When Shepard's cavalry rushed out of the woods, the whole exercise was effectively over, and there was no suspense about what happened next: only a few cavalry of Captain Graberman's troops fled back to Point Y, Lieutenant Buckman, who had taken over his command, was too frightened by the sudden heavy losses to order his troops to attack again, and the Americans, who had occupied three points, had no intention of attacking, so the two sides spent the rest of the day peacefully. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Of course, the American advisers won, and even Ryūsuke Ito had to admit their victory, but Shosa was immediately criticized harshly and mercilessly: cowardly, lacking offensive spirit, and lacking the courage of a soldier. His statement was first endorsed by the German observer, Major Gernhard, and the Major went on to make a further statement quoting Clausewitz and Moltke. So the Italians, the British, and the Russians all began to accuse Shepard and Webb of their tactics.

Only the French major did not issue a condemnation of Umbrella's advisers. But his eyes clearly told Yi Shui that his views were not much different from others.

"A bunch of fools." "One day, the U.S. military will go to war with the armies of these countries, and they will pay a terrible price for their rigid thinking and tactics, and I want to watch from the sidelines," he whispered to Mahan. ”

"I'm afraid the Army doesn't have a chance to win such a victory." Seeing Yi Shui's bewildered eyes, Mahan explained: "Our biggest enemy is not the armies of European countries, but the Congress. Unless it is approved or eliminated by the army, the army and navy can only stay in the base. ”

"In contrast," the Colonel sighed, "the mercenaries of Umbrella will have more opportunities to take part in the battle, but I don't think Miss McBride will agree to you leading the troops into battle." ”

"That's a real problem." Yi Shui also sighed. But fortunately, he was not a person who liked war and violence, and it was never a pity not to be able to go to the battlefield in person, so soon, he returned to normal and set his sights on Yuan Shikai, who was sitting next to him.

Yuan Shikai was listening carefully to the referees and observers that the interpreter had relayed to him, but it was a little troublesome - there were not one but five interpreters around him, and everyone except the Italian observer who spoke French was in his native language.

This situation is both unusual and justified – if there are career diplomats sitting on either side of the table, they speak in French, but career officers usually don't care about diplomatic conventions and only think first about their own, the army, and the country's face – and Gernhard bluntly states that he would never use French, and for no other reason simply because France lost the Franco-Prussian War.

The Major refused to use the language of the defeated German men, believing that it would be detrimental to the honor of the German soldiers. But this was a mistake, firstly, he hurt the fragile pride of the French, and secondly, he should have remembered that the blue Marx medal that every German soldier wanted to wear around his neck was still engraved in French.

Thankfully, he hasn't gotten the Blue Marx yet......

Of course, the others were not as careless as he was about the face of the French, but they did not offer any reason - except for Lieutenant Malinov of the Russian Army. Due to the simple and basic fact that France was an ally of Russia and, more importantly, His Majesty the Tsar needed francs to maintain his rule, the lieutenant had not yet had the guts to provoke a French major, so he explained to the major in stammering French before starting to use his native language that he would have to use Russian for the rest of the discussion because of his poor French.

Actually, it didn't make much sense, and the lieutenant's French skills were not as bad as he had suggested, and there were many times when he already knew what the French major was talking about before the translation paraphrased, but the referees and observers who were busy accusing the Americans did not pay attention to this, only Yi Shui and Mahan noticed it, but they did not intend to dismantle Malinov.

They expressed only limited sympathy for the French major's plight, and the other person who made them feel worthy of sympathy was Yuan Shikai: in fact, he did not need to ask for so many translators. Although he didn't have to pay for them, except for the French translator and the German translator, everyone else seemed too amateurish, and the professional military terms mentioned by the officers were either mistranslated or deliberately not translated, and Yi Shui was not sure how much Yuan Shikai understood at all.

Of course, it's better that he doesn't figure out anything.

Yi Shui felt that he should test it. "Lord Yuan, I want to know, what do you think of this confrontation exercise?"

Yuan Shikai slowly turned his head, glanced at him strangely, and asked rhetorically, "General Yi really wants to know the opinion of this official?" ”

Yi Shui was stunned for a moment. On the one hand, he didn't understand why Yuan Shikai called him "General", there was a difference of two ranks between lieutenant colonel and brigadier general, and he was used to this difference; On the other hand, why does Yuan Shikai feel that he doesn't really want to know his opinion? His rhetorical question seems completely illogical, but this kind of thing doesn't usually happen to an experienced Chinese bureaucrat.

With a little confusion, he nodded slightly. "Yes, I want to know."

"Actually, it doesn't matter what the official thinks." It was still a confusing statement, making Yi Shui feel that he had realized that the issue of military advisers had already been determined at a higher level, and what happened below was just some symbolic cutscenes. However, Qin Lang does not seem to have reached any agreement with the Qing government - if there is, at least he will inform Rachel, but there is never such news - what he "realizes" should not exist either.

But Yi Shui's confusion didn't last long, and Yuan Shikai himself revealed the answer. "As far as my own opinion is concerned, as unanimously criticized by the representatives of the nations, the style of your military advisers is really ......," he shook his head, "although they won this exercise, my official really did not dare to compliment them. With a long pause to emphasize his opinion, Yuan Shikai continued, "However, after all, your military advisers have won, even if they are not glorious, according to the orders of the imperial court, the officials can only let them replace the German teachers." ”

That is, the replacement of the German military adviser with Umbrella's military adviser was only due to Beijing's orders and not to his will. Yi Shui felt that he fully understood what Yuan Shikai meant, but at the same time, he also felt that it was just a bargaining technique.

Yi Shui doesn't think there is a single Chinese official who will be influenced by the West's rigid military doctrine – if there is, it will not be Yuan Shikai, as only the officers in the New Army who studied in Germany have this possibility, but they can only provide reference and will not necessarily be adopted.

Because the Manchu government has always pursued pragmatism in its foreign policy, "using razing to control razing" and "mastering the skills of the people to control razing" are never empty words, but guiding theories, although in fact they have never been realized, and they cannot be realized. Yi Shui didn't want to comment on them, he wasn't as harsh as Qin Lang, but using the weapons that the enemy was best at and fighting the way the enemy was best would only bring irreversible defeat, and it would always be.

Yuan Shikai certainly understands such a simple and simple truth -- the exercise has proved this. Of course, he didn't have a choice before, but now, now that he has seen a new "long technique" that is not very glamorous but can indeed "conquer", how can he put it aside?

That's really illogical.

Yi Shui once again confirmed his judgment, Yuan Shikai's statement just now was just a bargaining strategy, because he was here, and a director of Umbrella was here, and he had the opportunity to do so.

So, what does he want?

"Lord Yuan doesn't seem to like our military advisors very much." Yi Shui smiled, "But my opinion is that you should never fight in a way that your enemies are good at. ”

"It's the first time I've heard of it, but it does make sense." Yuan Shikai said.

"Then you should have noticed......" Yi Shui turned his head to look at the referees and observers who were still criticizing the American advisers, and the smile on his face became more obvious, "Our military advisers are able to provide a way of fighting that others are not good at. ”

"That's right." That's true.

"So I don't quite understand why Lord Yuan doesn't like our military advisors."

"The official has already said it just now," after being silent for a while, Yuan Shikai said slowly, "The official's opinion is not important, everything is the meaning of the imperial court. ”

Yes, the meaning of the imperial court. But Yi Shui noticed a small detail, and when Yuan Shikai mentioned the imperial court, his tone became a little strange. Is this a reminder? It's possible. So what does he mean...... Yi Shui thought about it more carefully, and suddenly remembered an important question: the German advisers in the new army were hired by Yuan Shikai himself, while the American military advisers were sent by Beijing after Qin Lang forced Yang Ru to sign the contract, so ......

So Yuan Shikai was not satisfied. His power was offended - although the offender was the imperial court - and Yang Ru certainly did not tell Beijing the real reason for accepting the contract, or Yuan Shikai did not know the real reason, so that he would feel that Yang Ru had done something outside his power, which in officialdom was obviously taboo for officials.

Therefore, Yuan Shikai was not happy, to Yang Ru, to the imperial court, and of course, to Umbrella's military advisers. But this is only a small problem, easy to solve - but not now.

I need a one-on-one meeting. Yi Shui said to himself. (To be continued, if you want to know what will happen next, please log in to the www.qidian.com, more chapters, support the author, support genuine reading!) (To be continued.) )