The convoy stayed overnight on Great Inaba to replenish supplies, and before the convoy left, Chen Xingui successfully persuaded Liang Xing to emigrate with him to Rio Grande do Sul.

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

With the efforts of the two to contact and persuade, in the end, more than 100 Chinese businessmen and free Chinese were willing to leave with them, while some Chinese could not make up their minds and chose to stay where they were for a while before making a decision.

Time passed slowly, and the history of the South American continent turned to 1869.

At the end of 1868, the Argentine troops, reinforced by reinforcements, launched a fierce attack on the city of Morandi, and the outer defense line of Morandi was completely lost, and at the most critical time, the Argentine troops even climbed the Morandi tower. However, with the mobilization of all reserve forces, Istigali launched a counter-charge with the fire support of an artillery Chinese artillery battalion. The Argentine soldiers who climbed the tower were successfully annihilated, and one of the three important outer lines outside the city walls was successfully recaptured.

After about a week of intense fighting, the number of casualties on both sides of Argentina and Paraguay surged, with massive casualties and rapidly declining morale leading to the end of large-scale battles, which changed to confrontation and skirmishes and counteroffensives.

Modern wars often last months or even years, and in Argentina and Paraguay, Argentine soldiers outnumber the Paraguayan defenders, but they do not reach the point where they can crush each other with numbers. The Paraguayan army Morandi City is in hand, and it can rely on its geographical advantage to defend the city with the help of artillery, and at the same time, it is very difficult to defeat the Argentines if they want to fight out of the city.

The equilibrium was not broken, and it was difficult to quickly determine the victory or defeat in the battle of Morandi, and while the two sides continued to exchange fire, the main force of the 2nd Mixed Brigade and the 1st Artillery Brigade arrived at the border area of Rio Gran do Sul on the east side of San Javier, and then quietly stationed there, waiting for Li Mingyuan to issue the final order to attack.

January 3, 1869, near a tributary of the Paraná River in northern Argentina. Seven or eight Indians filled water in water bags along the river, and two Indians stood guard on each side of the riverbank.

"There's a boat, everyone hides."

The Indians on the banks of the river immediately raised their voices to remind their companions, but the language was in Chinese.

Reminded of this, several people who were taking water from the river quickly plugged the water bag and cautiously ran to hide under the bushes dozens of meters away.

The river was carried out by river gunboats equipped by Argentines, and the battle for Misiones lasted for more than a month, and the indigenous Indians in the border area between Paraguay and Argentina were affected by the war and moved out of their original places of residence on a large scale to escape the damage of the war.

The movement of the population meant chaos, and some of the wandering whites and gauchos mixed among the Indians (whites and Indians mixed and accustomed to nomadic life,) took advantage of the chaos and fished in troubled waters and began to attack the white settlers in northern Argentina, robbing them of their livestock and wealth.

The gunboat sailed to the place where the Indians had just been hiding, less than thirty meters from the nearest group of three.

"Captain, three gunboats, and two more in the back."

The man dressed as an Indian with a grass ring on his head whispered.

"Argentina has increased its patrol force, and the thirteen of us can't eat the Argentine troops with three gunboats, and we will pass the word to the other brothers, and we will all stay still and let them pass."

"Yes," the man nodded in response, bowed his body and stepped back, then gestured with his right hand to the bushes behind him, and after receiving a response, he carefully climbed back to his original position again.

The first gunboat departed, and less than a minute apart, two gunboats full of soldiers passed one after the other.

The gunboat went away, and the men hiding behind the trees and bushes appeared and gathered, and the men led by them walked to the river, washed off the green leaves and sticky colors on their faces, revealing the traditional Han people's faces.

"Captain, the gunboat is heading ahead to the territory of the gauchos, and the Argentines aren't going for them, are they?"

Zhang Song, the leader of the special combat team, handed the water bag to Sun Qisheng and said.

"We attacked two Argentine patrols some time ago, and they should think that the gauchos did it, so they sent troops to retaliate."

Sun Qisheng speculated.

After Sun Qisheng contacted Ferner, he continued to return to the mountains and forests of northern Argentina to build a base for the special combat team in the mountains and forests, and to find an opportunity to sow discord between the local Indians, gauchos, and Argentine farm owners and create contradictions for them.

"The Argentines sent troops to retaliate, which will definitely lead to greater armed conflict and turmoil, let's not meddle in the conflict between them next, and build our base first."

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

"Most of the brothers only have a few words in everyday language."

Zhang Song shook his head and said: "The Indians have one tribe and one language, and the use of the Tilcara language we learned is limited to a few mountain tribes in the north, and they can't understand it when we meet other Indian tribes. ”

"Pretending to be an Indian is a matter of learning a little more truthfully, and I don't require my brothers to master all of Theokar, but they must be able to understand a few simple conversations, otherwise it will be easy for others to find out about their flaws." ……

About 100 miles west of the riverbank, more than 160 soldiers disembarked from three gunboats, under the command of an Argentine company commander, and launched an attack on the villages on the riverbank.

The size of the village is small, with about 500 men, women and children combined, of which about 30 are gauchos, and the rest are Indians who rely on the gauchos.

In the early days of colonization in South America, most of the people who came to the country were white men, who combined with local Indian women to give birth to mixed-race children, and because of racial discrimination, white men were often reluctant to recognize Indian women as wives, but abandoned women and children after the other party gave birth.

Mulattoes, who were not recognized by their white fathers, were raised by Indian mothers, and because they inherited the cultural traditions of both parents, a new race was formed, and the whites called them gauchos.

The gauchos were only slightly higher than the Indians and were excluded from mainstream rule by white Spaniards, so the disgruntled gauchos often attacked colonist settlements and made enemies of the Spaniards.

The gauchos had the blood of the Indians in their bodies, and the skills they learned from the white society made it easy for them to establish prestige among the Indians, so many gauchos relied on their skills to recruit a group of Indians to be loyal and became the main force to resist the white colonial rule.

After centuries of mutual vendettas, even after Argentina became independent, Davis the gaucho, the head of the village, did not have a good opinion of the white people of Buenos Aires, who inherited the Spanish dominance.

When the gunboats appeared five miles away from the village, the gauchos stationed outside the village issued an early warning, so Davis quickly arranged for some men to cover the transfer of the old and weak women and children, while he led more than 100 young people from the village to delay the Argentine attack.

The village was set up 170 meters from the riverbank, and the Argentines approached the village with infantry, while providing fire support with three small guns from gunboats.

"Boom Boom" three shells roared into the middle of the village, and the two wooden houses hit by the shells collapsed.

The shells continued to bombard, and the casualties of the young and strong people who hid next to the wooden houses to stop the Argentines increased rapidly, and the wooden houses that used to be simple and small were also reduced to ruins and burning timber under the shelling.

"Chief, there are three groups of brothers crushed under the wooden house, two groups of brothers were burned by fire, and one group of brothers was hit by a shell and died on the spot,"

The shelling stopped, and a gaucho man in his thirties reported the casualties to Davis.

The casualties of five groups are twenty-four, and the Argentines have lost one-fifth of the manpower of the gauchos with artillery bombardment alone, Daivis's heart hurts, but thinking of his wife and two sons in retreat, he still made up his mind: "The Argentines have even brought artillery, and they must plan to completely eliminate us, our wives and children have not gone far yet, and they cannot be caught by the Argentines, tell the brothers to hold on for a while, and wait until the old and weak women and children come to a safe place before leaving." ”

"Yes, Chief." The gaucho man quickly left, delivering Davis' orders to the rest of the village.

The battle between the Argentine infantry and the gauchos took place in the woods next to the wooden wall of the village, and with the cover of artillery, more than 100 Argentine soldiers advanced to a distance of about 70 meters from the wooden wall.

Standing, shooting, cross-covering.

The Argentine infantry still used the infantry tactics of the Napoleonic period, with more than 160 men divided into three platoons and fired under the command of the platoon commander.

There were no machine guns, artillery, and no trenches, and the Argentine infantry's alternating offensive tactics inflicted considerable losses on the gauchos, and the young men on the wooden wall were hit one by one, and the wounds, although not fatal, rendered them incapacitated.

"Retreat, go behind the woods and hold off the enemy."

The Argentine infantry was less than fifty meters away from the wooden wall, and the casualties of the young men were increasing, and Davis decisively changed the name.

The gauchos hurried out of the village, and the wounded young men had to be abandoned.

The Argentine infantry entered the village, guarding against the danger around them, while detaching some of their soldiers to collect the prisoners.

There were about thirty captives alive, each with gunshot wounds, and the Argentine company commander looked at the captives in disgust, glanced at his officers, and then led most of the soldiers to continue the pursuit.

More than 100 Argentine soldiers left the village, and soon after that, a burst of gunfire rang out.

War is a life-and-death fight, and the enemy will not be separated by the same white blood.

Death awaited those gaucho captives.