pisagua five hours ago without resistance, and that the troops had canceled their rest and began to move south along the railway line, and according to my calculations, they could reach Iquique in one day at most."

"Where's Iquique?"

"There's no word yet, but according to Simmons, the people from the Political Axe Army should have been there three days ago, and now." Chen Ping looked at the watch with his surname: "It should have started." ”

Li Mo was in a trance, although the speed of the telegraph was also very fast, it always made him feel out of control, and it seemed that this situation would have to wait until the radio application to change.

By the way, has radio appeared these days?

Young Master Li shook his head and drove the chaotic thoughts out of his mind: "Where is that Monte General?" ”

"Monte and his fleet have escaped from Valparaiso and are currently on their way here, and are expected to be here in a few hours, and two thousand Army and two thousand Marines organized by Congress have begun to move north, but ......."

"But what?" Hearing that Chen Ping suddenly stopped narrating, Li Mo hurriedly raised his head.

A wry smile appeared at the corner of Chen Ping's mouth: "Young Master, I think we made a wrong prediction." ”

"Wrong!" It must be a big thing to be said to be wrong by Chen Ping, and Young Master Li suddenly became nervous, knowing that this was his first battle, he must not make a mistake, so he hurriedly asked: "What's wrong?" ”

Chen Ping twisted his eyebrows, held his forehead, and smiled bitterly: "I have always thought that as a country with the most powerful navy in the region, the army is not far behind, but guess what I saw when they set off today?"

Two thousand congressional troops, who still hold single-shot rifles, are described by Simmons as the most elite Marines, and they are also the old Spencers. And the most important thing is that the whole army of 5,000 people, there are only ten artillery pieces, I really don't know what they will do to conquer the fortress and fortify the city in the face of the defending political axe army. ”

Chen Ping shook his head again and again as he spoke, and it could be seen that he was very worried about the fate of this army. Five thousand people are only equipped with ten cannons, this ratio is not even as good as that of the Qing Kingdom, this is the South American Haoqiang in the young master's mouth?!

After hearing this, Master Li was also stunned, although he didn't see the troops departing with his own eyes, but Chen Ping would never lie in front of him, although he also knew that the Chilean Army was very vegetable, but he didn't expect the dish to come to this point, although the country's saltpeter mine income was swallowed by foreign businessmen, but in South America, Chile is already rich, even if it needs to arm the navy, the army will not be worse than this, right?

"So they're worse than us?" Young Master Li swallowed his saliva with a ghostly expression.

"Speaking of equipment, that's true, but it's ......." Chen Ping paused, not knowing where to start, because in his opinion, the equipment of the Chilean Army is really poor, think about our eldest young master, although only two thousand people came this time, it was all Mauser 1888, in addition to three hundred Colt revolvers, not to mention the kind of grenades invented by the young master and using a new type of explosives. It can even be said that in addition to artillery, it is a step worse than equipping the Chilean army!

"Now it depends on whether their combat effectiveness is really strong, after all, we are a new army, and the Chilean troops have been tested in the war with Peru, but only in terms of weapons, in addition to artillery, they are far inferior to us, I believe that as long as Zhao Long and they can survive the initial stage, even in the face of 10,000 Chileans, we have hope of winning."

Although confident, but at the end of the words still eloquently expressed Chen Ping's worries, that is, the psychological obstacles that every soldier must overcome in the first battle, although the escort team also attaches great importance to this aspect during training, but after all, training cannot replace actual combat, in the face of the bloody battlefield filled with gunsmoke and bullets, it is not so easy to say that you can survive!

Young Master Li frowned, the first battle was psychological, even if he opened the golden finger, he had no choice, he could only look at Zhao Long's on-the-spot command ability. However, since the congressional army is so weak, should Zhao Long be allowed to divide his troops again and go north with the Chileans?

"Nope." Chen Ping didn't give face, and directly refused to accept the suggestion of Young Master Li, at present, Zhao Long and they have undertaken most of the offensive tasks on the northern front, and the psychological level of the first battle of the troops has not passed, if the troops are transferred at this time, I am afraid the pressure will be even greater.

"Looks like we'll have to wait." Li Mo sighed, he didn't like this kind of thing out of control, if he could, he was even willing to fight in place of the troops. It is a pity that in these days, fighting a war basically relied on shouting, and the transfer of command was still using horses, and it was impossible to grasp the situation of every unit on the front line in real time, and the only thing to do at this moment was to wait.

This feeling of drifting with the wind and not being able to control your own destiny is like the protagonist of the book in your hand!

"I hope Zhao Long and they can hold on! I don't know if radio was invented? ”

Young Master Li muttered a few words, raised his eyes to look at Chen Ping, and then lowered his head again, and continued to grab the book and read it with taste. Seeing that the young master didn't speak again, Chen Ping was about to turn around and leave, and before leaving, his eyes subconsciously glanced at the title of the book in the young master's hand. "Robinson Crusoe, what kind of book is it? Not impressed? It seems that you have to study hard! ”

When Chen Ping comprehended and implemented the spirit of the young master, he didn't notice the arc of Li Mo's mouth gradually rising.

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Antoine stretched and glanced outside, but there was nothing but the moonlight pouring on the ocean and a little phosphorescent light with the waves, and even the sound of the tide seemed to be reluctant to disturb the good dreams of others.

Yes, nothing!

Although the south side of the capital has been fired, this is Antofagast, in addition to the batteries at the feet, there are patrolling warships in the dark ocean in the distance, even if those guys control most of the navy, it is impossible to fight here silently.

What else is there to worry about?

Blowing the sea breeze, Antoine relaxed, to be honest, this weather is really a good dream, damn it, that skinny monkey captain, why do you always arrange me to be on duty?

After adjusting the gun belt on his shoulder, Antoine decided to go back to sleep, but when he just raised his head, a black shadow went straight to his throat like lightning!

Is that......!

With a pop, Antoine felt as if something had been inserted in his throat, and then subconsciously reached out to touch it, but when he touched the cold arrow exposed on his throat, a paralyzing sensation that he had never felt before suddenly spread from his throat to his whole body, and in an instant the whole person was paralyzed, and he wanted to scream but only made a snoring sound that only he could hear.

The paralysis soon spread to his brain, and Antoine only felt that his eyes were getting more and more flowery, and in a trance, he seemed to see several people covered in black passing in front of him, and those cold eyes were full of mockery and coldness.

"Damn, who are they? Native Americans? Actually with a poisonous bow and arrow?! Confused and puzzled, Antoine fell silently on the fort like a wave not far away.

When the last Nighthawk climbed onto the fort, he hooked the corner of his mouth at Antoine's corpse and raised his iron arm and crossbow.

For solving this kind of defenseless sentinels in an instant, the Nighthawks didn't seem to feel excited at all, before they were selected, most of them had a few hits under their hands, and after special training, they couldn't be considered martial arts masters, at least they could be considered good hands!

It's weird, these foreign devils don't know what martial arts are at all, and they don't understand how easy the good things that have been handed down by our ancestors for thousands of years are, such as the poisoned arrows after seeing the blood seal.

One by one, the nighthawks quickly touched the nearest gun position, opened the gun jacket, filled the cannon chamber with pieces of explosives, covered the light of the fire fold with their bodies, lit the fuse, and then quickly disappeared under the high turret rock wall.

"Boom, boom, boom......."

The sudden sound of a violent explosion woke Valdock from his sleep, only to see him push away the sleek woman beside him, and without bothering to put on his clothes, he pushed open the window as if flying.

"God, what happened? Did the rebels hit Antofagaste? ”

Looking out the window at the huge fireball rising from the seaside battery, Waldock took a sharp sip of saliva, thinking of the money he had given to Mr. President not long ago, and that mission, a chill rose from the center of his feet, along his spine and straight to his brain, and his body shivered violently.

"Come on, go see what's going on!"

With the sound of Valdock's horror, the entire city of Antofagaste was thrown into chaos, and the cries, curses, and shouts converged and stirred up the entire night sky city.