For officers like Lieutenant Colonel Neville who are willing to fully cooperate with "Blackwater", "Blackwater" must of course pay attention to and encourage them. Thus, the best talents all leaned first to Neville's regiment, for example, the "Military Advisers", in the "Blackwater" interior received the title of "Sharp Shooter" and thus could use Macdonald 1857 precision shooting In Neville's regiment, the proportion of qualified military elites who are qualified to use the rifle is much higher than in other troops.

However, Neville's support for "Blackwater" is not unlimited. For example, when Robson proposed the so-called "skirmish line attack" and "trench defense" tactics, Neville finally expressed his opposition.

"What! You want my soldiers to dig holes all over the ground like rats? How can that be done? That will make me the laughing stock of the whole army, no, the whole of Europe! No! This is too detrimental to the army! When the enemy is majestic and majestic, we are hiding in the ground like timid mice. This is simply..."

"Ah, Lieutenant Colonel." Robson tried to answer the question from another angle, "Do you usually hunt?"

"Hunting, but what has that got to do with it?" said Neville.

"When you are facing an upright wild boar without any weapons, which is straight towards you, do you plan to take off your clothes, throw away your guns, and have a fair fight with that wild boar? How about a contest?" Robson said with a smile.

"This...how is this the same thing? This..." Lieutenant Colonel Neville was about to be annoyed by Robson's nondescript metaphor, and couldn't think of any words to refute for a while.

"Why is it, not the same thing? Aren't those Austrians who occupied the land of Italy and enslaved the people of Italy beasts? They are worse than beasts! Why do you have to talk to them about gentlemanly demeanor? Besides, Mr. Garibaldi Are you upright when fighting them? Then tell me, how do you Italians evaluate Mr. Garibaldi and his army?" Robson didn't wait for Neville to come up with any rebuttals and came up again like a storm for such a period.

At this moment, Neville really couldn't find any words to refute for a while. After all, there is Garibaldi, the founder of guerrilla warfare, there. In Italy's first war of independence, Sardinia was defeated, but Garibaldi and his guerrillas did a great job, and even took Rome for a time. Yes, Garibaldi seldom fought his opponents upright, but this did not prevent him from winning one victory after another, and the whole of Italy regarded him as a liberator and a national hero.

But Neville still didn't intend to give in, he said: "Of course, Mr. Garibaldi is a hero, but his army is just a militia, we are a regular army, how can we..."

"Regular army? Your record is not as good as that of the militia." Robson laughed mercilessly.

If he hadn't been an old acquaintance, if he hadn't known the virtue of Robson's mouth for a long time, I'm afraid Neville couldn't help but jump up and shake his fist at Robson.

"We made great sacrifices for the independence of Italy, in Custozza alone we lost nine thousand!" retorted Neville. But his rebuttal made Robson laugh even more, and the beards on his face opened one by one.

"I've only seen people showing off how many enemies they have eliminated. This is the first time I've seen someone boasting about their enemies' achievements! Lieutenant Colonel, your logic is truly unprecedented!"

"I won't talk to you, bastard!" Lieutenant Colonel Neville, who couldn't bear it anymore, got up and left.

"Lieutenant Colonel, wait, I made a mistake! You need to know my mouth...let's talk about it!" Robson chased after him with a shameless face...

Robson was indeed wrong. He thought that this kind of practice of using the enemy's record to show off himself would never come again, but he didn't know that there is no lower limit to human IQ, and there is no upper limit to the thickness of human skin. There are countless similar arguments in later generations. For example, Our national army sacrificed millions of soldiers and nearly tens of millions of strong men in the War of Resistance (I don’t know who killed this), how many people died in the land beetle? Therefore, our national army is the main force in the serious anti-Japanese war, which is like a turtle swimming without fighting! What? The number of prisoners of war captured by the Japanese army was more than four times that of the national army. I don’t know if all the prisoners captured by the national army were buried alive by Dongfang Baiqi and Sun Liren. What, only one hundred thousand US troops died? This further shows that we are the main force in the war against Japan... Do you still have a conscience? If it weren't for our national army's blood, one hundred thousand men and ten thousand soldiers, you would have become #￥%&*%￥#

...

In the end, Robson succeeded in convincing Lieutenant Colonel Neville. Of course, it wasn't because of his stinky mouth that could make Neville faint, but because of a trick that Scrooge gave him.

"If Lieutenant Colonel Neville has concerns, you can tell him that as long as he supports your work, you can represent the company and hire him to serve as the company's military research consultant after retirement. In this way, even if he loses the war, he will not have a way out. If he is worried about the impact, this contract can be kept secret. In addition, the salary can be calculated every month from the time the contract is signed, and it can also be regarded as a loan to the company. , When he needs it, he will be withdrawn together with the principal and interest at one time, or he will be paid to him after he retires."

The temptation knocked Neville down. He looked at the contract, then at Robson. Then he said viciously:

"You devil! You want to seduce me!"

"What? Are you going to refuse?"

"Of course not." Lieutenant Colonel Neville said. At the same time, he quickly picked up a pen on the table and signed his name on the contract. After the ink dried, he carefully put away the contract. , while saying, "I mean you and I should keep it secret."

"You are too careful, Lieutenant Colonel. This contract is completely legal." Robson said disapprovingly.

"Yes, I know that, but I still don't want anyone else to know."

It is not Scrooge's idea to use this kind of "legal" means to buy others. This is just a common trading model in the money and power trading market after the capitalist system matures - money and power futures.

There are two common forms of money and power transactions. One is spot transactions, that is, directly using the money in hand to purchase power services. To put it more clearly, it is bribery and bribery. This direct transaction mode is often too direct so that many people can see the problems at a glance, and shout: "Against corruption!" Therefore, this too-primitive transaction mode has never been for those High-level people in advanced countries (whether high-level power or high-level money) like it, so the second, more concealed, and cleaner transaction mode came into being. This is money futures. Its implementation is more subtle, and many brainwashed people even regard its implementation as a sign of democracy. Because the most typical and main way of its implementation is by election.

At election time, it is money invested in power futures. Among many candidates, donors select the one they think has the potential to appreciate in the future and then sponsor a sum of money for campaigning. Of course, this kind of investment is risky, because the candidate may not be elected. It's like selling futures. When you buy, you can't be sure whether the transaction is profitable or not. If the candidate you selected is selected, well, your future investment is considered a success. Since he took your money to run for the election, he will naturally repay you when he takes office. For example, if you are in the arms business, when he comes to power, he will develop armaments and even launch wars to repay you. However, there is still a problem here. That is, the money you give to others is only campaign funds, and theoretically none of the money will fall into the pockets of those with power. The ancients said that "a thousand miles to be an official is only for money". In your transaction, money bought power, but power could not be sold for money. So this method is still much more honest than the first method, it deserves to be the choice of a free and democratic country...

Wait a minute, because this transaction has not yet been finalized. When people with power are using their power to serve those benefactors, they are also doing a futures transaction. When they are still in office, they are naturally very "clean", and after the term of office expires, it is time for future delivery. By that time, those resigned presidents and the like can always get a ridiculously high-paying "consultant" position in some big companies or some other organizations, and his children can easily get To be able to get a very good position in some places where you can make a lot of money with very little effort. For example, President Clinton owed tens of millions of dollars in legal fees when he left office because of a lawsuit when he was in office. However, as soon as he got off the stage, he immediately served as a "consultant" for several large companies. He felt that Su Qin was matched with the Prime Minister of the Six Kingdoms. Then he was constantly invited by big capital to give speeches, and the appearance fee was as high as millions of dollars. In less than a year, he paid back tens of millions of legal fees and earned tens of millions more. But at this time, he is no longer a public servant. It is his legal right to work as a consultant in a big company. It is his freedom to give him as much as a big company is willing to give him. You see, the transaction of money and power is completed in a reasonable, legal, and extremely clean transaction. This is the model of advanced money and power transactions in advanced countries after the development of capitalism matures, which is fair, open, reasonable, and legal. Be conscientious, and kind people will never see or pretend not to see the tricks in it. As for the low-intelligence people, they are naturally deceived, thinking that there is no money power transaction in our government.

Such advanced trading methods conquered Lieutenant Colonel Neville, and also successively conquered the commanders of the other two teams equipped with MacDonald 1857 rifles. So a revolution in tactics quietly began in the unremarkable Kingdom of Sardinia.