Reborn in Brazil As a Plutocrat

Chapter 720

 The next day, just after lunch time, a shocking news spread throughout Rio de Janeiro. For a while, the entire Rio de Janeiro began to become panicked. As the highest authority of the Brazilian army, the Ministry of Defense was even more chaotic.

 The main leaders of the Ministry of National Defense were all gathered in the large conference room of the Ministry of National Defense.

“Where did this army that suddenly appeared and occupied the train station come from? Have their identities been investigated?”

 General Crook was furious in the conference room. The officers in the conference room had different expressions. Most of them looked angry and a little anxious. But there are also some people who seem to take pleasure in others' misfortune!

 General Letta, the chief of general staff on the side, heard General Crook's question, stood up slowly, coughed twice and said:

"Your Excellency, Deputy Minister, according to the information we received, the troops that suddenly appeared at the train station belong to the 113th Division of the Brazilian Army. They are the last army troops to withdraw from the Argentine border. According to the instructions we gave them, they were supposed to They were directly withdrawn to their original location.

Now I don’t know why, but suddenly appeared at the Rio de Janeiro train station and directly occupied the train station. "

Hearing this, General Crook said directly with a livid face:

“Since they disobeyed military orders and suddenly appeared at the Rio de Janeiro train station and completely occupied the train station, that was a rebellion.

 From now on, we will treat them as rebels. The order is passed, and from now on Rio de Janeiro will be under full martial law near the train station. No one is allowed near the train station without permission.

 At the same time, the capital garrison was ordered to enter a state of first-level combat readiness and be ready to enter Rio de Janeiro to counter the rebellion at any time. "

Hearing this, General Leta was about to stand up and take the order. The Minister of War quickly stood up and said before General Leta could answer:

“Your Excellency, Deputy Minister, is it not appropriate to directly notify the garrison to enter the first level of combat readiness? The 113th Division has only occupied the train station and has not taken any other drastic actions.

I think we should be more cautious and avoid sending troops directly and triggering an overreaction from the other side. When the 113th Division directly rebels, we will be in big trouble. "

Hearing this, General Crook glared dissatisfied at the Minister of War, who had always had a weak sense of presence, and said unceremoniously:

“Disobeying orders, changing destinations, and occupying train stations, what else can such behavior be but rebellion? They have already done this, do you still have any other illusions about them?

Or do you, the Minister of War, know what their purpose is? "

Faced with General Crook’s questioning, the Secretary of War did not calm down, but continued to speak in a neither humble nor overbearing tone:

“I think they took no further action after occupying the train station, which obviously left us room for negotiation. We should send representatives and have a good talk with them to see what their purpose is?

 Instead of sending troops to surround them regardless and start a war directly. "

"What do you mean, are you preparing to negotiate with these rebels? Why do you think they are leaving us time to negotiate instead of waiting for reinforcements from behind?"

 What if they are deliberately stalling for time to give them time for the rebels to assemble? "

General Crook's words made the Minister of War not sure how to answer for a while. He could only bite the bullet and said:

"Even so, we should send someone to talk to them first. At least we should understand their purpose before it is too late to respond!"

Hearing the words of the two people, everyone in the conference room began to discuss. You and I expressed their opinions one by one.

I don’t know if he saw the Secretary of War contradicting General Crook or what, but an army officer who had been close to General Crook couldn’t help but said:

"I think General Crook is right. Since they have already occupied the train station, they are rebels. What else can we say to the rebels? Just eliminate them."

Hearing this, General Crook glanced at the other party calmly and nodded as if satisfied.

Seeing this situation, several more people stood up to support General Crook's opinion and expressed their intention to send troops to directly wipe out the rebel army.

Of course, some people, whether out of reason or with ulterior motives, said that they should send people over to communicate with the rebels who occupied the train station to see what their purpose was.

Fang Lang, who was sitting on the side, quietly watched everything that happened in front of him, his eyes sliding over the faces of those who expressed their opinions from time to time, trying to judge the true inner thoughts of these people from their words.

However, he also knew that just based on the current situation, it would be difficult for him to distinguish the loyalty and treachery of these people. Those who supported General Crook's direct war were probably rebels. Those who want to negotiate with the rebels may not want to go over to contact them, or test the truth.

Therefore, it is actually very difficult to directly find out the hidden rebels from this meeting.

 After almost everyone expressed their attitude, General Letta, Chief of General Staff, slowly spoke:

"Your Excellency, Deputy Minister, I see that many people have expressed that they want to talk to the rebels who have occupied the train station first. Why don't we let our General Staff arrange someone to go over and test the other party's attitude first! See if we can figure them out. What is the purpose of it!"

Seeing General Letta speak, even General Crook seemed a little surprised, but after all, the other person was the Chief of General Staff, so he should still be given this face.

At this time, General Humberto Auld, who was the official Minister of Defense, also stood up at the right time and said:

"Yes! General Crook, since everyone has suggested that we let someone test the situation of the rebels first, let's send someone over to talk!"

Of course, while sending people over to talk, we don’t have to stop our counter-insurgency preparations. Anyway, it will take time for us to mobilize the garrison to the train station. "

Although this statement is a bit suspicious, it is indeed very reasonable. It will take some time for them to mobilize the counter-rebellion army. It is not a bad idea to take advantage of this time to send someone over to communicate with the rebels.

Seeing that the Minister of Defense had already spoken, General Crook could not continue to insist, so he immediately took advantage of the donkey path:

"Since Mr. Minister also thinks this is safer, let's implement it according to Mr. Minister's opinion! General Letta, your General Staff will arrange for an officer to enter the train station to communicate with the rebels. See what they want to do?"

Hearing this, General Letta stood up and saluted:

 “Yes, Your Excellency Minister!”

 Then, General Crook continued to speak:

"At the same time, in the name of the General Staff, an assembly order was issued to the four divisions guarding the capital, requiring their garrison divisions to take the lead in entering the vicinity of the train station and forming an encirclement situation around the train station. In addition, two motorized infantry divisions and armored divisions, We must also be prepared for emergencies, and the entire army will immediately enter a state of first-level combat readiness, ready to launch a crackdown on the rebels at any time!"

This time, everyone in the entire conference room stood up and said in unison:

 “Yes, Your Excellency General.”

I have to say that General Crook has maintained very tight control over the Ministry of Defense in the past two years. Although there are still some officers who are reluctant to move closer to him, most of them have already stood with him.

 On the surface, everyone also treats him as the Minister of Defense.

This so-called meeting of the Ministry of National Defense is, of course, just a show. Whether it is General Crook as the Deputy Secretary of Defense, General Letta as the Chief of Staff, or even General Humberto Auld. Nominal Minister of Defense. Everyone is just acting.

As for the purpose, it is naturally to lure out the rebels hiding in the Ministry of National Defense and surrounding garrisons.

The people responsible for occupying the train station according to the plan were not people from the disarmed Army 113th Division at all. The reason why they arranged for people to take the initiative to negotiate with the rebels was just a show for the hidden people to see.

After all, the fake rebels at the train station didn't know what the real rebels' plan was. Chizzy Whiteman, the rebel leader, also said that he didn't have a complete plan. He only planned to launch an attack on the presidential palace based on the actual situation after arriving in Rio de Janeiro. attack.

It can be seen that in this operation, the rebels he led were actually bait to attract attention. The real rebels were among the several troops responsible for defending the capital.

 Since, they are fake rebels. Naturally, General Crook would not arrange too many manpower. It was not that he did not want to arrange more manpower, but that he actually could not provide more manpower at this time.

 Because, many troops south of Rio de Janeiro were mobilized by them to suppress the real rebels. Therefore, at this time, he had to follow Fang Lang's plan and arrange for only one regiment of troops to occupy the train station, pretending to be waiting for help.

Although this was a forced choice, what they didn't know was that their wave of operations happened to confuse the hidden rebels.

 In fact, the power of the real rebels is far greater than they expected. As early as last night when the National Defense Forces in the south of Rio de Janeiro began to mobilize frequently, the rebels had already discovered anomalies. Originally, they thought that the rebel army used as bait had lost its effect.

But unexpectedly, a rebel army broke through the blockade and successfully occupied the Rio de Janeiro train station. As for why the government forces have clearly intercepted the rebels, but now they pretend that nothing happened and restart the layout, in their view, this is just a cover-up for their failures by senior officials of the Ministry of National Defense.

 After all, compared with being known that they had discovered the rebel movement first and launched an interception, but the interception failed. The rebel movement had obviously just been discovered and the pressure they faced was much lower.

More importantly, they never imagined that someone could be crazy enough to use one of their own people to pretend to be rebels to lure the hidden rebels out.

Everyone knows that once the rebels occupy the capital train station, regardless of whether the rebellion is successful or not, it will have an immeasurable negative impact on Brazil's military and political affairs. Therefore, they have never thought about the rebels occupying the train station. The action will be fake.

 But now many people have proposed going to the train station to negotiate with the rebels, which makes the hidden rebels nervous. They were very worried that the rebels who occupied the train station would directly choose to give up the rebellion because they were isolated and helpless, knowing that their large forces had no chance of entering Rio de Janeiro.

This is completely different from what General Crook and the others expected. That is to say, the meeting they directed and staged was actually a wink to a blind man. Contrary to what everyone expected, they did not send anyone to contact the rebels who occupied the train station.

On the contrary, when they learned that General Crook and the others were going to send people to negotiate with the rebels who occupied the train station, they immediately decided to advance the planned rebellion.

Therefore, when the Ministry of National Defense had just transferred the garrison division into Rio de Janeiro to surround the rebels occupying the train station, it received intelligence from the Brazilian Intelligence Agency that the armored division stationed on the western front of Rio de Janeiro and the one stationed on the southern front Something unusual happened to the Motorized Infantry Division.

 The order issued by the Ministry of National Defense was to enter a state of first-level combat readiness, but they directly began to assemble in the city in full force. On the other hand, the motorized infantry division located on the northern line of Rio de Janeiro did not appear abnormal. It only entered a state of first-level combat readiness in accordance with the orders of the Ministry of National Defense.

When receiving the news, most of the officers in the Counter-insurgency Command of the Ministry of National Defense were in a panic, but the leader, General Crook, remained calm.

“Except for the 1st Armored Division on the Western Front and the 102 Motorized Infantry Division on the Southern Front, are you sure there are no abnormalities on the 101st Motorized Infantry Division on the Northern Front?”

"Yes, Your Excellency General, so far, we have found no abnormalities in the 101st Motorized Infantry Division. Although a colonel officer from the Ministry of War entered the barracks of the 101st Motorized Infantry Division and tried to persuade their division commander to join their rebellion, but Their division commander did not agree to participate in the rebellion."

The director of the Brazilian Intelligence Agency, Blackwell, reported to General Crook in a serious tone.

Hearing this, General Crook instead of being happy, frowned and said:

“But I have not received any proactive report from this division, which means that the 101st Division is actually unreliable. Although they did not choose to join the rebels, they did not choose to stand firmly with us.”

After hearing General Crook's words, Blackwell nodded with a somewhat ugly face and said:

"Yes, I think this guy should be prepared to remain neutral and wait for the outcome of this rebellion."

After hearing his answer, General Crook couldn't bear it and slapped his palm on the big table in front of him.

“These **** bastards, is this how they are loyal to their country?”

The people around him fell silent after hearing his roar, and for a while, the sound of needles dropping could be heard in the command headquarters. Everyone felt like the sky above their heads was falling. After all, there were only four divisions nearby, two of them rebelled, and the other chose to sit back and watch.

The remaining ones are just ordinary garrison divisions. Their main job is to protect the headquarters and important military institutions. They have no heavy weapons at all.

 It is obviously beyond the capabilities to face the siege of a tank armored division and a motorized infantry division head-on. Therefore, everyone present felt a flash of panic in their hearts.

Even General Leta, Chief of General Staff, regretted very much at this moment. He should not have followed Fang Lang's plan to lure the hidden rebels out of the hole, because the hidden rebels were too powerful.

 (End of this chapter)