When the news of the battle near Iyareta reached the besieging troops hundreds of miles away, the Argentine commander had to abandon the impending victory, abandon the continued siege of Sunqi's Sanctuary and lead his troops back to reinforce Iyaretta.

As the initiators of the incident, after Ma Jizu and Davis completed their goals, they quickly evacuated with the weapons and materials captured from inside the fortress, and then after receiving Sun Qisheng and others, the two troops separated again, Davis led his subordinates to continue to fight on the move, and Ma Jizu and Sun Qisheng returned to Rio Gran do Sul along the hidden trail opened up on the border to report to Li Mingyuan about the changes in northern Argentina.

A week later, the busy spring ploughing came to an end and agriculture in Rio Gran do Sul began to enter a new phase after its first year of steady development.

On the industrial side, with the trial production of the only large steel plant in Rio Gran do Sul two days ago, all the factories that the Prussians helped to build were completed and put into operation.

In Rio Grande do Sul, from Rio Grande in the south to Joinvia in the north, 400,000 square kilometers of land are covered with green rice and pastures, brand-new factories are distributed along rivers and coasts, and black smoke rises from high chimneys......

Sparsely populated and green, Rio Grande do Sul was a mix of industry and nature at the dawn of the Second Industrial Revolution.

A lot of changes can take place in more than a year, the Chinese who were originally exiled abroad settled down in Rio Gran do Sul, rows of low wooden houses strolled in a disorderly manner on the wide plains, shabby, dirty linen coarse clothes were replaced by brand new short coats and trousers, after a year of cultivation and adaptation, the thin, scorched Chinese laborers returned to their normal complexion, and groups of men and women were distributed on the riverbanks, pastures, and training grounds, and they were either naturalized white women washing clothes and talking and laughing by the river, Or retired soldiers after farming are carrying out the prescribed training tasks.

Everyone has something to do, and this nascent country is uniquely dynamic in many small ways.

About a year has passed since the first batch of white women married Chinese, and in the past two months, 4,000 white women have given birth to offspring with Chinese husbands.

Riding a horse along the riverbank outside Port Alegre, Li Mingyuan smiled and quipped Luo Linshan beside him, "General Luo, I heard that many brothers in the Fourth Division have children, and you, the division commander, can't always be left behind, how about it?" Does General Luo have a favorite girl, and when do you plan to consider starting a family? ”

"Lao Shizi bothered." Luo Linshan shook his head, and said with a somewhat bitter expression, "In Minhou's hometown, there were originally two sons under the post, but four years ago, there was a famine, and his wife and two sons starved to death, and only one person was left to survive by wandering overseas alone." Recalling the sad things in the past, Luo Linshan was even more depressed, "As a man, he can't support his wife and children, and he feels guilty in his heart, and he has no thoughts of marrying a wife and starting a family again for the time being, and I hope the son will forgive me." ”

Supporting a family, protecting the young and weak and safe growth of his wife and children is the responsibility and mission given to men by the Han tradition, although Li Mingyuan has not married and had children, but he can understand Luo Linshan's mood.

"Natural disasters are merciless, and even if you and I reopen our careers in South America, we are only insignificant mortals before the general trend of history and natural disasters. Four years ago, you were just an ordinary person, and it was not all your fault that you didn't save your wife and children in the face of disasters. ”

To untie the bell, you have to tie the bell, Luo Linshan's heart knot can only be untied by himself, Li Mingyuan persuaded two sentences, and it was not easy to say much.

In the war era, ordinary people are like small ants in front of the trend of the times, they can only follow the tide and drift with the waves, unable to control their own destiny, in this era, Li Mingyuan is just a slightly bigger ant, but he has accumulated a group of people around, as more and more people gather together, his power will become greater and greater, until it can influence the general trend of history and change the fate of ordinary Chinese.

Li Mingyuan has been working hard in this direction, so even if he also yearns for beautiful wealth and a comfortable life, he also self-restrains his desires and shifts his energy to the governance of Rio Gran do Sul.

The tour on the riverbank was only a short break in the busy, and after returning from the vicinity of the riverbank, Li Mingyuan received a report from Ma Jizu and Sun Qisheng.

"Are you sure Argentina is moving more troops to the north?"

After listening to Sun Qisheng's report on the situation in northern Argentina, Li Mingyuan asked.

"I dare not deceive His Royal Highness. A week before the Argentine troops attacked our base, the soldiers who went out to investigate the situation reported the transfer of Argentine troops, and at that time, they believed that the Argentine troops were only increasing the defensive strength of 300 people, and it was impossible to pose a threat to the base, so they did not look at it in detail, and when the Argentine troops attacked the base, not only did the main attack force reach nearly 2,000 people, but there were also more than 2,000 Argentine soldiers near the base who were deployed in different places, blocking all the retreat routes of the defenders of the base, and the subordinates and the brothers who broke through the siege desperately tried their best to highlight the Argentine encirclement. In the end, they were besieged in the valley by the Argentine troops who caught up, and if it were not for the company commander Ma to persuade Davis to feint and attack the city of Iyaretta, more than 200 brothers would have all been buried in the hands of their incumbents.

Your Highness, the failure of the base operation is hard to shirk, but I just hope that Your Highness will give you another chance to collect the corpses of the dead brothers and help them avenge them. ”

"Lost troops, the arrangement in northern Argentina for nearly a year has failed, Sun Qisheng, do you think you can return to northern Argentina for the mistakes you made?"

Argentina secretly sent a large number of troops to reinforce the northern region, and Sun Qisheng, as the commander of the Wehrmacht in the area, did not even know in advance, and in any case he was mainly responsible for the loss of the base.

A small battle failure could not shake Li Mingyuan's determination to intervene in northern Argentina, and at the same time he was not unable to forgive the defeat of his subordinates, but Sun Qisheng's defeat this time was too miserable, more than 200 selected elite soldiers, only more than 60 people were left alive after a battle, Li Mingyuan sent Sun Qisheng to northern Argentina not only to harass the Argentine troops, but also to establish a guerrilla base and collect intelligence, and Sun Qisheng actually stumbled in the most important aspect of intelligence, which could not help but make him angry.

coldly reprimanded Sun Qisheng, Li Mingyuan felt that this incident would not be so simple. The main force of the Argentine troops fought on the front line and the Paraguayan troops, and the southern part of the base of the Sanctuary of Sonchi was the province of Antlerios controlled by Urquiza and the province of Corrientes controlled by Ferna, and Urquisa and Ferna were old rivals with Argentine President Sarmiento, and they could not help Sarmiento solve the troubles in the northern region, which would not only benefit Sarmiento's rule, but also consume the interests of their faction.

Excluding the possibility of Urquisa and Ferna, the reinforcements in the northern region can only be drawn from the front line, thinking of this, Li Mingyuan immediately reacted, "Little López personally led troops to reinforce the Misiones front, Argentina dared to draw troops from the front line, it must have reached a ceasefire agreement with Little López, otherwise the Argentines would never risk the frontline war getting out of control and send troops back to help quell the rebellion." ”

Vaguely in touch with the truth in his heart, Li Mingyuan put Sun Qisheng aside, and immediately ordered the soldiers around him, "Half an hour later, discuss the matter in the hall of the Kuomintang, and all senior generals are not allowed to be late!" ”……

"Your Highness, is Lord Sun ......" The soldier accepted the task and was just about to leave, thinking of the guilty Sun Qisheng, he asked.

"He ......," Li Mingyuan glanced at Sun Qisheng with his peripheral vision, "and let him stand in the hall and listen." ”

"Obey" the soldier was ordered to leave quickly.

"Thank you, Shiko!" Sun Qisheng had no hope for his future, but after hearing that Li Mingyuan allowed him to observe, his heart became enthusiastic again, and he couldn't stop thanking him.

"Don't thank me, you need to grasp the opportunity yourself, whether you can continue to serve in the Wehrmacht depends on your subsequent performance."

"I understand that I will never disappoint the son of the world next time!"

Sun Qisheng said solemnly.