9.20 Stilwell

That night, Xu Zilong, who Huang Haoran sent to meet with Huang Jie's henchmen, brought back two harvests to Huang Haoran, one dead and one alive. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Among them, the harvest of death is 100,000 yuan, which is the "labor fee" that Huang Jie's henchman handed over to Xu Zilong after handing over the check of 100,000 yuan of fiat currency to Xu Zilong.

The Anti-Japanese War has been fought for more than a year, and the current exchange ratio between the fiat currency and the ocean is not 1:1 for a long time. This means that Huang Jie has benefited Huang Haoran more than he has benefited Minister He!

The harvest of life is an officer named Qian Shaoyang, who was originally the deputy chief of staff of the 190th Division of the 8th Army, with the rank of colonel, but now he has become a civilian.

In order not to make people aware of the agreement reached between himself and Minister He and Huang Jie, Huang Haoran did not meet with Colonel Qian, and he asked Xu Zilong to put the people and money that Huang Jie gave him in an inn in Hankou, and left the guards.

If Huang Jie's matter is done, Huang Haoran can put these benefits in his pocket with peace of mind. On the contrary, if things don't work out, Huang Haoran doesn't have to worry about Huang Jie biting back and implicating him. Money and people in the inn and in Huang Haoran's residence, those are two completely different concepts! This trick of retreating 625, Huang Haoran will also make it!

While waiting for the Judge Advocate Advocate General's office to pronounce the verdict in Huang Jie's case, Huang Haoran received a phone call from Colonel Stilwell, the U.S. military attache in China, and Huang Haoran decided to satisfy the curiosity of Colonel Stilwell, a Yankee, who would meet this important guest in his office.

When Colonel Stilwell took his seat, he looked with great interest at the Chinese general in front of him, who had suffered greatly from many Japanese generals. In the eyes of Colonel Stilwell, Huang Haoran's youth is really a bit excessive! But the fortitude, composure, and confidence on Huang's darkened face convinced Colonel Stilwell that Huang Haoran was a completely different kind of person from the Wuhan generals he had seen before.

It can be said that Colonel Stilwell's first impression of Huang Haoran was very good!

"Mr. Military Attaché, I heard that you have some opinions on our tactics, can we talk about it carefully?" Huang Haoran was staring at Stilwell's question, and Huang Haoran was in English! This surprised Colonel Stilwell, who had been worried about communication issues before!

"Oh! Yellow! Your English is fantastic! Even better than my translation! It seems that the US government deceived me and they did not equip me with the best translator! ”

Huang Haoran is very familiar with Stilwell's American joke. He smiled and said to Stilwell: "Maybe your government has not made a mistake, and they would not have thought that I would be better as a translator than a general!" ”

In three or two sentences, Huang Haoran has narrowed the distance between him and Stilwell. In fact, just as Stilwell was curious about Huang Haoran, Huang Haoran was also very interested in the slightly old American soldier in front of him! The old face like a rough orange peel, wrinkled. This old soldier is actually just a colonel, and Stilwell is really not very good in the US military! If it weren't for Huang Haoran knowing that Stilwell would become the "emperor" of China's war situation in the future, Huang Haoran wouldn't have bothered to talk to Stilwell!

Huang Haoran's performance surprised Stilwell again, and in the few seconds when Huang Haoran was joking, Stilwell even had the illusion that sitting opposite him was an American general!

It's really hard to execute! Among the generals of the Wuhan government, there is still such a general who is full of freedom!

Aren't China's generals all old-fashioned and stubborn? The appearance of Huang Haoran can be said to have completely subverted Stilwell's previous understanding of Chinese soldiers!

At the end of 1937, when Colonel Stilwell had just arrived in Wuhan via the Jiaodong Peninsula, he was stunned by what he saw! He felt that the war between China and Japan was as confusing as Wuhan, which he saw for the first time.

Chaotic docks, messy neighborhoods, the three towns of Wuhan on the Yangtze River are crowded with thousands of Chinese like ants on a hot pot. Officials, large and small, black-hearted speculators, and refugees with their families huddled together in the ranks of soldiers who were about to leave for the front line and enthusiastic people who preached for national salvation.

In Wuhan, Colonel Stilwell could see both the dedication and energy characteristic of an indomitable nation, as well as the frustrating laziness and indifference.

Although Colonel Stilwell had been in China on and off for more than 20 years, he still insisted that it was more difficult to truly understand China than to learn Chinese.

But the clever and stubborn Colonel Stilwell was not going to stand still. He made full use of his experience in China for more than 20 years, from the city of Wuhan to the frontline battlefield, from the strategic rear to the Japanese occupation zone, everywhere he walked, looked everywhere, and asked everywhere. Government officials, journalists, and Chinese and Japanese generals were all the targets of Colonel Stilwell's attention, and ordinary Chinese people, soldiers, and students were also the targets of his conversation. Colonel Stilwell was observing, pondering, and exploring every aspect of the war, and he wanted to predict the outcome of the war. Naturally, he was also pondering what kind of impact this sacrifice made by the Chinese would have on his homeland, the United States.

In the distant United States, Colonel McCabe, the top boss of the Military Intelligence Division of the General Headquarters, confronted Colonel Stilwell at every turn, and made things difficult for Colonel Stilwell, so that Colonel Stilwell felt deeply constrained even in China, thousands of miles away. In Wuhan, the highest authorities' requests for instructions on him have also been pushed back again and again, and they have always been a "drag" word. Colonel Stilwell felt like a hungry wolf bound by ropes, and he could only roar as others busily cast their nets. He felt like he was going crazy.

Later, Colonel Stilwell used his classmate General Marshall to clean up what he called a "pedantic petty official" McKay. Then he skillfully exploited Roosevelt's attention to the Chinese battlefield and put pressure on the highest authorities through the US government. Colonel Stilwell finally succeeded, and he received a pass to "travel" around China.

When Colonel Stilwell returned to Wuhan from Lanzhou to investigate Soviet aid to China, he was surprised by the change in the city. With the victory of Taierzhuang, the mood of the Chinese was uplifted and high overnight. In the words of Colonel Stilwell, "the whole nation was ecstatic." "There is no longer any doubt that the Japanese army can be defeated. In Wuhan, some of Stilwell's Western friends in military circles and the press who sympathized with China said that China could win in the end, and although he did not necessarily agree, he nodded at the moment.

The trip to Lanzhou caused him to miss the opportunity to observe the battlefield of Taierzhuang with the Tang Enbo Army, and Colonel Stilwell should have had this opportunity, but McCabe strictly ordered him to go to Lanzhou at this time. For this, he simply hated McCabe to the core.

Fortunately, the east corner is lost, and the mulberry elm is harvested. Although he missed the opportunity to watch the victory in Taierzhuang, Colonel Stilwell, with the help of Chief Li, met the famous Chinese general Huang Haoran, who had suffered a crushing defeat for the first time since the birth of the Japanese modern army, in Wuchang.

"General, I have deep admiration for the victory you have created. But from a general tactical point of view, I think that the army of your government lacks the courage to attack! It is impossible to win a war by relying on defense! Only an active offensive can eliminate as many Japanese as possible. ”

This is Stilwell's official opening statement! (To be continued.) )