Chapter 284: Counterattack

On the evening of the 15th, the British Expeditionary Fleet arrived at the estuary of the La Plata River. When Gordon noticed that the blue federal flag at the head of the city of Buenos Aires disappeared and was replaced with the red dragon flag, he was furious and ordered. Fleet bombarded Buenos Aires!
The deafening shelling continued throughout the evening, and the majestic city of Buenos Aires had just sent away the old master and welcomed a new perpetrator.
The thick and tall city wall left a long and narrow gap under the bombardment of the cannonball. The old wounds are gone, and the new ones are coming. The city of Buenos Aires, which has been attacked twice in succession, looks like a torn girl. Going, it is full of ruins, there is no sight of the past glory of South America Paris.
At ten o'clock in the evening, in the British Expeditionary Fleet, Gordon drove a group of British soldiers who had not had time to adjust and adapt to a block landing craft and launched an attack on the beach near the city of Buenos Aires.
With the support of the fleet's heavy artillery, the landing British forces easily occupied the unprotected near-field beaches, and advanced all the way to the outer walls of Buenos Aires.
The next morning, when the sun had just risen from sea level, the impatient British soldiers followed the Wehrmacht siege route a few days ago and launched another attack on Buenos Aires.
The city wall gap, street houses, government buildings and other urban areas have become the focus of the two armies.
As soon as the British soldiers who were on the rampage entered the city, they were counterattacked by the National Defense Forces.
Mortars, machine guns, grenades and various street fighting weapons came from everywhere, making the British soldiers invincible.
By the noon, the British troops who had entered the city with a total of 4,000 people paid more than 800 casualties. The remaining British troops shrank at the corner of the city wall under the continuous blows of the National Defence Forces, and did not dare to take a step towards the city.
The situation in the city was quickly reported to Gordon, who was seated on the battleship of the ranks of Kings. In the face of the resistance of the National Defense Forces and the strong suggestion of British military officers who entered the city, Gordon had to weigh the advantages and disadvantages and then ordered the troops to leave Buenos. The decision of Ellis City.
The first aggressive offensive operation ended in a hasty manner, and Gordon, who used to know China in the past, couldn't help but have doubts about the enemy in front of him.
Twenty years ago, during the battle with the Pacific Army, Gordon was able to quickly observe the weaknesses and deficiencies of the opponent. Twenty years later, the British army was equipped with a faster-fired, more accurate rifle rifle, equipped with With more powerful guns and improved Gatling machine guns, just after they met, more than 800 regular British troops lost their combat power and could no longer participate in later battles.
Gordon was curious how the other party did it.
In the suppression of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom War two decades ago, foreign gun teams composed of skirmishers and brave soldiers repeatedly defeated the Taiping Army with superior military strength. In many years of combat experience, the total number of casualties of the foreign gun teams was close to 1,000. In the morning battle, 800 regular troops were injured. The magnitude of the losses is more serious than the years of the foreign guns.
The rifle-killing tactics of the pre-gun firing era are gradually being eliminated. The lessons of the Zulu war made it clear to the British for the first time that the savage and backward African indigenous people can also wipe out the British army fighting in the Corps.
The British soldiers in Buenos Aires hurriedly evacuated.
The British fleet anchored at the mouth of the La Plata River was anchored at the coastal port, forming a confrontation with the National Defense Forces in and around the city.
At 2: 3 pm, a fleet of more than 20 gunboats and small and medium frigates separated from the British Expeditionary Fleet and turned their bows towards the Parana River.
The La Plata River, a tributary of the Parana River offshore, has turbulent currents, with an average width of 50 kilometers and a widest point of 290 kilometers. However, when the fleet moved inland and entered the main channel of the Parana River, the relatively narrow channel and Water depth has a very restrictive effect on the Kingship battleships with a displacement of 10,000 tons.
As if the dragon entered the shallows, the main British naval warships like hills could not enter the inland troops of the Parana River, but the pressure of the frigate standard iron armored ship was far greater than that of the Brazilian Navy ten years ago.
More than three hours later, more than 10,000 IDF soldiers were busy in the northern town of Buenos Aires, in the small coastal town of Tigre, south of the Parana River estuary.
The town of Tigre is more than ten kilometers away from the port along the river. In the dense forests around the town, the noise of horse hissing and bulls destroys the local peaceful atmosphere.
The mild and humid natural environment of the La Plata Plain provides good conditions for the development of animal husbandry.
Since the founding of South America, after ten years of development, the domestic livestock industry in Han has become a major source of government revenue.
According to statistics from officials of the Ministry of Agriculture, more than 15 million heads of livestock are raised on the land of more than 1.1 million square kilometers in South America and Han, and there are more than 200,000 households engaged in livestock breeding, with an average of 70 to 80 farmers per herd Head livestock.
The livestock breeding in Han Dynasty is mainly cattle and sheep. Among the more than 15 million domestic animals, the number of cattle and sheep is more than 10 million.
There are 3 million horses and alpacas, and about 2 million pigs and deer.
Taking root in South America for more than a decade, the habits of the early Chinese immigrants have gradually changed during their adaptation.
Chinese in the north and south areas, which mainly eat rice and white noodles, have gradually accepted the dietary habits of beef, lamb and rice noodles.
The provinces of Entre Rios and Coriantes are the main rice producers in Argentina. After the two provinces fell into the control of the National Defense Forces, the domestic rice supply in Han was more abundant, and the extra rice output was transported to the ocean fleet each year. European countries such as Germany and France.
The export of rice alone provides considerable benefits to the Han government every year, effectively alleviating the financial pressure brought by the expansion and preparation of the National Defense Forces.
The food and livestock industries have a low technological density, but before organic fertilizers were used in agricultural production, the food and livestock produced by the La Plata Plain in South America had a high value advantage for Europe and other regions.
Groups of mule horses were pulled out of the woods by soldiers, and two large baskets were symmetrically mounted on both sides of the horse to carry the dirt excavated from the trenches and trenches.
Mastiffs and alpacas are standard equipment for the various units of the National Defense Forces. In general, a mixed brigade with 9,000 troops is equipped with 2,000 horses, 500 alpacas, and a brigade of the armed forces is equipped with 1,000 horses and 300 alpacas.
In the case of heavy rain and cloudy days, brigades will also be equipped with a certain number of buffaloes to replace mare horses on muddy roads.
At about 5 pm, the rugged turning tunnels and trenches near the trenches of the National Defense Forces station in Tigre town lit up a bunch of straight smoke.
A mouthful of 80 cm long marching pots are filled with large chunks of beef and mutton, and they are free to sprinkle ingredients such as greens, oil and salt seasonings ~ EbookFREE.me ~ The firewood collected nearby is placed under the pot and it is roasted. Heat.
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A blister of blisters erupted in the boiling iron pan, and the rich meaty aroma accumulated above the trenches, seducing the soldiers' appetite.
When it was time to cook dinner, the soldiers of the security forces put down their tools, washed their dirt-stained hands with water from a nearby stream, and then queued for dinner in the battlefield.
The broth, potatoes, rice, and a simple and hearty dinner were eaten in the soldiers' mouths, slowly alleviating their fatigue.
At five o'clock, the soldiers had just had dinner, and an unsolicited fleet stirred the entire IDF position.
"An enemy ship is coming! Armed forces!"
A stern warning sounded in the town of Tigre. After a short period of confusion, tens of thousands of troops quickly divided into two units before and after, rushed to the preset position to meet the enemy!
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