Chapter 860 Liberator (3rd update, please subscribe)

In Florida... don't get me wrong, not the one in North America, but Uruguayan Florida, in a small town not far from Florida City, the ongoing war seems to have little impact here.

The tavern was filled with noise and smoke. Prostitutes dressed in bright clothes, their lips painted like a wound, sat on the sailors' waists, laughing wildly. The war had made the sailors of the inland ships unemployed. After the Brazilian fleet was destroyed, the Ming army's gunboats blocked the Uruguayan coastline.

Other than that, though, the war seemed to have no effect on them.

After all, they are Uruguayan.

Wild laughter and noise echoed in the pub. At this moment, the door of the pub was suddenly pushed open. A group of Brazilian soldiers walked in, both white and black. Their uniforms were covered in dust, and many of them were wrapped in bandages and injured.

"All you men, assemble!"

Captain Brazil, who broke into the tavern, shouted:

"The yellow people are coming. Now we have to defend Uruguay. All men must take up arms!"

The Brazilian officer spoke haltingly in Spanish, and as soon as he finished speaking, someone interrupted him with a curse.

"Damn Brazilians."

"What, what did you say?"

A drunk stood up and yelled at the Brazilian.

"Damn Brazilians, listen carefully, we are Uruguayans, the war between Ming and Brazil has nothing to do with us! Let us die..."

"Bang!"

Gunshots rang out!

When the gunshot rang out, the man even looked at his chest in disbelief, where blood was gushing out.

"Damn traitor!"

After the man fell, the Brazilian officer holding a pistol looked at the people in the bar and said.

"The war with Ming Dynasty now concerns all of us - whether all white people can survive on this land. Gentlemen, this is not a Brazilian war..."

Despite the Brazilian officer's impassioned speech, no one paid any attention to him. Those people continued to drink and flirt with the women. Seeing this, the gloomy-faced officer sneered.

"Damn Uruguayans!"

After saying this, he led the soldiers out.

As soon as he went out, he gave orders to his subordinates.

"Lock the door and burn these Uruguayans!"

The door of the tavern was locked, and then several black soldiers took kerosene that they had stolen from somewhere and poured it outside the tavern. The flames soon spread into the tavern. The people in the tavern were all terrified and wanted to escape, but the door was locked. When they tried to break the windows to escape, they were greeted by bayonets and bullets from the soldiers.

When the cries and shouts were heard from the blazing fire, the Brazilian officer just watched it all coldly, as if to him, this was just an ordinary thing, and then he gave orders to the soldiers.

"Tell the mayor to notify all the men to assemble, otherwise this will be their fate!"

Killing the chicken to scare the monkey is a method not only used by the Chinese, but also by the Brazilians. After all, they are slaves...sometimes they have to be killed and suppressed in this way!

After the situation is suppressed, it will naturally be possible to mobilize the local people to resist the brutal Ming army.

Faced with the atrocities of the Brazilian army, many Uruguayan men fled. Although many of them fled, by September, the Brazilian army had successfully recruited more than 50,000 people in Uruguay to join the army. You must know that the total population of Uruguay is only 300,000!

When the Brazilian army forced the Uruguayans to join the army, the Ming army, which had already invaded Paraguay, appeared to be very restrained. They took every step steadily and would never advance rashly.

In front of the main force, a group of scouts were galloping on the grassland, and their leader Sun Dahai said a little boredly.

"It's like a parade, it's meaningless."

"That's right. Apart from a few battles on the border, there was no resistance along the way..."

"Resist? What are they resisting? The entire population of Florida is only 10,000 people. If they were in China, that's not even as big as a county. Even if they want to resist, they need people..."

"Haha, the most important thing is that the Uruguayans are unwilling to help the Brazilians,"

While his comrades were talking to each other, Han Lin would occasionally look into the distance. They were the vanguards, and their mission was to search and scout ahead of the main force of the troops.

However, after crossing the border, the fighting turned into a march. They encountered almost no resistance along the way. In fact, compared to the resistance, they were welcomed to some extent. After all, the process of occupying Uruguay was not very pleasant, and the Brazilian army fully demonstrated what an occupying force is here.

Therefore, after witnessing the civilized behavior of the Ming Dynasty in Paraguay, the Uruguayans, as victims, even wished they could take its place - being ruled by the Ming Dynasty was better than being ruled by the Brazilians.

With this mentality, the Uruguayans were far from being hostile to the Ming Dynasty, and many locals even welcomed their arrival.

Who can understand this kind of mentality?

This kind of feeling does not need to be understood, it just needs to be felt. Along the way, they did feel the kindness from the Uruguayans.

While leading the soldiers in his squad to continue marching, Sun Dahai, carrying a Type 2 cavalry rifle on his back, looked lazily at the wheat fields around him. Finally, he saw the wheat fields. Before that, all they saw was endless grassland. The wheat fields meant that they were getting closer and closer to the city.

There were even some Uruguayans in the wheat fields. They did not hide when they saw them. Some even waved to them. In the past few years, the reputation of the Ming army as a benevolent and righteous army had spread throughout South America.

This is an army that will neither rob nor kill ordinary people. In South America at that time, people's requirements for a "benevolent and righteous army" were not high, but that was all.

"What are you laughing at, squad leader?"

Han Lin looked at the squad leader and asked curiously.

“Look at them!”

Sun Dahai pointed at the Uruguayans in the distance and said.

"To them, we are not conquerors at all. To some extent, we are liberators who have rescued them from the slavery of Brazil. Therefore, they welcome our arrival..."

When talking about those Uruguayans, Sun Dahai said again.

"But when Brazil is defeated and this land is occupied by us, what will we become? Will we become an occupying force in their eyes? No one can say for sure. Now they welcome us because we are liberators, but what about the future?"

(End of this chapter)