America, French colonial area.
Richard's office.
The small office was packed with senior French officials here. Some people couldn't sit down and simply stood.
The same battle report was also placed on Richard's table. He tapped his fingers on the table, making a dull sound.
Thump thump thump…
Bites everyone in the silent air.
Their faces were filled with a gloomy look that was difficult to ignore, but Richard, the leader of France in America, was humming a melody at the corner of his mouth and played it with extremely coordinated fingers.
"Richard Pavilion..."
"Shh." Richard stopped him softly.
The man was stunned for a moment, then gave up and retreated.
Until the sound stopped completely, Richard opened his eyes, with an indescribable weird smile on his face, looking at the French senior officials.
"There is a piece of music that is popular in Vienna recently. It has a good melody. I heard it was composed by a Long Yan man. If you have time, go and listen to it."
Richard said calmly.
A group of high-level French officials frowned and said in a deep voice: "Sir Richard, in this war, we lost nearly 10,000 cavalry and 20,000 infantry!"
"Position No. 3 has been lost. The top priority is to increase the number of troops. We cannot let the British take the position away!"
Richard glanced at him, raised his finger and shook his head: "No, no, no."
"Legion Commander, you are wrong. The Britons cannot pose any danger to us now."
"Their losses are no less than ours."
The legion commander took a step forward, slammed his hands on the table, and said in a deep voice: "Our losses are not small, but now we have the initiative in our hands."
"Position No. 2 is in our hands. We now have Longyan artillery and Indian troops. We can definitely defeat Position No. 1 before winter comes!"
"Let the British completely lose the qualification to challenge us!"
Richard ignored the legion commander's suggestion. He stood up, faced the legion commander directly, smiled slightly, and said lightly: "The suggestion is very good, but I will not adopt it."
The legion commander looked startled, and then shouted: "Richard, you are passive and lazy in the fight. We can obviously win, but you are harming the interests of our France."
Faced with his anger, Richard was not angry at all, but said.
"No, I am protecting our France."
He stepped over the lost legion commander and walked to the center of the office. After scanning around, he said loudly: "Everyone here, I have two pieces of news to tell you."
Everyone looked at him one after another, with Mr. Huo's eyes full of confusion.
Richard didn't care about their looks, but raised the information in his hand and laughed loudly: "The information in my hand is about the agreement with Longyan weapons and equipment."
As soon as these words came out, everyone's expressions changed from stunned to shocked, until their eyes were filled with disbelief.
The relationship between Long Yancheng and them can be said to be incompatible.
And now Longyan City has completely blocked their contact with mainland Europe.
This also resulted in the mainland having no way to continue to provide support to the Americas, and they also had no way to deliver supplies to their homeland.
Not enough news from the European battlefields still reached their ears, but in this regard, these French people who had not been in America for a particularly long time and still cared about their homeland actually cared a little about their motherland.
But there is nothing we can do about the current situation in America.
This also resulted in an irreconcilable conflict between France and Longyan City.
But now Richard, the French talker, said that they had signed a weapons agreement with Longyan City.
The news made them strangely angry.
"Sir Richard, why should we cooperate with the despicable Longyan people!"
"They're all bastards!"
"What have you done to achieve cooperation..."
Richard quietly watched the group of people accusing and cursing without any rebuttal.
Richard heard the sound gradually stop and then said.
"I have an experimental report here, I believe everyone here has read it."
"This is a report on the Dragon Flame Cannon." Richard picked up a report from his desk and showed it to them with the cover facing forward.
They looked at the report, and most of the officials here did.
"I don't need to elaborate on the content inside. It is that all the artillery shells we have now cannot exert the power of the Dragon Flame Cannon."
Richard laughed, put down the report and leaned on the table, looking at everyone on the field, and finally his eyes fell on the commander of the French Army.
He asked: "Why do you think our Dragon Flame Cannon performed so well in this battle?"
"What do you think of the regiment commander?"
Everyone was deep in thought, but all their eyes turned to the legion commander.
The legion commander's face was ashen. Of course he had read these two reports, and because he was in charge of the legion, he knew more than them. Although he didn't want to admit it, many key reversals in this battle were This is achieved by using the Dragon Flame Cannon.
The most fundamental reason for achieving this goal is because of these shells.
All these cannonballs came from Dragon Flame. I don’t know how Richard got it, but he got ten Dragon Flame cannonballs.
"Humph!" The legion commander snorted coldly and said nothing.
Richard sneered and said loudly: "That's because we got Dragon Flame's cannonballs."
As soon as the flower bloomed, everyone present fell silent.
In this war, Long Yan's weapons indeed played a great role.
The legion commander said without giving up: "Your Excellency Richard, the final victory over the British was the French cavalry troops trained by us."
"It's not a dragon flame cannon. I hope you can understand this."
Richard glanced at him, not vetoing, just telling.
"But the Britons who attacked us secretly used troops far lower than those on the third front. When we occupied the right time, place and people, they killed all the defenders on the third position until they were timid and frightened."
"If our reinforcements had not arrived at the critical moment, would position three now belong to the British?"
The legion commander was rendered speechless.
Upon seeing this, everyone knew that what Richard said was true. They had all read the reports about the war, but the details were not so detailed.
Richard looked at them and said coldly: "I think everyone should know about this."
"Why did the British army fail so miserably when they attacked Position 3 even though we were well prepared?"
"It's because the British army has a special musket from Longyan that can fire continuously in a very short period of time."
Everyone was shocked. Being able to fire the musket six times in a row was simply something they didn't dare to think of.
"And this weapon also comes from dragon flames."
Hearing this sentence, everyone was completely horrified.
