"Who did it this time!" In a private room near the sea in Penglai Restaurant in Qingdao County, a slightly mocking and ironic voice came from.

The interviewer's name was Sheng Dehong, the director of the La Plata Division of the General Directorate of National Intelligence, who had previously planned the attack on the town of Franco by Inigo and the Three Gangs of Inigo under the cover of the contractor in Nancun Port. After the incident was completed, he quietly left Nancun Port, and then returned to Qingdao Port by boat with several high-ranking officials of the Goshkin Construction Company to take a vacation.

Today's small gathering together are all old friends for many years, such as Liu Xuefei, Weng Guangan, Wang Huadu and others. Sheng Dehong is the director of the State Intelligence Administration, Liu Xuefei and Weng Guangan are the chief and deputy directors of the North Chemical Plant and the discipline leader of the Institute of Chemistry of the Academy of Natural Sciences, and Wang Huadu is the general manager of the famous East Coast Gas Company, and he has a certain stake in this large state-owned enterprise.

These people are the current Mesozoic elites of the East Coast Republic of China, and they are the ones who will gradually take over the political, military, and economic power of the country from the older generation. Today, after a rare gathering together and chatting about some work and life matters, it is inevitable that the topic will turn to the hottest Pampa Plains today, and the assassination of Father Ramos, which happened not long ago, is the center of the topic.

As a middle-level official of the General Administration of National Intelligence, Sheng Dehong naturally knew who killed Father Ramos, not the gang of horse manure from the Gendarmerie Command. Hearing that the main mastermind was a captain officer surnamed Zhou, Sheng Dehong only searched in his mind a little, and knew that it was Zhou Shenwo, the son of Zhou Shenwo, the former Central Executive Committee and the big man in charge of finance, and Zhou Bo, the brother of admirals Zhou Yu and Zhou Yafu.

This guy is not a radical either, this time I don't know which string in my head is wrong, just by virtue of a plausible attitude of his boss, he led someone to plan such an incident: directly outside the town of Mar del Plata, the respected Father Ramos was shot down.

If this shot continues, it really stabs the hornet's nest! In the past, the Spaniards tolerated in every possible way and were unwilling to face the East Coast head-on, mainly because they were afraid that the East Coast would be crushing and unable to resist. But this time the nature of the matter was different, and the murder of the religious leader directly angered the anger of Mar del Plata and even the entire Spaniards of La Plata, who had been somewhat frightened, and their emotions were dominated by some inexplicable factors, and they began to fight against the East Coasters.

In Mar del Plata, for example, the Spaniards and the East Bankers, who originally lived in the new town and the old city respectively, and the well water did not interfere with the river water, began to clash, especially after a hundred cavalry from Buenos Aires took place, the local Spanish residents seemed to have the courage to continue to attack the East Bank settlement, claiming that "the murderer was hiding inside" and asking for a search inside. There are even more emotional people who say that all the East Coast people living here are murderers, or that they are sheltering the murderers and want to drive them all away.

Such a drastic situation has not been seen in the East Coast in the past few years. On the one hand, the commissioner of the Niulanshan District Administration did a good job of security and defense work in Niuzhuang County and other places, and then quickly arrived at Yinhai Port by boat and commanded a small number of local militia troops to confront the Spaniards. He understands that there must be no weakness at this time, otherwise it may cause some unpredictable consequences.

The militia on the east bank were issued with flintlock muskets, and they were fairly well trained and outnumbered, and the county town was a key defensive area, so they were not too afraid of the angry Spaniards. What they are distressed about is nothing more than the interruption of most of their production and business activities, which has greatly affected their lives.

In fact, not only the silver harbor was affected by this, but other terrain was also affected to some extent. For example, in Nancun Port, a large cargo distribution center, a large number of merchants on the east coast were affected, the goods were detained by Spanish officials for no reason, not to mention, the belongings they carried were also robbed by some bitter Spanish mercenaries, and there was even a murder incident, which suddenly made people feel the tension of the situation.

Construction of the East Coast Merchant Station (actually a train station) on the outskirts of Buenos Aires is also thought to have been stopped. The laborers of the construction company Goshkin were beaten by Spanish soldiers, some of the tools of the work were looted, and the warehouses were burned. To make matters worse, these poor Russians were forced to abandon the Orthodox religious rites and pray according to Catholicism, which made their faces even paler and more desperate.

In addition, the Spanish and the easterners fought for the sandbar islands in the Paraná River intensified, from the downstream, the middle to the upstream, from Buenos Aires to Paraguay, and the two sides fought almost everywhere, gradually leading to a number of casualties.

These incidents, which occurred almost one after another within a month of the assassination of Father Ramos, and have become more and more violent, were somewhat unexpected by the East Coast side, and their reaction was inevitably slow and somewhat restrained. Compared with the government, it is still the army side that is more decisive, and Mo Ming, the veteran commander who has been in charge of the army system for many years, also returned to the capital from the sanatorium in Bac Ninh, he first called the people from the military police headquarters to scold them together, and seriously dealt with a group of people who talked to themselves and did nothing for meritorious service, and then directly ordered several mixed battalion commanders to transfer them.

The first to receive the transfer order was Major Pei Dade, commander of the 1st Independent Cavalry Battalion, who was told to immediately select the main force and move north from Yancheng County to both sides of the Yanbu railway construction site in the hinterland of the Pampa Plain to guard against enemy attacks on our road builders and damage to the roadbed.

Major Pei Dade immediately led the order to go north, and then divided his troops all the way to control several newly established townships and towns with weak defensive strength, such as Tongxu, Chen Wall, Wapeng, Guiling, Heqiu, etc., and strictly investigated the suspects who approached, and immediately expelled them as soon as they were suspected, and if the people who came refused to obey, then Major Pei Dade was authorized to attack.

After the 1st Independent Cavalry Battalion was on the road, the War Department successively transferred troops from two mixed battalions, namely the 9th Mixed Battalion and the 12th Mixed Battalion. The two mixed battalions were stationed in Dingxi County and Yiling County in the North Yazihu area, which belonged to the hinterland of the east coast, and there was basically no pressure on defense, so they were requisitioned and issued by the War Department in an official document, and they finally arrived in Niuzhuang and Yinhai counties after a long time of steamboats, trains, and sailboats, intending to stabilize the local situation as Dinghai Shenzhu.

In fact, the arrival of these two regular battalion leaders did play a role in fixing the needle of the sea. In particular, in the 12th Mixed Battalion, which landed in Yinhai County, the commander of the battalion, Major Jiang Ning (who had served as a garrison commander in the Bac Ninh area), directly set up the battalion headquarters in the new town of Mar del Plata, and sent regular sergeants to patrol the streets to stabilize the situation.

To be honest, these regular troops are still very bullish, well-equipped, well-equipped, well-trained, and those Spanish cavalry are half intimidated at first sight, and they no longer have the arrogant attitude they had before. As soon as their momentum weakened, the momentum of the people on the east coast rose, and the residents of Silver Harbor, with the support of the 12th Mixed Battalion, directly dismantled some of the barricades set up by the Spaniards, dispersed some Spanish cavalry, and resumed the production and business activities of the city.

And the militia in Yinhai County did not dare to do these things, which was not only due to their short establishment time and lack of confidence, but also related to the fact that they were ordinary people after all, not regular troops. Just as the War Department commented on the county security regiments before, the militia will always be just a local dog guarding the house, and can only be used as a supplementary force to the regular army, and it is difficult to take charge on its own (the militia may be able to do it in the early days, but it is becoming more and more difficult now).

Nearly 3,000 soldiers of the two mixed battalions were stationed in the two counties in this way, and coupled with the deterrence of hundreds of cavalry of the first cavalry battalion, the Spanish cavalry, which had been relatively active, immediately disappeared, and the Spanish residents, who had been agitated by religious fanaticism, were also a little depressed and did not know what to do.

In addition, the Army has recently mobilized the Sixth Mixed Battalion, which uses Qingdao County as a recruiting place for soldiers. The battalion's acting battalion commander, Captain Qiao Yu (who had served as the head of the township armed forces and the commander of the regional garrison in the Bac Ninh area), had officially received an order: the whole army was ready to withdraw the camp and prepare to board a ship to the port of Nancun near Buenos Aires to stabilize the local situation and fight against the mob that harmed the merchants and civilians on the east coast. At the same time, in cooperation with the diplomatic officials urgently dispatched by the Eastern Republic of China, consultations were held with the District of the Prosecutor's Court of Buenos Aires, Spain, on a series of issues.

This 1,450-strong fully staffed force has been assembled on the dock today, and Sheng Dehong, Wang Huadu and others can see it directly from the window of the private room. These officers and soldiers from Qingdao County are quite a lot of children of rich families, so the people who saw them off on the dock were crowded, which made people look a little stunned, could this be sending their relatives to France to fight? How can it be like life and death!

Sheng Dehong laughed when he saw this, and said that no wonder the Sixth Mixed Battalion was criticized a lot, if it was really a young master soldier from a wealthy area and a big city, this time it was just a "tour" to the Nancun Port area, and it was actually such a big send-off battle, this army is really problematic, I am afraid that it will not be able to fight a hard and hard battle. Comparatively speaking, the children of iron and steel workers and coal miners in the Tieling and Ping'an areas are much better; they bear hardships and stand hard work, dare to fight, and train harder, and this combat effectiveness is naturally not comparable to that of the loose and sloppy Sixth Mixed Battalion. I believe that if it were not for the War Department's prediction that there would not be any serious fighting this time, this unit would not have been sent out at all to embarrass people.

"I heard that the army's transfer of three mixed battalions and one independent cavalry battalion totaling 4,900 officers and soldiers was also approved by the government. From this point of view, the princes of the Executive Committee still have a lot of tolerance for them, and they only let the army deal with such an unorganized and undisciplined thing as assassination, and it is not particularly ruthless (it is said that the initiator Zhou Bo was transferred from the military police headquarters and sent to Australia to guide the local conquest of the indigenous people). Wang Huadu looked at the Sixth Mixed Battalion on the dock that was boarding the ship at a fast pace, and said a little speechlessly: "These guys in the army, they have been holding back for so many years, and this time they have seized the opportunity, I am afraid that they are going to do a lot of work, I hope that the princes of the executive committee can tie the dog chain in their hands and prevent the vicious dog of the army from acting recklessly." ”

"The Executive Committee's agreement to the War Department's transfer plan is inevitable, and there is nothing to complain about." Sheng Dehong lit a cigarette and said with a soft smile: "Things have come to this point, what else is there to say?" Apologize to the Spaniards? Hand over the murderers and put them at the stake for trial? Or stop the construction of the Yanbu Railway or withdraw the tens of thousands of migrants on the Pampa Plain? That's impossible! So far, the only way to do it is to be wrong, and to be tough to the end! These 5,000 regular soldiers were scattered on the territory of the Spaniards, and the pressure on the Spaniards was not ordinary! You know, this is the first time after the Second East-West War that the regular soldiers of the East Coast Republic of China have entered the territory of the Kingdom of Spain on a large scale and blatantly. I suspect that there is already an atmosphere of panic in the city of Buenos Aires, and of course the shadow of the invincible East Coast Army sweeping La Plata has once again loomed over the hearts of many Spaniards, especially those of some age. At this time, if the East Coast Army received further orders to make some hostile or offensive actions, the Spaniards might panic even more, because it would be tantamount to explicitly forcing them to make a choice, whether to declare war immediately or to relent? They have no chance to drag it out, and this time they are clearly trying to force them to take a stand. ”

"An army of 5,000 loaded guns came to the door and forced a statement, this Spaniard is really unlucky. After this incident, no matter what the outcome is, this general Ovando is afraid that he will also do it, and he may be taken as a scapegoat to Lima or even Madrid for trial. In fact, this Spanish general, known as the 'East Coast Pass', has been trying to protect the interests of his homeland for so many years, although he has always been misunderstood. But who made their country's strength insufficient, and the strength was insufficient, but they were mired in one boring war after another, wasting their national strength, which doomed them to not be able to straighten up. I guess that the day when our East Coast Gas Company will repair the gas lamps to Buenos Aires is getting closer and closer, and this pearl city on the banks of the La Plata River is getting closer and closer to our country, so let's wait and see. Hehe, this year's new government comes to power, it really doesn't feel the same, the old age politics that was criticized in the past is gone, and the government has suddenly become energetic and aggressive, and I am afraid that there will be many good shows to watch in the future. Wang Huadu also said with a smile.