Chapter 450: Battle Enlightenment
South America is a vast and fertile land, but it is also a land of rapid regime change and constant war, and the fertile land has attracted interference and manipulation from external powers, and corrupt and incompetent governments only know how to compete for power and profit, but cannot protect the safety of their citizens.
In the original history, the wars and strife of the South American countries lasted for nearly 200 years, and until the 21st century, the countries of South America were still under the control of external powers.
Fertile and war-torn South America is like a dazzling jewel, its light beckons ambitious prying eyes and lights the way for those who truly control it.
South of La Plata, a new and vibrant country, is rapidly emerging in the chaotic situation of South American countries.
From the two southern states of Brazil, to the control of the seven northern provinces of Argentina, and then to the occupation of the whole of Argentina and Uruguay.
The Han Kingdom of South America is developing at a rapid and powerful pace to prove to the world who is the real hero who ended the troubled times in South America.
On July 13, 1889, the Han government issued a conscription order, and all troops who received the order were lifted from vacation and outing, and all front-line regular troops were assembled at the garrison and ready to rush to the front-line battlefield at any time.
On 16 July, the Four-Man Regency Council reached an agreement with the Rebel Coalition to stop the assault on Asunción, and the Four-Man Regency Council agreed to allow the Rebel Coalition to send a force into the city to assist in the defense, and also sent a force of 2,000 men to cooperate with the Rebel Coalition to resist the attack of the Brazilian Republican Army.
On July 18, the government of Asunción sent a request for assistance to the Han side, requesting the Han government to send strong troops to support the defense of Paraguay.
On 20 July, the Han government offered a series of additional conditions on the condition that it would assist Paraguay in resisting aggression, which was politely rejected by the Paraguayan government.
On July 23, under a secret agreement with the British, the Government of the Republic of Brazil received the first tranche of a low-interest loan of £600,000 (the total amount of the loan was £1.5 million, to be paid in three installments, and the Government of the Republic of Brazil initially requested a loan of £3 million, and the UK only agreed to pay £1.5 million). ),
On 25 July, with the newly acquired £600,000, the Government of the Republic of Brazil again mobilized and armed 20,000 mixed troops (made up of a mix of blacks and whites).
On 28 July, according to the needs of the front-line situation, the Government of the Republic of Brazil transferred a mixed force of 20,000 men to Paraguay in two parts, one part of about 13,000 men to the Paraguay River Valley Front to defend the newly recovered southern regions of Mato Grosso do Sul and Goiás, in order to relieve the logistical pressure on the front-line troops of the Brazilian Republic, and the other part of about 7,000 men to Guairah and do Iguaçu to defend the logistical supply lines of the troops of the Republic of Brazil in the Paraná River Valley. Stop the Paraguayan or Han attacks from the lower Paraná River.
On July 31, 1889, the 4th Division of the Paraguayan Army, stationed in the south of Goiás, was completely annihilated, and the commander of the 4th Division, Hopkins, was captured alive by the forces of the Brazilian Republic.
On August 4, 1889, after the elimination of the units of the Fourth Division of the Paraguayan Army, the main force of the Paraguayan River Front of the Brazilian Republic left 14,000 men to defend the occupied areas in the southern states of Mato Grosso do Sul and Goiás, while the remaining nearly 60,000 men continued to march south along the Paraguay River.
On August 6, 1889, Puerto Casado fell, and the more than 600 soldiers stationed in Puerto Casado were captured or killed, except for more than 100 who escaped by chance.
On August 9, 1889, an advance force of 12,000 troops of the Brazilian Republic marched to Concepción and engaged in fierce battles with the Paraguayan troops stationed there.
On August 10, 1889, the Rebel Coalition and the Four-Member Regency Committee cobbled together a force of nearly 10,000 men to Concepción, intending to rely on the remaining port fortress to fend off the attack of the army of the Brazilian Republic.
On August 20, 1889, the Brazilian Republic added 20,000 troops to the attack on the port of Concepción at one time.
On 24 August, the fortified fortress of Puerto Concepción was severely damaged, and the Paraguayan troops stationed there suffered heavy losses under superior artillery strikes from the Brazilian army.
On 26 August, General Silvestre, commander of the Compceción garrison, burned the remnants of military supplies and part of the fortifications of the fortress, and at 11 p.m. that day, more than 7,000 soldiers were evacuated by boat in the direction of Asunción.
At 9 a.m. on 27 August, the advance force of the Brazilian Republic caught up with the Paraguayan troops who had evacuated by boat, and a fierce battle broke out in the port of Antequera.
At 12 noon, most of the boats on which the Paraguayan evacuation troops were travelling were destroyed, and the defenders of Asunción in the rear, fearing an ambush out of the city, refused a request for support from Sylvestre, commander of the 3rd Division of the Paraguayan Army.
At 1:09 p.m., Silvestre was killed on the spot when the gunboat on which Silvestre was riding was hit by a shell from the Brazilian advance force.
At 2:24 p.m., most of the Paraguayan evacuation troops were wiped out by the Brazilian advance force, more than 1,000 were killed in battle and drowned, more than 3,000 were captured by surrender, and only more than 700 troops were lucky enough to escape to the city of Asunción (after the defeat, many soldiers would leave the battlefield and hide in coastal villages and towns on their own, becoming rebels).
On 29 August, the army of the Brazilian Republic arrived in the small town of Lynchio, north of Asunción, with a triumphant victory.
In the evening of the same day, the Brazilian army launched an offensive in the area near Asunción, and in less than a week, it occupied the town of Lynchio near Asunción, Puerto Ayes and other outlying positions, and the Paraguayan army retreated to the city of Asunción.
On September 6, 1889, after a week of intense fighting, the number of defenders in Asunción fell to 17,000, and the city was in danger of falling.
On 7 September, the Paraguayan government urgently contacted the Han side, agreed to all the conditions put forward by the Han side, and implored the Han government to immediately send troops to reinforce Asunción.
At 11 a.m. on September 9, as one of the conditions for the Han army to send troops, the Han army crossed the Paraná River and entered Encarnación to replace the 1st Division of the Paraguayan Army to take over the local defense.
At 12 noon on 9 September, the 1st Division of the Paraguayan Army withdrew from Encarnación and immediately took a train in the direction of Asunción.
The Han army crossed the Paraná River and took over from the 1st Division of the Paraguayan Army in Ncarnación, which meant that the Han side officially intervened in the Paraguayan War.
On September 10, 1889, after learning of the Han army's entry into southern Paraguay, the front-line army of the Republic of Brazil intensified its offensive against Asunción on the one hand, and on the other hand, urged the Chilean side to fulfill the secret treaty and exert military pressure on the Han side on the Pacific side.
On September 12, 1889, at the request of the Republic of Brazil, the Chilean government sent an additional 6,000 soldiers to Temuco, Panguiep, and Los Lago.
On September 13, 1889, the Han government issued two military orders, one was to order the Haizhou garrison to strengthen its guard and be ready to deal with attacks from Chile by sea and land.
The second was to order the 70,000 troops stationed in Luoning County (Formosa) to complete their combat readiness training and immediately rush to Asunción on the transport ships of the river fleet.
As the army stationed in Luoning County marched in the direction of Asunción, the Han war machine, which had been dormant for nearly a decade, was back in operation.