Reborn as King of South America

Chapter 284 Beach
"In the absence of heroes, the young men have become famous. The foreigners are bullying the Chinese people, are there no one there?"

The artillery fire stopped and the air was filled with gunpowder smoke. Lu Rongting looked at the British soldiers who had landed on the opposite side and built temporary fortifications, and shouted angrily, "The British are acting recklessly with their powerful ships and guns. When the main force of our national defense army wipes out the white people in Argentina, we will see how long they can be so arrogant!"

After the Battle of Buenos Aires, Lu Rongting, Wang Shizhen and Yang Guangzong cooperated with each other and successfully repelled several attacks by Argentine guerrilla forces on the transport team. As a result, they were promoted to the rank of captain and were noticed by Liu Yongfu and He Yanliang, who temporarily transferred them to the Third Security Brigade as company commanders.

During the Second Argentine War, the National Defense Forces suffered more than 20,000 casualties, especially in the Battle of Buenos Aires that ended a few days ago, when tens of thousands of experienced veterans of the National Defense Forces and grassroots officers died in the tenacious counterattack of the Argentine federal army.

Nearly 200 officers at the battalion and company levels were killed or wounded, and more than 800 grassroots backbone officers at the platoon and squad levels were killed or wounded. In some fierce battles, the phenomenon of losing more than half of the officers of the established army battalions and companies was often seen. The army was without commanders and the soldiers were without commanders. The shortage of more than 1,000 grassroots officers forced the front-line headquarters to decide to urgently promote a group of soldiers who had made meritorious contributions in combat to serve as front-line officers.

Thanks to the support of the General Staff Headquarters' promulgation of the Regulations on Emergency Recruitment of Frontline Officers and their actual combat achievements, Lu Rongting and the other two were promoted twice before they even finished their military education at the military academy, from trainee second lieutenants to official captains and company commanders of the National Defense Forces, thus reaching the threshold of mid-level officers.

The Tigre Town National Defense Force is affiliated to the Third Brigade of the Security Army and a part of the First Mixed Brigade of the National Defense Army. It is jointly commanded by Liu Yongfu, the commander of the First Mixed Brigade, He Yanliang, the deputy commander of the brigade, and Shen Fushan, the commander of the Third Brigade of the Security Army.

Yesterday evening, the National Defense Forces gathered around Buenos Aires dispersed. More than 1,000 people from the First Mixed Brigade and the Third Guard Brigade also went to Tigre under the command of Li Mingyuan as the first line of defense to resist the British expeditionary fleet entering the Paraná River.

The ships bombarded and the infantry charged, but were suppressed by the British fleet for more than an hour. Lu Rongting was filled with anger, and even the soldiers of the Second Company of his garrison army started to shout.

"It's nothing to just fire cannons in the river. If you have the guts to fight a man with swords, I guarantee you'll be beaten to a pulp!"

"Fuck you, you bastard! Do you dare to come out and fight me for three hundred rounds!..."

Soldiers from all over China shouted at the top of their lungs, cursing the British officers and soldiers in their hometown dialects, thereby venting the complex emotions such as tension and excitement brought about by this first realization.

More than two-thirds of the soldiers under Lu Rongting and his two companions were newly recruited recruits. In the eyes of those recruits, Lu Rongting and his two companions were still children who had not yet grown up. They became officers by chance because of their merits, otherwise they would have been just privates like them.

Lu Rongting was happy to mingle with his soldiers, saying some dirty words and greeting the families of the British soldiers together with the soldiers. After seven or eight minutes, he observed that the British troops on the opposite side had not advanced, so he called a few of his men and ordered them to "go to Captain Wang and Captain Yang to check and find out what the British troops there are doing."

Bending their bodies and giving a quick military salute, several soldiers jumped into the tunnel and ran in two other directions!
"Captain, in my opinion, these British devils have been wandering around in the sea for too long and can't stand steadily when they return to land. Otherwise, why would they stay so obediently on the river bank and dare not come over?"

"Old Wang, you are talking nonsense." Another soldier grinned and retorted, "You don't know the situation. I heard from the villagers in my hometown in Shandong that the British foreigners are the most lustful. Wherever they go, they will harass the women there, even the old ladies in their 50s and 60s. So the British devils must have messed with the women in Brazil too much. They have no strength after getting off the boat, and they are busy recovering their energy now!"

"Haha, Tuesday dog, you can't just talk properly. You always blame women for everything."

A soldier who knew the other side's habits teased.

"What's wrong with you women? There are many white women in the Argentine town west of this town. If you let the British devils rape them, I don't think any of you will be able to find a wife!"

"That won't do. We have conquered this territory with great difficulty. We cannot let the British devils harm the white women. I am counting on Your Highness to show mercy and give me a white woman to carry on the family line." An older soldier shook his head when he heard this.
"Hahaha, looking at your cowardly look, even if His Highness showed mercy and rewarded a white woman, it wouldn't be your turn."

"Why is it not my turn? You are just talking nonsense and not letting me have a dream"...

"Alright, alright, stop thinking about women. To tell you the truth, the General Staff has spread the word that after defeating the British, all officers and soldiers, including the field army, garrison army, and front-line militia, will be able to marry within two years. Take advantage of the opportunity to fight now and be bolder. Try to make more contributions before the end of the war and marry a wife sooner. Otherwise, the beautiful ones will be married off by others, and you can only marry the widows left over by others."

Lu Rongting couldn't bear to see his soldiers looking like perverts, so he spoke out to stop them.

"I think widows are good. They are young and caring, so I want to marry a widow."

A soldier muttered in dissatisfaction.

"Haha, Lao Wang, you have really good taste."

Several soldiers stood in the tunnel, letting out suppressed laughter.

In the calm yet tense battlefield, many company- and platoon-level troops used dirty jokes or other topics related to women to relieve the boring battlefield life during the long wait.

The imbalance in the gender ratio has always been a major problem that has plagued officials of the Han government. At the beginning of the founding of the country, the total Chinese population was only more than 1879. Eleven years later, in the first half of , the total population of Chinese and naturalized Chinese was nearly million. The gender ratio gradually decreased, but the number of single male Chinese increased exponentially.

In 1868, there were 1875 single Chinese men. In 40, there were 1879 single men. By 80, the number of single Chinese men reached .

The number of Chinese people willing to leave their homes and immigrate to South America only accounts for a very small part of the total population of the mainland, and the number of Chinese female immigrants has always been lower than the number of males.

Several efforts were made to increase the number of foreign women, either by forced demands or by paying to buy them from other channels, but the huge number of men still could not meet the local demand.

The Han Dynasty had little influence in Annan, Korea, Japan, Thailand and other places. The undisclosed act of immigrating women from other countries was difficult and costly, and had limited effect compared to assimilating native South American women.

In South America, Argentina has a total population of 1.5 million. Years of war have resulted in a large loss of local white young people, and the proportion of white women has increased at the same time. Even without a detailed investigation, the Han government can estimate the approximate number of women of marriageable age in Argentina.

Compared with the consequences of forcing unmarried white Argentine women to marry single Chinese men, it is obviously more important to speed up the assimilation of white Argentines and solve the imbalance in the gender ratio between Chinese men and women.

Thanks to Dean Hanjia i, Fengyeqiaochaoxihenian jop for their rewards and support!

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