Chapter 192 C47
Zhang ...... Do you find this plan problematic? Halsey asked Zhang Chi.
"No, no problem!" Zhang Chi replied.
"So......" Halsey spread his hands, "are you still sticking to your decision?" ”
"Of course!" Zhang Chi replied.
After a pause, Zhang Chi said: "This plan seems to be perfect, but everything is based on a sea and air bombardment to destroy the defenses on the Japanese islands, and then easily occupy these small islands. What if the bombing doesn't do much? What if something happens in the attack? ”
"There are always surprises!" MacArthur, who was on the side, leisurely crossed Erlang's legs, held a pipe in his mouth, and said in a disdainful tone: "This is war, isn't it?" No war is guaranteed to be won, and as soldiers, we must have the spirit of adventure! ”
"That's true, General!" Zhang Chi replied: "To be a soldier is to have an adventurous spirit, but to be a general...... Before making a plan for an adventure, it is better to think deeply or gather more comprehensive information, rather than taking it for granted! ”
"More comprehensive intelligence?" Halsey asked, "...... you mean?"
"For example, Major Haaland proposed to 'avoid' the tides, and then for example, the defense of the Japanese army, the strength of the Japanese army is ......," Zhang Chi said: "As planners, we don't know anything about this, and once there is any situation, it will be a large number of soldiers who will pay the price with their lives!" ”
Halsey touched his face, he was obviously a little moved by the words.
"What if you know that?" After MacArthur spit out a puff of smoke rings, he grabbed his pipe and turned his head to ask Zhang Chi: "For example, the defense of the Japanese, and the strength of the Japanese?" Oh, God...... That's just a small island of 1.18 square kilometers, and we could blow it up and down several times with large-caliber shells and aerial bombs! ”
After a pause, MacArthur continued: "Colonel, I can forgive your ignorance, because you have never used the large-caliber naval guns on battleships, nor even aerial bombs, so you do not know their power...... By the way, don't you also have air brigades and 'wildcat' fighters? I suggest that when you return to Rabaul, ask your pilots about the power of the American 726-kilogram aerial bomb! ”
Zhang Chi was a little speechless about MacArthur's arrogance, if it was before, Zhang Chi would definitely fight with MacArthur, but now Zhang Chi just smiled and said: "Then general, I will say this, we Chinese have a saying called 'don't say anything without warning', which means that when a situation occurs, don't say that there is no warning in advance!" ”
MacArthur couldn't help but laugh when he heard this: "Don't worry, Colonel, I will remember your words, and if possible, I hope to record them, and then after we occupy these islands, I will broadcast them on a loudspeaker to the soldiers who fought valiantly, and then tell them...... Lo and behold, the Chinese used to say that we would pay huge casualties for this, but we let them down! ”
"Of course you can!" Zhang Chi said.
"I agree to do it!" Wang Mazi stood up and said to MacArthur: "Yankee, I'm sure you'll regret it, because he ......"
Saying that, Wang Mazi patted Zhang Chi's shoulder and said, "Since I knew him, his premonition has never been missed!" ”
Then Wang Mazi turned his head and asked Halsey, "Can we go now?" We've got to ...... I'm ready to go back as a reserve! ”
"Of course!" Halsey nodded.
I don't know if Halsey was negligent or intentional, and the two C47s full of bullet holes on the airport were not replaced...... It's just that the mechanic repaired the engine of Wang Mazi's C47 and eliminated the fault.
Zhang Chi felt that there must be an element of Halsey giving Zhang Chi and others a horse, and the implicit meaning was: Look, all your equipment was given by the United States, and you still didn't obey the orders of the United States?!
Zhang Chi looked at Wang Mazi.
Wang Mazi knew what Zhang Chi meant, snorted haha, and said: "The Americans are too underestimating us for this trick, we don't frown at the face-to-face bayonet fight with the devil on the battlefield, and we are afraid of taking a plane?" ”
As he spoke, he patted his flabby shoulder and said, "Up!" ”
So the two of them each took their men on board two C47s.
But in fact, Wang Mazi has a hard mouth, he is indeed not afraid of fighting with devils with bayonets, and of course he is not afraid of going to the battlefield, but he is afraid of taking a plane...... It's not because he's afraid of death, it's because he's going to get motion sickness.
Later, Wang Mazi's guards told Zhang Chi that not long after the plane took off, Wang Mazi vomited to death, and only shouted to get off the plane...... The guards tossed him so much that he couldn't do anything, there was the sea below, and he couldn't go down even if he wanted to!
But then again, this C47 is really durable, the fuselage is hit with bullet holes everywhere, and the flight is still very stable, and the sea breeze "whirring" from the bullet holes poured in, changing the dullness of the previous cabin, and the soldiers also laughed that they had to make a few holes in the plane backwards.
You must know that the C47 thing, there was an incident when it was transported on the Hump route between China and Burma, and a Japanese Hayabusa fighter captured a C47...... If the fighter catches the transport plane, the transport plane must be dead!
But the result was unexpected by everyone.
The Hayabusa fighter was only equipped with a light machine gun, and fired several bullets at the C47 back and forth, but the sturdy C47 was still flying steadily in the sky, and finally the Hayabusa fighter had no choice, so it used its "bushido spirit" to launch a suicide attack on the C47 and crashed into the C47.
The Japanese fighter was originally thin and crispy, and this collision immediately broke one wing and crashed, while the C47 is still fine...... It's just that a big hole was made in the roof of the cabin, and then it staggered back to base safely.
This may be the reason why Halsey did not change to the C47.
Halsey actually knew that there was nothing wrong with these two C47s, he just wanted to scare these Chinese officers who didn't know what to do, who would have thought that Chinese officers wouldn't eat his set at all?!
However, this made Zhang Junhua nervous for a while, and after hearing the news, he scolded: "Damn Yankees, the planes are like this and don't change two!" What if something breaks down on the way or the little devils come to attack again?! ”
So Zhang Junhua again increased the number of escort aircraft.
However, the Japanese apparently did not have a chance to sneak attack again, and they would not be stupid enough to do the same thing twice in a row, so a few hours later, two C47s landed on Rabaul airfield without danger.
(To be continued.) )