Chapter 221: Playing with Fire (Please Collect, Recommend, and Vote) Please Recommend! Post First and Then Modify
On May 10, on the ship to France. Kai stood at the bow, looking at the American soldiers chatting on the deck behind him, and felt a little emotional. He probably witnessed the process of the United States going global.
Who would have thought that decades later, these country bumpkin soldiers would become the world's strongest army?
In this era, the US military was actually looked down upon. The center of the world in this era was Europe, and the strongest army was also in Europe. What's more, Europe has been fighting a brutal war for several years, and what about the United States? The war with Spain would not be recognized by Europe. It was at most a small-scale armed conflict. What's so good about two chickens fighting each other? In fact, if you don't pay special attention to international news, no one knows that the United States and Spain have fought.
A group of rookies, only suitable for carrying ammunition.
This is the evaluation of the American soldiers by the accompanying British soldiers. The physical fitness of the American soldiers is good, but the tactical literacy and command ability are terrible. Especially their commanders, they are like the old and young people of the Napoleonic era, and their tactical thinking is extremely outdated. The British once thought they were still in the era of infantry phalanxes lined up for execution.
"Master, it's tea time." Ah Fu came to Kai with several guardians, holding things needed for afternoon tea, such as parasols and armchairs.
Kai was helpless. He didn't like the British aristocracy very much. He didn't like black tea, and he didn't like those sweet snacks. These foreigners seemed to have a special preference for sweetness, even putting sugar in tea. This was a torture for Kai, who liked to drink tea. He would rather drink water than black tea with a bunch of messy things added. →
"I don't think it's necessary to be so exaggerated. We are still in the war, right?" Doing this on a troop transport ship is not in line with the tradition of the people's soldiers. Do you still want the hard-working, simple and plain style?
Ah Fu just smiled and nodded, and then set the plate for Kai... It's just afternoon tea, is it necessary to set the plate? Like his grandfather, he always believed that Kai must always maintain the demeanor of an aristocrat with his noble status! This thing is not for Kai to enjoy at all, but for others to see.
Most of the so-called aristocratic style is for show. This is not subject to Kai's will at all. If they do not do this, it is their dereliction of duty as a butler.
"Okay, put less sugar and runny milk, and add other messy things." The British and black tea like to add some messy things to it, such as adding spices such as cinnamon, cloves, pepper, cardamom, etc. Anyway, in Kai's view, it is cooking, not drinking tea. So he hates it very much.
After a while, the captain of the battleship came to Kai and enjoyed afternoon tea together. In this era, all senior naval generals are of noble origin. This is a British tradition, and only Britain is like this in the world.
There are many factors that cause this situation, the most important of which is that the navy is a high-tech branch of the military. This requires a lot of professional knowledge. It is no exaggeration to say that it is necessary for a ship commander to be familiar with astronomy and geography. Before World War I, education was still an extremely expensive thing. It takes a lot of resources to train a naval officer. In this regard, the nobles have an advantage.
(In fact, the British Army is also like this, but not as exaggerated as the Navy. Before World War I, the British aristocracy was quite strong.)
The captain's name is Manfred de Hort, a baron. He has served in the Navy for more than 40 years and is about to retire, but like almost all old marines, they are reluctant to leave their posts. They prefer to be with the waves rather than on land. Perhaps this is the romance of the Navy.
"Good day, Your Highness the Duke." Captain Manfred greeted Kai very politely. Then he sat down at the table very naturally, and the guardian on the side also served him black tea very naturally.
The old captain is a well-informed person and very cheerful. He likes to chat with others. Although he has no idea about Kai's identity, he still chats with Kai happily. Today is no exception.
The content of today's chat is still the damn war in front of them.
Although they chatted happily, it does not mean that they have the same views. On the contrary, their views are very different. For example, Manfred always believed that the war was the fault of the Germans. They should have stayed within the rules set by the British Empire instead of rashly provoking a war and plunging the world into war.
But Kai's view is very different. He pointed out very sarcastically that the war was not so much the fault of the Germans as it was a mistake made by the British and the Germans together.
The British took away all the territories that could be colonized in the world, leaving no chance for the new countries behind. That's fine, but why did the Germans start a war? Did the British have no idea at all?
After the rise of the Germans, the British did not relax their pursuit of Germany at all. What did the Germans think of the British alliance with France and Russia?
The Germans saw that they were like, fuck, I'm being attacked from both sides! What's this?
As a Chinese, Kai knows what the British troublemaker has done? And that colonial system is even more bullshit! Is it really worth being proud of to exploit the whole world to fatten Britain? If it weren't for Germany, World War I might have broken out between the colonies and Britain.
Manfred, a patriot, disagreed. In Manfred's view, the colonial system is definitely a superior system. It brought the light of civilization to all barren lands and spread the glory of democracy and freedom to the whole world.
You are familiar with this rhetoric, right? The Lighthouse Country in later generations always uses this set of words.
Otherwise, it is said that the British Country and the Lighthouse Country are of the same origin.
They are all this set of rhetoric, and they are all fleecing the whole world.
Manfred is not talking nonsense, but he really thinks so. In fact, before World War I, the British thought so. Manfred was just wondering why Kai, who is obviously the Duke of the British Empire, was so dismissive of the pride of the British Empire.
However, Manfred did not feel any disgust towards Kai because of this. Because in his view, what kind of person a person is, don't look at what he says, but look at what he does. As a soldier, he actually looks down on those politicians in London.
What's the use of shouting slogans? Often those who shout slogans are not the ones who charge forward. Kai may be unhappy with the war in front of him, but he actually went to the battlefield. Isn't that enough?
Manfred was right to think so, but it would be a bit strange to say that Kai was doing it for Britain.
If it weren't for the news from the British government that Ludendorff actually used vampires to directly participate in the war!
Yes, it was the vampires who broke through the Verdun fortress! To be more precise, those mutant vampires!
Controlling mutant vampires has always been the unique skill of the New Party vampires, but now Ludendorff actually has this technology. What happened in the middle, do we still need to guess?
What is even more unacceptable is that those mutant vampires were simply created by Ludendorff.
He transformed some ordinary people into vampires, and then let them use poison gas to mutate! Finally, he used the mysterious power of the New Party vampires to control them to appear on the battlefield!
In Kai's view, this is no longer a war. It's anti-human!
Kai has no position in the war between the Allies and the Entente. Kai has nothing to be unhappy about if the British win. It's also acceptable for the Germans to win, anyway, they can't destroy the world. But Ludendorff's approach... that's playing with fire!