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Chapter 29 Meetings

When Zhang Chi followed Wang Mazi all the way to the division headquarters in Tonggu, walking to the conference room on the second floor, the conference room was already full of people.

As soon as he saw Wang Mazi coming in with a soldier, Dai Anlan said "huh" and asked, "Is he Zhang Chi?"

"Reporting the Master!" Wang Mazi stood up and said, "He is Zhang Chi, the leader of the first battalion of the Engineer Corps!"

Wang Mazi intentionally reported the complete number and even reported it very loudly. Needless to say, his intention was to show off in front of the officers of other regiments.

"Okay, okay!" Dai Anlan looked at Zhang Chi and nodded repeatedly. He walked up to hold Zhang Chi's hand and said, "Brother, fight well! This time you are bringing glory to our expeditionary army and the Chinese!"

"Dear colleagues!" Then Dai Anlan turned to the officers in the conference room and said, "This... is Zhang Chi, the third platoon leader who bravely blocked thousands of Japanese troops at the Wajie Iron Bridge and snatched a large number of British tanks and other equipment from the Japanese army!"

With a "wow", applause soon erupted in the conference room.

"Sit..." Dai Anlan politely pointed out the location for Wang Mazi and Zhang Chi: "Because the war has not ended yet, we can only wait for Triumph before celebrating the commemorative banquet for the Engineer Corps!"

Although Wang Mazi responded humbly, he felt happy in his heart.

"Everyone!" After everyone sat down, Dai Anlan said: "We have paid so much British military equipment at the Wajie Iron Bridge. This can be said to be an unexpected gain, but how should this batch of equipment be used..."

"Master's seat!" An adjutant sitting next to Dai Anlan stood up and said, "I think we should notify the British side as soon as possible and return this batch of equipment!"

The sound immediately caused a lot of opposition around him. Zhang Chi felt a little incredible about this. It was the time when 200 was in urgent need of equipment, so there was no point in returning the duck that was in his mouth.

"Tell me why." Dai Anlan asked calmly.

"Teacher!" the adjutant explained: "The British army is our ally. Although we seized this batch of equipment from the Japanese army, how could the British admit it? If one is not done well... the British turned the tables and said that we had destroyed the relationship between allies and forced them to rob. This is probably... it will affect the overall situation of the Sino-British League."

Dai Anlan couldn't help but frowned. The adjutant's surname was Yang and was from the Military Control Commission. Although Dai Anlan had always disliked him, he had to admit that what he said made some sense.

But then he thought about it, Tonggu was already in danger at this time, and the 200th Division could be completely wiped out by the Japanese army due to lack of ammunition and equipment at any time. How could he easily give this life-saving straw to the British for them to escape? If he did this, how could he be worthy of the thousands of officers and soldiers under his command? How could he make them convinced and fight in Tonggu?!

Thinking of this, Dai Anlan flatly refused and said: "Adminton Yang, we have received this batch of equipment from the Japanese. The British want it, so let them ask the Japanese for it!"

"Master, take the overall situation into consideration..."

"Don't say anything more!" Dai Anlan raised his hand and interrupted the adjutant: "What we need to consider now is to which unit these equipment are allocated to."

"The teacher seat is rated to our regiment. Our regiment is on the front line and urgently needs tanks."

"Teacher, our regiment has many veterans who drive tanks."

...

In an instant, several main groups started a dispute. Tanks are popular, not to mention that these are a large number of American tanks that are more advanced than Japanese tanks.

However, Zhang Chi thought about it the more hesitated, and he stood up and said, "Secretary, I think those equipment should be equipped with the Engineer Corps!"

The audience was stunned for a moment. Even Wang Mazi didn't expect Zhang Chi to say such things. He hurriedly pressed Zhang Chi back to his seat, and smiled apologized on his face: "Master, the third platoon leader... he talked nonsense! He just came down from the battlefield..."

"Captain Wang!" An officer on the opposite side said in a sarcastic tone: "However, these equipment were also snatched back from the Japanese after their lives, so I have to have some say!"

The person who spoke was Li Tongxiang, the leader of the 599th Regiment, who had had a feud with Wang Mazi before. Specifically, this feud was that several soldiers of the 599th Regiment did not regard the soldiers of the corps as humans, and stole the rations of the corps without authorization, and Wang Mazi arrested them and sent them to the court for justice... At this moment, Li Tongxiang was unhappy because the corps made contributions, so of course he would not miss such an opportunity to give them ugly things.

"Captain Li, you..." Wang Mazi certainly knew what Li Tongxiang meant, but he had no choice but to do anything to him for a moment.

"Let the third platoon leader talk." Dai Anlan raised his head to Zhang Chi.

Since the master had spoken, Wang Mazi didn't dare to stop him, so he had to glar at Zhang Chi and sit back.

In fact, Zhang Chi didn't want this. The reason why he had to say was that if the tank was not matched properly, it was very likely that it would be a blessing or a disaster. By then, as a member of the 200th Division, he would probably not have good results.

"This..." Zhang Chi stood up hesitantly, sorted out his thoughts and said: "First of all, it's the ammunition issue. The machine guns on the British tanks are all British machine guns, and they use British bullets, which are not common to our bullets..."

"Platform Commander Zhang!" Li Tongxiang interrupted Zhang Chi and said, "This problem is easy to solve. We just need to replace our own machine guns."

"Of course," Zhang Chi replied: "But we are afraid there are not many machine gun bullets. How long can we fight even if we switch to a tank?"

Hearing this, the officers were stunned, but Wang Mazi's eyes lit up and immediately became energetic.

Zhang Chi is really saying that the 200th Division has been almost all bullets since the battle with the Japanese army, but the supply has not yet been shattered. What role can it play even if the machine gun is replaced with a tank?

"Continue!" Dai Anlan nodded, thinking that Zhang Chi was really a little bit ink, which was different from the adjutant who was talking on paper.

"This problem is enough for us to have a headache." With Dai Anlan's support, Zhang Chi mustered up the courage to continue, "If you don't change the machine gun, it means that there are many types of bullets, sometimes it is rifle bullets, sometimes it is machine gun bullets, sometimes it is British bullets, and sometimes it is our bullets. If you are confused on the battlefield, there will be a big mess."

After saying this, the officers couldn't help but look at each other. In fact, there is no need for too much explanation for Zhang Chi. As a national army, they have long suffered from the hardship of making equipment from all countries. It is precisely because of this that the troops must try their best to unify firearms and ammunition, but they often cannot do it because of shortage of supplies.

For example, the main force of the 200th Division is equipped with Su-style Mosinnagan, while the engineering regiment is made in Hanyang. In this case, different regiments use different equipment. If several types of equipment are used in one regiment, the chaos in ammunition will almost be inevitable when fighting.

Seeing that the officers were not speaking, Zhang Chi continued to say: "The second is... looking at the British guy's morality, I'm afraid it will be difficult to provide us with air support..."

Speaking of this, Zhang Chi paused intentionally and turned his gaze to Dai Anlan.

Zhang Chi learned to be smart. Although history told him that the British plane was bombed without any effect, as a soldier, he would be better off "knowing less".
Chapter completed!
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