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There are two exams to be taken next week, and there is at least a week to break, sorry.

Tensions between the Mapuche and white Argentines rose again after the events of the Antonio conflict, and on 12 April Argentina imposed an economic blockade on the Patagonian Indians, closing trade routes in the border areas controlled by the two sides.

On April 13, Ilya agreed to Ye Chenglin's request and led the only 17 young men in the tribe to join the mixed army.

On 15 April, sensing the hostility from the Argentine side, the chiefs of the Patagonian tribes began to mobilize the young and strong men of the tribe to join Ye Chenglin's troops, and thus the recruitment work, which had stalled in the early stage, was quickly launched.

Sheragland, the temporary garrison of the Patagonia Regiment of the Wehrmacht, Ye Chenglin looked at the letters handed over by the chiefs of various tribes, and a satisfied smile appeared on his face.

The Patagonian Indians, who had been dealing with white Spaniards for hundreds of years, learned a lot from the Spaniards in Western society, and if they were still treated as uncivilized savages, the task of forming the Patagonian Mixed Legion would never have been completed.

The Han military strength in Patagonia consisted of only a 151-man infantry company and 34 officers on assignment.

Relying on the support of less than 200 troops, Ye Chenglin encountered many difficulties in recruiting troops in Patagonia in the early stage.

The first was that the chiefs, who were in the upper echelons of the tribe, feared that sending young tribal men to join the Han army might disrupt the peace between the two sides and lead to the resumption of war, so although they ostensibly respected Li Mingyuan as the king of Patagonia, they were in fact unwilling to cooperate with the Wehrmacht.

Secondly, the Patagonian Indian military armed forces are composed of small and medium-sized tribes, and the core combat effectiveness of the armed forces is tribal warriors like Ilya, without their recognition, even if the thirteen Indian chieftains fully surrender to the Han State, it is difficult for Ye Chenglin to recruit enough troops from the Patagonian Indian tribes.

When the three of Ilya clashed with the Argentine whites, the easiest solution was to be patient for a while, and to exchange the concessions and apologies of Ilya and others for the resolution of the incident, but when Ye Chenglin arrived at the scene, in the face of the controllable situation, he chose the most drastic response method, did not give the other party a chance to react, and directly ordered the two subordinates who followed to shoot and kill the provocative Argentine whites.

Ye Chenglin's seemingly reckless actions actually had a deep meaning, according to the scene at the time, the three of them rushed to the scene to help them break the siege, and they would be grateful to Ilya and others, but such a result was not what Ye Chenglin needed.

Li Mingyuan's order to him was to control the situation in Patagonia and try to control the local Indian armed forces in the hands of the Wehrmacht.

After the occupation of Argentina, Patagonia will definitely be incorporated into the Han State as a native territory, and at that time, the Indian chiefs who originally hoped to use the Han State to resist the Argentine invasion are likely to become an obstacle to the Han State's control of Patagonia, so in the name of resisting the Argentine invasion, the Argentine young men distributed in various tribes will be concentrated under the control of the Wehrmacht, on the one hand, the military strength of the Indian chieftains will be weakened, and on the other hand, the assembled Indian young men will be in the battle to unify Argentina in the coming year. It is inevitable that there will be a large number of casualties. As a result, the young and strong people who were the core of the Patagonian Indians suffered heavy losses, and the remaining old and weak women and children and the chieftains who lacked the support of the armed forces lost their reliance on the Han state, and the process of the Han control of Patagonia would be much smoother.

Population is one of the main reasons for the outbreak of the war, because the Patagonian wasteland is inhabited by native Indians, and the white Argentines and Chileans can only choose to reduce or eliminate the Indians in order to seize the land, while the Han State is also to permanently occupy Patagonia, in order to achieve this purpose, artificially creating wars and reducing Indians is the simplest and most effective way.

The way the Han controlled Patagonia was essentially the same as that of white Argentines, except that because the Patagonian Indians were closer in appearance to the Han Chinese than other Indians and because of their sparse population, Li Mingyuan chose to accept them in a way of limited integration and artificial reduction, giving them a fairly appropriate result.

Ye Chenglin carefully pondered the hints in Li Mingyuan's order, and conscientiously carried out the layout of various affairs not only to complete the task, but also to leave Li Mingyuan with the impression of being stable and having the ability to handle complex affairs on his own, and then surpass Wu Fengdian and Chen Zongbai to gain the advantage of serving as the commander of the Fourth Division of the National Defense Force.

Chen Guozhu and other old generals retired, among the four main divisions of the National Defense Army, the post of commander of the second division was taken over by Zhao Yongzeng, the former commander of the special forces, and the post of commander of the third division was temporarily vacant, but the affairs of the third division were all in charge of the deputy division commander Wang Xiaoshan, according to the relationship between Wang Dashan and Wang Xiaoshan as Li Mingyuan's young bodyguard, the position of commander of the third division was either held by Wang Dashan or by Wang Xiaoshan, and Wang Dashan had served in the Nanyang Army for a long time, and there was no news within the National Defense Force that he would be transferred back to the mainland, therefore, The most likely candidate to take over the post of commander of the Third Division is Wang Xiaoshan, and as for Wang Dashan, it is possible that he will be transferred back to his homeland after the end of the Argentine war.

Excluding the two posts of commanders of the Second Division and the Third Division, the commander of the First Division was transferred from Luo Linshan, the former commander of the Fourth Division, and among the four field divisions of the National Defense Forces, only the Fourth Division was vacant, and the people most likely to hold the posts of the Fourth Division were Ye Chenglin, Wu Fengdian, and Chen Zongbai.

Needless to say, Ye Chenglin himself was in charge of Patagonian affairs, and before he was in charge of Patagonian affairs, he once served as the deputy brigade commander of the First Mixed Brigade of the National Defense Forces, with the rank of colonel, while Chen Zongbai and Wu Fengdian were transferred to local posts, and successively served as battalion commander, regiment commander, deputy brigade commander of the mixed brigade, brigade commander and other positions, with the same military rank as Ye Chenglin.

The first of the three to be promoted to the rank of colonel was Chen Zongbai, who served as the commander of the Second Mixed Brigade in 1874 and was promoted to colonel accordingly, while Wu Fengdian and Ye Chenglin were promoted to the rank of colonel a year later than Chen Zongbai.

Chen Zongbai, Ye Chenglin, and Wu Fengdian have similar qualifications, among which Chen Zongbai and Wu Fengdian have more opportunities to contact Li Mingyuan because they serve in the mainland, while Ye Chenglin is far away in Patagonia, and the national defense force under his command is only one or two hundred, and the situation they face is much more complicated than that of Chen Zongbai and Wu Fengdian, and correspondingly, if Ye Chenglin can command the mixed troops in Patagonia and achieve good results, the competitive advantage will be more obvious.