When news of the fighting near Iarretta reached the besieging troops a hundred miles away, the Argentine commander had to give up the victory he was about to obtain, gave up the continued siege of Sun Qi Sanctuary, and led his troops to retreat to reinforce Iarreta.
As the initiators of the incident, after Ma Jizu and Davis completed their goals, they quickly evacuated with the weapons and materials seized from inside the fortress. Then, after receiving Sun Qisheng and others, the two troops separated again. Davis led his men to continue
During mobile operations, Ma Jizu and Sun Qisheng returned to Rio Grande do Sul along the secret trail opened on the border to report to Li Mingyuan the changes that had occurred in northern Argentina.
A week later, the busy spring plowing came to an end. Agriculture in Rio Grande do Sul experienced its first year of stable development and began to enter a new stage.
In terms of industry, with the only large-scale steel plant in Rio Grande do Sul launching trial production two days ago, the factory that the Prussians helped build has been completed and put into production.
In Rio Grande do Sul, from Rio Grande in the south to Joinvia in the north, 400,000 square kilometers of land are covered with green rice and pasture, and brand-new factories are distributed along the rivers and coasts, high in the sky.
Thick black smoke rises from the chimney...
With a vast land, sparsely populated areas and abundant greenery, Rio Grande do Sul presented a scene of a mixture of industry and nature in the early days of the second industrial revolution.
A lot of changes can happen in more than a year. The Chinese who were originally living overseas have settled down in Rio Grande do Sul. Rows of low wooden houses are scattered in the vast plains. The shabby and dirty linen clothes are replaced by
Brand new jackets and trousers, after a year of training and adaptation, the thin, sallow-faced Chinese workers have returned to their normal skin color. Groups of men and women are scattered on the riverbanks, pastures, and training grounds. They may be naturalized white women by the river.
Doing laundry, talking and laughing, or retired soldiers performing prescribed training tasks after the busy farming season.
Everyone has their own things to do, and this new country shows unique vitality in many small ways.
About a year has passed since the first batch of white women married Chinese. In the past two months, 4,000 white women have given birth to offspring with Chinese husbands. Due to the increase of 4,000 newborns, Nanli has
Ogland, a new country, looks more like a normal country.
Riding horseback along the river bank outside Porto Alegre, Li Mingyuan smiled and joked with Luo Linshan, "General Luo, I heard that many brothers in the Fourth Division have children. You, the division commander, can't always lag behind.
How is it? Does General Luo have a girl he likes, and when do you plan to consider starting a family? "
"Thank you for your trouble, Prince." Luo Linshan shook his head and said with a somewhat bitter expression, "In the hometown of Minhou, Zixia originally had two sons. However, there was a famine four years ago. His wife and two sons both died of starvation, and only Zixia was left.
The next person survived by traveling overseas alone." Recalling the sad events in the past, Luo Linshan became even more depressed. "As a man, I cannot support my wife and three children. I feel guilty in my heart, and I have no thoughts of getting married and starting a family again for the time being.
I hope His Majesty will forgive me."
Providing a living for the family and protecting the young and young of his wife and children to grow up safely are the responsibilities and missions given to men by the Han family tradition. Although Li Mingyuan did not get married and have children in his two lifetimes, he can understand Luo Linshan's mood.
"Natural disasters are ruthless. Even if you and I reopen our careers in South America, we will be nothing more than mere mortals before the historical trend and natural disasters. Four years ago, you were just an ordinary citizen. It is not entirely your fault that you failed to save your wife and children in the face of disasters.
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To untie the bell, the person who tied it must be tied. Only he could untie the knot in Luo Linshan's heart. Li Mingyuan tried to persuade him, but it was hard to say much.
In the war-torn times, ordinary people were like tiny ants in front of the trend of the times. They could only drift with the tide and could not control their own destiny. In this era, Li Mingyuan was only a slightly bigger ant, but he had already accumulated a group of people.
Around him, as more and more people gather together, his power will become stronger and stronger, until he can influence the general trend of history and change the destiny of ordinary Chinese.
Li Mingyuan has been working hard in this direction. Therefore, even though he also yearns for beauty, wealth and a comfortable life, he restrains his desires and transfers his energy to the governance of Rio Grande do Sul.
The visit to the river bank was just a short break in the busy schedule. After returning from near the river bank, Li Mingyuan received reports from Ma Jizu and Sun Qisheng.
"Are you sure Argentina is sending more troops to the northern region?"
After listening to Sun Qisheng's report on the situation in northern Argentina, Li Mingyuan asked.
"I dare not deceive His Highness the Crown Prince. A week before the Argentine troops attacked our base, the soldiers who went out to investigate the situation reported on the mobilization of the Argentine troops. At that time, I believed that the Argentine troops only increased the defense strength of 300 people and could not attack
The base posed a threat, so we did not check it carefully. When the Argentine troops attacked the base, not only did the main offensive force reach nearly 2,000 people, but there were also more than 2,000 Argentine soldiers deployed in separate areas near the base, blocking all the retreat routes of the base defenders.
The subordinates and the brothers who broke through tried their best to break out of the Argentine encirclement, but were eventually trapped in the valley by the Argentine troops who caught up. If Captain Ma hadn't persuaded Davis to pretend to attack the city of Iarreta, more than two hundred brothers would have perished at the hands of their subordinates.
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Your Highness, I cannot absolve myself of the blame for the failure of the base operation. I just hope that Your Highness will give you another chance to collect the bodies of the dead brothers and help them avenge them."
"With the loss of troops and generals, all arrangements in northern Argentina in the past year have failed. Sun Qisheng, do you think the mistakes you made can be returned to northern Argentina?"
Argentina secretly dispatched a large number of troops to reinforce the northern region. Sun Qisheng, as the local commander of the National Defense Forces, was not aware of it beforehand. In any case, he must bear the main responsibility for the loss of the base.
A small defeat in the battle could not shake Li Mingyuan's determination to intervene in northern Argentina. At the same time, it was not that he could not forgive his subordinates for their defeat. However, Sun Qisheng's defeat this time was too miserable. Only six of the more than two hundred selected elite soldiers were left after one battle.
More than ten people came back alive. Li Mingyuan sent Sun Qisheng to northern Argentina not only to harass the Argentine troops, but also to establish a guerrilla base and collect intelligence. However, Sun Qisheng actually failed in the most important intelligence aspect, which made him angry.
After coldly reprimanding Sun Qisheng, Li Mingyuan felt that this incident would not be that simple. The main force of the Argentine troops was fighting the Paraguayan troops on the front line. To the south of Sun Qisheng's base was the province of Antler Rios and Felna controlled by Urquiza.
The controlled provinces of Corrientes, Urquiza and Ferna are old rivals with Argentine President Sarmiento. They are unlikely to help Sarmiento solve the troubles in the northern region. That would not only benefit Sarmiento.
Domination consumes the interests of their faction.
Excluding the possibility of Urquiza and Felna, the reinforcements in the northern region can only be drawn from the front line. Thinking of this, Li Mingyuan immediately reacted, "Little Lopez personally led the troops to reinforce the Misiones front line. Argentina dares to
To mobilize troops from the front line must be a ceasefire agreement with Lopez Jr. Otherwise, the Argentines would never risk the war getting out of control on the front line and send troops back to support the rebellion."
Faintly aware of the truth in his heart, Li Mingyuan left Sun Qisheng aside and immediately ordered the soldiers around him: "We will discuss matters in the Kuomintang hall in half an hour. All senior generals are not allowed to be late!"...
"Your Highness, is Mr. Sun..." The soldier accepted the mission and was about to leave. Thinking of the guilty Sun Qisheng, he asked.
"He..." Li Mingyuan glanced at Sun Qisheng with his peripheral vision, "Let him stand in the hall and listen."
"Obey" the soldier followed the order and left quickly.
"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Sun Qisheng originally had no hope for his future. After hearing that Li Mingyuan allowed him to observe, his heart became eager again and he hurriedly thanked him.
"You don't need to thank me. You need to seize the opportunity yourself. Whether you can continue to serve in the National Defense Force depends on your subsequent performance."
"I understand that I will never let you down next time!"
