"Major Jack, if I remember correctly: you were promoted to the rank of major four years ago. It has been so long and you still have no qualifications for promotion." Li Hao did not say anything to persuade Jack to leave, but pointedly pointed out what Jack was facing.
Tell them all in one go!
"Besides, you still have your own wife and two children in China. The monthly military salary that a major receives is definitely not enough for them to live carefree in the United States. Haven't you ever thought about changing the military rank on your shoulders to a lieutenant colonel?
Will more military pay allow my wife and children to live a better life in China?"
Jack couldn't walk anymore, his eyes were wide open, staring at Li Hao with a dumbfounded look on his face.
It took a long time to realize: "Who are you? How do you know about my situation? Do you know it so clearly?"
"A person who can help your major get promoted to lieutenant colonel." A mysterious look flashed across Li Hao's face.
"As for my specific identity, just don't tell me!"
"I came to you for one purpose: to get what you need!"
""You advance to your military rank, I want what's mine."
Jack did not speak, but forced himself to calm down, and then replied: "No way!"
"You are a Chinese, and I don't even know your identity. How can you let me be promoted from major to lieutenant colonel?"
"Besides, I am a major. I want money but not money, and power but not power. You can get nothing from me."
Li Hao was noncommittal: "It is true that you don't have what I want, but your US government does."
"As for what I want to trade with you, it will not be given to you directly, but to your US government."
"What you need to do, Jack, is to be a good matchmaker. In return, I believe your military rank will be promoted from major to lieutenant colonel."
Li Hao said so confidently that Jack almost agreed impulsively.
But in the end, reason prevailed over impulse, and he shook his head and said in denial: "This is impossible."
"In order to defeat the Japanese, the weapons, ammunition and supplies you need need assistance from the United States. How can you have something that the United States does not have?"
A touch of sadness flashed across Li Hao's face.
Jack is absolutely right. In this era, China is synonymous with backwardness.
If a citizen of a backward country holds an anti-tank weapon that has not yet been developed by advanced countries, no one will believe it.
He took a deep breath and replied: "Major Jack, I admit that our country is very backward."
"But one thing is undeniable, we have been fighting the Japanese army for several years."
"On the battlefield, it is not impossible to develop a new weapon based on the Japanese combat style."
"I can tell you clearly: this weapon in my hand is specially designed to deal with tanks, and it is also an individual weapon. It is light in weight and powerful. It only takes one shell to blow a tank into scrap metal."
"Limited by insufficient raw materials, we are unable to produce them on a large scale. We can only sell them and exchange them for more needed things!"
Having said this, Li Hao stopped decisively.
Although I want something from the other person now, I can't show it too obviously.
Otherwise, you will definitely be in a very disadvantageous situation in the subsequent negotiations.
Pointing behind him, Xiao Yuan continued.
"Tomorrow at 12 noon, I will arrange for him to pick you up here to see with your own eyes how powerful this weapon is and whether I am exaggerating."
"In order to keep it secret, only Major Jack knows about this matter. You can go there alone. As for safety, Major Jack can rest assured."
"You are an American and an officer. We wouldn't dare to hurt you even if we had ten guts."
Li Hao's words spoke directly to Jack's heart.
As an American, nothing will happen to me!
No matter what Li Hao said is true or false, he has to go away.
Even if it's fake, I haven't lost anything.
But if it is true, I, as the matchmaker, will definitely get a lot of credit.
In addition, he already has enough qualifications, so his promotion from major to lieutenant colonel is definitely a certainty.
At two o'clock in the afternoon the next day, Major Jack appeared at the testing ground deep in the mountains as scheduled.
"Major Jack, you are welcome to come. I believe your trip today will be worthwhile!" Li Hao said with a smile and full of confidence.
"I hope?" Major Jack looked forward to it.
"If the weapon you mentioned is really that powerful and has value on the battlefield, I will definitely help you connect and talk to my commander directly. We can also become friends."
"We can definitely become friends."
Li Hao is still as confident as ever.
Then he ordered Xiao Yuan: "Let's start!"
"Let Major Jack check the target first, and then start shooting, lest Major Jack say we are faking it!"
"Chichi..."
There was a faint scream, and a ball of flame suddenly spurted out from the tail of a weapon he had never seen before.
Then I saw a cannonball more than half a meter long flying out of the barrel, dragging a long tail flame towards the target.
The gunner who was squatting on the ground was not affected at all and remained motionless.
It's as if the cannonball just flew out without any recoil.
This method of launching completely subverts Major Jack's common sense.
After searching through all the artillery that I have in my mind, it seems that none of the artillery fires in this way.
"How can this be?"
Major Jack was confused, his mind was full of questions and shock, he couldn't believe what he saw!
"boom……"
The cannonball hit the target accurately and burst into a ball of fire!
It didn't take long for the two team members to carry the target with a big hole in it.
A hole as thick as a bowl had been blown out of the 30 mm thick iron plate. The nearby iron plate seemed to be torn apart, exposing a large number of gaps. At a glance, it was obvious that it was caused by the explosion of the artillery shell.
"How is this possible?" Jack repeated what he just said with a dumbfounded expression on his face, his face becoming more and more shocked.
This is what Li Hao wants.
The more shocked Major Jack is, the more confident he will be in the subsequent negotiations.
So Li Hao decided to add fuel to the fire and not give Jack time to react.
"Major Jack, we just used ordinary artillery shells. If we switch to armor-piercing shells, it won't be a problem to penetrate 50 mm thick steel plates."
"However, due to reasons such as raw materials and technology, we were unable to produce an armor-piercing warhead."
"But I believe that with the strength of you Americans, you should be able to do it easily."
"As long as the ordinary artillery shells with warheads are replaced by armor-piercing shells, this weapon can be put on the battlefield immediately and become the nemesis of tanks."
"If a large number of front-line combat troops install this weapon, infantry will have something to rely on when encountering enemy armored forces. Unlike before, infantry can only be passively beaten by armored forces."