At about 7.40 a.m. on June 8, the Brazilian officers and soldiers on the fortress bent their necks to ward off the cold wind, they were all thinly dressed and were not used to the cold weather of only minus 5 or 6 degrees.

The fortress was located on the highest part of the terrain, and the cold wind that swept through the wilderness howled, blowing on the body and chilling the heart, and after a while, the whole body shivered with cold.

The black soldiers, in particular, wore only a thin cloth coat from top to bottom, and their faces were blue from the cold in this cold weather.

It was a day no different from usual, and after waking up early in the morning, Major Odebio on the fortress stretched his waist and walked up to the stonewall passage.

As usual, I looked into the distance, and the early morning sun shone on the Argentine military camp in the distance, and I could only vaguely see it.

The Paraná River flowed horizontally, from the side of the fortress into the distance, and a few birds swept by on the river's surface, and a crisp chirping sound could be faintly heard.

It was another sunny day, and when Major Zande Debio saw a wagon winding along the road north of the fortress, he said to himself with a sigh;

"It's so early today, and it's a chore to escort supplies to the front!" Then the major shouted;

"Soldiers, the wagon of supplies is here, open the gates of the fortress, don't bother any more."

"Got it, sir." More than a dozen black soldiers worked together, the heavy winch on the fortress tower turned, the locked iron-clad city gate slowly opened, and the soldiers guarding the city gate moved away the heavy wooden stakes blocking it, so that the city gate was completely opened.

Then the soldiers rushed out, hunching their necks and talking about what the wagon would be loaded with.

Watching the city gate is a very boring thing, and the horse-drawn convoys are transporting military supplies to the front line, and there is no oil and water to fish.

The only time to take advantage of the advantage is when the wagon of horses carries peanuts, soybeans, lard, flour and other materials, and can take the opportunity to intercept a little.

The number of zan will not be large, and if there is more escort horse convoy, they will start scolding their mothers. The soldiers standing in the hole of the city gate didn't care, they held their smoothbore guns in their arms and leaned against the edge of the stone wall with their heads down, and some of them didn't even bring bullet belts, just made a show.

It has been more than two months since the capture of the fortress of Umaita, the nearest remnants of Paraguay are more than 100 kilometers away, the south and north of the fortress of the Great River Castle are full of allied troops, and the fortress itself has nearly 10,000 garrisons, who dares to come to trouble without opening their eyes?

The really powerful army of the Tang Empire is still more than 200 kilometers away? If you want to attack the fortress of Umaita, you must first pass through the allied forces of Yasensund, which is full of troops, so the defenders on the fortress are quite slack, including the officers.

After about 10 minutes, the motorcar gradually approached the fortress gate, and Major Odebio staggered down from the fortress tower.

Standing in the doorway of the fortress, the wind was swishing and it was very cold, and Mr. Major walked to the leeward place outside the fortress, so that he had time to look at the approaching motorcycle.

Chan watched, watched...... Major Odebio looked a little puzzled, this convoy did not send someone to contact him first, as usual, to deliver the customs clearance paperwork for inspection, but approached in a hurry.

The leading men were talking and laughing on horses, wearing Argentine army uniforms, looking like big thorns.

What is the origin of this horse convoy? Not to mention that Major Odebio looked puzzled, even Ferguson, the officers and soldiers of the Tang Empire who were preparing to steal the pass, were puzzled; Preparing for a long time to punch the air is so smooth that it's so easy it's hard to believe.

Ferguson is an officer of the 10th Division of the Volunteer Cavalry, and was originally one of the mercenaries of the armed regiment who followed Commander Wu Erbao to fight the world.

It's not ...... Just because of this white-skinned ghost old look, he was selected to be one of the assault soldiers.

When Ferguson came to the gate of the city, he turned over and dismounted, strode forward, took out his revolver and put it against Major Odebior's chest, and asked in fluent German;

"Man, can you understand German?"

"Oh God, what's going on? I understand a little bit of German. "Major Odebio is confused.

"That's good, let your men not resist, put down your guns and surrender, I can guarantee that none of you will be harmed."

"This ...... You are ......"

"Don't you see our uniforms? We are the Argentine army, and now we are ordered to change our position and stand with the Tang Empire, for the sake of being allies, don't embarrass me, okay? ”

"Oh God, it's unbelievable." Chan

"Don't force me to kill you, okay? If there is any problem, let the commanders bargain, I am just ordered to carry out the mission, please cooperate with the disarming, otherwise I will have to shoot you down. ”

"Please don't get excited, okay, okay, put down your guns, I'm afraid it's just a misunderstanding." Major Odebio hurriedly waved his hand and said, he didn't want to die at the hands of his allies for no reason, wouldn't that be too unjust?

The soldiers in the convoy sprang into action, rushed over with guns and disarmed all the enemy soldiers at the fortress gates, when the sound of screams was heard from above the city walls, and then warning shots were fired.

This is the other sentries on the fortress who saw that the situation was not good and took the initiative to shoot in warning. The crisp sound of gunfire pierced the silence of the early morning, and soon the entire fortress was agitated.

In the distance, the earth trembled, and more than a thousand cavalry galloped towards them, followed by the black-pressed Tang Empire raiding infantry, like a tide, and quickly approached in the direction of the fortress gate.

By this time, there was no need to hide your whereabouts. More than 300 elite soldiers with guns rushed up the stairs to the fortress quickly, and then came

"Horn Horn Horn Horn ......" A short fierce battle began, accompanied by the wails of the wounded who had been hit by bullets and the muffled sound of falling walls.

In just a few minutes, more than 300 elite soldiers had taken control of the fortress walls and some towers, and were attacking the Brazilian soldiers who were constantly counterattacking.

At this time, the cavalry roared in, and the horses rushed through the gate into the fortress, and they entered the city with their shining sabers in their hands, and when they saw the Allied soldiers running around, they slashed down, and a good head flew up, and the headless neck splattered everywhere like a fountain of blood.

The Chinese cavalry came too fast and too strong, the allies in the fortress had just reacted, and the Brazilian officers were directing the soldiers to collect their guns and want to counterattack, and the fortress was in chaos.

Thousands of Chinese cavalry rushed in hula, and slashed indiscriminately, scattering the Brazilian soldiers who were gathering at once, crying and shouting for their mothers everywhere.

The elite Chinese soldiers who occupied the vicinity of the city gate used a dense platoon of guns to attack the Allied soldiers who were constantly attacking from both sides, and for a time the gunfire was loud, and there were casualties on both sides.

After more than ten minutes of fierce fighting, the black pressure army that followed by Zan successfully passed through the city gate to attack the fortress, at this time the general trend of the fortress of Umata has gone, in a shout of killing, a large number of allied soldiers were afraid of the fierce blow of the imperial soldiers, and raised their hands to surrender.

The battle and the purge lasted for about an hour, and by about 9 o'clock in the morning, the 2nd and 19th Volunteer Divisions had successfully taken control of the entire Umaita Fortress and began to cheer victory.

Of the nearly 10,000 Allied soldiers stationed in the fortress of Umaita, most of them were taken prisoner, except for more than 1,700 casualties, and only a small number of cavalry fled when they saw that things were not going well.

The 2nd Division, which was the main attacker, also suffered 229 casualties, and the 19th Division suffered 34 casualties, fighting a textbook classic battle.

The fierce fighting on the fortress also alarmed the nearby Argentine and Brazilian military camps, who quickly reacted as well.

At about 8:40 a.m., the largest Brazilian barracks opened their doors, and groups of neatly lined soldiers poured out of the camp, and in front of them were the majority of the 8th and 10th Divisions of the Cavalry Corps, which were already in formation, and the distance between the two sides was only 1.5 kilometers.

This distance was within the range of the 3-pounder and 6-pounder field guns of the Colt of the Tang Empire, so the two artillery companies with a total of 16 guns took turns firing after the enemy soldiers left the camp.

The lethality of the shells that landed and exploded in the rumble of the cannons was quite large, and near each explosion point, more than 10 Pakistani soldiers were emptied in an instant, and the stumps and broken arms were splashed everywhere with the fire, and the Brazilian soldiers who hit were embarrassed and shrunk back.

At the gate of the camp, nearly 330 mutilated bodies were left behind. This head-on blow finally woke up the Brazilian troops in the camp.

There were a total of 4 large battalions on the banks of the Paraná River, and after the battle broke out, the assault regiment took the lead in taking the central baggage battalion and the Uruguayan battalion with only a few hundred people, concentrated the strength of two artillery companies to block the Brazilian battalion of more than 12,000 people, and left a cavalry regiment to keep an eye on the Argentine battalion with less than 4,000 troops.

From the beginning to the end, the Argentine battalion did not send a single soldier to try to break through the siege, and these Argentines understood quite well; If the fortress of Umaita is lost, and the Brazilians cannot rush out, it means that the general trend has gone, and the strength of more than 3,790 people in the Argentine battalion alone will not play any role, and any resistance will be a futile suicide, it is better to surrender obediently.

After the rapid capture of the fortress of Umaita, the two reinforced field cavalry artillery battalions did not play any role, and the commander, Major General Mai Xiaozu, simply transferred the two cavalry artillery battalions back.

When the two cavalry battalions passed the Argentine battalion, the battalion obediently raised the white flag and surrendered.

Subsequently, Major General Mak Hsiao-zu pulled the two cavalry artillery battalions to the left of the Brazilian battalion, and pointed all the guns of the black hole at the Brazilian battalion, threatening the enemy to surrender wisely.

Unexpectedly, the commander of the Pakistani army was still a hard bone, and set up artillery across the camp, and it was a burst of bombardment against the heavily surrounded imperial cavalry corps.

In fact, the counterattack of the Brazilian army was only lonely, and the effective range of the breech artillery it was equipped with was only eight or nine hundred meters away, and the round shells fired were boring when they were bouncing and rolling dozens of meters, and they did not even hurt a single person, but they angered Major General Mai Xiaozu, which is really the stupidest thing in the world.

A grim smile appeared on the corner of Major General Mai Hyo-zu's mouth and ordered;

"All artillery guns raise the firing angle and shell freely for 5 minutes at the longest range, so that these barbarians can taste the world's top artillery technology."

"Yes, sir." Eight artillery batteries with a total of 64 field guns formed a loose semi-circular artillery position, with the black hole of the cannon mouth raised, and after an order, a fierce artillery bombardment began, at a rate of two rounds per minute, to vent fire on the large battalion garrisoned by the Brazilian army.

"Boom Boom" ......

"Boom boom boom" ...... The cannon roared, and the ground shook the mountains. In the blink of an eye, more than 60 orange-red fire balls were exploded, and the shrapnel flying everywhere instantly emptied the officers and men on the left, and in the dense queue, one by one baldness was blown up, and the enemy's flesh and blood flew everywhere, and the dead and wounded pillows.

Round after round of fierce shelling, six or seven hundred shells were fired in the five-minute fierce shelling, igniting the hay piles and tents in the Brazilian camp, the flames in the camp were blazing, the Brazilians were killed and wounded in the intensive artillery fire, and hundreds of frightened horses galloped wildly in the camp, which aggravated the casualties of the Brazilians.

After the shelling, expecting that the camp would be like a hell of death, the Brazilians, who could not bear it anymore, opened the camp gate and fled in a swarm, while being hit by a volley of guns in turn, and the bodies of the dead were piled up on top of each other, and the hundreds of meters around the camp gate were full of corpses, which looked terrible.

The Tang Empire taught Brazilians a lesson with sharp guns; Even hiding in the camp is a dead end.

The three-pounder and six-pounder breech guns equipped by the Tang Empire were extremely powerful, with a range of up to 1,800 yards, and they bombarded fiercely more than 1,000 meters outside the camp, which was simply a one-sided slaughter.

Several breakouts by the Brazilian army were crushed by a dense volley of guns, and the fierce fighting lasted until about 1 p.m., when the Brazilian army had to raise the white flag and surrender.

In just a few hours of fighting, the original 12,000 Brazilian troops suffered more than 5,300 casualties, while the Tang Imperial army suffered only more than 40 casualties, most of which were hit by stray bullets counterattacked by Brazilian soldiers, and only 9 people were killed on the spot, and the others were all injuries of varying severity.

At this point, the battle for the surprise attack on the fortress of Umaita has basically come to an end. The Mobile Assault Corps of the Andean Doge's Palace won a complete victory, using a surprise attack to capture the fortress of Umaita, which was crucial to the entire campaign, and laid the foundation for the total annihilation of the Allied heavy army.

The Argentine officers and soldiers who surrendered witnessed this one-sided massacre, and everyone's face was blue and red, and they secretly said that they were lucky; If they resist, they will end up as badly as the Brazilian army.

The guns and cannons equipped by the army of the Tang Dynasty were too sharp, and the Argentines had actually suffered enough from the Chinese armed militias, especially the intensive firepower of the Colt lever rifles.

In South American countries, Brazil and Argentina are equipped with more advanced weapons, mainly smoothbore guns eliminated by Britain and France, and this kind of rifle has a quasi-head within 120 yards, and it is up to fate to exceed this distance.

The effective range was within 300 to 400 yards, roughly the same range as the Colt Lever Rifle, but the intensity of fire was far from it.

A well-trained smoothbore gunner can fire two rounds per minute, provided that he does not move in the face of enemy attacks, has a strong psychological quality, and is able to use his shooting skills steadily.

This old smoothbore gun is okay against the natives, and it is simply looking for death when dealing with the Chinese armed militia of the Tang Kingdom with advanced weapons.

The most common type of Chinese cowboy equipment is the Colt lever rifle, which is also known as this advanced rifle

"Thirteen rings", a single bullet can be fired by pulling the trigger lever, and 13 bullets can be poured out in just over 10 seconds, forming a dense firepower.

This sharp infantry weapon had made the white Argentine colonists suffer enough, and now with the advanced Colt breech gun, the Argentines have put out the desire to compete for the long and short.

It's not cowardice, it's really unbeatable!