On 30 March, following the 29 March air battle in Kunming, the first preparatory meeting for the Burma operation was held in Yunxiu Tower, Huangshan, Chongqing. The meeting mainly discussed www.biquge.info the strategic objectives and strategies of the Burma Campaign, and began to make preparations for diplomacy, intelligence, and military supplies. The most encouraging thing about this meeting was that when Soviet aid was about to be cut off, US aid was received in a timely manner, just like when German arms sales to China were cut off, Soviet aid came one after another. Encouraged by U.S. aid, the navy's lack of possible assistance is not worth mentioning at all.

There was also a decision at the meeting to let He Yingqin and others of the Ministry of Military Affairs follow up on the matter of naval assistance, although the missile and radio countermeasure detectors lost hope because of the refusal to establish a Fujian force based on the Central Navy, but Chang Kaishen still hoped that He Yingqin, Yang Jie and others could find a way to get these things over, and if they really couldn't buy them, at least the air detectors would be deployed around Chongqing, but he did not say what the navy would do if it didn't give it, but only instructed He Yingqin to go all out, especially the radio countermeasure detectors. It should be done before the fog season ends.

Twenty-one days after the first preparatory meeting for the Burma Campaign, the General Staff Headquarters of the War Department in Miyakezaka, Tokyo, Japan, held a small intelligence meeting to report on the latest movements of the Chongqing government.

"On March 30 of last month, Chang Kaishen held a military conference in Huangshan, Chongqing, because China will receive military assistance from the United States in the first half of next year, and in order to prevent the empire from going south to cut off the Burma road, the China government will negotiate with the British and Burmese governments to build Kyaukphyu Port and Kyaukphyu-Magway Road, so as to avoid our army from preemptively occupying Yangon Port when attacking Burma. At that time, the combat troops of China entering Burma will be able to defend Tonggu and Beifu to prevent our army from cutting off the Yunnan-Burma transportation line......"

It is also a map of Myanmar, but it is larger and more detailed than the one in Yunxiu Tower on Huangshan. Shonosuke Enda, chief of the 7th Section of the General Staff Headquarters' Counter Intelligence Division, also gave a briefing on the situation of Kyaukphyu Harbor that he had learned from the Navy: "Although the port is a fishing port, the average water depth is more than 70 feet, and it is not necessary to build a special dredging or wave control to build a port, but only to build a wharf, a crane, a warehouse, a power station, a road, and other facilities." The port and road are expected to be completed within a year.

With the introduction of Ensa Seinnosuke Daisa, Lieutenant General Shigeru Sawada, deputy chief of the General Staff Headquarters, frowned more and more. It is already a big deal for the United States to support Chongqing in the first half of next year, and the subsequent Burma campaign is only a follow-up to the United States to support Chongqing. He interrupted Shonosuke Osa Ensada, who was being introduced, and said, "Is the information accurate?" I'm talking about the United States' support for China next year. ”

"Your Excellency, the information is still being confirmed after it is received." Shonosuke Enda said. "The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that the isolationist forces in the Congress of the United States are still very strong, and this year is the election year for the president of the United States, and it is impossible for the president of the United States to support China before this year."

"What about next year?" Sawada asked. "The intelligence says next year, not this year."

"Your Excellency, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that next year is not very likely." Asuo Karakawa, who was in charge of Omi's intelligence, replied, but he knew that the Foreign Ministry's judgment might not be correct, so he said: "Shina is now making every effort to win the support of the United States, and Roosevelt will definitely not give much aid to Shina before the election, but there is a possibility that he will come to the aid of Shina and Britain after he is elected as the next commander." The Chongqing government in China was preparing for the Burma campaign, and its focus was on smoothly receiving aid from the United States. China should exert diplomatic pressure on Britain to prohibit the Chongqing government from building the Kyaukphyu Port and the Kyaukma Highway, which is what needs to be done now. ”

"Britain will certainly not accept this request, they will say that it is an internal matter of the Anglo-Burmese government. Just like when we protested against the highway from Lashio to the town of Shinawan, nothing would have come of it. "Shigeki Usui of the strategy class made a hateful way. There is a sentence that he is not easy to say - if the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is useful, what is the Ministry of Foreign Affairs doing!

"Your Excellency, the British government wants China to hold us back so that the empire can be weakened." The second minister, Major General Yuyi Tsuchihashi, said that he agreed with Shigeki Usui that Britain would not heed the protests of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and that the people in Kasumigaseki could do nothing.

"You just said that the people of China think the empire will go south?" Yingmi's matter was not on the table, and Sawada Shigeru talked about another thing, which was also a thing that surprised him.

"This judgment should be that of Li Hansheng, the commander of the Chinese Navy, who suggested in an internal speech in Hong Kong last year that the empire might then move south." Seinnosuke Enda explained. "Before Chang Kaishen held this meeting, there was also a military meeting held in Ruili, Yunnan, and this meeting was the reason why Chang Kaishen held a preparatory meeting for the Burma operation."

"Li Hansheng?!" Sawada Shigeru took a cool breath before pronouncing the name that would be remembered by the Imperial soldiers.

"Yes, Your Excellency. The meeting was said to have been chaired by Li Hansheng himself. This includes the Burma War. Shonosuke Enda said.

"Is it just fighting in Burma?" Shigeru Sawada. "The China Navy led by him is fully assisting the China Army in the battle, and the Wuyuan operation is one of the examples, and the two lieutenant generals of the empire in this battle are broken, and His Majesty is furious!"

"Your Excellency, the Huangshan Conference only discussed the Burma operation, and did not discuss the details of the China Navy's assistance to the China Army in the operation, and it is said that these matters have now been handed over to He Yingqin of the China Military and Political Department, and we do not know the situation of the negotiations between He Yingqin and the China Navy for the time being." Shonosuke Enda said. He felt that it was already remarkable to be able to obtain information of such a strategic nature, but he did not expect that His Excellency the Deputy Chief of Staff was not satisfied with this.

"Yuantian-kun, we already know the situation of the Huangshan Conference, and China is preparing to receive aid from the United States. But how much do you know about the seventh lesson of the Ruili Conference hosted by Li Hansheng? Yuyi Tsuchihashi said.

"We don't know much about this meeting." Shonosuke Enda said. "In addition to the Burma operation, it is also known that at this meeting, Li Hansheng made a guarantee to the Chongqing side: to be responsible for the security of the Indian Ocean after the second half of Showa 16, but not including submarines below the surface of the ocean, and land-based bombers that can attack the sea area of 1,500 kilometers offshore; It is also known that Li Hansheng judged that before July this year, the Buddha country would be defeated and surrender to the independent country, and our army would be stationed in Indochina; In the end, knowing that the China Navy also mastered a radio-to-air detector, which was the key to winning the Kunming air battle, Chang Kaishen asked He Yingqin and others to ask the China Navy for equipment in Chongqing; ”

"The Buddha country was defeated and surrendered, and our army was stationed in Indochina?!" Sawada Shigeru was dumbfounded, this is unbelievable, how could the Buddha Kingdom be defeated before July, she held out for four years in the last world war.

"Your Excellency, Li Hansheng has long predicted this." Yasuo Karagawa said. "The year before last, he said that once the Dufo went to war, the Buddhist army would be defeated in less than a month, and the government would then surrender to the Duguo, which is very marketable in the Duguo."

"Your Excellency, Li Hansheng's judgment of the current situation has always been accurate, and I suggest that his judgment should be taken into account." Shigeki Usui of the Strategy Course made a very solemn suggestion. The Manchurian Lucia operation has ended, and the Kwantung Army has suffered heavy losses, although there is information that Chilu's casualties are twice as many as their own, but the imperial high-level has seen that it is not easy to advance northward, and the theory of southward expansion has begun to rise again, and Li Hansheng personally presided over the Burma combat military conference, which shows that he believes that the empire will definitely advance south.

"Is there any news about the leakage of Imperial intelligence?" After a moment of silence, Lieutenant General Sawada Shigeru did not continue to discuss the defeat of Buddhism and the army's presence in Indochina, but talked about the long-investigated leakage of intelligence. On the domestic side, the parties are dead and caught, but there is still no way to put an end to the loss of information, and the only way now is to find the person who transmits the information from the enemy.

"No news. It is said that all the information related to our side is in the possession of Chang Kaishen's close personnel, and it is not within the scope of discussion by the military committee of China. "Enda Shengnosuke." Only when Chang Kaishen's demands were not satisfied at each meeting would he declare that he had information on our army's offensive and compel everyone to accept his opinion. ”

"That's right." Sawada muttered. But think about it, it is a common thing for the government to leak secrets, and it is impossible for Chang Kaishen to disclose such an important matter to others.

"What is a radio-to-air detector?" Sawada Shigeru is concerned about big things, and Tsuchihashi Yuyi is concerned about small things, half a month ago, the bomber units of the imperial navy and land army were defeated in Kunming, so that His Majesty specifically asked the minister of sea and land to understand the situation. Since the victory in China is related to radio-to-air detectors, this is the focus of the future intelligence work of the second department.

"It should be a radio instrument that can detect aircraft. However, the government of China does not know much about this, and the China Navy has only deployed such probes around Yunnan and not in other parts of China. Yunnan is the sphere of influence of the warlord Long Yun, and Chongqing cannot directly ask Yunnan for such a detector. "Enda Shengnosuke." At present, we know the current situation of China's intelligence work if Chongqing knows about it, and we know what Chongqing does not know, and it is very difficult for us to know unless there are special channels. ”

Enda Seinnosuke Daisa explained the true meaning of the intelligence work, the Chongqing government seems to be strict, but in fact, it leaks like a sieve. And this sieve is constantly expanding, such as Yunnan. Previously, Lesson 7 did not know exactly what Yunnan was about, but as the Chongqing government infiltrated Yunnan, more and more Yunnan intelligence appeared on the desk of Lesson 7.

"Can we find a way to get this instrument?" Lieutenant General Shigeru Sawada said. He was not surprised by this, because Japan also has a similar device, called an ultra-short-wave warning machine, but this kind of machine has not yet been put into active service. Shigeru Sawada believes that the detector of the people of China and his own ultra-short-wave warning aircraft are the same thing, but in fact, these are two completely different things, and the detection range of the warning aircraft is also very limited, only a few tens of kilometers. And the reason why the people of China can be the first to go into active service is, in his opinion, related to their research laboratories in Switzerland and the United States.

"Your Excellency, Guinan, which is controlled by our army, is three or four hundred kilometers away from Yunnan. It is almost impossible to obtain such a detector from Yunnan. Enda Seinosuke Osa said with certainty, "But if the Chongqing government obtains and deploys it outside Sichuan, once it is accurate, the Shina dispatch army will be able to find a way to capture it." ”

"Yo Xi." Sawada Shigeru was not satisfied with the disposition of Enda Daisa, but it was indeed impossible to go deep three or four hundred kilometers to Yunnan to seize the probe, and even if he could capture it, he would not be able to bring it back. It was a different situation outside of Sichuan, where the operation in Yichang had already begun, and if the exact location of the radio-to-air detectors in China could be known when the 11th Army entered Yichang, the matter would have been complete.

The United States aided the Chongqing government, the defeat of the Buddha country before July, and the radio-to-air detectors in China are all extremely important information, and as for the actions of China on the Anglo-Burmese side, it can only be handed over to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the time being. After the matter was dealt with one by one, the second minister, Tsuchihashi Yongyi, suddenly said another thing: "Your Excellency, the navy hopes that we can provide relevant information about the China Navy, especially about Li Hansheng, I don't know if it is ......."

"Navy?" Sawada Shigeru blinked, dragged down by the navy, the army air force lost forty-one bombers in Kunming last month, of course, this account cannot be clearly calculated. "Is this the Admiralty's request code?"

Sawada Shigeru asked knowingly, if the Minister of the Navy came forward to request, how could it be that Yuyi Tsuchihashi brought up this matter? "Your Excellency, this is Rear Admiral Keijun Okamoto, Director of the Third Division of the Naval Command Department, at the request of Vice Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, Commander of the Combined Fleet......"

"Yamamoto fifty-six?" Sawada Shigeru dragged out his tone, and after squeezing his eyebrows, he suddenly thought of something, so his face suddenly turned cold, and said, "He is too impolite." ”

Shigeru Sawada's so-called politeness is for the Minister of the Navy to make a request in person, not for the people below to make a random request. In fact, the former Minister of the Navy, Mitsumasa Yonechi, the former Vice Admiral Yamamoto Isoroku, and the other Narumi Inoue, were well-known admirals who opposed the alliance between the Empire and the Independence and Iraq, and his transfer to the post of Commander of the Combined Fleet was also said to be due to the fear of assassination by the brave men of the Army. Now he is asking the General Staff Headquarters to provide information on the Chinese Navy, and he doesn't even think about it. Unless it is proposed by the Minister of the Navy, the General Staff Headquarters will not tell him a word.

The deputy chief of the General Staff Headquarters said that Tsuchihashi had no choice but to give up, after all, it was not a day or two since the naval and army armies were on hostile alert. In the afternoon, he casually sent a person over to the Admiralty and said that there was no intelligence on the China Navy, and there was no intelligence on Li Hansheng.

"It is necessary for the military attache stationed in Mi to closely understand the movements of the Chongqing government in aid of the United States." Approaching the end of the meeting, Sawada Shigeru arranged a task to Tsuchihashi Yongyi, "The Shina side cannot relax, in addition to paying close attention to Chongqing, we should also pay attention to Li Hansheng's whereabouts, as well as the radio-to-air detector, the Yichang operation will start immediately, it would be great if this kind of detector could be captured in this operation." ”

"Hay!" The voices were loud, especially from Shonosuke Enda, who had just nodded at him, as if praising his recent breakthrough in intelligence support. In fact, he has no credit, and the Chongqing government is originally a sieve.