 Iglesias found himself surrounded, and outnumbered, by 9000 Chilean troops and came under a withering barrage.Because the professional Peruvian army had previously been decimated in the south, losing much of its most modern equipment in the process, Iglesias had only primitive, Peruvian manufactured, rifles which were without adequate sights and were inferior to the Chilean Krupps.Of the men who defended the Morro Solar only 280 were taken prisoner.