After defeating the main Argentine force, this part of the Paraguayan mercenary group did not obey the command of the Paraguayan president, and directly turned around and pointed its troops to Chile in the southwest, concentrating its forces to attack central Chile.

Chile's army has no way to compare with Argentina, how dare to resist head-on, more than 10,000 government garrisons fled directly south, and the local people in the three central provinces spontaneously organized militias to fight heroically against the invading mercenaries, but in the face of superior firepower, these militias who thought they were heroic soon became underworld soldiers, and after the death of a small half of the militia, these people collapsed and all became prisoners, but these seemed to be Orientals, but in fact they were mercenary groups composed of Japanese and Indians, under the command of Chinese generals, Nearly 170,000 civilians in the northern provinces of Chile were captured by mercenaries, of whom nearly 10,000 were slaughtered, the remaining 110,000 women and children were released, and the remaining nearly 60,000 men and women were concentrated as miners in the newly formed Second Horse Mining Company of the Americas, which excavated copper near the town of Chuquicamata, near Clama City, Antofagasta Province, in the northernmost part of Chile.

At the time of the mercenary group's victory in the west, the 12,500-strong army led by Colonel Estigarivia of the Paraguayan army suffered a crushing defeat in Brazil, and Colonel Estigalivia was forced to surrender, except for about 1,000 Paraguayan soldiers who fled back.

At this time, with the surrender of Argentina and Chile, Paraguay's enemies were only two countries: Brazil and Uruguay.

On the one hand, López wanted mercenaries to desperately ask for help, and on the other hand, he mobilized the main army of 25,000 led by General Vincethan Robles along the Uruguay River, preparing to capture Uruguayan territory.

Uruguay, with a total of less than 4,000 soldiers, had already been sent to defend the south bank of the Río de la Plata, but now seeing that Argentina had been defeated, they fled back to Uruguay before the Paraguayan army could attack the Uruguay-La Plata River, a tributary of the Paraná River.

The Red Party government in Uruguay was preparing to send representatives to surrender to Paraguay, but was overthrown by government forces close to Uruguay's white parties who had fled from the front lines. The White Party re-formed the government, because of the good relations with Uruguay, the Argentine side had already announced its surrender, and Brazil had always supported the Red Party, so the White Party directly announced its surrender to Paraguay and demanded an armistice.

López simply ignored Uruguay. Even for the white party close to Paraguay, it is useless to hate them and disillusioned with them. He was just concentrating on the Brazilian side.

Now the war in Paraguay is going well, except for the defeat and surrender of Colonel Estigarivia, who attacked Brazil. Therefore, it is a great shame for López.

After several successive urgings, when the mercenaries were still busy capturing the central provinces of Chile, López understood that these black-hearted mercenary groups wanted to help Erma Company occupy the north-central region of Chile before they could help attack the Brazilian army. He did not have time to wait, and immediately sent the main army of 25,000 troops led by General Vincethine Robles, who had been attacking Uruguay, up the Paraguay River, into Brazil.

At the same time, López personally went to the Asunción branch of 2MAB and asked the branch manager there to meet Mr. Feng and Commander Tang. However, the branch manager replied that both Mr. Feng and Commander Tang were no longer in Paraguay, but he could tell Commander Tang to send a fleet to support the Paraguayan army.

López was overjoyed and recruited all Paraguayan men from the age of 10 and under the age of 60 in Asunción as soldiers, thanks to the national reserve system of middle-aged men after he became president two years earlier, and the average male in Asunción served and had a good soldier base. As a result, 30,000 troops were quickly formed, and under the guidance of 4 ironclad ships and 2 wooden battleships of the Pacific Fleet, plus the Paraguayan fleet's own wooden small and medium-sized warships, sailed out of the mouth of the Paraná River, and passed through Montevideo, the capital of Uruguay, to force Uruguay to sign an alliance under the city and announce its surrender.

Then, the 30,000 Paraguayan troops were divided into several groups, escorted by the fleet, and headed north along the coastline, first capturing the Brazilian port town of Santos, and then began to attack the Brazilian capital Rio de Janeiro.

Emperor Pedro II of Brazil was so shocked that he hurriedly sent Brazilian troops back to the north and center, and at the same time, transferred the remaining scattered naval warships back to Rio de Janeiro to use the shore defense turrets in the port for joint defense.

The turret of Rio de Janeiro had more than 400 guns, which caused heavy losses to the fleet and the Paraguayan army, and even an ironclad ship was damaged by heavy artillery fire, and the Paraguayan army lost more than 6,000 people.

Seeing this, the detachment of the Pacific Fleet retreated and turned to attack other ports off the coast of Brazil. López personally led 10,000 Paraguayan troops to attack the Rio de Janeiro turret, and after the loss of more than 11,000 men, finally, the Brazilian army of more than 50,000 collapsed, 14,000 were killed, more than 10,000 were captured, and the rest fled to the interior of Brazil.

Brazilian Emperor Pedro II also fled from Rio de Janeiro with the defeated army, and at this moment, the northern Brazilian army led by Brazil's Field Marshal Mitre marched to the northwest 200 kilometers from Rio de Janeiro, and was directly dismissed by Pedro II.

The lack of military talent of the field marshal and the slow movement of the army made Pedro II unusually annoyed.

He never expected that the mighty Brazilian Empire would be defeated by the small Paraguay. Although it is said that there is the support of a mysterious mercenary group, the defeat of Brazil, the largest country in South America, still makes him lose face.

A large number of Portuguese aristocrats in Brazil believed that the main reason for the defeat of the Brazilian army was the hiring of a large number of low-quality, landless black slaves, and they strongly appealed to Pedro II to recruit volunteers.

Soon, inspired by Pedro II's personal call for the Brazilian people to join the army, the Brazilian government soon mobilized an army of 100,000 men, and the Brazilian government rewarded the black slaves with their freedom.

At the same time, Paraguayan President Andrés López López also publicly declared that all blacks in Brazil who enter Paraguayan territory or declare allegiance to Paraguay as its citizens will automatically be removed from slavery status and receive the protection of the Republic of Paraguay! As a result, many black slaves in Brazil defected and fled in droves to Paraguay and other places. Pedro II was dumbfounded when he learned of the situation, and he has been encouraging countries to emigrate to Brazil, although mainly for Spain, Portugal and French from Europe, as well as white people native to Argentina, but without these black slaves, there would be no labor to help plant the estates, and no amount of white people and capital came to Brazil, they were not willing to invest in plantations.

But he himself was the largest plantation owner, and naturally he was reluctant to emancipate the black slaves. Once the black slaves were freed, he and the interests of the plantation owners, the nym-born white merchants, and the ranchers who supported him, would resolutely oppose and even overthrow his throne. Therefore, he did not dare and did not want to liberate the black slaves, so he could only send troops to prevent the black slaves from escaping. In this way, the contradictions intensified, and the war became more favorable to the Paraguayan side.

López personally led a large army into Rio de Janeiro and launched an attack on the main Brazilian army of 80,000 assembled in the northern town of Petrópolis. The two sides hurt each other, because each held its own position, but it was difficult to separate, and the war was stalemate for a week, and it was very intense! At this time, López was eager to fight, and launched the untrained Paraguayan army to attack again, and the heroic Paraguayans charged desperately, with heavy casualties, 40,000 Paraguayan troops directly killed nearly 6,000 people, and the Brazilian army was killed and wounded nearly 11,000 people, but even so, Paraguay still couldn't bear it, and López had no choice but to retreat to Rio de Janeiro.

The Brazilian army took the opportunity to besiege and prepare to retake Rio de Janeiro, and the Paraguayan army desperately defended it, but the situation became increasingly unfavorable.

At this moment, that mysterious mercenary group captured central Chile and forced Chile to surrender. Moreover, the remaining 28,000 mercenary groups, escorted by the fleet, suddenly arrived in Rio de Janeiro by sea, and penetrated deep into the rear of the bay, landing at night from the west side of the island of Governador, blocking the rear of the Brazilian army.

The Brazilian army, with its large number of troops, directly divided its 50,000 troops to attack the mercenary group under the Paraguayan flag. But what I didn't expect was that after 3 consecutive attacks, all blocked by the artillery and fortifications of the ferocious mercenary group, and nearly 10,000 troops were consumed, the Brazilian legion realized that this was a hard nut to crack, and was ready to dig trenches and fight a protracted war, but because tens of thousands of Brazilian troops were sandwiched between the mercenary group and Rio de Janeiro, they could not be replenished, and they were also bombarded and harassed by the fleet in the bay from time to time, and the logistics could not be effectively replenished. Concentrate their forces on the Paraguayan army stationed in the city of Rio de Janeiro.

And the mercenary group that took this opportunity launched a counterattack, the Brazilian army originally had a big gap in weapons, coupled with the turmoil in the morale of the army, where was the opponent of the wolf-like mercenary group, after the continuous artillery bombardment of the mercenary group, it was on the verge of collapse, coupled with the mercenary charge that was not afraid of death, it collapsed at once.

The Paraguayan army in the city of Rio de Janeiro, under the personal leadership of President López, flanked the Brazilian army and completely rushed the Brazilian army into the abyss.

King Pedro II of Brazil, escorted by 20,000 troops, fled in panic. The remaining nearly forty or fifty thousand Brazilian soldiers were either killed or surrendered, and the Brazilian army suffered a crushing defeat.

A week later, King Pedro II of Brazil, representing Brazil's group of large landowners and planters, and President Andrés López López of Paraguay formally signed an armistice in Rio de Janeiro.

Brazil declared defeat, conceded abandonment of Uruguay, allowed it to be annexed to Paraguay, ceded to Paraguay the four states surrounding Paraguay and Uruguay, and compensated Paraguay for war losses of 8 million pounds. In addition, Brazil has opened up the mineral development of the two states of Minas Gerais in the southeastern Brazilian Altiplano and Mato Grosso do Sul in the central part of the country, and handed over the full exploration and development of the two states to the Erma Mining Company for 299 years. At the same time, Brazil has opened all its coastal ports and inland ports to Paraguay and the Second Malaysia Company, which enjoys the most favorable investment treatment in the country.

In this way, the whole of South America, the second horse company is unimpeded.

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