Seeing that the man who was shot in the head was still standing on his own, Cao Jiaxun's eyes almost popped out.

This man killed so many policemen with a knife alone, and after being shot several times on his body as if he was fine, even after being fatally shot in the head, his body could still stand there without falling!

This is simply not a human, but a monster!

Several officers were also surprised to see this scene, and only Shiro Ishii's face showed satisfaction.

He turned his head to look at Cao Jiaxun and nodded to an officer, who stepped forward quickly and smashed his fist on Cao Jiaxun's head, and Cao Jiaxun suddenly fainted.

"Combat capabilities have exceeded the desired results." Shiro Ishii looked up at the steel knife stuck in the trunk of the tree, he stood up, walked to the bottom of the tree, stood on tiptoe, reached out and grasped the hilt, trying to pull the knife out of the trunk, but no matter how hard he tried, he could not shake the hilt in the slightest.

Seeing this, another officer stepped forward and tried to help Shiro Ishii pull out his sword, but like Ishii, no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't pull it out.

"Let's go!" Shiro Ishii looked at the corpses all over the ground and the unconscious Kusaka Xun, and said in a deep voice.

By the time Ishijin had not returned to his office, a report had already been presented to his desk.

"The results of the analysis given by the forensic doctor of the special high class are:

The time of Siguvalya's death is presumed to be around 4 to 24 hours after her disappearance, and the deceased was completely ** when she was found. The female corpse died of annihilation, the head was completely cut off, the incision was smooth and neat from the section, the perpetrator was skillful in knife skills, there were no unnecessary knife marks at all, it should be a person with relevant professional knowledge, the wound was not found to have a physiological reaction when it was cut before death, but the neck muscle section of the severed head was uneven, and the muscle bundles and tendons had special trauma left by being cut and vigorously twisted, and it was found that there was backflow blood in the lungs during the autopsy, and there were no obvious traces of suffocation and drowning. However, there are traces of external force torsion on the remaining part of the neck below the laryngeal bone, and all cervical vertebrae and the upper three vertebrae are missing, and they may have been severed along with the head. The preserved torso is relatively intact, after examination: the female corpse has delicate skin, good body development, and there are scars of pinching and scratching in many parts of the body, and there are many hoop marks left on the skin by ropes for a long time, and there are many pinch marks on the breast root and milk peak of the female corpse, ** are bitten off, and the top of the breast peak has left traces of being chewed, in the neck cavity of the female corpse, [***] and anus are inserted into the branches of the trees to be tampered, and a large amount of sand and gravel dirt between the mountains is also stuffed into the outside of the three body cavities. The intention was to destroy the evidence that remained in the woman's body. The cold water of the pool served to preserve the corpses, but it also added to the uncertainty of the time of death, which could only be accurate to 12 hours. ”

"A large amount of semen-like body fluid was found in the deceased's [***] to uterine cavity, and a large number of traces of the same semen-like substance were also found in the rectum of the deceased and deep in the esophagus of the broken neck, and both places left scars that were forcibly defiled before death, unfortunately because the long time of death has begun to [***] effect, and after a period of soaking in water, it is no longer possible to analyze the bleeding type from the semen, and it can only be estimated from the semen stock that she may be defiled by two or three people at the same time, Of course, there are other possible surnames, although the female corpse's [***] and anus were forcibly inserted into the branch and smashed with hard objects, and artificially stuffed with sand and gravel grass roots and other debris, unable to find valuable clues, but in the neck of the deceased, there are also traces of the murderer's surname sex in the esophagus, although the murderer also tried to destroy here, but what was stuffed into the esophageal cavity was only the two cotton socks worn by the deceased before his death, and the socks were just on the branches that were then stabbed in, which also reduced the damage of the branches to the cavity, Therefore, it was still found here, and after careful examination, it was determined that the upper esophageal cavity was forcibly stretched and squeezed here, and part of the cavity wall was propped up to rupture, and the depth reached the chest cavity close to the gastric cavity, and it was also found that a large number of semen-like attachments were found in the position of nearly 35 centimeters, and this trace coincided with the deepest part of the partial brace wound found in [***] and rectum, and the anorectum and [***] uterine cavity of the deceased had been propped up to burst by foreign bodies that had been inserted into these parts. These marks are completely different from the way they are scratched by sharp objects such as branches, so it should be considered that the murderer is only one person, but his physique is particularly strong, and his physical strength is too ordinary to easily subdue the victim, and as for the excess amount of semen, it can also be left in the female corpse during the process of exterminating (destroying the corpse) many times in succession over a period of 1 to 2 days. ”

"According to the results of the examination, the deceased, Higuvalya, female, age 35, from **county** township, a young woman who had been pregnant, disappeared on July 20, 1942, the cause of death was annihilation, after she was subdued and tied up by 1 to 3 murderers, she was forcibly annihilated by the murderer and annihilated by chickens, and was repeatedly annihilated by the murderer within a few hours to 12 hours after the disappearance, and it was determined that she had been killed by the murderer 12 hours after her disappearance, and it was likely that her head was forcibly screwed off with her bare hands after her skin was cut. The deceased must have been alive at the time, and the horror and pain he suffered were indescribable, and the murderer was extremely brutal and perverted, and after that, he continued to have sex with the naked corpse of Higuvalya several times, and even had neck copulation with him, and more than once or twice, and also violated and insulted the naked corpse in other ways unimaginable to ordinary people, during which her body was moved at least twice, and finally abandoned in the pond where the body was found only one to two days before it was found. ”

"Nonsense!" Shiro Ishii sneered and said.

"However, this accident shows that there has been no small amount of trouble in terms of control of them." An officer said to Shiro Ishii.

"There is not much of a problem in this regard, at least in the attack on Truk, there will not be much of an obstacle." Shiro Ishii said confidently.

While the military leaders in Tokyo were debating their next steps, the chiefs of staff of the Allied powers on both sides of the Atlantic were reformulating their own strategy, which was thrown out of balance by Ben's victory in the first phase of the operation. Churchill, realizing that the Arcadia plan was now "largely obsolete," called Roosevelt to demand a revision of the prioritization and resource allocation plan, because "misfortune befell us so often." More tanks, planes and more ships are urgently needed to bring more troops to the Middle East. He pleaded for "additional assistance to Australia" in order to prevent the Canberra Axe from withdrawing its remaining forces from the desert theater of Africa when Rommel relaunched his assault on the Suez Canal.

"The situation in the Pacific in the United States is very serious right now." Roosevelt replied that he had held three days of "back-to-back meetings" with members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to study how they could help Britain. While the United States sympathized with Britain's extensive obligations in the Mediterranean and Indian Oceans, it did not have enough transport vessels to meet the Prime Minister's demands. Moreover, the United States also has a burden on its back, and it has to defend Australia and New Zealand from attack. In order to counter the threat and prevent Canberra from withdrawing more troops from the Middle East, the United States will immediately send two additional army divisions across the Pacific. Churchill was reminded that this meant that the number of American [***] teams assembled in Britain would be reduced, the participation of the United States in the air war against Germany would be restricted, and the British "sportsman" operation in North Africa would be abandoned.

In order to cope with the critical situation in the Pacific, the Chiefs of Staff of the Central Powers are now diverting troops, aircraft, and ships from the European theater of operations, in defiance of the Arcadia Accords, in contravention of the strategy agreed upon by the Allies three months earlier, and this provides Admiral King with an opportunity he is seeking to assert the Navy's assertion that only an immediate attack on the Alpha can prevent the enemy from attacking Australia southward. The Pacific Initiative reflects King's own view that the Atlantic theater of operations has been overemphasized, and also gives an even greater advantage to the architect of his Atlantic policy, Admiral Stark. A week later, he took complete control of the U.S. Naval Staff, as the pro-British Chief of Naval Operations was sent to London. On 12 July, President Roosevelt issued an order declaring the commander-in-chief of the U.S. fleet concurrently chief of naval operations. Long before the President issued this order, Admiral King had begun to drastically revise the strategy developed by Stark and Marshall, which prioritized the fight against Germany.

At an emergency strategic seminar convened by President Roosevelt, which began on July 15, King presented a memorandum calling for the immediate establishment of a forward base in the Tonga archipelago. This base will be used to launch attacks on the Pacific islands captured by Ben before they have time to build fortifications. He has been urging the implementation of the plan at the Joint Chiefs of Staff since mid-July. This reflected his unease with the British, and his growing doubts about the wisdom of the "first in Europe" arrangement made at the Arcadia Conference. Congress and the public do not welcome the Navy being on the defensive in the Pacific. Public opinion polls show that 65 percent of Americans are in favor of launching an attack on the Americans themselves as soon as possible, while less than 25 percent support opening up a new battlefield in Europe.

The US Army Staff did not really like Admiral King's plan. A month earlier, when he first tried to revise the "Europe First" order by suggesting that there should be far more troops to be garrisoned in the Pacific islands than had been originally considered, Marshall saw such a move as a sign of "a change in basic strategy." Director of the War Planning Committee, Dwight? General Eisenhower insisted that the concentration of forces in the Atlantic theater in 1942 was absolutely necessary for the ultimate defeat of the Axis powers, both from strategic and logistical considerations. In his view, the requirements included: "(a) Supporting the United Kingdom. …… (b) to keep Britain out of the war...... (c) Maintaining a position in India and the Middle East, preventing the two main enemies of the Soviet Union and Benjamin, from combining geographically...... "This necessarily means that the Pacific theater of operations will remain primarily defensive, and that Australia's lines of communication remain open" "is desirable but not indispensable." Eisenhower's report went so far as to argue that preventing the invasion of Australia "had no direct stake in the outcome of the war."

Admiral Kim could not agree with this point of view. The Australian subcontinent must be defended, "because it will inevitably have an impact on the non-Caucasian people of the world." He hoped that the United States' contribution to the war effort in Europe would be limited to the provision of household goods and munitions, and that the United States would not merely keep the supply lines to Australia open, but would also establish a series of defensive positions from which a full-scale offensive could be launched gradually through the New Hebrides, the Solomons, and the Bismarck Islands. What King sought was to shift America's strategic focus from the Atlantic to the Pacific — and Eisenhower did not underestimate the Navy's fierce war. "Admiral King was an arbitrary, stubborn man, very intelligent, and fond of intimidating his subordinates," he wrote in his chronicles, "but I think he was eager to fight, and that was encouraging." ”

The Joint Chiefs of Staff convened a series of emergency meetings, and Roosevelt needed to reassure Churchill about Australia's defense, so that Admiral King's strategy was accepted on July 26, which he summed up as follows: "Hold Pearl Harbor and support Australia." A massive assault from the New Hebrides to the north. "Nimitz, though opposed King's strong demands; However, he agreed that the U.S. aircraft carriers would continue to operate in the Coral Sea, and that they would be under the command of Admiral Leary, the commander of the ANZ Maritime Area, and therefore under the direct command of the Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Fleet.

The U.S. War Department's fears that their troops would be sucked in by what Secretary of War Stimson described as "Admiral King's squirming of New Caledonia" calmed the War Department's fears for the time being. Churchill's telegram said: "By all indications, there will be a resumption of a major German invasion of Great Britain immediately in the spring." Both Churchill and Roosevelt feared that Britain might be forced to make peace alone unless some effort was made in Europe to ease the pressure on the British army. This would be a very serious blow to the cause of the Central Powers, and the danger would allow General Marshall to refocus his strategy on the war against Germany.

After another week of debate among U.S. Army and Navy planners on how to allocate limited ship and supply resources between Atlantic and Pacific strategies, a decision-making meeting was held on July 26, 1942, at which members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff sat down with the President to consider options. Three options are on the table. General Arnold put forward the advice of the Army Air Staff Staff: go all out and defeat Germany in Western Europe. He believed that the fall of Germany would inevitably lead to the destruction of the Pacific, and advocated against sending reinforcements to the Pacific, even if it meant losing Australia. Unsurprisingly, Admiral King suggested the exact opposite. His plan called for a joint offensive by the Army and Navy to drive him out of New Britain in order to remove the threat to Australia, even if it meant sacrificing reinforcements to Europe. Marshall proposed Eisenhower's strategic plan for compromise. This plan was essentially an Atlantic strategy, sending only a limited force sufficient to ensure the security of Australia and Hawaii to the Pacific theater of operations, and because concentrating the existing ships on Britain was crucial to saving Britain, the US Navy could not launch a large-scale offensive in the Pacific early.

Marshall's supporters were in the majority, and Admiral King was in the minority. Thus, "without much documented discussion," the War Office won. The Pacific theater of operations is limited to undertaking "current tasks". Army generals limited the number of aircraft in the theater to 10 fighter squadrons and four bomber squadrons, hoping to constrain any requirement for the Navy to launch attacks on other islands in 1942. When King complained that there were not enough ground troops to deal with the threat to New Guinea, he was told that he would have to rely on the Marine Corps and the Army's amphibious combat units, which were training on the West Coast for what the British advocated for "commando" raids.

On 1 August, the US Joint Chiefs of Staff accepted General Eisenhower's draft plan for opening up new battlefields in Europe for the next year, and the Army strategists regained the upper hand. So, General Marshall in Harry? Hopkins, accompanied by Hopkins, flew to London to enlist the support of the British for their plan to launch Operation Borero, which was to assemble American troops and equipment in Britain so that 48 Allied divisions could launch a massive assault on France in the spring of 1943, code-named "Doubao", and he found that the British Prime Minister was personally willing to accept this plan, because Churchill believed that his strategy of launching an offensive in North Africa would be less risky to reduce the pressure on the British. His Chiefs of Staff did not like the American idea that as soon as Britain was in danger, they should immediately launch an emergency offensive across the English Channel, which was aptly called the "sledgehammer." However, the British leaders did not unduly vehemently oppose the American plan, because Marshall had already let off steam: if he did not agree with it when he returned to Washington, then it was really possible that the US Navy would have switched to a Pacific strategy.

Since Deere had informed the U.S. Navy in advance that the mood was not very calm, Allen? Sir Brooke realized that the US Army Chief of Staff to contain Admiral King and MacArthur was a "clever operation": "In order to counter these actions, Marshall proposed a plan for the European offensive, and is working with all his might to implement it. Brooke therefore urged the wartime cabinet to fully support Eisenhower's plan in order to prevent the United States from shifting its strategic focus. Churchill still hoped to be able to "rely on influence and diplomacy" to revive his other Mediterranean plan, but General Marshall knew nothing about it, and when he reported to the president on his return, he said that the allies had agreed to the Army's plan. General Eisenhower also breathed a sigh of relief, believing that "we are all committed to a fighting mind," and he proved relieved too soon.

(To be continued)