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Chapter 18 Rifles

The third day was the day when training was officially started. Of course, Stilwell was indispensable on this day. After he handed over the Myitkyina defense line to Luo Zhuoying, he couldn't wait to drive to Sunbram.

Of course, Stilwell handed over the defense work in Myitkyina to Luo Zhuoying as a cover. When he left Myitkyina, he told Luo Zhuoying to report anything to him. It can even be said that this is a trap, a trap that wanted to find an excuse to drive Luo Zhuoying back to his country... This trap is very simple. More than ten days later, Stilwell discovered that Luo Zhuoying had a vacant salary when allocating military salary, so he reported to Chiang Kai-shek and transferred him back to his country.

Stilwell had long expected Luo Zhuoying to do this. This was basically a practice in the national army. Luo Zhuoying might even be innocent because his officers were paying empty salaries, and Luo Zhuoying just didn't count them clearly.

Luo Zhuoying, who could be said to be obedient to Stilwell, was afraid that Stilwell would use such a move in his dream, so he couldn't say anything about it, so he could only take a plane back to China in shame.

Then Chiang Kai-shek transferred Zheng Dongguo from the country to serve as the commander of the Expeditionary Force, but his power had actually been emptied by Stilwell. As a commander, Zheng Dongguo was difficult to mobilize a platoon of troops. What he usually did was to maintain military discipline in a military police nature.

As for the other middle and senior officers in the army, Stilwell was not so anxious to deal with it, because the Myitkyina defense line still needed these officers to garrison, but when these troops were withdrawn from the front line and trained at the training base... just like the engineer regiment, they were dismissed and placed in the moment they took off their military uniforms and were also military advisers for control.

Of course, these are all later stories.

At this time, Stilwell showed great pride on his face. His bright eyes also showed confidence. Standing on the wooden podium that was temporarily set up, he raised his hand and saluted the tens of thousands of officers and soldiers below, saying loudly: "Chinese officers and soldiers, I am under the order of Chairman Chiang, but as the commander-in-chief of the Chinese Expeditionary Force, you must absolutely obey my command. As you have felt in the past few days, our United States has supplies. We have sufficient food, bullets and artillery shells, and even airplanes and cannons, which are much more advanced than the Japanese. From now on, you can fight with confidence. Weapons and equipment are consumed, and there are in the warehouse... Our powerful United States is like Alibaba's treasure cave. As long as you close your eyes and shout "Sesame open the door", guns and ammunition will fall from the sky!"

This is true. The soldiers have felt the gap between China and the United States in their future training and combat...

In China, the training of recruits in China is just by talking. At most, a few bullets are fired to make you shoot targets. Many recruits go to the battlefield without a single shot... There is no way, there is a shortage of ammunition, and there is no ammunition on the front line, let alone the rear.

For the United States, or in this training base of Sun Brabing... it is stipulated that several boxes of ammunition must be completed every day, otherwise it will be considered that the training is not hard and unqualified.

"Chinese soldiers!" Stilwell continued with his head high, "In the previous battle, I saw... your courage and spirit. In your simple and honest heads, you may never have thought that you could complete a record that shocked the world. But as an American general, today I want to tell you... your courage and spirit, coupled with the American military theory and equipment, will undoubtedly be able to complete a miracle that shocked the world! Children... I will take you all the way to Tokyo!"

"Okay!" The audience cheered over and over again.

It should be said that Stilwell's speech was very inflammatory, especially the last sentence of the heroic "Go to Tokyo"... This is almost unimaginable for the soldiers. At this time, it seems that it is out of reach for them to defeat the Japanese devils and drive them out of China's territory. Now they are going to fight to Tokyo, the old den of the devils. This confidence instantly infected the soldiers and sincerely cheered for the American general.

Then there is the gun-training ceremony.

The gun-teaching ceremony was carried out in companies. There were boxes of guns piled up in front of the team. The translator took the list and shouted one by one. Those who called the name came forward and took the rifle from the instructor.

Originally, Zhang Chi thought that the rifle used by the US military to equip the Expeditionary Force was Springfield... The rifle given to China by the United States was Springfield, but it should be said that it was reasonable to use Springfield in China. This was because the United States eliminated a large number of Springfield rifles after replacing the equipment. Secondly, there was a shortage of material in China, and if the semi-automatic rifle ammunition was used, it would not withstand consumption.

When the gun was fired, Zhang Chi couldn't help but wiped his eyes and couldn't believe it... The rifle brought by the soldiers turned out to be m1 Galand.

You should know that this thing is a semi-automatic rifle. Eight bullets are pressed into it without pulling the bolt. Each time the trigger is pulled, one bullet is fired, so its rate of fire is even faster and more convenient than Enfield.

However, some soldiers began to complain quietly when they received the gun:

"What kind of gun is this? It's so heavy..."

"Can ammunition be used with the British gun?"

"Is this gun useful?"

...

No wonder the soldiers lack confidence in this rifle. They have never seen this rifle know nothing about it, which means it takes time to adapt, and its weight will be about eight taels heavier than ordinary rifles. This weight may not be a big deal for strong American soldiers, but it seems difficult to adapt to it for relatively short and long-term malnutrition.

But Zhang Chi was not worried about this at all, because he believed that the soldiers would soon find that this gun was much better than they thought, and it was also worth their time to adapt to its weight.

"Zhang Chi!"

When Zhang Chi's name was reported, Zhang Chi strode up.

Originally, Zhang Chi thought that the instructor should have given him the same Galand as other soldiers, but the instructor saluted Zhang Chi and handed him a long box.

Zhang Chi couldn't help but be stunned and looked at the instructor with some surprise.

The instructor shrugged and said, "This is a gift from General Stilwell to you. He heard that you performed well on the battlefield!"

When Zhang Chi opened it, he couldn't help but open his mouth for a long time and couldn't close it... The wooden box contained a sniper rifle, m1 sniper rifle, scope, flame suppressor, etc.

"Child, this is what you deserve!" Stilwell had walked to Zhang Chi at some point and encouraged him: "Bring this gun, take your subordinates to the battlefield to look good to the Japanese!"
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