"Stop" A federal soldier on duty in front of the U.S. Army department saw a group of Indians in iron-gray military uniforms that he had never seen before getting out of the carriage carrying the guys in front of him casually, and the helpless soldier finally remembered that he was carrying a rifle in his hand instead of a dung fork, so he trembled and said to the group of indifferent-looking yellow people with a gun, "Please get out of here, this is the property of the U.S. Army." ”

"Take a break." The guard soldier with his legs spread apart and his arms folded ignored him, leaving the soldier Alexander trembling and not even pulling the bolt of his gun.

"Soldier, I am the lieutenant general commander of the New Army of the Great Qing Dynasty. Lieutenant General MacArthur, if you are not going to be shot and then shot by my soldiers, I suggest you go find an officer to speak to me. Wu Chenxuan said to the soldier in English, but the four ruby stars on his shoulders made the soldier with only one arrow crutch shake his eyes. Although he did not know this rank, he claimed to be Arthur who worked here. General MacArthur was probably a lieutenant general if he was the same rank, so the soldiers ran into the lobby, and a short time later, a lieutenant officer with the word MP on his arm walked out, and the two sides exchanged military salutes.

"Honorable General, I don't know if you and Lieutenant General Arthur have made an appointment, you know that you have to complete a set of registration procedures to receive visits during working hours, please please show your ID, if you have an appointment, I can contact Your Excellency the General for you." Although the U.S. Army is still in the stage of the federal army, the quality of the officers is not inferior, their pocket army of less than 100,000 people is hidden in the dragon and the tiger, and the relatively low-intensity land confrontation in the Western Hemisphere makes this semi-amateur army rarely meet opponents, so the pride in the bones can still be inadvertently revealed.

"I've contacted General Arthur before, lieutenant, you can check with General Arthur's adjutant." Wu Chenxuan said

"Yes, Your Excellency. Please wait a moment in the reception room. The lieutenant took Wu Chenxuan into the reception area on the first floor of the War Department. But he looked at the twelve heavily armed soldiers behind him with a sad face, the War Department didn't let the foreign country? A precedent for the stationing of troops. "Your Excellency, the War Department does not allow weapons to enter, can you let your soldiers wait outside the door?"

"Mr. Lieutenant, I respect the rules of your army, but are there any clear rules in the rules you mentioned?" Wu Chenxuan stood and looked at the young lieutenant, the scrutiny in his eyes made the little lieutenant a little at a loss, but he still took out a document from the registration office in the lobby and handed it to Wu Chenxuan.

"Very well, it says that no one is allowed to bring heavy weapons into the War Department, except for sidearms, right?"

Unexpectedly, Wu Chenxuan was really inspecting the document word by word, which surprised the lieutenant, but the article was indeed good, and the lieutenant could only admit it in black and white.

"Very well, we did not carry heavy machine guns or field guns, so of course our rifles and the like were carried with us, so there was nothing against the rules for them to enter the War Department, did it?"

"Well, but never a foreign country? The army entered the War Department with guns. The lieutenant didn't want to let these yellow-skinned soldiers enter with guns, and he didn't want to be ridiculed by his colleagues.

"Hey, if all of your guards can stand guard with rifles, and my guards can also guard with guns, unless you can find a rule to stop us, I would consider this to the Qing Kingdom? Provocations of military men. ”

"Qingguo? Soldier? A major passed by, and when he heard the quarrel, he couldn't help but stop, and he smiled contemptuously, "Is that the pig-tailed country that let the Russians and the crooks fight for a year on their own land and still declare neutrality?" Are you sure they still have military personnel in the country? ”

"Mr. Major, are you sure you are a soldier?" Wu Chenxuan replied to him coldly.

"Of course, the American military will not let any other country? Soldiers invade our land with guns and do not react, and anyone who violates the interests of the United States must face the bayonets of the United States Army, and I am a glorious American Army soldier, sir. ”

"Very well, what should a soldier do when he meets another soldier with a higher rank than him, I don't think the U.S. Army has not taught you."

"Uh, yes, sir." The major looked at the rank on Wu Chenxuan's shoulder, in fact he had heard the lieutenant call him His Excellency the General, "Salute to you, Your Excellency General." ”

"Very well, Mr. Lieutenant." Wu Chenxuan also returned a military salute. "Your words make two mistakes, first of all, the American Army is not all able to stop the enemy from trampling on its own territory, otherwise your White House would not have to be rebuilt. The second is that in the Russo-Japanese War, our soldiers were not without action, in fact, these soldiers you are facing, they have all participated in the war against Russia in the Kanto region, and these soldiers have the lives of at least ten or more Russians on their hands, I wonder if the glorious American Army Major has cut off the heads of ten Spanish colonial troops? ”

"......" didn't expect that these expressionless poker-faced soldiers were all reincarnated as killing gods, which made the office major speechless for a moment.

"Sorry, hello, are you Mr. Sean?" A lieutenant colonel came down the stairs "General Arthur is waiting for you in his office, please come with me." ”

"Where's the range?"

"What?" The lieutenant colonel adjutant obviously didn't understand, and Wu Chenxuan didn't plan to repeat it, since old MacArthur didn't give face, there was no need for him to go up and meet him.

"It seems that you are not ready, in the afternoon I will be at the Yellow Water Farm at the mouth of the Bruno River, and we will prepare the shooting range, but we may not be able to receive General Arthur at that time." Wu Chenxuan straightened his military hat, turned around and left the War Department building, and those internal guard soldiers also followed closely and got into the carriage and left, leaving three Americans? The officer's eyes widened.

"It seems that this Qing general is not very good-tempered, Arthur, you should probably give them a face, you know that those yellow-skinned monkeys attach great importance to these things." A silver-haired old general watched the carriage leave in front of the window, turned to a middle-aged general who was sitting behind his desk and signed documents.

"Pire, don't be too nervous." The lieutenant general raised his head with an Irish face, "Maybe this pigtailed general does have some good things in his hands, but the Qing people have a saying that rushing is not a good deal, so there is no need to care too much about their attitude, otherwise they will feel fearless." You know, we really don't have a lot of military money in our hands, and those guys on Capitol Hill can't wait to turn all the soldiers into militia, even guns? It's good to have your own horses. ”

"Report to the general, General Wu of the Qing Kingdom has left, here's the thing..."The lieutenant colonel adjutant came to report the situation, and then Arthur asked him to leave the office.

"Well, Arthur, are you going to take a look at the Yellow Water Farm?" Brigadier General Pire asked. "Is their equipment really simple and powerful?"

"I have to admit that these yellow-skinned guys are a bit creative in light weapons, their rifles, grenades and grenadiers are very distinctive, and the trench defense system is definitely a technology that we will often use or encounter in the future, and these guys are obviously ahead of the US Army." Arthur closed the folder, "Those bureaucrats just don't want to admit that we're lagging behind. Not only are they not as good as the Germans and the French, but now even the Japanese and Qing monkeys have surpassed us. But I was planning to start a pilot course at West Point on trench defense versus offense, and that damn old cavalry madman, who was paying $100,000 for equipment to buy some Messina mules to equip his cavalry logistics team, was not willing to allocate funds to West Point for experiments in this area. Arthur Jr. and his classmates were simulating barbed wire with their old cables, this is our Army, a bunch of old antiques sleeping in the Civil War, and they thought that the next battle would be the soldiers on both sides beating snare drums and lining up to shoot. ”

"Well, Arthur, you know I'm going to retire next month, maybe I can get some old goods out of the war supplies and give them to the boys at West Point, but it's certainly not too much, so let's save some money. As an old friend I have to advise you, maybe you are right, but only if you are in the right position does it matter. ”

"Well, old Pire, I'll go in the afternoon, maybe I'll gain a little, anyway, it's a big gain for me to have an afternoon without seeing the old horseman's face." Arthur took off his glasses and rubbed his eyes.

A grenade from a grenadier accurately hit a large earthen pit 200 meters away, and the rising smoke and the wooden shelves flying all over the sky speak for themselves, and there was no need to raise their heads in the trenches, and a small iron barrel like a water hose fired a special grenade of less than 600 grams to a place 200 meters away, hitting a pit of less than two square meters, and the cost was only one-third of that of a rifle.

The monocle of the German military attaché with the Prussian mustache fell almost to his chest in surprise, if the Reich? If there is one person in the army, advance to 200 meters, and fire a salvo together, there will be basically no living creatures on the opponent's position. As for the rifle called the Qin crossbow, which is almost a twin brother with the Mauser 98, it is not so important anymore, anyway, there are many Mausers in this thing, but the pointed bullet is slightly smaller.

"Has the itinerary of your mission to visit our country been decided?" The bearded man seems to be called Elber, anyway, Wu Chenxuan can only compare written French, and he almost doesn't know anything about German, so he has to communicate in French, fortunately Germany? The education level of the officers was relatively high, and this bearded man heard that the Qing general actually knew English and French, so he hurriedly talked to Wu Chenxuan in French, which was more popular in Europe, so as not to listen to these Anglo-Saxon nephews around him.

"My honorable Colonel of the Prussian Army, our Government has informed your Government that, as a delegation to the Constitutional Expedition, we will have the honour to arrive in Hamburg on the 10th of next month for a twenty-day visit to your country." The honorific French made the Germans even more awe-inspiring, and then also expressed their respect and welcome in the same awkward court French, and said that he would report to the domestic general staff as soon as possible, and must purchase this new type of individual accompanying artillery as soon as possible, of course, the production technology and license must be introduced together, and there may not be too many purchases for hand * grenades.

Of course, Wu Chenxuan knew that the Germans had begun to experiment with long-handled hand * grenades, but it didn't matter, weren't there still Americans on the side. Looking at the old MacArthur and his adjutant, who were also salivating on the side, it seems that there are also talks about licensing the business of American production.

Sure enough, a month later, when Wu Chenxuan and the others had arrived in Hamburg, driven by Lieutenant General Arthur's matchmaking and the Arkansas militia taking the lead in procurement, the U.S. Army and the Springfield Arsenal officially decided to introduce the Qing State's "hand-thrown grenade" and "ultra-light mortar" technology, and purchased them one after another in the form of production licenses. France and England may not be able to hold back the Germans with trench warfare, and if William defeats France, it may not be a blessing for the Qing Dynasty.

So according to the balance theory of the British Empire, Wu Chenxuan felt that it was the truth to make the scourge come in pairs, and when the American Expeditionary Force was beaten by the Germans with grenadiers, Mauser guns and long-handled hammers, the Americans would naturally think of the good treasures in their own treasury, and the dollar bills and gold were not all floating clouds?