After receiving a positive answer, Fang Lang nodded with satisfaction, moved closer to his body again, lowered his voice and told General Crook all his thoughts.
After listening to Fang Lang's introduction, General Crook looked surprised and said hesitantly:
"Are you sure?"
Fang Lang looked at General Crook with a smile on his face and said:
"Wouldn't you know if you try it?"
When General Crook heard this, he took a deep look at Fang Lang and slowly extended his right hand to Fang Lang.
"Okay, let's try it."
Seeing this, Fang Lang also stood up with a smile on his face, grabbed General Crook's right hand, and said to General Crook firmly:
"General, please rest assured that our navy and marines are determined to win if we dare to fight."
After speaking, stand at attention and salute.
General Crook was obviously very satisfied with this, and returned a military salute to Fang Lang with expectation.
Next, the two walked out of Fang Lang's tent and visited the entire field camp. General Crook, accompanied by Fang Lang, expressed condolences to some soldiers who were injured during the training, and then hurriedly left on the plane he came from.
This inspection came in a hurry and left even more hastily. Even many officers of the Navy Department were completely unaware of this matter. The Marine Corps officers were also a little confused.
Only Fang Lang and Crook, two people at the time, knew what was going on.
Next, things progressed just as the two predicted. Under the pressure of the ultimatum from the Presidential Palace and the Ministry of Defense, Major General Walter Wesker had to give up the cage tactics he had always insisted on.
As a good general, he was well aware of the dangers of entering the jungle again. Therefore, during the confrontation, the army under his command was not idle. With the help of some Amazon jungle indigenous people, they learned some ways to survive in the Amazon jungle.
This prevented the entire team from rushing into the dense rainforest blindly like the first time.
At the same time, he knew very well that the scope of the rainforest was too large. After they entered the rainforest, gaps would easily appear between the troops and the enemy could easily take advantage of them. Therefore, he always requires everyone to maintain their own pace and report their progress at any time.
However, the complex environment of the Amazon rainforest still caused them to suffer a lot. Even the electromagnetic signals were good and bad. The entire encirclement and suppression team's actions were often out of sync, giving the rebels opportunities to take advantage of.
Led by Brissot Eddy, these rebels used guerrilla warfare tactics and concentrated superior forces to give a head-on blow to an intruding team, although they failed to annihilate the government forces.
But it can be regarded as venting part of the anger of the rebels who have been besieged.
Because the attack on this team mobilized the surrounding teams, huge holes appeared in the entire encirclement. By the time the entire government army team completed the encirclement, everyone had lost track of the Eddie Brothers' anti-government forces.
This made Major General Walter Wesker furious, but there was nothing he could do.
Fortunately, he did not lose his mind because of this. Instead, he quickly realized that after the rebels broke out of the encirclement, they would definitely want to look for supplies immediately, and Bittenkot Town and Manguari must be their targets.
Therefore, he used the remaining defensive forces at hand to set up strong defensive positions in the two towns. At the same time, he sent transport ships to quickly transport the National Defense Force soldiers who had lost their targets in the jungle to the outskirts of the two towns.
Prepare to cooperate inside and outside and eat the rebels directly.
I don’t know if the rebels got the information in advance or if they got supplies from other places, but they didn’t launch attacks on the two small towns as Major General Walter Wesker expected.
Instead, he chose to completely disappear into the dense tropical rain forest.
At this time, Major General Walter Wesker also lost traces of the rebels, and the so-called plan to exterminate the rebels was completely bankrupt. The Ministry of National Defense and the Presidential Palace have lost face.
At this moment, the Marine Corps under Fang Lang suddenly appeared at the temporary field airport built by the government forces, and began to expand the field airport as reinforcements.
Major General Walter Wesker, who was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot because the rebels had lost their traces, heard that Fang Lang personally told him that he would send the naval aviation under his command to help them find traces of the rebels, and he did not hesitate. Agreed to the Navy's expansion project of the field airfield.
After all, the Navy directly sent nearly ten reconnaissance planes into this simple field airport to help them find the rebels. He had no reason to refuse.
But what Major General Walter Wesker didn't know was that the Marine Corps' expansion of the airport was obviously not as simple as just parking ten reconnaissance aircraft.
As time passed, the situation on the front line was finally spread to the media by someone who was interested. For a time, the public was excited, and the Ministry of National Defense and the entire Army Department lost face.
At the latest meeting of the Ministry of National Defense, Defense Minister Marshal Moraes looked livid as he looked at a group of senior Brazilian military officials.
"Mr. Minister Melchor Alam, do you have anything to say about your Army Department's repeated defeats in encirclement and suppression campaigns?"
When the Minister of Defense named the Minister of the Army, the entire conference room was silent. Everyone knew that this time the Minister of the Army was doomed.
After all, the military order was originally issued, clearly stating that if this group of rebels could not be wiped out this time, he, the Army Minister, would voluntarily resign.
Although the Minister of War cannot be entirely blamed for the failure of the encirclement and suppression war, a defeat is a defeat, and there are no conditions to be negotiated.
Army Minister Melchor Alam was also a straightforward person. Knowing that he could not escape at all, he stood up and saluted directly:
"Your Excellency, Marshal, the Ministry of War has a great responsibility. As the Minister of War, I cannot escape the blame. I hereby formally take the blame and resign to you. I hope you can approve it."
Everyone in the conference room looked miserable, but there was nothing they could do.
Major General Nairo Mora, the Air Force Minister, looked with interest at Lieutenant General Crook, the Navy Minister sitting diagonally opposite him. He felt that General Crook seemed a little strange today.
After Marshal Moraes heard what General Melchor Alam said, he did not say any nonsense, but nodded directly without hesitation:
"I agree to your resignation application. The post of Army Minister will be temporarily replaced by the Chief of Army General Staff. At the same time, I order Major General Walter Wesker to be removed from his position as frontline commander and transferred back to the Army Department for investigation."
Then he glanced at everyone in the conference room and said in a serious tone:
"This is not just a failure for the Army, but a failure for our entire defense force. The President is very disappointed in us, and I am not exempt from the blame."
Next, I need to go to Congress to answer questions on this matter.
As far as I know, someone in Congress may want to propose peace talks with the rebels again this time. I don't know how you feel about this, but this is absolutely unacceptable to me.
Therefore, I hope that the Army Department can come up with a new action plan as soon as possible. "
After hearing Marshal Moraes' words, Army Minister Melchor Alam sat down with a decadent look on his face, and his whole person lost his energy.
The surrounding army generals also had ugly expressions. Especially when they heard that someone in Congress proposed peace talks with the rebels, several army generals wanted to get up in arms.
The army chief of staff, Lieutenant General Humberto Auld, who was temporarily taken out to support the situation, also looked ugly.
Originally, being promoted to Secretary of the Army should be something that would make him happy, but under the current situation, this position is simply a hot potato, and whoever takes it will be in trouble.
Therefore, he did not want to take over this position at all, but the Minister of Defense had personally appointed him, so he could only hold his nose and accept it.
He stood up, stood at attention and saluted:
"Yes, Your Excellency Marshal!"
When General Crook, the Secretary of the Navy, heard that Marshal Moraes asked the War Department to submit a new action plan and a new commander again, he became a little unable to sit still.
He quickly took the initiative and said:
"Your Excellency, Marshal, in my opinion, there is no problem with the Army's operation this time. If Major General Walter Wesker's cage tactics are continued, the rebels will not be able to hold on for long.
If it weren't for the random instructions from those ignorant officials in Congress, this failure would not have happened at all.
They actually have the nerve to propose peace talks with the rebels. I have every reason to doubt whether these guys are betraying national interests. "
The Minister of War, Melchor Alam, did not expect that the Minister of the Navy, General Crook, who had always been at odds with him, would actually take the initiative to speak kind words for him, which made him stunned for a while.
All the generals in the War Department also looked at General Crook with surprise.
Air Force Minister Major General Nairo Mora found it even more interesting.
When Marshal Moraes heard this, he frowned slightly. It was not that he didn't understand that what General Crook said was true, but when he said that the officials of the Congress were giving random orders, was there some insinuation directed at him?
After all, in the final analysis, the actions of the War Department were forced to suppress because they could not withstand the pressure.
But in this situation, he obviously couldn't take the initiative to take over the responsibility, so he could only say slightly displeasedly:
"Okay, don't say these words here."
Then, General Moraes turned his attention to Lieutenant General Humberto Auld, who had just been appointed as Acting Minister of the Army, and asked with a serious face:
"General Humberto Auld, do you have a new commander in mind?"
As the Chief of Staff of the Army, Lieutenant General Humberto Auld was of course very familiar with the situation of the Army, but at this time, he was in a very difficult situation. Although he had anticipated this problem, he did not know how to deal with it for a while. Know how to answer.
After all, this position is a trap no matter how you look at it. If you recommend one of your closest subordinates to go there, you might harm others.
If you send a general who is not your confidant but is capable enough, you will be afraid of others harming you.
This is really a dilemma.
General Crook, the Minister of the Navy, saw that General Moraes still wanted the army to continue to lead the encirclement and suppression. He felt a little anxious and couldn't help but take the initiative to speak again:
"Your Excellency, Marshal, I feel that the Army has just gone through two operations and the soldiers are tired, so it is really not suitable to start a new operation immediately.
If you and my colleagues at the Department of the Army don't mind, I would like to appeal to you on behalf of our Marine Corps in the Rio de Janeiro Carrier Fleet.
It is up to us to come forward and deal with the rebels for a while first, giving our army brothers a chance to rest and recuperate. "
Marshal Morais obviously did not expect that at this time when everyone was afraid to avoid it, the Admiralty would actually take the initiative to ask for a fight. No wonder he suddenly jumped in and said the previous words.
It seems that he is not insinuating about himself, but wants to actively intervene in this conflict!
All the generals in the Army Department were also confused. What's going on? The Secretary of the Navy is well fed. Our army of nearly 5,000 people has achieved nothing for such a long time. How dare you, with more than 2,500 marines in a fleet of your navy, jump out?
If General Crook proposed this before the rebels jumped out of the encirclement, these army generals could spray the opponent to death.
But at this moment, the army generals couldn't say much. After all, the other party was not here to pick peaches.
He also said that he was very considerate of the Army and wanted to give the Army time to rest and recuperate.
