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Advancing step by step and fighting steadily is what Li Mingyuan emphasized when formulating the battle plan.
The main factor that affects the outcome of a war is the comprehensive strength of a country. When there is a huge disparity in national strength, as long as the country with a strategic advantage does not make the mistake of underestimating the enemy and advancing rashly, and adopts a prudent method to gradually eliminate the opponent's effective military strength, it will not
It is difficult to win the war.
The Han State has passed the most difficult moment of its founding. After ten years of hard work and development, the Han State's economic and military strength have formed an absolute advantage over Argentina. Therefore, during the course of the war, Li Mingyuan's first consideration
The purpose is to consolidate our strategic advantage and not give the Argentine troops a chance to make a comeback.
After the Han government promulgated the war preparation decree, both the Han and Argentine governments were busy making final preparations. In the tense atmosphere of war preparations, time slowly passed to March 4, 1879. This day affected the historical development of South America.
The course of the general trend changed because of a war.
The war between Han and Argentina officially broke out. After Li Mingyuan held a swearing-in ceremony at the Xinjing training ground, he led the main force of the National Defense Force, 160,000 people, to set off first. Wu Fengdian and Chen Shangfa led the 60,000 guard force as a strategic reserve force, which was delayed for four days.
Pu, Zhao Yan, Hu Jinzhong and others stayed in the Han Kingdom and were responsible for transporting supplies for the frontline troops and maintaining domestic territorial security.
The responsibilities of the 160,000-strong National Defense Force and 60,000-strong garrison do not include the transportation of supplies, weapons and ammunition. These tasks are uniformly handed over to the organized militia forces and the young Chinese who volunteer to support the front line.
The Argentine War was a national war that determined the future fate of the Han Dynasty. Under the call of Li Mingyuan and government officials, the third-line militia and the young Chinese who volunteered to support the front line were divided into logistics transportation teams of varying sizes based on the settlements to which they belonged.
The team, then under the leadership of retired veterans and government officials in each settlement, prepared their own dry food or pickled meat products, and marched along the route traveled by the protagonist troops of the National Defense Forces to provide the troops with necessary food.
Material support.
The number of young and strong Chinese in the Han Dynasty is more than 1.5 million. Excluding those who join the National Defense Force and the garrison, the number of young and strong Chinese who voluntarily report to support the front line is 500,000, which is more than twice the number of combat troops.
Young Chinese people in Han Dynasty actively participated in the tasks of supporting the front line, not only because the success or failure of the Argentine war was related to the interests of every Han people, but more intuitively, they could get enough benefits by participating in logistics and transportation tasks.
The Han government stipulated that Han people who participated in logistics transportation would be granted the status of volunteers before the war. When the war is over, those Chinese people with the status of volunteers before the war can rely on the merit books issued by the logistics department to receive various benefits.
Waiting for fields or monetary rewards.
Generally speaking, a Chinese volunteer can receive at least five acres of land, and as many as thirty acres of land. If he makes other contributions during the logistics and transportation, the area of the rewarded land will increase.
It was Li Mingyuan's initiative to encourage young Chinese people to support the front line in return for land in the occupied areas. When the proposal was handed over to government officials for discussion, some officials said that the amount of land rewarded was too much and that the scale of the land reward should be reduced. Others
Officials suggested saving government spending and taking coercive measures to recruit people for free to support the front line.
After the officials' feedback came back, Li Mingyuan did not adopt it, because based on the experience of later generations, launching an important decisive battle can only unite most people by allowing ordinary people to share the benefits of the war, making the government's ruling foundation more stable, and
Even if those ruling classes who squander war gains or national development dividends can maintain their rule for a period of time, they will eventually be abandoned by the general public.
Don’t worry about scarcity but inequality, and raise individuals or collectives to the level of the country. A country with a balanced distribution of interests will be more competitive. When competing with other countries or having a war, the entire country can more easily unite as a whole and exert its full potential.
Strong combat effectiveness.
Li Mingyuan is a principled person. He prefers to protect the interests of ordinary people in the country while ensuring his dominance. Government officials are only tools to rule the country. What can truly maintain the power in his hands is the support of the army and ordinary people. Therefore,
Even though many of the policies implemented were not conducive to the bureaucracy, Li Mingyuan still strongly supported extending the policies to every corner of the country.
On March 9, five days after Li Mingyuan led the main force of the National Defense Forces to set off, groups of Chinese logistics and transportation teams lined up more than ten miles long and marched along the Uruguay River.
"Brother Lu, after passing the town in front of you, you are out of the country. The Uruguay River has not been peaceful these days. Argentine soldiers who have been scattered often attack the transport team. Should we be more careful?"
Wang Shizhen, who was riding on a big brown-haired horse, asked Lu Rongting who was traveling with him.
"Just be careful."
Lu Rongting nodded and ordered, "Brother Yang, notify the brothers behind to be on guard and don't let the white-skinned barbarians take advantage of the loophole."
"Yes, Captain."
Yang Guangzong, who had just turned sixteen, responded, then turned his horse's head and ran back.
"Brother Lu, I heard from the wounded soldiers who were sent back that the resistance between the Argentine and Uruguayan armies was fierce. It took Brigadier Chen's troops two days to capture Paisandu City. Do you think we have a chance to go to the front line?
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After Yang Guangzong left, Wang Shizhen asked.
"Probably not. Brigadier Chen's second mixed force and other troops have more than 10,000 people. The wounded soldiers that have been transported back in the past two days are only 700 or 800, which is less than 10% of the total number of troops under Brigadier Chen."
One percent, so the 2nd Mixed Brigade still has complete offensive capabilities and does not need to be supplemented by militia troops for the time being."
Lu Rongting's judgment was roughly consistent with the actual situation on the front line. After Li Mingyuan led the troops, they first marched southward along the Uruguay River. Then, after capturing Salto, a city on the right bank of the Uruguay River, Chen Zongbai's second mixed brigade, a cavalry regiment, was left behind.
, a strengthened reconnaissance battalion and a 105mm artillery regiment continued to advance along the Uruguay River, while Li Mingyuan himself led a leading force of more than 150,000 people across the Uruguay River, marched all the way south, and directed the first offensive spearhead at Paraguay.
The important town along the river is Santa Fe.
The city of Santa Fe is the capital of the Argentinian province of Santa Fe. It is also the confluence of the Paraná River and the Salado River and is an important strategic hub in the Paraná River Basin.
The city of Santa Fe has an important strategic position. Once the National Defense Forces successfully occupy it, it will cut off the transportation links between the northwestern provinces of Argentina and Buenos Aires.
Only Rosario is left in the fortress, and without the mutual protection of Santa Fe City, there will be an irreplaceable loophole in the day-to-day defense of Paraná City in the south of Santa Fe City. Therefore, as long as the National Defense Forces take it within the planned time,
The success or failure of the city of Santa Fe and Paraná can be determined by Li Mingyuan's thoughts.
After the main offensive focus of the National Defense Force shifted to Santa Fe and the Paraná River Basin, the offensive in the direction of Paraguay became a feint attack presided over by Chen Zongbai.
Feint attack does not mean that the combat mission is easy. Contrary to what ordinary people think, the feint mission undertaken by Chen Zongbai is, to some extent, no less difficult than the main force's attack on Santa Fe.
First of all, the feint attack requires the posture of the main attack. Therefore, on the first day of attacking Paisandu, Chen Zongbai pulled out the 105mm artillery regiment strengthened to the 2nd Mixed Brigade and fired two consecutive shots at Paisandu City.
With a base amount of ammunition, and at the same time, as soon as the bombardment ended, six battalions of more than 3,000 troops were dispatched to launch non-stop attacks. In the end, they relied on fierce artillery attacks and continuous rotation tactics to defeat the 6,000-strong Paisandu.
The city was defeated.
Secondly, Chen Zongbai wanted to ensure that the true and false nature of the feigned attack force would not be detected by the enemy in advance, and hold back the Argentine troops in front before the main force could achieve the established strategic goals.
Finally, if possible, break through directly from the direction of Uruguay, march to the city of Buenos Aires, and join the main force to form a siege of Buenos Aires.
The capture of Paisandu City is the beginning of the feint attack mission. If the war situation worsens, Lu Rongting and other militia and logistics teams will also join the army to confuse the enemy army with their numbers.
However, from Lu Rongting's perspective, this possibility is very small.
It is very likely that the militia units and transportation teams they belong to will not have the opportunity to participate in the frontline battle until the end of the war.
