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Chapter 139 Grant: The North will win! Lincoln: On the possibility of southern victory in the protracted war!

Tennessee, still a military camp.

"Grant, how far do you think our Union is from winning?"

After the chat ended, Lincoln approached Grant again.

Lincoln now valued the future general president more than Jackson's military talents.

"President, I am victorious... Didn't I say it before? As long as we maintain victory and keep winning, we will eventually be able to achieve a comprehensive victory for the Federation!"

Speaking of war, Grant was still confident and full of offensive energy.

But Lincoln's mentality was different.

"Then do you think the Confederate Army will inevitably fail?" Lincoln stared calmly into Grant's eyes.

"Defeat!"

Grant gave a firmer answer.

"why?"

Although he knew a more precise date of victory than Grant did, Lincoln asked anyway.

Grant hesitated for a moment, glanced in the direction of the military camp, and then calmly spoke out the answer: "Mr. President, I remember you also told us that we will eventually win. The biggest reason is resources...especially since we have now cut off the enemy. The land and resources from the west can no longer be continuously sent to the battlefield in the east."

"Although our Union Army suffered 2.3 casualties in the Battle of Gettysburg, the enemy suffered at least casualties!"

"But, our resources are much more than theirs! Our federation has the resources of 23 states and a population of more than million, while they only have seven states with a population of million, maybe million!"

"Although in the early days of the war, our federal army had not been trained for a long time. Some of them were even in factories. They were workers and citizens. Far from being farmers and hunters in the South, they had been trained for a long time and their marksmanship was very accurate. We suffered a great setback."

"But... the form of war has changed now! Especially when the presidents used the Homestead Act and the initiative to emancipate black slaves politically, they destroyed the foundation of their soldiers. What can be seen is..."

"Their total deployable force will only be reduced visibly. Now they can suffer 30,000 casualties in a battle. So, how many times can they accept 30,000 casualties?"

"On the contrary, it's us. Even if we kill one of their soldiers with two soldiers and one hundred or ten thousand artillery shells, we can quickly replenish it with the help of countless factories!"

"Now, even if we don't use any military strategy, as long as we can find their main force, we will directly use human lives and artillery shells to directly eliminate their effective strength. How long can they hold on? Even if all nine million of them are on board, We have 20 million people in the Federation. According to the casualty ratio of 2 to 1, we can still have 2 to 3 million people left. When the time comes, who will they have left to fight for us?"

The biggest change brought about by the Civil War was the update of military concepts.

Especially Grant, his radical war concept of mutual consumption of resources was completely formed in this civil war.

The concept he upholds can be regarded as a scorched earth strategy, occupying the territory nodes in the south. The first thing he does is to kill people, implement a scorched earth strategy against the south, and completely cut off the base of southern troops!

For this behavior, he was also dubbed the Butcher General.

In his battles, he did not pay attention to art, did not care about casualties, and just acted recklessly. This resulted in the battle he commanded. Although he was victorious, it was also one of the most casualty and required more troops to be replenished.

The other army was the army led by his deputy Sherman on the Western Front.

The two radical commanders finally stood out in this war and defeated General Li, who used tactical micro-management but also upheld classical military thinking.

The emergence of this tactic led to the number of casualties in the civil war reaching 8 million.

Lincoln undoubtedly felt Grant's radicalism again.

But he didn't blame it, because this could be regarded as his military tendency. As the rear area, he gave this kind of logistical support.

This same attrition tactic has also become the basis for their decision-making.

War no longer relies on commanders and soldiers.

Instead, it relies on resources to push horizontally. Soldiers and commanders are just truly expendable chess pieces on their military simulation sandbox. They just need to be replenished after they are consumed.

All they considered was whether the recruitment process could be fast enough. It would take days for soldiers to enter the battlefield.

So, what if General Lee in the South had military prowess comparable to that of Napoleon?

Putting Napoleon in the Southern Army, facing this kind of unsolvable violence, what if he had a genius in military command?

"Then there is no last chance for them in the south? We cannot be optimistic. We cannot underestimate the enemy until the war reaches the moment of true victory."

Therefore, although Lincoln was moved by the bad idea of ​​the group asking him to join the Confederate Army, he had to face reality calmly when he thought about facing the military concept of the North.

"Yes! They broke into pieces and fought a vast guerrilla war with us! Facts have proved that the other party's Robert Lee also did the same. Unfortunately, they still need to supplement resources and must also have a rear. Otherwise, without a supplementary rear, they This kind of ridiculous guerrilla is like a mosquito tickling an elephant, it still does not help the overall war situation..."

“I feel like by next year’s Independence Day at best, soldiers will be able to pop the champagne at home.”

At this moment, Grant seemed to overlap with a certain five-star general a hundred years later and said similar things.

Independence Day next year, July 1865, 7!

The radical Grant's prediction of victory in the Civil War was only three months too late.

Therefore, even if he surrendered the Confederate Army with Grant, how could he win against the industrial North that had been completely integrated by the war?
Rely on a protracted guerrilla war?

It seems that we can only rely on a protracted battle!
As long as the South does not surrender, the North's seemingly unsolvable military concept of resource bombardment will actually not be sustainable for long.

Because if it takes longer, everyone in the north will protest, and they will not be able to support the massive consumption for long. Politically, it has been unable to defeat the south, and the north will inevitably compromise.

At this moment, Lincoln was able to jump out of the current military dimension and consider victory in the political dimension.

He saw this point more clearly than Grant.

Also, if he surrendered as president, it would be a major political blow to the entire North.

Can he also expose the shortcomings of this kind of war that consumes human lives and resources in the north and come up with a workers' liberation declaration?

By then, those people in the north are not fools, and they will definitely not be willing to be cannon fodder, and will start a strike or something. In this battle, it’s really not certain who will win and who will lose.

At least what is visible is that the North and the South have reached a political compromise and are closer to peace talks.

The United States was divided by the Mississippi River and became two countries in a practical sense.

Moreover, as the president, when he goes to the South, because of the Emancipation Proclamation... he may have a large black base and may recruit more soldiers.

Let the northern army feel the black torrent and black terror.

Between him and Davis in the South, it is not certain who will be president.

Even if Davis wins first, he can wait until Davis withdraws to continue running and extend his political life.

By then, his status may be like that of the founding fathers such as Jefferson and Adams.

This situation seems to be at least invincible...

"So, Mr. President...what else do you want to know? Although your arrival is inspiring, to be honest, our soldiers do not need to have feelings in this state of war, as long as they can Just shoot.”

Lincoln's long silence once again caused Grant to complain.

He felt uncomfortable when a president came to his place.

"Grant, please tone down your tactics a little. Someone has already revealed your butcher-like tactics, so... my purpose here is to make you restrain yourself a little. In addition, by the way, I would like to welcome those black brothers who join our federation. They..."

Lincoln quickly came to his senses, and subconsciously wanted Grant to restrain himself.

At the same time, as soon as the words came out, he made up another reason instantly.

The base of black brothers may even be his strong backing after arriving in the South.

"Those people are not on the battlefield, and they really have their heads shoved up their a**holes when they say these words!"

Grant was so angry that he complained on the spot.

Lincoln stopped talking, but couldn't help but look to the north. Now the question came again, would Mary be willing to come to the south?
……

“Overthrow the presidential system established by Washington?”

“Implementing the system I really want?”

"From the countless possibilities for the development of the United States, find the optimal solution for the development of the United States?"

"is it possible?"

Elsewhere, Jefferson, who ended the chat, was also affected.

However, he was not affected much, and he was relatively sober.

He clearly knew that the people in the group were just watching the fun and having fun.

The current political situation has finally taken shape and is still in a fragile period.

If he rashly makes huge changes, the presidential system that countless people have worked for in the past two decades may be at risk of collapse.

This is obviously not a good thing for a new country.

"I got this information. If the people in the group don't speak with any political stance or inclination..."

"The only thing that can be trusted is the corruption caused by political division in the future described by Cleveland, and the fact that under the two-party system, different political philosophies lead to insufficient and unbalanced development of the country, which even once triggered huge conflicts and led to civil war."

"These contradictions have gradually grown over time."

"When interest groups grow large enough and want to promote reforms, the resistance will undoubtedly become greater."

"The only thing that can be solved is that I am now..."

"While we, as a new political group and interest group, are still conducting various explorations and are in the newborn period, it is easy to establish various systems and use systems to nip some signs in the bud."

"In this way, we can delay corruption and unbalanced and inadequate development in the system..."

“To achieve the democracy I really want, or democracy needs to last a little longer.”

Instead, Jefferson conducted a round of information screening very rationally and knew clearly what information was useful to him and what information was useless to him.

And how this useful information can help him now.

There is no doubt about this wave of analysis.

He concluded directly that overthrowing the presidential system in Washington was simply unrealistic.

On the contrary, from the perspective of his "ancestral system", establishing a corruption regulatory agency or a financial regulatory agency is more realistic and more in line with his political philosophy.

"Well, if that's the case..."

"Maybe I really have to remember Hamilton."

After thinking about political things and thinking about Hamilton's death, Jefferson couldn't help but sigh with regret.

It might have been better to come to this group earlier.

If he wants to establish a financial regulatory agency, he will definitely have to discuss it with Hamilton, and the gap between them may actually break the ice.

Now, it's too late to regret, so I can only go to the grave of my old friend and send a bouquet of flowers.

(End of this chapter)