Reborn in Brazil As a Plutocrat

  Chapter 237 Someone wants to steal the tower

  Fang Lang understands that his First Fleet is a very attractive fat, and many people want to take a bite.

  The high-level military will definitely prevent the First Fleet from becoming its own private army, and will desperately mix sand into it.

  Fang Lang does not object to someone mixing sand into it.

  Because, from the beginning to the end, he never thought of leading the army to rebel, as long as he has the control of this army, and there are some other people's eyeliners, he doesn't mind.

  However, at the beginning, the expansion of the Marine Corps to 2,000 people was a reward for supporting President Dutra.

  I have two tank landing craft provided by the US military under my command. If I don't give myself enough soldiers, these two landing craft will not be able to play any role at all.

   What's more important is that when Fang Lang commanded the marines to occupy the airport and the broadcasting building when he helped President Dutra take office, Fang Lang felt the shortcomings of the lack of marine forces.

  That's why these two thousand marines appeared.

   I didn't expect that when I, the commander of the First Fleet who always left behind military affairs, went to purchase advanced aircraft carriers for Brazil, someone would make a small move in his home.

   This is because the tiger doesn't show his power, and someone treats him as a sick cat!

   "Did you hear anything?"

  Fang Lang agreed with de la Torre's suspicion that someone had taken a fancy to the command of the Marine Corps.

   After all, there is no one in the Marine Corps of the First Fleet who is qualified to serve as brigade commander.

  Because the rank of the brigade commander must be at least a colonel.

  And the commander-in-chief with the highest rank in the entire First Fleet, Guan Lang, is only a colonel.

   Even if an advanced aircraft carrier is secured for the Brazilian Navy this time, it is only possible that the Ministry of the Navy may promote his rank to major general.

  If a colonel officer is really transferred from outside, he will be responsible for managing this newly formed Marine Corps.

   At that time, there will be a colonel officer other than him in the First Fleet.

  Maybe when Fang Lang is often away from the base, this colonel officer will gradually become the supreme commander of the First Fleet.

   Maybe there will be a transfer order to transfer Fang Lang to the Navy Headquarters, and this person will take over as the commander of the First Fleet as a matter of course.

  In this way, all Fang Lang's efforts for the construction of the First Fleet have been made wedding dresses for others.

   Thinking of this, Fang Lang couldn't help but sweat from behind.

   Regarding Fang Lang's question, de la Torre could only shake his head helplessly. He had no channel to listen to this kind of high-level game.

   "Does Sirio Reich have any relevant intelligence information?"

  Della Torre knew that the Sirio Leitch that Fang Lang mentioned was a member of the Intelligence Bureau under Fang Lang's control, and he is now the chief of the Second Division of the Logistics Department of the First Fleet.

   "I haven't received any relevant information from him.

  However, I have read the intelligence reported by him, and it seems that all the intelligence information is concentrated in Natal and our First Fleet, and there is no information about the headquarters.

   It should be that the intelligence network has not been expanded to the headquarters. "

   At this time, Fang Lang could only shake his head helplessly. It seems that he will have to stay in the army more in the future, otherwise, someone might want to steal the house.

  Now he is really curious about who is so brave. He dared to attack his troops without communicating with the chief officer of the troops.

  No matter what the final result is, this person or this force will become his political opponent in Brazil, the kind who will never die.

  The current Fang Lang is no longer the little transparent one without background.

  Fang Lang's eyes flashed coldly, he nodded to De La Torre and said:

   "I see, I will handle this matter."

  After communicating with de la Torre, Fang Lang put on a smile again, and stepped forward to chat with General Clark and General Crook.

  It seems to be completely unaffected by the news just received.

   It was not easy for people to arrange the American advisory group to rest in the dormitory area of ​​​​the naval base, so Fang Lang had the opportunity to sit in his office with General Crook.

   Before Fang Lang could speak, General Crook had already said:

   "It seems that you already know. This matter is more complicated, and it is not from the original intention of our Admiralty."

   After finishing speaking, he picked up the cigar on the table and trimmed it.

   Fang Lang knew what the other party was talking about. It seems that the other party came to welcome General Clark in name today, and another purpose may be to communicate with Fang Lang about this matter.

  Even General Clark said that this matter is more complicated.

   It seems that Fang Lang really can't directly refuse the appointment of the Marine Corps officer.

   "I don't know who is the big man with such great ability?"

  Fang Lang also picked up a cigar and trimmed it like General Crook, speaking in a flat tone.

   "Speaking of which, this person is still your comrade-in-arms, or your original chief. He was the head of the third regiment of the Brazilian Expeditionary Army. During the war, he was promoted to colonel due to his military exploits.

  However, the original Third Regiment of the Army was just an ordinary infantry regiment. There is no suitable position for him in the tank division formed by the Army this time. Isn’t it just right that you want to form the Marine Corps!

   Considering that your First Fleet has two tank landing ships, your Marine Corps will definitely have armored forces in the future.

  The opinion of the Ministry of War is that all armored forces in the Brazilian army should be under the command of the army.

  Plus you also know that the current president is the original Secretary of the Army, and our Navy Department does not have the ability to say no. "

   Isn’t this **** the same as Japan and the United States?

   All involve conflicts between the army and the navy. General Crook's meaning is also very clear. In this game, the army has an absolute advantage.

  Even the president is from the army, so the navy can only admit defeat because its arms cannot twist its thighs.

   "Who is that, Mr. Rivaldo Granma, Lieutenant Colonel who only knows how to let soldiers charge desperately and doesn't take human life seriously?"

   "Yes, but now he's a colonel."

  Fang Lang has really heard of this Colonel Rivaldo Granma. After all, he is also from the army. In Fang Lang's memory, this officer was the head of the expeditionary army.

  The casualties of his subordinates are the largest among all troops.

  Because the Brazilian army has no actual combat experience. Therefore, the command ability of each army commander in the early stage of the war is hard to describe.

   But at least everyone has learned how to avoid excessive damage after paying a certain amount of casualties in the early stage.

   But this Lieutenant Colonel Rivaldo Granma is a different kind. When he launches an attack, he doesn't care about the casualties of his soldiers at all. He always presses the troops to the front line in batches in companies.

   This made the enemy a little overwhelmed, but it also caused huge casualties to his own troops.

  In Fang Lang's eyes, this tactic has a bit of a sense of the pig's sudden tactic invented by the Japanese during the Russo-Japanese War.

   It's just that I'm not proficient in using it, or I don't know how to learn it well.

  The soldiers of the Brazilian Expeditionary Force privately called him the Butcher, but at the same time they were terribly afraid of him.

   Just such a character, he didn't expect to be stuffed into his Marine Corps.

   "It seems that Mr. Colonel Rivaldo Granma is not very popular in the army, right?"

  Fang Lang lit a long match and handed it to General Crook, trying to help him light the cigar in his hand.

  General Crook waved his hand, took the match from Fang Lang, and signaled Fang Lang to come by himself.

   With a hint of surprise in his eyes, he said:

   "Oh! Where did you find that?"

  Fang Lang lit a match for himself, put the cut cigar head on the flame and lit it, smiled, and said slowly:

   "Since the army is obviously higher than the navy, this Colonel Rivaldo Granma was kicked into our navy to serve as the commander of the marine corps.

   Isn't this some meaning of distributing frontiers? "

   "Yes! This guy's popularity in the army is not very good, but he married a good wife!"

   The man in front of him was obviously not too satisfied with the army officer who had squeezed into his naval team. The irony in this sentence was obvious, so how could Fang Lang not hear it.

   "Oh! I don't know the wife of Colonel Rivaldo Granma, what's so good about it?"

   I don't know why, Fang Lang felt a little weird when he said this sentence.

   "His wife's father was the previous Minister of the Brazilian Army! Our current Mr. President turned out to be his subordinate.

   Do you think he married a good wife? "

  The disdain in General Crook's eyes was undisguised.

   Fang Lang couldn't help sighing, he really married a good wife!

   No wonder this guy was able to get promoted to Colonel so quickly.

   Smiling helplessly, Fang Lang finally understood why General Crook thought this matter was complicated, and the Admiralty was powerless to stop it.

   "Are you trying to persuade me not to refuse this appointment?"

  General Crook shook his head with a smile and said:

   "I hope you have a way to prevent this appointment from being issued.

  Unfortunately, knowing that this is impossible, the father-in-law, who appointed Colonel Rivaldo Granma for this, personally visited Mr. President.

  Although no official order has been issued yet, we all know that this appointment cannot be stopped. "

  His meaning is obvious, that is, to persuade Fang Lang not to do useless work.

  Politics is the art of compromise, since General Crook and Fang Lang have explained the whole story of this matter with confidence.

   Moreover, he showed Fang Lang his attitude on this matter without any scruples.

   Of course Fang Lang would not categorically oppose Mr. President's order.

   "Since the other party wants to come to the Marine Corps to command the armored force, does the Ministry of the Navy have any plans to purchase tanks?"

  After hearing Fang Lang's words, General Crook didn't know what Fang Lang's real thoughts were, so he asked with some hesitation:

"what do you mean?"

  Fang Lang understood that General Crook was testing himself, and worried that his ideas would conflict with his own about the idea of ​​forming the First Fleet Amphibious Force.

   "If the War Department can send enough tanks over, of course I'm fine.

   However, I don't think this is the right time to apply to form the Armored Corps of the Marine Corps myself. "

   It's not that Fang Lang wants to set up obstacles for the new Marine Corps commander.

   Rather, although the current LVT series of amphibious tanks of the U.S. Army does have good strength, this is not the focus of Fang Lang's current development.

   In Fang Lang's mind, the naval aviation is more important than the amphibious landing force.

   It's not that Fang Lang doesn't pay attention to amphibious landing operations, but it's determined by Brazil's strategic environment.

   First of all, Brazil has no enemies in South America.

   Even if there is a conflict with a neighboring country, there is basically no need to launch an amphibious landing operation, because it borders almost all South American countries except Chile and Ecuador.

   If you really want to hit other people's land, you don't need amphibious landing troops at all.

  Fang Lang actually wants to develop an elite marine corps capable of airborne operations and special operations missions.

  (end of this chapter)