There was silence in the study, and it took a long time for the chairman and his wife to look at each other, and both of them saw the surprise and hesitation in each other's eyes, and they didn't speak for a long time.

When Hull saw this, he thought that the two of them were against his proposal, and couldn't help but be very dissatisfied and said, "Your Excellency, don't you agree with my proposal?" ”

"No...... Isn't it ......" Chairman Jiang shook his head and organized his language before he said: "Your Excellency Hull, the situation of the Third Army is a bit special, because the predecessor of this army was a militia team formed by Shandong Province itself, and its military salaries, ammunition and weapons were all prepared by the local government, so they have a great deal of autonomy in military operations, can you understand when I say this?" ”

Hearing this, Hull said with some sudden realization: "Oh...... I understand, the National Guard, this force is in the nature of the National Guard, is that so?

When Madame Jiang saw this, she hurriedly said, "Yes, what you said is very correct. ”

In this way, Jensen understands that the US military is divided into three parts: the federal army, the National Guard, and the federal reserve force, the former is the national active duty force, and the latter two belong to the reserve. Out of the mentality of resisting power, the Americans stipulate that the National Guard belongs to the organization of the local government, the federal government only has the right to direct it, but not the right to command, and the National Guard is commanded by the state governments.

"That's it!" Hull touched the beard on his lips, a little embarrassed.

Seeing that Hull was silent, Chairman Chiang was afraid that the Yankees would cancel military aid to China in anger, so he hurriedly said: "Mr. Hull, in fact, we have many other troops in China that can fight, and if you want, we can form another force to go to France." ”

At this time, Chairman Chiang's heart was full of malice, for him there was nothing more important than military aid, and as for sending troops to France to fight, such a thing was nothing at all. Huaxia lacks everything, that is, there is no shortage of people, as long as he is willing to draw a random stroke, let alone form a group army, even two or three group armies are no problem, and when the time comes, get a dozen or two hundred thousand people and hand them over to the Americans, whatever they want.

Of course, Hull didn't know at this time that Chairman Chiang's little abacus in the heart of Chairman Chiang, who was close at hand, was crackling, and he thought for a while before shaking his head and said: "Your Excellency, I beg you to say bluntly, what we need is a unit with rich combat experience that can fight immediately after leaving for France, and in my impression, the unit with the highest combat effectiveness in your country is the Third Army, which can be seen from their achievements over the years. Personally, I would still prefer to transfer the Third Army to France. ”

Chairman Jiang sighed secretly in his heart, and shook his head helplessly: "Mr. Hull, if this is the case, please forgive me for not being able to do anything, the Third Army has a lot of autonomy, and I can't forcibly order them to fight in France, which is thousands of miles away, because if I force it to do so, there will be a mutiny." Of course......" Seeing that Hull's face was a little unpleasant, Chairman Chiang added: "If, I mean, if you can convince that General Su, I don't think all this will be a problem." ”

Hull's brows were furrowed, the chairman Jiang in front of him really knew how to play tai chi, and he lifted the ball to Su Jin's side in the blink of an eye, but he could also understand Chairman Jiang's feelings, if he had changed, he would not have sent such an elite army to a place thousands of miles away to work for others, isn't it sick.

Negotiations between the two sides reached an impasse, as one of them wanted the other side to send its most elite troops to fight the Germans, and the other side could not agree for unspeakable reasons, and the study fell silent. After a long time, Jensen made a proposal: "Mr. Hull, Your Excellency, I think we are not entangled here, why don't we ask the opinion of the person concerned, if the General Su agrees to our proposal, then the problem will be solved, if he does not agree, then it is useless for us to say anything here, what do you say?" ”

"That's all there is to it!" Chairman Jiang nodded, and said a little lukewarmly: "This matter is not something we can decide, if the returned government wants the Third Army to go to France, you can only go and talk to them in person." ”

Hull naturally knew why Chairman Chiang's attitude had become so strange, our Chairman Chiang's self-esteem had been hurt, after all, he would be unhappy if anyone was so mercilessly despised by others for the combat effectiveness of his own army. In order to comfort the wounded soul of Your Excellency the Chairman of the National People's Congress and to enable the Nationalist Government to better slow down the pace of the Japanese, he continued: "Your Excellency, in order to better support the Chinese people in defending their homeland against the invaders, our US Government is willing to provide you with 200,000 gallons of gasoline and 100,000 gallons of aviation fuel, as well as 3,000 tons of food, weapons and ammunition every month. Of course, this amount is not absolute, and will change as our shipping capacity changes, which I hope you can understand. ”

Chairman Jiang felt a burst of disdain in his heart, this foreign devil said it nicely. What he said changed with the change of transportation capacity, in fact, it was not to use this to jam our necks, but although he thought so, he still had to smile and express his gratitude, and the two sides exchanged words for a while, and it was not until noon that Hull took his leave and returned after lunch.

After Hull got into the car, his originally smiling face slowly became contemplative, and he turned his head and said, "Jensen, do you think that Mr. Chairman just said the truth?" ”

Jensen thought for a moment and said, "It should be true, you must know that the situation in this country is very complicated, and just figuring out the composition and belonging of their army is enough to be devastating. You must know that in this country, the army that is completely under the orders of Chairman Chiang is called the Central Army, but the Central Army is only a part of the army of this country, and there are more than a million miscellaneous armies, which are divided into countless factions, they all belong to individual and local warlords, and some generals with real power will treat these armies as their own personal property, and if they lose the army in their hands they will have nothing, and unfortunately the Third Army you mentioned is exactly the case, Therefore, His Excellency the Chairman did not lie to you just now, if you want this army to go to Europe, it is the General Su who should be persuaded the most, not the Chairman of the Committee. ”

Hull was dizzy when he heard this, and to be honest, it was the first time in most of his life that he had heard of such a complicated relationship between a country's military.

Seeing Hull's look of disbelief, Jensen smiled bitterly and said, "Your Excellency, Secretary of State, I didn't expect it. It took me a few years to figure out the relationship, and I was in the same disbelief as you were at the time, but then I got used to it. ”

"Huh......" let out a long breath, and Hull smiled bitterly: "It seems that I will go to Hangzhou to visit that General Su in a few days, but I always feel that General Su is probably more difficult to deal with than that chairman, and God knows what outrageous conditions he will propose." ”

Just when Hull was having a headache for his task, Chairman Chiang and his wife were also talking in the side hall. Madame Chiang took a cup of coffee and sipped it slowly, and said to her husband on the side: "Darling, why do you say that those Americans suddenly want to transfer our troops to France, are they so sure that the Germans will definitely attack France?" ”

Chairman Chiang looked at his wife and said: "Madam, this is the shrewdness of the Americans, whether the Germans attack France or not is only their judgment, although Britain and France have declared war on Germany, but neither side has fired a single shot, in this case the Americans do not know what direction the situation will develop." However, one thing is certain, once this war starts, countless people will definitely die, in their opinion, rather than let those whites die, it is better for us Asians to plug the guns for them, so they have paid attention to us, and Su Sansi's Third Army has been in the limelight all these years, and it is not surprising that the Americans are eyeing him. ”

"How can there be such a thing?" Madame Chiang muttered, and then looked at her husband a little strangely: "Darling, I remember that you don't care much about European affairs on weekdays, how can you talk so much today that you have bluffed Secretary of State Hull." ”

The good-faced chairman naturally wouldn't tell his wife the real reason, but he coughed lightly twice before saying, "Of course I figured it out myself, what's so strange about this." Now let's not talk about this, thank God, the Americans finally relented, although less than 20,000 tons of supplies per month is a little less, but this is at least a good start, as long as the Americans are dragged into the water by us, then the whole war situation will be fundamentally changed. ”

The more he spoke, the more excited he became, and a rare flush appeared on his face......

Just when Hull and Chairman Jiang were making their own calculations, a young woman walked into the school gate of Hangzhou Yucai Middle School, although she was only wearing a plain cheongsam and a pair of soft-soled cloth shoes under her feet, but even the simple style of cheongsam and plain face could not hide her graceful figure and beautiful face, and she immediately attracted a lot of amazing eyes as soon as she entered the school gate.

I saw that after she looked around, she stopped a male classmate passing by, and the male classmate stammered and pointed out the direction to her, and then she smiled at the male classmate and turned around and walked towards the south, leaving only the male classmate who was looking at her back obsessively...... (To be continued.) )