Baguio Headquarters of the Zhennan Group of the Island Army.

Commander General Yamashita Fumi, Chief of Staff Major General Eizo Hori, Commander of the 31st Army, Lieutenant General Hidera Obata, Commander of the 14th Army, Lieutenant General Sosaku Suzuki, Commander of the Southern Fleet, Vice Admiral Jizaburo Ozawa, and other staff officers gathered together.

All the intelligence shows that the Allied attack on the Dutch East Indies and the Philippines has become a foregone conclusion, and the demand for fuel and rubber in the island countries has led to the survival of these two places directly related to whether the island countries can continue this war, so the base camp and even all the people of the island country have their eyes here.

The responsibility of everyone in the command is very large, and they do not dare to slack off at all, and the defense plan and deployment are in full swing.

Although intelligence failed to pinpoint the exact date of the Allied attack, Yamashita had an excellent chief of staff, Eizo Hori, who predicted that the date of the attack would be fifteen days later, with no more than three days of error.

The reason for this is that after studying the marine weather for the recent period, the weather in the South China Sea and the western Pacific Ocean was relatively stable after 15 days, and there were no bad weather such as typhoons, gusts, and storms, which was very suitable for large-scale landing operations.

At the same time, March is about to begin, the Indochina Peninsula belongs to the tropical monsoon climate, and the rainy season will usher in June, and the weather on land, ports, and sea will also become very bad and complicated, which will seriously affect logistics and transportation, and will also bring great difficulties to sea and air fire support.

After all, this war is a large-scale, large-scale battle with a large number of troops, and it will take three or four months to mobilize millions of troops, and the coalition forces must hope to end the campaign before the rainy season begins, or at least control the situation of the entire war with a decisive advantage.

I have to say that this reason of Hori Rongsan is very forward-looking, and it has been unanimously praised by the top and bottom of Zhennan Group and even the high-level of the island country.

Speaking of which, this Hori Rongsan is actually a famous character in history, but the Chinese know very little, but it can be described as thunderous in the Mi Army.

Historically, in the latter part of World War II, he was just an intelligence staff officer of the General Staff Headquarters of the island country, and he only carried the rank of Dazuo on his shoulders, but he had the title of "MacArthur's staff officer" in the island country.

Because during his work in the Ministry of Intelligence, he predicted the landing location, time, and strength of the Mi army's "island hopping battle" with great accuracy. At the end of 1944, at the request of Yamashita Fengwen, commander of the 14th Army of the island country in the Philippines, he predicted that the Mi Army would land in Lingjiayan Bay on Luzon Island in the last few days of early January 1945, with 5 to 6 divisions at the beginning and 3 to 4 divisions in the later stage, and the actual time for the Mi Army to land in Lingayan Bay was January 9, 1945.

Later, he also predicted the place and time of the landing of the Mi army on the mainland of the island country, and his prediction was: November 1945, Shibu Shiwan in southern Kyushu". The "Olympic Project" of the U.S. military attack on the Japanese mainland landed in Minamikyushu on November 1.

The time and place are so accurate that after the Mi army occupied the island country, they arrested and interrogated him for a long time, trying to make him confess to the "inner ghost" in his speculation.

But in reality, Eizo Hori has no secret information sources, and his predictions are entirely based on rigorous deduction.

Contrary to what the average person thinks, the choice of landing site is subject to many conditions, and it is by no means arbitrary to choose a beach to dock at like a high roller on a private yacht.

The water surface of the landing sea area should be broad, the water depth and bottom quality should be good, and there should be few underwater shoals, reefs, and shipwrecks. Meteorological conditions such as wind, clouds, rain, and fog are suitable.

After landing, it is convenient to quickly develop in depth and seize ports, airports and other hubs.

Take the Allied counterattack on the European continent as an example, the most suitable landing sites are Calais and Normandy on the thousands of kilometers of coastline along the Atlantic coast of Western Europe, which is a two-choice question, with a 50% probability of being correct. Therefore, Eizo Hori guessed that MacArthur's landing site was not a tiger, and he had no idea where to start.

Of course, his prediction was much more difficult than that of the German army back then, and there were too many suitable islands to land on under the control of the island country, so we must first determine the strategic direction of the next attack of the Chinese army, whether it was the Philippines, the treasure island, the mainland or other places.

During his time in the Ministry of Intelligence, Eizo Hori integrated a set of rules of action for the Mi Army.

There are patterns for thieves and thefts, let alone a country's military. In fact, the operations of the armed forces are particularly rigid, because their senior officers often come from the same military academy, are guided by the same military ideology, and obey the same set of operational regulations.

In the database of the General Staff Headquarters, he found a copy of the "Operational Regulations of the Mi Army" written before 1920, which contained the following words: "Before the main force lands for the operation, look for a series of small islands with favorable terrain and occupy one or two of them. ”

Why? One of the reasons for this was that the warship was bumped by the wind and waves during the landing, and the accuracy of the gun's cover firing was affected.

After seizing the adjacent islands, it was possible to set up artillery positions, and it was much easier to transfer supplies.

Therefore, the Mi army occupied Tulagi Island before landing on Kuah Island. Before the landing in Bougainville, the island of Burada was captured. Before landing on Leyte, the island of Suluan was occupied. Before landing in Okinawa, occupy Ie Island.

However, not all landing sites have small islands to capture, not to mention that when the Mi army begins to attack the islands, a large-scale offensive is already imminent, and there is not much time to prepare.

For example, the Mi army landed in Lingayen without seizing the island, and the Olympic plan was not implemented at all. So, how did Eizo guess the actions of the rice army?

The answer is scientifically accurate calculations. Eizo Hori found a mystery in the price fluctuations of rice stocks.

As long as the stock prices of the canned food companies and pharmaceutical companies in the United States rise, the rice army in the Pacific will definitely launch the next wave of attacks. From this, he concluded that before each attack, the Mi army had to produce canned food and medicine in large quantities.

According to the preparation of medicines and canned food, the number of troops and time that the rice army may invest in the malaria area will be introduced.

At that time, the island army had already mastered the situation of the Mi army's strength and rotation mode according to the radio wave interception and decipherment, and according to the Mi army's logistical support regulations, as well as the volume and speed of the ship's cabins, it was able to calculate the time and place of the Mi army's next attack.

During the trial, Eizo Hori repeated the deduction process to the intelligence officers of the Mi Army, and finally convinced the Mi people that they had not leaked secrets internally, and at the same time marveled at Eizan Hori's military talent.

Although these are all history, due to the advance of the entire Pacific Campaign, the military talent of Eizo Hori was also brought into full play, and the reason why the Mi army's island-hopping tactics failed to achieve the expected results, and even later struggled, was entirely due to the emergence of his military genius, who always predicted the next action plan of the Mi army.