After coming out of Li Yongji's room, Shi Dakai's mind kept repeating a sentence: "Do you want to be the king...... Do you want to be a king......

Finally, Shi Dakai's footsteps paused, looked up at the clear sky and a few long white clouds, his eyes narrowed, and the corners of his tightly pursed mouth cracked slightly, making a smiling expression.

"Be king...... Of course I thought, who wouldn't want to be king? Shi Dakai said softly in a voice that only he could hear, "Originally, I gave up, I really didn't expect that this majesty would be so open-minded, and it was really right to go to him." ”

Indeed, as a wing king who once created a great name, Shi Dakai is definitely not a willing and insipid character, he also used to have ambitions and ambitions, but all of this has completely become yesterday's yellow flower after the strong rise of the Jingwu Army.

When Shi Dakai first surrendered, he had to do it as a last resort, so he was cautious in doing things, low-key and low-key, lest he be counted by the new dynasty.

In fact, if it had been the Manchu Qing who had come to persuade him to surrender, he would never have surrendered, because surrender would be death. And the surrender of the Han hero Li Yongji, who also rebelled, he was able to reluctantly agree, because in his opinion, there was not much trouble between him and Li Yongji, and they were both Han Chinese, and Li Yongji's reputation was also good, so it was not ashamed to surrender him if there was no way.

But no matter what, he is a general, and he once was crowned king, and he has a large number of protégés, and he belongs to the category of people with serious historical problems, so he is familiar with history books and subconsciously behaves in a low-key manner. I am afraid that someone will unload the mill and kill the donkey, and there will be tragedies such as Han Xin.

When he first surrendered, Shi Dakai had long been afraid to hope for things like fame and fortune. It's good to survive smoothly in the new dynasty.

However, Shi Dakai was only in his early thirties at that time, and he was still in his young age, although he had made up his mind to be a low-key person, the flame in his heart was not extinguished, but he was deliberately suppressed by himself.

So, first, it's for low profile. Second, it was also because of curiosity, curious about how the young Li Yongji could sweep the world in a year or two, so after he surrendered. chose to join the Wehrmacht and became a major general division commander in the Wehrmacht.

The reason why he continues to be a soldier is because Shi Dakai has to take care of his subordinates, after all, many of his subordinates have fought for most of their lives. Nothing but war. didn't want to do anything else, plus the treatment of the Wehrmacht was also good, so for the sake of his subordinates and for himself, he chose to join the Wehrmacht as a major general and division commander.

When he first joined the Wehrmacht, he was still worried, not knowing how the new dynasty would treat these demoted generals, thinking that the other party would trap them in the same way as raising idlers. This is also the best way he can think of to deal with the demo.

But who knows, many military instructors and gendarmes were soon sent from above. With the arrival of these foreign military personnel, new uniforms and weapons have also arrived, and salaries have been paid in full and without deduction...... In short, the new division led by him, except for a few more instructors, seemed to be the same as an ordinary Wehrmacht, with neither special preferential treatment nor special abuse, and truly achieved equal treatment.

From that time on, Shi Dakai began to be serious, not only did he work diligently, seriously learning new tactics and new thinking from the instructors, but also restrained his subordinates and asked them to retrain in strict accordance with the rules of the instructors.

At that time, Shi Dakai told his subordinates that they should start everything from scratch and not play with their past, which was not only for their own safety, but also for everyone's future.

In this way, from Shi Dakai onwards, all the people have put on a correct posture and learned the training methods of the National Defense Force from scratch, whether it is to shoot targets in a queue or to learn basic cultural knowledge, they are very serious, and they belong to the group that has studied the most seriously and has the lowest posture among the generals of the Taiping Army.

In those days of re-study, Shi Dakai's horizons began to get wider and wider, and he finally understood why his people failed, the reason was that their vision was too narrow and they were still following the old combat methods, while the troops led by Li Yongji had truly integrated their tactical methods with international standards, and even reached international leadership.

Not to mention that the weapons of the Wehrmacht far surpass their Taiping Army, even the organizational situation within the Wehrmacht, or the military system, seems strange, but in fact it is for the purpose of giving full play to its own advantages.

In the system of the Imperial Army, whether it is the Praetorian Guard, the Wehrmacht, or even worse the National Guard, they all attach great importance to the training of grassroots officers and the cooperation of small teams, striving to kill and injure a large number of enemies at medium and long distances, and try not to engage in hand-to-hand combat with the enemy, so as to maximize their own firepower superiority.

In other words, the tactical thinking of the Imperial Army is fundamentally different from that of the Taiping Army and the Qing Army, and the biggest difference is that it focuses on long-range damage, and it is necessary to end the battle before hand-to-hand combat, and completely establish victory.

As for the Qing army and the Taiping army, although they were also equipped with a lot of firearms, the final decision on victory was hand-to-hand combat. Therefore, in the battles between the Taiping army and the Qing army in the past, morale was the first element, the number of people was the second, and the quality of weapons could only be ranked third.

Originally, Shi Dakai was still a little vague about the strength of the imperial army, and he always felt that the most important thing in leading troops to fight was high morale, plus a little bit of planning, which is commonly known as the art of war, but when he personally came into contact with the weapons and equipment of the Wehrmacht, his thinking finally changed.

In his opinion, the tactics of the Imperial Army in fighting are not amazing at all, and can even be called rigid, but it is this kind of rigid tactics that contains great power.

At first, he didn't understand, but when he read too much, he suddenly understood the true meaning of war.

It turns out that the root of war, or the core of war, is still national strength and technology, national strength refers to the strategic level, and technology refers to the tactical level.

At the strategic level, if the country is strong, rich and food, and can far surpass the other side, then it will have stronger staying power and can rely on its profound heritage to crush the opponent, which is to suppress others with power.

On a tactical level, too. In the final analysis, it still depends on whether the weapons are advanced or not. Because the weapons are advanced to a certain extent, after forming a technological generation gap with the opponent, then they can achieve an overwhelming advantage in tactics. As long as the difference in strength between the two sides is not too large, the side with advanced weapons will always be able to win.

Even, all tactical tactics and strategies are actually fundamentally centered on weapons and equipment, and the purpose of tactical tactics is to give better play to one's own weapon advantages and offset the opponent's weapon advantages. In order to maximize the damage to the enemy, achieve tactical victory.

Strategy and tactics are mutually influential, and strategic layout can influence local tactics. Local tactics can also affect the strategic layout in turn, and when summed up, it is the so-called war.

Therefore, the most brilliant commander-in-chief. There's no need to play tricks. You only need to manage yourself carefully, let your hard power far surpass yours, calmly layout, and have more chess pieces than you, then he wins.

In front of such a commander with strong strategic advantages, he can even surrender without a fight, so that you have to surrender under strong strength, such as Shi Dakai. It was in this general situation that the Imperial Army had to surrender.

If you can't achieve a strategic height, you can't arrange more chess pieces and backhands in advance. Or when the overall strength is not as good as the opponent, then you can start with tactics, through one tactical victory, destroy the opponent's layout, and turn small victories into big victories, so as to completely transform the winning and losing situation, and finally win.

Shi Dakai carefully looked at Li Yongji's family history, and found that Li Yongji didn't seem to have any special strategic talent, but he had a unique experience in tactics, and he could always win every battle, and finally through one tactical victory after another, he laid a strategic victory, and finally snowballed like a rapid growth, and after he grew stronger, he began to overwhelm people with power, and finally dominated the world in a short period of time.

In the process of Li Yongji's domination of the world, there are not too many tricks, just rely on advanced weapons and tactics to fight you hard, as long as you can't beat him, his advantage will become bigger and bigger.

It can be understood clearly, but this point is exactly what Shi Da can't start school, because those advanced weapons and equipment seem to be only available to Li Yongji, and no one else can give the equipment that Li Yongji took out to be useful.

Therefore, Li Yongji's victory is a victory of technology and a victory of weapons, and he purely relies on weapons and tactics that far surpass the opponent's victory.

Then, after actually joining the National Defense Force, Shi Dakai quickly discovered the horror of this weapon advantage, because after having these advanced weapons, they no longer need to carry their heads to fight with people, they only need to practice how to shoot quickly in peacetime, how to accurately hit the enemy, and victory will be in hand, the next thing you need to worry about is how to quickly catch up with the fleeing enemy, so you also need to strengthen physical training and carry out more armed off-road.

In other words, if you use the weapons and tactics of the Imperial Army, as long as the opponent's weapons are not as good as yours, then the battle will become a light-hearted hunt, and the tactics of cold weapons will completely lose their usefulness in the face of this new type of hot weapon tactics.

This means that if anyone wants to rebel, as long as they do not have enough weapons and equipment comparable to the Imperial Army, then it will only be in vain.

Because in the face of such sharp firearms, any martial arts moves are in vain, and it is impossible for ordinary people to have advanced weapons, especially those cannons, so the imperial army has mastered such powerful weapons, which means that the suppressive strength of the imperial court has been greatly enhanced, and it is basically impossible to break out a rebellion of the scale of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

After understanding this, Shi Dakai completely extinguished the little ambition in his heart, because he knew that in the face of Li Yongji's imperial army that had been piled up by hard power, he would not have any chance at all, even if Li Yongji left, he, the general of the Taiping Army, would not have the slightest chance.

Therefore, from that time on, Shi Dakai put his mind right, no longer seeking power and profit, but just immersed himself in new tactics and new systems, and at the same time began to yearn for the outside world again.

Because Shi Dakai found that the world is not just China, there are more countries outside, with a broader world, and to obtain all this, you must have a strong country as a backer.

After that, Shi Dakai devoted himself to studying, and his thinking changed more and more, but at this time, Li Yongji reactivated him, and through a series of battles, especially after the attack on the Manchu remnants and the Korean state, his status began to rise sharply.

Then, yearning for a broader world, he gave up a stable life and chose to send troops overseas, and what surprised him even more was that he actually met the emperor abroad and found that the other party was willing to put down the throne and send troops overseas in person.

Since then, Shi Dakai has begun to truly admire the founding emperor who is far younger than himself, and he no longer dares to despise the other party, not only for the means of dealing with him, but also for his open-mindedness.

However, at that time, Shi Dakai's mentality had matured, although he admired the emperor, he still remembered his duty, knew that he was a general, and his identity was sensitive, so during the war in North America, he had always been cautious and cautious, and he must seek full blame, for fear that something would go wrong or steal the limelight from the emperor.

It is precisely because of his caution that Shi Dakai has always been very low-key in the entire North American intervention war, and there is basically nothing eye-catching, but he can ensure that there are no problems in the rear, so that when Li Yongji fights in the front, he will ensure that all the previously fought territory is safe and stable, and will not cause trouble to Li Yongji, which in itself shows his strength.

Now, Li Yongji has given him a new choice, that is, either go back with him, continue to develop step by step, and give him the treatment of a lieutenant general; Either stay in North America and, with the help of the Empire, go to Cuba to create a vassal state with strong autonomy.

That's right, Li Yongji clearly told him that he planned to take Cuba after taking the Isthmus of Panama, but he did not intend to treat it as a direct colony of the empire, but planned to separate Cuba and become an overseas vassal country dependent on the empire.

In other words, Li Yongji didn't want to really give up everything in North America, and wanted to continue to maintain the influence of the Chinese Empire here, but he couldn't stay here forever, so he wanted to leave a strong person to suppress here, and this candidate was Shi Dakai.

Here, Cuba's strategic position is extremely important, as long as Cuba is mastered, the Caribbean Sea is mastered, plus the upcoming Panama Canal and the greater Houston area that is about to be acquired, this is equivalent to completely mastering the throat of the world!

However, although this place is quite important, after all, it is far from the Chinese homeland, which is not very attractive to homesick Chinese, and normally not many people are willing to stay here for a long time.

Therefore, in order to win and completely protect this empire's very important overseas colonies in the future, Li Yongji did not hesitate to take out a throne as a bargaining chip, just to make people come over willingly to sell their lives.

This is like asking a Chinese living in modern society, the boss lets you go to Africa to work, if there is no high salary, how many people are willing to leave their familiar hometown and go to work in distant Africa.

In short, the proposal of the king of the foreign land is both an opportunity and a test for Shi Dakai, as Li Yongji said to Shi Dakai, if you want to wear the crown, you must bear its weight!

After thinking about it, Shi Dakai smiled slightly: "Hehe, if you want to wear a crown, you must bear its weight, it's really good." Anyway, I don't have anything to be nostalgic for in China, and if I want to continue to go up, there will be too many people who are not satisfied, and I will definitely suffer all kinds of criticism and constraints.

The eldest husband should be high-spirited, instead of looking at people's faces so unhappily, it is really better to give it a go in this overseas place, and it will not be in vain for me to come out and go this way. (To be continued......)