"Send a report to Yu Sheng immediately, telling him to hold the airborne field no matter what, don't think about saving ammunition, send me all the ammunition, and be sure to hold it." After reading the telegram just sent by Mandalay, Zhao Zhi's face was full of joy, and the US Navy had finally won. As in history, the main battlefield of this naval engagement between the United States and Japan was still at Midway, but due to the emergence of the British government-in-exile and the influence of the German-Soviet situation, the Battle of Midway, which was supposed to take place in June '42, was more than half a year later than history, and now it is February of '43.

The gradual clarification of the world pattern has long made old European countries such as Britain and France see the potential of the United States, and if they want to regain the land that originally belonged to them, they must inevitably cooperate with the United States, and the United States must take into account its own appearance while expanding its influence and influence. It was certainly impossible to divide the world with Germany, and in the first place the Slavs would not have agreed that it would be better to support them in general than to spend a lot of manpower and material resources to occupy a country that was resisting every day, and that it was more important to obtain resources from them than to expand the territory, which the stupid Hitler could not see.

Port Moresby, New Guinea, was a military port provided by the British government-in-exile to the Japanese Navy for ship maintenance, and there were not only a large number of Japanese mechanics, but also a new Japanese division to defend it. Half a month before the Battle of Midway, 50,000 heavily armed British troops and their colonial servants suddenly attacked Moresby, and with the cooperation of a small aircraft carrier fleet of the United States Navy, they sank the Japanese aircraft carrier "Xiangfeng" docked in the harbor for repair, damaged the "Xianghe", and then occupied it.

After two successive attacks by Zhao Zhi's infiltrator forces, most of Japan's military ports had been abandoned, and civilian ports could only be used to repair some small patrol boats, and the British government-in-exile in Australia suddenly tore up the cooperation agreement, which was a fatal blow to the Japanese navy. From the moment the first shots rang out from Moresby, the Japanese Navy lost its large ship repair base, and all ships damaged in the battle with the US Navy could only dock in Manila Harbor, but there was no strength or conditions to repair large ships.

The defeat of Australia was a great blow to Japan, and the scruples of American heavy industry and the shipbuilding industry led Yamamoto Isoroku, who led the Japanese navy, to make a decision to restart the Midway project, and he was to build a large airfield at Midway Island as an advance base to combat all American ships. The Midway plan had already been in shape before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, but due to the timely olive branch extended by the British government-in-exile, after weighing the pros and cons, Yamamoto Isoroku had to temporarily shelve the Midway project and instead put the maintenance base in Moresby.

Isoroku Yamamoto analyzed his strategy and tactics from various angles, starting with a diversionary attack on the Aleutian Islands, far from Alaska and controlled by the United States, in the hope of distracting the entire American fleet from Midway. However, the United States managed to intercept communications between senior Japanese commanders before the naval battle began, and discovered Yamamoto's plan, so Nimitz decided to take no action against the Aleutian Islands and sent three aircraft carriers and eight cruisers to Midway.

The real exchange of fire in the whole naval battle lasted only more than three hours, and finally ended in the defeat of the Japanese army, and the American army lost only one aircraft carrier, one destroyer, and 147 aircraft in the Battle of Midway, and lost 307 people; Japan, on the other hand, lost 4 large aircraft carriers, 1 cruiser, 332 aircraft, several hundred experienced pilots and 3,700 crews. The loss of four aircraft carriers and the death of a large number of outstanding pilots and crews led to the decline of the Japanese Combined Fleet, which was also the first decisive defeat of the Japanese Navy in a century, allowing the US Navy to regain control of the Pacific waters.

The Rockman family's intelligence network regularly sent some military intelligence back to Zhao Zhi, coupled with the information sent back by the sleepers, so that Zhao Zhi, who was far away in Burma, had a very good understanding of the military power of the United States and Japan. After the Battle of Midway, the Japanese Navy had only two large aircraft carriers and four light aircraft carriers, and such a Japanese Navy was no match for the US fleet at all.

Zhao Zhi is not concerned about how many fleets Japan still has, but about when the US Navy will step up its ground offensive against South Asian countries after it regains control of the Pacific waters. After the assassination of Hitler, the Soviet Union on the Eastern Front regained its combat power, engaging in a tug-of-war with the Germans on the Stalingrad front, and the British and French Resistance Army, secretly supported by the United States, attacked German supply lines and destroyed railways and bridges. The intelligence sent by the Rockman family shows that the U.S. government has been recruiting a large number of recruits, and if the U.S. intends to fight on two fronts, then Zhao Zhi's next plan will inevitably be affected.

Politicians in the U.S. Congress are thinking of using China and Zhao Zhi to contain the Japanese army from moving south, and Zhao Zhi is also trying to use the U.S. military war in the Philippines to contain the Japanese army in South Asia, and if the United States intends to send ground troops to attack the Philippines and Indonesia, then the 25th Army, which is attacking Burma at this time, will inevitably return to defend against the U.S. attack. Like the United States, Japan cannot afford to lose South Asia, there are so many resources that Japan desperately needs, and even if the tide is no longer able to withstand the attack of the American army, Japan will ship the supplies it has collected back to the Japanese mainland at the last second before the end of the war, and they must prepare for Japan's re-emergence.

It is precisely because he knows this inferior nature of the Japanese that Zhao Zhi has been cowering in Myanmar to engage in infrastructure construction, and Thunder takes resources from other countries, which is called aggression. But if he robbed Japan and took away those resources, Thunder could justifiably ascend to the altar of the invaders, and accept the worship of the countries invaded by the Japanese army while hiding at home and secretly counting money. The best time to rob is not the moment when the robber reaches out to get something, the really qualified robber has to fatten the robber first like a pig, and when the robber's house is full of looted things, this is the best time to rob.

Most of the mercenaries around Zhao Zhi are proficient in this way, especially the staff of Dazhi and Rowling, and this snatching plan began to be formulated as early as after the first attack of the lurker plan. When one of the assassination teams of the Sleepers was evacuated, they accidentally discovered the so-called preparation plan at the home of a high-ranking Japanese officer, in which the Japanese planned to spend three to five years to transport all the materials looted from various Asian countries back to the Japanese mainland and hide them, the Japanese government had foreseen the eventual defeat of the war, and they were preparing in advance for Japan's re-emergence.

Large quantities of scarce war materials were sent deep into the mountains to fill in the permanent fortifications, high-quality raw coal stolen from China was sunk to the bottom of the sea for future use, and tens of thousands of Japanese agents opened accounts in Swiss banks in their own names and deposited large quantities of gold, silver and jewelry in Swiss bank safes. The long or even multi-generational experience of living abroad made these Japanese spies look like ordinary Asian immigrants, and when the time came, the things deposited in Swiss banks would be withdrawn and become the capital of Japan's revival.

Zhao Zhi, who learned of this news, would let go of such a great opportunity, after the infiltrators carried out two rounds of large-scale attacks on the Japanese mainland according to the instructions, all the infiltrators were doing reconnaissance and intelligence gathering around this preparation plan. One-third of the hiding places in the preparation plan have been mastered by Zhao Zhi, which means that the more Japan robs and hides, the more Thunder will get from the Japanese in the future.

Now that the U.S. Navy has won a great victory, the next step must be to organize a ground war in South Asia, and the disadvantage of the war to the Japanese will only intensify their return of supplies, and the cunning and changeable Japanese do not trust anything other than their homeland. "Contact Yan Wudao's side, tell them to bite the 18th Division, and the fighter troops will go to support them, since they are here, they can't be let go back." Zhao Zhi, who was in a good mood, picked up a cigar, smoking is not allowed in jungle warfare, and the smell of smoke will be smelled by the enemy, but Zhao Zhi doesn't think about these at all, and now it should be the Japanese army who is afraid of being discovered.

The remnants of the 11th Wing of the Fifth Division retreated 30 miles after being burned by Zhao Zhi's fire at Dry Leaf Ridge, and the 42nd Wing was also forced to retreat, and the two infantry wings belonging to the Fifth Division had already suffered more than half of the casualties, especially the 11th Wing. It was the 21st Wing that fought head-on with Yu Sheng in the airborne field, and the news that Zhao Zhi got yesterday was that the 21st Wing finally broke through Yu Sheng's outer defense line, but they were blocked by Yu Sheng's steel fortress and minefield, and it is estimated that the casualties of the 21st Wing are not small, as long as Yu Sheng is willing to consume the ammunition in his hand, the 21st Wing has no way to take the airborne field at present.

The 18th Division, which was alone and helpless, was attacked by the airborne troops under the command of Yan Wudao and the Qinglongping Commando in front and back, and even self-protection was a problem, where did they still have the strength to counterattack, and the only thing Zhao Zhi had to consider now was the Second Guards Division in the hands of Yamashita Fengwen. This Yamashita Fengfu was different from other commanders of the Japanese army, this person was a bold man, and he commanded the troops to ride bicycles for hundreds of kilometers to occupy Singapore and force the surrender of more than 100,000 British, Australian, and allied troops, such a thing was not done by ordinary people.

Yamashita Fengwen likes to gamble, and Zhao Zhi is also gambling now, he is betting that Yamashita Fengwen will wave his army south to aid Singapore and the Philippines, compared with Burma, Singapore and the Philippines are the focus of the Japanese army's defense. Once Yamashita Fengwen's army moved south, Zhao Zhi would immediately follow and attack Vietnam, Thailand and other places to contain the Japanese forces for the U.S. army to attack South Asia.