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The Boeing 737 passenger plane roared and landed safely from the Silvio Pettirossi International Airport in Asuncion, the capital of Paraguay. This airport is also called Asuncion International Airport. It is one of the only two international airports in Paraguay and the largest airport in Paraguay.

Asuncion is the capital of Paraguay, the largest city in Paraguay, and one of the oldest cities in South America.

When the Spaniards arrived here on August 15, 1537, it was the Catholic Assumption of the Virgin Mary. In Spanish, Asuncion is pronounced "Asuncion", so Asuncion became the name of the city.

In other words, this city has a history of more than 480 years!

However, although this city has a long history, it is really not very developed. Paraguay itself is one of the poorest countries in South America. As the only two landlocked countries in South America, Paraguay, like its neighbor Bolivia, is the kind of poor country that is not needed.

This country with a population of only 7 million people has a total annual GDP of less than 30 billion U.S. dollars. And Yang Jing’s hometown, Tianqu, has a population of 5.8 million, and its annual GDP is 47 billion US dollars!

In other words, the total annual GDP of a fourth-tier city in China is 1.5 times that of Paraguay!

The poverty in this country of Paraguay can be imagined.

In fact, there are few major cities in Paraguay. Except for Asunción, which has a population of more than 500,000, Orient is the second largest city in Paraguay. Asuncion and Orient are the second largest cities in Paraguay. The total population of Paraguay accounts for one-eighth of the population of Paraguay!

As the capital of Paraguay, this city on the east bank of the Paraguay River does not have any high-rise buildings. The only few buildings are only 30 stories high...

However, it is said that the beaches of Asuncion are still very beautiful. Perhaps because Paraguay is a landlocked country, the residents here are very yearning for beaches, so they built a lot of beaches on the beaches of the Paraguay River to imitate the beaches on the sea.

This matter, it’s a bit sad to talk about it, but there is no way, there is really no way, to blame Quaresma...

In fact, Paraguay used to have access to the sea. At the beginning of the 19th century, from 1810 to 1825, the independent movement that emerged in Latin America forced Spain to abandon its colonial rule of most Latin American countries. Paraguay, a Spanish colony, also declared its independence in June 1811.

Paraguay, alone, still has access to the sea on the west coast of the Atlantic Ocean, and at that time Paraguay also had a very outstanding president, Carlos Antonio López.

This president replaced the dictatorship of the great dictator Francia in 1944 and became the new president of Paraguay.

During his presidency, Lopez vigorously carried out reforms. He sent a mission represented by his son Lopez Jr. to Britain, France, Italy and other countries, and vigorously recruited immigrants, and invited European technicians to inspect military acquisition of weapons. Under the painstaking management of President Lopez, the once barren Paraguay rose rapidly. He encouraged foreign trade and introduced a large amount of foreign investment; he invited engineers from Britain and Austria to help build railways, shipyards, and steel plants; and hired European and American doctors and engineering techniques. People, opened factories and schools; the National Theater was completed in 1850, and a Europeanized Paraguay appeared in Latin America as a powerful country.

But just as Paraguay was booming, President Lopez passed away from an illness, but before his death, he did something that made him the only thing in his life that became a tarnish. He took his son Francisco Sorano. . Lopez was listed as the "legal" successor, and the result was that Lopez Jr. became the new President of Paraguay.

In fact, President Lopez is also a very courageous person, but because this guy represented his father in the early days of traveling to various European countries, he had more knowledge, so his ambitions began to grow.

President López previously studied military in Europe, learned about the new development of military technology, and the importance of army building. He admired Napoleon Bonaparte and highly respected the French emperor Napoleon III at the time. In Paris, Lopez met Eliza Lynch, an Irish woman of high sociality, and Lynch became Lopez's mistress. When Lopez returned home, he brought back a large number of weapons and military supplies, and also brought Lynch back home. Lynch later had a strong influence on Lopez's ambitious plan.

Because of the diligence of the old President Lopez, when President López took over, Paraguay had become the only country in South America with no foreign debts. The strong economic strength made the ambition of President López even more inflated.

After President López took office, he began to vigorously expand his armaments. After he took office, he reorganized the 7,000-man army he inherited and implemented a rapid army expansion plan.

Because of his own adoration of Napoleon, he required his army to be equipped with Napoleon's uniform. Two years later, the total number of the Paraguayan army reached 30,000, and the army alone reached 25,000, enough to fight Brazil and Argentina.

At this time, the Paraguayan army consisted of 30 infantry battalions, 23 cavalry regiments and 4 artillery regiments.

In addition, Little Lopez also attaches great importance to the construction of the navy, requiring domestic shipbuilding companies to build world-class steamships for use as warships, update naval equipment, and enhance naval power. This allowed Paraguay’s naval power to increase significantly, with 1 sailor battalion and 1 artillery battalion, and the fleet used steam ships.

At this time, two years after López Jr. came to power, in 1864, with the support of Argentina and Brazil, a coup took place in Uruguay. Bernardo Bello, President of the Uruguayan White Party supported by Lopez.

Then, Brazil began to intervene in the Uruguay war and allied with Argentina. Jr. Lopez judged that Brazil would soon concoct the Uruguay model against Paraguay and overthrow his rule, so he decided to preemptively.

In November 1964, López Jr. declared war on Brazil, and the Paraguayan War began. Soon, Argentina took the side of Brazil and clashed with the Paraguayan army. Six months later, Paraguay officially declared war on Argentina again.

At that time, Little Lopez probably did not expect that a civil war in Uruguay would eventually evolve into the largest armed conflict on the South American continent. At that time, Paraguay was second to none in South America in terms of economic power or military power. Under the strong military oppression of López, Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay were secretly held in Buenos Aires on May 1, 1965. Signed the Three-Power Alliance Treaty to jointly oppose Paraguay, and formed the Tri-Power Alliance.

Thus, the famous Paraguay War broke out.

At the beginning, even in the face of the three-nation coalition, López was not afraid. After all, Paraguay's military power was stronger than the other three countries at that time, and the beginning of the war proved this.

The series of victories at the beginning of the war made López ignore the logistics requirements of modern warfare. Although Paraguay’s military has almost no rivals in South America, Paraguay’s strategic depth is too small, and the most important thing is that the country’s population is also too small. . Victory at the beginning of the war does not mean that Paraguay will be able to win the war.

Therefore, as time progressed, the Paraguayan army, which was victorious on the battlefield at the beginning, gradually tasted the bitterness of the lack of logistics. Then the war began from the early victory of the Paraguayan army to the strategic defense, and finally in 1970, this The battle lasted for seven years and the four parties participated in the war with more than 500,000 troops. It ended with 300,000 deaths in Paraguay, 100,000 in Brazil, and 30,000 in Argentina, and the Allied forces of the three countries captured Asuncion.

This war turned all the previous efforts of the old President Lopez into water. Although the young Lopez still insisted on fighting guerrillas, the complete failure of Paraguay was inevitable. At the same time that Paraguay failed, the country also lost 154,000 square kilometers of land and access to the sea.

A war completely changed the future of Paraguay!

If López did not have such big ambitions, then based on the situation of Paraguay at that time, Paraguay may now be the most developed and richest country in South America, but it is because of the ambition of a dictator that a country will be in the future. It has not been able to rise for 150 years, and it has become one of the two poorest countries in South America.

And because of the loss of the sea, the country was completely trapped in the tropical rain forests in the interior of South America. The residents here even converted the river beach into a beach. Isn't this a sorrow and what is it?

There is an old Chinese saying that goes well-if you forget to fight, you will be in danger, and if you want to fight, you will die!

In fact, the war that shouldn't have occurred in Paraguay 150 years ago ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ is a true portrayal of "belligerent must die".

At this time, standing in Asuncion, the city with the longest history in South America, Yang Jing, who understood this period of history, was also helpless.

That war completely humiliated this beautiful city, completely ruined the development potential of this country, and became the source of poverty in this country. Although all this has nothing to do with Yang Jing, now that he is here and seeing this city, Yang Jing, who is familiar with that period of history, will inevitably feel embarrassed in his heart.

However, Yang Jing and the others will not stay in this city. After all, their purpose here is not this city, but another small city called Ita.

Ita, a small city under the jurisdiction of the Central Province of Paraguay, is only 35 kilometers away from Asuncion in a straight line. Don't look down on this city, but it has a very long history, only two years later than Bassson.

This small city, built in 1539, now has a population of more than 80,000, and Martin Bowman, who fled again from Chascomus, Argentina to Paraguay more than sixty years ago, lived here for four years. Died of stomach cancer, and the guy was eventually buried in a cemetery in Ita...