"You can't do that, General!" Jon may have thought that he should act like a commander a little at this time, so he puffed up his chest and stood in front of Zhang Chi: "We are the British royal ......"

Before he could finish speaking, Zhang Chi's pistol was already on Jon's head, and he said coldly: "Give me a reason not to pull the trigger!" ”

Jon's face turned white at once, not only because of the muzzle on his head, but also because of Zhang Chi's gaze, Jon saw a killing intent in Zhang Chi's eyes, so he didn't doubt at all that Zhang Chi would really pull the trigger. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"General!" Jon swallowed hard, then replied, "I obey your orders, you need our cooperation!" ”

"Hmm!" Zhang Chi nodded: "This reason is good, I hope you can really do it!" ”

While putting away the gun, Zhang Chi asked the British officer behind Jon again: "Does anyone else have any objections?" ”

Seeing that no one answered, Zhang Chi said, "Very good, then officers, there are only two things I need you to do." One: Tell us anything we need to know. Two: Don't get in the way. Do you understand? ”

No one spoke, so Zhang Chi asked again: "Understood?!" ”

The soldiers of the expeditionary force, of course, knew what Zhang Chi meant, and raised their guns almost at the same time.

So the British officers replied one after another:

"Yes, General!"

"Got it!"

……

"I didn't hear clearly!" Zhang Chi was not satisfied with the officers' answers.

So the British officers had no choice but to answer in unison: "Yes, General! ”

"Disband!" Saying that, Zhang Chi had already led the troops to the base as if no one was around.

"Well done, General!" Abner whispered next to him, "Like you said, we don't have time to waste time!" ”

Although Abner belonged to the same British nationality as those British officers, he didn't know why, but he felt very happy just now...... This may have been because he was aware of the strength of the Chinese army, and at the same time saw the arrogance and ignorance of the British officers.

Zhang Chi responded coldly: "It seems that your General Montgomery didn't make it clear to Colonel Jon!" ”

"Yes!" Abner replied.

Abner understood what Zhang Chi meant, and if Montgomery had ordered Jon to obey Zhang Chi's command early on, this would not have happened.

"I'll contact Command right away!" Abner said.

After Montgomery got Abner's information, he smiled and called back: "Don't forget, the Chinese general asked not to interfere in his actions, and I didn't interfere!" ”

Clearly, Montgomery was playing with words.

Abner was a little surprised by this, and he could not believe that General Montgomery would continue to put obstacles in the way of the only Chinese army that could prevent the Germans from taking Mahairama at such a critical time.

But in fact, this is just Abner's opinion.

For Montgomery, he did not think that this was setting up any obstacles, on the contrary, he also believed that the Chinese army had no experience in desert warfare, while the British army was not, so the Chinese army should not be arbitrary, but should let the British army have more command and interference power, Montgomery even stubbornly believed that this was good for future battles, because the Chinese army needed the experience and advice of the British army.

Therefore, instead of ordering Jon to hand over command, Montgomery appointed Jon as chief of staff, and told Jon in a telegram: "You should take responsibility for guiding the Chinese army in the correct strategy and tactics, otherwise this battle is likely to be a nightmare!" ”

When Abner knew this, he sighed: "It is true that Montgomery did not interfere with the actions of the Chinese army, but he tried to get others to interfere!" ”

This caused some trouble for the Chinese army, but it was not even a problem at all for Zhang Chi.

"We need all American tanks, armored vehicles, as well as enough ammunition, artillery, machine guns, bazookas and cars!" Zhang Chi said.

On the way, Zhang Chi had already obtained a list of Maherama's equipment, knowing that Maherama had more than 80 "Sherman" tanks and hundreds of M3 half-track armored vehicles, as well as dozens of artillery vehicles converted from half-track armored vehicles.

Zhang Chi has even made a good allocation for these equipment...... This was not a difficult task for the expeditionary force, especially the new 1st Division, which originally had two tank battalions when they were in the Pacific theater, but they left all their equipment in Okinawa in order to be able to transport them by air.

Now, all Zhang Chi had to do was to put the tank in the hands of the tank battalion, and then a tank battalion with rich combat experience appeared.

As for the other "Matilda" tanks, Zhang Chi didn't look down on them.

"But, General!" Jon replied: "Many of these tanks are already equipped with my troops!" ”

"Then replace them ......," Mr. Zhang said.

"General!" Jon objected, "But that was General Montgomery's order, and he told us to equip as many tanks and armored vehicles as possible......"

Jon was still reeling from what had just happened, so he could only try to use Montgomery to suppress his tension, but he soon realized that it didn't help.

"It's a different story now, isn't it?" Zhang Chi said: "General Montgomery did this because instead of letting these tanks be captured by the Germans, it is better to play a role on the battlefield!" ”

"General!" A British officer standing next to Jon plucked up his courage and said, "I don't think this order is appropriate, British soldiers are more experienced in tank battles and tank handling......"

"Your name, Lieutenant Colonel!" Zhang Chi interrupted the officer.

"Aubrey, General!" The British officer replied.

"Good!" Zhang Chi said, "What do you mean to say...... British soldiers were more experienced in American tanks and tank warfare? I heard you right! In case you don't know, we've been fighting with American tanks for a few years now, and thousands of Japanese have died under the fire and tracks of our tanks. Now, please answer me, how long have you been using American tanks? Days or hours? ”

Aubrey couldn't help but be speechless, he really didn't expect that these Chinese soldiers who were not amazing had such a long history of using American tanks, and the so-called experience of the British army in using "Sherman" tanks was really just like Zhang Chi said, it was just equipped a few hours ago, and all they could do was to start the tank and learn to fire it in a hurry......

In fact, it is also to blame that the news in this era is relatively closed, otherwise these British officers should have known that the Chinese Expeditionary Force has been using "Sherman" tanks since the battlefield in Burma.