From Onishi's report, Yamamoto can get very optimistic information, such as the * machine does not have to pass through the enemy's densest fire net to be able to throw * from about 2 kilometers away, as long as the target is within 60 degrees of the * front sector, it can find the target by itself, and then track the tail power part of the explosion, if the depth is set reasonably, Japan's oxygen * advantage can make the enemy unable to discover the direction of the attack. It sounds like the ultimate weapon that can end naval warfare, a magic weapon that can easily neutralize the huge production capacity of American warships, but Makino can only provide ten of these* to participate in this campaign.

Although Yamamoto was itching, he decided to respect Makino's decision, and he could only instruct Onishi to devise a complex plan, in which one of the attack planes in the group would carry and throw guidance*, and once it hit the target and it lost power, the other planes would throw a direct course* at the stalled warship, which would save ammunition.

Of course, the British fleet staying on the coast of India is no longer what it was more than a year ago, and its aircraft carriers are equipped with more effective radars, and a new carrier-based fighter based on the Spitfire, which has strong air combat capabilities, which is what Onishi needs to take into account, which is the reason why he transferred the 251st Air Force (Tainan Air Force) veterans from Taiwan, because in the vicinity of Hawaii and New Zealand, the new Essex-class aircraft carriers of the US military have been found many times (although no fighters have been found on the deck). The task of defending the homeland has become severe, and such a move can undoubtedly only be very short-lived. Onishi pinned his hopes on the British army to take the bait and be annihilated in one fell swoop, which would not only allow the Burmese army to escape, but also allow for a practical evaluation of the effectiveness of the new weapons; As gamblers, he and Yamamoto were looking forward to something like this.

The spies sent by the British to the Malay Peninsula constantly sent back information about the Japanese ships passing through the Strait of Malacca, most of them were light cruisers, and the others were destroyers, which were not small in scale, but there was no warship of more than 6,000 tons. The spy checked the enemy ship identification manual and discovered that the largest warship was the light cruiser Onifury. In addition, spies discovered that Japanese Army transports, clustered east of Malacca, did not enter the Andaman Sea with the fleet. It is clear that the Army has little confidence in the Navy.

This time the Japanese Navy re-entered the Bay of Bengal, long since a year ago, the Nagumo Fleet swept through the Eastern Fleet, all the way to Sri Lanka's grand lineup, it is obvious that the fatigue of the Japanese Empire has been revealed. This did make the British a little bit eager to try it.

Admiral Summer, commander of the Eastern Fleet, judged that this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, for the Japanese were still invincible in some theaters, but their flaws were wide open, and the British Empire's presence in South Asia was being severely tested, and it was time to show its strength to the leaders of the national independence movement, the rampaging Chinese warlords, and the American allies with evil intentions. There is nothing more indicative of the military might of an empire than a single big victory. In his opinion, such a victory as the capture of Rangoon may be captured by the Chinese, then what the navy can do is to take the Andaman Islands, which is known to have few Japanese troops, and with the fall of Burma, the Japanese army is likely to withdraw its forces from the island itself. It is completely possible to push Zhou down the river and use a simultaneous attack by land and sea to capture the islands.

Of course, there was no shortage of opposition, with many arguing that the air support provided by the three light aircraft carriers was too weak, and that entering the area south of Burma would inevitably face attacks by Japanese land-based aircraft deployed on the Malay Peninsula and the Andaman Islands.

Admiral Summer, judging the situation, decided that the time had come to destroy the broken fleet, and whether to seize the island depended on the strength of the Japanese counterattack. The information he obtained showed that the naval planes deployed by the Japanese army in Andaman were very old, and there were only a few dozen Type 97 carrier-based aircraft with landing gear that could not be recovered, which belonged to the equipment that the front-line troops had obsolete and were obsolete from the front-line troops, while the Thai army planes had been exhausted in the battle against Chu Tingchang and were unlikely to be put into naval combat. What's more, the cooperation between the Japanese Navy and Army has always been very bad.

Sending such a weak fleet was actually Yamamoto's idea, and what he was most afraid of was for the British to retreat, and he didn't have time for the British to waste. So, he needs to reassure the enemy, he is well aware that enemy submarines are constantly near Malacca, sending spies, and the number of radio stations has recently doubled, which is a sign that the enemy is about to take the bait.

Admiral Somerville, full of confidence, stood on the bridge of the flagship warweary, a thirty-year-old ship, but if the intelligence about the enemy fleet was correct, the eight 15-inch main guns on this ship alone could deal with the entire detachment of Mikawa Junichi.

Three years ago in the Mediterranean, this old battleship, from a staggering 24 kilometers away, hit the Italian capital ship Count Cavour, forcing it to flee the battlefield, and then in the Battle of Cape Matapan, these main guns, in one fell swoop, destroyed three Italian heavy cruisers, which can be described as a treasure sword.

Of course, this old ship is not without new equipment, and new electronic jamming equipment has been installed on both sides of the warship to deal with remote-controlled weapons that may be used by the enemy. This is a countermeasure device developed based on the new Japanese weapons encountered by the Americans in naval battles near the Coral Sea. Such equipment can create noise interference that can cause the enemy to lose control of weapons controlled by shortwave commands.

Although it is not clear why the Japanese have advanced their guided weapons technology by leaps and bounds, the source of this weapon may have come from Germany. Half a month ago, two warships of the Mediterranean Fleet were attacked by the German remote-controlled glider*, one of which hit the Revenge without exploding and was completely captured. This technology is not complicated, many years ago, the United States and Britain began to study the same type of weapons, and the corresponding jamming equipment has already been prototyped, and the test has shown that the existing * can completely destroy the enemy's command.

The laboratory concluded that the commands of such weapons are actually very easy to jam, especially when the ammunition is close to the target, and the low-power interference source near the target can cancel out the high-power command control at the control end at a long distance. Therefore, before the breakthrough of radio control technology, this weapon cannot be truly put into practical use.

The technical route that may make this weapon free from interference and move towards practical use is the inverter technology that the Americans are studying. The technology was patented in the United States only last year, and it is believed that the spies in the United States and Japan have not yet heard enough information, and the current project is presided over by a female scientist, and the current goal is to encrypt communications, and then command anti-jamming, and it is estimated that there will be no real results in a few years.

Somerville sent the light aircraft carrier USS Unicorn to the front of the fleet and used the reconnaissance planes taken off from the aircraft carrier to serve as reconnaissance missions, while the two powerful fleet aircraft carriers, the Indomitable and the Dreadnought, remained in the rear to defend the main fleet. He still grouped the slower battleship and aircraft carrier fleets together, and there was still a gap between him and the Japanese and US ideas of grouping aircraft carriers and fast warships separately. After the sinking of the Prince of Wales, Britain finally managed to reassemble an Eastern Fleet, but it did not dare to be sloppy.

April 6, 1943, Qingming.

The British Army Headquarters in India received a telegram from Chu Ting, the commander of the Chinese Fifth Army, informing him that it was a Halloween day in the month of Bingchen, and it was not appropriate to use swords, and the fleet would be fierce when it went out to the southeast.

In short, in order to wait for the telegram to be translated, Vivier waited all morning. And then Vivier found out what the was this? It seems that the Chinese are also fighting for power in Myanmar in order to compete with the British Empire, and even come up with this trick.

He immediately inquired about the intelligence department, and learned that Chu Tingchang's army was attacking as usual today, in the direction of the southeast, which shows that he himself did not carry out this as usual. Chu Tingchang's engagement in this set of oriental mysticism is really hateful. He crumpled the telegram and threw it into the waste paper heap.

Of course, what the admiral didn't understand was that the navy left the port of Chennai to attack the Andaman Sea, and only the high-ranking British and American officers knew, how did Chief Chu Tingchang know? Could it be that the Americans leaked the intelligence again? He'd heard that the Americans had been working on this set of things lately.

In the temporary camp of Chief Chu Ting, he and Lin Xiuxuan waited for Tao Mingzhang to arrive. This effort, 419 came, and the intelligence of the British fleet's entry into the Andaman Sea was discovered, and the recent radio communications of the Japanese were kept secret, but Lin Xiuxuan saw that the situation was wrong. Because the radar of 419 detected the movement of Japanese aircraft, it was obvious that the Japanese fleet did not come blindly. In this fleet, the Japanese army did not dispatch the two warships loaded with * that emerged in the naval battle of the US army, but sent more than a dozen small boats, based on Lin Xiuxuan's understanding of Yamamoto, although he was a gambler, he would never go to the gambling table that was bound to lose, especially to save the army.

So it is likely that this fleet is just a decoy, and the land-based aviation will use some kind of new weapons related to Makino, he does not dare to say, but there is a great chance. Chief Chu could only try to pretend to be a ghost and scare the British and let them retire for a while. He boasted that he had fought a lot of immortal battles in northern Burma, and now there are many supporters of Qimen Dunjia among the American and British soldiers, who may be able to play some role, but the British aristocracy is still different from ordinary people, and is very stubbornly resisting this superstitious activity. As soon as the telegram was gone, the stone sank into the sea.

But I can't control them for the time being, Tao Mingzhang has already rushed downstairs, and the formation that was set yesterday turned out to be that Xiong Xianghui already has a bottom and has not worked, so I will put it again today.

Tao Mingzhang went downstairs to the palace, and the soldiers only told him to go up to the second floor and go through the corridor to enter.

He hurried to the gate, and was about to knock on the door, the door opened automatically, and it was Ma Qiang who was stopped by himself a few days ago, and the two looked at each other, Ma Qiang did not mean to salute him. He walked in quickly, and Qin Xiaosu, who was also present that day, was remotely controlling a small drone. The drone flew in front of Tao Mingzhang's eyes.