Listening to the comments of his companions, Crawford, although he felt a little uncomfortable, as if a distant relative who he looked down on him suddenly had a kid who became more arrogant than himself, and this mentality made him a little unable to turn around for a while. However, Crawford was a good American officer after all, otherwise the U.S. government and Roosevelt would not have sent him to China.

Crawford quickly adjusted his mentality, and not only laughed dumbly at what he just thought, although the 202nd Army is a well-equipped army with strong combat effectiveness in China, but it is also the only encounter, China's national strength is inherently destined to have only one such army, according to China's current scientific level and degree of development, if you want to catch up with the United States, you don't have half a century to think about it, and in these decades, will the United States stay where you are?

After adjusting his mentality, Crawford discussed with Carl and Nicholas about the battle he saw today, discussing the weapons, the quality of the soldiers, the command of the officers, and the logistics and supplies, until after Carl and Nicholas said goodbye in the middle of the night, Crawford sat down again, took out his letterhead and pen and began to write a report to the government.

"Honorable President Roosevelt, Distinguished Members of Congress, I would like to report to you today on behalf of the officers of the Military Observer Mission dispatched from China on what has been observed during these hours......

Crawford, who had written hard, wrote until about three o'clock in the morning, checked it twice, and then sent the telegram out before going to bed.

Washington D.C. is located in the eastern part of the United States, and there is a thirteen-hour time difference between Washington and China. So when Roosevelt received Crawford's telegram in the evening, it was dinner time, and Roosevelt was enjoying dinner while reading the telegram sent from his office, and when he saw a telegram from across the ocean, he obviously showed a look of interest. After reading this telegram carefully, he thought for a while before laughing softly: "I didn't expect that there is such an interesting young general in distant China, it seems that my evaluation of Huaxia is going to be raised to a higher level, and their army is not so useless." With that, his head twisted a few times, as if to relieve the fatigue of his neck.

Lucy Mercer, the secretary who was busy on the side, walked over with some curiosity, massaged her hands on Roosevelt's shoulders, and asked with some curiosity: "What is the good news that makes you so happy?" ”

Without thinking, Roosevelt handed the telegram to Lucy: "See for yourself." This is the assessment report that I sent to China last month from a military observer mission to China, and in this report they mentioned an interesting army and an interesting general. ”

Lucy naturally took the telegram and looked at it, and after looking at it for a while, her beautiful brown eyes showed a look of surprise. The left hand couldn't help but cover his mouth and exclaimed: "God, it's unimaginable that there can be such a cruel general and such an army in this era, it's just too brutal." They actually built a ...... out of the corpses of the enemy who had been killed in battle. Build into a ....... ”

"My dear. The Chinese people call this kind of thing Jingguan. Roosevelt added on the side, and then he said helplessly: "Lucy, I didn't let you look here, didn't you notice the achievements of this general and his troops in the past two years?" ”

Lucy Mercer, Roosevelt's secretary and one of his lovers, was always very patient with his lover, and he pointed to the chair next to him, and waited until he sat down before he said, "First of all." Let me start with my opinion. As a soldier, I don't think this young Huaxia general did anything wrong. as the aggressed party. They have the right to use any means to resist the aggressor. The Japanese far surpass China in terms of military, economic and national strength, and it is normal for him to use some unconventional means to defend his country as a weak party, and the standards of Western civilization are not suitable for the battlefields of the East. And what surprised me the most was here. Roosevelt pointed to one of the passages and said, "Do you see, there is a large organization behind this young general who is supporting him?" Don't you think it's interesting that there are new rifles, German machine guns, American and Soviet artillery, and even airplanes? ”

Lucy just smiled gently, shook her head and said: "I have never understood this kind of thing, but you also know that we women have always looked at problems from the point of view, while you men are more rational, and the conclusions drawn from different starting points are naturally different." ”

Lucy has delicate skin and good facial features, plus she is still a highly educated and well-educated woman, and she is always very tolerant of Roosevelt, so she has always been Roosevelt's most trusted secretary and his lover, and Roosevelt also values her very much.

After a moment of silence, Roosevelt said, "My dear, please call John and Cordel, I have something to discuss with them." ”

Lucy said with some disgust, "But sir, it's evening now, don't you men need to rest?" ”

Roosevelt reluctantly said, "My dear, you should know that since I became president, my time has never belonged to me anymore. ”

Fortunately, Lucy only complained, and soon went to call someone to inform him.

Soon after, Vice President John Nance Ghana and Secretary of State Cordell Hull rushed to the White House.

"Mr. President, is there something important that you have to call us now, don't you know that I am having dinner with my family at this time?" Secretary of State Cordell Hull began by complaining about Roosevelt.

Secretary of State Roosevelt, who least liked to be disturbed outside of working hours, could only look apologetically, and soon Lucy handed them the telegram she had just sent them.

After the two of them read it, both of them showed a look of great interest, and Vice President John, who had not spoken, couldn't help but smile and said: "Mr. President, this information is really interesting, if this telegram is true, it proves that there is a force behind this young General Su that cannot be underestimated." ”

"There's no doubt about it." Kedel said affirmatively, and then waved the telegram in his hand: "And it is certain that the scientific and technological level of the forces supporting him behind him is quite good, you must know that weapons such as aircraft and heavy artillery require a fairly high technical level to manufacture, but I estimate that their scale should not be large, otherwise they would not have only tens of thousands of people by now, according to my understanding of the Chinese people, if their strength is really so strong, they will definitely compete with that Mr. Jiang for territory." ”

"Well, that's what I mean, too." Seeing that the views of the two right-hand men were similar to his own, Roosevelt nodded, "It is very helpful for our interests of the United States of America to have such an army holding back the Japanese in the Asian theater, and I think we should lend a helping hand to them now." ”

"But those guys in Congress aren't going to approve it." John frowned a little and said, "These guys are always shouting that the Americans only need to take care of their own affairs, why should they care about things outside Europe, let alone aid China thousands of miles away." You must know that many of them don't even know where Huaxia is. ”

Cordell asked, "Mr. President, are you going to push for the Lend-Lease Act now?" But you must know that now all the ports in China have been occupied by the Japanese, even if we want to help them, there is no way, not to mention that they have ships? ”

The Lend-Lease Act was a bill drafted by Roosevelt recently to support its allies, with the aim of providing war materials to the allies while the United States was not involved in the war, but only if the allies used their own cargo ships to transport the war materials in order to avoid possible attacks on American merchant ships. It's just that this bill is still in the drafting stage and has not been approved by Congress.

Roosevelt smiled: "The solution was figured out by people, it doesn't matter if the Chinese people don't have a boat, we can lend them the boat together, the key issue now is how to persuade Congress to agree to pass this bill." ”

"It's too early to pass this bill, and it's going to be difficult for Congress to pass it." Kirdell shook his head, "If you really want to provide assistance to the Huaxia government, I think it's better to sell the remaining military supplies." ”

John also nodded: "This idea of Kirdell is very good, we can give it to them in the name of giving a loan." Moreover, the first batch of aid materials does not need to be too much, and it is better to temporarily set the size of a division. ”

A few people gave the matter of assistance in a few words, and finally Roosevelt pointed to the telegram in front of him and asked with a smile: "What about this unit, what do you think?" ”

"It's hard to say right now." John shook his head: "We can let the observation team continue to observe for a while for the time being, if they do have the strength to match it, it is not too late for us to cooperate with them, at this stage it is better for us to focus on Europe, since the annexation of Poland, His Excellency the Führer's appetite has grown, and now he has turned his attention to France, I think there will be a war between Germany and France next year at the latest." ”

As a few people talked, they unconsciously shifted the topic to Europe, which they should be most concerned about, and Asia was just a problem of scabies...... (To be continued.) )

PS: Some readers asked, why there are so few updates of Ah Ding during this time, Ah Ding has already said last time, and now Ah Ding is accompanying his wife to the hospital. There is less time to code words every day, not to mention the use of mobile phone codes, interested friends can try to use mobile phone code words what it tastes like, A Ding can ensure that it is very sour. In addition, the hospital bed is simply not a person to sleep on, every morning I feel that my waist and cervical spine are going to be broken, okay, after complaining, I have to accompany my daughter-in-law to do B ultrasound in the afternoon, you also know that the world is big, and the pregnant woman is the largest. Ah Ding has to hurry up and serve Lafayette.