Tao Mingzhang's troops attacked south along the narrow peninsula with great momentum, and his intention was to not give the enemy a foothold to go ashore and drive the enemy in the direction of Singapore, while he himself seized the time to take advantage of the narrow terrain of the peninsula and establish several lines of defense.

One of the enemy's destroyers, already trapped in the vicinity of Mergui and unable to form any breakthrough, meant that the second wave of the enemy, who went ashore on transports, had to rely on the port. The situation became very favorable for the 201st Division.

Although the attack in this direction is only a diversion action, it depends on whether it can maximize the main offensive of Chu Tingchang and relieve his worries.

Tao Mingzhang's reserve, the 205th Division, has been led by Xiong Xianghui, taking advantage of the gap between the US army's supplies to occupy the railway, this unit, this is a youth division formed with the best soldiers, Xiong Xianghui has established a secret party organization in the unit, completely controlling every battalion. He hoped that in the future, he would be able to use this unit as an opportunity to send officers to various key positions to the entire Chu Tingchang Group Army, but the troops were still very naïve in terms of tactics and needed to hone their ranks, and it was a good way to train troops by fighting a few defensive battles with the disabled Sakagaki troops.

On the other hand, after Lin Xiuxuan discovered that Makino was not in Thailand, he quickly led the leading troops to continue south, preparing to join Ma Qiang and open a passage for Tao Mingzhang's main force.

He always felt that something was wrong when he sat in the car, although after interrogating dozens of people, it was roughly certain that Makino was not present at this base.

It seems that we have to find out from the information in that box.

It took him an hour to look at the contents of the box and correct many deviations in judgment. Sometimes, just by eavesdropping on a drone or radio to observe an opponent, it is still impossible to clearly know Makino's intentions, so you can only guess from your own shoes.

In 419, led by Shu Ping, a simulated confrontation group has long been set up, specifically from the perspective of Makino, guessing his intentions, and verifying it through drone reconnaissance, but in general, it is inevitable that it will deviate more and more from the facts, and now it has finally found an opportunity to verify.

It seems that most of Shuping's conjectures are reliable, and he predicted in the most rational way the technical route that Makino might implement from the current state of Japanese industry, and of course also referred to Makino's character. Makino is not such a radical technical reformist, he is not ambitious, but takes a step-by-step approach to his goals. Judging from the types of * and * used in the Biburi base, they tend to be conservative, the speed of * is very low, the simple sequential logic circuit, only tracks the target with strong sound intensity, and cannot recognize different voiceprints, even if the general deep water * can interfere with * tracking. The most conservative magnetic fuse is used. The Yanlong* bomber did not have a radar installed, but used optical aiming, and the reticle followed the radar antenna. In the case of backwardness in basic science, he was able to come up with such a technical route of retreating into advance.

The other thing in the box that is worth pondering is a strange calendar, not the usual one, a calendar that can be torn for a year, it looks thick, and there are two years and three months left.

After he flipped through the calendar, he suddenly held it up, his previous judgment was wrong, and the owner of the box may not be one of Makino's deputies, but Makino himself. If it was just Makino's subordinates, it seems that he should not have brought such a thing. Whoever carries this thing should be someone who is in control of the overall situation and has a strong sense of urgency.

The last page of the calendar is not August 15, but July 16, which seems to be the first * successful day, which shows that of all Makino's plans, the thing that will eventually turn Japan around should be nuclear weapons.

Some of the pages on the calendar, along with some annotations, seem to be predictors of key progress. This made Lin even more convinced that the owner of this calendar should be Makino himself, and any of his assistants could only be in charge, and it was impossible for him to have such a complete and profound understanding of the overall plan.

These points include: gas-separating uranium-235 units at the end of '43, heavy water reactor construction at the beginning of '44, centrifugal separators at the beginning of '44, air-launched* in March '44, full-fledged versions of guidance* in August '43*, reliable radars at the end of '43, axial jet engines at the end of '43, mass-produced transistors in September '43, reliable magnetrons in July '43...... In short, Paul is everything. It seems scattered, but if you think about it carefully, the sequence of these completed nodes is related, such as reliable magnetrons and effective out-of-sight radars, which are three months earlier.

That is, to balance the control of Japanese resources and technological breakthroughs, so that the weapons progress, according to their own preset schedule, do not waste the weak Japanese industrial power.

To put it simply, the meticulousness of using these devices, and then manufacturing:*, radar and jet planes, and then moving towards mass production, really surprised Lin Xiuxuan.

It seems that Makino is most worried about time, he should know that among these many technologies, any delay may cause the entire project to lag behind, which 419 does not fully recognize, it seems that the next stage can also focus on hitting key nodes. He immediately had an idea that in the end, Makino's *ization would inevitably require reliance on electronic signal amplifiers, whether tubes or transistors, and that eliminating their production capacity would be the most efficient way. ，

Of course, this is all for later, since it can be determined that the box belongs to Makino himself, and he did not escape by plane, then killing him is obviously the best way to get farther and farther away.

He immediately sent a telegram to his subordinates, who were still searching near the airport, demanding that every body be examined and that people search the 30-kilometre perimeter of the airport. He didn't expect Makino to be in those hundreds of corpses that hadn't been identified yet, and things would definitely not be that simple. But Makino shouldn't have been able to run far, so he hid somewhere nearby.

It's a pity that 419 has left, and it is impossible to mobilize medium-sized UAVs to reconnoiter a certain area around the airport, and every time the opportunity to catch the Japanese traverser appears, there are always other unfortunate things that appear, making trouble for yourself, maybe the disturbance theory is working again.

He decided to abandon the southward march with his troops and instead return to the airfield to personally direct the search. His two pioneer battalions were handed over to Ma Qiang to command. Of course, this will cause dissatisfaction with Major Li Bingkun, who is leading the troops, because Ma Qiang is only a lieutenant. However, it doesn't matter if he is not satisfied, let Tao Mingzhang find an excuse to put Li Bingkun in the air, or transfer him away.

Li Bingkun was calling Tao Mingzhang to inform the newcomer, Major Lin Linqi, that he had wasted seven or eight hours attacking a base that was not on the marching route last night, and had only gone south in the morning according to the order, and had just suddenly led another battalion back. It's just a child's play like a war, and how much precious gasoline is wasted.

In the rear, Tao Mingzhang also received reports from Lin Xiuxuan and Li Bingkun at the same time, of course he would not sue the chief of staff behind his back, and take it too seriously, because Lin Xiuxuan's telegram clearly informed him that he had a chance once and for all, and the Japanese traverser might be cats somewhere nearby.

He immediately sent a telegram to Li Bingkun: Telling him to immediately lead his troops to join Lieutenant Ma Qiang, who was directly under the military headquarters, and in view of Lieutenant Ma Qiang's familiarity with the local terrain and the command of the troops, he would temporarily hand it over to Ma Qiang. Li Bingkun is responsible for collecting enemy information.

This telegram made the chief of staff snort to mention, and after Ma Qiang joined up with his troops, he immediately launched an attack on the enemy, who had been barricaded on the beach for a whole day, unable to advance or retreat. These Japanese did not know the coastal terrain, so they came up to the beach casually, but the beach was surrounded by cliffs, and they couldn't find a way out in a hurry. As a result, the commanding heights were completely held by the condescending airborne troops. After losing 500 people, the Japanese army lost their fighting spirit and no longer launched an attack, and Ma Qiang did not rush down, and in one fell swoop to solve the remaining thousand men, he has been waiting for the artillery and tanks behind to arrive.

Li Bingkun came with two motorized battalions, brought 8 M1 mountain guns and 4 light tanks, he happily handed over the military power to the lieutenant, and secretly stayed near Ma Qiang's headquarters, waiting to collect Ma Qiang's mistakes so that he could make a small report. He had already heard that there were more than 1,000 Japanese troops on the beach, where was it so easy to deal with? A mere lieutenant, even if he knows some terrain, it is impossible to deal with so many Japanese, the Japanese can't find the way to come, the tanks of the 201st Division should not be able to get up, he estimates that the battle should be a stalemate, it will drag on for about three days, so the time of the division commander Tao Mingzhang will be delayed, so he is happy to temporarily hand over the command to the lieutenant. However, the lieutenant boasted that before sunset, all Japanese troops were annihilated.

Li Bingkun secretly sneered in his heart, of course the cow didn't blow like this, where is it so easy to annihilate a thousand Japanese soldiers. However, he modestly patted Ma Qiang on the shoulder and encouraged him to give it a try.

When the time comes, Division Commander Tao Mingzhang will know how unwise it is to hand over the command to the already lieutenant.

At noon, the Japanese destroyers realized that the infantry could not break through here, so they decided to continue south to seize other ports, and decisively abandoned the landing troops.

Now Ma Qiang's eight cannons formed an overwhelming advantage, and soon the beach of about a thousand enemy troops from the open area, near a tidal sandbar, and beyond that the enemy had some reefs to rely on.

Ma Qiang, with the support of drones, completely mastered the terrain of the ambush, and he knew a riverbed where tanks could pass, and when the Japanese attacked, the tide was rising and the riverbed was not found. Now that the water level has dropped, the tank can drive directly to the beach with the help of a gravel riverbed.

The shelling blew up the Japanese and they decided to hold the beach and wait for backups, but the Chinese tanks soon appeared from a distance and began to outflank the enemy's rear, and the Japanese immediately fell into despair. Forced to continue to retreat, and finally relied on the reef on the coast, stabilized his footing, and even successfully destroyed a tank with an anti-aircraft gun that ran aground here in the morning.

Ma Qiang personally observed the terrain from the cliff, after all, he was a scout, and soon realized that the enemy's defense formed by using the reef was difficult for light tanks to penetrate.

The 47mm gun, hiding behind the reef and only exposing the barrel, was not easy to deal with.

He ordered the tanks to block the beach, not to let the Japanese infantry escape, the tide will rise in two hours, he has detailed tide information, he knows that the reef area will be swallowed by the sea before sunset, so let the Japanese guard it.