Chapter 500: Meeting of the Ministry of Defense
Fang Lang, who received an affirmative answer, nodded with satisfaction, leaned closer to his body again, and lowered his voice to General Crook to explain his thoughts and thoughts.
After listening to Fang Lang's introduction, General Crook looked shocked and said with some hesitation:
"Are you sure?"
Fang Lang looked at General Crook with a smile on his face and said:
"Won't you know if you try it?"
Hearing this, General Crook glanced at Fang Lang deeply, and slowly stretched out his right hand towards Fang Lang.
"Okay, then we'll try."
Seeing this, Fang Lang also stood up with a smile on his face, grabbed General Crook's right hand, and said to General Crook in a resolute tone:
"Please rest assured, Your Excellency, that our Navy and Marines have the determination to fight and win."
After speaking, stand up and salute.
In this regard, General Crook was obviously very satisfied, and returned a military salute to Fang Lang with anticipation.
Next, the two walked out of Fang Lang's tent and visited the entire field camp. Accompanied by Fang Lang, General Crook offered condolences to some of the soldiers who had been injured in the training, and then left in a hurry.
This inspection came in a hurry, and it went even more in a hurry, and even many officers of the Admiralty were completely unaware of it. And the officers of the Marine Corps are also a little confused.
Only Fang Lang and Crook knew what the situation was.
Then, as the two predicted, Major General Wottey Wesker was forced to abandon the cage tactics he had been insisting on under the pressure of an ultimatum from the presidential palace and the Ministry of Defense.
As a good general, he was well aware of the danger of going into the jungle again. So during the confrontation, the army under his command was not idle, and with the help of some indigenous people of the Amazon jungle, he learned some ways to survive in the Amazon jungle.
So that the whole team did not blindly rush into the dense rainforest like the first time.
At the same time, he knew very well in his heart that the scope of the rainforest was too large, and after they entered the rainforest, it was easy for gaps to appear between the troops, and it was easy for the enemy to take advantage of the loopholes. Therefore, he always asks everyone to maintain their own rhythm and report their progress at any time.
However, the complex environment of the Amazon rainforest still made them suffer, and even the electromagnetic signals were sometimes good and bad, and the actions of the entire encirclement and suppression team were often disjointed, giving the rebels an opportunity to take advantage of.
These rebels, led by Brissot Eddy, used guerrilla warfare tactics to concentrate superior forces and give a blow to an aggressive team, although they were unable to completely annihilate the government forces.
But it can be regarded as a part of the anger that the rebels have been besieged.
Because of the attack on this team, the surrounding teams were mobilized, and there was a huge hole in the entire encirclement, and by the time the entire government army team completed the encirclement, everyone lost the trace of the Eddie brothers rebels.
This made Major General Wottai Wesker angry, but he was helpless.
Fortunately, he did not lose his mind because of this, but quickly realized that after the rebels broke out of the encirclement, they would definitely want to find supplies immediately, and the town of Bittenkot and Manguari must be their targets.
So, he used what he had to defend himself to set up strong defensive positions in the two towns, and at the same time, he sent transport ships to quickly transport the Wehrmacht soldiers who had lost their target in the jungle to the periphery of the two towns.
Prepare to come and eat the rebels directly.
It is not known whether the rebels received the information in advance, or whether the rebels had been supplied from elsewhere and did not launch an attack on the two towns, as Major General Wotai Wesker had expected.
Instead, they chose to disappear completely into the dense rainforest.
At this time, Major General Wotai Wesker also lost the trace of the rebels, and the so-called plan to exterminate the rebels was completely bankrupt. The Ministry of Defense and the Presidential Palace lost face.
At this moment, the marines under Fang Lang suddenly appeared at the temporary field airfield built by the government army, and began to expand the field airfield as reinforcements.
It was precisely because the rebels had lost their traces that Major General Wottai Wesker, who was anxious like ants on a hot pot, heard Fang Lang personally tell him that he would send naval aviation under his command to help them find traces of the rebels, and agreed to the expansion project of the field airfield without hesitation.
After all, the Navy directly sent nearly a dozen reconnaissance planes into this rudimentary field airfield to help them find the figure of the rebels, and he had no reason to refuse.
But what Rear Admiral Wottey Wesker did not know was that the Marine Corps' expansion of the airfield was clearly not something as simple as parking only ten reconnaissance aircraft.
Time passed little by little, and the situation on the front line was finally disseminated to the media by people with good intentions, and for a time the crowd was excited, and the Ministry of Defense and the entire War Department lost face.
At the latest meeting of the Ministry of Defense, Defense Minister Marshal Moraes looked at a group of top brass members of the Brazilian military with a pale face.
"Mr. Minister Meljo Alam, do you have anything to say about the successive failures of your War Department?"
Hearing the Minister of Defense call the Secretary of the Army, the entire conference room was silent, and everyone knew that the Minister of War was in danger of escaping this incident.
After all, he made a military order at the beginning, making it clear that if he could not exterminate this group of rebels this time, he, the minister of the army, would automatically resign.
Although, the Secretary of War cannot be entirely blamed for the failure of the encirclement and suppression war, but defeat is defeat, and there are no conditions to talk about.
The Minister of War, Meljo Alam, was also a simple person, knowing that he couldn't hide at all, so he stood up and saluted:
"Your Excellency, the War Department has a heavy trust, and I, the Minister of the Army, cannot escape the blame, and I hereby formally excuse your resignation, and I hope you can approve it."
Everyone in the conference room looked sad, but they were helpless.
The Minister of the Air Force, Rear Admiral Nairo Mora, looked with interest at Vice Admiral Crook, the Minister of the Navy, who was sitting diagonally opposite him, and he felt that there seemed to be something strange about General Crook today.
When Marshal Moraes heard the words of General Melcho Alam, he did not say much nonsense, but nodded directly without hesitation:
"I have agreed to your resignation, and the post of Minister of War will be temporarily replaced by the Chief of the Army General Staff. At the same time, I ordered the removal of Major General Wotai Wesker from his post as commander of the front and his transfer back to the War Department for investigation. ”
Then he swept his gaze over the people in the conference room, and said in a serious tone:
"This is not only a defeat for the Army, but also for our entire Wehrmacht. Mr. President is very disappointed in us, and I am to blame.
I need to go to Congress for questioning on this matter.
As far as I know, someone in Congress may want to offer peace talks with the rebels again this time. I don't know what you think about this, but it's something I can't accept.
Therefore, I hope that the War Department will come up with a new course of action as soon as possible. ”
When the Secretary of War Meljo Alam heard Marshal Moraes's words, he sat down with a decadent face, and his whole body lost his spirit.
The surrounding army generals also looked ugly, especially when they heard that someone in the Congress proposed to negotiate peace with the rebels, several army generals were eager to rise up.
Lieutenant General Homboto Alder, the chief of staff of the army, who was temporarily arrested and put on the bag, also had an ugly face.
Originally, the promotion to the Minister of War should have made him happy, but in the current situation, this position is simply a hot potato, and whoever takes it will be troublesome.
Therefore, he didn't want to take over this position at all in his heart, but the Minister of Defense had already appointed it personally, and he could only pinch his nose and admit it.
Get up, stand up and salute:
"Yes, Your Excellency Marshal!"
Admiral Crook, Secretary of the Admiralty, was a little unable to sit still when he heard Marshal Moraes ask the War Office to submit a new course of action and a new commander again.
Hurriedly took the initiative to speak:
"Your Excellency, it seems to me that there would have been no problem with the army's operation this time, and if the cage tactics of Major General Wottai Wesker had continued, the rebels would not have lasted long at all.
If it weren't for the indiscriminate command of those officials and masters in the National Assembly who didn't understand anything, there would have been no defeat at all.
They have the face to propose peace talks with the rebels, and I have every reason to doubt whether these guys have betrayed the interests of the country. ”
The Minister of the Army, Meljo Alam, did not expect that the Minister of the Navy, Admiral Crook, who had always been at odds with him, would take the initiative to say good things for him, which made him stunned for a while.
The generals of the War Department also looked at General Crook with a look of surprise.
The Minister of the Air Force, Major General Nairo Mora, found it even more interesting.
When Marshal Moraes heard this, his brows furrowed slightly, he didn't understand that what General Crook said was the truth, but what did he say that the officials of the Congress commanded indiscriminately, did he have some insinuations pointing at himself?
After all, in the final analysis, the War Department's actions were forcibly pressed because they did not withstand the pressure.
But on this occasion, he obviously couldn't take the initiative to stand up and take the responsibility, so he could only say with a little displeasure:
"Okay, don't say that here."
Then, General Moraes turned his gaze to Lieutenant General Humberto Alder, who had just been appointed acting Secretary of the Army, and asked with a serious face:
"General Homboto Alder, do you have a new commander in mind?"
As the chief of staff of the army, Lieutenant General Humberto Alder was of course very familiar with the situation in the army, but at this time, he was very embarrassed, although he had expected this question, but he did not know how to answer it for a while.
After all, no matter how you look at this position now, it is a pitfall, and if you recommend one of your own henchmen to go over, you will harm others if you don't do it well.
If you send a general who is not your confidant, but has enough ability, and you are afraid that others will harm you.
It's a real dilemma.
The Minister of the Navy, Admiral Crook, saw that General Moraes still wanted the army to continue to lead this encirclement and suppression, and he was a little anxious, and couldn't help but take the initiative to speak again:
"Your Excellency, I feel that the Army has just gone through two operations, and the soldiers are tired, and it is really not suitable to start a new operation immediately.
If you and my colleagues at the War Department don't mind, I'd like to ask you to fight on behalf of our Marines at the Rio de Janeiro Carrier Fleet.
It is up to us to deal with the rebels for a while, and give the army brothers a chance to recuperate. ”
Field Marshal Moraes obviously did not expect that at such a time when everyone was afraid to avoid it, the Admiralty would actually take the initiative to ask for war. No wonder he suddenly interjected to say the previous words.
It seems that he is not insinuating about himself, but wants to take the initiative to intervene in this conflict!
The generals of the War Department are also confused, what is the situation? The Minister of the Navy has eaten enough, and the troops of our army, which are nearly 5,000 people, have not gained anything for such a long time, and the more than 2,500 marines of your navy's fleet dare to jump out?
If General Crook had brought it up before the rebels had jumped out of the encirclement, the generals of the army would have been able to spray each other to death.
But at this moment, the army generals don't say much one by one, after all, the other party is not here to pick peaches.
It is also very considerate of the army, and I want to give the army time to rest.