The Palace of Versailles in Paris was crowded, the media from all over the world were concentrated outside, and the negotiating delegations from various countries were arriving, and Wesley was well aware that the preparation time of the previous days was the time for the countries to reach an agreement in private, and the United States was basically excluded.
The old powers, led by Britain, will not watch the rise of the United States, and what the United States can get is basically what it has already received before the end of the war, especially in terms of funding.
Originally, the purpose of military expansion was to develop the economy and prepare for the possible European war in the future, but now, through the sale of a large amount of arms and materials in the war, the United States has not only paid off its debts, but also suddenly become a creditor country.
The two archipelagos in the Pacific Ocean provided the United States with a forward base, and the military power would expand into Asia, and Wesley became the most famous American general and businessman.
During the meeting, the Americans, who had foreseen the development process of the conference, adopted Wesley's plan and tried to help China and Germany fight, and at the same time spared no effort to suppress Japan, and let the media of the two countries report it extensively, Wilson also said indignantly after the meeting that the contract was unfair to Germany and unfair to China.
The contract was signed, and the United States directly returned Qingdao to China, which ushered in a lot of praise from the Chinese people, and the United States' goal was achieved, and American goods will be very popular in China in the future.
Wesley also left France contentedly, followed the last troops back to the United States, in the United States New York Harbor, he was warmly welcomed, more than 100,000 New Yorkers greeted him, and many people from other places, just to see him, Americans have an infinite yearning for heroes, and it stands to reason that heroes should not be worshipped in a country that shines brightly in freedom and democracy.
Wesley came to Washington again, this time to debrief and at the same time to state the problems encountered in the war, the work after the war, and the problems of equipment.
"Gentlemen, this war has changed the concept of war in the world."
In another speech, Wesley was confronted by the president's team and the generals of the Navy and Army, who were not the major generals and brigadier generals that Wesley had taken to fight in Europe.
"The development of science and technology will bring different forms to warfare, and the future development of equipment will be leapfrogging, such as tanks and aircraft, the emergence of these two weapons, the combat mode of the traditional army of artillery, although the number of people is still important, but it is not the most important, there will be large-scale tank engagements in the future, as well as large-scale air engagements."
"We must master these two weapons, create new arms, and start training troops in this area now, and study the latest tactics."
At this point, Wesley was joined by someone below.
"Lieutenant General Gibson, I heard that you left the tanks sent from home and didn't use them, so why do you think so highly of them" Wesley glanced at him, he knew it, lieutenant general of the cavalry unit.
"That's a good question, because the current tank just has such a concept, and it is not used on the battlefield at all, at best it is just a soldier's shield, and my tactics rely on speed, so I can't use tanks."
"Then tanks are useless and can only be used for defense," said the cavalry lieutenant general.
Wesley laughed, "Is this general worried that tanks will replace cavalry, then I can tell you right now that the appearance of tanks is not a surprise, they are designed to break through trenches, but its future is not just trenches." ” "The tanks designed and produced by Ford this time are not good, because they didn't discuss it with me, and I'm more emotional about this, after all, I'm also a shareholder," Wesley's words made many people laugh.
"To put it bluntly, such tanks are garbage, useless, there are many faults, the best is the engine produced by my power company, but they chose a gasoline engine, and the best thing turned out to be wrong, so I can only throw aside the tanks sent to the front line, because there is no use in the slightest."
President Wilson said at this time: "So, what kind of tank should we use?"
"It's up to me to do this, I already have a plan, to design tanks and planes.
In my opinion, we should abolish the cavalry and change the cavalry into an armored corps, and at the same time separate the air force into an air force, and allocate army aviation to the army and naval aviation to the navy. ” The cavalry lieutenant general spoke again, "Cancel the cavalry, do you know the role of cavalry in the war, can tanks be replaced," and his tone was filled with anger.
"Of course it is clear, when the time comes, we can use tanks and cavalry to exercise here, the facts will speak for themselves, in the face of tanks made of steel, cavalry use sabers to cut this is obvious, tanks with artillery and machine guns, hundreds of tens of tons of behemoths and cavalry hedges, the use of oil, the theory of machinery that can always move forward, no matter what, it is a tank victory, I don't think anyone will object to this."
The people below stopped talking, and it was Pershing who spoke, "Wesley, then since the Air Force has Army Aviation and Navy Aviation, why do you need the Air Force to form a separate army?"
"Confidential, the rest of what I said is confidential, we need to keep it secret before we become an army, this is the future direction of the development of the army, and we need to be mastered by a small number of people."
Wilson nodded, "Okay, that's all for today, Pershing and Benson, you come with me to hear what Wesley has to say next, and the content of today's meeting is confidential."
After speaking, he glanced at the lieutenant general of the cavalry.
"Mr.
President, please rest assured, even if the cavalry is really useless in the future, then I am retired, and I will never say it if it should be kept secret."
This general is so hard.
In the president's office, after the four of them sat down, someone served coffee, and then Wesley said: "The tank is the king of land warfare, this is inevitable in the future, no human can fight these steel monsters, and with the development of technology, then the performance of the tank will become better and better." ” "We don't deny that, but it takes a lot of time to develop, does it need to be done right away?"
Wilson asked.
"Mr.
President, there will be a great depression in the post-war economy, it is inevitable, even if we make preparations in front of the station, but a large number of factories will lose orders, although they have not expanded production, but the European war has impoverished people, and we must find new ways to sell."
"Does it matter?"
"Of course, it has a relationship, new equipment brings a large number of orders, especially the cost of tanks and aircraft is not cheap, and at the same time, the production of warships also needs to start again, and then there is the market development of Germany and China, which can be linked to economic contradictions.
However, the economic crisis was averted, but not now, but in a few years. ” "In this way, the development of new equipment can also be an effective link economic problem" "Workers can only consume when they have money, and they can only earn money from consuming factories, which requires a cycle, and only the benign development of this cycle can stabilize the economy, but we are a capitalist country, and we are unable to do anything in this regard, so we can only work hard." t1706231537: