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The warm shines on an old man, and the old man gently moves his wrists.

"When a war was declared, everything was a mess, and the camp could not be set up because no one knew where the tabernacle was; the railway operation schedule was not planned at all, some units had no artillery, some units had no transportation, some had no rescue equipment; the warehouse was empty, and the fortress was lacking in supplies. The Prussian mobilization was carried out as accurately as a clock. Yesterday, the Sixth Division of our army was attacked by the Prussians with superior forces. The division commander was killed in battle, and most of the soldiers were killed and injured. The battle took place less than 10 hours after our army entered Prussia. Prussia took our actions, which was frustrating."

The old man frowned and continued writing

"There are no kettles, dishes, stoves, etc. for camps in the supply warehouse. Neither the military nor the division headquarters can rescue equipment. As of today, there has been no mule and horse lifting to carry wounded soldiers. Every day, thousands of wounded soldiers fall into the hands of the enemy without any preparation for sending them. If for four days, our soldiers have relied on the mercy of the people and all the roads are filled with dying hunger, then the administrative department should be responsible. Today, I ordered the blasting of a bridge, including the entire army, including the engineers and artillery, but could not find any explosives. If this situation cannot be improved, our army will not be able to resist the attack of "Spain" (Note: Both the United States and China know that the troops participating in the war are Chinese, but they hide the truth at the same time to avoid the expansion of the war) people."

Finally, the old man wrote

Schaffer 85, 1998.

In the last decade of the 19th century, the U.S. Navy was a highly favored deputy chief of the Navy. Theodore Roosevelt brought his love for the navy and the ocean to the White House and began to improve the strength of the United States and international prestige by building the navy.

In his first address to Congress, he pointed out that the United States needs a strong navy. Afterwards, Roosevelt talked about the importance of developing the navy almost everyone. He formulated a huge plan for naval expansion. He asked Congress to add another grant and build four more ships.

After careful management, the gap between the US Navy and European powers is gradually narrowing. With new ships, new equipment, and personnel quality issues have become prominent.

For a long time, the meager salary and hard living conditions of the US Navy were not very attractive to those skilled sailors with real talents. Of course, Roosevelt saw this in his eyes and was anxious in his heart. He was determined to start with improving treatment first and improve the public image of the Navy in one fell swoop.

Under his request and supervision, the life of the sailors gradually became comfortable and comfortable. Fresh meat, vegetables, milk, fruits and eggs replaced bacon, biscuits and other traditional foods that were hard to eat. The soldiers had more freedom in their daily lives and had more entertainment opportunities. In order to attract more young people to join the navy, recruitment stations were set up in various places, and recruitment advertisements were launched to "join the navy and see the world". As for the salary level of the troops, the waters rose and the ship was even higher, which was incomparable to the past.

In contrast, the US Army (some people call it the "Yellow Army" because its uniform is yellowish-brown) is much more overshadowed. On the one hand, due to the natural barrier of the ocean, it has never received attention from the press and the public; on the other hand, the Army has long played the role of border security and strike police, and there are really not many exciting feats and moments worthy of pride.

"Doesn't the future of the country be placed on the navy? Why do so many army do?" Not only do ordinary people think so, but there are also many people who hold this view in Congress. In this way, Congress is not willing to allocate funds to the army, nor do they care whether the army lacks personnel and supplies, which leads to the long-term living treatment of officers and soldiers of the entire army being lower than normal levels, and the situation is getting worse and worse, and they are suffering.

For example, at that time, an army officer had to prepare his own uniform, food, sword, revolver, field telescope, bedding and tableware based on his meager salary, and even the moving fees and housing fees required for normal transfers were paid out of his own pocket. If transferred to a border area with difficult conditions, the situation would be even worse.

MacArthur, a 1898 student at West Point Military Academy, and second lieutenant MacArthur, who was later commander-in-chief, was assigned to the US-Mexico border because of his poor academic performance. Before leaving, he shouted in pain: "This kind of errand is unsatisfactory, and always leaves people with family and flesh, and living conditions are harsh. In the eyes of most officers, it is better to go anywhere than on the border."

George Marshall, a five-star Army general who was also successful and famous 50 years later, was also a young lieutenant who "only knows how to work hard". He had to use the lieutenant salary of $11.6067 cents a month to maintain his life, his wife and mother-in-law. If this amount of money was more frugal, he could even pay, but his beautiful wife liked to wear it.

I love beautiful dresses, which is hard to make you feel bad. Xiang is known as the "model husband".

Later he talked about the dilemma of living with a shortage of money at that time: "Spring hats cost 3 yuan, 55 yuan, spring suits cost 14 yuan. I remember these clearly. I have to make every penny carefully. I have to try my best to find ways to save some money. As for more than a month or 10 yuan or 50 yuan, I am not that in those days. I have been trying hard to find ways to save a month's salary and rely on it to support my life."

For a real soldier, the problem of living treatment is second, and the most painful thing is that he cannot reflect his own value and pursuit. At that time, the opportunity and proportion of improvement were pitifully small. In peacetime, the army was just that, and officers and sergeants stayed on the same rank for more than ten years. At the same time, they had to live and practice based on the old rules and regulations since the Civil War, which was boring and uninnovative. As Marshall later said: "This is not because the army seemed to be full of mindless people at that time, but because using their brains would only cause disasters and troubles. Just do it according to your book."

So the strength of the US military was imaginable at that time. When the bad news of Lieutenant General Doei's death came, hundreds of soldiers fled in the US military. What made the Americans most embarrassed was that even the troops who checked the troops fled, the military police forces also fled, and it seemed that 400,000 US troops would collapse.

After that, the old man started writing another letter

In June and July, the US troops led by General Schafft came up because of inconvenient transportation and mainly relied on travel rations. The so-called travel rations, the main food is canned corned beef. For many years, this canned food has matured technology and stable quality, and has been used by the regular army as a standard field food when there is no fresh meat to eat.

However, for some reason, the Army Food and Forage Department did not purchase this canned corned beef that had long been recognized by the soldiers of the army. The one I bought was a food called canned beef. This beef not only looks ugly, is light and tasteless, has a lot of tendons and has a very poor taste, but it is not possible to eat it directly without cooking and without seasoning.

Knowing that it will not be popular with the army, officials of the Ministry of Food and Forage emphasized with strikingly: As long as this beef is cooked with vegetables and added with ingredients, it will become a delicious stew and tastes great!

However, when the war began, the large number of vegetables and ingredients loaded with the train were either lost in the middle or rotted in the steaming bottom cabin. The troops had no choice but to eat this canned beef in the hot and smelly train. It is conceivable what the beef would taste like after the steam on the train.

Not long after, the officers and soldiers wanted to vomit as soon as they saw canned beef. Many people suffered from severe gastrointestinal diseases and their physical fitness plummeted. On the front line and in the rear hospital, there were yellow and thin army soldiers gathered together in groups of three or three, pausing and cursing the officials of the Grain and Forage Department, which caused them to suffer such a great deal.

"Canned beef does not fall within the scope of legal rations, and using this can is incredible. What's more, he said that frozen beef has been treated with a secret chemical before it was sent to the army, so it is even more harmful to the body. This beef has a odor similar to a corpse preservative, so it is called "preserved beef".

At this time, a second lieutenant officer ran in and said in a panic look:

"No, General, didn't you say that the day before yesterday that there was no explosives, you could not explode the Kashangdela Bridge?"

The general was not worried about this. Even if he could not break the Kashangdela Bridge, it would not have a great impact on the US military, and the Spanish army would not intersperse behind it on a large scale.

"If you have anything to worry about, find the explosives and then fry them."

"They found the explosives and…"

General Shaft waved his hand to prepare to end this meaningless conversation. The quality of the lieutenant officers is too poor and needs to be honed. It is really inappropriate to report to the commander-in-chief of the Western Route Army, which only requires advice.

The young lieutenant blushed and did not move his steps, quickly saying the rest of the words

"They got the explosives and then blew up the Kama Bridge."

"What?!"

General Schafft couldn't help but be shocked that the Kama Bridge was the center of US military transportation. In order to prevent the "Spanish" army attacks, he sent heavy troops to protect him, but unexpectedly he was bombed.

xxxx A series of American curses emerged from the old man's mouth. Sometimes, the proportion of poor subordinates was even more able to attack him. General Shaft was no longer interested in picking up his pens, and there was no supply, and the army of more than 100,000 would soon fall into trouble.
Chapter completed!