At the Allied Headquarters, Lieutenant Colonel Memphis reported Sun Qian's reconnaissance, and Marshal Petain had taken over as commander-in-chief of the French army, and he was surprised by the results of this reconnaissance.

Marshal Pétain did not expect that the US military could do something that tens of thousands of coalition troops could not do, and it was very feasible. After much deliberation, he decided to take time to meet this little company commander, especially since the other party was still a Chinese. In his eyes, the Chinese are very suitable as laborers, but whether they can fight is still doubtful.

When Sun Gan received the notice that Marshal Petain wanted to see him, he was also stunned, after all, the level was there. But he did not hesitate, asked Marshal Pétain why he wanted to see him, and directly took the first-hand information and set off directly with the visitor.

When Sun Gan arrived at the headquarters of the coalition forces, it was already the middle of the night, and Sun Gan still felt a little nervous when he looked at the many generals.

"Hello sir." , Sun Qian didn't say much, after all, he had seen so many high-ranking officials at one time, and he didn't understand everyone's attitude, so it was better to talk less at this time.

"Well, you're Sun Qian?" , A major general seemed to have an opinion on Sun Gan, and asked knowingly. This major general is also excusable in this way, the place where Sun Qian discovered was actually their division responsible for reconnaissance, such an obvious loophole was not discovered by their division's reconnaissance troops, but it was discovered by the newly arrived US troops, not to mention that it was discovered by the Chinese whom he had always looked down on, how could he be angry, so he directly gave the other party a dismount. I was still thinking about finding fault with Sun Gan next.

"Yes, sir. I'm Sun Qian. Sun Qian naturally felt the other party's attitude. But he didn't overreact either. He knows that only after the other party sees your strength can you win the respect of the other party.

Marshal Petain formally just watched from the sidelines, as if he did not care about the attitude of his subordinates. In fact, he has been observing Sun Qian since he entered the door, although the performance of youth and calm appeared in a person at the same time, although it is not much, but it is not nothing, but he also saw self-confidence from Sun Gan, which is a confident performance, which is rare.

Marshal Petain couldn't look down on most of the Chinese nowadays to be true, but he never underestimated China's war wisdom, and perhaps this Chinese could impress him.

"Alright, that's it." , Marshal Petain stopped the major general who was still going to speak.

"Young man, you already know why I called you here, can you tell me, the old man, what you think?" Marshal Petain asked with a hint of torture.

"Yes, sir, gladly. ' After Sun Qian finished speaking, he walked directly to the battlefield situation map in the conference room. This map has been marked by the operational staff officer on the basis of the reconnaissance information provided by Sun Gan, saving Sun Gan a lot of things.

"Ladies and gentlemen, according to our preliminary reconnaissance findings, the German army's defense system is very complete, starting from the outermost minefield to the enemy's main defensive position spanning ten kilometers." , Sun Qian pointed to the map and said.

"Next, I will first introduce the specific situation to the chiefs." Sun Qian then gave a detailed introduction to the previous reconnaissance situation to everyone.

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"To sum up, it is the basic situation of the opposite line of defense. Of course, maybe we haven't spotted it yet. Sun Qian left time to everyone.

After listening to Sun Gan's introduction, the generals' mood did not change much, and they had already thought of these difficulties.

"Captain Sun Qian, you can tell us about your tactical ideas, Lieutenant Colonel Memphis hasn't had time to give me a comprehensive report, so you can say the rest directly." , Marshal Pétain went straight to the point.

"Okay, General." , Sun Qian said confidently.

"Lieutenant, after our reconnaissance, this is the place, the junction of the German Second and Fourth Armies. It is common sense that one party should be responsible for this place, but after a long period of observation, we found that the four observation posts at the bottom of this cliff belonged to the German Second and Fourth Armies. Sun Qian pointed out the location of the other party one by one on the map.

"And we also found that these four observation posts ignored the cliffs in the rear in order to better monitor the direction of our troops." , Sun Qian then said the most important situation.

"The most important thing is that the supply time of the outpost is inconsistent, the two sides are one day apart, and often the personnel of one side will go to the other side to eat and drink, and the whole outpost will go, and the time is so fixed that I can't believe it." , Sun Qian told everyone the most important information.

"In addition, there is another point that cannot be ignored, these sentry men are very lazy, in our Chinese idiom is "the sky is high and the emperor is far away", they did not clear the shooting obstacles in front of the sentry, if in wartime, as long as they can ensure suddenness, cut their telephone lines, at least for our side three days. Sun Qian threw the bombshell.

After Sun Qian's introduction, he was invited out of the command room, and even Lieutenant Colonel Memphis was invited out.

"Sun Qian, well done." Memphis knew very well that whether or not the coalition forces agreed to this operation, they finally gained a foothold in the coalition forces.

"Thank you, sir, it's all about me." , Sun Qian replied very modestly.

Inside the conference room, the smoke was filled, and the time had passed for an hour.

There was no unanimity of opinion, not so much in favor of the operation, but because of the question of command. The success rate of this mission was very high, and the British generals wanted to take the command back to them, but of course the French could not agree, and their reasons could not convince each other, so they could only remain deadlocked.

Looking at the generals in front of him, Marshal Petain was of course biased towards the French side, but he couldn't offend the British side too much, after all, they still needed the help of the British side now.

Looking at the crowd that was slowly quieting down, Marshal Petain knew that he had to speak, "Everyone, I have heard your opinions. My opinion is that there is absolutely no need for you to fight for command, this is just a reconnaissance exercise, after all, we are not ready to take the German line. I think it's better to give command to Lieutenant Colonel Memphis, after all, he has a more comprehensive understanding of the troops. Marshal Pétain was the final word.

Marshal Pétain, the general of the British army, said this, and it was difficult to say anything more, although knowing that his personal presence as commander-in-chief of the French army was itself a sign of importance, he had to pretend that he did not know what he said so. After all, the official level crushes people to death, even if he is not their direct leader.

Sun Qian and the others were called back to the conference room.

"Lieutenant Colonel Memphis, after some research, I have decided to give you full command of this mission. If there is anything you need, you can tell us directly. Marshal Petain bluntly told Lieutenant Colonel Memphis the result.

"Yes, sir." Although Lieutenant Colonel Memphis was still puzzled, this reconnaissance operation could be said to be very important to the coalition forces, and the coalition command actually put the command in the hands of one of his small lieutenant colonels. But he agreed.

"Alright, then that's it. Go back, everybody, and I'll stay here to rest today. Marshal Pétain now only wanted to send everyone away.

When they had gone, Marshal Petain said to his adjutant, "Go and tell Lieutenant Colonel Memphis and Captain Sun Gan that I will invite them to breakfast, and that they will not go back to-day." “。

It was not until Marshal Petain's adjutant retained Sun Qian and the others that everyone discovered that Petain was cunning and cunning, and that he wanted to firmly control the command of this operation in his own hands.