These sabotage squads, composed of Chinese, carried out all kinds of sabotage in various unexpected places, from sabotaging roads to cutting off communications and assassinating officers, and because of the sudden operation, the expeditionary force gendarmerie and other anti-special forces units completely failed. These piecemeal sabotage delayed the time for the expeditionary force command to make an accurate judgment on the Japanese army's intentions by at least 12 hours. As of the afternoon of April 24, Luo Zhuoying still did not know whether the enemy's target was Jing Dong or Lashio, or both.

Two days after the 56th Division launched a large-scale attack, Luo Zhuoying and Stilwell were convinced that this was not an attack aimed at saving the besieged Japanese army in the center, and that its goal was likely to cut off the main passage of the expeditionary force back to China, but at this moment, Jingdong had been lost, and there were already sporadic enemy situations not far south of Lashio. The men and horses sent to intercept them were all in the midst of the rout. The mystery of the rapid progress that defied military common sense was not solved until the night of the 24th, when a brave P40 plane flew low over the Thai-Burmese border, and the pilot saw a long queue of car lights in the forest (the Japanese thought that the expeditionary force should wake up even if it was sluggish, so they abandoned the light control a day earlier), and the enemy actually carved out a road for cars in the primeval jungle of Wa State.

On the 25th, after several days of sleepless marching and skirmishes, the advance guard of the 56th Division marched into Tangji, and the garrison fled with little fighting.

Surrounded by a group of scruffy but scrappy soldiers, Hirai Nakasa walked into a mountain villa near Tangji, where Chiang Kai-shek had made several visits to Burma to meet with high-ranking British and American officials. Before the personnel in charge of intelligence arrived, the personnel of the 56th Division had already begun to collect documents and items of intelligence value in the room, and some even found dentures that the chairman had not taken away. Obviously, the Chinese did not anticipate a possible Japanese attack at all, and everything was not moved, including various photographs placed on the fireplace and walls, most of which were taken with officers of all ranks after Chiang Kai-shek entered Burma. The Yugoslav authorities have not been able to understand the command system of the expeditionary force, and now this lack has been made up. Of course, there is also a group photo of Chief Chu and the chairman and his wife in the photo, and this lieutenant (rank at the time of the photo) appears even more often than Dai Anlan; This is a strange figure that Kagesa Zhenzhao focuses on tracking, because it appeared in Shanghai. For the time being, no one has linked Chu Tingchang with the mechanized troops that swept across the front line of the Qindun River, and the Japanese army is in a stalemate in the key investigation of Chu Tingchang because of the disappearance of Kagezo Zhenzhao himself. Some of the important investigative materials of Ying Zuo were taken away by the British, and the other part was found and destroyed by Chu Tingchang himself.

Nakasa Hirai walked to the balcony facing north. It can be seen that the origin of the automobile convoy from the south arrives and unloads the soldiers. These captured British cars, all the way from the mountains of Wa to here, almost need to be overhauled, and of course everything is worth it.

"There are still four days to go until the Tianchang Festival, and we must not relax here, we must continue to move forward without sleep, complete this arduous task, and completely cut off the escape channel of the Chinese army."

He turned around and said to a group of squadron leaders.

"Yes!"

Far away in the port of Rabaul, the new flagship of the Combined Fleet, the Yamato, Yamamoto was making final preparations for the upcoming ambush battle, and he did not know where the enemy fleet was now, but since Makino had told him that Asano's plan was feasible and that the enemy fleet would come to his door on its own, he was not in a hurry. He and a staff officer discussed the final details in front of the map, judging from the distance, at least two aircraft carriers that had attacked the mainland not long ago would not be so quick to move south. Because when they launched the attack, the deck was full of B25 bombers, and they should first go back to Hawaii to replenish the fighter squadron before they could go south, so the enemy here can use no more than 3 aircraft carriers, so the troops should be enough, the only thing to worry about is that the Solomon Islands are all in the hands of the enemy, and the American Marine Corps and Army Air Corps planes may interfere with the battle.

The Mizuru aircraft carrier finally returned, which made Yamamoto breathe a sigh of relief, this is his most capable aircraft carrier so far. However, Makino didn't care at all about the timely return of the aircraft carrier, he was more concerned about the boxes of cargo brought with the aircraft carrier formation. Yamamoto was curious, and after the military meeting, he went to the underground facilities he had allocated to Makino to see the things that were seventy years later, and he had only seen some pictures before.

He walked into the underground workshop, saw those dismantled small* hanging in the air from a distance, looked unremarkable, and when he got closer, he was shocked by these * delicate internal structures. He couldn't imagine that some of these precision parts could be machined by human hands, and the artillery command system on his ship certainly did not lack gyroscopes, but Meiji Electric's similar equipment, compared with the precision equipment in front of him, was almost like a pair of clumsy products made by primitive humans.

"I can't imagine that this is the crystallization of human industry in a few decades, this should be two hundred years from now, right?"

"Yes, the degree of mechanical precision is one or two orders of magnitude higher than that of the tiniest clocks at present, and the electronic part is incomparable, of course, this is a product copied from the United States*, but it is better in terms of being made in Japan, especially in the sensitivity of passive sonar." Makino said proudly, "In fact, the Japanese product has specially optimized the identification of Chinese submarines in terms of software, and the original intention was, of course, to prevent the allies from harming the allies on the seabed where they cannot be identified by the enemy, but now it seems to be an advantage." ”

"Software?"

"Well, the weapons of the future, will find their own targets, so you have to have your own brain and tell it how to act, it depends on the software. Without software, it's like a newborn baby, and you can't fight at all. ”

"Makino-kun, are you really sure that a Chinese submarine will appear near the battlefield of naval warfare? My staff officers are pouring out their bitterness, because the conditions you have set for the battlefield to be within reach of seaplanes at any time are too harsh and not conducive to our advantage, and the main islands of the Solomon Islands are currently occupied by the Allies, and their land planes can support the navy. And I couldn't explain it to them. ”

"I've said it many times, I'm not sure there's such a submarine, but as you can see, if such a submarine exists, the weapons on it are just as sophisticated."

Yamamoto stood in front of the airshot* that was already hanging in the air for a long time, and finally nodded.

"Do as you say, and in the evening the fleet will leave its post and plunge into the assault on Port Moresby, when we will have two main warbands waiting for the Americans. We will have a foolproof victory to ensure that the Army can capture New Guinea in its entirety. ”

"Commander, I agree with Asano's judgment that the seizure of New Guinea and the east of India can delay Japan's superiority for a while, but it still cannot prevent the outbreak of the American state."

"Well, what do you think?"

"Although nuclear weapons have always been my biggest fear, we must start studying this aspect as soon as possible. The Manhattan Project was to begin soon, and Hasegawa left behind detailed information on the uranium deposits in Myanmar before his death, and the matter was urgent. ”

"With the help of Minister Nobusuke Kishi and the Imperial University, I believe you can mobilize domestic industry to implement the plan, I heard that Nobusuke Kishi has already identified several locations waiting for you to decide."

"No, it doesn't work in those places, and this plan can't be implemented in the country."

"Why?"

"I'm still worried about that submarine, and I'm wondering, if he exists, why didn't he strike at the mainland? Perhaps his commanders were afraid of injuring civilians with such inhumane weapons. ”

Yamamoto nodded noncommittally, waiting for Makino to continue.

"But if we implement that plan at home, maybe they'll let their guard down......"

"Makino-kun, you're thinking too much, aren't you?"

Yamamoto finally couldn't help but express a different opinion, he found that Makino was extremely jealous of the Chinese nuclear submarine that was mostly non-existent, it was really a bit unbelievable, he and Asano were almost two extremes, Asano was a tendon who did not consider the complexity, and Makino was timid, full of all kinds of fears.

"Commander, even if I don't have that nuclear submarine, I hope the factory is not placed on the mainland, nuclear weapons involve very dangerous and unstable substances, and if you rush to build it, it is easy to make mistakes, which will cause permanent pollution."

"It's not unreasonable to worry about this, let you decide on this matter."

Yamamoto didn't want to bother with these things anymore, he walked towards the *, stroking the surface.

"What do you plan to do with these*?"

"What can be done at the moment is very simple, reset its power-up, activate the fuel cell on the plane before the attack, activate*, make the navigation device run under its own electric drive, and then throw it into the general area, fall into the water, and its guidance device will work. *It will search in an S-shape, searching the area of the cone in front of you, and once you bite the enemy, they will die. ”

"Are you sure you can destroy it with one shot?"

"At least it will make him float."

"The Technical Headquarters has been tracking the underwater magnetic detection technology of Britain, the United States and Germany for a long time, but they thought that it would be difficult to launch an attack even if they could detect underwater submarines, so they later gave up. If only I knew there was such a thing; By the way, Makino-kun, with the current technology, can this kind of thing be imitated in batches? ”

"Of course not, but I've spent time looking at the current technology, and I think it's still feasible to make a radio-commanded remote airdrop*."

"You mean to improve with that German V1*?"

"Yes, I've already started to make a plan, roughly divided into several steps. The first stage is to improve the autopilot technology and radio technology, adding a tracer tube to the tail of the *, to complete a visual remote-controlled weapon, which requires the optical equipment on the aircraft to track the target and manually correct the * aiming at the target. Roughly, keep the plane, * and the target, in a straight line. ”

"Sounds like shooting."

"Yes, it's easier to do, but the range isn't very long, and it's easier to be interfered with; In the second stage, it can be considered to install radar on the aircraft or *, depending on the progress of radar technology, so that the * tracking echo can attack the target on its own. This step of the technological leap will be very arduous, requiring a large accumulation of radio technology, or it may also depend on the progress of salvage of Kasugamaru, but what we can salvage from Kasuga Maru every time depends on luck. We originally had a step-by-step classification of technical data, which could smoothly connect with the industrial capacity of this era, but after the shipwreck, it was messed up, and the loss of long-term immersion in water should not be underestimated. ”

"No matter what I can salvage every time, it's priceless, and I can't wait."

Yamamoto said and thumped the * projectile hard. He is not as pretentious as Makino, as long as it is a military technology in the future, it will be a treasure to him.