General Arnold gave Ron a special mandate to select pilots from the entire Army Air Corps fighter unit to form this specialized "enemy unit". Because of the urgency of the task, Ron had to give up a lot of opportunities to show his face in public, accept the opportunity to be cheered by the American masses, hurriedly attended the Medal of Honor ceremony, received the Medal of Honor from President Roosevelt, and then addressed the masses.

In fact, Ron's speech was super short, because Mr. Lin Yutang said that "a gentleman's speech should be like a lady's skirt, the shorter the better". By this standard, Ron's speech would probably be a bikini. The full text is as follows:

"Ladies and gentlemen, the war we face today is a war with the devil. Our enemies are incomparably cunning and ferocious! They don't have any human qualities, I've seen them shoot parachutes and slaughter prisoners of war, and my comrades have seen them cook humans. But the devil can never win, because the Lord Almighty is on our side. We are on our way to victory, step by step. The United States will win! As for me, I don't have any heroic stories to tell you, I'm not a hero, I just fought with heroes. ”

Such a short speech was also met with thunderous applause. In fact, most Americans don't care what they say, as long as they know that their fighters are "killing little Japan, killing little Japan, killing little Japan without stopping."

After the event, it's time to read ~ the novel yb][du is busy for {1}{Ben}. General Arnold provided Ron with several staff officers to help him assemble this "enemy" force.

These people are all from professional backgrounds, and to be honest, they are not a little better at handling affairs than Ron. In particular, there was a major Matthews, who was specially recommended by General Arnold. So Ron gave him the initial screening of pilots in the new team. For the selection of people, in addition to superb skills and excellent actual combat results, the most important point is to be able to strictly abide by discipline, deal with things calmly, and resolutely do not want personal heroism to be too strong.

Many times, in film and television works, I always like to portray ace pilots as a bunch of people who do not abide by military discipline, are free and casual, like to be heroes, like to engage in unnecessary adventures (such as driving planes to drill bridge holes and wires), and all day long in addition to fighting in the sky is a guy who is in a bar with the hostess. In the 70s, the United States also made a TV series about World War II, called "Baa Baa Black Sheep". It portrays everyone in the Black Sheep Squadron, the Marine Corps' number one ace, G. Boyynton, as unruly cowboys of the West, all of whom are either alcoholics or have criminal cases on their toes, and almost everyone has been court-martialed and finally sent to the Black Sheep Squadron to fight the Japanese (could it be that the United States also has a punishment camp?). ）。

This TV series, which is very much in line with people's expectations, is a hit, and the economic benefits are super good. But after only the first part was broadcast, it had to be stopped. Because some old black sheep who are not dead are gone:

"How dare you slander us like this! We strongly urge you to immediately stop all slanderous activities and publicly apologize to eliminate the impact! Otherwise, we'll see you in court! ”

The strong protests of these old guys are not like the kind of strong protests that can be handled by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of a large East Asian country, and "see you in court" is not a scare to people. If the lawsuit is really fought, the TV station will definitely lose. The reason is simple: the show is indeed -- basically.

You know, war is such a harsh thing, and any one who takes it lightly will only lose one's own life. As early as the Spring and Autumn Period, when the Qin army attacked Zheng and passed through Wang Ye (the direct domain of Zhou Tianzi), Wang Sunman, who was still a child at the time, saw the soldiers of the Qin army "three hundred times of the superride" (the so-called "superride" refers to jumping on a chariot, which is not in line with military etiquette), and predicted that the Qin army would be defeated. The reason for this is that "if you are light, you will be unscrupulous, and if you are rude, you will take off". It means that if you despise the enemy, you will lack strategy, and if you don't follow discipline, you will be disorganized, so how can you not be defeated? In another Western saying: "Participating in war is the most irrational thing you will ever do in your life, and if you want to succeed in it, you must not do anything irrational in the days to come." ”

Just as Matthews and his men began to fill the army with a selection of personnel, another group of Ron's men was running around the United States. Most of these people are scholars of geography and climate. They will help Ron choose the most suitable location to use as a base.

As for Ron himself, he was definitely not idle, and after assigning the task a little, he was ready to leave North America and go to England to find out the situation there for himself.

However, things did not always go according to plan, and a woman who came to visit the United States suddenly disrupted his schedule.

This woman is Chang Kaishen's wife Song Meiling. She was visiting the United States at the time, trying to get more support from the United States.

Since China became an ally of the United States during World War II, the infamous "Chinese Exclusion Act" was completely repealed. Hai Lan and the family behind her no longer need to control the python company through others. So at the last shareholders' meeting of the company, the big boss who had been hiding behind the scenes, Hailan's underworld father nicknamed "Hai Batian", finally stood up directly and became the chairman of the board of directors.

The Standing Committee also has a deep underworld background, and he and many leaders of the Shanghai underworld have been brothers. The predecessor of the Kuomintang, the League Association, had a close relationship with the overseas Chinese associations. Mr. Sun Yat-sen once joined the Hongmen (that is, the Heaven and Earth Society often mentioned in martial arts novels), and in the Xinhai Revolution, the Hongmen gangs also contributed a lot of efforts. Especially in the United States, the Hongmen Zhigong Court is even more feathered.

Now that Mrs. Chang is coming to the United States, of course, she has to liaise with the Chinese community in the United States. It is better to get some money from them to "support the war of resistance". As a Hongmen organization with great influence among the Chinese, it is a key public relations target. In a conversation with Situ Meitang, the boss of Hongmen, she learned that a certain brother in Hongmen now owns a thriving arms company in the United States. This made her even more overjoyed: is there anything more important now than arms?

So Mrs. Chang immediately decided to visit the python company in person. At that time, Song Meiling was being popular with the media, and she was willing to visit the python, which was also an excellent publicity opportunity for the python.

As a significant shareholder of the company, Ron could not afford to be free from such activities.

However, Ron's impression of this smash hit Mrs. Chang is not particularly good. Ron knew that just when the Anti-Japanese War was about to break out, when the wolf ambitions of the Japanese were already known to passers-by, this Mrs. Chang embezzled the money from the Chinese Air Force for the purchase of planes and took it to Wall Street to speculate in stocks to make money, (maybe it was futures speculation, anyway, Ron can't remember clearly) Mrs. Chang later explained that as long as she could make more money, she could buy more newer planes. To say that Mrs. Chang's business talent is good, and she has made some money. It's just that Mrs. Chang probably doesn't know very well, the plane is not a rifle, just go to the countryside to catch a strong man, and then stuff the rifle into his hand, and it can be counted. Even if there are enough pilots, it will not be a matter of time for a newly arrived aircraft to perfectly form combat effectiveness. What's more, if you really wait until the start of the fight, God knows if the plane or something will be brought in. Anyway, the fact is that for a long time after the start of the war, that money did not turn into aircraft for the Chinese Air Force.

However, business is business. For the sake of business, what is my personal opinion? Besides, in any case, Madame Chang was an elegant and touching beauty, and it was always a pleasure to deal with beautiful women, even Einstein agreed with this view (Einstein once explained to people the elongation and compression of time, citing the fact that time flies very quickly when chatting with beautiful women. If this beauty still has a lot of bills, then she's even cuter. Obviously, Mrs. Chang is, at least for now, such a lovely beauty.

In order to welcome this distinguished guest, the Great Viper made careful preparations. The factory was cleaned overnight, and every machine was wiped spotlessly. A big red banner was also put up at the entrance of the company's headquarters, on which the words "Welcome Mrs. Chang" were written in Chinese and English. I also spent money to invite a group of Chinese children, holding all kinds of flowers, waiting at the door of the company, ready to wait for Mrs. Chang to get off the car, shaking the bouquet and shouting "welcome, welcome, warm welcome" and the like. Well, in general, it's similar to the posture of Ron's previous life when he welcomed the central leaders to inspect.

It's just that Mrs. Chang's big car is difficult to wait, everyone waits from breakfast to lunch, and then waits until about 3 o'clock in the afternoon before Mrs. Chang's motorvoy arrives. At this time, the flowers in the children's hands were about to wilt, and Ron, who couldn't stand it anymore, ran directly to the sofa in the office to take a nap. Then when he was dazed and dizzy, he was pulled up, rubbed his face indiscriminately, and greeted him.

By the time Ron met Song Meiling, she was already touring the company's products.

To say that Ron had also seen photos of Song Meiling on the Internet in his previous life, but the person he sees now is obviously more beautiful than the photos. And every move has an elegant dance-like rhythm and sense of rhythm. So much so that Ron even turned around and said to Hailan: "See, people's temperament is much stronger than yours." And this sentence also confirms the correctness of a wise saying, "Don't praise another woman in front of another." Although Hailan didn't say anything because of the occasion, every time she looked at Ron, her eyes were obviously wrong.

Mrs. Chang is cute and cute, but when it comes to weapons, she is far less knowledgeable and interested than a female bandit like Hai Lan. However, he was very interested in a combat hero like Ron, and asked Ron a lot of questions about air combat. Most of these questions are relatively rudimentary, but occasionally a few are quite in-depth. Sometimes, after Ron answered, she would nod and say, "This is a bit similar to General Chennault's" or say, "General Chennault's statement seems to be a little different", who would like to know what Chennault, the legendary general, did not agree with his own views on air combat, but Ms. Soong Meiling couldn't quite understand. After all, this is not her specialty. In fact, as a non-specialist, she now has a pretty good understanding of the Air Force.

Due to the tight schedule, Mrs. Chang only stayed in the company for about half an hour before leaving. But the whole company is still very happy, because her arrival itself means an order.