Chapter 247 The evil deeds of the US military! The embarrassed Sward!
At the London Peace Conference, Liszt, who had just finished fighting with the French Foreign Minister, met Sward again.
"The soldiers of the United States of America have done a lot of outrageous things in Mexico! I can swear to God! That is definitely not a decent person, no, that is definitely something that humans can do! Those soldiers, they burned, killed, looted! Their targets are not our soldiers, but local Mexican people! Even their forced efforts on local women... It is simply anger between man and god, and it is outrageous!"
“Oh oh oh …”
Liszt said these words, which was an extremely serious accusation. You should know that although the European powers in this era knew that the army would often do something very immoral, inhuman, and extremely shameful. However, European politicians were these nobles and so they must condemn them.
Yes, although this matter is something they commanded and ordered, they must be criticized carefully. For example, the previous burning of the Old Summer Palace was also very scolded at that time, but they did not forget to share the money and interests.
So, politics is like this, sometimes it’s really disgusting, but now Liszt is taking advantage of this. At least you nobles must maintain ‘decent’.
"This is all slander! A complete slander!" Sward naturally would not admit it, and the others seemed to be furious and were extremely angry!
But in fact, Sward had no idea...
Really, Sward, as a member of the Northern Federation of the United States, is the leader of all ministers and the first person under President Lincoln. How could he not know what the state of war is in front of him?
At this time, the American civil war was still continuing, and the civil war between the north and the south had entered a delicate stage, that is, the trench station!
This trench warfare cannot be underestimated. This tactic invented by the villain Clint and Li directly leads to strategic stalemate. This stalemate will cause something wrong, because neither the north nor the south can quickly solve the opponent, so they want to win again. Don’t they want to recruit?
The Northern Federation of the United States came up with a trick, that is, "total war"!
Let me put it this way, maybe the word "total war" has not been mentioned, but the words and military orders issued by these American generals have been very obvious.
In fact, as early as 1864, the north and south had already entered the trench war. In order to break through this trench, a general in the north was William Sherman, a general under Grant, who proposed something to march into the ocean!
This thing is very interesting. It is actually the scorched earth policy, and this policy is very interesting. This is how the military order of this policy is written.
First, it is strictly forbidden to harm civilians.
Second, it mainly destroys military resources. Whether private property is expropriated or destroyed depends on the degree of local resistance.
Alas, this is not very good, it seems to be restrained.
Don't worry, let's take a look.
Fourth, during the march, the army will freely collect food in the fields... See, you can freely collect food. There are regulations later on, don’t disturb the residences of residents, don’t invade other civilians... OK, let’s first think that this is also restrained.
...Sixth, horses, mules, carriages and other residents' belongings, cavalry and artillery can be requisitioned freely and unlimitedly... It is also said later that you need to restrain yourself and be restrained.
But how can these so-called "control" be useless?
On the battlefield, if you give soldiers such rights, who can control the behavior of soldiers?
Sward himself knew that those so-called temperance were all fucking nonsense. He was not a child. He was not so naive. He was so naive that he would think that as long as you said, don’t do that and don’t hurt civilians, the soldiers would be obedient. Even those who think like this were not naive at all, but idiots! Brainless!
Moreover, Article 2 stipulates that "depending on the local resistance", who is this "sight"?
Isn't this what it means? As long as I decide you resist, you resist, or just do it, no matter who the fuck resists or not, I have the final say, of course I will grab all, burn them all, and kill them all!
Because every item is actually like this, let’s talk about it first, the army can do it freely, and then control it, and then they will determine the so-called degree of resistance themselves. Besides, even if it is the so-called "field" food, isn’t it property? Maybe civilians don’t resist?
Sward knew very well how the US federal soldiers would do it, and the reports were written clearly about how these people did it. It was really a tragic!
It is said that the villages around Atlanta no longer exist, and they are scorched earth!
And that kind of strength... it really doesn't matter. There are even reports that some soldiers have killed babies in their cradles!
Of course, none of this can be made public, absolutely not. The reason for doing so is to destroy the economy of the South and make them unable to support this war. All of this, in Sward's view, is acceptable and can be done like this.
However, the effect was not very good. The southern economy seemed to be hit worse than expected, and this seemed to be related to the American empire.
But now, Sward was a little scared because he knew very well that the army sent to Mexico was Sherman's army!
It is undeniable that Sherman is very good at fighting, but he is the one who proposed this scorched earth plan. He went to Mexico, if there was something...
Soon, Sward's worries became reality.
"Gentlemen! This is the evidence in my hands, please see!" Liszt took out a few photos, "Look! The people in these photos are all local Mexicans! Look at the tragic situation they died! Look! This has been burned into a pile of black charcoal, this, his intestines flowed all over the floor... Oh God! I'm about to vomit! This is a village that has been turned into ashes! Gentlemen! These are the atrocities of the United States Team **!"
Swallow's face turned pale in an instant. Although he was a white man himself, it was really scary to be so white.
“Oh oh oh!”
"God!"
“This is simply outrageous!”
"Mr. Sward! You should explain it!"
The photo was full of all kinds of miserable situations. Although it was black and white, it was too amazing and really made people want to vomit.
"No!" But at this time, Sward still denied it. It should be said that he could not refuse to deny it, "Gentlemen! We all know that the things like photos cannot be taken at that time!"
Oh yes, this Sward is really amazing and very eager to be smart.
You should know that in this day and age, it is still very high-quality to take a photo. Not everyone has the financial resources, so it is not easy. So, the cost of this thing is very high, so it is naturally very troublesome. Therefore, if you want to take photos, it is difficult to be documentary. For example, in this current situation, it is difficult for you to take these photos at the time of the incident.
"This..." Everyone present also realized it, but this photo exists after all?
However, Liszt was not confused about this and he smiled.
"Hahaha..." He laughed loudly, and he continued, "Sward! You frog in the well! You don't know the technological development of our American Empire at all! My great Clint Lee I, many of his inventions are amazing! Forget it, you don't understand, hum! Although these photos were not taken at the time of the incident, they were also taken not long after our Emperor** people arrived! However, I think you can still argue! It doesn't matter, I have the personal description of local Mexican civilians in my hand! I will read it to you now!"
Telling? That's... Damn it! This is a big deal! There are physical evidence and people to prove it!
"That afternoon, a group of American soldiers wearing blue tops and gray pants came. They started robbing the food in the village without saying anything. Of course, we couldn't just watch our food being robbed, so we fought. However, those American soldiers were too vicious! They beat us directly without saying anything, and even shot us later... They strongly sword our women! They killed our people, old people, and children, and finally burned the village... I was afraid of hiding in the haystack..."
Liszt's voice was plain and there was no such arousal as he was in his daily life, but this was so much that everyone in the audience stood up!
"Mr. Sward! You United States of America must give you an explanation!"
"That's right! Such atrocities should not exist in the civilized world!"
"God, are you really not afraid of God's punishment? Or are you already believers of Satan?"
Almost in a moment, the entire conference room was full of condemnation of Sward and the United States of America he represented!
The one who screamed the most was Clarendon IV. This old guy was so angry that he was trembling.
However, Disraelli didn't say much, because he felt that in terms of interests, killing people is for the sake of victory in the war, and interests come first.
"I... this... is not... wrong... it's not like this..." Sward had a hundred mouths now and couldn't explain it. Finally, he had to say: "This so-called narrative cannot be completely certain that it is Mexican!"
To be honest, this accusation is silly. How could something that can be taken out on such an occasion be rootless?
Lister smiled and said, "The Indian's signature and handprint on this document are in Spanish. In addition, if you don't believe it, you can come to Mexico to see this gentleman. There are many burns on his body and he is being treated in the Mexican hospital of the Empire. In addition, Mr. Sward, if your US military has an epidemic of syphilis, our empire has special medicine. all-hail-lee! These are the great contributions of His Majesty the Emperor!"
Sward felt like his face was being beaten and sweared that he would never be in such a mess in his life... (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!