April 9, Buenos Aires, Federal District, Argentina.

Crowds of Argentine whites, old and young, poured into a gate that had not yet been closed, constantly attacking the blocking line set up by Argentine soldiers.

"The city is already crowded, don't squeeze into the city!"

The Argentine officers who maintained order tried their best to persuade the surrounding whites to leave, but to no avail.

"Please, let us in, our hometown has been occupied by the Han people, the Han people are like a group of robbers, they have robbed us of most of our food, only allow us to carry a little ration with us, if you don't let us into the city, we will all starve to death outside!"

"Sir, my daughter is only five years old, and she hasn't eaten for two days, so for God's sake, help your poor daughter!" ……

Outside the city gates, the Argentines told each other about their misadventures, and begged the soldiers to let them into the city.

"Sir, that little girl is so pitiful, can you be accommodating and let their family into the city?"

A junior officer in his thirties was moved by a five-year-old girl and couldn't help but walk to the commander of the city gate defenders and persuade him.

"No, once we let the little girl's family into the city, the others will take the opportunity to storm the city gates.

There are already too many people in the city, and if you let others in, the city's food reserves will be quickly depleted. ”

"But they are all citizens under the federal government, and many of them have husbands, sons, and brothers who are in the federal army, and if we forcibly prevent them from entering the city, and they have an accident outside the city, how can we account to their relatives?"

"The purpose of the President's call for the people to join the Union Army is to defend the country, but if we can't even protect our own relatives, how can we protect our country?

Sir, do a good deed and let them into the city? ”

The deplorable condition of the white civilians outside the city touched the hearts of one gate defender after another, and a low-ranking officer kept making pleas to the commander of the gate defenders.

In the face of the pleas of his subordinate officers, the attitude of the commander of the city gate defenders gradually softened, and finally he could not withstand the persuasion of everyone, and said in a relaxed tone, "The ban on civilians outside the city from entering the city is an order issued by the president himself, and I have no right to change the president's order, so I can only go to the city to ask the president for instructions, and then decide whether to open the city gate according to the president's order." ”……

"President, the situation outside the city is like this, many people have lost their land and property, and some women, children, old and young have been unable to support themselves because of lack of food, and the soldiers outside have seen the unfortunate situation of the people outside the city, and they all advocate opening the city gate and letting them into the city.

"Goretzweig, you also know the situation in Buenos Aires, the Han National Defense Forces are eyeing the outside of the city, they forcibly requisition the food and livestock of nearby civilians as military supplies, and then they also declare to the civilians who have been requisitioned food and livestock that the city of Buenos Aires is the safest place, there is enough food in the city to eat everyone in the Plain de la Plata, as long as they enter the city of Buenos Aires, they do not have to worry about the threat of external forces and the problem of insufficient food supply."

After Mitre had a serious illness, his spirit obviously declined a lot, and after saying a word, he paused for a while, and then continued, "It's also because the federal government carried out a series of demonic propaganda against the Han army in order to strengthen the belief in national resistance, and now the Han National Defense Force has hit the city of Buenos Aires, and the nearby civilians remember the vicious image of the Han National Defense Force propagated by the government, and are worried that their families will be slaughtered and abused by the Han army, coupled with the Han people's careful food requisition action, This caused the people of the vicinity to flock to the city of Buenos Aires.

The grain in Buenos Aires is stored at the rate of 200,000 people for half a year, and according to the report submitted yesterday by the Minister of Agriculture, the population of the city has reached 430,000, and there are still some people who have sneaked into the city in recent days and have not been counted, and if this part of the population is counted, the population of the city is likely to exceed 450,000.

The population of 450,000 is more than twice the original planned population, and the extra double population not only rapidly consumes the food reserves in the city, but also brings great inconvenience to maintaining order in the city, so Goretzweig, it is not that I am unwilling to let the people outside the city enter the city, but if I relent for a while and let the people outside the city enter the city, the living conditions of hundreds of thousands of civilians and soldiers in the city will continue to deteriorate, and the defense situation in Buenos will also develop in a direction that is not conducive to the federal government. ”

"My subordinates know what to do, and I don't have to worry about things outside the city, and my subordinates will arrange them properly."

"Well, be calm with civilians outside the city, and don't use force to expel them unless you have to."

"Yes, President." ……

"Your Highness's plan has worked, and more than 200,000 people have entered the city of Buenos Aires these days."

In the camp of the National Defense Army, Luo Linshan said happily to Li Mingyuan.

"How is the food shortage for the troops now?" Li Mingyuan did not reply directly to Luo Linshan, but raised a question that he was more concerned about.

"Counting the grain and livestock forcibly requisitioned these days, the food reserves on the front line can still support the supply of the army for two and a half months."

After Liu Pu stayed on the mainland, Sun Bin took his place and was responsible for supervising and deploying the logistics materials of the front-line troops.

"Two and a half months' food reserves are enough to supply the troops for a period of operational requirements."

Li Mingyuan lowered his head and thought for a while, then said, "Argentine President Mitre has already sensed the purpose of our army to expel ordinary people into the city of Buenos Aires.

However, our army's goal of creating trouble for the Argentine defense troops by raising military rations has been achieved, and it will not have much effect to continue to carry out the plan to expel the Argentine whites, so starting tomorrow, the order to forcibly requisition food and livestock will be cancelled, and all units of the army will repair for two days, and two days later, according to the original plan, the departments will take turns to attack the defenders of Buenos Aires. ”

"Yes, Your Highness."

Luo Linshan, Sun Bin and others should all give their hands together.

"The British are making a big fanfare for Argentina in Europe, from this point of view, the British government has made a decision to intervene in the Argentine war with armed force, and the Brazilian Empire has been under the influence and control of the British government, after the British decided to send troops to Argentina, the Brazilian government will definitely follow suit and send troops to participate in the war, therefore, after a while, our army will face a joint attack by the British and Brazilian multinational forces.

In order to ensure the smooth progress of our army's subsequent battle plan against Britain and Brazil, the front-line troops must ensure that they will capture Buenos Aires and occupy the Argentine coastal area within two months, so as to isolate the remaining Argentine forces from the intervention forces and prevent the two forces from converging and adding difficulties to our army's occupation of Argentina. ”

Li Mingyuan put his hands behind his back, and his gaze swept over the bodies of everyone in the temporary conference room. "Two days later, the 1st Division, as the first batch of combat forces to be engaged in the battle of Buenos Aires, was responsible for attacking San Isidro and Olivos from the north.

The 2nd Division will advance from the west towards the city of Buenos Aires, with the operational objective of capturing the first-line defensive positions in Cáceros, and the 3rd Division, together with the 2nd Mixed Brigade, will spare the frontal defense line of Buenos Aires and launch an attack from the south in the western direction of Lomas, De Zamora, and Floren......