The camp was destroyed, most of the Indians attached to the Sanctuary of Sunqi were lost, and the few Indians who escaped the encirclement of the Argentine troops were scattered, and it was difficult to regroup them in a short time.

Faced with the current situation in northern Argentina, if Li Mingyuan wants to continue to implement the original plan, he not only needs to start from scratch, but also invests more troops to intervene.

The Argentines and Paraguay have been fighting for more than half a year, and no matter how the two sides end the Misiones dispute, the rebellion in the northern region will become a top priority for the Argentine government.

In the battle of the base, more than 4,000 troops were mobilized to deal with the Sunqi Sanctuary Division, and with the ceasefire agreement on the front line fully reached, more troops would enter the northern region, and at that time, as a guest army, the Wehrmacht troops who had no roots in the local area would have a hard time.

Li Mingyuan's strategy for the troops in northern Argentina was guerrilla warfare, relying on the Indians in the jungle areas to launch long-term attacks on the Argentines, but in fact, the Argentines were not the Japanese during the War of Resistance Against Japan, and the Argentine troops were fighting on their own soil, and reinforcements could be continuously transferred from the rear, so it was very difficult to destroy the Argentine troops in the same way as dealing with the Japanese.

On the other hand, the Wehrmacht and the Indians living in the northern region are different from each other, and it is not as simple as imagined to gain their recognition by disguising themselves as Indians.

The reason for the loss of the base was not only Sun Qisheng's carelessness on the surface, but the final result of the balance of forces between the two sides.

After the defeat of the battle, Li Mingyuan was also responsible for negligence in planning the overall situation, underestimating the determination of the Argentine troops to eradicate the rebellion and overestimating the influence of the Wehrmacht on the Indians.

In Argentina, where whites make up the majority, they are the descendants of criminals and poor peasants at the bottom, and compared to the Brazilian army, which is composed of upper-middle-class whites, the Argentine troops are more combat-ready and have a stronger will to resist when the country is in danger.

It was difficult for the Indians to keep one mind with the Wehrmacht, and the fighting for more than half a year had consumed a lot of their strength, and when they re-entered the northern region, the Wehrmacht could only rely on the Chinese themselves.

Having a clearer understanding of the complex situation in the northern part of Argentina, Li Mingyuan tried to find an effective way to solve it in his mind.

The classic war patterns of "sports warfare, blitzkrieg, and frontal decisive battle of the large corps...... came to mind, and then they were vetoed by Li Mingyuan one by one.

Half an hour passed quickly, and the senior officers who remained in Xinjing came to the Wehrmacht conference hall one after another.

Seeing that all the people had arrived and the generals were sitting in three rows, Li Mingyuan stopped thinking and briefly introduced the situation in northern Argentina, hoping to get useful solutions from them.

War has never been something that can be controlled by one person, because with the insight of later generations, Li Mingyuan can use the advantages of the prophet to point out the direction in the big strategy, but in terms of specific tactical execution, it still needs to be carried out by his officers at the level of execution.

His eyes swept over the faces of the officers in the council hall one by one, and most of them were pensive and fruitless expressions, and he was slightly disappointed in his heart, but after a moment, he thought, "I don't have a suitable solution to the situation in northern Argentina, and where can these officers have a better plan in a short time?" ”

Not treating his officers with a harsh attitude, Li Mingyuan continued to observe their expressions, and at this time, Luo Linshan, who was sitting in the first row, broke the calm in the hall with a voice: "Your Highness, is interfering in the situation in northern Argentina a military task that our army must perform?" ”

"The only places on the South American continent suitable as the foundation of a great power are the La Plata region and the Brazilian Altiplano, and the rest of the country either lacks sufficient suitable arable land area, or the natural environment is harsh and cannot support the long-term development of the country, so if the Chinese want to gain a firm foothold in South America and become an independent country, they must expand externally."

Rio Gran do Sul has not conducted a large-scale military operation for a year, and the infiltration and intervention in northern Argentina has only been carried out in secret, and the question raised by Rollin Hill may represent the doubts on the minds of many officers.

The direction of the country's external development is a core secret, and the senior officers of the armed forces also need to make targeted plans for military operations on the premise of knowing the country's development strategy.

The people sitting in the hall were all senior officers of the Wehrmacht, and Li Mingyuan was not worried that some of them would betray Rio Grande do Sul's expansion strategy to hostile countries, so he explained very clearly to Luo Linshan's question: "The Brazilian Altiplano is densely populated, and as the core area of the Brazilian Empire, with the development rate of Rio Gran do Sul, there is no possibility of annexing the Brazilian Altiplano, and the La Plata region is vast and sparsely populated, if our army can occupy the core area of the La Plata region, It will truly gain a place of foundation that has been inherited for thousands of years, and will be in a strategic advantageous position. ”

The whip in Li Mingyuan's hand pointed to the location of Rio Gran do Sul on the map: "The three southern states of Brazil are geographically located in the north of La Plata, and have an innate geographical isolation from the Brazilian plateau, after our army occupies the two states, the northern expansion limit is the last state of the three southern states of Brazil, cutting off the possibility of continuing to annex the Brazilian plateau, and the southern and western directions are northern Argentina and Uruguay, which are both in the La Plata region.

Uruguay is a small country with few people, as long as it defeats the Argentine, it can be annexed by the trend, and if you want to defeat Argentina, what you need is a careful and protracted battle, first separate the northern region from the Argentine territory, and then support the Indians in the southern desert area to fight against the Argentines, after removing the southern and two territories, the remaining area of Argentina has less than half of the territory, and what our army has to do at that time is to concentrate the strength of the whole country to eliminate the main Argentine force in one fell swoop and achieve the act of whale swallowing.

Ladies and gentlemen, governing a big country is like cooking a small fresh, and seeking a big country is like cutting down a big tree,

Domestically, we can get a steady stream of people from the mainland and the South Seas, and finally surpass the white Argentines in the number of its citizens, while Argentina, although it is a vast country and seems difficult to deal with on the surface, is in fact divided internally, and the central government is not able to integrate domestic forces for development.

I have a statistic that last July, the Argentine president issued a decree encouraging white Europeans to emigrate to Argentina, and a year later, Argentina's population was 1.51 million.

And what was the population of Argentina a year ago? I tell you, it's 1.57 million, and in the past year, Argentina has lost about 20,000 young people to the war, while the remaining 40,000 people have left the country because of the war and moved to countries like Chile and Paraguay, where there are few whites.

White Argentines do not belong to the same ethnic group like the Chinese, and when it is difficult to maintain their domestic life, they can choose to leave to another country to start a new life in addition to resisting, and what we have to do is to eliminate the people who resist, deter more whites from resisting, choose to leave Argentina, and finally achieve the goal of monopolizing Argentina. ”

Li Mingyuan clearly conveyed the signal of occupying Argentina at any cost, and after Luo Linshan understood, he said cautiously: "Your Highness, your subordinates agree with your idea, Rio Gran do Sul is a small area, and the territory lacks all kinds of resources for industrial development, if we do not expand, our army will be more and more at a disadvantage in the subsequent confrontation with the Brazilian Empire, until finally lose the land that the brothers have worked so hard to build, not expanding and being content with the status quo is the way to death, only expansion can break the unfavorable strategic situation faced by our army." ”

"Since General Luo agrees with my idea, do you have a general way to deal with it?"

"Your Highness, the Argentine troops have eliminated our army's camp in the northern region, and the contradiction between the two armies has become public, and at this time, according to the previous pattern of guerrilla warfare, it is useless to continue to add small units to the northern region, and our army should change its combat mode, on the one hand, send formed field army units to disguise themselves as Indians to fight against Argentine troops, and on the other hand, send retired soldiers, mainly civilians, to fill the land occupied by the troops, and use the method of military-civilian cooperation to gradually encroach on the land in northern Argentina, and completely digest the occupied areas."

"General Luo, our army took the initiative to attack northern Argentina, isn't it an open declaration of war on Argentina?"

As soon as Luo Linshan's words fell, another officer immediately questioned.

"There is no doubt that our army's military operations in the north are in real war, why the Argentines did not declare war on Rio Gran do Sul is not that they do not want to, but that Argentina is temporarily unable to resist the military pressure of Paraguay and Rio Gran do Sul at the same time, and our army has once again sent troops to disguise itself as Indians, as long as we do not recognize the rebel forces in northern Argentina as the Wehrmacht, what excuse does Argentina have to declare war on us?"

"Well, the Brazilians have not yet recovered from the Paraguayan War, and without the support and cooperation of the Brazilian Empire, the Argentines will not go to war with our army on their own."

Li Mingyuan nodded in agreement, and turned his head to look at Luo Linshan with an appreciation in his eyes.

"The size of the field army marching into northern Argentina should be controlled within a range, too few people will not play a role, too many people, our army can hardly withstand the logistical pressure of long-distance cross-border operations, and too many people may also stir the nerves of the Argentines and cause them to directly declare war on our army.

General Luo, how many troops do you think is appropriate? ”

After Li Mingyuan analyzed, he threw the question to the other party again.

"The mountains and forests in northern Argentina are all over the place, and the large-scale heavy artillery units and cavalry units are not suitable for local operations, so the subordinates believe that without provoking the bottom line of the Argentine government, they will first send 2,000 field troops as the vanguard force to test the reaction of the Argentine troops, and then, according to the results of the first phase of the operation, send a corresponding number of retired soldiers to carry out the task of enriching and digesting the occupied areas."

Luo Linshan didn't dare to say anything, and replied after deliberation.

"Two thousand people is a bit less, three thousand five hundred, transfer a mixed brigade of 2,500 people and a garrison regiment of 1,000 people to form an advance corps, as for the commander of the troops, you will be General Luo, General Luo, do you have any opinions?"

"The subordinates obey the arrangement of the son."