After Zhou Wu and the others returned to the Tianchang station, it was already the afternoon of the next day, what Zhou Wu never expected was: Division Commander Li and the political commissar and other leaders of the division were waiting for them to come back near the station, Zhou Wu saw that he was excited, and immediately ran over to hold the hand of the division commander and said: "Thank you for coming to the independent brigade, Zhou Wu was ordered to complete the rescue mission and has rescued all the US military field investigation team, please instruct the leaders." ” "Haha, what can I instruct this, you fought well this time, completely beyond our imagination, not only rescued the US officers, but also beat the Miyamoto Brigade in Huai'an City to heavy losses, amazing, but your independent brigade has also suffered a lot of casualties, so let's do it, during this time, many young people defected to our New Fourth Army troops, and our division headquarters decided to assign all these patriotic young people to your independent brigade, under the command of your Zhou Wu, how about it" The division commander said to Zhou Wu.
As soon as Zhou Wu heard that there were recruits added, and they were still some patriotic youths, he immediately said happily: "Okay, this is great, thank you for the leader's concern for our independent brigade, we have no other ideas, only to eliminate more little devils in the future battles." ” When Robles and the soldiers below saw that these cadres of the New Fourth Army were gnawing on their nests and eating pickles on an equal footing, they were completely convinced, no wonder these troops who looked like ordinary farmers, holding shabby and old-fashioned weapons, were able to be fearless in front of well-equipped Japanese devils, and dared to fight, it turned out that the real secret was here, the equality of officers and soldiers, Everyone's treatment is about the same, the officers are almost the same as the gangsters, and when the war is fought, everyone is not in unison, and everyone who is in charge of the head goes to the front line to charge desperately, and if the ordinary soldiers below are still grinding and not moving forward, even they feel embarrassed.
During the banquet, Robles stood up and said to the division commander from the bottom of his heart: "Thank you for your help and rescue us from the Japanese, in the words of you Chinese, it is "a great grace to save lives", there is no way to repay it, the superiors let us come to your army to investigate, just to see what kind of "rebels" your Chairman Jiang said in his mouth, Our Allied Kuomintang troops have been watching the excitement, and when we were rescued by Brigade Commander Zhou Wu, they didn't move, is this what the chairman said It's really ridiculous, the "rebels" rescued us from the Japanese, and the Allied Kuomintang troops, which we believed in the most in the past, watched the fire from the other side, which really made me look away, this is not my flattery to you in person, this is the unanimous opinion of so many colleagues in our field investigation team, Even when we return to Chongqing and face the media, we will say this unabashedly.
Robles told the truth.
The division commander stood up and said to Robles: "Thank you for the evaluation of our New Fourth Army by our US military friends, our Chairman Chiang has always regarded us as the "rebels", but we have never been afraid, we have the support of the local people, I am afraid that he hopes that since his friends have come here, they will walk around us more, see more, and after returning to our friends who support our Chinese War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, tell your true thoughts in your hearts to our friends who support our Chinese War of Resistance and put forward opinions on the shortcomings of our New Fourth Army.
That's what it's really like to be a friend, and of course we warmly welcome anyone who helps us. ” Robles looked at Zhou Wu and said to the division commander: "Mr.
Division Commander, please allow me to express my respect and gratitude to Brigade Commander Zhou Wu, to be honest, when I chose to come to the New Fourth Army base area at the Kuomintang Sixth Theater Command, I really didn't look down on your troops, thinking that only old-fashioned rifles, most of the teams similar to the guerrillas wearing straw shoes and cloth shoes were unlikely to be able to resist the attack of the Japanese with sophisticated weapons, but it was the heroic battle of the independent brigade of Brigade Commander Zhou Wu in Haidong Port of Yancheng, I changed our view, and I wondered what kind of combat effectiveness would it have if such a unit could be equipped with the standard weapons of our US military."
The division commander hurriedly signaled to Zhou Wu, who stood up and said to Robles: "Thank you American friends for your assistance, we appreciate your kindness, but I am afraid that this plan will not be so easy to realize, because our chairman will not let us get the assistance of your US military, except for the Japanese devils around us, it is the Kuomintang army, and if the US military aid wants to come, it must pass through the defense zone of the Kuomintang Sixth War Zone, I think this military aid has little hope and is not easy to achieve." ” "Brigade Commander Zhou, don't be pessimistic, after we go back, we will report directly to General Stilwell, he is the deputy commander-in-chief of the US military in the China theater, and has the same powers as your chairman, and the US forces in China and even the Far East are under his jurisdiction, if he personally orders, I am afraid that Chairman Chiang will have to act accordingly, you just wait for our good news."
Robles was also very stubborn, and this self-righteous US colonel was very confident, thinking that as long as Stilwell gave the order, Chairman Chiang would not be allowed to play tricks to suppress and blockade the US military aid given to the New Fourth Army, and he may be too naïve, and he did not expect the complexity and contradictions between the Chinese, and the grievances between the Kuomintang diehards and the Communist New Fourth Army in East China were far from something that he, a newcomer to the United States, could immediately understand.
In this way, Robles stayed here in the Tianchang base area for half a month, they visited and inspected the lives of the common people in the base area, and ate and lived with the soldiers of the independent brigade.
In particular, in terms of the equality of officers and soldiers, we in the US military may not be able to learn, and the morale of the soldiers is very high, which is also worthy of our admiration, and we have to report to General Stilwell well after we go back, but we have also found your shortcomings, and I don't know if we can talk about it here. ” It seems that these Yankees have learned to be obedient after being caught by the little devils, and they are a little measured in their speech, they don't want to say whatever they thought before, and they never consider what others think, so that they were used by the Kuomintang diehards, caught by the little devils, and suffered a lot.
When Zhou Wu heard this, he immediately smiled and said to them: "No problem, friends should be honest with each other, good things to say, bad things to say," Zhou Wu was waiting for these Americans to raise the shortcomings of the independent brigade, and sometimes he would not be able to see the problem clearly, and this is what the bystanders meant.
"I think the training methods of your New Fourth Army should be improved, and you can't always stick to one style, yes, your main opponents are the Japanese, and they are stronger than your New Fourth Army in both shooting and fighting bayonets, although the Japanese have recently added a group of recruits due to the Pacific War, but through this operation, we still feel that the Japanese have a stronger individual combat quality than the New Fourth Army, and this situation can be seen from the battle with the Watanabe Brigade on the port side, So I suggest that you should also work on the way to train, and don't think that you are going to pursue intensity.
Robles is a veteran soldier, and he can see at a glance the shortcomings in the training of the independent brigade of the New Fourth Army.
Of course, Zhou Wu welcomes this US military officer to put forward pertinent opinions, usually they can only sum up valuable experience from the desperate battle with the devil and the puppet army, you must know that sometimes for some experience, the brothers of the independent brigade have to pay the price of blood, today since the US military friends can put forward pertinent suggestions for improvement, then Zhou Wuyan has a reason not to welcome it.
"Yes, we are also thinking about this issue, why although the combat effectiveness of the Japanese devil's soldiers has declined year by year, why our New Fourth Army still has no advantage in the competition with them, although the inferiority of weapons and equipment is one of the aspects, the colonel said that the quality of training is also an important aspect, we are willing to listen to your suggestions and strive to improve them."
Zhou Wu welcomed Robles' comments.
"What is the purpose of training, is to destroy the enemy in battle and save yourself, I see that your New Fourth Army's bayonets are imitating the Japanese devils, they want to fight bayonets with you, why do you have to fight bayonets with them, you can use your advantages to defeat the Japanese devils who fight bayonets, in close combat, the best weapon is to be able to continuously fire a pistol that does not jam, without this large number of pistols, you can make up for it with a broadsword, I think your kind of ghost head broadsword is very good, heavy weight, large inertia, organize training, It will definitely be able to defeat the bayonets of the Japanese devils, the kind of Mauser pistol made in Germany is very good, but there are too few, I will report to General Stilwell when I go back, and try to get a batch for your independent brigade, since those heavy weapons are not lucky, there should be no problem with these self-defense melee pistols, our American-made nine-millimeter caliber pistols are definitely better than the Mauser, and of course they will definitely not be worse than the Mauser in close combat.
Robles first pointed out the shortcomings of the brothers of the Independent Brigade in close combat, and was willing to help the Independent Brigade to obtain a batch of American-made nine-millimeter caliber pistols, Zhou Wu was of course happy and happy, if he could match the brothers of the Independent Brigade with the nine-millimeter large-caliber pistols of the United States, then it would not be much easier to fight hand-to-hand combat with the little devil in the future, although the little devil's fighting bayonet skills are excellent, but can he have a pistol bullet fast, how long is the three-eight cover plus the bayonet, but it has a long range of a large pistol of nine millimeter caliber t1706231537: