Zhuo Fei was very satisfied with the rocket launcher developed by Professor Wag, but before he left with Chen Geng, Zhuo Fei still carefully told Angela to ask the weapons laboratory to develop the kind of long-range rocket launcher he wanted as soon as possible. "Don't worry, I will take you to see the test launch of the rocket artillery vehicle, not only to show you the secret weapon of our umbrella company, but also to calm your heart. We have already started to produce these rockets at our arsenal base in Ruili, and according to our current production scale, we can produce about 400 such rockets per day, and I believe that soon, the independent army and the new army will be equipped with this weapon in large quantities. ”

followed Zhuo Fei to see the rocket artillery test firing, and Chen Geng was able to calm down and continue to confront the Japanese army going north, because he knew that the independent army wanted to equip a large number of rocket artillery vehicles, and it would take a process and a lot of time, and this process and time would need to be obtained by the independent army and the Japanese army going north to continue to confront each other. After stabilizing Chen Geng, Zhuo Fei, who had nothing to do, returned to Ruili and began special training for a large number of newly recruited Burmese natives, once the Burmese counteroffensive was launched, these Burmese natives would be organized into servant army units and enter Thailand to fight together.

50,000, this is already the number that the Ruili training camp can accept the natives of Myanmar to the greatest extent while accepting 200,000 reserve new troops, but Zhuo Fei is quite satisfied with this number, plus the 20,000 Burmese trained earlier, the umbrella company already has 70,000 Burmese who are willing to become mercenaries. Training Burmese natives is not the same thing as training the new army, and when the Umbrella Company trains the new army, it is not only about training the soldiers of the new army to operate various infantry weapons and equipment, but also instilling the most basic infantry tactics while training them physically.

Every soldier of the new army must have the quality of a squad leader or above in the former national army when he leaves the Ruili training camp, and Zhuo Fei once promised Chiang Kai-shek that if Chiang Kai-shek was willing, he could expand a new army of more than 10,000 people into three army-level units of the same number at any time, and the combat effectiveness would not be worse than that of the original national army. However, when Zhuo Fei trained the Burmese, he didn't have to bother so much, he only needed to teach these Burmese people to use firearms and basic equipment, and the Burmese combat effectiveness needed to be learned and comprehended from the battlefield.

The Nationalist Army, which had formed an early confrontation with the Japanese army on the frontal battlefield, had a large number of Japanese-style weapons captured from the Japanese army, and since the coalition government successively established arsenals to work overtime to produce domestically made weapons, the former Nationalist army has not lacked the supply of weapons and ammunition. Zhuo Fei naturally received the Japanese weapons they captured, and the establishment of the Burmese mercenary force, on the one hand, was to consume these Japanese equipment, and on the other hand, it was naturally to prepare for Zhuo Fei's ultimate plan.

In order to train these Burmese, Zhuo Fei even set up a bullet factory in Ruili, and all the more than 10 million rounds of Japanese-caliber rifle bullets accumulated in half a year were transferred by Zhuo Fei to the Burmese mercenary force to train these Burmese to improve their shooting skills. Time passed day by day, and everything seemed to be going on according to Zhuo Fei's calculations, until Zhuo Fei received a telegram from the Japanese mainland again, and Zhuo Fei, who had been staying in Ruili for more than a month, returned to the front line of Lashio.

Although the area of Midway Island is only 4.7 square kilometers, but the special geographical location determines the importance of its strategic position, in terms of distance, Midway Island is 2,800 nautical miles away from San Francisco in the United States and Yokohama in Japan, and is in the middle of the Pacific route between Asia and North America, hence the name Midway. In addition, it is only 1,135 nautical miles away from Pearl Harbor, which is an important military base and transportation hub of the United States in the Central Pacific region, and is known as the gateway and outpost of the United States to Asia along with Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.

The content of the telegram that Zhuo Fei received was related to Midway, and if it weren't for that, Zhuo Fei would not have returned to Lashio in a hurry. Lashio has established an advance headquarters, but all matters related to the war in Burma will be handled here. "The Japanese and the Americans fought again, and this time it was unexpected, the Japanese had the upper hand again, and the situation gradually turned in our favor." Facing the group of high-ranking officers gathered in the headquarters, Zhuo Fei did not hide the joy in his heart with joy on his face.

On the large map that had been opened, Zhuo Fei drew a circle on the location of Midway, "Right here, Midway, from the information we have so far, the Americans have gathered all the forces that the United States can mobilize now to strengthen control over this place after losing Hawaii. It's just that the Japanese didn't give the Americans a chance to turn over at all, and just three days ago, the Japanese Combined Fleet, which had taken Hawaii, launched an attack on Midway, and the Americans suffered a crushing defeat and at the same time inflicted heavy losses on the Japanese Combined Fleet. ”

The meaning of Zhuo Fei's words is already very obvious, the Americans were defeated, and although the Japanese navy was inflicted heavy losses, Midway Island had been occupied by the Japanese navy. "I have the latest information here, I don't know if it was Hitler's request, the Japanese cabinet has decided to send the army to support the navy fighting in Hawaii and Midway, once these two places are occupied by the Japanese army, I think the Americans will not have a good time."

The pencil in Zhuo Fei's hand drew a straight line from Midway to the West Coast of the United States, and marked the number 2,800 nautical miles. "If the Japanese occupied Midway, they could use their naval power to directly attack the cities on the West Coast of the United States and send their land forces into the continental United States for ground operations. I don't know how well equipped the Americans' army is, but according to the intelligence we have gathered from the United States, the U.S. government originally had the idea of sending only the Navy to fight, and their army was still maintained at 400,000. ”

Zhuo Fei's words caused an uproar, all the Chinese officers in the Independence Army had fought with the Japanese army, but they knew how effective the Japanese army was. Not to mention, as long as the Japanese send two divisions to attack the US mainland, with the 400,000 army units in the United States that have not participated in the war for many years, it may be difficult for the Americans to hold back the Japanese army's ground attack.

Looking around at everyone, Zhuo Fei nodded and smiled, "That's right, this is the opportunity I am talking about, and it is also the opportunity we have been waiting for." The Germans were planning an attack on the British mainland, and half of the American ships were deployed to help the British resist the German home offensive. At present, the Japanese navy has occupied Hawaii and Midway, which can attack the US mainland, and coupled with the madness of the Japanese in their bones, it is hard for me to believe that they will not directly attack the US mainland, after all, there may be Hitler's instructions and support in between. ”

"With the coordinated operation of the German submarine forces, the Japanese Combined Fleet would have taken Midway so smoothly, and in return to Hitler, it was not impossible for the Japanese to mobilize infantry to attack the west coast of the United States. It is impossible for the Japanese to take the whole of the United States, after all, the United States has a strong industrial base, but as long as the Japanese can continue to attack the cities on the west coast of the United States and divert the attention of the Americans, Hitler will be able to seize the opportunity to carry out an attack on the British mainland, such a good opportunity, the Germans and the Japanese will definitely not be blind. Chen Geng also raised some doubts from Zhuo Fei's words, and then expressed his opinion, which won Zhuo Fei's approval.

"Division Commander Chen is right, the Japanese cabinet has decided to send troops to Hawaii and Midway again, and there is no such intention. Before the Soviets had expressed their German attitude, the current international situation was clearly favorable to the Axis powers, and if the Japanese army attacked the American mainland at this time, the US-British alliance would probably be defeated. The Americans, of course, will not be so willing, they will wave a lot of money everywhere in search of allies, and the whole world will be completely thrown into chaos. ”

"The Soviets were not going to stay out of the way all the time, the Slavs were uneasy about the strength of Germany, and Stalin had an unusual interest in territorial expansion. Seeing that Germany was expanding its sphere of influence, Stalin could not be reconciled. When the whole world is in turmoil, no one will pay attention to the changes in Asia, and this is our opportunity. The Americans want to rely on us to contain Japan, and the Soviets also need it, not to mention the British and French governments-in-exile, just to exchange their interests in South Asia for our support, and I don't think anyone will refuse. ”

To this day, Zhuo Fei finally said the ultimate goal of the ultimate plan, Chen Geng and the others were amazed, they didn't expect Zhuo Fei to play such a big game of chess. Taking advantage of the opportunity of Japan's troops to send troops to Europe to blackmail European countries is not something that anyone can do, but Zhuo Fei did so, and he also believed that the country being coerced would definitely not refuse his coercion.

Zhuo Fei's inference from the analysis of the intelligence was not wrong at all, knowing that the Combined Fleet had taken Hawaii and continued to defeat the U.S. Navy at Midway, the Japanese cabinet was now completely a collective face, especially the Japanese emperor ordered the city of Tokyo to celebrate for three days. There was jubilation in Japan as the Combined Fleet opened a window and passage to Europe for Japan, and Japanese cabinet members were already planning additional troop deployments to Hawaii and Midway.

It was not easy for the Japanese cabinet to give up a window and channel facing Europe, and when it learned that the Combined Fleet had seized a large amount of oil from the US military in Hawaii, the Japanese cabinet was discussing the need to send additional troops to Hawaii. Who knew that the cabinet had not yet made a decision, but the Combined Fleet, with the cooperation of the German submarine forces, once again defeated the US Navy and took Midway, so the matter of sending more troops was already a sure thing.