The reporters were in an uproar, condemning in the strongest terms this frenzied act of grossly trampling on press freedom, and nominated deputies to find Commander-in-Chief Guan and demand that the Western Theater retract his life.

Commander-in-Chief Kwan expressed deep sympathy for the plight of the journalists, but regretted that there was nothing he could do.

Because: "I have a division of labor with General Sherman, and he is in charge of the news and publicity." The military thing, uh, you know. ”

In addition, "as far as I know, General Sherman's orders went directly to the gendarmerie regiment, and the gendarmes have been ordered to act, and the military orders are like a mountain, well, you know." ”

zuihou, "Heroes don't suffer immediate losses, let's come to Xu Tu." ”

The reporters had no choice but to yell at Sherman while packing up.

There's a reason Sherman is willing to sing this blackface.

Unlike Guan Zhuofan and Grant, Sherman has no political intentions, he is only interested in the military, and public opinion is worthless to him. What's more, Guan Zhuofan is a foreigner, Grant is from a humble background, but the Sherman family is an authentic American political tycoon, with deep roots, and he is also a typical princeling temper, and he doesn't care about a few flies buzzing a few times.

The Sherman family is more developed than Roger? Sherman, one of the founding fathers of the United States, was born to King Edward I of England and was a true aristocrat in the North American colonies. The Sherman family and the Adams family, who have served two presidents, have intermarried for generations, and shili has spread throughout the United States. Going further, the Sherman family and the later Churchill family and the Bush family have the same ancestor Henry? Sherman, it is not an exaggeration to say that he is the world's largest political tycoon.

To William? Here in Sherman, my dad is a justice of the Ohio Supreme Court. Although he died early. The young Sherman brothers were forced to separate. But the family's connections are all there, Sherman's adoptive father You Ying was the first Secretary of the Interior and Senator of the United States, and his younger brother John? Sherman is the current chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee and later secretary of state.

As mentioned earlier, Sherman was quite stumbling before the war, but it was completely different from Grant's nature of losing all his money in a small business. Sherman was a banker and then a lawyer, only to find out that he was not that material, and Zuihou became the president of the university. It's the right place.

With this kind of resume, Grant can only look at it and drool.

Therefore, Sherman is both willing and has the confidence to take the lead for Guan Zhuofan and dispose of reporters from all over the United States.

Also, it's a time of war, and as long as you can win the war, no matter how badly the reporters scold in the newspapers, the president and Congress will pretend to be invisible.

The whole shijie was quiet.

After dealing with this mess of trouble, Guan Zhuofan came to Wan'er's bedroom door and knocked lightly.

A faint, trembling voice came from inside: "Please come in ......"

Guan Zhuofan pushed open the door. Wan'er, who was sitting on the edge of the bed, stood up, her face full of horror. The eyes were already red and swollen from crying.

Seeing Guan Zhuofan, Wan'er cried out again with a "wow": "Master, I was wrong......"

Guan Zhuofan's hard heart was stabbed.

He walked over, took Wan'er's hand, sat on the edge of the bed together, and then said to her in the gentlest and firmest tone: You are not at fault.

Look at these roses, how beautiful they are, but one day they will wither and fall into dust.

We are the same, we will die one day.

Tomorrow I go to war, I don't know which bullet will kill me -- but I still have to go to war, because this is what I should do, I have to do.

Those two young people also did what they thought they should do and had to do.

That's all.

Wan'er threw herself into Guan Zhuofan's arms, crying hoarsely.

Holding this soft, petite ketone body, Guan Zhuofan slowly felt that his heart and body were starting to get hot.

He warned himself that no, no.

The cry in his arms finally subsided, but the temperature of the small ketone body rose a little bit.

Guan Zhuofan continued to warn himself, no, at this time, no.

The two of them just hugged and sat down.

The night is not young.

The Western Theater is fully prepared for war.

Grant, Guan Zhuofan, and Sherman agreed that this time the east and two fronts would attack at the same time.

In the past, there was no unified coordination, and the east fought the east, and the west fought the west, and each had nothing to do with it. The result is often that the east side starts to fight and the west side rests, or the reverse side is reversed, the west side starts to fight and the east side rests. The southern army was thus able to support each other in the east and west, and when the east side was fighting, the troops from the west were transferred to the east - the west was fine anyway; When the battle began on the west, the troops from the east were transferred to the west - this was the case with the Longstreet division in the Battle of Chattanooga, and the east was fine at that time anyway. The disadvantage of the insufficient strength of the southern army was offset to a considerable extent, and it was difficult for the northern army to fully exploit its advantage of abundant troops.

This time, the Confederate army will not be able to care for each other, and, once it is launched, it will not stop, and will not give the Confederate army any respite until the Confederacy has completely collapsed and raised its hands to surrender.

For this reason, in terms of logistics and military supplies, Guan Zhuofan made an unprecedented request to Washington: It was necessary to prepare six months' worth of equipment, food and grass for the two large armies going south in the Western Theater.

Indeed, no Union army has ever made such a request - three months is the limit; But before that, there had never been a single U.S. army that had penetrated deep into enemy territory and moved thousands of miles in a row.

Guan Zhuofan doesn't plan to "fight the enemy because of food".

It was not that they were unwilling to burn, kill, and loot -- the Northern Army was originally going south to be a demolition and relocation team, but it could not waste time and energy on finding food and clothing, which affected the progress of the demolition and relocation. Since the northern United States has a strong industrial capacity, it must make full use of it.

The principle is this: there is no longer a need for secondary resupply.

In response to Guan Zhuofan's request, Sherman raised his hands in favor -- Xie Bu had already attached special importance to logistics. Sherman also added one more: the supplies are not fully in place, and no troops will be dispatched.

President Lincoln personally instructed the War Department and the Ordnance Department to make every effort to meet all the requirements of the Western Theater.

The Ordnance Department is still very good, and the new goods, spare parts and ammunition for the Spencer serial guns are all in place. In terms of firing pin rifles, although the new orders placed by Europe could not catch up with the Battle of Atlanta, the Ordnance Department copied off the ammunition for use on its own -- of course, the guns themselves could not be produced for the time being, but after being tested in the Western Theater, they reached more than 90 percent of the performance of the same ammunition in Europe, and they could be put into actual combat without affecting their combat effectiveness.

Guan Zhuofan was struggling with a large stack of material distribution tables on the table. Brigadier General Smith came in and reported: The batch of materials sent by the War Department is in a bit of a situation, and we can't negotiate with the personnel in Washington, so do you want to ask the commander-in-chief to come to the scene and take a look.

Guan Zhuofan instructed Thurin to bring a group of guards from the Guards Regiment and Smith to the train station.

Jumping off his mount, he entered the stack yard and was greeted by several men from the Quartermaster Department of the War Department. The first one was a tall, fat mustache with a smile on his face and a smooth and smooth upper lip. This person was the deputy chief of the Quartermaster Division of the War Department, John? McDowell, one of the main leaders of the Western Theater of Operations Quartermaster Supply of the War Department, with the rank of colonel.

McDowell saluted Guan Zhuofan, Guan Zhuofan smiled back, and then walked into the warehouse together.

The "little condition" is a batch of shoes, which are indeed "in condition" - regardless of the left and right feet.

Guan Zhuofan vaguely remembered that after the American Civil War in history, the consumption of materials was too great, and the production was not enough, and this situation occurred in the north and the south: most of the soldiers of the southern army had no shoes to wear, and fought barefoot marching, and some of the shoes of the northern army were not divided into left and right feet, and the soldiers themselves wore them for a long time to stretch out the "left and right feet".

Why, has it come to this time?

In all fairness, the work of the Quartermaster Department of the Ministry of War is still passable, most of the materials have been in place, and the logistics supply has already been sufficient for a troop of the same number, but Guan Zhuofan wants too much.

McDowell used this reason, saying that the factory was really unable to produce it, and this kind of shoes, which other troops were using, were very easy to wear, and they could adapt to it quickly.

Moreover, Commander-in-Chief Guan is like a god in the use of soldiers, I am afraid that the war will end before these shoes come in handy.

After saying that, he laughed first, and the mustache on his lips trembled happily.

*(To be continued......)