Chapter 249 The End

The instigation of the low-level soldiers was temporarily resolved, but the situation in Brazil did not calm down.

On 5 May, two days after the declaration of independence, the black rebels of Saldorba sent troops to attack northward, occupying Camasaari, which was garrisoned by only more than 100 policemen, in one day.

The black El Saldobadian rebels quickly sent troops elsewhere to storm the city, and in addition to the lessons of the failed insurrection, Paraguay's military commanders also contributed no small amount.

The enemy of the enemy is a friend, in order to fight against the Brazilian Empire, López Jr. can cooperate with the Han people in South America, and will not miss the opportunity to cooperate with the black rebels in Bahia, and López, who is familiar with the temperament of the black Brazilians, knows very well that the black people in Bahia will not develop into a force like the Han State, and there is no harm to Paraguay's expansion of power in the direction of Brazil.

Similar to what Li Mingyuan thought, the black people of Bahia were used as cannon fodder to consume the strength of the Brazilian Empire, and then various support plans for the black rebels were carried out in an orderly manner.

First, López Jr. used some of the money from the country's scarce finances to finance the black rebels, and secondly, he used the occupied state of Magrosso do Sul as a base to deliver more than 1,000 muskets and ammunition to the rebels by inland waterway.

In the end, with the assistance of Paraguayan officers sent to El Saldoba, and according to the situation that the troops of the state of Bahia were transferred to the south, a strategy was formulated to divide the troops into three routes and preemptively occupy the entire territory of the state of Bahia before the Brazilian army returned.

Paraguayan officers who supported the black insurgents had years of war and battlefield experience, so in the early days of the rebellion, the black insurgents marched smoothly, occupying nearly half of the state of Bahia in less than ten days, but as the black insurgents occupied more and more land, they became more and more unable to control the armed forces under their control.

Under the call of the unified goal of establishing a black state in South America, although tens of thousands of blacks joined the rebel forces, those blacks who were divided into spheres of influence according to the indigenous languages and tribes of Africa were usually in charge of a region, and the center of the rebel regime in El Salvada rarely issued mandatory orders to the subordinate forces scattered throughout the country before facing the attack of the Brazilian army.

Weak and strong support is a problem that all rebel forces encounter, and if the problem of overly strong subordinate forces is not solved at the initial stage, it may bring great harm to insurgent activities.

The inability of the El Salvavarian rebel regime to effectively control the affiliated armed forces has created a series of problems.

On 16 May, a group of more than 400 rebels left the station and entered the territory of other black militants, where they engaged in an armed clash with each other, resulting in more than 100 deaths and injuries on both sides.

On 18 May, 200 black rebels were stationed in the small town of Laurou, Bahia, and on the same night, more than 20 white women were robbed and raped, and more than 100 white children, old and young, were abused and killed.

On 19 May, a second massacre of whites took place in Freitas, in which more than 300 whites were killed and thrown into a river, some of which flowed down the river to the southern part of the country under the control of the Brazilian army, causing an uproar in Brazil.

On 22 May, the day the Brazilian army engaged the rebels, more than 120 fleeing whites were killed in the forest more than 10 miles from the battlefield,......

The massacre was like a plague, infecting every black rebel who participated in the massacre, and at the same time, through the massacre, the tyrannical and cruel black people who released their hearts were more likely to choose to slaughter again to satisfy their inner perverted desires.

The sporadic massacres of the rebel blacks gradually affected the rest of the rebels, and by the time the black leaders of Saldorba discovered the actions of their armed forces, it was too late to stop them.

The black leaders opposed the massacre of whites not out of civilization, but intended to use blacks as hostages to use as bargaining chips with the Brazilian Empire when the war was not going well.

When the black people of Bahia revolted in 1837, many black rebels used this method to keep a way alive, but when they revolted, several inconspicuous small-scale massacres provoked the inner brutality of the rebels, so that the events began to develop in the direction of not being controlled by the black leaders of Saldoba.

It was too late to make amends, and the massacres were revealed by the Pakistani newspapers, causing an uproar in Brazil.

The white Brazilians proclaimed themselves the superior people of the civilized world, and out of the spirit of compassion of civilized people, they abolished black slavery, but a few years after the abolition of slavery, those obedient blacks actually rode on the heads of white men,

The brutal massacre of women, the old and the weak, spread and the Brazilian people, who had been affected by the defeat in the external war, could no longer bear it.

In the eyes of ordinary Brazilians, although the war with Paraguay and Han was lost, everyone obeyed the rules of civilized people, and there was no large-scale massacre of prisoners and civilians, and those blacks who were favored by the emperor's abolition decree not only did not know how to be grateful in return, but also divided the country and slaughtered white people.

The Brazilian people, whose economy has stagnated and internal and external tensions have intensified, have angrily approached the doors of local governments, demanding that they retaliate against the massacres of the rebels. At the same time, young whites close to the rebel areas volunteered to join the army to quell the black rebellion in Bahia for the purpose of protecting the safety of their homeland and serving their country.

The boiling public opinion in the country was not over, and the news of the massacre spread within two or three days, and the Han government department quickly made a statement

"Although there are some contradictions between the Han and Brazil countries, as a civilized people with a long history of 5,000 years, the Han government strongly opposes any massacre against ordinary people, and at the same time, for the sake of friendship and sincerity, the Han government advises His Majesty Pedro II, Emperor of the Brazilian Empire, to reflect on the mistakes made in his administration and correct the wrong policy implemented at home.

Abandon past prejudices, respect the sovereignty and integrity of other countries on the basis of the principle of equality and voluntariness, and establish normal diplomatic relations with neighboring countries......"

After the Han government issued a statement, the Paraguayan king López Jr., who provided weapons support to the black forces in Bahia, was not willing to be lonely, and unceremoniously stood up to accuse Pedro II of not being the same, and dressed himself as the protector of white South America, and called on the Brazilian people to overthrow the decaying and declining Pedro dynasty and cooperate with the Kingdom of Paraguay to establish a great white South American state.

The people who had just begun to clamor for revenge against the rebels in Bahia pointed the finger at Pedro II, demanding that Pedro II cancel the preferential treatment decree on blacks and expel all blacks from the Bahia region Members spread the word to get more people to agree with them, demanding that Pedro II fulfill his previous promise to immediately disarm the Black Legion and put them in the custody of the Brazilian army.

The unsettled wave after wave, the boiling voices of the army and the people, forced Pedro II to compromise again, put Garcia in the position of commander of the Brazilian army, and issued an order to disarm the black legions stationed everywhere.

When Pedro II's order to disarm was given, the black soldiers, who were worried about handing over their weapons and being persecuted, fled with their weapons, and some openly rebelled under the leadership of a few low-level officers, and then joined the rebel forces through various channels.

The Black Legion of Brazil was established according to the abolitionist policy, and at its peak numbered more than 100,000, but under the order of Pedro II, more than 20,000 black soldiers either fled to the interior or joined the rebels, and the more than 30,000 black soldiers who remained were also disarmed under the supervision of the Brazilian army and entered the special supervision area set up for them.

The Black Legion has not been treated well by the Brazilian army because it is directly under the leadership of Pedro II, and this time it is in line with the wishes of the bigwigs of the Brazilian army to disband the Black Legion from the perspective of the black rebellion in Bahia, so after taking care of the remaining black soldiers, the veteran Brazilian generals led by Garcia quickly organized troops to go to the rebel area, intending to adopt a step-by-step strategy to solve the problem of repeated rebellions in Bahia at one time.