Chapter Eighty-Eight: Chongqing Summons
"Darling, good news, good news." Song Meiling hurriedly walked to the rooftop of the villa on the south bank with a rare loud voice, which made Chiang Kai-shek, who was reading the front-line battle report, couldn't help but turn his face and look over. "Good news, the news that the United States has just arrived, the United States and Britain and France have officially formed an alliance, just three hours ago, the US military just landed on the coast of France, this is an invitation letter from the US Congress, inviting China to join the allies."
Looking at the invitation letters in Chinese and English, Chiang Kai-shek was overjoyed, and Zhao Zhi said exactly the same as Zhao Zhi said, once the Americans united with Britain and France to use troops against Germany, they would definitely pull China into the game, and it seems that Boyuan's analysis of the situation is far greater than that of those fat guys in the Ministry of Military Affairs. Calling the attendants, Chiang Kai-shek ordered in a low voice, "Send a report to Zhao Zhi in Thailand immediately, ask how the progress is going over there, and let him take time to return to Chongqing once." ”
"What are you doing when you recruit Boyuan back? Isn't he preparing for the last battle with the Thai army? Will he be able to walk away at this time? Chiang Kai-shek didn't pay attention to Zhao Zhi for his children, which made Song Meiling a little surprised by Chiang Kai-shek's value and trust in Zhao Zhi, but Song Meiling admired Zhao Zhi's ability to fight.
In response to Song Meiling's continuous questions, Chiang Kai-shek just laughed, "Don't you know Boyuan's ability, those Thai troops are his opponents, I estimate that Boyuan is probably already preparing to besiege Bangkok." Besides, there are more people under his command who can fight, where will it be his turn to fight hard, and he asked Boyuan to come to Chongqing to listen to his analysis of the landing of the US troops in France in person, although the Germans said that they were held back by the Soviets with a large number of troops, but Britain and France have long been under the control of Germany, and the US landing operation may not be able to take advantage, I want to hear Boyuan's opinion. ”
Speaking of politics, Song Meiling may be able to help Chiang Kai-shek think of countermeasures, but when it comes to war, Song Meiling is not bright, so she didn't say anything to Chiang Kai-shek to recruit Zhao Zhi to Chongqing, but she asked Chiang Kai-shek to tell Zhao Zhi to bring Rowling to Chongqing as well. Chiang Kai-shek has always wanted to recruit Zhao Zhi under his command, but Zhao Zhi has obvious support from American forces behind him, and Chiang Kai-shek has always wanted to use international forces to restrain Japan, but he is disgusted with foreign forces intervening in China's internal affairs, so he and Zhao Zhi can only be a cooperative relationship, not a subordinate relationship.
"Tell me to go to Chongqing?" The telegram sent by Chiang Kai-shek's official residence only said that the chairman of the NPC only asked Zhao Zhi to go to Chongqing in the near future, but did not explain what the reason was, which made Zhao Zhi a little confused, and he could not think of what Chiang Kai-shek meant by inviting him to Chongqing at this time. The U.S. military has landed on the Philippine battlefield, and the domestic battlefield is also in a good situation, the Burmese mercenary troops and Yao Laoyu's green forest column have already joined forces, and most of the terrain in Henan has been controlled by them, could it be that Chiang Kai-shek recruited himself back for the Eighth Route Army in Shanxi?
Zhao Zhi can only think of such an answer when he thinks about it, the name of Red China is also famous in the era when Zhao Zhi crossed over, first drove away the Japanese, and then the Chinese Nationalist Government fought for a few more years to drive the Kuomintang to Taiwan, and then China established Red China. Zhao Zhi is not a person who likes history, and he only knows so much about China, but there has always been a contradiction between the National Army and the Eighth Route Army, after the recovery of Shanxi, there was friction between the Eighth Route Army and the National Army, and Zhao Zhi thought that Chiang Kai-shek recruited himself back to deal with the Eighth Route Army.
Zhao Zhi is not afraid of war, mercenaries only recognize money and do not recognize people, as long as they take over the task from the hands of their employers, even if they are former friends on the other side, the bullets in the chamber of the gun must be shot, this is the creed of mercenaries. Zhao Zhi's feelings about the National Army and the Eighth Route Army are the same, first of all, they are all Chinese, perhaps the reason why Zhao Zhi came to this era is in China, psychologically speaking, Zhao Zhi has a subtle feeling about the Chinese, which may be what people often say about the same ancestry.
When he was in Shanxi, Zhao Zhi had friction with the national army, killed the people of the Jin Sui army, and seized the weapons of the Eighth Route Army, it can be said that Zhao Zhi and all the anti-Japanese forces in Shanxi had intersections, but Zhao Zhi felt that Lei Ting and them did not have any conflict of interest, not to mention that the Chinese Republic of China government has been recruiting himself. The reason why the forces of Thunder were moved out of the country was because Zhao Zhi did not want to be dragged into the factional conquest, the Japanese army still occupied a large area of Chinese territory, and the foreign enemy had not yet been cleared, and Zhao Zhi did not understand why they always liked to engage in internal fighting on their own.
"If I ask Mrs. Jiang, the telegram says that I should go to Chongqing with me, and Mrs. Jiang must know what the reason is." Rowling, who took the female soldiers around, was tanned to wheat, and Mary was even more miserable, and she became chocolate. Rowling, who has rarely had the opportunity to be alone with Zhao Zhi, has been staying by Zhao Zhi's side for the past few days, and seeing that Zhao Zhi, who read the telegram, was a little worried, Rowling wanted to help her man go to find out Song Meiling's tone.
The Americans hoped that the Thunder could contain the Japanese army as much as possible, and the Nationalist Government also hoped that the Thunder could return to China to participate in the war, and strive to drive the Japanese army out of China as soon as possible. But they didn't know that Thunder's troops were all piled up with money, and the more than 300,000 directly subordinate troops alone had already made Mo Lun, who was in charge of logistics, about to go crazy, and the placement and compensation of those casualties made Mo Lun even more crazy. The little money that Mo Lun exchanged for his old weapons in China has long been spent, and now he is already using the gold produced by the gold mines in Myanmar, and the gold is used up, I don't know where Mo Lun can get another money to deal with the emergency.
Large-scale infrastructure construction in Myanmar is another big mountain that weighs on the shoulders of Molun, and those refugees can be fed and warm, but infrastructure construction also requires a lot of machinery and materials, which Myanmar lacks. The oil produced by Ren'anqiang is only enough to supply the troops, and the oil used in the machinery on the construction site is squeezed out of the army supply by Mo Lun little by little, and the other materials need to be purchased from China.
The Americans and the Nationalist Government only wanted to use the Thunder to help them fight the Japanese, but they didn't want to give any practical benefits, the Americans were better, but gave some fighters and ammunition, but Rowling at this time preferred that they sent construction machinery and skilled mechanics. Rowling really wanted to help Zhao Zhi, but the ships of the Rockman family were all transferred to help the U.S. troops land in France to fight, and they couldn't spare ships to transport supplies to Burma, so everything could only rely on Zhao Zhi himself.
"Well, it's okay, you just say that our jade mines in Myanmar have produced good jadeite again, hasn't Mrs. Jiang always liked jadeite, and you can mention by the way what is the matter of inviting us to Chongqing." It may be good to take the lady's route, but Zhao Zhi did not refuse Rowling's kindness. The relationship between Song Meiling and Rowling has always been very good, during Song Meiling's visit to the United States, the women of the Rockman family also organized a special group to visit Song Meiling in Washington, which made Song Meiling very face-saving in front of the Americans, Zhao Zhi thought that if it wasn't something important, Song Meiling should not hide it from Rowling.
"Madame Song said that it was for the landing of US troops in France, and Chairman Chiang would like to hear your opinion, and the Congress has sent a note to Chairman Chiang inviting him to join the Allied Powers." When Zhao Zhi heard that it was for this, his heart immediately fell. Zhao Zhi had long known the news of the landing of the US troops in France, but the Rockman family had a fleet that also participated in the landing operation, and when the first landing craft left the fleet and sailed to the French coast, Zhao Zhi had already received a telegram from the Rockman fleet.
"Since that's the case, let's prepare to set off from Chiang Mai Airport to Chongqing tomorrow, just bring Roger and Mary, the two guys who make trouble all day, and ask them to learn about Chongqing's spicy hot pot." Thinking of Roger and Mary being spicy drinking water from Chongqing hot pot, Zhao Zhi couldn't help but laugh weirdly, and Rowling called Zhao Zhi a conspirator.
Compared to Mary, who was anxious to restore her fair skin with a fruit dress, Roger has been very energetic these days, after purchasing a large number of weapons and equipment from Zhao Zhi, Zhao Zhi and the mercenaries directly made a 180-degree turn towards Roger, not only equipped Roger with a jeep, Zhao Zhi also specially "lent" him a new sniper rifle and 500 rounds of ammunition. With the two guards assigned to him, Roger spent the whole day in the jungle around the camp busily familiarizing himself with this new sniper rifle, and the bullets did not shoot much, but the prey brought back a large pile, which almost squinted the eyes of the men into a thread.
"To Chongqing? What to do in Chongqing? At dinner, Roger heard that he would take a bus back to Chiang Mai tomorrow and then take a transport plane to Chongqing for business. He has not fully mastered this new sniper rifle of Thunder, for fear that Zhao Zhi will turn his face and suddenly take back the gun, Roger hates to sleep and hugs the sniper rifle, he doesn't even know where Chongqing is, where does he still have the heart to go to Chongqing with Zhao Zhi.
"Lieutenant Colonel, if you go to Chongqing with us, when you come back, I will give you one of our sniper rifles." Zhao Zhi incarnated the role of Grandma Wolf, and used a sniper rifle as a bait to tease Roger, who was itching in his heart. The result of the temptation was naturally that Roger obediently agreed to go to Chongqing, but Zhao Zhi promised that after arriving in Chongqing, he would take Roger to taste Chongqing's delicious snacks and see the most beautiful girl in Chongqing.