Any gamer has a penchant for collecting famous generals.

However, reality is not a game.

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"Every student at West Point, and every student at the Virginia Military Academy, has a roster in my hand," said Ikaruga, "and my people have visited them!" ”

"Then your heart is too fragile," said Grant, "and I think that a truly strong man should respect his opponents, even if they are enemies of each other, and defeat them from the front, like a man, rather than sneaking up on assassination or framing them." ”

"Do you think I'm a strong man?" Turtledove asked.

"In this world, if even a person like you can't be called strong, I don't know who else is qualified to call himself that." Grant said.

"Really?"

Grant was stunned for a moment and said, "If it weren't for you, the Indians would be slaves like those blacks, instead of occupying the vast expanse west of the Missouri River and eyeing the American Commonwealth!" ”

Who can tell? Did the Indians make me, or did I make the Indians? "I've lived in fear and sorrow, and I'm going to keep doing it as long as the white people don't surrender to us for a day—and since I've become bottomless, I've found that I'm much stronger than I was before!" ”

"Alas!" Grant sighed and said, "I'm just the worst of the group that graduated from West Point. You should know that my graduation grade is the second from the bottom? ”

"Of course I do." "I killed the penultimate number one — he died in a stinking ditch, and the police believe the cause of death was alcoholism," Turtledove said. ”

"The means are despicable!" Grant said.

"But the results were ideal!" Turtledove replied.

Grant rubbed his frozen face, muddy water from his hands smeared on his unshaven face, making him look downcast.

"Can I ask a question before you kill me?"

"You say?"

"How far do you want to fight this war?" Ulysses Grant asked.

……

That's a really good question!

Ordinary military generals, if they do not have a considerable degree of overall view, will never be able to ask such a question.

There are many wars in the world that can be started for a thousand reasons, but the vast majority of wars end in defeat.

And the war does not end because the victor gets what he wants, or the loser loses what he does not want to lose.

The war ended, in the vast majority of cases, because both sides of the war were unable to fight any longer.

The winner is often reluctant, and the loser is full of resentment!

People do not lack the determination and will to fight to the end, even if the losing side does not think that they have really failed, they are just secretly accumulating strength and want to make a comeback at any time!

In another time and space, all wars follow this pattern:

- The Seven Years' War between Britain and France led to the War of Independence and the Napoleonic Wars in North America, and the Napoleonic Wars led to the Franco-Prussian War, which led to the Franco-Prussian War, which led to the Crimean War, which led to the First World War, which led to the Second World War, which led to the Cold War, and after the Cold War, the Third World War was also coming to the world......

Under this Anglo-Saxon-dominated world order, people do not lack the determination and courage to start the war, but they lack the planning and wisdom to end it!

When will the war between Indians and whites end?

In general, there are only two scenarios:

First, the Indians exterminated the whites!

Second, the whites wiped out the Indians!

In another plane, the world chose the second option. Since then, the North American continent has achieved a rare 'peace', and in the next 200 years, even if the whole world has its brains, the United States will still be able to sit on a hill, dump arms, and make a fortune left and right.

But as an Indian, Ikaruga would never want to choose the second option!

Is the first option, then, the real condition for ending the war?

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"It's too early to talk about when the war will end!" "My people, I can assure you, none of them have thought about ending the war!" ”

"I didn't think about it originally," said Grant, "I just think that maybe the White House should face up to the power of the Indians, instead of treating you as weeds in the fields or beasts in the prairie, as they have done in the past!" ”

"Alas!" Turtledove sighed and said, "Why do you listen to us only after you have been defeated? If we were able to leave a way to live in the first place, why did we have reached the point of not ending as we do now? ”

……

Six years ago, when the turtle dove rose up in the forest of the Madre Mountains, it was the turtle dove that dragged the Indians forward, telling them to resist and stand on their own feet......

Six years later, the Indians had formed a mighty torrent of resistance, and even if the turtledove wanted to stop, it might not be able to!

Three years earlier, Ikaruga had coerced and lured the Indians in the east to form a second front against white rule......

Three years later, the Indians in the eastern region have formed no less than 100 rebel groups, assassinating, blasting, and intimidating - even John Roth, who defected to the Federation in the early years, secretly declared that he was 'saving the country by curve'!

If Ikaruga were to write a memoir at this time, there would be two things to be proud of:

The first is the establishment of the Indian alliance centered on White Rock City, so that the Indians have guns in their hands;

The second is to put an ideological steel seal on all the Indians, even if they are in the quagmire, they do not forget to struggle, and finally there will be a time to peel off the clouds and see the moon!

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"Defeated?" Ulysses-Grant laughed, "You're just capturing an unknown infantry captain, do you think you're really victorious?" ”

Turtledove looked at Grant, stunned for a moment, and laughed: "Have you ever thought that if you were not captured, you would become a world-famous general in the future, turn the tide when your country was in a critical situation for its survival, and with such a great feat, become the president of the United States, and ...... in history because of it?" ”

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"Me? Ha ha! Grant laughed and said, "It seems that your heart is really fragile!" If you're that scared, I can give you a list of William Sherman, Thomas Jackson, Pierre Beauret, Robert Lee...... In my opinion, they are all very good generals, and they are still small people, but they may cause you big problems in the future! ”

"You don't need to provide the list, but I have already taken action on these people you mentioned!" Turtledove said.

"You're despicable!"

"Because I'm really scared!" "I said that since I was born, there has not been a day that has not been spent in fear. Why don't you accuse yourselves before you accuse me? What can I do to dispel my fears? ”

"Huh-", Grant chuckled, not arguing with Turtledove about it. Maybe in his heart, he didn't feel that there was anything wrong with him. Just like those black slaves, some people say that they are pitiful, but the people who say these words also enjoy the wealth created by the black slaves themselves.

He then said: "If America goes to the point where you say it is, there is only one possibility, and that is that the southern lords of the manors have rebelled—but it has nothing to do with the Indians, and it has nothing to do with you!" To this day, even if your Union of Indians is in full swing, it is only a minor accident for the American Union. When General Taylor marched north, it was the time when the Indian Union collapsed! ”

"Isn't Zachary Taylor already dead?" "Do you think he'll make it out of Mexico alive?" ”

"Would you like to hear my opinion?" Ulysses Grant asked.

The turtledove raised his hand, and the mud on his palm was dry,

"There are two huge holes in the line of defense you have laid out...... If you can send someone to escort me back to New Orleans, I can tell him—"

Grant looked at the turtledove.

Turtledove frowned.

If someone else said something like that, he could have ignored it.

But Ulysses-Grant......