9.21 Verbal War I

It's rare that the Americans finally have one thing to think of with the Red Soviet Union! Stilwell and Soviet Ambassador Bogomolov had strikingly similar ideas, and they both hoped that the Chinese military would be more proactive. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

In fact, when Huang Haoran just returned to the Republic of China, he also had the same idea as Stilwell, but after several years of crawling and rolling in the military circles, Huang Haoran suddenly discovered that due to cultural and ideological limitations, it was impossible for the senior generals of the Republic of China government to accept the advanced combat ideas from the West! The gap between the Chinese army and the armed forces of the Western military powers is not only in terms of weapons and the quality of soldiers, but also in terms of ideology and strategic awareness, the Chinese army is also far behind!

The gap in weapons and equipment can be solved by relying on foreign procurement, but the gap in strategic consciousness is difficult to bridge, and the generals of the government only know how to use the set they are accustomed to to command operations, and this situation can by no means be reversed by three or two people shouting out loudly! Even the Japanese army, the current opponent of the Wuhan government, is still clinging to the same old style as it was in the Meiji period. Rigid thinking, perhaps a problem common to all East Asian countries, has long been deeply rooted!

In the nearly 100 years since the end of the Qing Dynasty, China has not lacked opportunities to gain experience from war. However, whether it was the fiasco of the First Sino-Japanese War, the tragedy of the loss of the three eastern provinces in "918", the battles of Songhu and Nanjing, which ended not long ago, or the battle of the Jinpu Line that had just ended, the commanding body of the Chinese army never learned anything useful from the war! The senior members of the Military Commission would rather spend their time competing for a few cooks who can cook than arguing about the shortcomings of the Chinese army's strategic tactics in the war!

People who don't know the truth may still think that the military attainments of the swaggering generals of the Wuhan government are all at the peak, and there is no need to talk about such a pediatric topic! But the reality is that most of the generals of the Chinese army are not doing their jobs, and they are more concerned about their chassis and pockets than leading the troops to fight! These people are already obsessed with politics and money!

Therefore, when the country and the people need these "political generals" to go to the battlefield to fight the Japanese army, these "politicians" will immediately lose the conceit of the high-minded talk in the past! Become tied!

Such "misguided generals" abound in the army of the Wuhan government today!

"Sick government! Deformed Chinese army! Huang Haoran really wanted to roar a few times into the ears of those guys, but he could only grit his teeth and endure it, letting the sound roll around in his chest!

Because Huang Haoran knows very well in his heart that the culprit of the current situation of the Chinese army is none other than the supreme authority that holds the power of life and death!

Except for the Central Army, which is the descendant of the highest authority, all the generals have to watch out for hidden arrows that may come out from behind at any time while fighting with the Japanese army! It is no wonder that many brave and warlike generals who fought bravely during the warlord melee wisely chose to retreat bravely and ran to Hong Kong or Nanyang to do their apartments!

Protect yourself! I don't know when such a word came up! How many Chinese men have been wiped out by these four words!

In the face of Stilwell, the Yankee, Huang Haoran doesn't have to hide his thoughts! And even if the highest authorities planted spies in Huang Haoran's department, I am afraid they would not be able to understand the English conversation between Huang Haoran and Stilwell!

Now, Stilwell, an American colonel from across the Pacific, has finally aroused Huang Haoran's desire to speak with his straightforward way of speaking and aggressive tone! It's been a long time since he's been so impulsive!

"Mr. Military Attaché, I greatly appreciate your frankness. But do you know the Japanese army? Do you know about our Chinese troops? Offensive? It is indeed feasible in a general sense, but if we consider the Chinese battlefield alone, its status may have to be reversed with defense. ”

Huang Haoran actually reworked what he had said to the Soviet ambassador Bogomolov and then said it to Stilwell, although he himself felt a little helpless, but he had no better answer.

Fortunately, Huang Haoran does not resist such topics. He dared to confront the weakness of the Chinese army!

The more conservative the Wuhan government behaves in front of the Americans, the more progressive Huang Haoran will become! In this way, he can be listed early in the mind of Stilwell, the chief of staff of the future Chinese theater! You must know that among the participating countries in World War II, the Yankees were the widest! After the end of the Pacific War, the U.S. government even abandoned a large number of weapons and equipment on the Pacific islands waiting to rust, Huang Haoran felt that anyway, it was all going to go to the garbage heap in the end, it was better to find a way to let the U.S. government put these things into his hands a few years earlier and use them on the Japanese!

Make some emotional investment in Stilwell, you can't lose!

"Nope! Checkmate! I can't agree with you! Militarily, absolute disadvantage does not exist. Although the Japanese have better weapons and equipment than you, they also have a lot of problems! For example, a wide front! This has caused the dispersion of the Japanese army's troops, as well as the mountains, rivers and lakes on the battlefield in Central China, which have also greatly weakened the advantage of the Japanese army's mechanized equipment! Your army has a great advantage in numbers, and the soldiers are very good! So I think that on the Chinese battlefield, the Chinese army should not give up the offensive! The problem lies with your commanders! Most of them did not study in military schools! The strategic quality is very bad! It's not very efficient either! And people like you, General Huang, can't always get enough freedom! This is the real reason why your army is losing ground on the battlefield! ”

Stilwell was in a hurry, and he had no scruples when he spoke! His vitriol, stubborn nature was revealed.

Huang Haoran looked at Stilwell, who was sitting on the sofa waving the lead and seemed to be about to jump up at any moment, he finally knew why the highest authorities didn't like this American military attaché! In Stilwell's body, Huang Haoran couldn't find any bit of military temperament advocated by the highest authorities! The highest authorities like the calm and suave "Confucian general", this Stilwell is simply a typical negative teaching material!

Thinking of this, Huang Haoran couldn't help but smile, and after Stilwell saw Huang Haoran's expression, he became even more anxious, and he asked eagerly:

"General Huang! Am there something I'm saying wrong? Please don't perfunctory my question with the so-called demeanor of you Chinese, we Americans are very direct, I just need a simple answer! ”

Huang Haoran was not in a hurry or annoyed, and asked Stilwell slowly: "Mr. Military Attaché, do you know how much a pound of rice sells for in Wuhan now?" ”

"Rice? What do you mean? I don't understand!? Checkmate! ”

The question raised by Huang Haoran completely confused Stilwell! He was obviously suggesting that the Chinese army should take more offensives, why did Huang Haoran suddenly talk about the price of rice?

Stilwell could only tell the truth that as a military attache who received a salary from the U.S. government, he didn't have to go out to buy daily necessities by himself, so he couldn't answer Huang Haoran's question.

"Thank you for your honesty! Mr. Military Attaché! In fact, my information is not necessarily accurate, after all, it is wartime, and prices are rising almost every minute! But the army's salary is fixed! ”

Huang Haoran said this, Stilwell had already smelled some smell, he finally stopped the fierce body language, and sat quietly on the sofa waiting for Huang Haoran to continue.

"In the Central Training Corps in Wuhan, a major officer can receive a monthly salary of 97 and a half yuan in legal currency, if it is placed before the war, it may be a good income, but now, the purchasing power of paper money is really a little pitiful, recently my quartermaster has just purchased a batch of uniforms for the troops, so I know that 100 legal currency, at the moment is just the price of a cotton jacket! You must know that the officers and students of the training regiment still have preferential treatment in their military salaries! In the front-line combat units. A second lieutenant receives a monthly salary of 30 yuan, a lieutenant is 40 yuan, a captain is 50 yuan, a major is 80 yuan, a lieutenant colonel is 100 yuan, a colonel is 120 yuan, and a general is 150 yuan! The general who commanded the battle with a half-padded jacket, Mr. Military Attache, I am afraid he has not seen it before, right? ”

Huang Haoran was already trying his best to control his emotions when he spoke, but Stilwell still heard Huang Haoran's anger from Huang Haoran's voice! To be honest, Stilwell didn't expect that the salaries of the Chinese army would be so low! If the same situation had happened in the US military, the troops would have mutinied long ago!

After feeling that Stilwell's emotions were obviously affected, Huang Haoran began to shake Stilwell's nerves even further:

"In fact, there are only a handful of troops who can get the full amount of the country's difficult salary! In fact, many more troops can't even receive such a meager salary! Mr. Military Attache should know that fighting a war is an authentic physical work, how can you do it without eating and drinking enough and growing a good body! I think it's better not to say anything about the excellent quality of Chinese soldiers in the future! Being a soldier can endure hardships and stand hard work, and sometimes it's not a good thing! You eat less, endure hard! It's just a matter of letting the officials take more from your head! It doesn't help the combat effectiveness of the troops! ”

Huang Haoran's words can be said to speak of the embarrassing status of the identity of Chinese soldiers in the eyes of the people! Although China and Japan are close neighbors, and little Japan still learned a lot of things from China, the status of military personnel in these two countries is completely different!

In Japan, being a soldier is a popular profession, and it can be called the best combination of ideals and reality, and not only the children of rich families should shine in their families, but also the poor families regard it as an ideal way out. Therefore, not only the officers in the Japanese army, but even many soldiers have a certain level of education. (To be continued, if you want to know what will happen next, please log in to the www.qidian.com, more chapters, support the author, support genuine reading!) )