"Is there another Capitol arson?" Kage Satsuaki said, he was a little reluctant in his heart, the assassination of the prime minister was not a joke, and if he made a slight mistake, he would be burdened with the black cauldron, which Konoe would not say, but the fate of Japan seems to be in this line, and it is time to make a fool of himself.

"Your Excellency, how many people are currently participating in this project?" Kagesa asked cautiously.

"Out of this house, only a few people know, don't worry."

"Your Excellency, with all due respect, Ito of the Intelligence Agency is not such a reliable person, he is the kind of person who is used to change."

"Hehe, he naturally knows what kind of person he is, but an intelligence leader like him is precisely the one who can best grasp the delicate situation. In fact, he is closer to a politician. Konoe said triumphantly.

"Oh?"

"This time, Makino was arraigned, and even the minister of the palace, Kido, participated, which shows the emperor's attitude. It should be said that Tojo's perfunctory and sloppy disappointment to the emperor. His Majesty read Makino's reply and writings, and he was amazed by the new weapons that Makino had invented. I think that's why Ito and Okumura are on our side, and their assistance is necessary to mobilize the police force in Tokyo, otherwise we wouldn't have had the opportunity at all. ”

"So......" Kagesa suddenly realized that it might be the emperor himself who really wanted to kill Tojo, and he couldn't say it clearly, so he swallowed the second half of his sentence, "If that's the case, Muto Akira and these people must also be killed together?" ”

"That's nature. All have to leave the center. Ishihara said hatefully, "There are also those cronies on the front line who must also be driven away, such as Kimura Hyotaro, not to mention the loss of troops, and making a plan to abandon Thailand and defend Burma, it is simply mediocre." In my opinion, Chu Tingchang will cut off his back road within a month. Ishihara had no choice but to see that Kimura's slow reaction was about to make a big mistake.

"So, you've been studying Pavilion Chief Chu's tactics recently?"

"Well, I am indeed researching, and this person can be called a soldier in contemporary China. The flexibility of the use of troops, self-contained, and difficult to figure out. ”

"Makino and I are highly suspicious that he is one of the Chinese traversers."

"I've read Makino's report, and this Chu appeared just two weeks after Makino's arrival in Shanghai. And he couldn't find any of his previous records. It is only known that he later followed Jiang Weiguo to fight in Burma, and he claimed that his mobile tactics may have come from Jiang Weiguo. ”

"Yes. This person's information was completely blank before July last year, his academic qualifications in the Department of Agriculture of the Central University were falsified, and I suspect that our contact with this group had already begun as early as July last year, and that Chief Chu had already appeared during the attack in the middle of the army in Shanghai, and I have eyewitness testimony. In fact, we caught one of them at the time, but unfortunately escaped. ”

"The one named Ma Qiang?"

"Yes, this big man is different from all the Chinese I have come into contact with, not only is his inner mental side completely different from ordinary Chinese, but his physical examination report shows that there are no parasites in his feces at all, and there are at least three traces of vaccine injection on his body. But at that time, the military police in Shanghai were in power from all sides, and he did not think that these details were important. ”

"Then Pavilion Chief Chu and them must be in the same group," Ishihara was convinced, "In MacArthur's latest counteroffensive, Jiang Weiguo was an important staff officer, and his tank flank detour was disintegrated by the 6th Division, and it was definitely not as tricky as every attack of Pavilion Chief Chu." ”

In Jingdong in northern Myanmar, Chu Tingchang broke up unhappily for Chen Cheng's dinner, and Zhang Lingfu left in a car in a huff. He had already secretly suggested to Chiang Kai-shek that the 58th Division and the 2nd Provisional Division should be used as the backbone to reorganize an American armament corps, and he would command the main attack on Mandalay. Of course, this idea of poaching a division from others and forming his own troops is really ugly, and Chiang Kai-shek, who is well versed in strategy, does not agree to it. However, Zhang's telegram still easily made Jiang Ruo judge the situation: among the current generals in northern Burma, Zhang Lingfu was much more loyal than Sun Liren, the chief of Chu Ting.

After Chief Chu took his leave, he also quickly returned to his headquarters, and he also had to urge Tao Mingzhang, who was grinding hard, to quickly knock Myitkyina down. The 55th Division was cut off in northern Burma, held Myitkyina, and both the Americans and Chongqing were urging to conquer it.

This division is the basic unit of the 15th Army, and in the early days of the 15th Army's attack on Burma last year, there was only this division in the sequence, but this unit was extremely brave, and the 50,000 or 60,000 British and Indian troops could not resist it. It was this division's capture of Mawlamyine and Rangoon that allowed the rest of the Japanese troops and baggage to be transported by ship, otherwise the weak supply lines on the Thai-Burmese border would not be enough to support a war to annex Burma.

Of course, the above are all old yellow calendars, Takeuchi Kuanying was driven back to Myitkyina by Tao Mingzhang in the field battle, and there was no retreat and reinforcements, almost a dead place.

If, according to common sense, a few months of encircling this division would trap them to death/starve them. However, the current international situation forced the 5th Army to attack this fortified city. Takeuchi hid the heavy artillery in the mountains, and the fortifications were very elaborate, not only did they have an excellent firing range, but they were also out of reach of Allied aircraft.

Chu Tingchang had a telephone conversation with Tao Mingzhang on the front line, and learned that the method formulated a few days ago to leave a way for the enemy to retreat did not work. Instead of coming out, the enemy wanted to arrest a large number of migrant workers to repair the fortifications, and there was a tendency to hold on for a long time. Obviously, Takeuchi knew the truth that there was a lack of one in the encirclement, as soon as he left the strong defense, he would be divided by the 5th Army, which had the advantage of mobile firepower, and he would not be able to escape many people in the end, so he decided to take advantage of the terrain of Myitkyina facing the river and surrounded by mountains on three sides, and set up here.

In this way, the role of the 55th Division is similar to that of Zhang Lingfu's 58th Division, which was stationed in Songshan not long ago, and it can contain a large number of enemy troops and disrupt its deployment. Since Myitkyina was the last stop of the original British narrow-gauge railway, the Japanese army hoarded a lot of food here, which was the capital that Takeuchi was determined to keep. Takeuchi judged that after holding out for a month or two, the Japanese army in the south would counterattack, and then he could respond in the north and retake northern Burma.

Based on the American aerial photographic reconnaissance, Chu Tingchang made a complete sand table for the enemy's defense. Now, he sits alone in front of the sand table in a daze, looking for holes in the enemy's defenses. The enemy's defenses were built along the mountain, and a large number of tunnels were built inside, and there were many bright and dark fire points in the obstructions. But at the top of the commanding heights, none of them were deployed. This was clearly not an omission, but was made specifically for Tao Mingzhang's artillery superiority and the American aircraft, and Takeuchi did not want to deploy his troops to surface positions to be beaten, as he did last time.

Although Myitkyina itself is located in a low mountain valley, the surrounding higher mountains are occupied by Japanese troops, and there is really no flaw in it. If such a dangerous terrain could be easily solved, Zhang Lingfu would not have been able to hold out for half a year, and the strength and firepower of the 55th Division would be much stronger than that of the 58th Division. The 58th Division had no mortar or higher firepower, while the 55th Division had mountain artillery field guns of various calibers from 75 to 150 mm. Attacking such an area is a nightmare. Zhang Lingfu shouted that he wanted to raise troops to fight here and there, but he never mentioned going to Myitkyina, and he also knew the severity.

Reconnaissance company commander Xu Chong somehow returned from the front, and was bumping into Chu Tingchang's blind idea, at this moment Chu Tingchang really wanted to hear Xu Chong's opinion. So they drove away the left and right so that they could have an open and honest conversation with each other.

"Deputy captain, the surname Guo didn't mention anything this time, did you?" Xu Chong asked Chu Ting first.

"Of course I didn't say anything, I accompanied the boss of the civil engineering department to inspect, so I naturally know the measure."

"Then did he interact with Deputy Division Commander Xiong?"

"I don't see anything."

"Oh?"

"Their current focus is likely to win over the 201st Division, and neither Deputy Division Commander Xiong nor Guo Rugui have directly tested me, so it seems that they still have no bottom on me. No matter what they do, I will promote Tao Mingzhang to replace me as this army commander in the future. ”

"What if you're blessed that week?"

"When the time comes, we can only find a way to get him to leave the 5th Army, and we can't let him obstruct the course of history," Chu Tingchang sighed, "By the way, why did you come back suddenly." ”

"There's bad news."

"419's?"

"Yes, when I was reconnoitring on the Thai border, I found a communication tower left by the Japanese army on the top of the mountain, which was used to listen to the Chongqing telegraph, and I used its antenna to receive the communication reflected by 419 through the ionosphere."

"Did they go wrong?"

"One thing, during the operation in Tianjin last month, Comrade Lu Qingshan disappeared."

"Missing?"

"Yes, no bodies were found. But before that, he took out a traverser. 419 sent this message repeatedly, about once every 6 hours, at the moment their battle in the South Pacific is going well, the Japanese Navy is greatly weakened, but they have discovered a new guided weapon of the Japanese, and maybe next year, there will be some kind of active homing anti-ship * using magnetrons and electron tubes. ”

Apparently Xu Chong was in a hurry to return from the front in order to report the incident. This is the first time that Chu Tingchang has gotten the news of 419 after Calcutta said goodbye, but he didn't expect them to suffer constantly, and they actually damaged Lu Qingshan.

"Slow, you just said that Lu Qingshan's disappearance was last month?"

"Yes, in Tianjin."

Chu Tingchang hesitated, pacing back and forth, as if recalling something.

"What's wrong?"

"I remember that 20 days ago, Xiong Xianghui said to me: If you stay in the green mountains, you will have your own way to heaven."

"What's going on?"

"I thought it was a strange statement, and the occasion was wrong, and there was something wrong with his demeanor."

Pavilion Chief Chu suddenly remembered this. Not entirely because he had a good memory, but because Xiong's words at that time seemed out of place and seemed to have a deep meaning, but Chu didn't understand it at all, and just felt the temptation.

"Do you think he said Aoyama meant something else?"

"Don't worry, if there is indeed an internal connection, I will meet with Chen Cheng and Guo Rugui tomorrow and the day after tomorrow to see if Guo Rugui will mention these."

"You and Lu Qingshan have met Mr. Hu in Shanghai?"

"I don't, Lu Qingshan doesn't know, but both of us should have portraits in Japanese."

"By the way, your sand table here is Myitkyina?" Xu Chong noticed the precise sand table.

"Yes, you didn't mention it, I forgot it, help me with the staff and staff, how can I have fewer dead people to capture this big fortress."

Xu Chong circled around the sand table a few times, and Chu Tingchang stood waiting for him to follow.

"The mountains around Myitkyina are much lower than the pine mountains, and they are mostly connected, the tops are flat, and the enemy's fire is concentrated on the mountainside, and the top of the mountain is not configured." Xu Chong said.