The night was dark and the battle raged. Groups of Argentine soldiers attacked in dense formations, only to be repulsed by artillery fire and machine gun fire.

More and more corpses were left on the battlefield, and by the time dawn approached, the perimeter of the two- or three-mile-long line was littered with dead Argentine soldiers.

At about 5 o'clock in the morning, Argentine President Mitre, who saw that there was no hope of breaking through, was unwilling to suffer the humiliation of being a prisoner and ended his life with a pistol, while the remaining Argentine soldiers, who were less than 2,000 men, laid down their arms and surrendered to the Wehrmacht under the leadership of Colonel Breicester.

With the surrender of the largest armed force in Buenos Aires, most of the other stragglers who spontaneously resisted the Wehrmacht chose to give up their senseless resistance and surrender after learning of the death of President Mitre, and a small number of recalcitrant armed forces were wiped out one by one under the targeted attacks of the Wehrmacht.

At the end of the war, except for the civilians who fled the city, the Argentines who were reluctant to inherit the city stayed in their homes trembling, praying sincerely for God's blessing and the Wehrmacht not to kill them and rob them of their belongings, wives and daughters.

The city of Buenos Aires seemed to be a dead city after the end of the war, full of uncollected corpses of Argentine soldiers and the ruins of collapsed houses, and some of the bodies that had been killed for a long time were not buried in time, emitting a rancid smell and filling the turbid air.

Luo Linshan carefully avoided the dead corpses under his feet, walked forward for more than 30 meters, came to a slightly clean street, and instructed the officers beside him, "Your Highness will inspect the situation in the city at nine o'clock in the morning, and you will notify the soldiers who have entered the city to carry the prepared disinfectants to the main streets of the city, and carry out the necessary disinfection and sterilization treatment on each street." ”

"General He and his brothers from the garrison are assisting Sun Langzhong in the military hospital to treat the wounded, and it is estimated that it will take some time for them to make time to get to the city."

"Strong in the city of Buenos Aires, our army has suffered many casualties, and it seems that the Lang Zhong of the military hospital is going to be busy for a while."

Luo Linshan recalled the siege battle for several months, and somewhat understood the difficulties of the military hospital.

"General, there are a group of sergeants in the division's logistics support team who have received simple disinfection training, why don't you transfer them up first and carry out preliminary disinfection and sterilization treatment in the city?"

"Well, that's how it was arranged for now."

Luo Linshan nodded, and then opened his mouth and ordered: "There are eight or nine thousand young migrant workers who entered the city with the army yesterday, and you take my warrant to temporarily gather a group of young migrant workers from the city to clean up the enemy's corpses and rubble.

This matter must be done before His Highness's inspection, and you should go and recruit people now. ”

"I'll do it when I get there." ……

After explaining the tasks of cleaning up the ruins in the city and protecting Li Mingyuan's safety, Luo Linshan was about to return to the barracks when he saw Wu Fengdian who led the troops into the city in a hurry.

"Brigade Commander Wu, I haven't seen you for a few months, don't come unharmed."

"General Luo."

Wu Fengdian recognized the identity of the person in front of him, grabbed the reins, got up and dismounted, and greeted Luo Linshan: "I just arrived outside the city, and I heard that General Luo led his soldiers to annihilate the army of Argentine President Mitre, which really makes me envious!" ”

"Hehe, thanks to the Shizi's strategizing and winning the battle outside the battle, Luo is just mobilizing troops according to His Highness's instructions!"

The sedan chair was carried by everyone, and Luo Linshan made a slightly modest polite word, and then asked about the other party's situation.

"Brigade Commander Wu sent someone to inform him five days ago that the Third Mixed Brigade could arrive in Buenos Aires City yesterday, why did it delay its arrival for a day?"

"The situation changed halfway, and our unit was attacked by Argentine local armed forces the evening before yesterday, so it was delayed for a day."

"Can Brigade Commander Wu find out the identity of the enemy army? The third mixed brigade is full of nearly 10,000 troops, and the strength of the troops that can delay Brigade Commander Wu for a day must not be underestimated. ”

"It was the Argentine reinforcements in the direction of Córdoba, and in order to complete the task of assembling Buenos Aires, our troops and the enemy troops had a face-to-face meeting, and the two sides stopped fighting until they marched to the vicinity of the town of Balleste, and they would meet with the garrison, and the Argentines gave up entanglement with our troops."

"The enemy army encountered by Brigade Commander Wu should be Urquisa's department, and after the Argentine Federal Army was wiped out by our army, there was only one unit that could confront our army head-on."

"In the same way, the city of Buenos Aires is about to be destroyed, Urquiza and its affiliated forces are aware of their own crisis, and they have forcibly recruited young and strong men from the rear again and again to support the front-line troops in combat, and based on the combat experience experienced by the Third Brigade in the past half month, it is estimated that the total number of Argentine militia recruited in various places may reach 50,000."

"Fifty thousand?"

Luo Linshan predicted the accuracy of the number of Argentine militias in his mind, and then said with a smile: "The main force is completely annihilated, and Urquiza must have worked hard, and at most fifty or sixty thousand people can be squeezed out." ”……

After the Battle of Buenos Aires, Li Mingyuan was left with a broader future for the Han Kingdom in South America, and a series of complicated matters that needed to be dealt with personally.

The Wehrmacht suffered 6,100 casualties and 7,400 wounded, the garrison suffered 2,000 casualties and 4,000 wounded, and 3,000 civilian workers suffered casualties. At the cost of a total of about 23,000 casualties, the Wehrmacht annihilated more than 90,000 Argentine federal troops, and if you count the forces of the local warlords in Argentina that were eliminated, the Argentine side lost more than 100,000 troops.

The loss of more than 23,000 personnel is completely valuable in the face of the results of the war, excluding the number of troops killed, wounded, and non-combat attrition, the front-line troops of the Wehrmacht, which have been supplemented by the young and strong rear and the militia, have always maintained a strength of about 220,000 troops.

The Han Dynasty could recruit between 500,000 and 700,000 soldiers, and the ten-year military system provided a huge number of reserve troops for the National Defense Force, but compared with the country's total population of 6 million, Li Mingyuan would not choose the extreme way of fighting the foreign powers unless it was at the critical juncture of national extinction.

Based on the future development of the local industry and economy and the logistical supply pressure of the front-line troops, the operation of maintaining a regular army of 220,000 has almost reached the limit of the Han State.

After more than two months of overload operation, the war materials in the local reserves were consumed at an alarming rate, using more than 200 large and medium-sized artillery pieces, consuming 170,000 rounds of artillery shells, 7 million rounds of rifle and machine gun bullets, and 7,400 tons of various types of war materials.

At the same time, in order to cope with the intervention of the British Expeditionary Force and the Brazilian Army, after achieving the main operational objectives, the Wehrmacht also had to adjust its organizational structure, disperse and concentrate the main forces into several large combat units, and sweep away the armed forces of the local Argentine warlords in a multi-point operation to achieve the strategic goal of remaining outside the country.