Originally, Zhang Chi thought that after using the "election" system, the old officers of the Sixth Army were only afraid that the whole army would be wiped out...... After all, the vast majority of veteran officers are people with connections or backgrounds, even Li Zhen and Wu Guoxi are no exception. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Soldiers are fed up with this kind of "background" and "related" bullying, or it can be said to be unfair treatment, and when they have the opportunity to turn over, of course, they will replace all these "background related households" in one go without thinking.

But that's not the case......

Many of the original officers in the Sixth Army were promoted, such as Li Zhen, who was actually elected commander of the Sixth Army...... From a regimental commander to a military commander, this can also be regarded as a rocket.

Of course, a considerable number of officers were replaced by the grassroots class, but the number was not as large as Zhang Chi imagined, and only half of them were large.

In hindsight, this was related to several factors.

First of all, "background households" sometimes do not mean that they are unqualified officers, because the "background" in this is likely to mean that the officer came out of the military academy and has certain command ability and quality, for example, Li Zhen's background is a graduate of Whampoa.

Secondly, and more importantly, soldiers are a little accustomed to being commanded by these "background households", and even often think that they need cultural people like "background households" to be officers...... This may not be said to be a habit, but the bourgeoisie has long instilled a qualitative thinking in the people for its own interests: these official tasks cannot be done by ordinary people, and must be served by scholars or people of high moral standing in order to serve the public.

Needless to say, why inculcate such thoughts...... In these days, it is difficult for the grassroots to obtain higher education, so the vast majority of those who receive higher education are bourgeoisie, and if this kind of thinking is formed, the bourgeoisie can easily stand at the top of the food chain.

The most typical example is the "Governor Under the Bed" Li Yuanhong.

When the Xinhai Revolution broke out, the Hubei New Army took control of the three towns of Wuhan in the Wuchang Uprising. But this uprising was not well planned, and the revolutionaries decided to launch an uprising when the Qing army was transferring troops out of Wuchang's weak defenses, so after the uprising succeeded, they did not know who would be in charge.

After thinking about it, the revolutionaries thought that they should choose Li Yuanhong, a local and well-known person, to stabilize the situation.

And Li Yuanhong didn't have the courage to "plot***** when the party came to invite, he shirked it in every possible way. And the revolutionaries wanted to let them preside over the overall situation, so they forced the revolutionaries to shout outside the door with guns when they were not recruited: "You have to come out if you come out, and you have to come out if you don't come out!" ”

Frightened, Li Yuanhong hid under the bed in the third aunt's room...... The revolutionaries didn't even have this kind of way, so they found Li Yuanhong and dragged him out from under the bed in three or two clicks, and forced him to become the leader of the revolutionary army with a gun, and the title of "Governor of the Bed" fell.

It can also be seen from this that the ideological poisoning of the common people and even the revolutionaries at that time was still deep-rooted...... From the point of view of us modern people, the important thing about the leader of the revolutionary army is not the prestige or the locals, but first of all the determination and will of the revolution, and then the ability and so on. If Li Yuanhong is rigidly framed to become the leader of the revolutionary army, he will definitely be unqualified and will not do much.

At this time, the "election" of the Sixth Army was also imprisoned by this idea to a considerable extent. At this time, Zhang Chi realized that it is easy to remove the formal shackles, and it is not possible to complete the ideological shackles in a short time.

But it's not a big problem.

After all, these officers are not immutable after they are selected, and what is more important is that they can work out an effective mechanism for the survival of the fittest in the army, so that after only a period of training, unqualified officers can be eliminated and replaced with qualified and excellent officers.

These systems, training, and so on, naturally Wang Mazi is in charge, and the New Seventh Army has a ready-made system...... Of course, the system of directly using Stilwell to train the New Seventh Army was not fully accepted, and some things that were not suitable for the Chinese army were eliminated in it, and they were digested and absorbed before being used in the Sixth Army.

The reform of the Sixth Army can be done relatively easily, after all, the Sixth Army has just been "suppressed" and stopped by a "mutiny", and all unconvinced officers know about it...... The New Seventh Army has a whole US fleet supporting it, plus Zhang Chi and others have the support of soldiers, so they can change whoever they want, and they can change it as they want, and no one dares to have any objections.

But the 53rd and 54th armies, other than the 6th Army, were different...... These two armies had their own commanders, and the command was still in the hands of President Chiang. For them, let alone reorganization, I don't know when to play the "Huo Xianjie" incident again.

Therefore, the "Huo Xianjie incident" should be said to be a good thing, until then Zhang Chi had been focusing on the direction of northeast China, completely ignoring the potential dangers inside.

Now that I think about it, even if such an army has trained a considerable level of combat effectiveness on the road, it will completely collapse the battle line on the battlefield because of the lack of unity of command or even secretly stabbing you...... There are already many precedents for such things on the battlefield in China. At that time, the Chinese army entered the northeast to fight, and Principal Jiang only needed to come to a remote command to secretly make a mistake, and a knife to kill people could easily push the New Seventh Army into the fire pit.

This is also the reason why Zhang Chi still wants to stay in Rabaul, he must take command of these armies and integrate them.

And there is only one way to take command peacefully and quickly.

Then Zhang Chi made a phone call to Halsey.

"General!" Zhang Chi said: "Although the issue of the Sixth Army has been almost dealt with, you know, we have at least two other armies...... That is, the 53rd Army and the 54th Army, they are not so easy to handle! ”

"Hmm!" Halsey obviously also took this into account, and he replied a little helplessly: "God, I thought that your Chinese army was the same as the US army, and I thought that these troops would be ready to go into battle immediately, but now I realize that this is a big mistake!" ”

"Yes!" Zhang Chi said: "We are not ready, and this needs your help!" ”

"No problem!" Halsey didn't think about it, so he responded, "How can I help you?" ”

"Make a detailed report to President Roosevelt!" Zhang Chi said: "And through President Roosevelt, pressure President Chiang to hand over the command!" (To be continued.) )