Opening game, American Tycoon

At the end of December 1876, the Ming Dynasty, which had already arrived at the city of Sao Paulo, once again rejected Brazil's request for peace. After several days of heavy shelling, the 12 troops of the Ming Empire Army attacked the defense line outside the city of Sao Paulo from all directions. After launching the attack, it took less than three days for nearly [-] defenders to raise the white flag at the cost of more than half of the casualties.

At the same time, the Imperial Army finally reached 50 kilometers west of Rio de Janeiro, where it encountered its first stop by the Brazilian Army.

The Brazilian army's stop was extremely tenacious, and it can even be said that it exceeded the expectations of frontline officers and soldiers.

Machine guns, barbed wire, and even heavy artillery.

In the past few months, in order to resist the "invasion" of Ming Dynasty, the Brazilian army mobilized nearly one million troops. Although a large number of troops were wiped out in the training camp by airship troops, many troops suffered devastating blows from airships during their movement. , but in Rio de Janeiro, still gathered more than 30 Brazilian troops.

Although most of this army was composed of freed slaves, their resistance was very resolute, because every Brazilian knew what it meant to fail.

"If we fail, we'll have nothing!"

Emperor Pedro II replied to the ministers in this way.

"When Napoleon I sent troops to invade Portugal in 1807, King Regent Joao VI could lead nobles and officials to board British warships and take refuge in Brazil. But now?"

Although his expression was a little anxious, Pedro II's eyes were still very firm.

"Now, it is impossible for us to leave the whole country and flee to Portugal, where we will lose everything - all wealth, land and status. We are just poor exiles with nothing. We, now, must At all costs, hold Rio de Janeiro, this is our last bastion and last stronghold, as long as we can hold this place, we can save our country..."

Looking at the marshals and generals in the conference room, Pedro II forced a smile.

"You know, the loser has no right to negotiate peace. This is why Daming refused to negotiate with us. We must frustrate them here, otherwise, there is absolutely no possibility of survival!"

There is no possibility of survival!
At this time, as far as Brazil is concerned, they no longer dare to dream about any victory. Even as long as the survival of the empire can be maintained, it does not matter whether they cede the land.

The only problem is... Daming refused!

Because the winner is likely to swallow the whole of Brazil!

"Well, gentlemen, for Brazil's survival, God forbid, we can beat them here!"

Every Brazilian is mobilized!

Facing the invasion from Ming Dynasty and facing the precarious situation, all Brazilians mobilized, the men inside and outside Rio de Janeiro took up arms, and the slaves in every plantation hundreds of kilometers away from Fang Yuan were conscripted Now, the slaves dug trenches and built fortifications around Rio de Janeiro, and in order to withstand the shelling, they felled a lot of logs from the rainforest to strengthen the fortress.

There are several barbed wire fences on the outside of the trenches, trenches one person deep, solid earthworks, plus heavy artillery and machine guns. When the Ming army arrived in Rio de Janeiro, what they faced was no longer a city, but a fortress!
A fortress defended by 30 troops!
On January 1, in the early hours of the day, on the artillery positions of the Ming Empire Army, dozens of siege guns and hundreds of cannons aimed at the defense line of the Brazilian army. When the hour hand pointed to three o'clock, the violent shelling began up!

Like past bombardments, this one was still earth-shattering.

After the shelling lasted for two hours, when the sun came out, what appeared before people's eyes was no longer a position, but a bloody hell.The once verdant field has completely lost its original appearance, and there are scorched craters and mud rolled up by shells everywhere.

Among the collapsed trenches, there are still burning logs, and the logs on both sides of the trenches emit black smoke.There are broken guns everywhere in the trenches, scattered ammunition boxes, and twisted and deformed barbed wire in front of the trenches.

This is just an embellishment of hell, what is the real protagonist?
There are corpses and blood all over the place. Soldiers' corpses and broken limbs are all over the trenches. I don't know that many people died in the trenches so quietly. It is lucky to find a few complete corpses inside.I don't know how many people left only a scorched black and twisted stump, many people only left a bloody arm or thigh, and more people were buried directly under the soil. The world has completely disappeared.

The trenches they dug seem to have become their graves.Some people were even blown to pieces, and only a few fragments of military uniforms or a few pieces of heartbroken meat proved that they once existed.

The first line of defense of the Brazilian army has disappeared under the fierce artillery fire. There is no complete trench there, and almost all bunkers and firepower points have been reduced to a piece of smoldering scorched earth. It seems that, There are no more living things here.

Even after the shelling, the officers and soldiers of the No.20 Sixth Division also thought so. They felt that the Brazilians were dead.

"rush!"

Amid the shouts of the platoon leaders, thousands of soldiers jumped out of the trenches. With their rifles straight, they quickly rushed towards the enemy's line of defense. Heavy grenades for fortifications, all with a relaxed look.

Ahead, there won't be much resistance.

Just as the soldiers were charging, the Brazilians who had survived the shelling appeared again in the trenches where there seemed to be no living creatures.

"Everyone, get ready..."

Amidst the shouts of the officers, the machine gunner set up the machine gun again. Although the shelling was very violent, it did not destroy all the fortifications and killed all the people.

The next moment, gunshots rang out, and the soldiers who were charging were slightly stagnant in attack. For a moment, the bodies of the soldiers seemed to be frozen. This kind of freezing was only for a moment. Next, in the rapid sound of machine guns, the soldiers lay down on the open ground between the two armies, and many of them rolled into the bomb craters, Yituo bomb craters fired at the enemy, and those soldiers with wire cutters crawled to the place. In front of the barbed wire fence, the barbed wire fence was being cut under the hail of bullets.

In the hail of bullets, Chang Jiafu lay on the ground and kept cutting the wire with wire money. He looked up at the distance from time to time, and the enemy's machine guns kept firing in the fortifications.

Hurry up!
Chang Jiafu anxiously cut and tested those barbed wires. Those barbed wires blocked the advance of the troops, so the barbed wires had to be cut short.

After finally cutting the last barbed wire, he rushed forward without stopping.

When he was still more than ten meters away from a machine gun fortification, he stood up abruptly and slammed the weighted grenade over.

The moment the grenade landed on the top of the fortification, he was shot several times in the chest. Amid the violent explosion, he fell to the ground. Lying on the ground dying, he looked at the sky, his eyes full of nostalgia. Suddenly, the sky began to rain...