Standing on the balcony of the administrative building every day and reading the war reports on the Eastern Front is a rare and comfortable time in life for the turtledove, who is now in his 30s.

With a glass of hot milk in his hand, he wore calf-nosed pants, turned on the lamplight, leaned against the railing, let the soft sun and morning breeze blow through his skin, and waved the letter paper with the smell of the Atlantic sea breeze in his hand at the fifteen dollars that he had just gotten up downstairs and was rinsing on the edge of the gutter.

"Hey, fifteen dollars, guess how many people died over there?"

Fifteen still has toothpaste foam in his mouth, and when he looks up, he thinks for two or three seconds, and then gives an average of the previous times: "Three thousand...... No, maybe five thousand!"

"Haha, you guessed wrong again!"

"How much is that?" The cigarette man would come out from behind Fifteen Dollars and look up like a curious baby and ask. The folds on his forehead are denser than the ridges of the fields of the great plains.

The turtledove threw the letter downstairs, "Now, take it and see it for yourself!"

Then he turned around, drank fresh milk and raw eggs into his throat, ignored the noise of chickens and dogs jumping downstairs, and got into the bed and slept beautifully.

Normally, Sanko Seline would wait under the covers, but since Lotzen returned, she drove the woman away - "Ikardove, you can have 100 wives, but you can only have 1 once a month!"

Turtledove looked down at his belly, which was already pot-bellied, and at his psoas muscles, and felt that although what Luo Cen said sounded bad, it was still right after all.

"Lotzen, I can actually come once a day......

"Don't even think about it," said Roczen, "as long as I'm alive, don't think so presumptuous!"

"Well, then, when you're dead, I'll come once a day!"

……

The Civil War on the Eastern Front was like a turn-based game.

The North and South sides first fought one battle on the central front - the Battle of Manassas;

Then the Northern Army took the initiative to attack Richmond - the Peninsula Campaign;

Then the Confederate army took the initiative to attack Washington - the Battle of Antitam;

Then the two sides had a tiebreaker - the Battle of Gettysburg;

As a spectator of this game, Ikaruga often can't help but shout at him from his balcony because one of the players in the game is not responsible enough, and whenever this happens, he will put a little pressure on the irresponsible team, including but not limited to putting a rumor in a second-rate newspaper saying that "whoever wins America will help".

Then he will see a temporarily backward side in the next intelligence, desperately counterattack, and stage a great PUBG.

It's amazing!

Wonderful......

And the script, which is only now played to the Battle of Richmond - the Battle of the Peninsula, is not yet halfway through.

But the not-so-good news is that the actor is already a little tired.

Although it seems that 200,000 people died in the north and 200,000 people died in the south, a total of about 400,000 people, it seems that the consumption is huge, but the audience has not yet had fun, how can the performance be stopped?

Get up from the coffin and act!

The drama is bigger than the sky!

……

The audience is not only a turtledove.

There are also a woman in the British Isles who does not want to stop this performance, a man in leggings in the Élysée Palace, a beautiful woman in St. Petersburg who is a strong Slav with a cup of blood every day, and a Junker aristocrat named Bismarck in the Frankfurt parliament......

Also, on the other side of the Pacific Ocean, a guy who patched his dragon robe didn't even drop the line, thinking that the Americans could do it, and he was naturally planning to send an ocean tour group to hold a personal scene. Geronimo of New Mexico sponsored tickets for the tour group, and it is said that the members of the tour group were his big customers!

Every viewer has their own ideas.

But after the situation has reached the point where it is now, they also have common interests.

If you say before

Everyone thinks about the "balance of power on the mainland", but now, everyone thinks "the balance of power can't be achieved anyway, why not just divide it?"

"Equalization of interests"?

So, the British desperately clamoured in the newspapers:

"American friends, come on, you can win if you try your best...... If you don't fight, I won't fight, who will protect our mother......

The French provided artillery and ammunition to the South, because Louisiana was a neighbor of the Confederate Union, and the support of the French was very timely, as long as the price was negotiated, the French soldiers even took off their military uniforms and sold them to the Americans.

"Brother, you see, I've given you everything...... Why don't I give you another bite to instigate, or I won't feel at ease with this money......

As for Prussia...... Poor Prussia didn't have a navy, so the only thing they could do was to dig out a secret treaty from the time of Frederick II, saying that the New World also had his share!

"Neither the British nor the French are good things, American brothers, believe me, lend me a few boats, bring my army, and win......

……

Before the Battle of the Peninsula was launched, Zachary Taylor wanted to halt his own army at one point.

But McClellan believes that the whole world is now supporting the Northern Union, and if you don't take this opportunity to push it, the days ahead will be more and more difficult......

Zachary Taylor has no choice, the curtain of the show has been opened by others, and if he cooes behind the stage, he will lose even more.

In the view of Davis in the south, now is the time when the Southern Alliance is at its peak, the elite are assembled, and the whole is united, although it has just experienced a fierce battle, but the north is obviously more afraid of death. Moreover, although legal aid is expensive, it is genuine.

Just as he was preparing to make an ambitious move, he received information that the North was preparing to attack Richmond - hey, not only did the old man not surrender, but he dared to attack me?

Then don't blame me for being rude!

On May 5, 1853, the well-prepared North and South opened fire on each other's positions almost simultaneously on that narrow peninsula.

Since the beginning of the Civil War, the second large-scale positional war has officially begun!

……

A week later, the turtledove again had a letter in his hand with the scent of the Atlantic breeze.

"Hey, fifteen dollars, will you guess another number this time?"

"I don't know, 40? Or 50?"

"Hmm...... I don't know, but I think you're too conservative!"

"Is this all conservative? Although there are 30 million people over there, not every single one of them can be pulled out to fight—"

"You've missed one thing - both sides are armed with 'coffee mill' machine guns with improved cooling systems!"

Fifteen stood for a moment, shuddering.

In the first half of his military career, he had always felt that courage and wisdom were enough to determine the outcome of a battle, but since he had visited machine guns, he felt that these two things might not be needed in future wars.

Fortunately, the Americans stood up before the invention of the machine gun, otherwise......

It's so dangerous!

It's dangerous!