On the evening of the 15th, the British Expeditionary Fleet arrived at the harbor at the mouth of the Rio de la Plata. When Gordon discovered that the blue federal flag at the head of Buenos Aires had disappeared and was replaced by a red dragon flag, he became angry and ordered
The fleet bombarded Buenos Aires!
The deafening shelling continued throughout the evening. The majestic and majestic city of Buenos Aires had just bid farewell to its old master and ushered in a new tormentor.
The thick and tall city wall left long and narrow gaps under the bombardment of shells. Old wounds have not healed, and new wounds have appeared. The city of Buenos Aires, which was attacked twice in succession, is like a devastated girl.
There are ruins everywhere, nothing like the heyday of Paris in South America in the past.
At about ten o'clock at night, in the British Expeditionary Fleet, Gordon drove a group of British soldiers who had not had time to repair and adapt on a landing craft and launched an attack on the coastal beaches near the city of Buenos Aires.
With the support of the fleet's heavy artillery, the landing British troops easily occupied the undefended offshore beach and advanced all the way to the outside of the Buenos Aires city wall.
The next morning, as the sun just rose above the sea level, the impatient British soldiers followed the siege route taken by the National Defense Forces a few days ago and launched another attack on the city of Buenos Aires.
Gaps in the city wall, streets, residential buildings, government buildings and other areas within the city have become the focus of competition between the two armies.
The rampaging and imposing British soldiers were met with a strong counterattack by the Wehrmacht as soon as they entered the city.
Mortars, machine guns, grenades, and various street fighting weapons came from all directions, making the British soldiers unable to defend themselves.
By noon of the battle, a total of 4,000 British troops entered the city and suffered more than 800 casualties. The remaining British troops huddled in a corner of the city wall under the constant attacks of the National Defense Forces, daring not to take a step forward into the city.
The civil war situation in the city was quickly reported to Gordon, who was sitting on the Congee-class battleship. Faced with the stubborn resistance of the National Defense Forces and the strong suggestions of the British officers entering the city, Gordon had to make a last resort order to withdraw the troops from Buenos after weighing the pros and cons.
Ellis City District decision.
The first vigorous offensive operation ended in an anticlimactic manner. Gordon, who used to boast that he was a master of China, could not help but have doubts about the enemy in front of him.
Twenty years ago, during the battle with the Taiping Army, Gordon was able to quickly observe the opponent's weaknesses and deficiencies. Twenty years later, the British army replaced it with breech-rifling rifles with faster firing rates and higher accuracy, equipped with
However, as soon as they met, more than 800 British regular troops lost their combat effectiveness and could no longer participate in the later battles.
Gordon was curious about how the other party did this.
In the war to suppress the Taiping Rebellion 20 years ago, the foreign rifle team composed of stragglers repeatedly defeated the Taiping Army with superior strength. In many years of combat experience, the total number of casualties in the foreign gun team was only close to a thousand people. In the morning battle, there were 800 regular army casualties.
The extent of the damage was more serious than that of the foreign rifle team in several years.
The volley shooting tactics of the pre-gun era were gradually being eliminated. The lessons of the Zulu War made the British understand for the first time that the barbaric and backward African natives could also annihilate the British army fighting in large groups.
British soldiers in Buenos Aires hurriedly evacuated.
The British fleet anchored at the mouth of the Rio de la Plata was anchored in coastal ports, forming a confrontation with the National Defense Forces in the city and surrounding areas.
At 2:30 in the afternoon, a fleet of more than 20 gunboats and small and medium-sized frigates broke away from the British Expeditionary Fleet, turned around and headed towards the Paraná River.
The La Plata River, a tributary of the Paraná River in the offshore area, flows rapidly, with an average width of 50 kilometers and a maximum width of 290 kilometers. However, when the fleet went deeper inland and entered the main channel of the Paraná River, the relatively narrowed river channel and
The water depth has a very restrictive effect on the Junshi-class battleship with a displacement of tens of thousands of tons.
Like a dragon entering the shoal, the hill-like main warships of the British Navy cannot enter the inland troops of the Paraná River. However, the pressure on the National Defense Forces from just frigate-standard ironclads is far greater than that of the Brazilian Navy ten years ago.
More than three hours later, in Tigre, a small town along the southern coast of the Paraná River estuary, north of Buenos Aires, more than 10,000 National Defense Forces soldiers were busy.
The small town of Tigray is about ten kilometers away from the port along the river. In the continuous dense forests on the outskirts of the town, the noise of neighing horses and cattle destroyed the peaceful and peaceful atmosphere of the place.
The mild and humid natural environment of the La Plata Plain provides good conditions for the development of animal husbandry.
After ten years of development since the founding of South America, Han's local animal husbandry has become a major source of government revenue.
According to statistics from officials of the Ministry of Agriculture, more than 15 million livestock are raised in the land of more than 1.1 million square kilometers in South America. There are more than 200,000 households engaged in livestock breeding. On average, each farmer and herdsman raises 70 to 80 animals.
Head livestock.
The livestock industry in Han Dynasty is dominated by cattle and sheep. Among the more than 15 million domestic livestock, the number of cattle and sheep exceeds 10 million.
There are 3 million draft horses and alpacas, and about 2 million pigs, deer and other livestock.
After taking root in South America for more than ten years, the living habits of the early Chinese immigrants slowly changed as they adapted day by day.
The Chinese in the north and south, whose staple food is rice and white noodles, have gradually accepted the eating habit of combining beef and mutton with rice and noodles.
Entello Rios and Coriantes are the main rice producing areas in Argentina. When the two provinces fell under the control of the National Defense Forces, the local rice supply in Han Dynasty became more abundant. Every year, the excess rice output was transported by ocean-going fleets to
Germany, France and other European countries.
Rice export alone provides considerable revenue to the Han government every year, effectively alleviating the financial pressure caused by the national defense force's military expansion and war preparations.
The grain and livestock industries have low technology intensity, but before organic fertilizers were used in agricultural production, the grain and livestock produced in the La Plata Plains of South America had high value advantages for Europe and other regions.
Groups of packhorses were pulled out of the woods by the soldiers, carrying two large baskets symmetrically on both sides of the horses to carry the soil excavated from the construction of tunnels and trenches.
Pack horses and alpacas are the standard equipment for marching in various units of the National Defense Forces. Generally speaking, a mixed brigade with a full strength of 9,000 people is equipped with 2,000 pack horses and 500 alpacas. A brigade of the garrison is equipped with 1,000 pack horses and 300 alpacas.
In the case of heavy rain and cloudy weather, each brigade-level unit will also be equipped with a certain number of buffalo to replace pack horses traveling on muddy roads.
At about five o'clock in the afternoon, at the National Defense Forces garrison in Tigray town, straight plumes of smoke ignited near the rugged tunnels and trenches.
An eighty-centimeter-long military pot is filled with large pieces of beef and mutton, and ingredients such as vegetables, oil, salt, and seasonings are randomly sprinkled on top. Firewood collected nearby is placed under the pot to emit the scorching heat.
"Gudong Gudong"
Blobs of water bubbled up from the boiling iron pot, and the rich aroma of meat accumulated above the trenches, tempting the soldiers' appetites.
When it was time for dinner, the soldiers of the garrison who had worked hard all day put down their tools, washed their mud-stained hands with clean water from a nearby stream, and then lined up to wait for dinner on the battlefield.
Broth, potatoes, rice, a simple and hearty dinner were eaten in the mouths of the soldiers, slowly relieving their fatigue.
At five o'clock, as the soldiers had just finished dinner, an uninvited fleet disturbed the entire Wehrmacht position.
"The enemy ship is attacking! The entire army is on alert!"
A sharp early warning sounded throughout the small town of Tigray. After a brief period of chaos, the tens of thousands of troops quickly divided into two groups, the front and rear, and rushed to the preset positions to meet the enemy!
