Chapter 1265 The crisis in the United States
1265 Marshall thought Roosevelt was here to announce his dismissal, but he did not expect that he was here to ask Hu Bin about it.
After hearing this, he immediately said that he had indeed discussed this issue, but the difficulty of this issue is still very high!
"It's very difficult. Now Hu Bin has captured Japanese soldiers. According to Hu Bin's telegram, he wants to sell the prisoners, and sell them to the Japanese! Can you accept such behavior?" Roosevelt heard it and looked at Marshall and questioned.
"No, but what can we do if we can't do? Your Excellency President, if you have a better idea, please tell me, I will consider it. If possible, I will negotiate with Hu Bin. If there is no better way, I have no choice!" Marshall said.
"General Marshall, I think, as the chief of staff of our 6th Army, you should have your own opinions and persistence in such matters!" A Roosevelt's aide came over and said to Marshall.
"What are you? What qualifications do you have to question me?" Marshall suddenly changed his face and said directly to the staff member.
"You!" The aide was a little confused about what was going on when Marshall did this.
"General Marshall?" Roosevelt shouted at him in dissatisfaction.
"Come, please ask them out. This is a military important place. All these staff members drove me out!" Marshall shouted directly at the door without giving Roosevelt face at all.
Immediately, several guards came in at the door and stood in front of the staff.
"General Marshall, what do you mean?" The staff looked at Marshall with great dissatisfaction.
"Wait a minute, General Marshall, what does this mean?" Roosevelt looked at Marshall with dissatisfaction.
"I said, they are not qualified to enter here. This is a military important place!" Marshall said to Roosevelt, and then said to the guards: "Send it to the gate. If you don't go, take compulsory measures!"
"Yes!" The guards responded immediately when they heard Marshall's words. Several staff members had to stand up, glared at Marshall fiercely, and then left. Soon, the office fell into silence.
"You won?" Roosevelt asked as he looked at Marshall.
"The United States won!" Marshall said, then staring at Roosevelt and said.
"Mr. Roosevelt, I want to ask, do you respect our American soldiers? Do you feel that they deserve respect for their lives for the United States?" Marshall asked at Roosevelt.
"Of course I respect it, what do you mean?" Roosevelt asked, looking at Marshall.
"Do you respect? If you respect it, you will not let those aides say in your ears every day that our soldiers are useless, our generals are useless, we have been defeating wars, we dare not fight in wars, we have been retreating, is it that the army is useless?
Your Excellency President, we are useless. We also took our weapons to the front to fight. We sacrificed many excellent generals and soldiers. We also know the gap between us and the Japanese generals and we are learning. We are learning to fight.
Also, did Hu Bin come to help us fight in the United States? He is still killing the Japanese and not killing us Americans, right?" Marshall stood up and shouted at Roosevelt.
"That's right!" Roosevelt nodded and said.
"Then why should we be hostile to him? Why? I said, it is okay to not believe it. Don't be hostile to him, don't be suspicious!" Marshall looked at Roosevelt and shouted again.
"But now he is going to sell the prisoners, how do you explain it to me?" Roosevelt shouted at Marshall.
"You can send troops to kill those prisoners, Hu Bin said in the telegram. Didn't he say he had to sell those prisoners? We can kill him to send troops to escort them back. I want to ask the President, do you dare to give such an order?" Marshall said to Roosevelt.
"Hu Bin's troops are there, why didn't he take them back?" Roosevelt said to Marshall.
"If it were me, I wouldn't dare to take it back. There are more than 20,000 Japanese troops in the south. They are hiding now. At night, what if they come to attack my troops at night? Hu Bin has only 10,000 troops, and they have to watch those prisoners. Do you want Hu Bin's troops to die?
If you want to send troops to escort the prisoners back, I will disagree first. That is to die. Do you understand? There are only two ways to deal with the prisoners now. First, kill them, and second, Hu Bin sells them.
I would like to ask His Excellency the President, what should I do, and if I want to kill them, we can now telegram General Steven. He can only send a division's troops and bring enough ammunition and heavy machine guns to kill all the 20,000 prisoners. May I ask, do you dare to give such an order?" Marshall looked at Roosevelt, looked at him with a flushed face, and shouted.
Roosevelt heard it and looked at Marshall!
"You don't know how to fight at all, but you still want to interfere in the war. Of course, you think this is possible. MacArthur's counterattack this time is also. I said no, this is a trap. If you don't listen, you think it is an opportunity. Even you think it is an opportunity. Is that still an opportunity?
That's the trap! Who heard it? When I was fighting in your office, those of your staff pointed at my nose and criticized me, saying that I didn't dare to hit me! Is it something I dare not hit me?
For this, how much price did we pay, 20,000 soldiers were sacrificed, and in one day, 20,000 soldiers were sacrificed. Who will be responsible for the sacrifice of these soldiers? Do I need to be responsible? I have objected? Who heard it?" Marshall shouted loudly. Roosevelt looked at Marshall and still refused to speak.
"War is the business of soldiers. You intervene again and again. It is obviously a good opportunity. You gave up. It is obviously a trap. You let us get in. This is to let us die. All our commanders now don't know how to fight. No one dares to command, and no one dares to be responsible.
I would like to ask, Your Excellency the President, Hu Bin is fighting here, what have they interfered in the country?
What if we hadn't asked Yan'an to ask Hu Bin to do? They would not interfere with Hu Bin's war at all, because the Chinese commander knew that the military affairs should be left to the military personnel, and they knew how to make decisions. The commander should just manage strategic matters well. When fighting, let the soldiers fight, so that the country would not suffer any losses!
Damn, do you know, because of your interference, our generals don’t know how to fight now!" Marshall stood there and cursed. He was quite angry because this matter had a great impact on them.
"Originally, if we gave Hu Bin 10,000 soldiers this time, we might be drinking coffee in Toronto. Hu Bin was really not wrong. The plan was already done, but now those troops were put in our hands and they became exhausted.
And you also know that Steven's troops are participating in the war, about 120,000,000, and more than 180,000 enemies were killed and more than 20,000 casualties. If Hu Bin had our 10,000 troops in his hands, you said that now we may not be considering how to defend, but how to counterattack. Do you know about counterattack?
Now Japan's materials in the Americas are almost exhausted, and we can counterattack. As long as we persist, we can drive the Japanese troops into the sea. We also said that we missed the opportunity, but you forced us to miss the opportunity!" After Marshall stood there and finished speaking, he was out of breath.
Roosevelt sat there without saying anything. When Marshall was in a rush, he didn't speak, just looked at Marshall.
"I know you have opinions about me because I don't listen to you, but this is the power given to me by the position of Chief of Staff. I will be responsible for our 6th Army troops and for our American people, not for you. I don't need to be responsible for you. You have your guard force!
I am an American, and all the soldiers are American. They all love this country and we also want to win battles. But every time our strategy is laid out, you will be in chaos as soon as you intervene. Who has been a soldier or a general?
Listen to these people and command our troops. Do you want to ruin all our American troops?" Marshall shouted at Roosevelt there.
"I haven't thought about it like this!" Roosevelt said.
"His Excellency President, we in the United States are facing a huge problem now. I don't know if you have ever thought that we have no soldiers and the last batch of soldiers have all gone up. Do you know how much impact these soldiers will have on our United States if they are sacrificed?
They are all intellectuals. Some can become engineers, some can become doctors, professors, teachers, and entrepreneurs. Yesterday, they sacrificed 20,000 yuan. Most of them are intellectuals. Don’t you feel distressed?
They had a bright future, so why did I invite Hu Bin's troops to come? I just didn't want to send these people to the battlefield. Once the war ended, we can make the United States quickly. It was these people who made us now, so we could only let such soldiers go to the battlefield! Do you know?
In China, their college students and the country have to arrange jobs for them, most of them go to schools, research institutes, and the army, it would be amazing that there was a college student among them. They were reluctant to let intellectuals go to the battlefield!" Marshall said to Roosevelt.
Chapter completed!