"Have you arrived?" Tang Long stood on the deck, looking at the rolling dark clouds in the sky, and muttered.

"Director, encrypted telegram, the commander of the Pacific Fleet, Nimitz, asked us to go to the submarine base to meet him and discuss the next step, the battle plan for Kuah Island."

"What else?"

Translation expert Toth hesitated, "General MacArthur from the Army High Command has called us to attend an operational meeting in the Far Eastern Theater. ”

"How can there be two meetings?" Tang Long turned his head, "Raiding the battle of Midway, aren't they fighting together?" ”

"It's normal for there to be conflicts of interest between the arms," Gao Laohu, a veteran, knows a lot about this, "This is a struggle for the dominance of the war, and the Far Eastern Army and the Pacific Fleet have never been monolithic." ”

Tang Long hesitated, and said to the big man Johnny, "Help me go and ask Lake to see what he has to say."

Lake was the head of the Strategic Intelligence Agency in this operation, and he and Porter, another from the Philippines, were in charge of two combat teams.

After a while, Jonny walked over from the cabin and said in a sullen voice, "The director means that he is going to attend General MacArthur's military meeting, and you and Porter are attending a meeting of the Navy."

"Stir up the mud?" Tang Long said to himself, but this also makes sense, those two commanders are big people who can not even be birds of Director Donovan.

"In that case, let's get off the ship and take the navy's cruiser."

When I went out, I saw a few people coming out of the room where the FBI security adviser lived not far away, the leader was Agent Ivan, and among the few people who followed, there was actually a familiar face, a member of the black mercenary group who came to find fault that day, I don't know how to get in touch.

Since the two intelligence departments were already unhappy with each other, the small actions were all on the surface, and there was no need to be hypocritical and polite, they nodded to each other and got on the boat. The destination is the same.

"They think the same way we do?" Xia Min said in a low voice.

"It's normal, the army and the navy, if you offend anyone, you can't eat good fruit."

Came to the submarine base relatively smoothly. Met the legendary man, Admiral Chester. William. Chester William Nimitz, a gray-haired old man, has the seriousness characteristic of a naval officer, but is not aggressive.

It seems that the combat scheme is just an excuse. Because in the whole conference room, there were not many officers, only busy secretaries and telegraph operators.

"So, what is the purpose of the White House sending you?"

"Integrate the resources of the Army Intelligence Service and the Naval Intelligence Service, rebuild the intelligence agencies of the Pacific Theater, collect political, military, and economic intelligence in various enemy-occupied countries in Southeast Asia, and carry out assassination, kidnapping, sabotage, and other means when necessary."

This answer. It is decent, it is the Allied General Staff, Major General Gale's answer, on the surface, he is the leader of this group of people, but in fact, it is too difficult to cross the contradictions and obstacles of the department and integrate and manage, so in my heart. What he wants to play is more of a supervisor and coordinator, and several departments have long had their own set of methods for these espionage missions.

"Hmm. So, all the intelligence lines of our navy about the Japanese army are going to be handed over to you? ”

"Yes."

Admiral Nimitz was a little hesitant, and in view of the lessons learned from Pearl Harbor, all departments of the Navy have strengthened the construction of intelligence systems, although these people are relatively professional. However, it is not yet known whether it will be able to adapt to the combat mode of the navy.

"If this body is established, will it belong to the Pacific Fleet, or to the General Staff of the Far Eastern Army?"

The old guy almost didn't say directly, are you mixed with my navy or with the army.

"It belongs to the Ministry of Defense, sir," said Major General Gale, whose task, among other things, was to reconcile the interests of the two services.

"Yes," General Nimitz nodded, and after a little more conversation about the war situation, and roughly said the battle plan, it was getting dark.

According to Lake, General MacArthur was not very interested in their arrival, and was worried that it would add a little uncertainty to the upcoming battle for Kuah Island.

Within a few days, Nimitz and MacArthur, two military giants, had a considerable disagreement over the battle plan, and MacArthur vetoed Nimitz's plan to attack Tulagi and Kuah, believing that it was too risky, while he proposed a more risky plan.

He demanded an immediate attack on Ramar, with the Navy using aircraft carriers and the 1st Marine Division to help him attack the New British Isles, occupy Rabaul and your Bismarck Islands, and make the Japanese retreat 700 nautical miles north.

Nimitz was adamantly against it, and there were only two aircraft carriers in the Solomon Seas, which was to treat them as 'victims'!

The quarrel between the two generals finally rose to the level of command, and Nimitz believed that the troops participating in the battle came from the Pacific Fleet, and the command should belong to him; MacArthur, on the other hand, objected, arguing that the Solomon Islands were located in the Southwest Pacific Ocean and that all the troops fighting in the Southwest Pacific were under his command.

The former got a five-star admiral, Ernest. King, who was supported by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Marshall.

The development of the matter was promptly reported to the Supreme Command by the spy team that had just arrived, and there was a lot of movement in the American world.

Roosevelt ordered an emergency meeting, and before that, a report hit Rear Admiral Gale's desk, and the head of an operations team of the Strategic Intelligence Bureau requested to penetrate the Japanese naval blockade to investigate the distribution of Japanese troops on Kuah Island in preparation for future landing operations.

This plan of action is very bold and very dangerous, and it is very risky just to touch the opponent's defensive circle.

But the benefits are also obvious, as long as the distribution of the Japanese army is found, with the strong firepower of the American army, as long as they land on the island, they can be broken one by one, instead of letting them escape into the jungle, consuming personnel and supplies, and making the war protracted.

"Donovan's subordinates, have a virtue with him," Major General Gale shook his head with a smile and stamped his seal, at this juncture when the morale of the army is fluctuating, an exciting adventure is needed, even if it fails, it doesn't matter, heroes, always have to die, otherwise how to package and publicize, this, is politics.

Time, 1942.12.1, the espionage operation codenamed 'Jungle' was officially approved.

At the same time, the intelligence department will deliberately send a decipherable telegram, and the navy will cooperate with the operation to carry out a large-scale feint operation to affect the deployment of the opposite side to the greatest extent.

Tang Long put on his diving suit and turned his head, "Xiaoyu, are you okay?" ”

"It's okay, Brother Xia protects me," Xiaoyu said sweetly.

"If it doesn't work, it has to work!" Xia Min said coldly: "Compared with the historical battle for Kuah Island, it has been three months late, the war situation in the European battlefield has gradually begun to affect the Pacific War, even if Europe is a wasteland, I don't care, but I don't want the Japanese to become more powerful than our time and space, Lao Tzu is a soldier in peacetime, it doesn't mean anything, and now there are batches of Japanese devils waiting for me to abuse, how can there be such a good opportunity!!" (To be continued.) )