310 Fall
Jingdong in northern Myanmar, the reception meeting has ended. Senior generals and diplomats surrounded Chiang Kai-shek and his wife like a moon, waiting to be photographed. At such a moment when the Allies were being beaten on all sides and had little power to parry; The leader, who led China against Japan for four years and never surrendered, was almost equivalent to the savior of the Far East. In fact, many foreign newspapers have compared him to Roosevelt or Churchill. Perhaps such an honor is not an exaggeration, but it came too late.
Chu Aiyun, as a low-ranking officer, of course, could only watch from a distance, and a group of people surrounded him to compliment. Jiang Meiling, who had been smiling and pursing his lips, shook hands with people from time to time, but rarely spoke, Song Meiling beside him began to look around for someone, and finally his eyes fell on Chu Aiyun.
When Chu Aiyun participated in women's group activities in Chongqing, he met Song and took a group photo. Sure enough, Song Meiling beckoned to him and asked him to go over and take pictures together. He had no choice but to go over embarrassedly, but he muttered a little, he followed Du Yuming to sort out the information, and naturally knew that the position where the high-ranking officials stood when taking pictures was predetermined according to the rank, and where he could stand.
"Our warriors, come, come here."
Song Meiling called him to him, he came to Jiang, stood upright, and saluted the president. There was a shutter of reporters around, and the air was filled with the scorching smell of magnesium flickering.
"I know you, the loyal rescue warrior who broke through in the plane, graduated from the special officer training class?" Chiang Kai-shek, who spoke Mandarin in the south, actually took the initiative to talk to him.
"Report to the commission, just graduated, currently in the military headquarters of the 5th Army."
"Very good, very good, ten hundred thousand young troops, good steel must be used on the blade."
"I know that I will live up to the expectations of my leaders."
So Chu Aiyun stood in the first row, next to Chennault. forced the future Myanmar's brightest star, William Slim, into the second row.
Stilwell, who was waiting impatiently, turned here slightly, and glanced at Chu Aiyun. He was very dissatisfied with Chiang Kai-shek's Oriental trick of deliberately elevating unknown people and winning the hearts of the people.
Before retiring, a mere Air Force captain Chennault, scurrying around in front of his eyes with large cloves of garlic, had already disgusted him, but he did not expect that a so-called war hero created by a propaganda machine would pop up and squeeze next to him. He had already heard about the unclear authority and chaotic dispatch of the Chinese military, and now it seems that the facts are much more serious than he has heard.
Military reporters from various countries took pictures of the generals of the three countries who were about to face 100,000 Japanese troops, but they seemed to be fearless. Of all of them, the most smiling figure was Lieutenant General Alexander. No British soldier with a heart should smile so brightly when the fate of 100,000 people in Singapore is uncertain. But he had to use his statesman's tricks to get two things: Chinese soldiers and American guns, and if he didn't show self-confidence, how could his allies be at risk.
Chiang Kai-shek's smile was equally false, and although the high hat given to him by the West was useful, he knew very well what the British were, and from now on he would keep a close eye on the British's every move, and would never let them take advantage of his military dispatch to sneak into India.
The only person with a straight face at the scene was Stilwell, of course, he had a different feeling, he knew that the president had put a mess in his own hands, he had no combat troops in Burma except for a staff team, and there might be American troops involved in the future, but not many, which is the embarrassment of the United States in Burma. That is, he had to do everything in his power between the cunning British and the scheming Chinese to put their troops in the service of America's strategic interests, to hold the Japanese back on this battlefield, and not to free up their hands to get their hands on Midway or Australia. At present, the only useful card in his hand is American munitions, and his first plan is to kick out the son of a bitch Chennault and take over the ready-made volunteer air force.
Thus, the war has not yet begun, and the calculations of the three parties have already begun. The Japanese also faced great difficulties, logistical difficulties and insufficient troops, but the Japanese had one decisive advantage, that is, all the Japanese divisions and regiments fought for the same purpose, and they did not tear each other down.
419 Sailing west, they will leave Rangoon and go to the Bay of Bengal. According to the new plan proposed by Lim, his special team would land near the port of Sittwe, not Yangon. The reason why the landing was so far away from the Japanese army was because it became the last port of the British in Burma, where a lot of equipment was loaded and unloaded.
There was not enough equipment on the 419 to complete the communication center that Lin Xiuxuan envisioned to cover the entire Indian Ocean, so he had to go to the British to get some equipment. 419 On the small island of the Andaman has seen the AMES-2 radar mounted by the British on 6-wheeled trucks and the accompanying power supply equipment, which is almost the prototype of a modern radar station. It has quite good maintainability and maneuverability.
There was a British airfield in Sittwe, so Lin judged that similar radar facilities could be found there, and if he got a set, he could drive to a hidden commanding height, and use truss antennas that could be turned and high-power power station equipment to complete his communication center. In this way, he can easily contact 419 or Chu Aiyun.
Each of Lin's plans is so bold that it is not easy for normal people to understand, of course, it does not mean that it is not feasible. In short, the current Cheng Dayang no longer has the courage to challenge any of the plans proposed by Lin, so the plan was simply passed. As for how Lin Xiuxuan got these things from the British, Cheng Dayang didn't inquire, he only tried his best to provide convenience.
The drone on 419 has flown over the target to collect radar signals for Lin's plan, and he needs radio reconnaissance in the air to determine the radar position has been judged by model, while the drone is also mapping the mountainous area north of Ringanqiang to find the ideal location to establish a communication center. In addition, the task force had to collect non-lethal weapons in advance, and Lin did not want to kill the Allied soldiers while on a mission. There are no readily available weapons on board, but they have modified hundreds of thousands of volts of electric stunners that can allow adults to die in an instant.
The Japanese fleet did not turn into the Bay of Bengal and attack the almost undefended Sittwe, their front was so long that they could not share a few shells against the British, American, and Dutch ports scattered in the broken strip of the Indian Ocean, so they decided to let the British go in Burma. In Iida's view, it is not necessarily a bad thing to be missing one of the three, and he, like Lin Xiuxuan, is always keeping an eye on these materials coming ashore.
Four days later, the submarine reached the designated position. Finally, it was time for the special team to separate from 419, this time the separate actions of each side of the sky were destined to last for a long time, and the trend of the next war depended on the success or failure of their actions.
Just an hour before Lin Xiuxuan and his group prepared to land. 419 received the shocking news from the BBC. Under Moscow, the five-month tug-of-war finally came to an end.
On this day, the Soviet Red Army abandoned the capital of the country on its own initiative and retreated to the rear. The provisional capital will be set in Kazan, 800 kilometers away. In a statement issued before the strategic retreat, Stalin assured all citizens and the Red Army fighters who were fighting that the Central Government and the State Defense Committee would soon return. He explained that Moscow was only briefly ceded to the fascist bandits for the purpose of the campaign, as was the case with Napoleon's capture of Moscow in 1812, and eventually the enemy would come out of Moscow at a terrible cost.
Of course, the loss of Moscow itself will undoubtedly create a great political passivity, because Stalin himself's promise at the October parade that the Central Committee of the CPSU and the Military Council would never leave the Kremlin have been disappointed; And the Order No. 270, which he himself signed, stated that the act of retreating in the course of war could be regarded as a crime against the state and could be immediately executed. Now that the party's majesty has been swept away, the morale of the people is bound to fall. And the future of the Soviet-German battlefield, which was supposed to be a stalemate, will also add a lot of variables.
What caused the major changes in history, Lin Xiuxuan did not know. If we only make a simple inference, the negative impact of the delay in Zorge's intelligence should be gradually smoothed out with the outbreak of the Pacific War as scheduled. However, there is no simple context to trace the disturbance of history, in fact, once the disturbance appears, what they need to face is a new history that has become it.
From the analysis of the situation in which Marshal Shaposhnikov was publicly shot and became the only scapegoat after the fall of Moscow, the decisive question arose not in the joints of the timely mobilization of the troops in the Far East, but in the command of the campaign.
It seems that the blind fighting of the Japanese traversers in the Far East caused a change of command on the Moscow front. Perhaps Zhukov was on the left side with Stalin on the issue of the counteroffensive, but in short, the Red Army launched a futile winter counterattack in the bitterly cold of January, forcing Guderian back 70 kilometers. But it was this attack, which depleted the reserves of the Red Army, and instead allowed the exhausted German troops to launch a small attack in February and succeed. In this battle, the Gustav cannon that stayed on the double line of the Kubinka railway fired a total of 40 shells at the Kremlin, of which only one fell into the Kremlin's triangular walls, but when this shell fell, the entire military council was discussing the question of whether to stay in the basement, and perhaps it was the explosion that shook the ground and shook the mountains that had a profound impact on the committee's vote.
The fall of Moscow undoubtedly boosted the prestige of the fascist camp, while the allies looked stormy. In fact, with the exception of two minor setbacks suffered by the British at Tobruk and the Chinese at the city of Changsha, the press could not find an entry point that would boost morale a little.
Lin Xiuxuan and his team once again stood on the deck of the submarine and prepared to leave, he felt the difficulty of the situation as never before, and the balance of victory and defeat seemed to be quickly turning in favor of the Japanese traversers, and the boastful Asano. They had not even salvaged the modern technology in Kasuga Maru before they had gained the upper hand.
"As soon as we go, the affairs of the sea will be left to you and the political commissar."
"I'll do my best."
"As long as Asano plays a role, I don't think there will be a Midway, but a decisive naval battle between the United States and Japan will definitely break out. I think ......"
"No matter how history flips, Nagumo's mobile forces will definitely be destroyed in the first half of the year. Leave it to me. Cheng Dayang said.
"On the Myanmar side, I won't let Asano's plan succeed. Chu Aiyun's current position and prestige may be enough to make an impact. It is hoped that the expeditionary force will not repeat the history of the defeat of the Savage Mountain after our intervention. ”