Sun Erwei looked at Wang Xuexin in disbelief: "You really...don't think about it anymore? Or you can reply to me in a few days! We have plenty of time! And..."
Sun Erwei added: "If it's just because of this, we can ask the Eighth Route Army to tell you their needs, and we will try our best to meet the Eighth Route Army's requirements, or anything else. These can all be discussed!"
"No, Sun Erwei!" Wang Xuexin replied firmly: "I can answer you now, this is impossible!"
Wang Xuexin is not stupid. Now Yingjiang wants to poach Wang Xuexin, so of course he will talk beautifully and agree to any conditions.
However, after people get to Yingjiang, it will be difficult to use the power of the Yingjiang country to do something for the Eighth Route Army. By then, they will not even have the qualifications to bargain.
People are already at Yingjiang's place, what else can you do?
What else do you want?
Return to China?
Can you go back?
Just make any excuse, such as the hump route is busy or even interrupted, what else can Wang Xuexin do to them!
On the contrary, now, if you come up with a creative idea or idea, you can make some exchanges with Yingjiang to gain some advantages.
"Okay!" Sun Erwei saw that Wang Xuexin was so determined, so he stopped pressing: "You missed a good opportunity, Wang..."
Wang Xuexin laughed: "Missed? Does this mean that if I change my mind in the future, you won't agree to let me go to Yingjiang's place?"
"No, of course not!" Sun Erwei's eyes lit up: "We are always welcome..."
Before he finished speaking, Sun Erwei realized the problem: If Yingjiang is welcome at any time, that is, Wang Xuexin can go at any time, how can it be said to be a "miss"?
Sun Erwei shrugged and said helplessly: "Okay, you win!"
Sun Erwei couldn't figure out why Wang Xuexin didn't go. In his mind, a normal person would not give up escaping from this backward and messy place, especially since it was in the middle of a war and there was no safety at all.
Sun Erwei thought this was because Wang Xuexin had little knowledge...because he had never been to Yingjiang and didn't know how good Yingjiang was, so Yingjiang was not attractive to him.
Therefore, Sun Erwei made up his mind to take this matter slowly and bring a few Chinese people who have been to Yingjiang to talk to Wang Xuexin, or invite Wang Xuexin to travel to Yingjiang.
Make him change his mind.
What Sun Erwei didn't know was that Wang Xuexin made this decision not because he had little knowledge, but because he had more knowledge and knew what would happen in the future, so he chose to refuse.
Therefore, these little ideas of Sun Erwei are doomed to fail.
Yingjiang was also surprised to receive Sun Erwei's reply, because they thought it was the best of both worlds...it could help both Yingjiang and the Eighth Route Army, not to mention they had a common enemy: the Japanese.
In other words, helping Yingjiang develop equipment and ultimately win the Pacific battlefield is also helping China.
The admiral was still a little unwilling. He said to Doolittle: "If he refuses, can we persuade his superiors, I mean, from the perspective of cooperation at the national or military level, force him to accept this proposal.
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Doolittle thought for a while and replied: "I'm afraid it's difficult, general. This is not to say that the head of the Eighth Route Army does not have a big picture view, but that they trust the Chinese battalion commander very much, not to mention the role played by the Chinese battalion commander in the Eighth Route Army.
Not only does it research and develop equipment, it even supports the construction of the Eighth Route Army’s modern troops!”
Doolittle's time in China was not purely about escaping and waiting. He also inspected the Eighth Route Army.
Even after returning to China, because he was responsible for cooperating with the Eighth Route Army Air Force, he continued to learn about the current situation of the Eighth Route Army through the intelligence department.
So Doolittle was surprised to find that this Chinese battalion commander had almost changed the entire Eighth Route Army:
As for the army, it has developed small mortars (50 small guns), indigenous toughened steel, etc. to improve equipment performance. It has also popularized formations such as the "three-three system". In addition, there are many unheard-of tactics, such as the formation of tank troops.
As for the aviation force, an air force was developed almost from scratch, and in the first battle, it created a miracle of destroying dozens of enemy fighters and bombers with 10 Hawker 81s with zero casualties.
In addition, there were mountain troops, teaching troops, etc. Doolittle was dazzled by the sight. He simply couldn't believe that one person could do it. Especially Doolittle discovered that not only the equipment, but also many tactics were world-class. First of its kind.
"How did he come up with this!" Doolittle sighed: "This is simply a military genius!"
Doolittle explained these to the admiral one by one and said: "It can be said that the situation of the Eighth Route Army at this time depends on this Chinese battalion commander. Without him, the Eighth Route Army at this time is likely to still be in the enemy's war. He is struggling under the joint blockade. For such a person, we want to transfer him to Eagle Sauce through the top management, for fear of..."
Then the admiral understood.
If that's the case, then he really doesn't want to give it. Even if Yingjiang makes those promises... he would be a fool to give it.
Doolittle saw the admiral's face looking very ugly and thought that this plan was definitely dead.
But unexpectedly, the admiral then said: "Notify Snijn that we agree to his research and development plan, but there is one condition. He must participate in all research and development and keep records! And send it to us word for word. !”
"Of course!" Doolittle said: "In fact, the research and development work is mainly done by our people, and the Chinese battalion commander only participates occasionally!"
The admiral glanced at Doolittle helplessly and thought to himself: "This guy is still suitable for commanding the air force!"
The admiral actually sees it more clearly.
Or I can’t say “I can see it clearly”, but I don’t like this kind of R&D project being led by others.
The result of this is probably that a lot of manpower and material resources are spent on making wedding dresses for others.
Doolittle did not understand this and thought that the Chinese battalion commander only "occasionally participated", but he did not realize that the "occasional participation" of the Chinese battalion commander played an important role in guiding the direction.
As long as the Chinese battalion commander puts a little thought into pointing out a not-so-correct path to the R&D team... it will keep the R&D team busy for several years.
If Wang Xuexin had known about the Admiral's thoughts, he would have lamented that "older people are still smarter". After all, the Admiral is a veteran and knows what pitfalls there are.
But the admiral certainly didn't expect that although he guessed the result correctly, he didn't guess correctly...
At this time, the report that Wang Xuexin showed to Skinner, and even the report that was placed in front of Doolittle and the admiral, was a path that Wang Xuexin deliberately pointed in the wrong direction.