Volume VIII 1247 Caution

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Molière's speech made those present think deeply, they had never looked at the problem from such a high level, and this angle of analysis made these generals who graduated from the military academy think deeply.

Molière seems to have really made great efforts to study Xiao Letian, and his remarks have been out of the category of military and political affairs, and directly point to the core of Xiao Letian's governance, which is more similar to a philosophical topic.

Perhaps, as Molière said, Xiao Lotian is using the hand of promoting religion to advance secular politics, which is a very clever means, and I really don't know what this Chinese brain is made of.

"Now you understand Xiao Letian's strategy, right? If he wants the Chinese to survive, he must carefully manage three generations, only in this way can the Chinese body have a healthy self-hematopoiesis, have a strong immune ability, and this can be counted as a healthy person!"

"How should Xiao Letian protect these three generations? How should he keep the Chinese from being wiped out by other countries? How should he get through the most difficult period of the initial stage of the Chinese people?"

"The answer lies in the heroes in the naval battle just now! The cohesion of nationalism is inseparable from the emergence of heroes, and Xiao Lotian must portray himself as a strong leader, a hero who can suppress all hereticals! In this world, apart from religion, I think only heroes can unite people's hearts!"

Molière lit a cigarette for himself and took a deep breath, "If you understand Xiao Letian's grand strategy and what he thinks in his heart, then there is a reasonable explanation for his risky behavior Sometimes it's not that he wants to be a hero, it's not that he is not afraid of danger, but that he has to go up, and he can't do without him."

"So, let's stop thinking about Xiao Letian's killer weapon, the Zhiyuan we met just now should be his last ultimate weapon!"

After such an in-depth analysis, everyone couldn't help but be unconvinced, and the commander-in-chief let out a sigh of relief, looked at everyone and asked, "What do you think?

Everyone shook their heads, only the captain Hermansky asked another question: "Okay, I admit that what you said makes sense, but we have also seen the speed of the Zhiyuan, although it was lured to the south, but once the battleship gets rid of Wennia's entanglement, I am afraid that it will soon turn back to the north, and we will still have to face him at that time!"

"What should I do in this situation?"

Molière has already begun to scold his mother in his heart, he has not been in contact with the aristocrats and officials of Tsarist Russia before, in his impression that these barbarians in the cold regions of the north are a group of rude, straight drunkards, but today these generals of the expeditionary force have changed his opinion, I didn't expect these war bears to have such a delicate analysis.

"Yes, of course your consideration is necessary, but such a thing as war, I have never heard of a situation where the enemy can be defeated unscathed, and the Chinese have said that they surrender without a fight, I think it's all bragging!"

"I think His Excellency the Commander-in-Chief is the most qualified to answer this question, because the report on the battle damage that has just been counted is in his hands."

Stefansky did have the battle damage report just sent by the adjutant, he opened the text jacket and glanced at it: "In this sudden encounter, our side sank two frigates and damaged five, but none of them hurt the vital point, and the battleship can still cruise As for the number of casualties, let me see!"

"Four troop carriers of our main fleet were bombarded by artillery, a total of 850 army troops were killed, and the rest of the warships were killed by 350 sailors, a total of 1,200 people died, as for the right flank fleet led by Vinya, there is no detailed battle loss number, but they directly faced the attack of the Zhiyuan, and two frigates were sunk, I think the loss should be about twice that of the main fleet."

"Damn, did we lose nearly 3,600 people in one encounter?"

At this time, Molière smiled: "Is it a lot? The 30,000 expeditionary force suffered 10% casualties? If Russia can't even bear such a small loss, what kind of war are you fighting? Why are you coming to the Far East?

"Enough, you Frenchman, shut your foul mouth, we are brave soldiers under the command of the great tsar, we are not afraid of death, but we can't die worthless!"

"In this terrible naval battle, many soldiers were killed by artillery without even seeing the enemy, and they were killed by artillery without being entangled with the enemy, they died too unjustly, what a pity!"

Stefansky raised his hand to stop the quarrel, and he pondered for a moment: "I understand what Monsieur Molière meant, in this encounter, our losses are not great, but the biggest loss is our morale!

"When did the Tsar's warriors become so cautious? When did we not even afford 10% of the battle losses? Is there anything more shameful than this?"

The commander-in-chief's rebuke made the faces of those present red, and people stood up and saluted to apologize to the commander. And at this moment, due south of the fleet, a few signal lights suddenly flashed.

"Ships are approaching at high speed from the south! Signal lights are being sent to us to report to the commander that the units are on guard!" shouted the sailors on the lookout.

The ships in the south were indeed very fast, and in the experience of old sailors, the speed of that ship had exceeded 17 knots, which was not at all the speed that a battleship should have.

"It should be a clipper ship, not a battleship, otherwise we wouldn't have seen the signal clearly at such a fast speed, it's our ship, it's our signal ship"

The expeditionary force is a task force, which not only has large, medium and small warships, but also large-capacity supply ships and troop carriers, and even four extremely fast small clippers in the fleet, which are specially used to transmit information.

For example, the fleet is close to certain ports, and the commander-in-chief and commanders at all levels want to go ashore, but it is very troublesome for the large warships to anchor, so it is necessary to rely on these fast small clippers to transport the commanders.

Including the French intelligence agencies in major ports, they want to pass on the latest intelligence to Molière, relying on this ultra-fast ship with a maximum speed of 21 knots, otherwise Molière will not be able to grasp the latest information in Asia in time.

"It's our signal ship! Disarm, it's our signal ship!"

Note: There will be five watches today, don't rush me, let me be quiet codeword! These days, I only sleep four hours a day, which is too tiring