On the first day of the Cairo meeting, the Big Three met behind closed doors, and Chu Tingchang did not participate.

He and Lin Xiuxuan seized the time to discuss the next countermeasures. The current situation seems to be very favorable to 419, Makino has not appeared for a long time, whether he is dead or alive, this person seems to be losing energy. Now is the time to consider how to cut off the Japanese army's connection between the mainland and Southeast Asia by land, which may force the Japanese to draw forces from the mainland to fight the 5th Army in a decisive battle in Vietnam. However, at this critical moment, the British suddenly became radical and suddenly had an idea to land in Indonesia, presumably to see a little sign and want to increase their presence in Southeast Asia.

Breaking through the Japanese blockade in Malacca and opening up the Pacific Ocean with the Indian Ocean is of high strategic value. That's probably what Churchill told Roosevelt. Roosevelt was a deep and resourceful strategist, but he was not shrewd in small ways, and Chu Tingchang could appeal to the common good to impress him, and presumably Churchill could too.

Due to the appearance of the Sino-Japanese crossers, the current situation has changed a lot from the original time and space, and the army of Commander Chu Dinh is about to cut off Vietnam. In this way, the Japanese army had only three departure points to choose from for sea transportation: the mainland coast, the mainland, and Taiwan.

"The British are going to attack Sumatra. Churchill persuaded Roosevelt to replace Sun Liren's new army with his army. That's what I just got from Stilwell. Lao Chiang readily agreed, and he was also anxious to pull the Burmese troops back to deal with Okamura Ningji's actions in Henan and Hubei. Just yesterday, Henan's national army collapsed again, and if it weren't for Lao Zhou's annihilation of the mountain, this time the chairman would really be ugly. Chu Tingchang said.

"Why don't you just attack the Malays?"

"I think that because of the small number of Japanese troops in Sumatra, after the 2nd Division was transferred to Malaysia to attack Tao Mingzhang, there was only one 25th Army left in the entire Sumatra, as well as the following two brigades and troops directly under the military headquarters, but the timing was right. Seeing that Itagaki Seishiro had concentrated heavy troops in Malay and held the Strait of Malacca, the British obviously did not dare to compete with it, and planned to occupy the Sunda Strait, which could be regarded as opening a passage. ”

What Chu Tingchang said is the Tao, and the analysis is quite reasonable. The British had just finished fighting North Africa, and this year there may be another landing on Italy in Europe, but not on a large scale. So Churchill tried his best to do something here, with the aim of excluding too much Chinese influence from entering Southeast Asia in the event of the early collapse of the Japanese army, after all, the British Empire still needed to maintain decency in the face of the nascent superpower. And Lao Chiang also seems to be happy to take back the American-style troops, on the one hand, to save the defeat, and on the other hand, he probably wants to lay out the post-war layout.

"According to the intelligence of 419, in the whole of Sumatra, there are only more than 30,000 Japanese troops, while in the Malay Peninsula and Singapore, there are 170,000 Japanese troops, and it must be admitted that the British did find the softest persimmon. However, this is indeed good for hastening the collapse of the Japanese Army. ”

"I think so too. Leader. ”

"There is one more thing that was not explained thoroughly last time. I've thought about it for the past two days and think we need to talk about it again. ”

"That's not going to work!" Chief Chu immediately realized that Lin Xiuxuan wanted to talk about the second miss of the Kong family, "Yesterday, Song Meiling sent someone to send a photo, and it looks like it's really not what you said...... And I heard that the orientation of these two young ladies is also very strange, and she is a ......"

"Don't just see the negative factors, you must see the positive parts, which is very beneficial to the execution of our mission, and this is almost the easiest way to suppress Lao Jiang's suspicion of you. I think if Lao Cheng and Lao Pan were here, they would also agree. ”

"Yes, they'll agree, especially Captain Cheng, I guess, he'll laugh from tears when he knows about it. But have you guys taken into account my feelings? Chu Tingchang looked very negative, he knew that not only 419 three people, if Yan'an was allowed to make a decision, there was a high probability that he would agree.

"Slow, slow, Song Meiling has sent photos? Why didn't you say it earlier? ”

"It's not about chatting with Roosevelt for three points, and the rise of the chat, forgetting about it."

"What did she say?"

"She said that she hoped that we would meet, so that I would not be embarrassed, I would not have to go to China, and I could let the second lady go to India, saying that it would be just in time to meet me on my return trip."

"Hehe, she knows that you don't dare to go back to China, how thoughtful are you?" Lin Xiuxuan nodded sincerely, "Then I'll make a decision, let's meet first, right?" This way the return trip will at least be safer, if you refuse now, it will definitely arouse the suspicion of Lao Jiang, and Xu Chong and I may not be able to take care of it. ”

"You're saying that just to meet in person, I can choose to refuse?" Chu Tingchang said tentatively.

"I can't force people either. You really don't think it's feasible, and when the time comes, you want to batch a batch of people, and you can't say it's compatible. You don't need me to teach you this. But in any case, even if you refuse, you must wait for the end, and don't leave Dai Li's time window to plan the action. ”

"Okay, great, with your words, I must have dragged it until the last second. By the way, team leader, after returning, is the next move decided? ”

Chu Tingchang hurriedly diverted this topic that made him uncomfortable.

"We have to go to the East China Sea, and in the next three months, the water temperature will rise to the right place for salvage, and we will have to go and make trouble for the Japanese, and we will have to go into that ship again and find a way back. It's time to do it. ”

"That's great, we can finally go back."

"Do you really want to go back so much?"

"I ......"

Near the Mariana Islands. A large U.S. fleet was constantly on the move, occasionally attacking the Japanese on Tinian Island. Long-range bombers taking off from Solomon airfield have already spotted clues about the Japanese navy, and it looks like they are coming from the south.

Since the Japanese army did not occupy the Solomon Islands, the U.S. Navy and Army could use the bases of the islands to carry out elusive maneuvers in the South Pacific, and its main fleet appeared near Tinian Island, with the purpose of threatening the Japanese army's sea transportation lines and forcing it to fight a decisive battle again.

This action obviously echoed Chu Tingchang's land attack. The imminent loss of Vietnam by the Japanese forces made it necessary for the logistics of its Southeast Asian forces to rely on transportation within the first island chain. And the time is clearly right to threaten the important islands in the second island chain. This was Yamamoto's biggest concern at the time, and Nimitz saw it clearly.

Based on superficial historical understanding, Asano indiscriminately meddled in strategy, leaving a huge hidden danger for the Japanese army and further complicating the situation.

Although there is no longer a brutal war of attrition on Guadalcanal. But the U.S. military's easy occupation of eighty percent of the islands in the Solomon Islands has become a nail in the coffin of the Japanese army's absolute defense, and the bases here have expanded rapidly in the past year, not only as a port of departure for speedboats and submarines, but also as a direct threat to the flanks of the Japanese fleet and bombers departing from here. Even though it was as far away as the Marshall Islands, hanging on the edge of the defensive circle, and still in the hands of the Japanese army, Nimitz did not directly attack the island, but focused on attacking the Japanese convoy that supplied the island.

In recent weeks, Task Force 38 below the 5th Fleet has attacked Micronesia and then turned to Tinian Island in order to lure the Japanese Navy's fleet southward, which was engaged in a blockade near Australia.

Halsey's challenge to the Combined Fleet came from his newly expanded fleet, which for half a year left only one American aircraft carrier in the Pacific, but now his fleet has expanded to seven carriers, including four large aircraft carriers (including three Essex-class) and three Independence-class light carriers. All of these carriers are fleet carriers with a high speed.

However, the main aircraft carriers of the Japanese army have never recovered, and they can only use some modified aircraft carriers to replenish the number and maintain the so-called superiority of 2 to 1 in the number of aircraft carriers of the US fleet. However, due to the slower speed of the modified aircraft carrier, it is bound to greatly limit its ability to maneuver at sea.

During the battle on the east coast of Australia, the US military collected preliminary information on Japan's new weapons, and in the Battle of the Andaman Sea a few months ago, the British Special Air Service Regiment even captured an air-launched version that the Japanese did not have time to destroy. This allowed the Americans to quickly learn about the characteristics and weaknesses of this radar-guided weapon. It is believed that simple electromagnetic interference and aluminum foil strips can interfere with its search device.

Of course, the United States and Britain still tend to believe that the technical source of this weapon comes from Germany, although no similar weapons have been found in Europe, but the body itself is obviously a shrunken V1*.

It looks like a magical hybrid of a lot of still staggering ingenuity (like the amazing seeker without a radio-altimeter section) to a stupidly stupid projectile design.

It seems that the Japanese have carried out * miniaturization design on the basis of V1, encountered the change of center of gravity and aerodynamic problems, their solution is to add a useless counterweight to the rear to balance the center of gravity problem, it can be seen that the V1 design has not been thoroughly understood, the so-called counterweight is actually a piece of pig iron, not even *, perhaps because of the proximity to the tail spout with higher temperature, worried * will be ignited.

The questions that arise are obviously enormous, as if seeing a broken bicycle with a sophisticated gyro navigator installed on it. The weapon seems to have been created by a master designer and a recent undergraduate, and it conveys contradictory messages, ranging from amazing sparks of thought to rough designs that are unbearable to read. But at that time, its chief designer actually had the ability to accumulate so many uneven assemblies into a usable weapon.

It's not hard to crack it, at least it's known that its magnetron technology is still very backward, and using continuous waves for detection, you only need to find the electromagnetic wave signature, and then send back a much more powerful wrong signal, you can drown the incoming * in radio noise, so that its terminal guidance no longer works. Considering that this * flies at an altitude of about 150 meters before entering the dive, it will fly over the warship with a high probability.

The same jamming equipment was being used to reinforce Allied warships in Europe, but the Germans were slow to use this inability to attack.