Chapter 464: South American Beacon (Medium)

Argentina and Brazil are rivals, and that's normal. From the perspective of real geopolitics, it is impossible to have a very good relationship between two adjacent but similar powers. And from a historical point of view, it's even more so. The feud between them began even before the two states were formed.

In the seventeenth century, the Portuguese began to expand their territory in Brazil, hoping to control the Sacramento district of Argentina, which had been part of the Spanish colony of Argentina, on the other side of the Río de la Plata. The Portuguese and Spanish rivals continued until the 19th century, when the land finally became part of the later independent Uruguay.

The deepest contradiction between the two countries is Uruguay. At the beginning of the 16th century, the Spaniards discovered the area on the east bank of the Uruguay River, but the Spanish did not have effective rule over the area, and later the Portuguese discovered it. Since 1680, it has been contested by Spain and Portugal. Finally, in 1726, the Spaniards flew over the Portuguese, and Uruguay became a Spanish colony, where the Spaniards established the military port of Montevideo. Later, Spain incorporated Uruguay into the Viceroyalty of La Plata (the predecessor of Argentina), which at that time was known as the "East Bank of the Río de la Plata".

In the early 19th century, Spain's national power declined and could not maintain colonial rule in the Americas, and the Spanish colonies in Latin America became independent one after another. In 1811 José Artigas led the Uruguayans in the War of Independence, and in 1815 he took control of all of Uruguay. But they didn't have long to rejoice, and in 1816 the Portuguese invaded again, and in July 1821 they annexed the entire Uruguayan territory to Brazil, renamed the province of West Speclatin.

In 1825, with the support of Argentina, Uruguay declared its secession from Brazil and its annexation to Argentina, renamed Uruguay, and Brazil declared war on Argentina. Because of the separatist movement in Argentina, the two sides had to sign a draft treaty in 1827, declaring Uruguay to remain Brazilian territory. Soon after, however, Argentina again used troops against Brazil, and soon Brazil was flown away, but Argentina could not afford to fight again, so the two sides signed a peace treaty in 1828, recognizing Uruguay as an independent state.

But both countries are not satisfied with this result, Argentina thinks that Uruguay is Lao Tzu, and these **** Brazilians are so unreasonable. Brazil also thinks that Uruguay is theirs, and the Argentine hillbillies are not qualified to compete with them at all. After that, both countries really began to control Uruguay, stumbling on each other, and naturally countless dirty things happened during this period, and the relationship became more and more bad.

In addition to practical interests and historical grievances, the people of the two countries also do not like each other. Brazilians think that Argentines are just a bunch of sissies, too sissy, not a gentleman at all, a group of pseudo-girls still want to grab territory with us Brazil, and die. And the Argentines think that the Brazilians are not noble enough. They felt that they were of the white-skinned blood of authentic European immigrants, quite tall and tall, while the Brazilians were descendants of African slaves and Indians, and that Nima was a mixed race hybrid, and looked like a fool.

This time, the fuse was also because of the Uruguayan affair, which had a coup d'état in Uruguay this year, and the pro-Argentine white party came to power. In the process of talking about the artillery, the two sides somehow turned over the old historical accounts, and Brazil claimed that the bend of the Uruguay River, that is, the area east of Posadas, should belong to Brazil.

Well, that's mainly because the Brazilians are going to build a hydroelectric power plant on the Uruguay River, and the Brazilian engineers found that it was a good place, but it was in the hands of the Argentines, which was not good. What do those Argentine puppets want to do so well, why don't you give us Brazilian men. In fact, the ownership of many territories in South America is really unclear, especially in such border places.

The two sides are not stupid, they know that this kind of thing is useless by mouth, since they can't talk about it, they won't talk about it, and they can decide who they belong after doing a game.

To say that this South America was not involved in the First World War, relying on the orders of the warring parties, these countries also lived a very prosperous life. In particular, the three small powers, Brazil, Argentina and Chile, have made a lot of war money.

Another important reason is the miraculous rise of China, China's rapid industrialization has made it the world's factory, but it requires a lot of resources. And Wen Desi is a well-known picker, all mineral resources can be bought, and if they can be grabbed, they will be grabbed. In addition to minerals such as coal, iron, kaolin, and limestone, which are particularly large and cannot be imported completely, and there is a need to retain a small number of mines as technical reserves and verification, they can not dig without digging.

Argentina and Brazil are rich in mineral resources, is the main mining countries in Latin America, Argentina's oil, natural gas, iron, uranium, gypsum, sulfur, beryl, etc., Brazil's iron, nickel, manganese, bauxite, lead, tin, niobium, beryl, etc., are exported to China in large quantities. In addition, Brazil's abundant forest resources make their wood and pulp quite strong, and coffee, rubber, and cocoa are also important export products. Argentina, on the other hand, is beef and mutton, cow and goat milk and their finished products, as well as seafood. Through trade with China, they exported minerals and agricultural products to China, and obtained a large amount of foreign exchange, most of which was of course exchanged for industrial products and technical support from China, which were cheap and good compared to the European and American powers, and they felt that they were very cost-effective.

For these reasons, the national power of these two countries is now stronger and richer than that of the same period in the original time and space. For example, in the original time and space, although Pakistan and Afghanistan did not deal with each other, at most they engaged in an arms race, and they were not ready to really start fighting. But once this person has money and a thick family background, this waist will naturally become hard, and his thoughts will be different.

"I've put up with you for a long time, do you know it!!" So these two countries are now determined to fight.

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South Atlantic, in the sea near the mouth of the Río de la Plata.

The Río de la Plata is the second largest river in South America after the Amazon, and in Spanish "La Plata" means "silver". It is a very wide river, the width of its Buenos Aires section is 70 kilometers, and the estuary is wider for another 400 kilometers, reaching 290 kilometers It is impossible to distinguish whether it is a river or a sea.

At this time, at the mouth of the widest river in the world, two murderous fleets were facing each other in the distance. The two sides of the confrontation were the fleets of Brazil and Argentina, each with four Dreadnought-class battleships, and these eight battleships became the center of all attention.

The mouth of the Río de la Plata is the busiest harbor in South America, with Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina, on its west coast, Montevideo, the capital of Uruguay, on its east coast, and the mouth of Paraguay's sea, where a large number of merchant ships travel every day.

The fleets of Brazil and Argentina stood in such a prosperous place, and the onlookers were naturally indispensable, and many timid merchant ships were playing soy sauce in the distance, acting as onlookers who did not know the truth. Many people took out their binoculars, some took out their cameras to shoot, and some people who were equipped even took out cameras.

On the flagship of the Brazilian fleet, the "Recife", the commander of the Navy, Admiral Serico, frowned and looked at the surrounding "crowd of onlookers", and his heart was really angry. Look at it, look at it......

If it had been according to Serico's idea, the venue should have been cleared a long time ago and all these onlookers who did not know the truth should have been dispersed. But he could not do so, because before he came, the government officials repeatedly asked him not to take a hard line against these foreign merchant ships.

This is not a brain-dead and indiscriminate command of the Brazilian government, because this time the Brazilian fleet went south, they did not come to fight, but to demonstrate, to exert pressure. Since it was a demonstration and pressure, if no one saw it, wouldn't it be a night walk in brocade? Therefore, not only could we not disperse these onlookers, but more people should see it. No, there are reporters from major domestic and foreign media such as Brazilian National Television on several planes hovering in the sky, and they are filming the live action.

Soldiers and politicians look at problems from different angles, and the bigwigs in Brazil feel that this is very cool and very face-saving, but Admiral Serico feels like a monkey and is quite unhappy.

Serico looked at the Argentine fleet on the opposite side with a telescope and said, "Damn, won't those Argentine sissies back down?"

The Recife radio again sent a clear telegram to the Argentine fleet: "Get out of the way, we are the ...... of a humanitarian mission to Uruguay", and the same announcement was made to the other side with flags and signal lights.

After a while, the reply of the Argentine fleet came: "We will deal with the affairs of Uruguay ourselves, where did you come from and where are you going......"

There was no need for a correspondent to report, and Serico himself could see the other party's flag through the binoculars.

At that moment, an Argentine seaplane flew over and shouted through the loudspeaker: "Brazilians, get back quickly! This is not the place for you......"

Serico was furious and hurriedly ordered: "Bastard, get this thing away from me......"

Soon, several seaplanes of the Brazilian Navy approached and dogged the Argentine plane.

At this time, there were more and more onlookers on the nearby sea, and the battleship South Dakota of the United States hurried over from the north with a group of younger brothers. It didn't take long for the British battlecruiser HMS Hood and HMS Fury (one of the three aircraft carriers converted from the Shhhhhhh

In the next two hours, the German battlecruiser Mackensen also came over with several cruisers. Warships from France, Italy, Spain and other countries also appeared one after another. The last to emerge was the fleet of the People's Revolutionary Union, spearheaded by the Chinese fast battleships Qinling and Xia Chao, as well as the Japanese heavy cruisers Chokai and Maya, and the aircraft carrier Fengxiang.

The fleets of the big hooligans came to watch, oh no, to protect the safety of their merchant ships. You must know that ninety percent of the merchant ships coming and going from the mouth of the Río de la Plata belong to these powers, and Brazil and Argentina have been in a lot of trouble during this time, and everyone is worried that their merchant ships will be injured by mistake.

The Chinese and Japanese aircraft carriers took off from afar and several reconnaissance planes came to an onlooker, and then stopped, leaving the Maya and several destroyers behind to protect them. The Qinling rushed over with the Bird Sea and a few light cruisers to occupy a good position, ready to watch at close range.

The heavenly human revolution plane rushed to the front of the fleet at once.

"Shaozuo, this kind of tern in China is good, much better than our 82 ship explosion......" The pilot said to his boss in the back seat with a smile. Since the success of the Japanese revolution and its accession to the People's Revolutionary Federation, many of China's originally forbidden military technologies have also been opened to them, and now many things in the Japanese army have been replaced with shotguns, and big things like warships cannot be changed for a while, but all the planes have been changed.

Now the carrier-based aircraft of the Japanese Navy are all Chinese, well, refurbished goods replaced by the Chinese Navy. But although it is a refurbished product, the engine and radio are original, which is much stronger than the monkey version sold to people other than the Revolutionary Union. At present, China's arms sales have also taken several levels, like the hope countries and woolly bears of later generations, and the member states of the People's Revolutionary Federation have obtained the genuine version without any reduction in performance, the SCO member states have received a slightly reduced second-class goods, and the other countries have the third-class monkey version, and there is also the cheapest simplified version.

Wise Hidetsuna looked at the nearby Chinese fighter planes, and said enviously: "The tern is indeed very good, but it is still not as good as the long-eared owl used by China......" This is the wise Hidetsuna who staged "one plane and one ship" in the Battle of Gibraltar, the hero of the First World War of Japan, in the Japanese Revolution, this guy stood in the right line, close to the organization, and after the revolution, he was directly promoted to one level and became the aviation commander of the Fengxiang aircraft carrier.

The Fengxiang was too small and did not have a special reconnaissance plane, so it used bombers to conduct reconnaissance part-time. This time, the Fengxiang took off two bombers and formed an air formation with two Chinese fighters and two bombers.

"Shaozuo, will they fight?" the wingman asked him.

"Who knows?" Akechi Hidetsuna looked at the sea below, and the eight battleships on both sides were all lined up, looking like they were just waiting to fight, but to the eyes of this experienced pilot, their appearance seemed to be a little inward-looking. "Leave them alone, get ready to shoot ......"

At this time, there were more planes in the air, and the great powers took off their planes one after another, circling the Brazilian and Argentine fleets.

The battleship "San Martín", the flagship of the Argentine fleet.

"These bastards, what do they think of this place!" Lieutenant General Batistuta said indignantly, looking at the foreign planes in the sky.

This sea area has always been regarded as its own backyard by Argentina, but now it is good, not to mention the Brazilians, and a group of big hooligans have come to watch. This made him feel very uncomfortable.

So, enraged, Batistuta ordered the fleet to move. "Damn, we need to get those Brazilian mongrels out of here!"

"Boom......" At this moment, a loud bang suddenly came from the Rivadavia. Somehow, the Rivadavia's main guns suddenly opened fire, and at this time their main guns were aimed at the Brazilian fleet......