Just when King Victor Emanuel II of Italy was ready to make a fortune on the London stock exchange and play a big move that would make the tickets fly from the treasury into his pocket, he didn't want to suddenly kill a team of people on the way, and Hula began to buy Italian national debt.

At first, King Victor Emanuel II hadn't figured it out, and thought it was his agent who hadn't figured out what was going on. "Nima's, Lao Tzu still has several tricks to suppress the price of national bonds, but I haven't used it." It took most of the day to understand that someone had cut off his beard. And those guys have plenty of financial resources, and if they don't keep up, I'm afraid that the big head will be taken away.

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Not to mention the destruction of Italy's national debt, the thing that makes Scrooge and Dorothea happiest now is that the first golden ship has finally arrived in New York. Duck Castle was originally on the seashore, and Scrooge bought a piece of land nearby and built a marina. Nominally, this is a marina, but in fact, the more important role is to be used as a dock for the golden boats.

At noon on June 26, three days after the legendary defeat in Italy, a strangely shaped ship appeared in the nearby sea.

The boat has a very large aspect ratio of 12 and looks like a competing kayak when viewed from above. A ship of less than 2,000 tons, but made so slender and long, is naturally able to run faster. Generally speaking, the more slender the boat, the lower the resistance and the faster it can run. But on the other hand, the more slender the vessel, the worse the stability, the worse the seaworthiness, and the smaller the load.

Not only is the ship large in length-to-width, but it is also peculiar in appearance, except for the tall mast on the deck, everything else such as the bridge is low and obviously inclined inward, which is also designed to achieve a higher degree.

The excessively large aspect ratio made the steering control of this ship very poor, and it was not a difficult thing for a two-thousand-ton ship to dock, but it took a full two hours for the ship to dock.

As soon as the boat came ashore, Blackwater's guards immediately surrounded it. Then more than a dozen small boxes were slowly moved out of the boat, and more than a dozen carriages waiting next to them were injured. Then the guards got into the carriages and escorted them to the harbor.

These chests contained gold from Alaska. It's just that this gold was not directly sent to the underground treasure house of Duck Castle, because these boxes are not authentic gold bricks, but completely natural gold, most of which are golden sand, of course, there are also large pieces, and in one of the boxes, all the natural pieces of gold, that is, the so-called dog's head gold.

With the exception of some collectible dog-head gold, the rest of the gold was first sent to be processed into gold bricks before being sent to underground vaults. The three tonnes of gold will be the first collection in the underground vault of Duck Castle.

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"General, our troops and the Prussians had a contact war, and we judged that it was the Prussian Second Army and the Elbe Army." An officer reported to General Benedek.

"Where is it?" General Benedek asked.

"Here, and here." The officer quickly marked the location of the Prussian army on the map.

Unlike in history, because the current Austria is very concerned about the new technology that appeared in the Civil War after suffering the loss of high technology last time, the use of wire telegraph by the North and South armies is one of them. Therefore, today's Austrians have a better understanding of the situation on the battlefield than they did in the past.

"Suddenly their movements have accelerated." General Benedek said.

Before the war began, to be honest, although Bismarck and the Dauphin believed that Prussia had the strength to defeat Austria, the king, and the Junker officers, were still terrified of fighting Austria. The reason for this is simple: Austria has been the big brother of the German states since the Middle Ages, and the Habsburgs have been the legitimacy of the Holy Roman Empire since the 15th century. Well, though, the Holy Roman Empire is neither sacred, nor Roman, nor Empire. But its prestige, used to scare the Prussians of the Junkers is still more than enough. So now, although Prussia has obvious advantages in terms of industrial strength, weapons and equipment, and personnel training, those Junkers can't understand how much stronger they have become, and they still feel that the Habsburg big brother is powerful and domineering, and when they hear that they are going to fight Austria, they feel cramps in their legs and stomachs. In fact, it is not surprising that even in the current information age, there are still a large number of people who are still stuck in the 80s who think that Japan's strength is the first in Asia? Only Bismarck and the crown prince, who had always lived in England and were accustomed to seeing the British not treating Austria as a bird, felt that Austria was nothing.

It was precisely because of the reverence that both the Second Army led by the King of Prussia and the Elbe Army commanded by the Junker officers were cowering when they marched towards Austria, and the advance was always very slow, especially compared with the First Army of the Crown Prince, which was as slow as a snail. Moltke, the chief of the general staff behind him, gave them twelve gold medals in one day, oh no, it was twelve orders to urge the army, and they were able to move.

But whether it's the king or the Junkers, the bun Karl? Seaward? Feng? Marshal Bidefey still understands military affairs, and they also know that when they are in the mountains of Tongguò, they are most likely to be broken by each other, so they are not slow to run through the mountains. This slow and fast action did not allow the Austrians to act.

"Where is the 1st Army of Prussia?" General Benedek asked again.

"General, in this position." The officer immediately marked the location of the 1st Prussian Army on the map.

"Well, now, these three regiments of Prussia are out of the range of communication by wire, and the communication between them can only be by means of the communication cavalry running back, running to the nearest cable telegraph office and transmitting the news back, and then by their staff headquarters to the nearest telegraph office, and then by cavalry to send the telegram to the troops. Now, you calculate, if we concentrate our forces on the Prussian Second Army, how long will it take for the rest of his troops to know about this? General Benedek said.

The staff officers were busy on the map, and after a while one of the staff officers reported back:

"General, if the 1st Prussian Army continues to move in this direction, it will take them at least three days or more to know."

"After three days, the 1st Prussian Army turned to us, how long will it take to reach the battlefield?"

"At least two days." The staff officer replied.

"Good, so we have five days." General Benedek said, "Immediately make a plan, we will first concentrate our forces against the Prussian Second Army, the one that the Prussian king himself leads." This army had about 70,000 men, and we had 240,000 troops, and we were trying to kill them in five days, and then we would take out the rest of the Elbe Army while holding off the Prussian First Army. Then we win! ”

If Scrooge was here and saw this scene, he would definitely laugh. General Benedek's arrangement was not wrong, it was just that he did not know that there was also a good thing in the world called wireless telegraphy.

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"The Second Army was besieged by the main forces of the Austrian army? That's great! When he received the news that the Second Army was besieged by the main Austrian army, Moltke, the chief of staff of the Prussian army, was excited, "immediately call the crown prince and ask him to lead the First Army to kill from the flank and rear to cut off the supply and retreat of the Austrian army!" ”

"Hehe, in this way, in this battle, I can really achieve the most ideal combat state of 'strategically attacking, combating defense'." Moltke thought, and was proud that this fight would become such a classic.

Clausewitz mentioned in his "On War" that in most cases, defense is a more advantageous mode of warfare than offense. And since the rear-loading rifle became popular, especially after the Yankees made such a thing as trench warfare, the advantages of defensive warfare over offensive warfare have become more obvious. At present, the side that takes the initiative to attack will have to pay huge sacrifices. In this battle, Prussia was the one who took the initiative to attack, although the army was better trained and more advanced, but if it attacked hard, I am afraid it would also suffer heavy losses, even if it could win in the end, it would definitely be a disastrous victory. For this reason, Moltke, Bismarck, and the crown prince discussed together for a long time, and under the guidance of Blackwater's advisory group, they put forward such an operational idea that the strategy is offensive and the battle is defensive.

Now the Austrian army was besieging the Second Corps, which was on the defensive. Although the Second Army was smaller in number than the Austrians, it was not so easy to eat by virtue of the natural superiority of the defenders. And the First Army would come to the rescue far beyond what the Austrians had expected. When the time came, the 110,000 men of the 1st Army blocked the rear of the Austrians and cut off their supplies. The Austrians will either run out of ammunition themselves, or they will break through from the side of the 1st Army, well, and then the Prussian army will defend and the Austrians will attack. In this way, the Austrians, who were obviously in a major defensive battle, had no opportunity to take advantage of the advantages of the defensive war at all, but needed to constantly attack the Prussian defensive positions. It's simply ...... It's bullying. Moltke, having arranged the deployment of the campaign, sent a telegram to the king informing him of his present situation, and finally Moltke said: "I believe that the enemy has completely fallen into our trap, and victory in the whole war is at hand." ”

On the same day, Moltke also wrote this sentence in his diary: "Science and technology are the first combat strength. ”

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