Facing Gao Hongming's complaint, Du Yuming and Luo Zhuoying smiled, and then their faces showed emotion.
Luo Zhuoying sighed softly: "At this time when our country is ruined and our family is in ruins, what else can we soldiers do besides abandoning ourselves? It's just that since ancient times, it's hard to have both loyalty and justice.
I think it has been twenty-eight years since I joined the army in the 14th year of the Republic of China. Over the past twenty years, I have spent less and less time with my family, but now that I think about it, I feel ashamed of my parents, my wife and my children!"
Looking at Luo Zhuoying's white hair on her temples, and then at Du Yuming who was just drinking alcohol, Gao Hongming sighed secretly in his heart.
The era we are living in now can be called one of the darkest eras in China. In the words of later generations, it is a semi-feudal and semi-colonial era.
There is oppression and plunder by imperialists outside and warlords fighting internally. It can be said that the people are in dire straits and the people are miserable. It can be said that this era has only given the people pain and despair. No one knows where China's future lies.
This kind of pain and despair is unimaginable by the saints of later generations who can only type on the keyboard.
But even during such a period, there are still a handful of elites in China who have not given up. They have not stopped exploring and pursuing the truth.
Although the paths they took were different and even conflicting, their ideals and purposes were the same, which was to make this country and nation stand erect again in the world.
Anyone who accuses them from God’s perspective is just being a hooligan.
Just like Gao Hongming, although he traveled from later generations and knew very well the development path of China and their subsequent ending, it did not hinder his admiration for the two of them.
He asked himself, if he and their roles were reversed, he didn't know whether he could persevere like them for decades.
Perhaps because the topic was too boring, Du Yuming quickly changed the subject. He lifted the wine bottle and poured a glass of wine for Gao Hongming: "Brother Gao, your arrival makes me and Chief Luo very happy.
Nowadays, the expeditionary force relies on the United States to provide ammunition, food and pay, which is Stilwell's biggest reliance on daring to ask for command of the expeditionary force.
Before you arrived, although Commander Luo and I kept giving in, Stilwell still pressed forward step by step. When the air force led by Doolittle and Chennault arrived, Stilwell even threatened to use air support.
We had no choice but to ask for help from the Chairman. Unexpectedly, the Chairman actually sent you. Now we can finally breathe a sigh of relief.
With the support of the aircraft led by you, our expeditionary force no longer has to look at the faces of the Americans."
"not necessarily!"
Gao Hongming shook his head and sneered, "Sir Du, you may have underestimated that Stilwell. In my opinion, his ultimate goal is not just to command the expeditionary force?"
"More than just the command of the expeditionary force?"
Du Yuming was slightly stunned at first, and then couldn't help but laugh: "Then what does he want? He doesn't want to be the president of China, does he?"
"Although it's not, it's not far away!"
Gao Hongming did not laugh. Instead, he looked at the two men and said word by word: "What Stilwell and the Americans want is the right to command all the armies of China!"
"What?"
"How can this be?"
Luo Zhuoying and Du Yuming were stunned. They never expected that such shocking things would come out of Gao Hongming's mouth.
Du Yuming couldn't help shouting: "Are the Americans crazy? How dare they?"
Luo Zhuoying also widened his eyes and said in disbelief: "No way, how could the Americans be so unwise? Why do they think we will obediently hand over military power to them?"
"Of course they will."
Seeing the incredulous looks on Luo Zhuoying and Du Yuming's faces, Gao Hongming rubbed his cheeks.
Historically, Stilwell was indeed the first Chief of Staff of the Chinese Theater sent to China after the outbreak of the Pacific War, and many people in later generations did praise him.
But in fact, in Gao Hongming's view, no one sitting in his position could do worse than Stilwell.
Moreover, this guy also has a bad habit of giving people nicknames. In another historical time and space, he called the Chairman of the Generalissimo "Peanut" and believed that Chairman Chiang had great ambitions and little talent.
The conflict with him was very sharp.
And what about himself?
In fact, he is also a man of great ambition and talent in the eyes of others.
He was even called the "three-star company commander" or "four-star battalion commander" by many people at the time.
It means: As a company commander or battalion commander, Stilwell was definitely very qualified and excellent. But as a general, Stilwell was unqualified.
Not only was Chairman Chiang very dissatisfied with him, but Chennault, an American, also had a low opinion of Stilwell. "He has a fiery personality, is acrimonious, and very arrogant." This was the battlefield in East Asia, and almost all Allied generals had a negative opinion of him.
his evaluation.
What Gao Hongming couldn't tolerate the most was that in another time and space, after the expeditionary force failed, this man actually abandoned more than 100,000 soldiers of the expeditionary force and fled directly to India with his headquarters. There was no news for three weeks in a row.
This also resulted in the more than 100,000-strong expeditionary force being leaderless. Even Chairman Chiang Kai-shek found out that this guy had arrived in India only after being informed by the US delegation in China.
This kind of behavior should be shot in the army of any country. However, under the distorted reports of the American media, Stilwell turned into a hero. And behind this "hero" are the bones of tens of thousands of expeditionary troops.
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Although Stilwell was not solely responsible for the failure of the expeditionary force, as one of the commanders of the expeditionary force, he could not escape the blame.
It was such a person who sent Roosevelt messages again and again, explaining to him that the U.S. government should take over the command of the Chinese army and put it under the unified command of American generals.
In the end, the conflict between him and Chairman Chiang broke out, and it got out of hand.
Luo Zhuoying and Du Yuming were still sitting in their seats, silently digesting the news.
After a long time, Luo Zhuoying let out a long breath, "It seems that I was too naive before. I always thought that Stilwell was clamoring for military power because of personality problems. In fact, this is not a problem of Stilwell alone, but of the United States.
Consensus at the highest level.”
"Sir Luo, you finally figured it out." Gao Hongming let out a long breath, "Stilwell was only pushed to the front by the Americans. It was Roosevelt and those senior officials who really spied on the command of the national army.
Think about it, once the Americans take control of the command of the national army and hold our aid supplies to China, after a two-pronged approach, will the national army still be the national army in a few years?"
Du Yuming and Luo Zhuoying's expressions changed. They were both used to leading soldiers. Of course, they knew that the most important thing in controlling an army was command power and money bag.
If the Americans fully control these two things, let alone three years, I am afraid that the millions of national troops will have to change their colors in less than two years.