After entering the office with the lieutenant general who came running without saying hello, Tan Renhao didn't know how to greet Gu Xunlei a little. It stands to reason that Gu Xunlei should be training his army units in the Southwest Pacific now, and what is he doing at the Navy Command if he has nothing to do? Could it be that he was also invited to this meeting of commanders? Tan Renhao's guess is not wrong at all.

"I wanted to call you, but I thought that you would not stay next to the phone, so I came directly." Gu Xunlei still looked very natural, and he didn't feel like a guest at all. "This time, I came to participate in this combat meeting on behalf of the army's combat units, and I heard that you have returned to the naval headquarters, so I didn't come back with Hao Dongjue and them, and rushed back by plane first."

"Marshal Yan Dingyu didn't let you go back to the Russian battlefield?"

"What are you going back for? Fight with the Germans? Gu Xunlei sat down with a big grin, "Even if I am asked to go back now, I won't go back, I don't dare to guarantee that there will be no conflict after meeting those German generals, if something really happens, no one will be able to get over their face." ”

Tan Renhao immediately laughed, and he brought Gu Xunlei a bottle of Coke. "This is just a matter of getting it, and I heard that this thing is very popular in the army."

"Coke? It's okay, but what we envy the most is that there is beer on every battleship in the Navy! ”

Coke was originally a prescription for an indigenous tribe in the Americas, and later an imperial explorer got the formula from this tribe, and after returning to improve it, he made the first cola, and after continuous improvement, there is the current cola. Now, the empire had two large coke production plants, and before the war, the business of coke was not easy, after all, not many people loved to drink this novel drink. And after the outbreak of the war, a cola company shouted a slogan, or an advertisement, this slogan was: where the imperial army fights, coke will be sold! And in order to supply Coke to the Imperial Army on a large scale, the company supplied Coke to the army at the price of a penny a bottle, which was less than a tenth of the cost price. Although the company lost a lot of money in business, the good thing was that as the Imperial army won and the company's Coke was marketed all over the world, the money earned from the occupied territories was enough to cover the losses when it was sold to the army, and the army was promoting the company for free. It is precisely because of this that now both the navy and land armies of the empire provide coke on a large scale, and they can have as much as they want.

"Xunlei, how is the situation of your troops now?" Tan Renhao made a cup of tea by himself, and he didn't have a good impression of Coke.

"I'm here to talk to you about this, you don't need to worry about the army." Gu Xunlei put Erlang on his legs, and waited until Tan Renhao sat down before he said: "You have been to the Indian Ocean and the South Atlantic Ocean for a few months, how much do you know about the domestic situation?" ”

"What's the situation?" Tan Renhao frowned slightly, and he immediately guessed what Gu Xunlei was going to say.

"It's the trouble that the Army and Navy are facing right now." Gu Xunlei hesitated. Then he laughed, "You know for sure, don't you?" ”

Tan Renhao also saw Gu Xunlei's expression, and then nodded slightly.

"When I contacted the marshal two days ago, the marshal told me. Some people in the country are deliberately making things difficult for the prime minister, and they are directly attacking the performance of the army and navy on the battlefield. Now, the marshal is troubled by this matter, and he wants me to cooperate with the navy and complete the combat operations in Australia. ”

"Marshal Yan Dingyu told you personally?" Tan Renhao was a little surprised, if Yan Dingyu really said so, then the army would definitely have to expand its investment in the Pacific theater.

"Am I going to lie to you again? I spoke directly to the marshal on the phone after arriving in Port Vila, and on the phone, the marshal did not say it directly, but it meant yes. Gu Xunlei took out a cigarette, "Whether it is the army or the navy, they are all tied to the prime minister, and now that someone is making trouble for the prime minister, we can't sit idly by, right?" ”

Tan Renhao nodded slightly. Gu Xunlei didn't joke at all, and it was indeed the truth.

"If the prime minister falls, it will not be good for us, so now is not the time to talk about any difference between land and sea, our common goal is the same, winning the war will benefit us, and losing the war, we will not benefit."

"So, what benefits did Marshal Yan Dingyu give you?"

Gu Xunlei was stunned for a moment, and immediately laughed. "You kid is too direct, what can I do?"

"That's not what I meant." Tan Renhao also laughed, he did say too directly, "I mean, is Marshal Yan Dingyu going to send a few more troops, especially the main force?" ”

"Well, it's not possible yet. The main task of the army is to defeat Russia within the year, which is a dead task set by the prime minister, if it cannot be completed, the marshal is very likely to take the blame and resign and bear the blame for the prime minister, so now almost all the main army corps are concentrated on the continental battlefield. Gu Xunlei laughed haha. "Well, you don't need to worry about this at all, I've got assurances from the marshal."

"What guarantees?" Tan Renhao doesn't want to fight with Gu Xunlei haha.

"The marshal has promised to provide me with all the equipment of at least two tank divisions, as well as one artillery division, and all of the latest equipment. We will be able to reach Port Vila by the middle of this month. ”

"Equipment?" Tan Renhao frowned, "What's the use of just having equipment, it's better to send you two tank divisions directly, which will be more effective." ”

"Renhao, you kid can't be so greedy."

"Greedy? I'm not greedy, it's your business, what does it have to do with me? ”

Gu Xunlei suffered a dumb loss, but he was thick-skinned enough, "Didn't I say it at first, now the army can't send the main force over, and it's already very good that the marshal can give me these equipment." ”

"Okay, let's get to the point." Tan Renhao smiled and shook his head, "Even if you get these equipment, you can't send infantry to drive tanks, right?" Even if I don't know much about the Army, the principle is the same, it's not that an infantry division with tanks is a tank division, isn't it? ”

"There's nothing wrong with that, but tankmen aren't trained yet?" Gu Xunlei did not evade, "If you don't have equipment, even if you have tank crews, you can't form a tank division, at most it's just a group of tank crews fighting with rifles." And now with equipment, what is needed is to train people, and infantry, after training, can also become tank crews. ”

"Okay, then, how much time do you have to organize training?" Tan Renhao directly made the question clear, "Also, how many people in your hands are suitable to be trained as tank soldiers?" ”

"Personnel is not a problem, this time I have the strength of fifty divisions, and I can't pick out the personnel who make up two tank divisions out of hundreds of thousands of people?" Gu Xunlei knows much more about the army than Tan Renhao, "But what you said is not wrong, I have already selected these people, and I have also borrowed a batch of equipment from the Marine Corps for basic training, and now the main problem is time, there is not enough time." There is simply no way to train good armored soldiers. ”

"The campaign starts by mid-June at the latest, and you still have a month to spare."

Gu Xunlei nodded slightly, he originally wanted to ask this question, but now that Tan Renhao answered in advance, there was no need for him to ask again.

"With soldiers, you also have to have officers, how many suitable officers do you have?" Tan Renhao asked another question.

"Well...... Gu Xunlei sighed secretly, "Ren Hao, your kid doesn't know much about the army." ”

"I don't actually know much about the Army, it's just that these situations definitely exist in the Navy. Just like on a battleship, if there are only soldiers and no officers, then the battleship will definitely not leave the port. Not to mention the inability to carry out combat missions. Officers are the skeleton of an army, especially low-level officers, and the quality of these people directly determines the overall quality of an army. ”

"Looks like you're pretty good at associating. This is indeed the case with the Army. Gu Xunlei looked at Tan Renhao with a little admiration. The problems of these officers were a real headache for me, the marshal did not arrange the appropriate personnel for me, and in the previous months I had been running between the front and the rear together, and I had almost all the personnel I could muster, but I still could not meet the requirements for the formation of two tank divisions. ”

"You're going to dig someone else's corner?" At this time, Tan Renhao couldn't help it, Gu Xunlei even dared to grab the German supply convoy, and asked him to go to other troops to grab a few officers, he would definitely be able to do it.

"I'm not so lacking in morality, and I know the commanders of every armored unit in the empire, if I dare to dig their corners directly, I won't want to mix up in the army in the future, I can just jump ship to the navy to get with you."

"With me? This small temple of the Navy can't afford your great Bodhisattva. ”

"Come on, Renhao, your kid is killing me again." Gu Xunlei shook his head with a smile, and lit the second cigarette with a quick movement, "I mainly went to the rear hospital of the army to recruit those officers who had recovered from their injuries, and I finally didn't work in vain in the past few months, and I pulled more than 200 people over before and after, all of whom are very good officers of the armored forces, and most of them know each other." They have already been removed from the original unit, and if they return to the original unit, they will have to go through a lot of troublesome procedures, and maybe their previous positions have been occupied by others, so they are all happy to come to my side. ”

"It seems that your popularity is quite strong." Tan Renhao didn't know how to describe Gu Xunlei, if this bastard wanted to do one thing, he could use any tricks.

"Well, you're here again, but to be honest, there's not enough of them. I've probably calculated that I'm going to have to have 500 officers, so I'll have to go around the hospitals and see if I can pull a few more. Gu Xunlei sighed, "However, as far as I know now, the tanks of the US army are the worst, I heard that the tanks provided by the United States to Russia were directly sent to the steel plant by the Russians as scrap steel to be reheated, and they are much worse than Russia, Germany, and our tanks in terms of performance, they are simply broken copper and iron!" ”

Tan Renhao glanced at Gu Xunlei in surprise, and then said: "But a tank is a tank, how can it be stronger than a tractor." ”

"I admit this, but the US army's armored forces deployed in Australia will not exceed five divisions, not to mention the equipment, these troops have not participated in the previous battle for the islands, combat experience, and the quality of officers and men is definitely worse. If there is a real fight, even if I only have two tank divisions, I will definitely not be left behind. ”

"The problem is, your two divisions have not yet been officially established, and even the supporting officers are not in place, and the training of tankers has not been completed, can this be considered two tank divisions?"

"You kid knows how to sarcastically mock me!" Gu Xunlei almost jumped up, "Come on, I don't bother with you, but I do think that the battle is not very difficult." ”

"Okay, then you came to me today just to talk to me about the Army's readiness?" Tan Renhao no longer jokes with Gu Xunlei.

"In addition to this, there is one more thing, I hope you can help."

Tan Renhao nodded, he knew that Gu Xunlei must have something to ask him, otherwise he wouldn't have made a special trip over.

Gu Xunlei's face was a little embarrassed, and he hesitated for a while before he said: "The main thing is the coordination between the army and the marines. I did not expect to be able to go ashore in the first batch of the Army's participation in combat operations on the Australian continent this time, this is the task of the Marine Corps after all. However, the navy is responsible for all the supply of the army, and in ground operations, the army certainly has a very important task, and according to the current arrangement, the logistics support unit of the Marine Corps will make unified arrangements for the supply of ground combat troops. So ......"

"Are you asking me to talk to Yan Guozhong?"

Gu Xunlei nodded. "Renhao, you still know me. I also did not expect the Marine Corps to cooperate well with the Army, and the contradictions between the Navy and the Army were deeply rooted and difficult to resolve for a while. But after the battle starts, the army will definitely need a lot of support, and logistics must be guaranteed, otherwise even the most elite army units will not be able to win the battle. ”

Tan Renhao thought for a moment and said: "I will keep this matter in mind, Yan Guozhong will come back in the next two days, maybe Yuan Ye will also come back together, and when the time comes, I will talk to Yan Guozhong again." ”

"The other thing is the issue of fleet support, which should be your responsibility, right?"

"Fleet? This one is still uncertain, maybe it's me, maybe it's Lei Shaoqing. You don't need to worry about this, neither I nor Lei Shaoqing will look at the army differently. ”

Gu Xunlei was like taking a reassuring pill, and with Tan Renhao's assurance, he really had nothing to worry about.

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