Charlotte? Roosevelt was in a very bad mood.

In front of her, the members of the Navy and Army Joint Committee were frowning one by one.

At that time, the United States did not have the establishment of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and this Navy and Army Joint Committee was not the predecessor of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, because this committee was only a deliberative organ used to coordinate the actions of the Navy and Army, and had no decision-making power or executive power, and they were only responsible for coordinating the actions of the Navy and Army, evaluating the operational plans of the Navy and Army, and giving it to the President as a reference.

In another time and space, in order to better coordinate with Britain in World War II, Franklin Roosevelt established a war decision-making body equivalent to the British Chiefs of Staff: the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and then dissolved the Joint Committee of the Navy and Army.

However, although the Navy and Army Joint Committee does not have decision-making power, its members include the chief of staff of the Navy and the Army, and the main formulators of the battle plan, so the results of the consultation can indeed affect the formulation of the Navy and Army's own battle plan.

The reason for the existence of this organization can be traced back to the Spanish-American War, in which the U.S.-Spanish War of two time and space saw the U.S. military having different naval and military forces pulling each other's feet. The contradictions between the two armies can be said to have reached a certain point.

In this regard, Theodore, then Undersecretary of the Admiralty? Roosevelt was very worried, so he established such a consultative body between the Navy and the Army after he became President of the United States.

This institution later developed into the president's military think tank.

"At present, Congress will not agree to our full transition to a wartime system." After a long silence, Charlotte said, "So we must use the existing resources to strengthen the combat effectiveness of the front line and accomplish our purpose of supporting the Ming Empire." ”

The members of the Joint Commission looked at each other.

"Perhaps, we can reactivate the Japanese weapons factories and weapons technicians...... "said a colonel in a navy uniform, "and this will ease the pressure on our army in terms of weapons." ”

"That can't be." Someone on the army side immediately shook their heads, "The Japanese weapons factories can only produce their standard equipment, and if they are to be able to produce our army's Springfield rifles and Thomsons, they must rebuild the production line and retrain the mechanics." In this way, it will take us at least a few months for Japanese factories to start producing equipment for our army. ”

"We've been occupying Japan for so long, and we haven't even started to dispose of these factories?" Immediately someone from the navy asked again.

Charlotte was well acquainted with the admiral King, who seemed to her to be an old stubborn, and his uncle had felt so before he died.

The army leaders looked at each other, and finally the deputy chief of staff of the army said: "We have renovated some military factories, but they have been converted into civilian factories. Others were auctioned off, and most of them were demolished, and there was no way to resume production. ”

"So," the naval staff officer, who had just broken the silence, tried to build again, "what if these factories that can still resume production produce Japanese weapons?" In this way, we can issue this weapon to the servant army conscripted from Japan, and at least it can be used as combat force. ”

After the Navy finished speaking, the Army side had an expression of "what are you kidding", and the Army staff officer who initially refuted the Navy staff officer cleared his throat, leaned forward, and pressed his hands on the table: "Sir, are you kidding?" If then the combat effectiveness of the servant army is not guaranteed at all, and the only role on the battlefield is to waste the bullets of the Chinese. Do you know how bad the Japanese Army's weaponry is? ”

"As far as I know, they developed some new weapons after independence." The naval staff officer looked dazed, "So at least their equipment will be slightly better than that of the Ming Imperial Army, right?" ”

"You're so naïve. Yes, yes, the Japanese had been developing their own weapons long before the start of the War of Independence, and they had always hoped that these weapons could replace the standard weapons of the Ming Empire, but as a result, during the War of Independence, these weapons were not produced in high performance and were not up to standard, and were only used to arm the Emperor's guards - in fact, they were honor guards. After independence, in order to get rid of the equipment of the Ming Empire and emphasize that it was a country independent of the Ming Empire, the Japanese Army began to forcibly replace its own weapons.

"They also designed a series of new weapons that they claimed to have developed on the basis of the experience of the Revolutionary War, and they were all very 'unique.'"

"Unique?" The naval staff officer raised an eyebrow.

"Yes, unique. For example, they were armed with a weapon called the Yiyi Light Machine Gun, which used the same bullets and magazines as the rifles, and the rate of fire was affected by the strictness, and the reloading speed was extremely slow. Can you imagine a light machine gun using the same five-round magazine as a rifle, and then inserting multiple magazines to achieve a continuous supply of ammunition? The reason why it was designed this way is to reduce the logistical burden. Japanese rifles use full-loading magazines, and the bullets are loaded from the factory in a simple five-round magazine, so the designers of this machine gun thought that this stupid way of feeding ammunition would make it easy to supply ammunition to the front......

"What's even more nonsense is that this Japanese machine gun also uses a monolithically poured barrel and body, and it cannot replace the barrel at all, and every 800 rounds fired must be unable to continue because the barrel is overheated, and the barrel must be cooled. A weapon like this has no real combat value at all. ”

"Sounds like a lot of daunting." The Navy's staff officer nodded, "Could it be that the same with other weapons?" ”

"Of course, for example, their heavy machine guns do not use chains to feed ammunition, but use a strange platoon of bullets, which directly guides the firing rate of only one-third of the theoretical maximum rate of fire, and the maximum rate of fire when we tested it was only 150 rounds per minute, so the sub-shooter who was responsible for reloading was still tired to death.

"The only advantage of this heavy machine gun is its high shooting accuracy, but what's the point of that advantage?"

Saying that, the US staff officer shook his head: "In addition, the artillery developed by the Japanese Army itself is also very peculiar, one-sided pursuit of caliber, and the maneuverability of the guide is extremely poor, so the accompanying artillery of the Japanese Army often only has 75 guns, and it is necessary to wait for the heavy artillery units to move up slowly, and it is not at all as fast as the 105 howitzer battalion of our army." ”

The navy's staff officer wanted to say something, but Charlotte opened his mouth to intervene in the argument between the two: "Well, I already know very well that I can't immediately use the Japanese factory to supply the war in Chinese mainland." However, as I just said, it is possible to use factories in Japan if they are properly renovated, right? ”

"Yes, Your Excellency." The Chief of Staff of the Army nodded to Charlotte, "And we can start these transformations right away." ”