Nagumo led a huge fleet to search for the British fleet day and night, and if this battle was won, not only the Pacific Ocean, but also the enemy in the Indian Ocean would be wiped out. But he didn't know that Asano had let the Allies get the password, and the British had learned of Yamamoto's plan to lure the enemy in advance, and were not tempted by Ozawa's fleet with Ryūsho as the core, so they decisively gave up the Bay of Bengal and fled westward.

The mobile forces did not give up and tried to intercept the fleeing British fleet; The second squadron of the fleet striker catches up with the broken British light aircraft carrier Athletic near the Pauk Strait. The Wyvern then attacked, half-crippling the Athletic, limping through the strait under the cover of roadbed aviation, unable to catch up with the rest of the forces, and had to suspend Colombo for repairs.

Nagumo was hesitating whether to chase through the strait in one fell swoop and completely sink the Athletic God and the rest of the fleet. But Yamamoto suddenly shouted a halt and demanded to return immediately.

Nagumo was forced to turn around, and the last British fleet in the Indian Ocean escaped, but this fleet did not have the courage to continue to return to the tiger's whiskers, and the Athletic God hastily repaired its power, balanced the hull, and fled to Diego Garcia Island overnight, allowing dozens of merchant ships in the Bay of Bengal to be sunk by the Japanese fleet.

Yamamoto's telegram requesting the revocation of the battle was simple and abrupt, because he had already spent too much money, knowing that what Asano said was true, and that the message was indeed unreliable. He decided to listen to Asano's plan and make a mistake.

Obviously, the U.S. Navy is looking for fighters in the Pacific Ocean, and when the five aircraft carriers of the Combined Fleet are gathered together, they will hide far away, and once they are dispersed into several teams, they will follow the loopholes in the communication code step by step, and they don't even bother to find them.

Now Yamamoto is determined to deal with the remnants of the fleet in the hands of Nimitz in the first half of the year. This determination depends on two factors. One is to launch a lure battle to lure the enemy into your encirclement; Another factor is that he believes that it may not be a bad thing for the enemy to disperse his forces and use an aircraft carrier group to attack Tokyo with B25 bombers. This is the result of his trade-offs.

Of course, he could have waited for the American fleet to appear on his home soil, but he was too passive; After the change in history, it is likely that the time and route of the attack as Asano knew it had changed; Luring the enemy near the Coral Sea is more proactive and can effectively support the Army's operations in New Guinea, where the Army's progress is currently slow. Asano's report made it clear that the enemy's B25 attack was symbolic, politically more significant than military, and favored the warfighter cabinet to bring Japan into the wartime regime in advance. Yamamoto felt that what Asano said was not unreasonable.

Makino rejected Onishi's request to modify the engine part of the V1*, but he perked himself up a bit and began to intervene in the investigation of the disappearance of the transport fleet.

After the start of the war, Japanese nuclear physicists began to design and build centrifugal separation equipment in small batches at the behest of the military department, and the first batch of 500,000 yen was allocated, which was not the same as the Manhattan Project that was launched at the same time.

Disappointed, Yoshio Nishina and Shinichiro Asaga received a message from the Minister of Commerce and Industry of the Cabinet, hoping that they would take the time to go to Sato's private residence to study new issues.

Both of them were people who had participated in the secret meeting of Makino before the war, and they knew that Nobusuke Kishi's invitation was very important. So Nishina Yoshihiro secretly went to the official residence that night, had a thorough long talk with Makino, and then left with a notebook. The notebook contains Makino's formula about Professor Sato, which he compiled from his recollections, as well as several photos taken by the Yukikaze. Makino hopes that a nuclear physicist can help him with some questions.

As a result, after waiting for several days, there was no response from the Imperial University, and Makino waited anxiously, at a loss. He was born as an engineer and had no theoretical ability, but during the preparation before the crossing, Sato personally presided over a brief explanation course on the theory of the crossing, which he and Hasegawa participated in as technicians, and Asano was not invited because he was only a low-level clerk who managed the archives.

The knowledge of the course is simply explained, so at the time I only thought I knew a little about it, and now I can only write down everything I can recall for the reference of the best talents in Japan in this era. The reason why he recovered from decadence was because subconsciously, he felt the greatest crisis.

Completely different from the overly optimistic Asano, he thought of a different kind of extreme situation, and the final fate of Japan may be even more terrible than the original unconditional surrender of two tens of thousands of tons*.

This thought lingered in his mind. Japan may face a more formidable adversary than the industrialized United States, simply because of this self-defeating crossing.

As for what this abstract opponent is, he still doesn't dare to make clear assumptions, maybe it's a countermeasure of disturbance, maybe something else, the signs of existence are becoming more and more obvious, but he doesn't dare to face things lightly.

On the tenth day, the result was finally obtained, this time it was Shinichiro Asaga who quietly visited at night, avoiding the continuous visits of Yoshio Nishina, and possibly being suspicious of the military department. Asaga brought with him a stack of materials, much thicker than the notebook, and it was clear that they hadn't done nothing these days.

The two did not have any extra greetings and went directly to substantive discussions. Eisaku Sato sat aside, but didn't interject.

"Makino-kun, in my experience, these photos are very unusual." He said as he spread out the photographs taken from the foredeck of the snowy wind on the table, "The noise is probably due to the fact that the film has been irradiated and inadequate exposure has occurred in advance. ”

"Radiation?"

"Well, I have some say in this, when I was in Europe, I had a small leak of radioactive material from a laboratory, and I was carrying a camera at the time, and the situation was strikingly similar to this one."

"So, can you confirm the nature?" Makino asked.

"It's not certain yet, but if you can go to the Yukikaze and take a radioactive measurement, there will be a definite result."

"But this warship is currently operating in the South Pacific, its location is secret, and it is impossible for the Navy to let civilians board the ship."

"Well, let's not talk about this for now, and the formula you mentioned last time. Teacher Nishina and I think that is a self-consistent formula, after all, your presence here fully shows that time travel is feasible. Hey......" Chaoyong said with a sigh.

"If it weren't for the war, Einstein could even be involved in research, but now, he has become the leader of the enemy country."

"Well, his influence led to the Manhattan Project."

"The most puzzling part of this formula is the calculation of mass. It consisted of several parts," said Asahaga, lighting his pipe, "and my teacher noticed that each part was unbalanced, such as the age you traveled through did not correspond to the preset values, and the powerful damage to the ship was different from what was expected; In the beginning, we tend to say that the formula itself is wrong; However, just add a fixed value and all the calculations will give you the expected value. It's really puzzling and fascinating. ”

"You mean adding a mass?"

"Yes, you didn't see any other ships on the sea that day, did you?"

"Of course not. Kasugamaru has a top radar that makes it possible to spot approaching ships even at night. ”

"That's weird, I calculated, if your ship weighs 1.1 times, everything will be perfectly balanced. Therefore, within one kilometer of Kasuga Maru, there should be a metal object of more than 10,000 tons. ”

"No, I'm sure of that, there are absolutely no other ships."

"So...... What about the bottom of the sea? ”

Asaga further raised his doubts, and the two sides were at a stalemate for several minutes, and Makino stopped talking a few times, and finally Asaga decided to move on to the next topic.

"There are currently two schemes for separating uranium-235, gas diffusion and gas centrifugation. It's all very difficult to be honest, and considering the technological base of Japan, and the extent to which the United States is already ahead, I feel desperate that we don't even have an experimental reactor. In fact, half a year ago, the day you told me that such a theoretical weapon was possible, I spent every day in trepidation and uneasiness. The people from the military department only know the timetable, but we don't have enough electricity to purify, we need the power supply of the whole city. The current appropriation is only sufficient to maintain theoretical calculations. ”

Asahi extinguished his cigarette and hugged his head in pain.

"Is it really necessary to enter into a nuclear race with the Americans?" Makino muttered to himself. "Once you're in, it's time to live and die."

"If it were a few cores * that sank the fleet, all the problems would be solved, and that urgency would have come to an eye-catching moment." "Maybe you know the history of superficiality, the Americans have acquired this technology in advance, and for some reason, they have lied in propaganda," Asahaga said. ”

"It's possible." Makino nodded earnestly.

"Of course, it may just be a concentrated correction caused by the accumulation of disturbances for half a year, such as an incident like a Tunguska explosion." Chaoyong said to himself. His mind is very active, and he jumps very fast, and Makino can't keep up.

"If that's the first case, what can we do?" Makino said blankly.

"Kasugamaru, Makino-kun." Chaoyong suddenly said, "Only you can preside over this matter and fish it up." For Japan's sake, for science's sake, please. Let me see those technologies of the future. ”

Makino stared at each other blankly, and from Chaoyong's eyes, it was more or less out of consideration for the future of the war, and more purely because of the scientist's fascination with future technology.

"Do you really think it's useful to salvage it now?"

"You said that there is more information on the ship, and we can HD all the mysteries."

"This thing ......"

"Makino-kun," said Eisaku Sato, who seemed to have disappeared on the side, "Please, for the sake of 100 million Japanese people and the future of Japanese children, please help me with this." ”

Saying that, Sato prostrate on the ground and made a big salute. Asahi Yongzhi on the side didn't say much, he took out a match and lit a second cigarette.

Yangon, Myanmar.

Shojiro Iida decided to launch a second offensive in a few days, not giving the Allies a respite. He divided Burma, bounded by the Irrawaddy River, into east and west. Unlike the previous offensive, this time he was no longer pretentious, but was ready to attack both parts at the same time. Of course, he still has a strange army in his hands, ready to kill the loophole created by the Chinese and British armies fighting each other, and he does not need to guess when and where this loophole will appear; Although the last offensive was not perfect, he observed a deep contradiction between the Chinese and British armies; Obviously, as soon as pressure is applied, this contradiction will erupt.

He began to actively deploy troops and firepower, waiting for the 5th Division to go ashore, while the southern organs took advantage of the advantages of ground engineering to actively collect information. The base camp set a timetable for them to invade northern Myanmar before the rainy season, and he still had three months to go.