"Marcelo, Chile can't count on us anymore, so has the Argentine government decided to increase their troops to support us again?"
Jose Batlle Ordonez's biggest expectation now is Argentina, and Argentina already has a lot of support for Uruguay.
Argentina has already deployed two divisions as volunteers to participate in the war to defend Uruguay. At the same time, Argentina has also provided large-scale arms support. It has also blocked the waterway between the mouth of the Uruguay River and the mouth of the Rio Negro with mines, making it difficult for the Portuguese navy to enter. Rio Negro.
Uruguay and Argentina have a truly bitter relationship. If Uruguay falls, Argentina will be wide open, and Portugal's troops will be directed towards Buenos Aires.
Although Buenos Aires, facing the sea, is in serious danger because of fear of Portugal's increasingly powerful navy, the Argentine government has now promoted Cordoba to the second capital and invested a lot of resources there. .
But after all, Buenos Aires is the old capital of Argentina and the largest city. It still occupies a huge amount of Argentina's resources, so there is a lot of protection here. Now Argentina's military factories produce a lot of mines, which is to prevent wars. When it broke out, it was attacked by the Portuguese navy.
Uruguay is still very important to Argentina. If Uruguay falls to Portugal, the Portuguese army will easily cross the Rio de la Plata. At that time, no matter how many mines there are, it will be useless.
The fall of Buenos Airos was undoubtedly a huge blow to Argentina. In this era, the value and status of Buenos Airos, the capital, was equivalent to that of Seoul, South Korea in later generations. The fall of Buenos Airos relied on a Cole like Busan. It is extremely difficult for Dova to support the country against foreign enemies.
"President Roque Saenz Peña of Argentina knows very well the relationship between lips and teeth. He is willing to dedicate another division to support Argentina, and at the same time, arms support will be further increased."
Marcelo conveyed the words of Argentina to Jose: "But President Jose, Argentina has also expressed to us that Argentina is also wary of Portugal going south and may not support too many troops in the future. He hopes that we in Uruguay can Carry out nationwide, extensive and thorough mobilization for the Patriotic War.
Portugal claims that this war will not involve more than five divisions of troops against a small place like Uruguay. Uruguay's full mobilization, coupled with Argentina's assistance, should be able to save half of Uruguay. As long as we persist, the world's diplomacy may change. "
Argentine President Roque Saenz Peña also left traces in the history of Argentina. Although he was a member of Caudillo, he still did not hesitate to offend his own class for the development of Argentina.
During his political career, he was responsible for the passage of the famous Law 8831, also known as the Saenz Peña Law.
This law greatly reformed Argentina's electoral system, avoiding the previous secret voting operations, giving the people real electoral rights, effectively ending the electoral fraud rules played by the conservative Argentine oligarchs, and providing fundamental civil rights to the country. Paving the way for free election.
Roque Saenz Peña, one of Argentina's most accomplished presidents, died in office.
"Thank you Roque Saenz Peña for your sincere and enthusiastic help. We in Uruguay will not forget it, and we in Uruguay will definitely do our best to protect our own homeland.
Uruguay is now undergoing a thorough mobilization. Now we have more than 80,000 troops with the support of Argentina. As long as we hold the eastern mountain defense line and the Negro River defense line, Uruguay will usher in a change in the coming time. "
Although Jose Batlle Ordonez is not an army general, he can still see the general trend. Today, Uruguay relies on two lines of defense. If these two lines of defense are breached, Uruguay will not be far from the country's demise.
In the early days of the Uruguay War, faced with the menacing Portuguese army and domestic rebels, Uruguayan Marshal Harry Pelos chose to rationally avoid its edge and abandoned Tacuarombo, Negro, and Paysandu north of the Negro River. , Salto and other areas, while in the east a mountain defense line was built relying on the Rio Grande Mountains.
Harry Perros, who graduated from the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in the United Kingdom, has professional military qualities and a sense of war.
As early as when the Portuguese Empire was still Brazil, when I saw Brazil conquering Venezuela, Bolivia, and Peru, I was wary of Brazil's ambitions.
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Unfortunately, Uruguay was a small and weak country and could not openly offend Brazil, so it did not join the military alliance between Argentina and Chile at that time.
Although he did not join the military alliance, as Uruguay's marshal, Harry Pelos persuaded Congress to expand the army to a shelf division and formally establish a mobilization system.
In addition to military expansion, Harry Perros also prepared a homeland defense strategy.
Uruguay's terrain is basically dominated by plains, with the whole country being flat, high in the north and low in the south. Most of it is undulating hills and plains, with a few low mountains in the north and east. The average altitude is 116.7 meters, and the highest peak in the country, Katdra Mountain, is 514 meters above sea level. The main rivers are the Uruguay River and the Negro River. These two large rivers are wide and deep and have shipping conditions.
After Harry Pelos carefully studied the terrain of Uruguay, he found that Uruguay was really easy to attack and difficult to attack. The only defenses against Brazil were the Rio Grande Mountains and the Rio Negro.
Although the Rio Grande is a mountainous area, it is more accurately said to be hills. It is the remnant of the Brazilian plateau extending to Uruguay. The highest point is Mount Catedela, which is only 514 meters.
However, for Uruguay now, the Rio Grande Mountains are already the best line of defense. They are located in the granite hilly belt in eastern Uruguay and are the watershed between the Negro River Basin and the Lake Mirin Basin Plain. Although the terrain is not undulating, it is There are still some, which are helpful for building defense.
The Negro River is a large river in the interior of Uruguay. Although it is not as wide and deep as the Uruguay River, the boundary river with Argentina, it is still quite good. The width and depth of the river have considerable defensive value.
Combining the topography of Uruguay and the size that Uruguay can use, Harry Pelos judged that the Lake Milin plain east of the Rio Grande Mountains and the Uruguayan grassland north of the Negro River, this kind of vast plain, facing Brazil, Can't hold on at all.
Harry Pelos submitted his own professional military defense plan to the President of Uruguay. Although Jose found it difficult to accept it and abandoned the northern territory to build the Negro Rio Grande mountain defense line, considering Uruguay's weak strength, he passed the Marshal plan.
Shortly after Brazil annexed Peru, Marshal Harry Pelos actively began building the Rio Negro-Rio Grande mountain defense line.
As the emperor of the empire, Pedro III certainly knew about Uruguay's construction of a military defense line, but he did not take him seriously. On the contrary, he had long ago prepared to use it as a training ground for Brazil and Uruguay as the two pillars of the empire. Mountain rounds are used to temper the army.
How can the empire's army be called a fighting force without going through battles? Therefore, regarding Uruguay's military defense line, the empire did not intimidate or interfere with Uruguay to stop building the defense line.
The Negro Mountain Defense Line in Uruguay is equivalent to France's Maginot Line. After the Portuguese Empire declared Uruguay an illegitimate government on February 1, Marshal Harry Pelos immediately ordered the army to enter the defense line.
What happened on February 1st was that Uruguay suffered repeated critical attacks from Portugal. The vice president rebelled and the northern border provinces rebelled. However, Uruguay's Negro Rio Grande mountain defense line was not damaged and Uruguay retained its hope.
