When the envoy of the United States of America, Anson Po, escorted by a troop of cavalry, finally came to Smithland, but what he saw was a scene that stunned him.

I saw that the originally dense riverside forest had turned into lumps of wooden stakes one after another, and not far away, there were groups of white people everywhere, holding some strange tools that they had never seen before, shouting and shouting to cut down trees and transport wood, which clearly showed that it was a large-scale logging operation in full swing.

These white lumberjacks were not only numerous, but also highly organized and disciplined, and at first glance they came from the army.

This group of lumberjacks is from a soldier's background, which Pu Anchen has already seen, and the logging efficiency is high, which Pu Anchen is not surprised, after all, the advanced tools of the Chinese, he has already heard of it, even if he has never seen those logging things......

What really surprised Pu Anchen was that these loggers were obviously Americans, and they were prisoners of the Chinese, which can be seen from the nearby Chinese guards with loaded guns, but the problem is that these white captives not only did not have restraint tools such as handcuffs and shackles, but also seemed to be quite happy, and there was singing and laughing everywhere, which was completely unscientific.

Are you prisoners, prisoners captured by the Chinese, right? Shouldn't it be sad and sad? But what's the matter with being so happy? Thanks to me along the way, I was still thinking about how to get you back, but you were singing and working at the same time, is it so open to be a prisoner of the Chinese?

Although there are many questions, Pu Anchen also understands that he is now a special envoy for negotiations, and he must pay attention to rules in everything he does, especially when it comes to other people's territory...... At least now it's someone else's territory, even more so.

No, in the space where Pu Anchen was contemplatively observing, his chief guard had already led a Chinese officer over, and this person Pu Anchen knew. It was one of the translators and contacts on the other side.

The Chinese translator was very young, only about 20 years old, and as you could tell from the fluffy mustache at the corner of his mouth, he was a typical little guy who didn't have a full beard.

Although the other party is too young, Pu Anchen does not dare to stand up to this little guy dressed in flowers, except that he is now asking for the other party, the most important thing is that his special envoy for negotiations has been surrounded by Chinese, all under the control of the other party!

In fact, it is not so much that their special mission has come on its own. It is better to be escorted, because as early as when they arrived more than fifty kilometers outside the city of Smithland, they were captured by a Chinese convoy.

Pu Anchen still remembers that when his envoy group was on the way, a group of Chinese soldiers suddenly jumped out from the side of the road, dressed in colorful clothes and with strange oil paint on their faces.

The number of these Chinese soldiers was not large, only about ten people, but they generously held the strange weapons in their hands, and they were not afraid of their own fifty-odd people at all. Blatantly pulled out a strange horn and drank in English to stop himself and be examined by them.

One of their leaders also opened fire for the demonstration. With the weapon in his hand, he pointed at the ground in front of his team.

When the sound of the shooting passed, even Pu Anchen could clearly see that a continuous burst of smoke and dust was shot on the ground where the Chinese were demonstratively shot. It proves that the short-barreled weapon held by the opponent is a rapid-fire weapon that can fire continuously, and the firepower is even more fierce than your own Gatling gun, which is probably the legendary Type 56 submachine gun.

After that firing demonstration. The Chinese continued to use that little trumpet to warn in a not very pure English, asking their people to raise their hands, accept their inspection and interrogation in a proper manner, and dare to make any abnormal moves, and immediately kill them.

Hearing this, Pu Anchen decisively ordered everyone to raise their hands obediently, and then quietly waited for the other party to send a young man to search and interrogate, and when the young man came over, Pu Anchen suddenly found that not only were the outcropping Chinese soldiers still carefully aiming at themselves with weapons, but even on both sides of the road, there seemed to be more Chinese soldiers lurking.

It's just that those lurking Chinese soldiers seem to be wearing a layer of camouflage clothing, and from a distance they look like a pile of grass or a pile of stones, and they can't be noticed lightly at all, and only when they walk in, can they see that they are some soldiers with weapons.

This can't help but make Pu Anchen marvel, the Chinese's camouflage ability is really strong, no wonder until the other party jumped out, he and others found that they were surrounded.

And at this time, he also understood why the clothes on those Chinese were so strange, speckled like beggars' clothes, and their faces were painted with black oil paint, which turned out to be a camouflage color, just like those indigenous Indians.

Fortunately, due to Pu Anchen's cooperation, there was no unpleasantness between the two sides, and when the other side found out that he was a special envoy for negotiations sent by the United States, he also paid considerable attention to it.

Pu Anchen found that when the other party understood that he was a special envoy, the young soldier who came to check and interrogate suddenly lowered his head and spoke Chinese to a small black box on his shoulder, and when the other party spoke, the small black box actually made a sound, and it was also in Chinese.

Although Pu Anchen made up some Chinese during this period, he could only use some basic polite words, such as hello thank you, but like the other party's normal speech, he couldn't understand it, and could only hear whether the other party was speaking Chinese or English.

Although he couldn't understand what the other party was saying, this scene still had a great impact on Pu Anchen, because he soon realized that the soldier who was talking with his head down was definitely not talking to himself, but talking to his partner in the back on the small black box hanging on Tong Guò's shoulder!

To put it bluntly, the small black box on the other party's shoulder is the legendary radio intercom of the Chinese, which can be connected without wires and can freely talk to others through guò air!

Lincoln attached great importance to this negotiation with the Chinese, so while selecting reliable negotiators, he also sent as much information about China as he could hear, and Pu Anchen also paid attention to collecting this knowledge, so he could understand what the thing on the shoulders of Chinese soldiers was the first time.

Since the Chinese fought against the United States, although many places are still covered by mystery due to many secrecy measures taken by the Chinese, some basic things still cannot be hidden.

For example, the Chinese have automatic weapons that fire continuously, and for example, the Chinese have ironclad cars that can walk automatically without horses. For example, those huge pure steel warships and so on.

Compared with those well-known Chinese conventional weapons, the communication ability of the Chinese has also received considerable attention, because a lot of intelligence shows that the Chinese have a device that does not require wires, only passes through the air, and can freely talk to other people, which allows the Chinese to get the intelligence support of the people around them all the time, and greatly improves the command ability of Chinese officers and the ability to coordinate troops.

Although it is not clear how the Chinese did it, according to those scientists in the United States, it should be a wireless application of wired telegraphy. It is not some magical magic, it can only be said that the Chinese have mastered a higher level of telegraph communication technology and applied this technology in actual combat.

Lincoln attached great importance to this novel radio communication technology, and once let his subordinates try to figure out the secrets, but unfortunately, the Chinese did a good job of secrecy, plus they have always been on the winning side, and can clean the battlefield freely, so today. The American spies still have no clue about this new technology and equipment, and at most they can hear some hearsay from the vicinity of the Chinese army.

But it was these hearsay rumors that made Lincoln even more worried.

As a partner and friend of President Lincoln. Pu Anchen understood Lincoln's concern, because in Lincoln's view, compared to the advanced firearms of the Chinese, this kind of thing could communicate over long distances without wires. It's the really scary stuff.

The reason is that with this kind of long-distance communication guy, the area that Chinese can control can be greatly increased. It is also possible to rule the outlying areas more effectively.

This is not difficult to understand, because assuming that Chinese can easily understand the situation in remote areas and can respond in real time, then the control will exceed that of those who cannot understand the border in time, and if it is combined with an efficient transportation system, such as railways, highways and ocean rivers, it can respond in a timely and effective manner, and the local control will naturally be greatly enhanced.

Especially now, the Chinese are far away in Asia, but they want to send troops to interfere with themselves far away in North America, and it is said that their side should have a greater intelligence advantage and be able to make adjustments in time, but if the Chinese can talk to the rear in time and even use the radio communication system to connect the occupied strongholds of all sides, then the Americans' local intelligence advantage will be lost, and they will greatly lag behind in the movement and mobility of troops.

Both Pu Anchen and Lincoln have reason to believe that the previous failures must be related to the intelligence superiority of the Chinese, otherwise they would not have fought so smoothly every time.

In any case, Pu Anchen used to hear about this mysterious radio communicator, and it was the first time he actually saw it, which also raised his evaluation of the strength of the Chinese to a higher level.

When the Chinese spoke to the wireless communicator on his shoulder, soon an open-top four-wheeled automatic car drove behind, with only three people on it, one of them was obviously the driver of the car, and another machine gunner standing behind the car with both hands firmly holding a machine gun, only the man next to the driver wearing a big cap and four bars on his shoulder, at first glance was a senior officer.

Sure enough, the car quickly stopped, and the officer got out of the car, and with the help of an interpreter, claimed to be some sergeant major (here the sergeant major generally refers to the platoon leader), the head of the unit.

After that, he explained his intention to the sergeant major, and after the other party reconfirmed, he asked everyone to listen to him, automatically hand over all weapons, and accept body searches, and only when they were sure that everyone was safe, they would take themselves to the base, and during the period, they must completely obey their commands, and they should not run around casually.

Pu Anchen agreed to these insulting demands, because he understood that people were now under the roof, and these people were obviously just some grassroots leaders, and it was completely useless to reason with them.

In this way, after undergoing a strict search and inspection, and handing over all the weapons, their envoy group obediently followed behind the other party's vehicle, escorted by a group of Chinese soldiers, and re-embarked on the journey, and finally came to this logging site to stop, and saw a surprising scene.

The reason for stopping at this logging site was mainly because of the speed of travel, because Anson was the special envoy for the plenipotentiary negotiations. also has a team, so naturally there must be the pomp and etiquette of the envoy.

In other words, the Chinese should not casually take the special envoy into the car and take it away, regardless of the others, but should escort the special envoy and let the special envoy go to the Chinese camp in its own way and meet with their own high-level officials, which is an attitude of mutual respect.

However, after all, it is still more than fifty kilometers away from the main camp in Smithland, and it is of course a quick car ride. But if they relied on horses or carriages, the speed was not much faster, and Pu Anchen and the others were also quite tired along the way, so they arranged for them to go to a nearby lumber yard to rest temporarily, and then set off again when they were rested.

For the arrangement of the Chinese, Pu Anchen is still very satisfied, after all, they have indeed walked very hard this way, and Pu Anchen is really tired and hungry. I'd really like to find a place to take a break.

In addition, although the guards were still cautiously watching themselves, they were obviously much more polite to themselves, not as arrogant and disdainful as before. Instead, they maintained a basic respect in the midst of arrogance, and as for the translators and officers they approached with them, the smiles on their faces increased a lot. No longer with a straight face like before.

Pu Anchen observed his words and realized that the reason why this unit was suddenly so friendly to him was that he had received instructions from the upper echelons through the radio intercom. It is the people above who ask them to treat themselves well, and this can be seen from the side that the high-ranking officers of this Chinese army still attach great importance to their own line.

While Pu Anchen was thinking, the young translator had already walked in front of Pu Anchen, and he greeted Pu Anchen with a smile and said hello politely, which explained his intention.

"Well, our commander-in-chief, considering that the distance from here to our main camp is too long, more than fifty kilometers, and the road is not very easy to walk, so he wants me to ask, would you be interested in taking our car to the camp?"

"In your car?"

"Yes." The interpreter nodded, "If you continue to ride horses or ride in your carriages, it will take you more than half a day to reach our main camp, and it is already afternoon, and at your normal pace, I am afraid it will be difficult to arrive before evening."

But if you take our car, it will take less than two hours to reach our campsite.

When the time comes, you will not only be able to meet our commander more quickly and easily, but you will also be able to take a break and have dinner with the commander by the way.

Of course, the above is only our private construction, it is not mandatory, if you insist on using your way of travel, we have no opinion, and respect your choice, but I am afraid that the meeting time will be changed to tomorrow. ”

"That's right." Pu Anchen frowned, "The car you are talking about is the kind of automatic car you ride in that can walk automatically without horses?" ”

"Yes, that's it." The young interpreter nodded, "But you're not in one of those open-top light vehicles, but in large trucks with a canopy, well, the kind over there." ”

Pu Anchen followed the translator's finger, and sure enough, he saw a huge green vehicle parked not far away, much larger than those small convertibles, and indeed had a shed, which looked very reliable.

"Well, not bad." The young translator smiled, "That kind of car can not only withstand the wind and snow outside, but also has a warm wind inside, it is not cold at all inside, and it is not very bumpy, it is very comfortable, you can try it." ”

"Got it." Pu Anchen nodded, "You mean that with this kind of car, we can arrive in less than two hours?" ”

"Yes." The young translator nodded, "This kind of Thunder Dragon Military Truck has been modified, and the original wheels have become triangular tracks, and the speed of the vehicle is a little slower than the original, but on the road like this neighborhood, it is still easy to walk forty or fifty kilometers an hour on average."

And it's only about 50 kilometers from our main camp, so I say that it won't take two hours, it's absolutely enough. In fact, if you go fast, it may be an hour. ”

"Oh, that's fast." "So, can all of us ride in this kind of car?" Or am I the only one? ”

"Everyone, of course." The young interpreter laughed, "There are only fifty of you, and we can pull them all away in one car." Of course, given your position, we have prepared a convoy for you to transport you in two such trucks, which will make you feel more comfortable. ”

"Alright then, since you're so hearty, let's take a truck like yours." Pu Anchen smiled, "It's just right, I also want to try how different your automatic car is from a horse-drawn carriage." ”

"Then you can rest assured." The young translator straightened his chest and said proudly, "As long as you have taken it once, you will know that our truck, absolutely the best means of transportation in the world, is the cutting-edge work of modern science, what kind of horse-drawn carriage and the like, compared with these automatic trucks, there is no comparison at all, it is not a grade at all!" ”

"Yes." Pu Anchen nodded noncommittally, "Then I'll wait and see." (To be continued......)