, 831 I am the king and the eight chaos arises

"It's not the time yet."

Wang Zijiu shook his head: "Zixiang, I hope you can understand that the assistant commander means: China will not invest too many resources and troops in India. Therefore, making good use of the local Muslim power in South Asia is the key to success, and only by uniting with the local Muslims can you establish rule in the northwest of India at the lowest cost and as quickly as possible. ”

"But......" After Ma Bufang hesitated for a moment, he still had the courage to ask: "Haogong, do you really think that the Muslim forces in South Asia will cooperate with us?" As far as I know, the Muslim League in India and the Zahir dynasty in Afghanistan are all pro-British, and the British will probably use the brand of the Indian self-government to organize a large number of British and Indian troops......

"Zixiang, don't question the assistant marshal's decision-making, he must have his reasons for arranging it this way, although I also know that there is no way to quickly pacify India by relying on your 100,000 people, as well as the 150,000 people in the middle of the g, but maybe the assistant marshal originally wanted India to go into chaos?"

"Let India go into chaos? So what's in it for us? As soon as Ma Bufang wanted to question it, Wang Zizhi's cold eyes frightened him to hold back the following words, and he quickly nodded: "Hao Gong, I will definitely keep in mind the instructions of you and the assistant commander, and after arriving in South Asia, I will immediately unite all local Muslim forces." ”

"Oh, yes." Ma Bufang thought for a while and said: "I got information from a cronie next to Hashem Khan, that old guy now has to read the war reports of the South Pacific and Singapore every day, and it is estimated that as long as the British lose one or two more games, he will ......"

Wang Zizhi waved his hand impatiently and interrupted Ma Bufang: "This old guy just thinks he is smart, and he hasn't seen the situation clearly until now, but he is just a fool." You send someone to tell him that as long as you join us, the Zahir dynasty will also get a piece of territory in the Indus Valley in northwest India, and to the west of the Indus River, or you will be ready to taste the wrath of the Great Chinese Empire! In addition, tell Hashim Khan that we can first send equipment to 10 light infantry divisions in Afghanistan, as long as he agrees to cooperate with us. ”

"Yes, General."

After Ma Bufang left, Wang Zizheng took out a pen and paper and began to draft a plan for the conquest of India. He pointed out in his plan that the history of India is actually a history of conquest, and that before the arrival of European colonizers, the indigenous peoples of India had changed masters again and again, and that almost all of the foreign ruling nations that successfully conquered India came from Central Asia and Afghanistan. China, on the other hand, could copy the experience of these conquerors, arm the brave and warlike Central Asian armies with rudimentary weapons, and send a steady stream to India to wage a long and bloody war of attrition against the Anglo-Indian army, which was mainly composed of indigenous Indian soldiers. Consume not only the essence of the peoples of Central Asia, but also the wealth and population of India!

Wait until the future......

Wang Zizhi's eyes were cold, as if he had seen that the South Asian subcontinent had turned into a bloody human purgatory!

……

"Tell them to move faster, and they must finish loading this morning!"

Onishi Takijiro stood on the dock of Kure's port and whispered orders to the officers around him. Huge wooden crates are being hauled to the docks by trucks and hoisted by crane onto a high-speed transport ship leased from China. There are two such transport ships, all of which are equipped with steam turbines and heavy oil boilers, and are currently China's highest-speed 20,000-ton ocean-going vessels. Their maximum speed is even as high as 32.5 knots, which is the same as that of the "Taiwan" class aircraft carriers! In fact, such transport ships are used to serve China's aircraft carrier fleet. A total of 6 ships were built, and now 2 of them are leased to Japan to transport these oversized wooden boxes!

These wooden crates are not ordinary supplies or ammunition, but dismantled planes! Mainly the I-190 fighter and the 98 special attack aircraft, the two ships were loaded with a total of 300 such wooden boxes, that is to say, 300 aircraft used for special attack operations were loaded.

The planes were accompanied by 300 kamikaze fighters who had just completed their special training, as well as officers accompanying them and dozens of well-looking comfort women. And these kamikaze members are all full of tragedy at the moment, with strips of white cloth tied on their heads, and they also use a brush to write "Wuyun for a long time" and draw the red sun. At first glance, it is necessary to have the appearance of going and going back!

In fact, these kamikaze fighters who have completed training in Japan are reserve members of the 1st and 2nd kamikaze special attack brigades. They will follow the First and Second Air Fleets in high-speed transport ships, when the kamikaze members of both kamikaze groups are exhausted...... It's their turn.

With all the wooden boxes hoisted and all the kamikaze members boarding the ship to the cheers of the Japanese people who saw them off, Onishi Takijiro finally breathed a sigh of relief. These 300 kamikaze members took a lot of effort to dig them out of various aviation schools! Then he tried his best to train to become a qualified person in just 2 months, and now he personally sent them to a dead end. I hope they can die a heroic and worthwhile death, and don't let down their hard work.

Thinking of this, he looked up and took one last look at the two steamers that were slowly leaving the dock, and bowed 90 degrees to the two ships before turning around and preparing to leave. As soon as he turned around, he saw a lieutenant general right behind him, looking blankly at the departing steamer and the dead soldiers.

Onishi Takijiro recognized this person as Lieutenant General Ishihara Wanji, commander of the 102nd Division of the Army. Ishihara was promoted to lieutenant general after the Battle of Hawaii and was appointed commander of the 102nd Division. The 102nd Division was formed on the basis of the reservists of the elite 2nd Division of the Japanese Army, and its troop establishment and armament are also the same as those of the 2nd Division, which can also be regarded as an elite unit; this division has also arrived in Hiroshima Prefecture in the past two days, and they will board ships from various ports in Hiroshima Prefecture as a member of the American Front and embark on an expedition to the Americas.

"Oh, Ishihara-kun, when did you arrive?" Onishi looked at Ishihara with some surprise, the Japanese Navy and Army have always been estranged, and only the Navy is on the expedition from Kure Gungang today, and Ishihara, as a vice admiral of the Army, came to see off the Navy as a surprise indeed.

"It's been a while." Ishihara sighed and looked away from the departing ship. "At present, the national fortune of the Great Japanese Empire is not on our 1 million army athletes, but on these hundreds of dead navy soldiers! This time the war between the Americas and Australia at the same time really greatly exceeded the limit of the imperial power, and only the sacrifice spirit of our imperial army soldiers could make up for the disparity in strength. If in case they can't ......"

"Please rest assured that the Navy's kamikaze forces are the bravest soldiers, and the planes they fly will definitely teach Britain and the United States a lesson that will never be forgotten!" Although Onishi Takijiro said that he was full of confidence, a faint melancholy still came out from between his eyebrows.

Everyone knows that under normal circumstances, an army will not use this suicidal tactic of dying with the enemy until the last moment! Japan's current use of kamikaze attacks with great fanfare does not show that it is powerful, but on the contrary, it exposes its predicament that it is difficult to support the war with normal tactics.

And this kind of "kamikaze attack" has now become Japan's hope for winning the war, and all of Japan, from Emperor Hirohito to the ordinary people, pinned their hopes for victory on this style of fighting "one plane, one life" for "one ship"! Japan's two ill-intentioned allies, China and Germany, also seemed to be shocked by this desperate style of play and made the decision to vigorously support Japan. However, if this large-scale attack using "kamikaze" fails, I am afraid that the people and friends will lose confidence in Japan to win the war.

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13 January 1939, Sydney, Australia.

The British and Australian Grand Fleet's 6 aircraft carriers and 1 battle cruiser, 4 heavy cruisers, 8 light cruisers, 22 destroyers, as well as 3 fast supply ships and 4 fast tankers, were slowly approaching the port at this time.

On the bridge of the flagship battlecruiser "Prestige", Admiral Cunningham sighed softly.

This fleet is the most powerful fleet that the British Empire, the former world's largest naval power, can come up with! The Royal Navy is almost all here, and even the native is just bluffing to scare the Germans. The fleet traveled thousands of miles from Scapa Bay to Australia, passing through the Atlantic Ocean where German submarines were active, crossing the Panama Canal into the range of the Japanese Combined Fleet, and finally reaching Sydney, Australia.

In addition to the Australian Grand Fleet, which sailed tens of thousands of nautical miles, and the Z Fleet from Port Moresby, this detachment commanded by Vice Admiral Philip is probably the only real bright spot of the Allies since the start of the war! Their breach of engagement in the western Pacific dealt a heavy blow to the Japanese devils and greatly slowed down their southward invasion. Otherwise, these damn little chicks would have landed on the important islands of Papua New Guinea. An army hastily recruited from Australia and New Zealand would certainly not be able to hold those important islands.

With 6 aircraft carriers and 2 battle cruisers, Cunningham was no longer too worried about a naval battle with the Japanese Combined Fleet. However, the situation in the army was not good even for him, the admiral. Because Britain must now take care of five battlefields, including Europe, Southeast Asia, India, the Middle East, and Australia! Naturally, the army is also stretched, so it cannot afford to send too many additional reinforcements to Australia, so it can only rely on the Australian and New Zealand armies to maintain the situation, but the combined population of the two Dominions of Australia and New Zealand is only a thousand, and how many troops can be mobilized?

To add insult to injury, there are not many factories in Australia and New Zealand, and all weapons and equipment are supplied by sea, but at present, British weapons and ammunition can only supply the expeditionary force in Europe, and the United States has reduced the export of weapons and ammunition because of the threat on the west coast. Although the British have tried their best, they have not been able to raise much weaponry and ammunition to send to Australia.

By the time Cunningham's fleet sailed into Port Jackson, the combined army of Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, and the islands of the South Pacific was only 500,000 men. Among them, there were 100,000 British troops (all colonial troops of India and South Africa), 370,000 Australian and New Zealand troops, and about 30,000 American troops retreated from the Philippines, Guam, Midway, Wake Island and other places.

However, among these troops, except for the US troops retreating from the Philippines, which has 1 tank regiment, 3 artillery regiments, and an army air force (265 aircraft, including 35 B17s), the rest of the troops are seriously short of heavy weapons, ammunition reserves are also seriously insufficient, and training is even worse, and it is really difficult to afford the mission of defending Papua New Guinea and the islands of the South Pacific, let alone resisting the squadron that will land in Western Australia sooner or later!

And the weakness of the army can only be remedied by the aggressiveness of the navy. Cunningham was well aware that there was no other way to buy Australia enough time to consolidate its defenses than to engage in a decisive battle with the Japanese fleet heading south and try to annihilate the Japanese aircraft carriers.

But will the Australian Grand Fleet be able to defeat the Japanese Navy's "kamikaze"? The thought of a bunch of Japanese-speaking maniacs flying planes full of explosives to load their own aircraft carriers! Admiral Cunningham's newly condensed confidence suddenly collapsed, how could there be such a madman in this world? These yellow-skinned guys are so unreasonable!

"Mr. Admiral, Lieutenant General Phillips and Colonel Bernice ask for a meeting." Cunningham's thoughts were abruptly interrupted by the adjutant's voice, and it was only then that he realized that the battlecruiser "Prestige" had already docked. The commander of the Z fleet, Vice Admiral Phillips, and the chief of staff, Colonel Bernice, had already come on board to report to him. By order of the British Admiralty, the Z Fleet was to merge with the Australian Grand Fleet, and Phillips was to become Chief of Staff of the Australian Grand Fleet.

"Invite them in." Cunningham straightened up, straightened his uniform, and walked to the door of the command tower to wait. In a few moments he met his old friend Phillips, and behind the lieutenant general, who had made great contributions to the British Empire, was a naval colonel in his mid-forties, with a neatly trimmed beard and a sleek body, who should be Colonel Bernice.

"Hey! Thomas (Lieutenant General Phillips), it's a pleasure to see you all right. Cunningham met Phillips, who was coming towards him.

"Almost gone!" Phillips reached out and shook Cunningham's hand, but there was a look of apprehension on his face.

"What's wrong?" Cunningham was stunned for a moment, looking at the gloomy face of the "hero" in front of him, and a bad premonition came to his heart.

"Admiral, we've met a suicide plane near Truk Island! The Counterattack was nearly hit. Colonel Bernice said in a deep voice.

"Suicide planes! You've met them, and it's great! Tell me about them. Cunningham pulled Phillips and walked towards the chart table. That's great? I don't think so! Phillips glanced at Cunningham and sighed, "To be honest, I still kind of admire those crazy people who fly planes." Sit in a tin can filled with explosives, and then come to the same death with our warship with all your heart! It doesn't matter how dense the anti-aircraft artillery fire is...... It was a terrible scene! I will never forget it in my life. ”

"How many of them are there? I mean suicide planes. Cunningham asked.

"There were 24 planes in total, of which 18 were suicide planes, another 10 were torpedo bombers, and 2 appeared to be fighters." Phillips furrowed his eyebrows, as if recalling the situation. "The suicide planes and torpedo planes attacked at the same time, the torpedo planes were divided into two teams, five or five formations, and attacked the Prestige and the New Orleans (American heavy cruisers) respectively, and the suicide planes swarmed into the Prestige, which was terrible."

"A swarm?" Hearing this word, Cunningham suddenly thought of something, and he asked, "How are their driving skills?" What about the dive technique? ”

"Driving skills?" Phillips' eyes seemed to light up, and he shook his head: "Those crazy people's flying skills should not be very good, compared to the Royal Naval Aviation I met in the exercise, when diving, they just rushed in the same direction, there was no level at all, and they didn't know how to cooperate with low-altitude torpedo planes, as if they were in a hurry to die!" But just then, one plane hit the light cruiser USS Philadelphia, which was right next to the Prestige at the time...... The American light cruiser was really unlucky, the Japanese plane was supposed to hit the prestige, but it hit the position of the chimney of the USS Philadelphia, exploded in two on the spot, and sank completely in less than a minute, and more than 800 people on board, except for 18 people who were rescued, all died! ”

"I've also seen this battle report, but I didn't say that it was done by a suicide plane." Cunningham nodded, and then asked, "What about our results?" Is it true that the Admiralty's telegram said that 23 planes were shot down? ”

"It's true, of course those 18 suicide planes are all finished, and in addition to the 5 torpedo planes, those Japanese torpedo planes fly low and slow, which is simply a big target."

"25 planes for 1 light cruiser." A hint of mockery appeared on Cunningham's lips. "This is much worse than the exchange ratio of 'one plane, one life' for one ship claimed by the Japanese. These Japanese suicide planes are not as terrible as imagined, shouldn't we find a chance to give them a hard time! ”

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