Chapter Twenty-Nine: Returning to Germany
"How? Now you know the gap, right? These instructors are specially invited by the boss from various European countries, and you don't think they are all young, but when it comes to the tactics and tactics of artillery, these old men are not ornaments. Before the smoke in front of him had cleared, Bowman couldn't wait to ridicule the Chinese officers who participated in the special training, especially the company commanders of the Eighth Route Army Battalion wearing homespun uniforms.
In this training camp built under the umbrella, Zhuo Fei is not only responsible for training and integrating new recruits, but also specially transfers some veterans invited from Europe to train artillery commanders and gunners. At the beginning of the training, the Chinese officers who participated in the training still looked down on these old foreign men with gray hair, but after the training really began, the Chinese officers who participated in the training found that they were wrong, and these gray-haired foreign old men were not only decorations, but also very powerful.
When operating mortars, the old men did not use equipment to measure the distance of the guns at all, but only fired a positioning bullet with one eye, and only a few shells hit it in one breath, and the high hit rate made everyone staggered. Something like this happens almost every day in the training camp, and most of the instructors recruited by the umbrella company from Europe are past middle age, but they have enough skills to teach the novices in the training camp a good lesson.
After the integration, the First Army of the Wehrmacht has been handed over to Sun Lianzhong and them, but before the outbreak of the European war, the number of the Wehrmacht still needs to be kept secret, because the mobile combat equipment that Zhuo Fei promised to equip them with has not yet arrived. Although the light tanks and armored vehicles that the Umbrella Company got back from Germany in the early stage had been repaired by Jewish technicians, in the final analysis, the number was still too small, and Zhuo Fei had no choice but to use those tanks and armored vehicles as trainers first.
"Director Zhuo, can you give me a happy word today, when can we equip our First Army with tanks and armored vehicles?" Sun Lianzhong blocked Zhuo Fei in his director's office again, and Lin Biao, who didn't say a word, came to block Zhuo Fei with Sun Lianzhong. "The brothers selected by my subordinates are almost able to drive tanks and armored vehicles, but the coordinated combat tactics of rapid advance in the training syllabus cannot be carried out, because our First Army does not have tanks yet."
Zhuo Fei, who has become the director of the training camp, has a headache for Sun Lianzhong's complaining method, if it weren't for the fact that the British were preparing to block the Yunnan-Burma Highway, Zhuo Fei temporarily adjusted the order of shipping, maybe the second batch of light tanks and armored vehicles had already arrived in Myanmar, but Zhuo Fei had no way to explain this matter carefully to Sun Lianzhong. "General Sun, the matter of tanks and armored vehicles is in a hurry, but I can assure you that as soon as the second batch of tanks and armored vehicles arrives, I will immediately attach them to your First Army."
Zhuo Fei tried to prevaricate Sun Lianzhong first, but Sun Lianzhong, who was already cunning like a fox, could be fooled so easily, and took Lin Biao and Zhuo Fei for a while, and finally after getting Zhuo Fei's repeated assurances, he triumphantly went to the arsenal with Zhuo Fei's approval. "Sun Lianzhong, the dog, is really ruthless, he asked me for 500 assault rifles at once." Seeing the triumphant backs of Sun Lianzhong and Lin Biao, Zhuo Fei scolded angrily, those new assault rifles were the killer weapons he had prepared for the base guards.
In fact, Zhuo Fei's new assault rifle has long been not a secret in the training camp, Jewish technicians have long been able to produce this assault rifle with existing equipment, if it weren't for Zhuo Fei transferred all the military technicians on hand to produce mortars and shells, maybe this assault rifle would have been able to be equipped to the First Army on a large scale. "Damn, you can't let me sit back for a while." Through the window of the office, Zhuo Fei saw the other officers who were walking towards this side, and a thrill flashed in his heart, and Zhuo Fei immediately slipped through the back door in a hurry.
Tens of thousands of troops gathered in this training camp, and the officers who were selected by the joint command to receive special training did not have fuel-efficient lamps at all, and seeing a batch of assault rifles obtained by the First Army's shotgun exchange, those officers who had not yet formally accepted the troops could not sit still, and came to Zhuo Fei here to fight the autumn breeze. "Boss, we have more than 6,000 assault rifles in stock, in fact, it doesn't hurt to give them some properly, as long as the American ship arrives, there will be another 5,000 assault rifles waiting to be put into storage." Angela's optimism is largely due to the fact that her warehouses are already running out of stuff.
"No, it's too early for the assault rifle to come out now, before the bullet production line of the assault rifle is officially put into use, the delivery of the assault rifle must be strictly controlled, otherwise the consumption of bullets alone can make our umbrella company completely bankrupt." Zhuo Fei is not alarmist when he says this, although the Mauser rifle equipped for the training troops is a bolt-action rifle, but the Mauser rifle ammunition consumed in these days is already an astronomical amount, if it were not for the support of the umbrella company with two Mauser rifle ammunition production lines, maybe the live-fire training of the participating troops would have stopped a long time ago.
I don't know the difficulties of being at home when I don't go home, and since lobbying the KMT and the CCP to cooperate in the formation of national defense forces, the umbrella company has no way to control the speed of spending money. Although the Nationalist Government and the Yunnan Provincial Government have also provided some subsidies to the training camps, there are tens of thousands of people in the training camps, and the daily food supply is an astronomical amount, not to mention the consumption of ammunition and some invisible expenditures.
In just a few months, the family funds accumulated by the umbrella company have been almost consumed, but according to the agreement between Zhuo Fei and the joint command, the scale of the national defense force is only half of it. "Actually, for me, money is used as soon as it is used, and it is supposed to be spent on the Wehrmacht, I just didn't expect the money to be so unavoidable." Zhuo Fei, who was laughed at by Angela, quibbled that he really didn't expect that forming a new army would cost so much.
"Boss, Vivien sent a telegram from Germany, the Germans can't wait." has been waiting for the outbreak of the European war, and finally waiting for Vivian's telegram from Germany at this moment, Zhuo Fei suddenly felt a little incredulous. It's only June, and according to my memories from later generations, the Germans should have started in September, so why did they suddenly move forward by three months? What's really going on in Europe?
With deep doubts, Zhuo Fei sent the matter to Chongqing by telegram, and the Germans couldn't sit still, which also indicated that Zhuo Fei's ultimate plan was about to be lifted. The joint command that had just been set up in Chongqing was busy for a while, and finally agreed to Zhuo Fei's request, agreeing that Zhuo Fei would rush to Germany in the near future, and that a group of commanders of the Wehrmacht would follow Zhuo Fei to Germany to watch the battle.
The joint command only gave 15 places to go to Germany to watch the battle, but the training camp almost broke the competition for these 15 places, and in the end the joint command forcibly determined the candidates, which made the officers in the training camp quiet. I don't know if it's for impartiality, one of the 15 places was taken away, 7 people on the CCP side, 7 people on the national army's side, plus a team of guards led by Zhuo Fei himself and Bao Man, a full 30 people boarded the train to Lashio at night.
Zhuo Fei and the others, dressed in civilian clothes, had to take a train to Lashio first, then a narrow-gauge train to Mandalay, and finally another train to go directly to Yangon. This whole trip is simple to say, but the speed of the Burmese train made Zhuo Fei's life like a year, and four days later, Zhuo Fei and his party arrived in Yangon. Didn't dare to stop for a moment, Zhuo Fei and the others immediately rushed to the port to board the American freighter that had been waiting for a long time, this time, they only needed to stop along the way to make some supplies, and they could go straight to Bremerhaven in one go.
According to the speed of shipping in this era, sailing on the vast sea is an extremely boring thing, and while others are idle, Zhuo Fei locks himself in the cabin, secretly wondering how to lobby Hitler after arriving in Germany. Hitler was not a fool, the relationship between him and Zhuo Fei was nothing more than exploitation and mutual use, Zhuo Fei is now worried that once the European war broke out and Germany won one after another, Hitler would be extremely inflated and ignore his own olive branch.
For this trip to Germany, Zhuo Fei brought a few good things from the roulette lottery, dozens of lottery opportunities, and Zhuo Fei only drew these good things. Even if Germany occupied France, there would still be a channel between them and England, and the air battle would become a point of conflict between the two sides to balance the power of the war. Zhuo Fei not only brought Hitler a radar-related information this time, but also brought Hitler a solution to deal with the British radar.
"Gentlemen, welcome to Germany, this is Bremerhaven." The freighter slowly entered the port, looking at Huffman and the others who had been waiting on the dock for a long time, Zhuo Fei's face finally showed a smile. The 14 officers who followed Zhuo Fei to Germany had already changed into German uniforms, and Zhuo Yan was busy handing out armbands printed with the red and white umbrella top logo, which represented the umbrella company, but it came from Zhuo Fei's memory of the Resident Evil.
"Boss, the car is ready, Vivien is waiting for you in the camp, some things may have exceeded our expectations." Zhuo Fei slowly walked down the gangway, and when Hefman hugged him, he whispered a word close to Zhuo Fei's ear, and the latter already understood the meaning of Hefman's words.