Chang Kaishen is afraid of foreigners from the bottom of his bones.

The father of the beautiful country can't afford to offend.

What if I anger the father of the beautiful country and don't give military aid?

With the current situation of the Nationalist Government, without the assistance of the beautiful country, it can only be a dead end.

At that moment, Chang Kaishen said with a dark face: "Then let's turn the passive into the active and make every effort to promote this matter!" ”

"Wise." Chen Bui reacted instantly, and cast a gaze of great admiration at Chang Kaishen, in terms of political skill, no one can be the right chairman of the Standing Committee.

Chang Kaishen turned his head to Dai Li again and said, "Yunong, you can do this." ”

"Yes." Dai Li stood up and replied respectfully, "The student must have done this properly." ”

"Well, Yu Nong, I'm still relieved that you're doing things." Chang Kaishen nodded happily, and then said again, "In the past, there was such a person who could reassure me when Huangpu Grass was created, but it's a pity that ......"

Dai Li was silent, he knew that Chang Kaishen was talking about Chen Gen.

During the Northern Expedition, Chen Gen was the backbone of the Whampoa system.

But now, he has become a member of the Eighth Route Army!

And in this Taiyuan Battle, there was such a big movement.

It's no wonder that Chang Kaishen sighed, if he was replaced, he could also regret his intestines.

With a little emotion, Chang Kaishen quickly put away his emotions and said: "Let's go busy, use all our forces and personnel to vigorously propagandize, there is only one principle, the credit of the Taiyuan Campaign must not fall on the head of the Communist Party or the Eighth Route Army, and the Taiyuan Campaign must not affect the military aid of the beautiful government to the party-state!" ”

Everyone got up and replied, "Yes!" ”

……

Washington, the capital of the beautiful country, the White House.

Six o'clock in the morning Chongqing time, exactly five o'clock in the afternoon Washington time.

Secretary of Defense Harry Maguire and Chief of Staff of the Army, Navy and Air Force Grant were sitting on the sofa, unable to breathe.

Because they could see that His Excellency the President had already left his anger, and at this time, it only took a little spark to make him explode completely, and they did not want to touch the mold.

As the only president in the history of the beautiful country to be re-elected for three consecutive terms, President Frank's prestige in the beautiful country has reached its peak, even high-ranking generals like Maguire and Grant have met with Frank and elementary school students to meet teachers, and the teacher will be nervous and don't know where to go as long as his brow furrows slightly.

"These bastards!" Frank slammed the telegram on the large table.

However, Frank still controlled his emotions, turned his head and asked Maguire: "So, the situation on the Bataan Peninsula is irreparable, right?" ”

There are 70,000 Filipino troops on the Bataan Peninsula who are still struggling to support it.

But to this day, these 70,000 coalition troops are almost unable to hold on.

After the surrender of these 70,000 Drifting Filipino coalition troops, there was no longer a single allied army in the whole of Southeast Asia.

"Unless the Pacific Fleet can deliver supplies to the Bataan Peninsula within a week, the Drifting Philippines will be able to hold out for a week at most," Maguire said. ”

"Damn it." Frank cursed, and then asked, "Do you two have any good advice about the Pacific Theater?" Let's hear it. ”

"Your Excellency, I oppose the Navy's proposed defense plan based on the West Coast," Grant said. ”

After the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Navy of the United States put forward a defense plan based on the west coast, which was actually to advocate abandoning the western Pacific and retreating to the eastern Pacific.

"Oh, really?" Frank frowned and said, "You should know very well that after the Pearl Harbor incident, the Pacific Fleet was already at an absolute disadvantage compared to the Combined Fleet of the Japanese Navy. ”

"Yes, I think we have to attack at this time." Grant said solemnly, "Only offense is the best defense." ”

"I also think we should take the initiative." Maguire said, "Passive defense can only be more and more passive, and only active attack can make the enemy tired and make mistakes in the busy."

Grant said, "Then if the enemy makes a mistake, he has a chance to win with one blow!" ”

[It was precisely because the Navy of the Beautiful Country took the initiative to attack without dominance that there was a draw in the Battle of the Coral Sea and a decisive victory in the Battle of Midway, thus completely reversing the situation in the Pacific Theater]

"I see." Frank was noncommittal, and added, "Is there anything else?" ”

"The Allied defeat in the Southeast Asian theater and the Pacific theater proved the fact that the Japanese Army was far more powerful than we thought, so in order to reduce the pressure on the Allied forces in the Pacific theater, the Chinese army in the Asian theater should assume greater responsibility," Maguire said. ”

Frank said: "Hasn't we already provided five billion dollars in military aid to the national government? Not enough? ”

"It's not that it's not enough, it's that I think this batch of military aid has been provided to the wrong target." "As far as I know, there is an army inside China that is much more powerful than the Kuomintang army," Maguire said.

"I've heard of it." "Is it the army led by the Communists?" ”

"Yes." Maguire said solemnly, "From its birth to the present, this army has always maintained a hard and simple style, so the officers and soldiers are united and their combat effectiveness is extremely strong. ”

"I've heard of this mysterious army, too." Grant said, "The Kuomintang army was often defeated by the Japanese on the battlefield, but this communist army dared to go deep behind enemy lines and carry out guerrilla warfare, and the Japanese were very anxious, and since the second half of last year, the Japanese army has shifted the focus of operations to the communist army." ”

As he spoke, the Secretary of State came in with a telegram: "Your Excellency, the Embassy in China has just sent an urgent telegram. ”

"Wow, that's a coincidence." After reading the telegram, Frank smiled and said, "Maguire, and Grant, you must not imagine what Jensen said on the telegram?" ”

Maguire asked, "What about the Indo-Burma theater?" ”

"No, no, not the Indo-Burma theater." Frank waved his hand and said, "Didn't you just talk about the Communist-led Eighth Route Army?" This was the army in Jensen's telegram, which he said said had just been a major city attack in the rear of the Japanese army and had succeeded in recovering a large city. ”

"Really?" Maguire was surprised, "What's the name of this city?" ”

"Taiyuan." Frank handed the telegram to Maguire and said, "Look. ”

"God! The Eighth Route Army actually recovered Taiyuan? Maguire exclaimed in surprise.

Frank glanced at Grant and asked, "Maguire, is this Taiyuan important?" ”

"Important, very important." Maguire said, "According to my understanding, Shanxi and SD Province are the two core supports of North China, and Taiyuan is the capital of SX Province. ”

Frank and Grant were confused.

They don't know China as well as Maguire.

Maguire hurriedly said: "The key is that the First Army of the Japanese army invading China is stationed in this Taiyuan!" ”

Now Frank and Grant both understood, and the Eighth Route Army's ability to capture the headquarters of a Japanese army group is enough to prove that they have extremely strong combat effectiveness.

In this way, the 386th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army is indeed quite combat-effective.

At that moment, Frank frowned and asked, "Maguire, in my impression, Chang Kaishen's Kuomintang army seems to have never captured such an important big city, right?" ”

"Yes." Maguire affirmed, "Never." ”

Frank tapped his finger on the table and groaned, "In that case, we really should make contact with this army led by the Communists, and we should try whatever is good for the beautiful country, shouldn't we?" ”

"Yes, we fully agree with His Excellency the President." Maguire and Grant laughed.

Frank said, "Then let Jensen send someone to contact this army." ”

……

In Chongqing, the Embassy of the Beautiful Country in China.

Jensen was standing in front of the window of his second-floor office in a daze, with a large pipe in his mouth.

As the ambassador of the beautiful country to China, Jensen can be said to be a true China expert, because he has been working and living in China for nearly 20 years, more Chinese than Chinese.

When Jensen speaks Sichuanese, you can't even tell that he's a beautiful Chinese.

But at this moment, Jensen's eyebrows showed a mockery that could not be concealed.

Because the radio on the coffee table was playing the news of the Central News Agency of the Nationalist Government, which shamelessly attributed the credit for the Battle of Taiyuan to the Nationalist army.

"Shameless!" Jensen growled angrily.

"I've never seen such a brazen person!"

Amid a low roar, footsteps sounded in the hallway outside the door.

A moment later, a beautiful national officer with the rank of major strode in.

After entering the door, the major snapped his leg and saluted, "Your Excellency, Carlson has come to report." ”

"Carlson, don't be so formal." Jensen unloaded his pipe, pointed to the radio and said, "Have you heard this news from the Central News Agency of the National Government?" ”

Carlson said: "I heard a little bit on the way here. ”

Jensen added: "How do you feel after hearing this newsletter?" ”

"Shameless enough." "In Chinese terms, even white can be said to be black, but for the Nationalist Government, this is just a routine operation, haven't they always done this?" ”

"Yes, they do it all the time, trying to deceive everyone."

Jensen said, "But we are not fools, and we are not at their mercy. ”

Carlson said: "Your Excellency, please tell me directly if you have any orders. ”

"Carlson, this is the telegram from the White House." Jensen handed over a telegram and added, "Your Excellency the President has personally given us a mission. ”

"Your Excellency the President has given us access to the Eighth Route Army?"

After reading the telegram, Carlson said in surprise: "He actually knows about the Eighth Route Army? ”

"Your Excellency the President knows more than you think." Jensen smiled and said, "Carlson, I have decided to send a military observation team to contact the CCP, and you will be the leader of this group." ”

"No problem." Carlson agreed, "Does Your Excellency the Ambassador have any special instructions?" ”

Jensen said: "I have only one request for you, that is, you must try to go to the front line, and it is best to go to the 386th Brigade in Taiyuan to see with your own eyes whether they really have strong combat effectiveness." ”

"No problem." Carlson snapped and saluted, "Carlson promises to complete the mission." ”

"Go ahead." Jensen Zhan Ran said, "The personnel of the observation team have been arranged, and the other personnel are waiting for you below, I won't send you if I have something to do, but I will wish you a triumphant victory as soon as possible." ”

……

After seeing Carlson away, Jensen asked his secretary to arrange a car to take him to a mansion.

After arriving at the ground, Jensen learned that it was the annex of Dai Li, deputy director of the Military Command Bureau.

Jensen is also from the intelligence system, and he does not reject Dai Li, but he does not have a good impression of him.

"It turned out that Deputy Director Dai invited him." Jensen nodded slightly, "I don't know what you're doing?" ”

Dai Li's eyes narrowed slightly when he heard this, and he said in his heart that just because you are a foreigner, if you are a Chinese who dare to call me deputy director, I am afraid that I will already be lying at the bottom of the Jialing River at this time tomorrow.

Dai Li asked with a smile: "I heard that Mr. Ambassador plans to send a military observation team to Yan'an?" ”

"That's not the intention." Jensen waved his hand and said, "In fact, this military observer group has already set off, what?" Deputy Director Dai wants to stop this? ”

"No, no, I didn't mean that." "I just hope that no matter what this military observer group sees in the territory of the Communist Party, no matter what kind of information they provide to Mr. Ambassador, Mr. Ambassador will be able to speak up impartially and bluntly when making a final summary and writing a report to Washington." ”

If it were Carlsen, he would never be able to hear Dai Li's extraneous voice, but Jensen has lived in China for nearly 20 years, and he can immediately hear Dai Li's extraneous meaning.

At that moment, Jensen asked, "How can you be fair and outspoken?" ”

Dai Li smiled slightly, and said in a low voice: "The so-called impartiality and straightforwardness, of course, is to tell the truth, in the past five years since the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War, our national army has always played a leading role, and the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army led by the Communist Party are only auxiliary, and sometimes they will pull the national army back, in short, the national army is the mainstay of the Chinese battlefield!" ”

After a pause, he said: "As for the Eighth Route Army, it's just a rabble. ”

Jensen said abruptly: "Whether the Eighth Route Army is a rabble or not, we have to investigate to find out. ”

Dai Li said no more, and immediately opened the briefcase and took out a cashier's check from Citibank.

"Mr. Ambassador." Dai Li said, "This is a cashier's note from Citibank, $100,000, and it will be redeemed at sight." ”

"A hundred thousand dollars?" Jensen snorted, "Deputy Director Dai, are you insulting me?" Or are you insulting yourself? ”

Dai Li took out another blank promissory note from his briefcase, filled in a number twice, and said: "200,000, buy you a fair and straightforward one." ”

Jensen's eyelids jumped twice, and he said, "Deputy Director Dai, it's not about money. ”

Dai Li smiled and said: "Mr. Ambassador said that this is not a matter of money, my understanding is that there is less money, well, there are 500,000 US dollars in this account, and now it is all yours Mr. Ambassador." ”

Jensen swallowed hard and said, "Director Dai, this is really not a matter of more money and less money. ”

The smile on the corner of Dai Li's mouth became more and more intense, it seems that throwing money still has an effect, at least he has changed from Deputy Director Dai to Director Dai, and the reason why Jensen insisted on refusing was just because the money had not been given yet.

At that moment, Dai Li said again: "Our Military Command Bureau still has 20,000 taels of gold for the activity fund, and we will send it when we go back, and this annex will be yours from now on, Mr. Ambassador, including the people inside." ”

Speaking of this, Dai Li raised his hand and slapped his palm lightly.

When Jensen looked back, he saw four cheongsam beauties walking out.

Seeing this, Jensen's Adam's apple twitched up and down, and he hesitated for a while.

Dai Li didn't urge, just looked at Jensen with a smile, but the four cheongsam beauties came over and hugged Jensen in the middle, and one of them even sat on Jensen's lap.

"Okay." "I can speak for you, but I must state that it's not because of the money, but because of the conscience of a diplomatic envoy. ”

"Of course." Dai Li said with a smile, "Mr. Ambassador is a diplomat with a conscience. ”

Jensen always felt that Dai Li's words seemed to scold him, but soon he couldn't care about it, because the four cheongsam beauties had already hooked his desires.

……

Yunxiu Building, study.

After the emergency meeting, Chang Kaishen made up for sleep, and now he is much better.

At this time, Chang Kaishen was lying comfortably on his back in a rocking chair, listening to the news of the Central News Agency about the Taiyuan Campaign that was being broadcast on the radio.

"Under the leadership of the Standing Chairman of our Military Council,"

"Under the precise planning of my Second Theater Commander's Department,"

"With the vigorous cooperation of the 94th Independent Brigade of our Central Army and the 1st Independent Brigade of the Jinsui Army at any cost,"

"The officers and men of the 386th Brigade of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army, after several days of fierce fighting, successfully recovered Taiyuan, annihilated nearly 10,000 enemies, and captured a large number of weapons, equipment and material ......"

Listening to this boring broadcast, Chang Kaishen actually felt a strong sleepiness again.

Just as Chang Kaishen was about to fall asleep, the attendant came in and reported that Dai Li had asked to see him.

Hearing that Dai Li asked to see him, Chang Kaishen immediately lost his sleepiness and asked the attendant to let Dai Li in.

Soon, Dai Li hunched over and entered the study, and said with a respectful face: "Headmaster." ”

"Hmm." Chang Kaishen hummed softly from his nostrils, and said, "It's done?" ”

"Yes, it's done." Dai Li didn't show merit, but just said like a normal thing, "The principal said that as long as you are a human being, you must have weaknesses, and as long as you have weaknesses, you must be able to buy them." ”

"Okay, good work." Chang Kaishen said happily, "But we still have to keep an eye on that observation group, although the final report was written by Jensen, but no one can guarantee that the members of that observation team will not secretly provide some false information to the top management of the beautiful country through private channels or out of financial interests." ”

"Yes." Dai Li said respectfully, "The student understands. ”