"What? Do you want to work for me? No more nations? ”

"That's right."

"Why?"

"Why, that's a real problem." Skerst smiled slightly, "Maybe I think you're more promising here." ”

"That's not a good answer." Li Yongji shook his head, "It's hard to convince me, well, you won't be entertaining me, right?" ”

"How could it be, in my current situation, how dare I entertain you."

"Huh." Li Yongji just smiled, but didn't speak again, but his eyes narrowed, deliberately giving people a very dangerous feeling.

"What I just said is true." Scist immediately said, "I have been defeated and become your prisoner, and you will not let those soldiers go, if I am only allowed to go back, I will have no future in the United States, and I may even be used as a scapegoat and sent to a military tribunal, after all, the current United States is not the United States of the past." ”

"You mean, you're afraid of Lincoln?" Li Yongji asked.

"Yes, I'm afraid of him." Scester sighed, "Seriously, this Mr. President has been getting more and more authoritarian lately, and it's always hard to listen to other people's opinions.

To tell you the truth, as early as a few months ago, General Mead proposed to abandon Nashville, let the defenders of Nashville withdraw on their own, and then concentrate on shrinking the defense and recovering its vitality.

If that were to happen, my legion would not have come to this unsafe Smithland, but would have defended at Portsmouth (in this case, Portsmouth, Ohio, an important city along the Ohio River, known for being easy to defend and difficult to attack), in which case you would not be able to succeed lightly. Unfortunately, Mr. President disagreed, and he insisted on keeping Nashville, and ordered my legions to move westward in order to open the line of communication to rescue Nashville.

Mr. President's order turned out to be a rotten idea. If it weren't for his insistence, I wouldn't be where I am today, so Mr. President is the culprit.

However, the White House is now above Congress and the courts. No one will, or dare to question the president's orders, so the president can't be wrong, then the fault must be me, it's me who lost the entire Ohmet regiment.

I can imagine that. If you let me go and don't let the lads go home, Mr. Lincoln would certainly put me court-martialed to appease the anger of the people, and I would not only be stained, but my whole family would suffer.

So, thinking about it, I don't think it's a good idea to go back. Or go with you to the west and play for you, that's the best way to do it right now. ”

"That's a reasonable reason." Li Yongji nodded, "Then, if you come with me, won't your family suffer?" ”

"Well, at least my clan will have a buffer time to escape the United States." "As long as you don't let me go back and don't pass on the news of my surrender in advance, then I'll still be your captive." Under these circumstances, Mr. Lincoln could not have done anything to my family.

Since I have surrendered to you to serve you, you will certainly not embarrass me. It's easy to find someone to send a message to my family or something, so that my family can quietly leave in advance and move to your territory.

Well, though, for the sake of stealth and speed. Like land and real estate, I definitely can't take it away, and I don't dare to sell it, but my family has a group training, money doesn't matter, life is the most important thing, as long as people are there, it's not a problem. ”

"I see." Li Yongji nodded, "Then the second question, why should I take you in?" Or rather, do you have anything that deserves me to take you in? ”

"Intelligence." "After all, I am a high-ranking military officer in the United States of America, and I know a lot of internal military intelligence of the United States, such as the important strategic deployment of some federal forces, and the personality of the other party's commander and the characteristics of leading troops. Believe me, with my intelligence support, you will definitely have an advantage in fighting the Federation Army again. ”

"But the problem is that I can't necessarily trust your information." Li Yongji shook his head, "Who knows if you deliberately gave me false information so that my people could be fooled." ”

"It's okay." "You can send someone to verify the information I gave, and I believe that with my information, your intelligence collection process will be reduced by at least half of the workload, and it will be easier to find the real target." ”

"But if that's it, it doesn't impress me." Li Yongji shook his head.

"Plus, I can help reassure the military." "I can make my soldiers, your captives, stop complaining, stop causing trouble for you, and even help you suppress the place, right?" ”

"It's still not enough." Li Yongji continued to shake his head.

"Not enough?" Skerst frowned, "What do you think of this, how about I give Pittsburgh to you?" ”

"You gave me Pittsburgh?" Li Yongji's eyes flashed, "How to give?" ”

"Huh." Skerst smiled, "You may not know, but my family also has a big business in Pittsburgh, and it's in the arms business. So, if I write a letter to my family, and then you find a way to get the letter sent there, then my men can act as an internal response, and when your troops reach the periphery of Pittsburgh, my men can open the gates in advance, destroy important defensive points, and even capture the commanders of the opposing side and cause chaos for their troops. In short, I can let my people join you in and take Pittsburgh in one fell swoop, and save you a lot of unnecessary losses, which is enough, right? ”

"If that's the case, that's certainly enough." Li Yongji nodded, "But forgive me for taking the liberty of being presumptuous, I should be regarded as an aggressor, why did you surrender to me, the aggressor, and betray your motherland instead?" ”

"Motherland? Do you mean the United States of America? Skerst smiled, "No, no, no, the United States is not my homeland, my ancestors are Germans, well, even I, I was born in Bavaria, not the United States, we are immigrant families." To put it bluntly, the United States of America is just a country for which I work, if this country can't give me what I want. If you want to hurt me even more, then it's normal to give up this country that I don't deserve to serve. ”

"Well, to put it simply. It's just that you are not optimistic about the United States, so you don't want to stay in the same boat with the United States anymore. ”

"Yes, that's right." Skester nodded, "Your analogy is apt, the American ship is no longer good. I don't need to stay on this sinking ship, on the contrary, if I find another way to survive before the ship sinks, that is the right choice, otherwise, when the ship sinks, it will be impossible to find another way to survive. ”

"Why do you think the United States will lose now?" Li Yongji was puzzled, "After all, the population and industrial capacity of the United States far exceed that of the South, and its potential is greater than that of the South. Although you have suffered a series of defeats now, the United States still has a very strong foundation, doesn't it? How do you think this ship will sink? ”

"Are you kidding me?" Scrutter.

"Why, I'm asking very seriously." Li Yongji said.

"Well, since you're serious, then I'll answer seriously." Scist thought for a moment, then said, "Indeed, United States, um. Purely looking at the population and industrial capacity, the north is indeed much stronger than the south, so if we only deal with the southerners, we will not win now. Sooner or later, it will be won, this is the consensus of most people at the beginning of the war.

However, the opponents of the United States now are not only the southerners, but also you Chinese, British and French.

Britain and France are recognized as first-class powers, and neither of them can be dealt with lightly by the United States of America. Not to mention the fact that the two countries joined forces.

As for you Chinese, well, to be honest, before the fight, most of us underestimated your combat effectiveness, and thought that you were still the same China as before, so even if we heard a lot of rumors about you, it still didn't take it seriously.

But what I didn't expect was that it was you who struck first, but the British and French, whom the United States valued the most, did so late.

What I didn't expect was that your combat effectiveness was so strong, you took New Orleans in one battle, and then went north along the Mississippi River, defeated the most powerful ironclad fleet on the Mississippi River, and completely wiped out the Grant Legion, which President Lincoln valued the most.

And that's not all, after destroying Grant's legion, you continue to occupy Memphis and threaten Nashville, so that the entire lower Mississippi River is under your control, and our Western Theater is in name only.

In fact, by that time, you had already attracted our great attention, and we were very surprised, after all, it was you who had crushed and annihilated the Western Theater of Operations, which the United States had painstakingly managed, and gave the Allied Powers the greatest strategic buffer.

Of course, the above is only from a strategic point of view, and I have heard most of them in the past, but after actually fighting you, I will know that your victory is not a fluke, but is not at the same level as our army.

What do you think your army has? Almost every soldier has a light and fierce repeating gun, the whole army rides in an automatic car that is faster than a galloping horse, and the artillery is also light and fierce, so it can be said that you have completely suppressed us in terms of firepower and mobility.

To put it mildly, when I was captured, I thought a lot about it, and the result was that in the previous war, even if you didn't play anything by surprise and attacked us from behind, we were far from being opponents in terms of your firepower and mobility.

In the face of your weapons and equipment, the number of people is not a problem at all, to put it bluntly, you 30,000 people can completely confront ten or even twenty times the US army.

Why? Because no army can confront you tactically, and the density of the number of people on the battlefield is limited, but on the local battlefield, your firepower is dozens or even hundreds of times more than ours, plus your organic and powerful automatic vehicles, so it is impossible to surround you, so this battle is simply impossible to fight.

Although my Ohio regiment has a lot of recruits, in the current alliance army, it can be regarded as a top five powerful army, and even my army can't block your blow, and it can't even cause you much loss, so you can imagine how other American troops will face you.

Whether it is population or industry, in the final analysis, it is necessary to transform into an army with combat effectiveness to defend against foreign enemies, and if you can't stop you at all, then population and industrial strength are a joke.

Of course, your troops also have a weakness, that is, they rely more on logistics than our American troops, after all, your firepower is built up by ammunition.

However, you have mastered the Mississippi and Ohio rivers, and your fleet is invincible on the rivers, so if you use the rivers, you should have better logistics than we do, so that your firepower can be continuously replenished.

Take this snowstorm as an example, in the face of this sudden extremely cold weather, even the US military will have a large area of attrition, but you actually relied on the abundant materials to make people jealous, to resist this severe cold, this kind of supply capacity, far from the US army can compare.

In short, you have far more powerful firepower, powerful mobility and supply capacity than the U.S. military, I really can't think of any way for the U.S. army to stop you, and since you can't stop you, when you continue to advance along the Ohio River, break Pittsburgh, cut off the most important U.S. arms production base, and even enter Philadelphia, then the U.S. will lose the ability to resist, because they can no longer produce enough weapons, and the soldiers without weapons will face your powerful firepower. It's just a massacre. ”

Speaking of this in one breath, Skest seemed to have a dry mouth, so he simply picked up half a cup of coffee on the table and drank it all, and after moistening his throat a little, he asked Li Yongji: "Is there anything else?" ”

"Yes, of course." Li Yongji smiled, "But I don't want to drink coffee, that thing doesn't quench your thirst, but the more you drink, the more thirsty you get, well, drink this." ”

After speaking, Li Yongji directly threw a bottle of bottled water with the label removed to Skerst.

"Huh?" After Skerst took the bottle of mineral water, he didn't drink it immediately, but looked at it repeatedly, "What kind of bottle is this?" Is it glass? But warmer than glass. ”

"It's a plastic bottle, not a glass bottle, not afraid of falling, but afraid of heat." Li Yongji said, "Okay, unscrew the cap, and you can drink water." ”

Surely, Skerst unscrewed the cap of the bottle as he said, took a sip carefully, felt that it was no problem, and took a few more sips before stopping.

"Hey, what a luxury." Skerst shook his head, "Using such a good bottle to hold water, the extravagance of your Chinese army is really infuriating." ”

"It's not always like that." Li Yongji waved his hand, "Okay, you said so much, I probably understand, that is, you are determined to defect to me and turn your back on your motherland, is that so?" ”

"Again, I'm not turning my back! Not even more betrayal! "I once led my troops to fight until the last moment, I did not flee, nor did I passively resist, on the contrary, I did my duty, and I was captured in desperation." So, I have fulfilled my duty to the United States of America, and even if I do not owe allegiance to the United States now, I have a clear conscience. (To be continued.) )xh118R1052