Rebirth of South America as King

The transport fleet stayed one night at Big Inaba to replenish supplies. Before the fleet left, Chen Xingui successfully persuaded Liang Xing to emigrate with him to Rio Grande do Sul.

When Taiyuan and Chen Sen left the mission, Liang Xing and Chen Xingui began to sell the land and plantations they could not take away, and at the same time, spread the South Rio Grande immigration policy to the Chinese in the Caribbean islands.

Thanks to the efforts and persuasion of the two, in the end, more than a hundred Chinese businessmen and free Chinese were willing to leave with them, and some Chinese were undecided and chose to stay in place and wait for a while before making a decision.

Time slowly passed, and the history of South America also turned to this page in 1869.

At the end of 1868, the Argentine troops receiving reinforcements launched a violent attack on Morandi City. Morandi's outer defense line was completely lost for a time. At the most critical time, the Argentine troops even boarded Morandi City Tower. However, as Istigar called up all the reserve forces, he launched a counter-charge with the fire support of a Chinese artillery battalion. The Argentine soldiers who boarded the tower were successfully annihilated, and three important outer defense lines outside the city wall also successfully recovered one.

After a high-intensity battle that lasted for about a week, the casualties of both Argentina and Paraguay surged. A large number of lost soldiers and a rapid decline in morale led to the end of large-scale battles. The fighting mode changed to confrontation and small-scale sneak attacks.

Modern wars often last months or even years. In Argentina and Paraguay, there are more soldiers in Argentina than in Paraguay, but they are not able to crush each other with the number of people. The Paraguayan army Morandi City is in hand. It can rely on geographical advantages and defend the city with artillery. At the same time, it faces a shortage of troops and can hold the city. It is very difficult to defeat the Argentine to fight out of the city.

The equilibrium situation will not be broken, and the battle of Morandi will not be able to quickly separate the victory and defeat. During the continued exchange of fire between the two sides, the main force of the Second Mixed Brigade and the Artillery arrived at the border area of ​​Rio Grande do Sul, east of San Javier. The local quietly stood down, waiting for Li Mingyuan to issue the final offensive order.

On January 3, 1869, near a tributary of the Parana River in northern Argentina. Seven or eight Indians were bagged with water by the river, and two Indians on each side of the river were on alert.

"Here comes a boat, everyone hides."

When the Indians on the riverbank found the situation, they immediately reminded their companions, but what they said was Chinese.

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Several people who stayed at the river to fetch water quickly plugged the mouth of the water bag, and ran carefully to hide under bushes dozens of meters away.

The boat coming on the river was an inland river gunboat equipped by Argentines. Misiones battled for more than a month. The indigenous Indians in the border area of ​​Paraguay and Argentina were affected by the war, and they moved away from their original places to avoid the war on a large scale. hurt.

The flow of people means disorder, and some of the white and Gaucho mixed with the Indians (whites and Indians are used to nomadic life), while the situation is chaotic, they touch the fish and start to attack the white settlers in northern Argentina and snatch. Their livestock and wealth, therefore, for the purpose of maintaining the security situation in the northern region, the Argentines sent additional gunboats and inland watercraft to conduct armed patrols to deter the militants in the northern region.

The gunboat sailed to the place where the Indians were hiding, less than thirty meters from the nearest trio.

"Captain, three gunboats, and two behind."

With a grass ring on his head, the man dressed as an Indian whispered.

"Argentina has strengthened its patrol force. Thirteen of us can't eat the Argentine troops with three gunboats. We talk to the other brothers, all stay still and let them pass."

"Yes", the man nodded and responded, lowered his body, and then gestured with his right hand toward the bushes behind him. After getting a response, he carefully climbed back to the original position again.

The first gunboat left, less than a minute apart, and two gunboats full of soldiers passed by.

The gunboat walked away, and the man hiding behind the thicket of trees appeared and gathered. The headed man walked to the river and washed away the green leaves and sticky colors on his face, exposing the traditional Chinese appearance.

"Captain, the gunboat sailed to the front of the Gaucho. Isn't the Argentine going at them?"

Special team leader Zhang Song handed the water bag to Sun Qisheng, said.

"We attacked two groups of Argentine patrols some time ago. They should think that they were from Gaucho, so they retaliated."

Sun Qisheng speculated.

After Sun Qisheng contacted Ferner, according to Li Mingyuan's order, he continued to lurk in the mountains and forests of northern Argentina, build a special force base in the mountains and forests, and find opportunities to sow the relationship between local Indians, Gauchos, and Argentine farmers, and give them Create contradictions.

"The Argentines' retaliation will definitely lead to greater armed conflict and turmoil. Let us not intervene in the conflict between them and build our base first."

Sun Qisheng wiped his face with his sleeve casually, and asked, "How are the brothers studying Indian?"

"Most brothers only use a few everyday words."

Zhang Song shook his head and said, "The Indians have a tribe and a language. The tilcara language we learn is limited to a few mountain tribes in the north. When they meet other Indian tribes, they do not understand.

"It ’s important to learn to pretend to be an Indian. I do n’t require my brothers to master the Tiocar language, but to be able to understand a few simple conversations, otherwise it will be easy for others to find flaws." ...

About a hundred miles west of the river bank, more than 160 soldiers descended from three gunboats, under the command of an Argentine company commander, launched an attack on the village on the river bank.

The size of the village is not large. There are about 500 men, women and children together, of which there are about 30 Gao Qiao people, and the rest are Indians who depend on Gao Qiao people.

In the early colonial period of South America, most of the men who came to the area were white men. They combined with local Indian women to give birth to mixed-race children. Due to racial discrimination, white men often did not want to recognize Indian women as wives. Abandon women and children.

The mulattos, who were not recognized by their white fathers, were raised by Indian mothers. As they inherited the cultural traditions of both parents, they formed a new race. White people called them Gaucho.

Gaucho was only a bit higher than Indians and was excluded from mainstream rule by white Spanish people. Therefore, disgruntled Gaucho often attacked colonial settlements and opposed the Spaniards.

The Gauchos had Indian blood on them, and their ability to learn from white sociology made it easy for them to establish prestige among the Indians. Therefore, many Gauchos used their abilities to solicit a group of Indians for allegiance and to resist white colonial rule. Workhorse.

Hundreds of years of vendetta against each other, even if Argentina was independent, the village leader Gaucho Davis did not like the white cloth city that inherited the Spanish dominance.

When the gunboat appeared five miles away from the village, the Gao Qiao people stationed outside the village issued a warning in advance. Therefore, Davis quickly arranged some staff to cover the old, weak women and children, and he took more than one hundred villages young and stagnant Argentines. Offense.

The village was set up 170 meters from the river bank. While the Argentines sent infantry to approach the village, they used three small artillery on the gunboat to provide fire support.

"Boom boom" three shells whistled into the middle of the village, the two wooden houses hit by the shell crashed.

Artillery shells are constantly bombarding, and the villages hiding near the wooden houses to stop the Argentines from attacking are growing rapidly. In the past, simple and small wooden houses were also turned into ruins and burning wood by shelling.

"Boss, three groups of brothers were pressed under the wooden house, two groups of brothers were burned by fire, and another group of brothers were killed on the spot when they were hit by artillery shells."

The shelling stopped and a Gaucho in his thirties reported to Davis about the casualties.

The fifth group of casualties was twenty-four. The Argentine bombardment only cost one-fifth of Gaucho's manpower. Dai Weis felt pain in his heart, but when he thought of the retreating wife and two sons, he made up his mind: " The Argentines brought even artillery shots. We must plan to completely destroy us. Our wives and children have not traveled far enough to be caught by the Argentines. Tell the brothers to hold on for a while and wait for the old and weak women to come to a safe place. go away."

"Yes, leader." Gao Qiaozi quickly left, conveying Davis' order to the others in the village.

The fighting between the Argentine infantry and the Gaucho took place in the woods next to the village's wooden wall. Under the cover of artillery, more than 100 Argentine soldiers advanced to a distance of about 70 meters from the wooden wall.

Stand, shoot, interactive cover.

The Argentine infantry still used Napoleonic infantry tactics. More than 160 people were divided into three queues and fired under the command of the queue chief.

There are no machine guns, artillery, or trench barriers. The alternating offensive tactics of the Argentine infantry caused a lot of losses to the Gao Qiao ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ The young men on the wooden wall were hit. Although the injuries were not fatal, they made them Lost fighting ability.

"Retreat and stop the enemy behind the woods."

The Argentine infantry was less than 50 meters away from the wooden wall, and the young casualties were increasing. Davis resolutely changed the name.

The Gao Qiao people hurriedly left the village, and the injured young man could only be abandoned.

Argentine infantry entered the village, while guarding the surrounding danger, they separated some soldiers to gather their captives.

There were about thirty captives alive, each with a gunshot wound. The Argentine commander looked at the captives in disgust. The opponent's officer winked and then led most of the soldiers to pursue.

More than a hundred Argentine soldiers left the village, and a gunshot sounded quickly behind.

War is a life-and-death battle, and the enemy will not open up because he has the same white blood on his body.

Waiting for the end of Gao Qiao's captives is only death.