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On 21 December, Eisenhower decided to inspect the training of the Chinese Expeditionary Force at Camp Ramgar, which had been placed under his command.

Eisenhower got up early, cleaned himself up, and wore a general's uniform impeccably.

As Eisenhower was looking in the mirror and doing a final check of his meter, Adjutant Lt. Lee, pushed the door open.

"General, the car is ready. General Rosen called, he's already on his way, he'll be waiting for you at General Stilwell's command center. ”

"Okay, let's go." Eisenhower said.

Twenty minutes later, Eisenhower walked into the command center of the Lambgar barracks and saw Chen Dao standing next to Stilwell, a group of people pointing to a map hanging on the wall, discussing something.

When everyone meets, a greeting is indispensable.

During the greetings, Eisenhower saw that Chen Dao's face was even more ugly than a few days ago, and his eyes were much less radiant, and he had a sense of yin and urgency.

"General Rosen, your face is very ugly, do you want to go to the hospital?"

Chen Dao said: "It's okay, it's just that the water and soil are not adaptable, and there is no big problem." Let's go and see how the troops are trained. ”

A group of high-ranking generals set off in a majestic manner and set off for the station of the newly formed 30th Division.

Eisenhower was the first to mention the progress of inspecting the training of the newly formed 30th Division, because after all, Eisenhower's visit to India this time was not only to fight against the Japanese army, but also to shoulder the heavy task of investigating the weapons and equipment and combat skills of the German army in the vicinity.

When everyone arrived at the camp of the new 30th Division, Lieutenant General Hu, commander of the new 30th Division, led his subordinates to greet them in front of the gate of the barracks.

As soon as the two sides met, Eisenhower was attracted by Lieutenant General Hu's military uniform.

Lieutenant General Hu's military uniform at this time was changed from the original American-style general's uniform to a fancy German-style jungle camouflage uniform.

Not only Lieutenant General Hu, but also the entourage behind Lieutenant General Hu, as well as the guards standing guard in front of the battalion gate, all wore jungle camouflage uniforms.

Eisenhower looked at Lieutenant General Hu's camouflage uniform for a while, and his eyes flashed with a strange light.

"General Rosen, you provided this uniform? The camouflage must have worked well. ”

"Yes, it's trendy, isn't it?" Chen Dao said.

Eisenhower nodded, and quickly made up his mind to find a painter to draw the style of camouflage clothing and send it back to China to carry out the reverse (mountain) (village) project.

Why not take pictures? The cameras of this era used film, and the colors were still mainly black and white, and the color of the camouflage uniform could not be seen.

Lieutenant General Hu personally led the group to the training ground, and along the way, Eisenhower saw the soldiers who appeared around him, all wearing camouflage uniforms, which had a peculiar beauty.

The group stopped at a shooting range, and Eisenhower saw a group of Chinese officers being trained in small arms shooting.

Seeing a group of senior generals, the two instructors hurriedly shouted: "Everyone, stand upright." ”

Chen Dao said, "Second Lieutenant Piper, you continue. ”

The two instructors were none other than Second Lieutenant Piper and Sergeant Nietzsche.

After receiving the order, the two gave a military salute and continued to explain the use of weapons to the trainees.

Eisenhower walked up to Ensign Piper, and through an interpreter, saw Ensign Piper holding a submachine gun-like gun in his left hand, and said loudly to the trainees: "The original name of this weapon was the STG 42 Assault Rifle, but what you see is its development model, the STG 42 S, the specific changes are that a bayonet mount is added under the muzzle, and the firing pattern is adjusted."

Depending on the battlefield, you can switch between fully automatic, triple burst and single shots, and this weapon is mainly equipped for your officers and non-commissioned officers, and is a good suppressive firepower. Next, Sergeant Nietzsche will demonstrate the use of weapons. ”

Sergeant Nietzsche brandished the SGT 42 assault rifle in his hand and said: "On the battlefield, weapons are the second life of soldiers, and we must love them as we love our own bodies." An assault rifle is a sophisticated weapon, and precision means that it requires more careful maintenance. Next, let's start with weapon maintenance. ”

Under the demonstration of Sergeant Nietzsche, the trainees disassembled the assault rifle in their hands into a pile of parts and placed them on top of the canvas spread on the ground.

"I don't need every one of you to be like me, but aim for me."

Sergeant Nietzsche said to one of the officers in training, "Come here, dragon, and reposition these parts." ”

The captain-officer, known as the dragon, walked up to Sergeant Nietzsche, moved his hands together, rearranged the parts on the canvas, and then stepped aside.

Sergeant Nietzsche glanced down at the parts on the canvas, turned his back to the canvas, and the probe picked up the parts from the canvas one by one, quickly assembling them into an assault rifle.

With an assault rifle in hand, Sergeant Nietzsche ran to the firing position and fired in a single-shot pattern at the target at a distance of about 150 meters.

After firing five shots in a row, Sergeant Nietzsche waved his hand into the distance, and the target reporter ran in front of him with the target board on his shoulder.

"Five shots, all of them are ten rings. Sergeant Nietzsche is our weapons expert, and you should aim for him and learn more from him. Second Lieutenant Piper said.

Eisenhower stepped forward, reached out and felt the bullet holes in the target board, and said to Sergeant Nietzsche with a smile: "Mr. Sergeant is really good marksmanship. ”

His adjutant, Lieutenant Colonel Turst Lee, said to Sergeant Nietzsche: "Can you show me your weapons?" ”

Taking the assault rifle handed by Sergeant Nietzsche, Lieutenant Colonel Lee fiddled with it for a while, and then aimed at the target in the distance.

"General, I think this is an epoch-making weapon, and he will lead a revolution in light weapons." Lieutenant Colonel Lee said to Eisenhower.

Eisenhower fiddled with the assault rifle for a while, and made up his mind that he would send a report to the country, and find a way to get a few back from the Germans to carry out the reverse (mountain) (village) project.

"Lieutenant Colonel Li, you go and try the performance of this assault rifle." Eisenhower said.

Lieutenant Colonel Lee nodded, took the assault rifle, and walked to another firing position.

Lieutenant Colonel Lee was not worried about assault rifles for the first time, but Eisenhower was not worried, his lieutenant was a well-known sharpshooter, and all kinds of small arms could be used with just a few fiddling strokes.

Lieutenant Colonel Lee checked the assault rifle in his hand to adjust to its weight, then removed the magazine and looked at the number of bullets inside.

Reinserting the magazine, Lieutenant Colonel Lee fired a shot at the distant target in a crouching position, felt the recoil of the assault rifle, then smiled confidently and fired four more shots.

The target announcer ran to the target board to look at it, and then gestured to Eisenhower and the others.

Ensign Piper took the telescope and saw the target reporter's gesture, turned to Lieutenant Colonel Lee and said in English, "I'm sorry, Mr. Lieutenant Colonel, it's Ring 0." ”

Lieutenant Colonel Li's confident smile instantly froze, and his face with a graceful temperament turned red.

"I want to see the target."

At the signal of Second Lieutenant Piper, the target announcer ran to the crowd with the target board on his shoulder.

Lieutenant Colonel Li stepped forward quickly, the tip of his nose almost touching the target, but there was no trace of bullet holes.

"It can't be, it's impossible ・・・・・・"

Lieutenant Colonel Lee muttered to himself, strongly shaken by his proud marksmanship.

Ensign Piper and Sergeant Nietzsche exchanged a look and said kindly: "Mr. Lieutenant Colonel, the gun you are using is a special gun of Sergeant Nietzsche, and the aiming of this gun is problematic, it is just an ornament, and it does not have a real aiming effect." You can fight again with this assault rifle of mine. ”

Lieutenant Colonel Lee looked confused, took the assault rifle handed by Second Lieutenant Piper, walked to a new firing position, adjusted slightly, and fired again.

After five shots, the target reporter quickly reported the number of rings.

"Five shots, 49 rings, very good results, much better than the first time I shot with an assault rifle." Chen Dao said.

Hearing Chen Dao's words, Lieutenant Colonel Li's face looked better.

Eisenhower asked suspiciously, "Sergeant Nietzsche, why did you use a gun with a problematic aim?" ”

Sergeant Nietzsche said: "General, whether it is adjusting the ruler according to the combat distance or aiming with the sight before firing will slow down my preparation time for firing, so I deliberately broke the sight and only aimed through the memory of the muscles of the body. Of course, this is only on the training ground, and if I had the chance to go into battle, I would still have a good assault rifle in hand. ”

"Sergeant, you are a master, which unit do you belong to?" Eisenhower asked.

Sergeant Nietzsche looked at Chen Dao out of the corner of his eye, and happened to see Chen Dao looking at him from the corner of his eye.

Perceiving the evil aura hidden in Chen Dao's gaze, Sergeant Nietzsche said: "I am subordinate to the German Naval Aviation Command. ”

Naval Aviation Command? Could it be that General Rosen's men?

Eisenhower looked at Chen Dao beside him.

"・・・・・・'s kitchen, led by Ensign Bach, specializes in potato peels, and occasionally helps wash vegetables and kill chickens."

Kitchen? Beat the potato skins? Washing vegetables and killing chickens? What is it?

A series of question marks popped up in Eisenhower's head.

Lieutenant Colonel Li said, "General, this sergeant has a great sense of humor. ”

Eisenhower laughed dryly, and then said, "Yes, Mr. Sergeant does have a great sense of humor. ”

Lieutenant General Sun on the side lowered his head and coughed lightly, and whispered with an embarrassed face: "They are indeed from the kitchen, I saw it with my own eyes." ”

Stilwell also said embarrassedly: "The instructors sent by General Rosen are all from the kitchen. ”

Eisenhower was like a rooster pinched by the neck, and he couldn't laugh anymore.

"General Rosen, why did a soldier like Sergeant Nietzsche work in the kitchen and not in the combat unit?"

"Whether in the kitchen or at the front, they were first and foremost German soldiers, and it was necessary to master the necessary technical and tactical skills, right? As for why he wasn't on the front line? In the German army, it is not possible to go to the front with good marksmanship. ”

Eisenhower looked at Chen Dao's face flat, with a rare and strange posture, and his self-esteem was greatly hit.

Rolling his eyes, Eisenhower asked, "Where are the other German instructors?" What subjects are being trained? ”

"They're teaching air-ground collaboration." Lieutenant General Hu said.

Under the leadership of Lieutenant General Hu, everyone came to another training ground.

The field is more open than the previous shooting range, and there is a bunker made of logs and sandbags under the slope far from the field.

More than 200 meters away from the bunker and nearly 300 meters away, it was divided into two groups.

The first crowd gathered around an American-made Willis MB jeep.

Eisenhower saw a German ensign in camouflage in the jeep pointing to the radio station in the back seat of the car, explaining tactics to the trainees.

"As a ground guide for an Air Force bomber, staying behind the safety of the road, marking an area on the map, and letting the Air Force bomber bomb these locations, can only be said to be qualified. However, passing can only be qualified, and in order to be excellent, you must also complete what I have taught you today.

To be a good ground guide, you must follow the infantry and join the battle, taking the enemy's position into your sight.

Then call the bombers, and when the bombers come, you have to be able to tell if they are your own planes or the enemy's planes, based on the sound and the style of the planes.

When the planes bomb, you also have to be able to determine which plane dropped the last bomb, and when the last plane drops the bomb, you have to signal the infantry to charge.

If this signal is sent early, the infantry will be blown up by their own aerial bombs, and if it is sent late, it will give the enemy more time to react.

Now, I will give you a rehearsal with Sergeant Nobel. ”

This second lieutenant instructor is none other than Second Lieutenant Bach, Chen Dao's former adjutant chief.

Eisenhower turned his gaze to the Nobel sergeant on the side, and saw the Nobel sergeant carrying a flamethrower on his back, pointing to the bunker in the distance and saying to the trainees around him: "As an engineer, one of the most basic abilities is to build a bunker like that. To be a good combat engineer, you need to be able to quickly tear down that bunker. Next, let's practice how to occupy that pillbox with the infantry under the cover of the air force and artillery.

Remember, behind each flamethrower, there must be at least four people with a machine gun to cover it. ”

With a loud whistle, the atmosphere on the training ground changed.

The trainees scattered to all corners of the training ground with various weapons and made a posture of preparing for an attack.

Second Lieutenant Bach fiddled with the radio for a while, then looked northeast into the sky.

In less than fifteen minutes, a faint roar of engines could be heard in the northeast sky.

"Mortars fire, indicating targets." Second Lieutenant Bach shouted.

With the sound of 50 mm caliber mortars firing, green smoke rose from the pillboxes in the distance.

As soon as the green smoke rose, four Stuka dive bombers flew over the training ground and dived to drop bombs.

Second Lieutenant Bach stared at the bomber in the sky, and suddenly picked up the whistle and blew it.

When the whistle sounded, the fourth plane had just finished dropping its bomb and was gaining altitude.

Hearing the whistle, the infantry on the training ground quickly rushed out of their hiding places and launched an attack on the pillboxes from the right flank.

Sergeant Nobel, carrying a flamethrower on his back and followed by two soldiers, attacked from the left flank.

Behind them, an MG42 machine gun was spewing tongues of fire into the pillbox.

The three Nobel sergeants rushed to a barbed wire, and one soldier pulled out his sapper pliers to cut the barbed wire, and then opened fire with another soldier with a G42 semi-automatic rifle in the direction of the pillbox.

Sergeant Nobel crawled through the barbed wire fence in a prostrate position and slowly approached the pillbox.

When Sergeant Nobel was crawling forward, on the right flank of the training ground, a soldier suddenly got up, half-knelt on the battlefield, carrying a tank killer anti-tank rocket launcher aimed at the pillbox firing hole.

A rocket trailed and slammed into the bunker's firing hole, sending out a slight burst of fire.

The moment the fire burst out, Sergeant Nobel got up suddenly, sprinted a few steps, rushed to the left side of the pillbox, raised his hand and spewed dazzling flames into the shooting holes of the pillbox・・・・・・

Eisenhower and the others stood in the distance, using binoculars to see the whole training clearly.

Judging by the performance of these two people, one should be an engineer specialist, and the other should be a ground guide for the Air Force.

But they came from the kitchen, which is very undeserved.

Eisenhower walked quickly up to Second Lieutenant Bach and asked unrelentingly, "Mr. Ensign, which Air Force unit did you serve in before?" ”

Second Lieutenant Bach glanced at Chen Dao and said respectfully: "I am in the kitchen of the German Naval Aviation Command, specializing in potato peeling. ”

Eisenhower called in the Nobel Prize.

"What about you, Mr. Sergeant?"

"Under the leadership of Second Lieutenant Bach, I worked full-time on potato skins and occasionally helped wash vegetables." Sergeant Nobel replied honestly.

Eisenhower was completely devastated, and suddenly realized that he had never hated potatoes so much.

No wonder this army can fight all over Europe without an opponent, and the reason can be drawn from these instructors who beat potato skins alone.

Calling out four chefs from the kitchen to do the dough alone will not achieve this effect.

No, I had to write a report on what I saw today and send it back home, reverse-engineering this training model of the Germans.

On the way back to the command center, Eisenhower suddenly remembered the commander of the Second Army, Lieutenant General Fredendahl.

The Second Army was a trained unit that could go straight to the battle, and Eisenhower decided to send them to the front near the Japanese standoff to get a feel for the atmosphere of the battlefield, after all, the troops were mostly recruits who had not fought before.

But that dumb boy Fredendal, after letting the 1st Infantry Division be stationed at the front, actually put the military headquarters a hundred kilometers away from the front line, damn it, why didn't you put the military headquarters in Washington? So that the shells of the Japanese will not fall on your head.

In contrast, look at the Germans.

Any person in the kitchen of the Naval Aviation Command who pulls a few potato peels can have this kind of tactical literacy, not to mention the commander of naval aviation next to him.

As the commander of the group army, he is more concerned with the problems at the strategic level, and the specific tactical command still depends on the army commanders and division commanders, but looking at Fredendahl's current performance, it is basically unreliable.

Should I change the Second Army to a reliable commander? Eisenhower thought.

On the other side of Eisenhower, Lieutenant General Sun whispered to Commander Zheng: "People are more angry than people, these people who beat potato skins, put them here in our place, they are really the existence of the king of soldiers." ”

Commander Zheng sighed with emotion: "Those who beat potato skins are like this, what will the regular combat troops look like?" I'm really unconvinced. ”

When the two were sighing, a hint of banter suddenly flashed in Chen Dao's eyes.

"General Zheng, General Sun, are you still satisfied with these four instructors?"

Commander Zheng said: "Satisfied, satisfied, thank General Rosen for sending us such an excellent talent." ”

"Then I can rest assured, so that I can be worthy of Boss Dai, Boss Chen, and Mr. Jiang."

Commander Zheng and Lieutenant General Sun are very confused, they are worthy of being able to make sense to Mr. Jiang, what do they mean to Boss Dai and Boss Chen?

Commander Zheng asked suspiciously, "Does General Rosen know Boss Dai?" ”

Chen Dao shook his head and said, "I haven't seen them, but I can be sure that the two translators who followed the four instructors were either Boss Dai's people or CC's people, and asked General Zheng to entertain them well." ”

Boss Dai, the boss of the military commander, Dai Li.

CC is the brother Chen Guofu and Chen Lifu, the head of Zhongtong.

How could there be people from the Central Command and the Military Command around him? He was also stuffed into his own barracks.

Commander Zheng suddenly sweated.

Chen Dao gave a gloomy smile to Commander Zheng and Lieutenant General Sun, and walked a few steps closer to Eisenhower.

When chatting with Eisenhower, Chen Dao had a calculation in his heart.

Calculating the time, the kick-in operation is about to be executed, and I wonder how Eisenhower will feel when he learns that the door of the United States of America has been kicked and smashed by the Japanese.

I guess at the next military meeting, he'll have a fight with that old fellow from Wavell.