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The Netherlands' open arms support made Austria-Hungary furious. The Austria-Hungary Ministry of Foreign Affairs directly summoned the Dutch ambassador to Vienna to express Vienna's dissatisfaction.

However, the Netherlands claimed that it was only for the treaty restrictions of its allies, and if this was not done, it was only to safeguard the interests of the Netherlands.

The relationship between the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Netherlands was like this, becoming the worst period in history.

Mexico received open support from the Netherlands and seemed to receive a source of strength on the front lines.

On October 1, 1881, Mexican Foreign Minister María held a press conference. The Mexican army advanced 9 kilometers towards the Austro-Hungarian Empire’s defense line. “During the inspection of offensive operations in the direction between Cuarcos and La Muta, Mexico took After returning 10 kilometers, we recaptured 9 villages."

He also said that Mexico received weapons supplies from its allies and began to fight back against the other side. The Mexican army encountered stiff resistance in the west of La Muta, especially near the town of La Muta. "The Austro-Hungarian Empire currently has more than 10,000 troops deployed in the town of Lamuta and has increased the number of shellings."

Mexican President Gonzalez praised the Mexican army for repelling the enemy's offensive in a national broadcast on the afternoon of the 10th and 1st, and said that the counterattack was progressing smoothly. "Our troops are advancing: from one position to another, step by step, we are moving forward."

The Mexican military stated that the losses of the Austro-Hungarian Empire were much greater than those of Mexico. It is reported that Mexico destroyed an Austro-Hungarian ammunition depot in the Austro-Hungarian occupied town of Lamuta.

In addition, a reservoir in the occupied area of ​​the Austro-Hungarian Empire was blown up on September 30. Although the water level was not high, a large amount of Austro-Hungarian military supplies were washed away, causing the Austro-Hungarian Army supply line to appear. Got nervous.

The Ministry of Defense of the Austro-Hungarian Empire responded by saying that Mexico's approach may lead to the same tactics of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the country's ruled areas in the future.

Austria-Hungary reports heavy fighting in two areas on the Mexican front. The Austro-Hungarian Ministry of Defense said that the Mexican army continued to launch a counterattack on the village defense line 15 kilometers west of Latam in the past day. The offensive was the most violent in the coastal area. However, the offensive in the three local villages was all repelled by the Austro-Hungarian Empire. .

The War Research Institute of the Netherlands Military Observation Organization published an analysis report on the same day saying that the Mexican army may regain some territory from the Austro-Hungarian Empire before the end of this week (October 5, 1881). The report said: "Starting from October 4, Mexico After receiving more military assistance from 13 Latin American countries, the army launched a counterattack on at least four villages on the front line and may have regained more territory."

In the villages that were recaptured, original residents on the outskirts of Lamuta town held flags and said they were preparing to recapture more homes. They aimed to recapture at least eight southeastern villages this weekend.

Mexican President Gonzalez said that since the counterattack, a total of eight villages, including one in the southern part of the town of La Muta, were recaptured last week, and a total of 190 square kilometers of territory was recovered.

Mexico's consecutive victories made people see that the Austro-Hungarian Empire seemed to be getting weaker.

The Austro-Hungarian Empire was naturally dissatisfied with this.

In order to avenge the defeat of the Austrian army, the Austro-Hungarian Empire would naturally not wait for the Mexican army to attack in the town of Lamuta.

The Austro-Hungarian Empire has formulated one combat plan after another against Mexico since the beginning. Even in Vienna, there are currently more than 7 combat plans.

The latest plan was formulated by General Kaunur, Chief of Staff of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in Latin America, known as Plan No. 3. The core of this plan is that the Austro-Hungarian Empire will gather on the fortified border line of Austria-Hungary and Mexico, so Austria-Hungary We must launch an active and proactive offensive here, and regain in one fell swoop a total of eight villages lost in the war just over the past week, and even gain more Mexican territory.

On October 8, 1881, the right-wing army along the coast of the Austro-Hungarian Empire began to attack the villages along the actual line of Mexican rule. They encountered stubborn resistance from the Mexican army. After the eight villages were blocked for two days, they were not occupied until October 10. After defeating them, this time the Austro-Hungarian Empire directly continued to lead 10,000 troops to inspect the port of Cuarcos.

When the news of Mexico's failed retreat came back to the country, the people were shocked, and panic spread everywhere. The Gonzalez government urgently mobilized the garrison in Tuxtepec to the east to support the inspection of the port of Cuarcos. However, Because the distance is more than 100 kilometers, distant water cannot save the nearby fire.

The Austro-Hungarian Empire took advantage of this. The second Austrian army, which had been deployed long ago, implemented Plan No. 5 and launched an attack on the city of Minatitlan, not far from the left flank of the inspection team.

However, the early battles showed that the fifth plan was very bad. The Austro-Hungarian army attacked the Mexican city of Minatitlan with 3,000 people stationed there. However, due to the city's tight defense and its geographical location, which is high in the west and low in the east, it was easy to defend. Difficult to attack.

As a result, the 10,000 left-wing troops of the 30,000 Austrian troops in Mexico lost 1,500 people, and still failed to capture the city.

Nearly a thousand of the remaining 8,500 people were injured. In the end, they had no choice but to turn 20 kilometers northeast to attack and inspect Cuarcos. The 5,000 Mexican troops there were attacked by 185 million Austrian troops. After the final loss of 2,200 people, the remaining 28 million Mexican troops fled north to The town of Trakotalbo, which has the same strategic location as Latamu, but has a small port, the Austrian army also lost 3,000 people.

Sea transportation is convenient, but because of this, the Austro-Hungarian Empire's army may pose a greater threat at sea.

During the inspection of the defensive battle of Cuarcos, the Mexican army was severely beaten, but the Austro-Hungarian army on the left also suffered a lot in the city of Minatitlan.

After the Austro-Hungarian army occupied and inspected Qualcos, 5,500 troops of the 155 million troops stayed in the city, and the remaining 100 million troops went south to attack the city of Minatitlan. Like a wielding scythe, an army of 10,000 inspected Cuarcos from the north and inserted it diagonally into the city of Minatitlan.

On October 13, the two sides fought fiercely in the city. Both sides suffered losses. The 3,000 Mexican defenders originally had only 2,500 left after the previous war. Now they faced an attack by 10,000 Austrian troops, four times the attack. After the strength and sudden exhaustion of their opponents cost 2,000 lives, the Mexican army lost more than half. The 1,200 people could only abandon the city of Minatitlan and fled southwest down to the city of Jesus Carranza.

Of the 8,000 Austrian troops, 3,000 were left to defend the newly captured city of Minatitlan, while the remaining 5,000 followed the Mexican army southward. When the Austrian army advanced 15 kilometers away from the city of Jesus Carranza, it was ambushed by 5,000 Mexican troops ambushed there, and the Mexican army lost 300 people. In the end, after the Austrian army lost 800 people, 4,200 people returned northward to Minatitlan.

A small war came to an end in less than a week, but both sides lost a lot of troops.

In this war, 20,000 Austrian troops attacked the 8,000 Mexican defenders.

Mexico lost 4,300 men.

The Austrian army lost 7,300 men.

This can be regarded as the most brutal war in the past 10 years, even greater than the Chilean Civil War in 1878. The expansion of this war will bring about the escalation of the war. You don't need to think about it to know that next, neither Mexico nor Austria-Hungary will give up.