Chapter 587: Military Quadathlon, Iron Man Competition
After eating, Xiao Lu and Stilwell went to meet with the British commander. Earl Wavell, the commander of the British army www.biquge.info, was not as enthusiastic as Stilwell, and had a general view of this Chinese lieutenant general, and it was not until Stilwell introduced that this was the road lieutenant general who recovered Manchuria, and he connected the legendary Chinese general with this young officer with a broken brim, and became a little more enthusiastic.
The new commander of the British army was the Earl of Waveville. Archibald. Percival. Count Wavell, Commander-in-Chief of the British Forces in Palestine in 1937. In 1938 he was appointed commander of the British Southern Military District and was promoted to lieutenant general on 21 January 1938. On July 28, 1939, he was appointed commander of the British forces in the Middle East, and on July 28, 1939, he was promoted to army general. From July 1941 to January 1942, he was Commander-in-Chief of the British Forces in India. From January 4, 1942 to February 25, 1942, he served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces of the United States, Britain, the Netherlands, and Australia in the Southwest Pacific. In February 1942, he was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Army. He was Viceroy of India from 19 June 1943 to March 1947 and was promoted to Field Marshal on 1 January 1943.
In addition to the British, there were also Indians in the British barracks, and among the Indians, most of them were Sikhs with tall turbans.
The Indians have loose military discipline.
The Indian soldier was wrapped in a turban, looking very majestic and majestic. However, on the garbage heap next to the Indian military camp, a large number of wine bottles were seen on the path. I saw it, but he didn't say anything, and no expression showed any expression.
In the Indian army, many of them are professional soldiers and are very old. The veteran is very slippery, shoots accurately, has good combat skills, and runs fast if the battle does not go well.
Got out of the British commander and drove to the Chinese barracks.
The Chinese army stationed in India is stationed in a place called Ledo in the north of Assam. Xiao Lu met Luo Zhuoying, Sun Liren and other Chinese officers here.
Luo Zhuoying, wearing glasses and a short-sleeved shirt, saw Xiaolu and said, "It turned out to be General Lu who recovered Northeast Outer Mongolia, and I have admired it for a long time." ”
Sun Liren also came up and said: "Under Sun Liren, I have admired General Lu for a long time. ”
Xiaolu said: "Two generals, raise the prestige of our country abroad, salute!" ”
When they heard him say this, they were both a little moved.
Xiaolu said: "I brought dozens of boxes of penicillin, counting the gifts given by our troops to the brother troops, how about it, what do you think?" ”
Sun Liren preemptively said: "I have heard of your medicine a long time ago, and it is better than that of the United States." Thank you very much. ”
Luo Zhuoying said: "Thank you." Thank you, General Lu. ”
Sun Lidao: "I heard that you came with a transport plane, your own plane?" Or did the USSR give it to you? ”
Xiao Lu was very uncomfortable when he heard it, but this discomfort had been done many times, and he already had immunity, and said: "General Sun, your equipment was given to you by the United States, but my equipment was all grabbed by myself." The planes were snatched from the Japanese. ”
Luo Zhuoying said: "Yes, yes, yes." It was a Japanese-made plane. I recognize. ”
Xiao Lu: "This time I brought a plane of things, I'm sorry I can't give them all to you, and I have to give the rest to others." This kind of thing, which the USSR did not have, only the United States had, and we had, was a medicine, the most advanced medicine. ”
Sun Liren also heard the meaning of Xiaolu's words, and said, "Of course, of course." It is not easy for your troops to be behind enemy lines in the northeast. ”
Luo Zhuoying cared about the materials of Xiaolu and said, "Who will the rest of the materials for?" American or British? ”
Xiaolu said: "There is a guerrilla group in northern Burma, and I want to give them something." Joseph, can you discuss that I will exchange fifty boxes of penicillin for weapons and ammunition with you. How? I know you have extra gear. ”
Stilwell said, "Guerrillas? What kind of team is this? Stilwell thought to himself: How did he know that I had brought three divisions of equipment, and the Kuomintang army only had two divisions of men? Sun Liren is fighting with me to divide the weapons of the three divisions and the two divisions. I haven't said yes yet, but there is a guerrilla that seems to be very useful. Let's find out first.
Xiaolu said: "Their composition is very complicated, there are Chinese, there are Burmese, and there are also Chinese who have been separated from this expeditionary force. Their purpose was to fight the Japanese. My idea is that arming them will do your war good. What do you think? ”
Stilwell said, "You can exchange the medicine for weapons and ammunition from me, and then give them weapons and ammunition, but I need to meet their commander." "He's also worried about medicines.
Xiaolu said: "Yes. I can tell you one thing first, and that is that General Dianlan's troops were saved by them. ”
Stilwell said, "I guess it's them." I wondered, do these people have combat effectiveness? ”
Xiaolu said: "Looks like you need to make contact with them. ”
Beginning in the evening of the same day, Xiao Lu began to explain the main points of operations behind enemy lines to the officers of the Chinese Expeditionary Corps and above the battalion level.
After giving a few lectures, these officers began to understand, and Sun Lidao: "Your tactics are good, but they are too difficult. It is difficult for officers and soldiers to be unanimous. ”
Stilwell also led a few American and British officers to listen to Xiaolu's lectures, because because they listened to the lectures, Xiaolu also mixed some English sporadically, which made the Chinese soldiers very confused.
In order for them to be able to understand Xiaolu, they began to lay out their own situation and the situation of the Japanese army, and each lesson told a battle example, and through the battle examples, the main points and theories were explained.
After another three days, ten lectures were completed, and all the courses were over. Officers of the U.S. Army and the National Army are thinking.
Xiaolu said: "This time, as a final exam for studying the tactics of warfare behind enemy lines, I would like to ask each of you to write a paper on your views on the confrontation with Japan. There is no limit to the topic, and there is no limit to the length. Both English and Chinese are available. There is a time limit, and the paper must be submitted within three days. ”
A regiment commander said: "General Lu, this is to study and write a thesis?" ”
Xiaolu said: "There are many people who listen to my classes, and there is no time when I don't take the exam after the end." My Tubaozi officers in the Northeast are no exception, you are a regular army, one of the strongest armies in China, and they are certainly stronger than my troops in the Northeast. I had a regiment commander who didn't write a paper in a class, made excuses and ran away, saying that there was something going on on the battlefield. Later, when I met, I asked him for a thesis and refused to graduate him. Three years later, he became a brigade commander, finally surrendered, and honestly wrote a thesis. Of course, I'm not your commander, and if you don't write, I can't help it. But I will never write it for you. ”
The crowd laughed.
Xiaolu said: "In the process of writing, you can find me, or you can find General Stilwell, General Luo Zhuoying, and General Sun Liren to discuss." To emphasize, if you disagree with my point of view, you are welcome to write a paper and criticize me. To be clear, I won't deduct points for your criticism of my views. On the contrary, what you say makes sense, and I will give you extra points. I can tell you that guerrilla warfare has risen to the level of war theory, and it still needs to be perfected. ”
After class, everyone left one after another, and Xiaolu caught up with Luo Zhuoying and said, "I heard that Stilwell is going to replace all regimental officers and above with US military officers." Is there such a thing? ”
Luo Zhuoying looked embarrassed and did not answer.
Xiaolu said: "I also heard that after Stilwell found out that the officers withheld the military salaries, the Americans directly paid the soldiers, is there such a thing?" ”
Luo Zhuoying was even more embarrassed, and did not deny it, obviously there was such a thing.
Xiaolu said: "Okay. Let's all behave well and dispel his unrealistic and arrogant ideas with real skills. ”
Xiao Lu returned to the conference room that was used as a classroom, and several American and British officers surrounded him and began to ask questions. What Chinese army has low combat effectiveness, what Chinese army is poorly equipped, what Chinese officers withhold military salaries, what Chinese soldiers are easy to escape in battle, and what Chinese army is easy to surrender.
Some give examples, saying that a dozen Japanese soldiers pursued thousands of Chinese soldiers, and that a few Japanese soldiers escorted Chinese prisoners, and so on. There are also suspicions that the Northeast Coalition Army was commanded by Soviet officers. Wait a minute.
After asking a few questions, Xiao Lu understood that these guys were here to challenge himself.
It turned out that several American troops heard Stilwell say that this General Lu was very powerful, and even thought that even General Patton was unqualified in his opinion, so they came to challenge Xiaolu.
Neither the American nor the British officers stopped them, indicating that they also wanted to consider the combat capabilities of the small road troops.
After listening to it for a long time, Xiao Lu laughed and said: "Do you think that our recovery of the Northeast is the withdrawal of the Japanese army, not our victory?" The victorious campaign was commanded by Soviet officers? ”
Several officers snorted, their eyes turned to the sky.
Xiao Lu smiled: "Do you think our combat effectiveness is inferior to yours, inferior to the Japanese army?" ”
Several officers snorted twice, nostrils pointing to the sky.
Xiaolu said: "Do you think if we play a game, we will definitely lose?" ”
Several officers snorted three times, their chins facing the sky.
Xiaolu looked at these few people: "Okay, if we have time in the past two days, we will hold a small friendly match to see how good the military technology level of my Chinese army and your British army and the United States are." What do you think? ”
A few officers immediately came to the spirit: good wow, good wow, game game.
Xiaolu: "The army competition must have military characteristics, and the content of the competition must have military actions." In this way, I set the rules. Rest assured, fairness guaranteed. ”
There were only four guards on the path, and one staff officer was very strong and also went up. There was still one missing, and in the end Xiaolu decided to go up by himself, making up six people. The British and American armies also sent six people each to participate in the competition. Some officers of the expeditionary force also wanted to form a team to participate, but Koji refused on the grounds that they should form a team according to the country. He knew that the expeditionary force was not good at fighting.
As for the competition events, the trail is planned to shoot shooting, weight-bearing long-distance running, fighting, and swimming. The first battle was decided, and all six people participated.
The U.S. and British armies don't look down on them at all, and these projects are our strengths, so we promised to agree.
Decide the winner with the collective score. Of course, individual results can also be examined, and the rules are 18 points for the first place, 17 points for the second place, and 1 point for the last 18 places. In the event of a dispute, the final scores can be added up, and the one with the highest score wins.
Ok Ok.
If you think it's unfair, you can bring it up. My fighters are guards and staff officers, and there are only a few of them, and they all participate.
No no.
Everyone is a soldier, an American officer, a British soldier, Indians, including the Chinese Expeditionary Force, want to see the quality of these people, and the game will be decided immediately, tomorrow.
The Indians and the Chinese expeditionary force did not participate.
The first was shooting, with thirty rounds of ammunition from American rifles.
The U.S. and British fought first, and all six of them scored an average of more than 8 rings. The people who go to the trail play, it's different. Almost all of them couldn't get a good result in the first and second shots, starting from the third shot, it was basically 9 rings, and to the last 20 rounds it was basically 10 rings, and the average score was 9.5 rings.
It's time to go on the trail. He was the last. Many British and American troops expect him to be a general, and he must not have good grades. As a result, they were disappointed, the first shot, the path hit an 8 rings, and the second shot started, all 10 rings. Others basically shoot nine rings first, and then all ten rings.
The ranking of shooting results is China, the United States and the United Kingdom.
Then there's the team fight.
This kind of fighting has never been experienced by the American and British troops at all, and it feels very interesting, and before the fight, I am eager to try it.
The rules of the game are: six people and the opposing team scuffle, and all six of them fall to lose.
The real game is not so fun.
In the first decisive battle between the people on the trail and the American army, the result was very unexpected, and in less than 30 seconds, the American troops were all fallen. The British also lost, and the final position was the same as shooting, with the United States and the United Kingdom.
Afterwards, everyone tried to summarize, the audience only cared about surprise and shouting and cheering, and they couldn't remember many details, especially the details of the victory of the Northeast Coalition Army, they couldn't remember it at all, as if they had just come on the field, and they were thrown before they could do it.
When it came to swimming, the Chinese army was slower than the British army and faster than the American army.
In the end, the weight-bearing long-distance run, the US military thought that it would definitely win, and the result surprised everyone, still the Chinese first, and the United States and Britain were behind. These Chinese are not tall and physically strong, but one by one they have full endurance and run 20 kilometers with weights, and these six people are not fast or slow, and in the second half, they catch up with the others.
This game left a deep impression on the armies of the three countries. The Indian army also knew. The Chinese Expeditionary Force knew that they were far inferior, but they were glad that the troops of Xiaolu had won glory for the Chinese army.
That night, they all heard about the summary of the guard squad leader's competition: first, the adaptation to the new gun was too slow and unqualified. Second, running with weights could have been a minute faster, to sum up, why is it slow! Can you show mercy to the enemy on the battlefield? Thirdly, martial arts confrontation, why is victory so slow! Don't you know how to kill the enemy in one move! Swimming is the second, go home and pick up the baby!
Xiaolu actually criticized himself: I'm sorry, I discredited the whole team. If it weren't for my poor swimming skills, we would have taken the first place.
All the troops knew their summary and were completely convinced.
The arrogance of the British and American troops was beaten down at once.
A day after the course was finished, Li Wei arrived with 500 people.
Xiaolu already knew that he was coming, and with the guards, he ran out on foot for more than ten miles to meet him. The two groups met in a warm atmosphere. Li Wei saw Xiaolu as if he was seeing a brother.
The expeditionary force had long known that the guerrillas had saved Dai Anlan, and the soldiers had a good impression of them, but they were surprised that the guerrillas turned out to be Xiaolu's subordinates.
About 450 of the 500 people had never seen Xiaolu before, and they were very excited to see it this time, and they were even more admired when they heard about Xiaolu's performance in the previous day's competition.