"General!" Zhang Chi stood beside Montgomery and straightened up. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

In fact, Zhang Chi thought that Montgomery had already realized that he was coming, but he still pretended not to know and looked at the map on the table.

After a while, Montgomery put down the mirror in his hand and raised his head, glanced at Zhang Chi, turned his head to take a document and handed it to Zhang Chi, and said: "Major General, congratulations on becoming the deputy staff officer of the Eighth Army, this is your letter of appointment!" ”

"Deputy Staff Officer?" Hearing this, Zhang Chi couldn't help but be stunned, and couldn't help scolding in his heart, damn it, let Lao Tzu come all the way from Maherama, it turned out that it was just for this.

Zhang Chi took the appointment letter and flipped through it casually...... In fact, he was not interested in any staff officers or deputy staff officers at all, because he knew that the British army's overly formatted command system basically could not accommodate people like him, and at the same time, the British were more difficult to deal with, compared to the Americans with a bit of cowboy flavor.

"What? Not satisfied with this position? Montgomery saw the disdain in Zhang Chi's eyes, and was enraged again.

You must know that this was forced by Churchill to let Montgomery do this, and the deputy chief of staff is enough, which can generally be held by a brigadier general, British brigadier general, Zhang Chi is just a Chinese major general...... But disdainful of it!

"Major General!" Montgomery held back his anger and asked Zhang Chi: "I'm wondering, should I make you the commander of the group army to satisfy you?" ”

"No, General!" Zhang Chi raised the letter of appointment in his hand and replied: "Whether it is the deputy chief of staff, the chief of staff, or the commander of the group army, they are all just names. Do you think I'm here......"

As he spoke, Zhang Chi looked around, spread his hands and said, "What can I do here?" ”

Zhang Chi's meaning is obvious, the command is full of Montgomery's people, and he will only become a tiger trapped in a cage here.

Montgomery smiled and said sarcastically, "Can I understand that you are not qualified for this position?" ”

"Say whatever you want!" Zhang Chi replied as he returned the letter of appointment to Montgomery and said, "General, I refuse to carry out this order!" ”

"How can you ignore the commander's orders like this!" Montgomery unconsciously pressed his hand to the pistol at his waist.

"Of course I can!" Zhang Chi replied: "General, maybe you forgot...... I am Chinese, we are China's troops! We are allies of the British army and not a colony of the British army, and I can not have to obey anyone's orders, including your Prime Minister Winston Churchill! ”

Looking at Montgomery's hand pressed on his waist, Zhang Chi smiled and shook his head: "I advise you not to do this, because I believe that my troops can bulldoze the entire Port Said in half an hour, if you don't believe it, you can try!" ”

As he spoke, Zhang Chi walked out of the headquarters without looking back, and Ren Ramsden followed him and called him behind him, ignoring him, and stepped into the jeep and drove back to the barracks.

Ramsden hurried back to the headquarters, sighed in front of Montgomery, and said, "General, although this is expected, I am still sorry! ”

Montgomery only then reacted from his shock, and he said in disbelief, "How could he say that? Ally? Can they not obey anyone's orders? Fuck it! ”

"General!" Ramsden thought about it, then raised his head and said, "In this regard...... I think he's right! ”

"What?" Montgomery looked at Ramsden in shock.

"General, you have to be clear!" Ramsden explained: "There is no land in North Africa that belongs to China, and the Germans did not fight against Chinese, so there is nothing to be gained by the Chinese army fighting in North Africa, and there is no interest in risking the lives of its soldiers...... Why? Why should they fight the Germans here? Why should we ask them to do that? ”

Hearing this, Montgomery couldn't help but be stunned.

He really didn't think about this, just like Nimitz said, the British have been in command for too long, and they have commanded too many colonial troops, so they take it for granted that the armies of other countries should be under their own command.

"I even think ......," continued Ramsden, "it is not easy for the Chinese army to fight the Germans here, and we are going to demand that they obey our command!" Any idea what I think? Forgive me for my presumptuousness, General! As General Zhang Chi said, there may not be any army in the British army that is as strong as the Chinese army, and no officer will know how to fight the Germans like General Zhang Chi, but the general ...... Look around us, can any of us come up with an effective counter-tactic against Rommel's attack? No! Not a single one! But we demanded that the Chinese army, which could defeat Rommel, obey our command and fight according to our tactics! ”

"God! What do you mean to say...... Should I follow the Chinese's commands, right? Montgomery looked at Ramsden angrily.

"It's not about rank, general!" Ramsden replied: "It's about war, it's about who can win this war, war is so cruel, it's so realistic!" Although we don't need to follow General Zhang Chi's command, we must at least follow his advice! ”

There was a deathly silence in the headquarters.

No one thought that Ramsden would dare to speak to Montgomery like this, and Ramsden had been a battalion commander under Montgomery and had always been Montgomery's staunchest supporter.

"General!" Then Ramsden slowed down and said: "This is war, we need those Chinese!" Think of our previous defeats, think of the British ...... besieged by German submarines"

"Okay!" Montgomery was silent for a moment, then nodded.

After thinking about it, Montgomery said again, "But...... What does he need? Staff officer? Or is it the commander of an army group?! ”

"I don't think so!" Ramsden replied.

"And what else?" Montgomery looked at Ramsden in bewilderment.

"It's dignity!" Ramsden replied: "As General Zhang Chi said, the Chinese army is our ally, not our colonial army. They have never signed any agreement with us, not even verbally, and we certainly have no command over them! ”

Montgomery didn't seem to realize this until then, and after a long time, he patted Ramsden on the shoulder and said, "You're right, Will (Ramsden's nickname), what should I do now?" ”