Guo Ye said in a deep voice: "Now that the southern rebels have known about my existence, they must have taken precautions against us, and if they want to attack directly, I'm afraid it is very rare, after all, our forces do not have an advantage......

Walcott said urgently: "General Guo, what else should I do?" Now that the Confederate army has arrived in the city, and even begun to engage in street fighting, we have no choice! ”

Guo Ye slowly closed his eyes, opened them suddenly, and said: "First, the messenger of the other party should be coming back soon, and when they come back, we will immediately give them a reply, promising them to release the prisoners, so as to paralyze the Confederate army; Second, James, take out all the field grenades stored in our arsenal, my cavalry battalion, five grenades each! Let the cavalry detour south, detour behind the Confederate army, and finish off their artillery battalions first! Thirdly, the infantry battalion and artillery battalion went straight to the east side of Richmond and rushed to the Confederate flank, their position was not protected by the army, as long as their flank was crushed, the siege of the Confederate army would be easily solved! ”

Paralyzing the Confederate army, this is the method given by Guo Ye.

Walket pondered and asked, "General Guo, will this work?" ”

Guo Ye smiled and replied, "Won't you know if you try it?" However, after World War I, the arsenal will definitely face a retaliatory attack by the Confederate army, once there is a loss, your federal government must compensate me, Colt or not, I don't care, my share of compensation is indispensable! ”

Walcott smiled wryly, now that the situation is critical, who can manage so much?

James wondered, "General Guo." This time. What do you do with grenades? In the midst of a fierce battle. The grenade is thrown, only about fifty meters, fifty meters away, I'm afraid that ordinary soldiers can't throw it at all, right? But the range of the rifle is up to 400 meters, and the grenade is useless! ”

James is not at all right when he said that in the era of thermal weapons, the range of muskets was more than four hundred meters, and the range of artillery was more than two kilometers. Where can this grenade exert any power? Therefore, no matter which country, the current army is rarely equipped with grenades, even the Colt Arms Company only has more than a hundred boxes of grenades, and there is no army procurement at all in peacetime!

Guo Ye smiled faintly and replied, "James, in ordinary battles, it is difficult for grenades to exert their power, after all, he needs manpower to throw. The influence on the battlefield is limited, however. At certain times, grenades can make a huge difference! ”

Walcott frowned and asked, "General Guo, when?" ”

Guo Ye said with a smile: "That is when the cavalry raids, once the cavalry quickly approaches the enemy and rushes into the enemy's position, the grenade can exert its power, a bullet can only kill and injure one soldier, if it is coincidental, it can kill and injure two, but once the grenade explodes, it can at least threaten a radius of more than ten meters, and the enemy army within ten meters will pay absolute casualties, this is his power, if the cavalry raids the enemy's artillery position, although it can kill and injure their artillery, but it can't help other people's artillery, A dry musket could not threaten the steel and iron skeleton of the artillery! At this time, the power of the grenade was shown, as long as it was used properly, it was okay to blow up the artillery, and without the threat of artillery, Richmond could still take Richmond only with infantry? “

Walcott's eyes lit up, he was surprised and delighted, Guo Ye was right, the rifle can't help the artillery, but the power of the grenade is uncertain, although I haven't tried it, but the power of the grenade is not known how many times greater than the musket, it is really possible!

At this moment, an assistant ran in and shouted, "Mr. James, Mr. Yang Sen, the messenger from the other party is here again, asking to meet General Guo Ye!" ”

Guo Ye stood up and said with a smile: "Okay, they're here, Walcott, hide the people with you, I'll deal with it here." ”

Volkote nodded and retreated with his men.

After a short time, the two officers came to the office, and Guo Ye asked, "Two, how did you go back and communicate with the general?" ”

The two of them glanced at each other, and one of them said, "General Guo, our division commander, General Colin, is willing to accept your conditions, when can you release you?" ”

Guo Ye shrugged his shoulders and replied: "As long as you have prepared the US dollars, I can release them at any time, but I have another condition, that is, after I release them, your army will not send troops to harass the Colt Arms Company, this company has half of my shares, if something goes wrong, you can't afford to pay it!" ”

The other party hesitated for a moment and replied, "General Guo, you didn't tell us about this matter, but now bring it up......"

Guo Ye smiled: "Of course, in return, I can also promise you that my army is willing to remain neutral in your country's civil war, after all, harmony makes money, as long as you don't make trouble with my arsenal, I don't want to find trouble with you, a strong dragon can't suppress the head snake, this is the territory of the Americans, I don't want to cause more trouble......"

The two of them glanced at each other, obviously the lieutenant colonel was the one in charge, the lieutenant colonel hesitated slightly, and replied: "General Guo, we were forced to attack the Colt Company, they sold a large amount of arms to the northern government, which had a great impact on our war, please understand our difficulties." ”

Guo Ye squinted his eyes and smiled: "That's not easy?" I'm a businessman, I want to make money, I'll sell arms to the government in the north, and of course I can sell them to the government in the south, and the price is absolutely fair, isn't that okay? I'm neutral between you, I just want to get rich, as for who of you wins and who loses, I'm sorry, I'm not interested, don't worry, Lord Colt, I can still do it! ”

The lieutenant colonel's eyes lit up, now all the arms of the Confederate government are supplied from Britain and France, the industrial base of the south is much worse than that of the north, thousands of miles away, it is naturally inconvenient to transport the arms to the southern part of the United States, if the Colt company can sell the arms to the Confederate government, it is definitely a great thing, and a fool will have nothing to do to attack the arsenal! ”

The lieutenant colonel replied: "General Guo, I am very interested in your proposal, and I can definitely agree to it on behalf of our general, but how can we believe that what you said is valid?" ”

Guo Ye laughed and said, "Your Excellency Lieutenant Colonel, my arms company is placed here, can he still grow wings and fly?" If I go back on my word, how can I resist your attack with only a thousand men under my command when your army arrives? ”

(To be continued.) )