Chapter 307 The Lion Opens His Mouth (Third update, please subscribe)
Suddenly, gunshots rang out!
No one knew who fired the first shot, but the moment the gunshot was fired, the sound of the gunshot, like firecrackers, echoed in the open grassland. When Si Dongjie fell off the horse, Bicente also fell off the horse.
The battle lasted only a dozen seconds. After Vicente fell off his horse, another Argentine soldier fell down. Seeing this, the others immediately retreated.
"Dongjie, Dongjie..."
At the moment the gunshot, Si Dongli jumped off his horse and fired several shots while leaning on the saddle. Although he escaped by chance, the horse was injured.
But at this moment he didn't care about the horse, but ran directly to his brother to see his situation.
"I, I'm fine..."
Si Dongjie was gasping for breath and holding the edge of his chest. Blood was flowing down through his fingers. His face was pale without a trace of blood.
"What, what's going on..."
"No, it's okay, just a superficial wound..."
Looking at the two Argentines who stayed behind, Si Dongjie said.
"Quick, check their situation..."
Although he didn't know what was going on, Si Dongjie could realize...something big was going to happen!
A few hours later, after the brothers Si Dongli and Si Dongjie returned to the settlement, Si Dongchuan rode a horse and brought the news to the farm.
"What are you still standing there for? Hurry up, Pizi, go to the telegraph station and report it, the rest of you grab your weapons, I'll go up to the tower and sound the alarm!"
Zhao Gongming, the farm manager, gave orders while taking out a copper hand-cranked alarm from a drawer.
Due to the limitations of the times, since there were no telephones in this era, it was impossible to spread telegraphs to every farm. In order to ensure the safety of farms and settlements, each farm was equipped with a hand-cranked siren. This siren has the same principle as the hand-cranked air defense sirens of later generations. It does not require power. It only needs to manually crank the handle. When the speed reaches 50 to 80 revolutions per minute, it can emit a strong sound. Its structure and principle are very simple. When working, the crank is turned by manpower, and the gearbox transmission is gradually accelerated. Then, the transmission block drives the ringing wheel to run at high speed, forming high pressure on the absorbed air, squeezing the gas out of the fixed window of the fixed wheel to produce a sound. The higher the speed, the louder the sound. Although this siren is small in size and light in weight, under ideal conditions, the coverage radius of the hand-cranked siren can even reach 2,500 meters.
It is for this reason that it has been widely used in Nanhua.
After reaching the roof and plugging in the alarm, Zhao Gongming took a deep breath and shook the joystick. As the joystick turned, the shrill alarm sounded over the farm.
The sound of the alarm resounded through the sky. In the settlements within a few miles, the people who were busy working in the ranches were stunned at first when they heard the alarm, and then they all rode their horses to the station to gather. The men in the station also took up their weapons. Every farm has a civil defense team, and the civil defense team conducts one day of training every week, which is simple training such as walking, shooting, and marching.
Long-term training has enabled people to develop an instinct - upon hearing the alarm, they would immediately gather at the station. Soon, more than a hundred civil defense team members arrived at the station carrying weapons and dry food, although they did not know what was happening on the way.
But, the alarm is an order!
When gathering, those who arrived first would tell the later ones about the situation. Although they all looked a little nervous, they still stood there, waiting to set off.
"Okay, I won't say any more nonsense. The foreign devils crossed the trench and wanted to occupy our place. They also injured our people. Our station is located on the border. Now our mission is to defend this place before the security forces come! Protect our home!"
Without any hesitation, under the order of Zhao Gongming, a civil defense team of more than one hundred people rode towards the border on horseback. While they were rushing to the border, a telegram sent from a train station dozens of miles away had already been delivered to Zhu Xianhai's desk.
"Argentina invasion!"
He was stunned at first, then Zhu Xianhai said excitedly.
"This is a good thing! Our people are injured. This is definitely an armed invasion!"
Almost in an instant, Zhu Xianhai defined the incident as armed invasion!
Yes, it is an invasion, not a border conflict!
For Zhu Xianhai, who was deliberately trying to find a reason to start a war and the most important thing was to seize the moral high ground and overwhelm Argentina in public opinion, this was the news he had been waiting for for a long time!
In fact, he had already made up his mind - if there was no excuse, he would make one, and if that didn't work, he would just act.
But what about now?
Now they bring the reasons to your door!
What border conflicts, what accidents, that's all nonsense.
For the strong, even an "accident" of soldiers smuggling can be an excuse to start a war.
Besides, the Argentines have now launched an armed invasion of South China!
"Argentina is a tyrannical people and we cannot have good neighbors. In the past few years, they have invaded our borders and hurt our people. If they are not severely punished, their ambitions are clear and they will invade us in the future..."
After saying this, Zhu Xianhai looked at Zuo Zongtang and asked.
"Ji Gao, what do you think?"
"Ahren is tyrannical and should be severely punished!"
Whatever the reason, the most important thing is that the Argentines provided the reasons.
Zuo Zongtang smiled. With this reason, the rest were no longer a problem.
"But, my lord, before that, we must issue them an ultimatum, demanding that they compensate for the losses and put forward certain conditions, and these conditions must be the kind that they cannot accept!"
For the party that is deliberately planning to start a war, what should it do now? Of course, it is to open its mouth wide and make a condition that the other party must refuse.
Once the other party refuses, it means they are definitely refusing peace!
Peace?
What is peace?
In essence, this peace was established for the purpose of war from the very beginning, or in other words, the conditions for peace were established in order to seek war.
"Well, although their people died, our people were injured after all, and they were the ones who invaded our territory, so..."
After thinking about it, Zhu Xianhai said.
"The compensation must not be less than 2 million pesos, and also, regarding the ownership of the Pampas, they must recognize our sovereignty over the land outside the trench,"
Since the original intention was not for peace, the only option now was to ask for too much. Actually, this was not asking for too much, it was just setting a condition that the other party could not accept.
After all, sometimes you need a reason to fight a war.
"That's about it. Give them an ultimatum!"
(End of this chapter)
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