Zhou Youfu knew that he was lucky today, of course it wasn't because of this watch, the surface of this watch had been blown up, and it wasn't worth a few dollars, he knew that it was not easy to look at this dead man just by looking at this watch. He put away his watch and searched for his documents from the pocket of the dead man's shirt, flipped them open and glanced at them, although he didn't understand the Japanese army, but he could still read the name. I saw that it said "Sakurai" on it, and there was a pool of blood behind it, he rubbed it with his hand, and finally the words "province three" appeared. He fainted on the spot without taking a breath, and turned over the body to examine it carefully, but unfortunately found nothing of value. Immediately came out and returned to the chariot, called Chu Tingchang by radio, and reported that he had personally killed the commander of the enemy's division. There was no fixed reward for the killing of a Japanese officer, but he knew that it was a lieutenant general and worth a lot of money.

Chief Chu only sighed over there, and he didn't seem very surprised. Then he hurriedly called Brooke, and the Americans, with a two-person film crew, had to ask them to hurry up and film the death of the Japanese lieutenant general.

When the goal was achieved, he hurriedly asked the troops to stop the battle and avoid unnecessary casualties. Qin Xiaosu overheard Sun Liren's report and communication, and Sun's division headquarters would have been surrounded by the Japanese army, but because of the timely intelligence, it was transferred out of danger. The Japanese still surrounded a battalion of the 38th Division and tens of thousands of refugees, but then withdrew again, apparently because the rear was attacked.

Since the First Sino-Japanese War, the navy has never sunk a decent warship, and the army has never annihilated a divisional headquarters, both of which have been broken by 419. Of course, the most important consciousness may be the encouragement of the entire Allied camp, since the outbreak of the Pacific War, there has never been such a big victory, and tactically it has also won a respite for the Allies, although it seems that it is impossible to turn defeat into victory, because China and Britain are about to go their separate ways from this place to return to their respective countries, for the time being, the retreat of the British army back to India is still open, but the passage of the Chinese army from Lashio to return home is still in turmoil.

After the failure of the Japanese attack on the 26th, the Japanese army did not launch an attack on the 27th, but patiently waited for backup and deployed firepower points on the nearby hills. Of course, no one would have frantically expected the enemy to abandon the attack, because there were only 48 hours left until the emperor's birthday, which was written on their leaflet, and no one doubted that the Japanese would make good on their promise to slaughter the city once it was breached.

Hirai Usuke Nakasa waited for the support of the 113th Infantry Wing and the Yamazaki Artillery Wing, but he himself was relieved of command, and the next offensive Masao Watanabe, the commander of the soy sauce division, personally commanded, the goal was still to cross Lashio before the Tianchang Festival, and in the next two or three days, the troops were divided into two roads, one way to capture the Nankan suspension bridge, and the other way to the north to capture Bamo-Myitkyina, because the Japanese army vaguely heard that there were several tea horse roads in this area that could cross the Gaoligong Mountain and enter Tengyue, once these entrances were blocked, It can completely cut off the retreat of the Chinese army.

In contrast to the old calculations of the Japanese army, Du Yuming and Stilwell did not confirm until a day ago that the attack on Lashio was not a diversion operation launched by the Japanese army for the purpose of besieging Mandalay, but the real purpose of the campaign; On the contrary, the attack launched by the 18th Division, the main force of the Japanese army, was a feint, and of course, the huge miscalculation of the high command was not lacking in the negative role played by the negative work of the military commander Mandela Station.

On the 27th, the Allies were well aware that the aim of the Japanese army was to let go of the British army and annihilate the Chinese army. After Du Yuming learned that Chu Tingchang took the initiative to seek fighters and attack the enemy's Sakurai headquarters, he didn't even feel too excited, and there were a bunch of things that needed to be big at the moment, and the victory in the middle of the country could not hide the fact that the retreat was about to be cut off.

In order to save the British, the expeditionary force scattered the main force in a range of several hundred kilometers in northern Burma, and now Japan and Britain have reached a tacit agreement, one will not fight, the other will not pursue, but the expeditionary force will lose ground and fall into a huge passivity.

The headquarters of the expeditionary force, together with the 96th and 93rd divisions, began to retreat from Mandela and the surrounding areas, and the original battle of Mandalay was completely defeated, but the retreat was not so easy, and the two Japanese troops quickly bit up and continued to attack the retreating expeditionary force rearguard.

After the Chu Tingchang Synthetic Battalion completed the attack, it once again successfully bypassed the enemy's main force, but it had already fallen behind. The good news was that the refugees on the highway turned to the west because of the sudden approach of the Japanese army, and went to seize the road with the British; Even though the Japanese army sent a large number of traitors to spread rumors and demagoguery in an attempt to use the refugees to delay the expeditionary force's operations, most of the refugees could guess with basic judgment that it would be more auspicious to run to the motherland, and that only by going west to India could they temporarily seek peace.

Near Bougainville Island, the westernmost part of the Solomon Islands. In shallow water, No. 419 is tracking the movements of the Japanese and American fleets. Half a month ago, the Japanese army had captured the island in a bloodless landing and built a military base at Shortland at the southern tip, including a seaplane airfield.

Unlike history, instead of continuing eastward to fight for the entire Solomon Island, they ended up confronting the U.S. forces who climbed up to Kuah Island. Historically, the Japanese army carried out a large and inappropriate mission extension precisely to protect the flank of New Britain, and in the end, because it was too much in the secondary battlefield, it delayed the attack on the main target of Port Moresby.

Of course, Cheng Dayang knew very well that some of the information leaked by the Japanese Navy was deliberate, with the purpose of deceiving the US Navy into going nearby, but the part he didn't know was that the seaplane base that was being built at Shortland was not as simple as dealing with the US military.

The sonar of the nuclear submarine has found at least 4 enemy aircraft carriers, the Zuihe and Xianghe of the 5th Sentai have appeared in the Solomon Sea, a Wyvern-class is south of New Britain, and the Fengxiang aircraft carrier is near the Atoll of Micimaar Island, of course, judging from the Japanese army's troop practice, the team will not be dispersed, so there will be a Wyvern-class nearby, which may be missed. As for the First Sentai team, it has not yet been discovered. The sound signature of these two aircraft carriers is easily confused with that of battleships, but it really doesn't seem to be there.

The Japanese communications only revealed the location of the Fengxiang fleet, and it seemed that the small aircraft carrier became bait. The landing convoy was still at Truko and Rabaul, and after the inexplicable loss of the 1st Division, the Army began to hesitate to transport infantry at the same time in naval battles, and they no longer believed in the Navy's promises, and had to wait for the Navy to take the U.S. Navy before they could safely send their forces up, although this would be a sudden loss.

The Japanese Army was at a stalemate in the central mountains of Guinea from Lae and was in a stalemate with the Australian army, but if the landing was successful, it would be equivalent to cutting off the retreat of the Australian army, and the enemy could be in chaos without a fight, similar to the situation in Burma.

The reconnaissance of the long-distance US fleet by using the deep-water channel in the deep water area shows that the US military is in a hurry to prevent this from happening. The characteristics of the main engine of the US military were a Yorktown-class aircraft carrier, a Lexington-class, and another with an unfamiliar voice, presumably a Wasp-class or a heavy cruiser.

Cheng Dayang faces a huge challenge. He faced several difficult problems, first of all, how to sabotage the Japanese army's plan and prevent the Japanese army from occupying Guinea. The second problem is not to expose oneself, the third is the lack of weapons, and the three problems are mutually contained. He had several discussions with the political commissar and Shu Ping, and decided that there was no way to take a corner, and it would be most unwise to secretly help the Allies when the two sides were fighting, sink enough Japanese ships to force them to abandon the landing, and launch enough weapons to sink the enemy landing ships, but he also had a disassembled nuclear bomb that could be used as a last resort.

Considering the inadequacy of *, even if it is a key target, it is necessary to use anti-ship * as much as possible to do this job, which of course leads to tactical limitations.

At present, the Japanese fleet was divided into two parts, and there was no radio communication between them, which was the same feature as it was during the battle on Wake Island; The strange part is that several successive large fleet movements in search of the enemy, but they did not go very far south, did not go beyond the Calvados Atoll, and each time only hastily took off bombers from the Fengxiang, attacked Moresby, and then hastily collected the troops. I don't know what hampered the enemy's actions.

Cheng Dayang noticed this situation from the enemy's navigation chart, and found that although the route of each sortie was extremely complicated, it seemed that it was deployed around Shortland Island, which obviously ran counter to the aircraft carrier combat theory, and the aircraft carrier, as a strike weapon crossing the ocean, did not need to rely on ground bases. The range of its current operations is also far from reaching the Coral Sea, the site of the first aircraft carrier encounter between Japan and the United States in history.

He walked around the command cabin, thinking about possibilities.

"Commissar, do you see anything famous?" He suddenly asked, "The Japanese are in a big battle, but they are holding back if they don't stay away from Shortland. The Americans probably didn't dare to get too close. ”

"yes, every time I don't move forward."

"So, what must they be afraid of?" Shu Ping said on the side that under normal circumstances, he only provides various sobering questions, and rarely makes concluding remarks.

"Yes, what Shu Ping said is exactly what I want to figure out. If you want to lure the U.S. military into taking the bait, the best way is to prove that you exist. At present, army planes are also attacking Port Moresby, and the Fengxiang has dispatched more than a dozen planes, and the other party may not be aware of it. It's better to bomb the port of Queensland, then the matter will be clear, Australia has been shaken, and the American fleet must come to the rescue. ”

"Haven't you ever thought that Lae and Shortland both have seaplanes? And other inland airports do not. Shu Ping said.

"But what role can seaplanes play in a decisive aircraft carrier battle?" Cheng Dayang said.

"I only know that now I am facing the Japanese Navy that has been dialed by the traverser, and all the doubts cannot be easily let go, and behind every unreasonable doubt, there must be a reasonable explanation."

"Mechanical. Don't play dumb riddles, say what you think. ”

"Seaplanes have a long range, they can go as far as New Caledonia or the Coral Sea, but they still don't dare to go too far, which shows that they value the timeliness of seaplanes. At present, they are not more than 700 kilometers away from both seaplane airports. That is, they want the battlefield of the future to be within an hour and a half of the seaplane. ”

"Is it to save the pilot who has fallen overboard?" The commissar said.

"I don't want to draw conclusions, I propose to surface at the right time and observe the enemy's air movements with radar."

"I agree with that. Maybe they will practice tactics according to the situation they envisioned, and they can't overhear it by radio, but they can see it by radar. ”

"Report, U.S. task force appeared near Santa Cruz Island."

"There are still a few days to go. I don't know how the situation will evolve. The captain said with a frown.

"If we don't make a move, of course we will be more than lucky." Shu Ping shook his head and said.