my bright sword career

Chapter 650
"General Julian, you are a rare visitor."

Gao Hongming went up to meet him from a long distance, and hugged Julian with open arms. Both of them seemed to be smiling, and the atmosphere was extremely harmonious for a while.

Julian smiled and said: "General Gao, you are too polite. I heard that your troops have made great progress in the attack on the east of Tululu Mountain in the past two days. I came here specially to congratulate you. "

Seeing the gentle smile on Julian's face, Chi Yaohui at the side couldn't tell how sincere the smile was.

For a while, he somewhat missed Colonel Thomas, the leader of the 8th Regiment. Although this guy had a rough temper, he was quite straightforward, and he got along very well with him. The two formed a bond through these months of contact. Nice personal relationship.

But generals like Julian and Spruance are different. He always feels that the smiles of these two people are like a mask, hiding their true thoughts, making it difficult for people to guess.

Only people like Tuan Zuo can deal with them without losing the wind.

"Come... let's sit inside."

Gao Hongming took Julian and several accompanying officers to welcome them into the headquarters, and soon the orderly brought tea for them.

"General Julian, come and taste the Keemun black tea I brought from Huaxia." Gao Hongming pointed to several cups of bright red soup and fragrant teacups in front of him and said, "Black tea is a good thing. It is good for acute and chronic enteritis and dysentery. effective."

Julian was also not polite. He picked up the teacup, first looked at the tea soup, then put it under his nose and smelled it for a while, took a sip, closed his eyes and tasted it for a while, and then gave Gao Hongming a thumbs up.

"Hmm... the fragrance is tangy and slightly bitter after the entrance, but it soon returns to sweetness, and I feel a delicate fragrance in my mouth. It is indeed a top-quality black tea."

"Oh...I didn't expect General Julian to like tea too?"

Now it was Gao Hongming's turn to be a little surprised. Judging from Julian's actions and words when he drank tea just now, he did not just praise him indiscriminately. It must be someone who has studied and understood black tea to say such words.

Julian laughed: "General Gao may not know, but I studied Chinese as part of my studies at Harvard University, and I know a little about the history of China.

Take the current situation as an example, when we meet, shouldn't you use: It's hard to say that a friend comes from afar, should this sentence be used to describe it? "

"hiss……"

Gao Hongming and Chi Yaohui looked at each other, and they were shocked at the same time.

Because the last sentence Julian said was actually in Chinese, and the pronunciation was also correct and round, like a Beijing movie.

"General Julian, you can speak Chinese."

"of course."

Julian shrugged his shoulders, "Didn't I just say that the foreign language I learned when I was studying at Harvard was Chinese, and I spent four years working hard on it. In 1932, I also served as a I have served as the military attache of the United States in China for two years, so is it strange that I can speak Chinese?"

Well...Gao Hongming immediately understood that he had met Huaxia Tong.

"Okay, I admit I was wrong."

Gao Hongming spread his hands and changed the language to Chinese: "Then let's get to the point now, as the saying goes, if you have nothing to do, you can go to the Three Treasures Hall. As the commander of the Second Marine Division, you can be said to be busy with every day.

Now that you have put down your military affairs and come to me, you definitely don’t come to drink tea. Please tell me what’s the matter. "

A flash of surprise flashed in Julian's eyes. In his impression, Huaxia officials like to talk in a cloud and fog, as if saying otherwise is not enough to show his level.

But Gao Hongming was an exception. He went straight to the point at the beginning, so he didn't go around in circles anymore.

He said in a fluent Beijing accent: "General Gao, you must have seen today's battle report. Today, when our 8th Marine Regiment attacked Tululu Mountain, we lost a lot of casualties, and we lost just one day. More than 800 people.

The loss was so great because we lacked air cover.

So I hope you can assign the aircraft in your hand to a squadron of the Second Marine Division. "

"A squadron has been allocated to you, are you correct?"

Gao Hongming almost spit out the tea in his mouth, he looked at Julian strangely, "Do you know how many planes I have in total?
Two squadrons..."

He held out two fingers.

"There are 96 aircraft in two squadrons, and now you want to take away one squadron as soon as you open your mouth. Don't you think this request is very excessive and unreasonable?"

"I know this request will embarrass you." Julian nodded.

"But for the victory of the Anti-Fascist War, I hope you will take the overall situation into consideration.

Of course, I won't ask for your plane for nothing. If you have any needs, just say so, as long as I can do it, I will try my best to meet your requirements. "

"Tsk tsk..."

Gao Hongming almost wanted to applaud.

This guy is much more powerful than his predecessor, Major General John, and his little abacus made a crackling noise.

What do you mean? Just say what you need, as long as you can do it, you must try your best to meet it.

He said this as if Gao Hongming begged him.

Gao Hongming brought the dispatch corps to Wanli to help. Isn’t it natural for the US military to provide supplies and support? When did the dispatch corps beg the Americans for supplies?

And I still try to be satisfied, which means that if you think you can't do it, you won't help?
I let you talk about all the rumors, and you want all the benefits of co-authorship, but you don't give any of the promises.

Gao Hongming couldn't bear this kind of anger.

Why do you think that I dare to hate your ex but not you? Who gave you the courage to talk to me in such a tone of charity... Sister Jingru?
Laughing out of breath, he picked up the teacup on the table and said coldly: "General Julian, if you have this attitude, I don't think we have anything to talk about."

After he finished speaking, he lowered his head and swiped the tea leaves with the tea cover, and blew gently with his mouth, as if concentrating on tasting the tea.

"you……"

Seeing Gao Hongming's appearance, Julian was shocked at first, and then became angry.

He, who claims to be a master of Huaxia, of course understands that Gao Hongming's action is also called in Huaxia, which is called serving tea to see off guests.

He wanted to attack, but was suppressed by him.

He grabbed the hat on the table and put it on his head, looked at Gao Hongming who bowed his head and sipped his tea, and said, "General Gao, I still hope that you can carefully consider my suggestion. I will wait for your good news at Henderson Airport."

After speaking, Julian stood up and strode out of the headquarters.

(End of this chapter)