As Mrs. Song Meiling said, Zhao Zhi is his lucky general of Jiang Someone, and after the cocktail party, Zhao Zhi broke the good news to Chiang Kai-shek. Zhao Zhi has just received news from the Thai front, Thunder's armored division in the Jewish army with the cooperation of two regiments of the Jewish army to encircle a Thai armored force, in the face of a strong offensive and strong firepower, the commander of the Thai armored forces finally chose to abandon the surrender, Thunder this time captured a total of more than 24 Japanese British tank armored vehicles, and Zhao Zhi intends to hand over this batch of iron guys to Chiang Kai-shek to form a mechanized unit of the national army.

"Good, good, good," in front of Song Meiling, Chiang Kai-shek couldn't stop applauding and patting Zhao Zhi's shoulder, since he was in charge of the Nationalist Government, he has not praised his juniors like this for a long time, Zhao Zhi's honor is definitely the first one, even Chiang Ching-kuo and Jiang Weiguo do not have this treatment. Soong Meiling often traveled back and forth between China and the United States, and most of the guards guarding Soong Meiling were agile and proficient in English, and their descriptions of the American's armored mechanized units had always been the envy of Chiang Kai-shek, who had fantasized more than once that his National Revolutionary Army could have such a unit.

"Does Brother Boyuan have a candidate for the commander of this armored force that is about to be formed?" Jiang Weiguo had a friendship with Zhao Zhi, as soon as Zhao Zhi returned to the South Bank Villa, he crossed paths with Jiang Weiguo on the rooftop, and later under the recommendation of Zhao Zhi, Jiang Weiguo, who studied armored command in Munich, was fortunate to participate in the German armored blitzkrieg operation against Poland. Hearing that Zhao Zhi intended to provide 24 tanks and armored vehicles for the Nationalist Government to form an armored force, Jiang Weiguo, who had been staying in the Ministry of Military Affairs after returning to China, had a plan to recommend himself, after all, he was the only one in the National Army who had really come into contact with actual armored combat.

Looking at Jiang Weiguo with a worried face with a smile, Zhao Zhi said in a low voice, "Isn't there a suitable candidate to recommend?" But I'm just the one who provides the equipment, and your father is still in charge of the specific matters of forming the armored forces, and I can't intervene here. Zhao Zhi's words made Jiang Weiguo involuntarily look at Chiang Kai-shek in the living room, the latter was discussing something in a low voice with several important members of the Ministry of Military Affairs at the moment, Jiang Weiguo, who had been a little afraid of Chiang Kai-shek since he was a child, really didn't dare to go to his father Mao Sui to recommend himself, it seemed that he was hopeless this time, Jiang Weiguo's face showed a trace of loneliness.

Zhao Zhi knew that Chiang Kai-shek had always been extremely strict with the younger generations in his family, but he didn't expect that Chiang Wei, who commanded a chariot company to charge in the Polish battlefield, was afraid of Chiang Kai-shek to this extent. The direct descendants of the Jiang family have a special identity, which determines that they will not touch too many dangers in this life, but Zhao Zhi thinks that only soldiers who are constantly honed in danger can be regarded as qualified soldiers, Jiang Weiguo yearns for life in the army, so Zhao Zhi plans to help him with this, which can be regarded as a good fate in advance.

"Jiang Gong and the seniors are chatting so lively, Boyuan's eyes are hot, and they also come to join in the fun." Zhao Zhi, who is in his 20s, is sitting in the middle of Chiang Kai-shek and a group of old men, which makes people look a little weird, but the military and political dignitaries and their families who came to this welcome reception today will never say that Zhao Zhi has no dignity because of this. As long as there is a little status in the national government, who can reach the upper echelons, who does not know that this young man who has suddenly risen is the treasure of the chairman, and it is not this young man who has been called the disease of the country by the chairman several times, where does anyone dare to provoke Zhao Zhi.

"Boyuan came just in time, we are discussing the formation of the commander of the armored forces, Boyuan, do you have any suitable candidates to recommend?" The Nationalist Government is not monolithic, since Chiang Kai-shek took over the mantle of Sun Yat-sen, the father of the Kuomintang, he has been committed to recovering power from the central government, but all the forces in the country have been acting in their own ways. As soon as Chiang Kai-shek put forward the idea of preparing to form an armored force, it attracted all kinds of shirks from the bigwigs of all parties, and the appearance of Zhao Zhi just happened to relieve him of the siege temporarily.

"Boyuan is a young talent, and your thunder is the armed force that has made the Japanese army suffer, just to solve the confusion of those of us who don't know about tanks, don't think about hiding secrets." Chen Cheng, the founder of the civil engineering department of the National Army and Chiang Kai-shek's most trusted confidant, moved his body with a smile and motioned for Zhao Zhi to come and sit beside him. Chen Cheng became one of Chiang Kai-shek's henchmen during his time in Whampoa, and was proud of imitating Chiang Kai-shek everywhere, Zhao Zhi often saw him in the villa on the south bank, so compared with other generals of the Nationalist army, Zhao Zhi was the most familiar with Chen Cheng.

"Just now someone proposed that the tank operation is cumbersome, the cost of repair and maintenance is too high, and it is better to allocate more large-caliber artillery to the troops instead of building their own armored troops, what does Boyuan think?" Zhao Zhi's appearance made Chen Cheng continue the topic just now. Obviously, the anger in Chiang Kai-shek's eyes just now was on this topic, but Chiang Kai-shek did not seem to come up with a convincing explanation.

"Tanks are not just a mobile long-range assault fire, but they can be used as cluster fire when necessary. The power of large-caliber artillery is indeed great, but its requirements for the position are also very strict, but the tank does not need to consider these, whether it is a ditch or an inclined plane, as long as the terrain within the tank climbing elevation angle allows it, it cannot stop their advance. It is even simpler to carry out artillery fire coverage on enemy positions, the artillery coverage of the armored group is no less than that of a large-caliber artillery unit, and the armored group can be moved at any time"

"On the current anti-Japanese battlefield, it is the Japanese army that has more materials, and they can rely on these materials to build their fortresses and turrets stronger and more sophisticated, do our soldiers have to use their flesh and blood to fight against these fortresses? You can bombard them with artillery, but what if you run out of shells or can't keep up with the logistics? Zhao Zhi squinted at the military bosses around him with some disdain, "The tank is different, even if the tank runs out of shells, it can still be used as a ram in the era of cold weapons, I don't believe that the Japanese fortress can be strong enough to resist the impact of more than ten tons of tanks." ”

"What about the oil? The heavier the tank, the more fuel it consumes, and a tank without fuel is just an iron turtle lying on its stomach, so can it just stay where it is and let the Japanese bomb indiscriminately? The problem just now seems to have been solved by Zhao Zhi lightly, and then someone jumped out impatiently, but this time the trouble was still a bit brainy, and he directly took the oil and said something.

"Fuel is indeed a big problem, and when I faced the Japanese army for the second time in Burma, I had to stop half of the fighters because of the fuel problem." The dependence of the armored forces on fuel is not difficult to see as long as it is a person who has been in contact with tanks, and Zhao Zhi does not need to hide it from others, "Fighting a war is basically fighting resources, whoever has more capital can win, we are short of fuel, but the Japanese army has it." Don't always limit yourself to a small circle, can't you win a big battle by using the equipment of the Japanese army? No war without oil? You can try to grab fuel from the Japanese army."

Isn't the 300,000 Burmese mercenaries who thundered to support the domestic war of resistance using Japanese-style equipment, and compared with the national army that uses state-made weapons and equipment, the Burmese mercenaries who have entered Henan are more like the main regular army of the national government. With the existence of the Burmese mercenaries, although Zhao Zhigang said that he snatched oil from the Japanese army, it is no longer empty talk, who does not know that those Burmese mercenaries have been fighting to feed the war, and all their equipment and weapons are from the Japanese puppet army that is fighting against them.

"Thunder has sent an armored unit into Henan to help in the war, as far as the current situation is concerned, the situation is quite optimistic, if this batch of tanks and armored vehicles in Thailand can successfully reach the war zone, then the upcoming armored force will have more than 50 tanks and armored vehicles of various types." Zhao Zhi's news shocked the bigwigs in a dazy way, and the daring lover Thunder had already sent tanks to Henan to help in the war, no wonder I have heard that the Burmese army has won many battles recently, and the Japanese puppet army in Henan has been unable to sleep at night.

"Jiang Gong, it's too early to say this, those equipment are still in my camp in Thailand, and I don't know the Year of the Monkey when it is transported here, let's talk about it when the things arrive." Zhao Zhi's words somewhat made the bigwigs present angry, but Zhao Zhi was not a person who was afraid of things, Lei Ting did not take the military salary of the national government, and was not under the command and control of the national government, which provoked these people, at most they returned to Myanmar, Zhao Zhi did not believe that these people could still send troops to chase them to Myanmar to find their own trouble.

"Okay, okay, since today is this cocktail party held to entertain Boyuan, then let's just host and don't talk about business." Chiang Kai-shek took the opportunity to change the topic, but his gaze at Zhao Zhi was a little warmer. With the presence of Chiang Kai-shek and his wife and the people of the U.S. Army Coordination Group, it was not good for the bigwigs who were holding back their anger on Zhao Zhi to attack on the spot, so they had to pretend to smile and try to be perfunctory to Chiang Kai-shek and Zhao Zhi.

"Jiang Gong, once the armored unit is trained and mature, it is a weapon of war, and such an armament must be in your own hands and must not be handed over to others." After the reception, Zhao Zhi followed the slightly tired Chiang Kai-shek to the study, Chiang Kai-shek's impression of the armored forces was still stuck in the battle of Songhu and the battle of Nanjing, the national army chariot troops, Zhao Zhi needed to give Chiang Kai-shek a detailed account of the importance of the armored forces. "Can you imagine a swarm of hundreds or thousands of tanks? The German blitzkrieg against Poland relied on their armored forces to complete the assault and cut the enemy troops. ”

"I tend to have Jian Ho as the commander of this armored force, Jiang Gong, you can't be soft-hearted at this time. Ken Ho is the only officer in the country who has ever fought in a large-scale armored group, and tanks can only show their power when they are used in groups, and this unit must be in your hands and must not be handed over to others. Zhao Zhi recommended Jiang Weiguo to take charge of the armored forces, which did not surprise Chiang Kai-shek, and looking at the national army, there was indeed no more suitable candidate than Jiang Weiguo.