Perhaps it was the attack of the British contingent through submarines again, and they did not dare to attack the ships with a large number of members, so they picked up soft persimmons and pinched them. Yamamoto stopped his reverie and waited for the passage of the Nicola Islands to carry out an artillery bombardment of the Allied forces on the islands, and also to swear his arrival.

As soon as the idea of using the main cannon of the Yamato appeared, it was simply uncontrollable, and he could not wait to perform again in Calcutta, and now it was time to start training with the Allied barracks here that refused to surrender. He ordered a slight modification of the course and went straight to the northernmost point of the Nicobar Islands, Carnicoba, where a battalion of Dutch troops and some broken gunboats refused to surrender.

Just when Yamato could see the island on the horizon, intelligence arrived, and the allies on the island sent a message that they were willing to surrender. Really made Yamamoto angry, his addiction hooked, and he didn't want to fight? Where is it so easy. He ordered the seaplane to take off and prepare for the school launch. The three huge turrets in the front and rear are turned towards the target.

The Dutch defenders on the island kept sending begging telegrams, but they did not receive a reply from the Japanese, maybe the Japanese fleet was too busy to take care of it? At this moment, several seaplanes slowly flew overhead and spun in circles. It doesn't seem to mean to drop bombs, it's not a big problem, at least it's not fighters or bombers.

The Japanese pilot saw the Dutch troops below waving huge white sheets, and the pilots shook their wings to indicate that they had seen it. A report is then sent to report the location of the target's assembly. It seemed that the enemy barracks did not have any strong defenses, the coastal batteries were empty, and all the soldiers were concentrated on the playground waving white flags.

Yamamoto strictly ordered several heavy cruisers around him not to participate in the first round of shelling. He had to see the true power of these 460 cannons. These cannons had an extremely low trajectory, which was very advantageous for dealing with the projection of the battleship on the sea, but it was not much advantageous to warp at ground point targets, and he ordered the barrel elevation angle to increase the ballistic arc.

The Dutch army had already seen the Japanese warships densely packed on the sea from a distance, and they thought they were just passing by, and they wondered if they would send a ship to talk about the terms of surrender?

Seeing the flames rolling from afar, the defenders waving the white flag knew that something was wrong and hurried to run, and the shells that split their heads fell on the beach, although the first round of shelling deviated a lot, but these 1.3-ton high-explosive shells did not care at all about the deviation of 180 meters. Nine shells were scattered in large numbers on the beach, in the barracks, and in nearby villages. Every explosion swept through everything around it with an arc of air that had moved mountains and seas. Yamamoto watched huge black smoke rise through a telescope on the bridge, and he felt that the adrenaline rush was intensifying, and it was spectacular.

Not far from the Yamato, 419 quietly raised the antenna to collect the communication between the enemy's warship and the seaplane, Qin Xiaosu wanted to see how they communicated with each other, in this year without GPS, how they used aerial reconnaissance to guide artillery attacks, and the results detected were the same as conjectures, ranging was provided before the first round of shooting, and the second round began to calibrate the shooting, and the pilot knew the order of each run before the artillery fire, and then gave the target correction data respectively. Their conversations were made by simple and unmistakable voice communication, the only encryption could be voice, and the ship probably wouldn't be shot by an unfamiliar voice on the same channel.

However, with the technology mastered by the 419, it is not difficult to interfere, and to some extent, once necessary, it can be used to use electronic deception to let the enemy's main gun point where to hit.

Immediately after the bombardment, a staff officer asked if he wanted to inform the army to occupy the island, and Yamamoto was angry, he felt that he was not giving the army, so he did not need to rush to inform Imamura to occupy it, and besides, he was waiting for the remnants of the island to send a terrifying message to the Allied forces that were still resisting around him, so that they could know what was waiting for them.

The Japanese fleet marched west to attack Nicobar Island to show firepower, giving the Allied forces in Calcutta an extra day to a day, but the news of the dreaded Dutch troops on the island sent everyone here (except for one person perhaps) into a panic. According to the Dutch, the first round of shelling by the Japanese army, using 520 mm caliber guns (misinformation), destroyed all the facilities on the island, including barracks, fortresses, artillery positions and ammunition depots, and eliminated seventy percent of the personnel. At present, more than 1,000 corpses have been counted on the island, including the natives in the village, and many more dead people are buried under the rubble.

Stilwell came to the conference room in advance and sat there, the regular meeting was about to start, and the bad news followed, the Japanese army planes taking off from the coast of Burma, pursued and shot down a British Sunderland seaplane in the Bay of Mengjiala, which showed that the Japanese army air force had established a foothold at the airfield near Sittwe, and would not fly from Thailand in the future, and left after a fight, and the air superiority of the Allied forces in the Bay of Bengal was shrinking. Chennault refused to use his Flying Tigers to defend the British, and he had recently proposed to Roosevelt that the 10th Air Force should be put in charge of air supremacy in India and Burma, but now that the air force was on its way to North Africa to put out fires, believing that the Army should not be held responsible for the consequences of ignoring his advice.

Of course, in terms of strength, Chennault was not allowed to free up his hands to do this. The Japanese army was taking off from airfields in Jiangxi, Hunan, and Vietnam, and was constantly attacking Kunming and Chongqing, and he was already overstretched to cope with them.

Lieutenant General Slim approached, his face worried.

"Joseph, the situation is not good, the chief of the Kolkata police was assassinated yesterday and several other senior police officers were thrown in the yard*. A great Indian revolt seemed imminent. Our intelligence officers in Burma were informed that the Indians assembled near Sittwe had two divisions. Commanded by Abe Rizahed. ”

"I remember the name, he used to be your subordinate?"

"Yes, Major Zahed, we fought side by side, we were a good commander, and after the fall of Rangoon, his name appeared on the list of the dead, and I grieved for a while. Now the Japanese have promoted him to lieutenant general. Slim smiled wryly and took off his military hat and wiped the sweat from his forehead.

"Do you think there is anything feasible about Pavilion Chief Chu's rhetoric yesterday?" Stilwell digressed and asked about yesterday.

"I think he has the right way, the Japanese just had a fire show in Nicolpa, and we couldn't have fought on the beach. That's insane. ”

"Since yesterday, the 18th Division has assembled on the east bank of the Qingdun River, maybe it won't do anything, just sit there, but you know, I can't draw General Sun's troops from, at least not all of them."

"Then use Chu as a person, at least his troops can be mobile, and his record is also dazzling."

"If we fail here, with all due respect, there is a high probability that this will happen......" Stilwell hesitated, "then history will put the blame on me, because I misused a man who was not a professional soldier at all to fight." ”

Stilwell's words show that he was somewhat calculating, and that he judged that the battle would eventually fail; So he thought that if he gave the weapon to Sun Liren, even if he failed, it would be attributed to the enemy being too strong; But if Chu had been given, the situation would have been different, and historical critics would have severely criticized him.

"Do we have any other options? I have received information that at least Chongqing trusts him, and his army has expanded to seven or eight thousand men, surpassing General Sun. ”

"Okay, I'll think again, think again."

Stilwell propped his head and said no more.

The participants arrived one after another, all with sad faces, the news about the salvo of Yamamoto's flagship and the killing of a battalion had spread, and everyone was terrified, only Chu Tingchang didn't care.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the situation is completely clear, I don't want to waste my words discussing countermeasures, I have decided to adopt the suggestion of Commander Chu Ting," Stilwell made a rare use of the word division commander, "We will use the American weapons piled up here to build up four mobile units in the rear of the coast." The units were formed in new ad hoc formations, each consisting of a number of firepower and infantry battalions. At the same time, each mobile unit has an independent training base in the rear to train enough supplementary troops to fill vacancies at any time. ”

It was clear that he had thought it through before seeking Slim's opinion, and as to why he had split such a small number of troops into four, it was clear that he also had the intention of restraining each other, and the other intention was not to put all his eggs in one basket.

Subsequently, his adjutant and staff officers took the specific equipment distribution and the plan for the establishment of the reserve base, and it was obvious that he had not wasted time last night and had completed most of the details according to Chu's ideas. Stilwell planned to allocate the existing heavy weapons to the three Chinese armies based on the 200th Division, the New 22nd Division, and the New 38th Division

The new 22nd Division remained in the rear as a reserve, and the 200th Division, as well as Sun Liren's Division, was immediately mobilized to the sea to receive new equipment. Of course, the distribution of weapons is not equal, but fully takes into account the strength of each unit, as well as the experience of operating advanced weapons, because the enemy situation is urgent, there is no time for training, because the 200th Division used to be a mechanized division, so the heavy weapons are given to Chu Tingchang.

It was a big gamble on Stilwell's reputation that he valued most, that a man who had never attended a military school and who was so eloquent could defeat the Japanese army, which was almost invincible in Southeast Asia.

Sun Liren got the heavy artillery and Stuart tank he wanted. The British gave up a company of Sherman and gave it to Commander Chu Ting, after all, the 7th Brigade had returned to the Middle East.

Liao Yaoxiang's troops were only given mortars, mountain artillery, machine guns, jeeps, and trucks, and they would probably become a lightly armed motorized force.

Commander Chu Ting's troops have been replenished to the greatest extent, and his troops are still on the way to come, and the selection of tank drivers and commanders has begun, most of these people are from the independent tank units of the Fifth Army, and they can master these weapons relatively quickly, and now he has inherited the essence of the Fifth Army and a large number of American equipment.

"Well, that's the new achievement, we have to act quickly......" Stilwell looked up again, as if he were five years older, he foresaw that he would be nailed to the pillar of shame for today's decision, but as Slim said, there was no way out, "Guys, is there any problem?" ”

"Yes," the complacent Chu Tingchang stood up, "I see that there are still quite a few bulldozers in the port, and I think I can use them." There are also fuel tankers, and it is not effective to stay in the direct subordinate troops, so it is better to give it to me. And also...... The current tank repair vehicle can only repair light tanks, you urge Washington, you want a medium chassis, it's too heavy, the road conditions here are ......"