Staying in the city of Laroche after the restoration, Andrew didn't feel any relaxation at all. Every day, he looked at the mountains of official documents in front of him and needed to review and approve them by himself. The poor General Shanyue was almost crazy.

After the war, because a large number of refugees needed to be resettled, Father Benier, who knew how to deal with government affairs, led the priests to the countryside to work, and all the affairs were still managed by Andrew himself. However, there were many officers under Andrew, but none of them were willing and capable of acting as a clerk. After spending more than a month with General Shanyue, everyone inside and outside the legion was familiar with the commander's character, and knew that the commander of the legion was extremely lazy. Once he was caught and done, his death seemed quite tragic. All the senior officers, including Dawu, Neck, Shade, Murah, and Seush, all touched the oil and escaped.

However, the two officers who surrendered were quite kind, one was Andrew's new adjutant Captain St. Martin, and the other was former rebel major Li Shidoli. These two hard-earned laborers have been in a tense state of work since they were arranged by their highest boss to review the official documents. Even during the meal, their eyes were not idle, and their daily rest time was only three or four hours. Fortunately, the kind-hearted man was a kind-hearted man, and his eyes were so bright that he did not scream and did not complain, nor did he leave. Despite this, Andrew still felt unhappy, because whenever he encountered major problems, the two still kept asking General Andrew to make a decision.

This situation lasted for several days until the National Convention sent a special commissioner to the Vandai Legion, who was Andrew's old friend, good brother, former first assistant to the member of the Balass, Mirière. After being elected as a member of the national parliament in Normandy, Mirière should have gone to Paris in March to take office, but was delayed a lot of time due to personal affairs. Later, after Balas proposed to be a special commissioner of the Vandai Legion, he came to the Legion to assist Andrew in handling local government affairs.

When he saw the arrival of his old friend, Andrew's first move was to hug the Milière brothers enthusiastically for a whole minute. He saw another strange middle-aged man standing aside and looking at them quietly, then let go of his arm and asked, "Haha, my Milière brothers, can you introduce your friends to Andrew?"

Milière nodded, pointed at the stranger with a smile, and said, "This friend is not only my friend, but also a friend of the French Republic, and is also a friend of General Andrew. Hehe, he is the leader of the United Irish Association, the famous Professor Wolf Donn."

United Irish Association? Wolf Donne?

Andrew was stunned and realized for a long time. The middle-aged man in front of him, who was smiling, gentle and elegant, dressed as a scholar, was the main leader of the Irish independence movement in the late 18th century, a historical figure destined to be tragic.

After a brief greeting, Andrew apologized to Professor Don En, asking him to wait for a while, but he dragged Mirière to the headquarters room with ulterior motives, pointed to the documents in the whole room, and said with a sinister smile: "Hehe, it seems that everyone is a revolutionary French parliamentarian, please give me a hand. Well, this Major Lisdori, this is Captain St. Martin. From now on, they will immediately become your civil assistants. Please, brother, for all the next official duties."

As soon as the words fell, Andrew, who was the big shopkeeper, pulled Professor Tangen and went straight to the conference room, leaving only the Miri Wilderer who complained and regretted being deceived, and two majors and captains who were silly greeted their new boss with panda eyes open.

"Thank you, professor!" As soon as he sat down, Andrew immediately thanked.

That was a letter from Tang En sent an envoy to send Wang Jiye a special letter. Although the description of the late letter was not of great practical value, receiving information from his compatriots did indeed make General Andrew, who had been in a tense state, feel much more relieved.

"You have to be polite, I'm just a simple task." Tang En said lightly, revealing a little fatigue in his words.

After a few old-fashioned polite words, in the subsequent conversation between the two, Andrew learned that the leader of the Irish independence movement in front of him took more than a month, traveling thousands of kilometers, crossed the strait from Ireland, landed in Lisbon, Portugal, crossed the Iberis Plateau, smuggled to France through the Mediterranean coast of Spain, and finally came to Paris. Judging from his exhausted expression and slightly depressed spirit, Andrew expected Ireland to be neglected in Paris.

Indeed, in order to seek the help of free France, Wolf Donn went to Paris without sacrificing thousands of miles away, and only hoped that the French National Convention could assist the Irish in carrying out the independence movement. Although Donnn was regarded as an ally of Revolutionary France and invited him to make a public speech at the forum of the National Convention, the lack of warm applause at the venue showed that the members of the parliament were not very interested in the Irish proposal, so few people took the initiative to communicate with him after the meeting.

That was, Donn chose to come to Paris wrong. The leaders of the poor party who were the most active in the House of Parliament, Eber, Saumet, and others who had been the ones who had been the ones who had been the ones who had been the ones who had been in vain to die on the guillotine. The poor party members who had been lucky enough to have a little careless voice in the parliament and were useless to speak at all.

The urgent issue for the three ruling giants was the Northern Front and the Italian Front, where the elite of the anti-French alliance were concentrated, Prussia and Austria (the Russians were busy fighting on the third line and had no time to take care of it). As for the independent battle to aid Ireland, attacking the British from the flanks, because they did not have the energy, they could not be included in the agenda; and the French civil turmoil had just subsided, the country's economy was on the verge of serious collapse, and it was impossible to endlessly help an island country that had fallen for hundreds of years; in the end, without this military force, to support Ireland, you must have strong maritime power, but the existing French navy was too weak to protect its own offshore areas, let alone an effective threat to the huge British fleet.

Although the British's money and weapons were continuously transported to the European continent through their fleets, helping feudal monarchs in various countries to establish an anti-French alliance, it seems that the British did not intend to send troops directly to threaten France. Therefore, Robespierre was unintentional and even more powerless to do so, and he would be done with some excuses.

Barras and others, including the Plains, did not give any unsuccessful proposals to the Irish, and most of this credit was attributed to Gandufle's successful diplomatic mediation. The highest intelligence liaison officer sent to France, through the combination of interests, money and temptation of beauty, successfully convinced the greedy Parisians, making them believe that there was not much oil and water to aid the Irish and that the risks were too high.

Don En, who had been in Paris for more than 20 days but did nothing, finally couldn't stand the perfunctory excuses of others pushing balls. He was full of anger and wanted to take his companions to leave France and return to Ireland. When he arrived in Normandy, he unexpectedly met the Miri-Armil Milly who was about to serve as the Wandai Legion.

Mirière was very sympathetic to Tang En's experience, and he also understood that the current power in Paris could not help Ireland. So Mirière suggested that Tang En go with him to General Andrew to try his luck. There might be some good idea hidden in the head of the bold and arrogant General Shanyue. Tang En did not want to return to his motherland without any success. Similarly, he also wanted to meet the magical General Andrew. With a thought, he agreed to the invitation of the National Council, and the two came to Wangday together.

"If the French government unconditionally provides weapons, ammunition, financial aid, personnel training and even armed intervention, etc., everything the Irish need, how can you win independence?" Andrew looked at the professor and said casually, as if anything he said could be done easily.

"Then I can immediately call on all patriotic youths in Ireland to launch an armed uprising and use force to drive the British from their own territory back to the British mainland." Don En was obviously excited. He was very grateful to General Andrew for such an idea, but he hoped that the idea could be transformed into reality immediately.

The professor understood the position of the mountain general in front of him in the French army and the political influence of his father-in-law, Commissioner Balas, in Paris. If they could get their help, the Irish people's desire to restore the country would be greatly enhanced. At the thought of this, his originally decadent expression immediately appeared as a rosy face.

But Andrew sighed in his heart, paused for a while before saying, "I am sorry, professor! What you said is just ideals, ideals, and it is impossible to succeed in reality."

After hearing Andrew's slightly sarcastic words, Tang En's expression was a little unhappy. He was extremely disgusted with others' "slander" the independence movement he led. He was just out of politeness and well-educated, and did not leave on the spot.

"Please don't be angry, professor, my personal habit is to imagine more difficult factors in advance, preferably to reach an unparalleled state, and then consider how to avoid them, so as to reduce greater losses in the future and obtain more victory. If you don't win, you will lose. This is the teaching left to me by my ancestors." Andrew explained patiently without any attention.

"Sorry, General, I am losing my composure. Please continue, Tang En washes his ears and listens." Tang En got rid of the previous embarrassment, sat upright, and looked at the young general eagerly, hoping that he could actively help himself and Ireland.

"The struggle for restoration led by the professor does represent the voice of the vast majority of Irish people. Once the uprising is caused, I have no doubt that thousands of passionate young people will be devoted to the revolutionary camp, but most of them are full of energy, because they lack weapons, ammunition and training for regular troops. However, with their temporary courage, the British governor may be able to go into the sea before the enemy reinforcements arrive. What can I do? The British can still fight back with the help of strong ships and cannons, and the ending is a new round of massacres.

I have read the Irish Declaration of Independence written by the professor. Between the lines, I can read that you highly recommend the North American War of Independence, but to be honest, I do not appreciate the way to Ireland in the anti-British struggle of the North American colonies to gain your independence. The reason is very simple, there are four main points:

First, the military leaders of the North American colonies had rich combat experience. Thanks to their early years of joining the British army and receiving good military training. In order to guard against the harassment of France, Spain and Indians, the British also accused the people of the 13 states of the North American colonies to openly use weapons. Therefore, General Washington did not need any training to form a regular army that was no less than the British. Unfortunately, Ireland did not have these conditions, the leaders lacked military command capabilities, and future soldiers were ordinary people who had not received formal training, and they could not obtain a large amount of weapons and ammunition. The only possibility was that they exchanged more lives on the battlefield.

Secondly, the North American colonies were far away from the British land, and the intelligence transmission was not timely. It was impossible for reinforcements to arrive early and the evening. By the time they arrived at the battlefield, the form had taken a major turn; Ireland did not have this advantage. It only took less than ten hours to get on board the ship to cross the Strait to land in Ireland. The rulers of the British Empire sitting at Buckingham Palace had plenty of time to consider how to actively and effectively suppress the Irish independence uprising.

Third, the North American colonies have vast fields and mountain swamps with complex terrain. Even after countless battle failures, General Washington can lead the Continental Army to implement strategic transfers calmly, using guerrillas to harass the British army, and finding opportunities to eliminate the enemy in the movement. However, in Ireland, from Belfast to Cork, the length is only less than 300 miles in the north and south, and 150 miles in the east and west ends, and the geographical location is mostly plains and hills. There is a lack of real mountainous areas, making it difficult to implement effective guerrilla tactics.

Fourth, the victory of the North American colonies is largely thanked to Britain's internal and external policies at that time. It caused complaints from the people at that time, and it has made people and gods angry with European countries outside. France, Spain, the Netherlands and other countries have all taken the blame to support the anti-British struggle in the North American colonies in order to retaliate. However, nowadays, any European monarch and nobles have not received British assistance. Even in France, such people are not uncommon. It is difficult for an independent Irish people to obtain support from the European continent, and the Americans are also powerless.

Fifth, this point needs to be emphasized in particular. Although the Catholic priests and upper class nobles in Ireland sympathize with the restoration movement you led, they dislike the British's excessive taxation, which is only limited sympathy. After the outbreak of the uprising, more situations will prompt the British to adopt differentiation measures and change certain attitudes to buy and win over the so-called upper class. From the perspective of their combination with the interests of the British, I can be sure that they will definitely sell their motherland and compatriots again without hesitation, just like the scene that reappeared more than 100 years ago.

The status of the Irish islands in the eyes of the British is like our own backyard. If the backyard catches fire, it will spread to the house. Therefore, an open armed uprising will surely lead to the British rulers mobilizing large forces to carry out cruel and ruthless suppression. After all, flesh and blood cannot resist the British army armed to the teeth. You should know the power of Britain better than me. On the Lassein Peninsula that day, I could only watch Nelson lead his British Mediterranean fleet and walk past me swagger.

I have a piece of intelligence on my hand, which is the latest information about the United Irish Association, which tells the time, location and main participants of your Irish revolutionaries scheduled to launch an armed uprising in September and October this year. I believe that in the British cabinet, the information they saw is more detailed and accurate, and perhaps everything had been deployed long ago, and they were waiting for the uprising to immediately order a bloody suppression as soon as it broke out.

So, my comrade, I hope you can rationally consider the issue of armed uprisings. Perhaps, you and your comrades are not afraid of death, but the Irish people you love need to continue to reproduce and thrive on their own land.

Think about two hundred years ago, there were at least 2 million Irish people living on the islands of Ireland, but now there are only less than 1 million. This is the killing of the protector. If you continue to insist on publicly resisting the British, it is hard to imagine how many Irish people will live in their own land 10 years later."

Having said that, Andrew stopped and stopped continuing his long-term discussion. He knew that the Irish patriot in front of him would take time to digest and understand.

Listening to Andrew's analysis, it was like a slap in the face and slap it heavily. His extremely frustrated expression originated from his inner helplessness and pain. As a leader, Don Edward understood the current dangerous situation of the Irish uprisinger and moved his whole body with one blow. He knew clearly that the strength of the British Empire and the weakness of Ireland could not obtain the independent status it deserved with the efforts of his own nation. Only then did he have the idea of ​​leaving France and obtaining foreign aid. When all this and all the fantasies finally became bubbles, Don Edward could not bear the career he had fought for evolved into a mirage.

During the long silence, Tang En just poured wine into his mouth. This was a cheap rum. The strong and stimulating taste made him cough continuously, who was not very drunk. Tang En didn't care about this. He raised his head, his eyes were covered with blood, and he looked at Andrew with a little drunkenness, asking in a confused manner:

"General, General, say I, we Irish people can only act as slaves to the British for the rest of our lives, and will never turn over?"

Andrew called the guard to deliver a glass of sobering soup to Tang En's hand, and signaled him to drink it.

"No, my Irish revolutionary comrade, you're wrong. I'm just against your open armed uprisings, which will only make bad things. What you need to improve is the methods of revolution and the means of struggle. It's up to people and things to succeed. If God may still have mercy on the Irish people, it is not impossible to succeed."

Andrew's words made Tang En immediately awaken, and the latter grabbed the general's arm and asked anxiously: "What method and means? Please tell me all the suggestions you have, Comrade General."

Smiling, Andrew didn't mind Don't mind Don't betrayal, soothing the Irish back to his position, and then slowly said:

"It's very simple. I'll explain a few points now. If you are interested, we can discuss specific implementation methods with each other:

First, immediately stop all open armed resistance against the British uprising, dissolve the United Irish Association, and strive to improve relations with the British authorities.

Haha, my revolutionary comrade, don't look at Andrew like this. I'm not asking you to surrender, but don't do impossible things. It's really unwise to do it even though you know it's impossible. The above actions are just an excuse to suppress the revolutionaries. After all, Britain is still a legal society now, with elected members of the House of Commons, and the people's calls still have a certain impact. Therefore, your voluntary concessions will make it impossible for the British cabinet to publicly suppress it. The fire of the revolution is only for the next few steps.

Second, establish a new political party and establish a new army.

Your original United Irish Association was too loose, and anyone could join and exit, manage it incredibly chaotic, and unable to effectively keep all kinds of intelligence information confidential. This is a fatal injury; at the same time, it lacks a suitable revolutionary program, an effective organizational structure, a clear revolutionary goal and unity object, etc., and there is no specific detailed provision. Therefore, a united and efficient new political party must be established to lead the Irish people to start the armed anti-British struggle. In addition, the choice of party members must be strictly assessed, and all instability and speculators must be eliminated, so that the party can maintain the purity of the revolution, at least before victory.

In the establishment of the army, you cannot spread in Ireland, so that you can only leave the excuse for the British to suppress you. In European countries, in North America, in almost all British colonies, there are Irish descendants, and you maintain close contact with them. Then send their talents to France and to Andrew's army to serve. In five or six years, you will have an invincible army that will compete with the British.

Well, seeing how you nodded, I agree. OK, if you don’t mind, I suggest that your new party is called the “Sinn Fein Party” and the army established later is called the “Irish Republican Army”.

Third, carry out over-limit warfare.

The so-called "ultra-limit warfare" is a war that transcends all boundaries and limits. In short: "ultra-limit warfare". Please don't worry about it. I will naturally explain this matter.

Britain is powerful, the British are united, and the British army, especially the navy, is even more frightening. But the main body of war is humans, and people have ideas. We do not have to fight hard with the powerful Britain, nor can we afford it. But Britain is not without flaws, some are fatal flaws. As long as I use it reasonably in combat time, battlefield location and combat mode, and choose the means we are good at to fight the British, we will win the final victory of the war.

First, its local area is small, its natural resources are poor, and its economy and trade rely entirely on its huge colonies to maintain. In the Caribbean Sea, countless pirates are active there. French intelligence shows that the Irish play an extremely important role, and the professor cannot not know it. If we can unite patriotic pirates and adopt British-style maritime plunder, effectively and at a low cost, hinder or harass their colonial economy, haha, the British will have a difficult life;

Secondly, its constitutional monarchy, if I remember correctly, the current British king is Edward III, an incompetent and liar who likes to make power. He has been lying in bed for many years because of illness, and seems to have recovered a lot now. If this waste can be used to destroy the political stability of the upper class after the Glorious Revolution. Professor, I believe that under the temptation of money and women, it is not difficult for you to find a spokesperson for speaking for Ireland in the British House of Commons and differentiate their unity politics.

Third, its navy, this extremely terrifying war machine, can give the British supreme honor and allow the arrogant gentlemen to suffer the bitter fruit. The middle and senior officers of the British Empire's naval were naturally well treated, but downward, grassroots officers and sailors lived extremely hard, and superiors could beat, scold and execute subordinates at will. There were too many dissatisfaction among the soldiers that needed to be vented in time. If someone could provoke and incite them to the situation, the British fleet on the sea would be very lively.

Fourth, if its subjects live comfortably for too long, they will become careless. At this time, you have an opportunity to use the Irish people living on the Isle of Great Britain to join forces with some gangsters and proletarians who are dissatisfied with today's society to carry out a series of terrorist wars. Intimidation, kidnapping, rape, assassination and other means, and they can even use the germs on rats to launch a plague war. All of this is to make British society violently turbulent and let the British taste the taste of living in fear, and they will inevitably relax control over Ireland. Of course, the premise is that people cannot detect the manipulator behind the scenes. This is somewhat difficult and requires the cultivation of relevant full-time talents, but Andrew will help you without hesitation.

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Andrew was talking indecisively about his so-called strategic idea of ​​over-limit warfare, which was actually a copy of terrorism in the 21st century. Professor Tang En, who was in the audience, was absorbing the essence of it like a primary school student, and his longing eyes showed all this.

At first, Tang En could not accept such absurd and unruly argument, and even a little contempt, but later, he felt that the superiority of the limit warfare was more and more despised. Indeed, there was no possibility of winning in fighting with the powerful British, but using such strategic and tactical ideas would inevitably destroy the Irish international image in Europe. But when I thought about it, looking at the entire European continent, those who truly sympathized with and cared for the Irish independence movement could no longer find a second person except General Andrew in front of him. With a moment of thought, Tang En accepted Andrew's theory of limit warfare in a confused manner.

Listen, listen, Tang En also found a quill and paper, recording Andrew's strange strategies and tactics. From time to time, he even interjected a few words and asked carefully how to implement them so that he could maximize combat effectiveness.

“…

What I said above is the brief theoretical idea of ​​over-limit warfare.

Please don't be surprised by my words, professor. In my strategic thinking, there has never been a knight's principle. In order to win, you can do nothing to sacrifice any means. Therefore, in Andrew's sea of ​​words, war means that means everything is ready, the battlefield is everywhere, and all weapons and technologies can be superimposed at will. All the boundaries between the two worlds of military and non-military will be broken.

What I advocate is all-round war, not only military violence, but also a combination of political, economic and technological violence. But no matter what form of violence, war is war, and the change in appearance does not hinder any war from following the principles of war. The new principle of war I have elaborated will no longer be to force the enemy to accept its will by force, but to force the enemy to accept its own interests by all means, including force and non-military, military and non-military, kill and non-killing means.

The two discussed the two until midnight, and only the guards brought supper and snacks. When Andrew and Don finally reached a strategic alliance, a new form of war was about to be staged in the British mainland. This untraditional super-limit war invented by Andrew and Don continued for many years until Ireland gained true independence and freedom. In this process, the political, economic and military forces of the British mainland suffered great damage, seriously slowing down the pace of the development of the British industrial revolution, and earning extremely valuable time for the French in the future.

The far-reaching impact of the super-limit warfare is not limited to this. In Greece, Poland, Hungary, European countries, American continents, and many oppressed lands in the world, revolutionaries from all over the world have learned from the spirit of Ireland's struggle to carry out the war of independence on their own territory and resist the feudal rulers who oppressed themselves. Their methods and methods are even more bloody and cruel, almost to an unparalleled level, and even Andrew, who founded the super-limit warfare, could not control it.

Many years later, a scholar once commented on the over-limit warfare in this way. He wrote in his diary:

“…

This is a terrorist war without shame, morality, and no international norms.

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It changed the original meaning of war, leaving the battlefield omnipresent, blood everywhere, and full of violence and fear. Whether it is the rebel or the suppressor, either side feels extremely exhausted and helpless.

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If I could go back to Europe 200 years ago, France in 1794, the first thing I did was to kill Andrew at all costs and his disgusting super limit warfare.

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May God forgive my wrath. Amen!”

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Oh, this chapter draws on some arguments in the book "Ultra Limited Warfare" written by Qiao Liang and Wang Xiangsui, two big shrimps. I hope they don't mind it.
Chapter completed!