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Lin Yuan pointed to the notice and said, "Look, the French told us that they said that Siam had dispatched a troop called the War Elephant Legion."

Shen Wanqing smiled and said, "War Elephant Legion? Did they fight on elephants?"

Lin Yuan shook his head and said, "Now that you don't even use horses in war, how can you use elephants?"

Shen Wanqing said: "Since this name was mentioned in the French report, why don't you go directly to the French?"

Lin Yuan put down the notice in his hand, and said with a smile: "Believe it or not, I don't need to look for them, they will definitely come to me." The two went to their respective offices after talking. Lin Yuan sat on the first floor of the office. One thing is to ask the squire: "Have the French come to me?"

The attendant replied: "Report Lin Shuai, no one from the French embassy has come, they only sent you a few notifications, and we sent them to you this morning."

Lin Yuan thought to himself: "The French are really calm, that's fine, I'll just ignore them and wait and see what happens." Thinking about it, Lin Yuan asked his attendant to bring the previous official documents and began to process them. A brand new day has started, and the war between Siam and France thousands of miles away has not affected the busy crowd at all.

At twelve o'clock in the morning, Lin Yuan called the 28th Division and asked, "How is the battle on the frontline now?"

Yun Tiangang replied: "According to the report of Sun Siming, the head of the 252 regiment, the Siamese troops have captured more than a dozen outposts of the French army."

Lin Yuan asked: "Has the 252nd Regiment discovered that there is a unit called 'War Elephant Legion' in Siam?"

Yun Tiangang replied: "No, the information sent back by the 252nd Regiment did not mention the specific number of the Siamese army. Their scouts could only go there pretending to be businessmen. Businessmen dare not ask the number of the army."

Lin Yuan said: "Well, you continue to reconnaissance, and move the 251st and 250th regiments to the border between Siam and Laos." Quite mysterious, but it's a very capable force at best, and it's not worth asking the French embassy about it."

After thinking about it, Lin Yuan went back to work, then had lunch and took a lunch break, just like usual. In the afternoon, he attended a seminar on cooperation and development between China and African countries, and discussed with officials from Egypt, Ethiopia and other countries the implementation of the "China's Seventh Round of African Aid Plan". ", went home at night, had dinner, chatted with Shen Wanqing, teased her a few words by the way, made her face flushed, even though they were old couples, but the freshness never faded, went to bed at night, Just when Lin Yuan thought that an ordinary day was about to pass, the attendant suddenly called and said, "The French ambassador is here to see you."

Lin Yuan looked at his watch—at 09:30 in the evening, he thought to himself: "The French come to me at this time, they must be unable to hold back any longer." So Lin Yuan put on his clothes and came to the reception room with eyes full of eyes. The bloodshot French ambassador was fidgeting in the reception room, Lin Yuan laughed loudly and said, "Mr. Ambassador, what's the important thing to come to me so late?"

The French ambassador didn't have time to exchange greetings, nor did he have time to sit down, and said directly: "The army has been defeated like a mountain, and the Siamese war elephant army is really too powerful."

Lin Yuan frowned, and thought to himself: "According to the information sent back by the 252nd Regiment, the Siamese army has only taken down a dozen outposts of the French army. How can it be said that the army has been defeated like a mountain?"

Lin Yuan sat down while thinking, and said, "Mr. Ambassador, please sit down, let's talk slowly."

The French ambassador sat down on a chair, took out a map from his assistant's bag and put it on the table, pointed at it with his hand, and said, "This is where Siam launched its attack. In 24 hours, the Siamese war elephant army broke through our [-]-kilometer defense line!"

Lin Yuan raised his eyebrows when he heard this, and said, "Breakthrough the [-]-kilometer defense line? Our intelligence said: They only broke through a dozen of your checkpoints, and the depth will never exceed ten kilometers!"

The French ambassador smiled wryly and said, "Mr. Lin Yuan, your country's intelligence capability is very strong, but this time we are a country participating in the war. Your intelligence should not be as accurate as ours, right?"

Lin Yuan nodded and said: "Well, I believe your information, but the places where Siam launched the attack are all high mountains, easy to defend and difficult to attack. How did your troops break through fifty kilometers in one day? This war elephant Is the Legion that powerful?"

The French ambassador said sadly: "Although the Siamese war elephant army is powerful, our failure is not entirely due to the war elephant army. Our failure is more due to our own reasons than the Siamese army. The attacking area is Luang Prabang in Laos. The ethnic groups living here are all the Laosong tribe. The so-called Laosong tribe is an ethnic group living in the mountains. They are brave and good at fighting. The officials we sent did not understand the local situation. The method of taxation was too rough, which led to deep grievances. Once the Siamese army was dispatched, people from the Laosong clan cooperated with the Siamese army to attack us."

"You also know that Laos only surrendered to us in 1893, and it has only been five years. We have not deepened the transformation of Laos' civilization, and Luang Prabang is a mountainous area, so the level of civilization is even lower. The army did not understand the situation and was beaten everywhere in the mountains."

Lin Yuan thought to himself while listening: "Vientiane is only tens of kilometers away from the border between Siam and Laos. Siam will not attack Vientiane, which has a relatively good foundation under French rule, but attack Luang Prabang, which has a weak foundation of rule, Chulalong Gong is indeed a handsome talent." Lin Yuan asked at this time: "What is the War Elephant Army?"

The French ambassador said: "The War Elephant Corps is a unit formed by Siam. It started preparations a year ago. It is a top secret in Siam. Our intelligence personnel also took a lot of hard work to find out about this unit. , It is said that this army is completely trained by British military officers, specializing in mountain and tropical jungle combat, and the training is cruel. Before each training, it will bring ten body bags, and those who die will be stuffed into the body bags and taken away. !"

Hearing these words, Lin Yuan couldn't help feeling chills down his spine. Although his troops also have training death indicators, Lin Yuan has always opposed non-combat attrition, and death indicators are rarely used. There has never been such a thing as wearing a body bag during training. However, this kind of training method has one of the biggest characteristics-it makes people ignore life, they don't take their lives seriously on the training ground, and they don't take their lives seriously when they are on the battlefield!

Just as Lin Yuan was thinking, the French ambassador paused and said, "This war elephant army has something to do with you!"