At this point, even the Xiongnu and the Mongols of old would have cried out at the Jews' extremity. Slaughter by cartwheel? Letting a tiger back into the mountains?
Neither existed!
At first, they slaughtered every male in a tribe, young and old alike, leaving only a small number of young women. But as the front continued to stretch, shortages in manpower and logistics began to emerge.
So they deliberately began sparing some obedient young males, castrating them, and incorporating them into the army to transport supplies and build camps.
Under the Jews' efficient slaughter, those nomadic peoples soon found themselves unable to hold on.
These natives came up with a solution that was no solution at all: they decided to trade their land to the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata for a chance to survive.
Juan Manuel José Domingo Ortiz de Rosas—Rosas for short—had long wanted to seize the southern lands, and he was likewise dissatisfied with how the European powers had directly assigned Patagonia to the Austrian Empire.
Thus, he recruited an army in the colony, intending to give these outsiders a tiny taste of Latin American shock.
Then Rosas's expeditionary force was beaten into total disarray, and all the land it had just acquired was lost as well.
A group of Jews had acted under the banners of Franz Joseph I and the German Confederation. If Rosas wanted to seek out the party responsible, he certainly would not choose the German Confederation—after all, with so many states within it, reaching a unified position was difficult.
Franz could only sigh at how shallow the waters of South America's little fishpond were. Even a pack of homeless dogs could go there and become a dominant force.
Still, the Jews' meddling was not entirely bad. In a sense,