Due to the discord between Brigadier General William and Zhang Chi, the cooperation between Zhang Chi and William was not pleasant.

In fact, Zhang Chi did not think that there was any discord between himself and William, and if there was any discord, it was that he disobeyed William's orders several times in order to fight. But even if he did it again, Zhang Chi would still do it, because this is a matter of human life on the battlefield.

On the other hand, Zhang Chi knew that Brigadier General William's attitude was not entirely due to his disobedience to orders.

From the cooperation and getting along with Stilwell, Zhang Chi knew that American generals did not necessarily let their subordinates carry out death orders, and American generals appreciated the kind of soldiers with personality and a bit of personal heroism, and they thought that such subordinates were more flexible and suitable for being commanders on the battlefield. So their order is more like a semi-mandatory suggestion, and if a subordinate does not obey the order because of a change in the situation, but eventually completes the task, they will also give the subordinate the recognition they deserve.

As for Brigadier General William, Zhang Chi believes that he has long had a sense of superiority over the Chinese, and he is accustomed to looking down on the Chinese from a high position, so when a Chinese officer challenges his position on the battlefield and proves Brigadier William's mistake with facts, there will be a great gap and discomfort in his heart.

Zhang Chi is helpless about this, he can find a way to win a battle, and even turn the tide when the "Self-improvement" is in danger, but he can't change a person's mentality and sense of superiority.

Of course, Zhang Chi didn't want to change Brigadier William's inexplicable sense of superiority.

With his relaxed character, he will not convince William or argue anything, he will use facts to prove Brigadier General William wrong.

General William was followed by a teaching regiment drawn from the 2nd Marine Regiment, who came to Rabaul to train the new 1st Division...... This sounds ridiculous, at least in the eyes of the soldiers of the expeditionary force.

So after hearing the news, the fellow villagers asked Zhang Chi while chatting: "Tuanzuo, is it the land war group that fights devils with us on Kuah Island?" ”

"Of course!" Zhang Chi didn't understand what his fellow villagers meant, could it be that he had been fighting with the U.S. army on Kuah Island for several months, and he didn't know that it was a marine regiment?!

"It's the 2nd Marine Regiment that is coming to train us?" The fellow villager asked again.

"Hmm!" Zhang Chi nodded, he seemed to understand what his fellow villagers were going to ask.

Sure enough, then the townsfolk said, "What's that Yankee...... That's all they can do when they fight! Be our instructor? Isn't that a bit ......"

It is not without reason that the countrymen said this, and I am afraid that it is not only the countrymen, but also the soldiers of the other expeditionary forces who have similar thoughts.

You must know that the expeditionary force fought with the 1st Marine Regiment on Kuah Island, and the combat effectiveness of the 1st Marine Regiment of the US Army is well known, especially when the soldiers of the Expeditionary Force were in Burma before, they also experienced training in American tactics, and then even used these tactics on the battlefield and integrated them with Chinese tactics, so they clearly saw that the combat effectiveness of the 1st Marine Regiment of the US Army was actually inferior to that of the Expeditionary Force.

This is actually not surprising, you must know that the Chinese Expeditionary Force is all veterans who have fought on the battlefield, while the 1st Marine Division of the US Army is a recruit who has not even completed basic training...... And now let these recruits train these veterans of the expeditionary force? That will naturally make the soldiers of the expeditionary force unconvinced.

"Go, go, go...... Do your own thing, and do what you need to do when the time comes! Zhang Chi didn't bother to answer the countryman's question, because it wasn't what he needed to care about.

Later, I learned that the teaching regiment that Brigadier General William had drawn from the 2nd Marine Regiment was not simple......

This was because Brigadier General William wanted to give Zhang Chi or the Chinese of the entire new 1st Division a dismount, so he selected some experienced veterans from the 2nd Marine Regiment who were excellent in all aspects, and his intention was to compare the Chinese troops.

Then, Rabaul's training was in full swing.

This training is divided into three areas: navy, army and aviation.

The navy is, of course, the navigation, communication, and coordination of destroyers and aircraft carriers.

It should be said that the training of the navy is the most difficult, because the navy not only has to master the navigation of ships, but also has to undertake the tasks of anti-submarine, anti-ship, and air defense, so there is a saying in modern times, called "five years of the army, ten years of the air force, and a hundred years of navy." What this means is that it is relatively simple to build an army from scratch, which is about five years, the air force will take ten years, and the navy will take a hundred years......

Of course, this is for a modern high-tech navy. At this time, the navy was not so complicated, missiles had not yet appeared, the confrontation between warships still relied on naval guns, plus the Chinese Navy crew also had a certain amount of experience, and the ships were provided by the United States, so the time to build them was naturally greatly shortened.

In terms of aviation, there is also an advantage similar to that of the navy, that is, the Chinese pilots have flight experience and have also been trained by the American fighters of the Flying Tigers.

The problem is, these fighters are going to be on the ship...... This is much more difficult than land-based take-off and landing.

Harris's training method for them was to first spray paint a "deck" on the airport that was exactly the same length and width as the aircraft carrier, and even had people build an aircraft carrier island on one side to simulate the appearance of an aircraft carrier, and then let the pilots take off and land again and again on this "flight deck", and even transferred the ground crew of the aircraft carrier to the "aircraft carrier" at the airport for deployment training.

Therefore, Brigadier General William really played a big role, if Zhang Chi was to command, he would never have imagined that he would use these methods to conduct joint training.

For the new 1st Division, the instructors of the US Army Training Corps were quickly assigned.

These instructors were assigned and they didn't even need to be assigned translators, because there were already American instructors and translators in the new division, and these instructors were assigned by Stilwell when he was training the new division, and they were originally used to control the command of the new division, but they gradually lost their role in the battle and became useless.

To be precise, these instructors and translators cannot be said to be insignificant...... At this time, the Chinese army was fighting in coordination with the US army, especially if the enemy was still the Japanese army, and the appearance of the Japanese was basically no different from that of the Chinese, and a considerable number of American GIs could not even distinguish between Chinese and Japanese, and the American instructors could solve these problems very well.

In other words, the role that the American instructors in the Stilwell period can now play is the link between the Chinese and American militaries.

(To be continued.) )