In fact, Zhang Chi was not wrong, and Halsey also clearly told Jack the purpose of this training.

The reason for this situation is... because Jack is unwilling to let the US Fourth Division receive training from Chinese troops, although he knows in his heart that these Chinese people may indeed know the Japanese better than American soldiers than American soldiers, and they are more familiar with the Japanese tactics and have good solutions.

but……

"God! They are Chinese!" Jack himself said to himself: "Before they came here, they didn't even know what an aircraft carrier was or Sherman tank. How could I let these savages train the Fourth Land Warfare Division? No...never!"

In fact, Jack thought so not only because of his personal face. A considerable number of the American soldiers in the Fourth Division also had the same mentality as Jack... Due to his stereotyped understanding of China, the country and the army, the American soldiers maintained a very high sense of superiority towards the Chinese team. This sense of superiority made it difficult for the US military to stand aside to receive training from the Chinese troops. Jack even felt that if he received training from the Chinese troops, it might cause dissatisfaction from his subordinates, affect the morale of the troops, and even cause chaos.

This is by no means alarmist. American soldiers are not as obedient as Chinese soldiers, just as the raiders' troops planned to assassinate him when they were dissatisfied with Stilwell's command.

So Jack planned to "deceive the superiors and hide the subordinates", that is, to deal with Halsey casually, but pretended not to know Zhang Chi... Since it was joint training, it was joint training, and this was a joint training dominated by the US military.

As for whether he could learn how the Chinese team could deal with the Japanese... Although this was very important, because it directly affected the reputation and even casualties of the Fourth Marine Division, Jack believed that it was entirely possible to learn from the Chinese troops during joint training. At worst, he would let someone go to the Chinese troops to get some useful things, so that he could explain it to Halsey.

What Jack didn't know was that war would not be as simple as he thought, and how could the Japanese have just listened to the Chinese troops or explained the way to deal with it on paper.

"Is there any problem? Colonel?!" Seeing that Zhang Chi didn't say anything, Jack asked again.

"I am sorry, General!" Zhang Chi replied: "I think the first, second and third divisions of the Land War have undergone training in these aspects..."

Jack nodded.

Among them, only the First Land War Division was not prepared enough and was urgently pulled onto the battlefield before the training was completed. The Second Land War Division and the Third Land War Division only went to the battlefield after the training was completed.

"But their performance on the battlefield..." Zhang Chi raised the training plan in his hand: "If we continue to train like this, I believe that the Fourth Land War Division will not perform better on the battlefield in the future. The general can see their battle examples..."

"Of course I've seen it, Colonel!" Jack interrupted Zhang Chi and said, "And I know what's wrong with them, so my opinion is the opposite of you. Because I will correct these mistakes, the Fourth Division will certainly perform better than them, because we have learned from their failures, right?"

"That's good!" Seeing that Jack could not be convinced, Zhang Chi had to answer: "Just do what you said!"

Zhang Chi’s idea was...even if there are any losses in the future, it will be the business of the Fourth Land Division, and it has nothing to do with the Central Team*.

As the saying goes, if you don’t talk too much, Zhang Chi is not too busy in the division headquarters. He will return to the camp after just dealing with it.

The first thing that happened after returning to the camp was that Zhang Chi was to distribute the training plan to officers at all levels... The officers were stunned when they were sent.

"Master!" The fellow villager looked at the plan and asked, "Why are you still practicing these?"

"That's it!" Wu Yuhang was also a little puzzled: "We have captured so many islands, such as Tarava, and the newly captured Kuajialin... Which time is it because of air-ground coordination, incisor artillery coordination, and so on?! When the fighter jets and artillery exploded, there were water vapor and smoke everywhere, and they couldn't see it. They were all blown up randomly, and they were still in concert?!"

"Yes, division!" Zhang Junhua is an air force. He once personally flew a fighter plane to bomb and observe when attacking Wojie Atoll, so he had a say in this.

Zhang Junhua said: "Don't those Americans know the situation? Those islands are only slapped by a slap in total, and the smoke is shrouded in the air and I don't know where the bomb should be thrown. Isn't this nonsense about what kind of air-space coordination?"

"Let you practice it, there is not so much nonsense!" Zhang Chi said impatiently: "If the Americans want to practice like this, you just accompany them to play! At that time, it is their business. We will fight as much as we should. We will worry less about other people's affairs. Do you understand?"

"clear!"

"yes!"

...

The officers responded and stopped saying a word.

Because the Fourth Division of the US Land War was worried that there was not enough training time... I don’t know when the next battle will begin, and the next round of attack will definitely be the Fourth Division, so Jack wanted to hurry up and train, so the joint training began the next day.

Not to mention... This joint training seems to be of no use for the current combat, but it is still very useful for the Chinese troops when it comes to accidental battles.

This does not mean that the Chinese Expeditionary Force has trained and applied it to the battlefield during the war in Myanmar, so its proficiency is far beyond the new recruits who have only been trained for several months.

But one of them is the shortcomings of the Chinese army, that is, sea-land coordination... The sea-land coordination here also includes fighter jets on aircraft carriers, so the essence should be the coordination of the three armies of "sea, land and air". However, the US military classified the fighter jets on aircraft carriers as navals, so this subject is sea-land coordination.

Chinese troops had basically no navy before. Even if they had a navy at this time, they were affiliated with the US military to fight under the command of the US military, and they had never had independent coordinated navy and land operations.

Now that there are ready-made teachers like the US Marine Corps, it just happens to make up for this shortcoming.
Chapter completed!