On the island of Gam, off the port of Kolkata, India, a Victorian fort is heavily guarded inside and out. It was the highest-ranking Japanese general captured by the Allies since the beginning of the war.

In addition to letting off steam, Kagesa Akira's daily pleasure is to look through the bars and watch the seagulls stop on the spire of the opposite tower. The prison had two towers, and Kagesa was kept in solitary confinement in the tower to the north, with two British soldiers watching outside at all times to prevent him from looking for a short look.

One of the oddities of this sea prison is that all the guards are British, not a single Indian. The second unusual feature is that there are very few prisoners, mostly senior members of the Indian National Congress Party.

When he was out of the air, he could talk to the Indian political prisoners across a barbed wire fence, and the intellectuals who were imprisoned here were inclined to Indian independence, who could communicate in English, and the British generally did not stop them.

The leader here was a young man named Jawahara Nehru, who enjoyed a high reputation among these prisoners, and every time he went on a hunger strike, he would take the lead and then negotiate with the British warden here as a representative. But he was still not the spiritual leader of everyone here, because Kagesa Zhenzhao could feel that person's presence.

The fellow who really frightened the British was never allowed to let off the wind within the walls of the fort, but he was in the spire of the tower opposite, for all the Indian political prisoners looked up to the tower and stood in prayer when they were out of the air, and the British were afraid of such moments and did not dare to interrupt them. Sometimes, the mysterious figure would appear behind the bars and wave to Kagesa's side. It was a small, very thin man with a kind smile on his face all the time. Shadow knew who he was, and in his plan with Bowes, as long as he got rid of this man and blamed the British, the crumbling British rule in India would collapse. They will lose their biggest source of tax and soldiers.

The Indian prisoners were more than willing to talk to Kagesa and inquire about the situation outside. Whenever Kagesa talked about the advances of the Japanese or German armies, and about the defeat of the British in Europe and Asia, the prisoners would smile knowingly. Nehru told Shadow that Japan and Germany and India are natural allies, and that India should be a geopolitical link between Germany and Japan, and that without India joining, Germany and Japan will not be able to deal with the cunning United States and Britain for a long time.

Kagesa remembers very well that during his talks with Chandra Bowes, Bowes made similar points, but Nehru's ideas were more mature with the addition of geopolitical elements. India's geographical location was crucial for the geographically disconnected Axis powers. Nehru inquired about Bose's whereabouts, and Shadow knew that the intricacies of personnel struggles within the Congress party were a promising part of the future, and he deliberately did not mention that Bose was in Burma.

Since he was captured alive by the Air Service Regiment, the Major General had been interrogated several times, and in fact, the British could not get any information from him, on the contrary, he could find out what he wanted to know from the clues leaked by the British.

The focus of the British interrogation was never the actions of the Japanese army in Burma, and in fact no one had ever asked questions about the personnel and command hierarchy within the 15th Army, nor about the offensive line of the Japanese army. On the contrary, they repeatedly asked about matters related to the Shanghai Concession. They had apparently found out that Kagezo was in Shanghai, intersecting with the events they wanted to know. The British showed him a photo of Ma Qiang, as well as a sketch of Kinoshita, which depicted the mysterious Lin Jiu. In addition, they had a lot of information about the actions of the Japanese military police in Hongkou, and asked Kage for details. Luckily, none of the orders were issued by Kagesa, so he was free at the time, avoiding the important and taking himself out. The British kept asking the Major General if his presence in Burma was related to this mysterious group of people in the concession, which gave Kagesa a very clear signal, apparently they did not have the information of the Japanese traversers, otherwise they would not have mentioned it at all, which made his hanging heart relax.

Idle, he had been observing the movement of the port, the shipping of Calcutta had begun again, the gunboats of the Royal Navy had reappeared, and it was evident that Nagumo's detachment had left the Bay of Bengal, leaving the British to move more freely.

Judging from all indications, the British army was actually evacuating, not a soldier. This can be judged by the difference in the draft of ships entering and leaving the port.

At a time when the Japanese were approaching the border, this situation only meant that the rest of the British battlefield was tightened, and they had to supplement it by transporting unreliable soldiers of Indian origin abroad. So, where will they mobilize other forces to defend India? Until one day, he saw two American-flagged troop carriers arrive in port, and dark-skinned black American soldiers lazily assembled on the foredeck. He knew that the United States formed black units in regimental units, usually as logistics transportation and engineering units, with very poor equipment and low combat effectiveness, and it seemed that this was the only reinforcement that the Americans could send to India at present.

The American and British rulers thought they were clever and exchanged blacks for Indian soldiers, but in essence, using these people who were not of our race as cannon fodder for themselves meant a huge risk.

In Myitkyina, the Chinese army took advantage of the night's falling river to quickly cross the river. Then occupy the west bank of the Irrawaddy River and head south. After considering that the ability to attack the fortification was insufficient and he could not continue to attack, Dai Anlan decided to make a false shot and take the road. He was originally very willing to fight to the death with the Japanese army, and used the 70,000 people here to fight the more than 10,000 Japanese troops in front of him. But what Chu Tingchang said before setting off in the early morning made it difficult for him not to be moved. Chief Chu said that as long as we go to India and use American weapons and equipment, then we will not exchange five people for one Japanese soldier, but on the other hand, we will exchange one person for five of them.

As a soldier who had fought hard against the Japanese for many years, Dai Anlan could not resist such temptation, and in the end, he decided to go south to India with the synthetic group round. The army marched south along the simple widened road of the Japanese sappers, and this time the operation was completely unexpected by the Japanese, and certainly by Chongqing. Who would have thought that this army, having destroyed heavy firepower and cars, burned food, would actually fight back, which violates almost all common sense.

The large army with torches marched through the mountains and was immediately detected by the planes of the Japanese Army Air Corps. The pilot reported what he had seen to the command of the 15th Army, and was immediately scolded by the command and asked him to reconfirm the direction of the compass. The pilot was stunned, and it took 20 minutes to confirm that he was right, and sent another report that the Chinese army was coming south.

Asano had already begun to celebrate in advance, and that night he was so drunk that he was woken up by Masanobu Tsuji in his dream, and his first feeling when he woke up was that Staff Officer Tsuji was in a hurry to inform him of the victory.

"How's that...... Did the Chinese army flee to the mountains to the north? Hehe, I was exactly expecting that. He said with drunken eyes.

"Wake up, something seems to be wrong, just now the reconnaissance plane reported that the Chinese army turned around and came south."

"Come and surrender?"

"Surrender what? On the front line, Shiro Yamazaki and Minoru Osaku Osa, with more than 4,000 dead and wounded, the enemy came along the railway, why did this happen. ”

Asano just woke up, sitting alone on the edge of the bed stunned, unable to think of a reason, he had never considered the possibility of the existence of other traversers like Makino did, so he didn't think that history would jump out of the palm of his hand, and even if there would be disturbances, at least there would be a general context. And this matter is completely contrary to common sense, even if he does not understand military affairs, he knows that this is unreasonable, without a rear, the enemy will run out of ammunition and food in a few days to the south, and the whole army will inevitably be annihilated.

"Dazuo, where are they now?"

"South of Myitkyina, you may go to Lashio, you may go to India. That's where the trouble is, we can't deploy the line of defense in advance. As long as it is stopped, it is believed that it can be eliminated within a few days. That's why I'm in a hurry to come to you. I need to know where they're going? ”

"Go to Lashio. That's right, definitely going to Lashio. Asano slapped his thigh and cut straight again, "I have studied Du Yuming, he is a soldier who obeys orders, and he has never disobeyed Chiang Kai-shek's orders. ”

"Are you convinced?" Masanobu Tsuji's tone is not as convincing as it used to be.

"I ...... Are you sure. ”

Once again, Asano made a decisive decision.

Over the Bass Strait, a Japanese bomber is heading for Taiwan, where it will stop to refuel and then fly back to its homeland.

Makino sat on the plane with the drawings of the V1 modification he had drawn in Rabaul, the first weapon he had designed (not counting the magnetic detectors) that he had come to this era. It turned out to be a suicide weapon.

Another thing he did when he returned home this time was to observe the Army's manned aircraft, which was also modeled on the V1*. Kishi hopes that he will also offer some guidance.

The first sample provided by the German U-boat was divided equally between the Navy and the Army, and the Army's research and development unit was the Technical Department of the Army Aviation Headquarters, and the manufacturing plant was the Kokura Army Ordnance Factory. The haste to build a prototype does give the impression of vicious competition with the Navy.

Makino has studied the V1*, which is a statically stable aircraft with a small wing load and few rudder surfaces, which is quite difficult to operate, but this aerodynamic shape is easy to maintain level flight, which is why it can be adapted to early autopilots. In general, it is not difficult to change to manned flight, but the prototype is built in a few months, and the degree of shoddy construction can be imagined.

Makino's modification of the V1 was first and foremost about speed, followed by improving rudder efficiency, and it was impossible for him to change the engine and fuel in a short period of time, so he preferred to reduce the warhead by half a ton to 350 kilograms, so that the speed and handling would be improved. This, of course, is impossible for the Army to accept. However, Yamamoto was more open-minded, and he believed that if it could not hit a moving target at 30 knots, no matter how large a warhead was, it would be useless. Another thing Makino did when he returned to Japan was to meet with professors at Imperial University to see their progress in the development of practical nuclear weapons, and to plan ahead for a nuclear weapons plant.

He had always speculated that a Chinese nuclear submarine might follow to this era, so he was resistant to building a factory on his homeland, which would have increased the likelihood of an enemy launching a nuclear strike on his homeland. Yamamoto disagreed, and Onishi scoffed at it, hoping to convince Kishi Nobusuke to support his idea.

The simplest way he could think of was to set up some of the most critical production capacity in the Chinese-occupied zone, which meant that when the enemy destroyed the factory with nuclear weapons, he had to weigh the consequences, which was equivalent to kidnapping the Chinese; In fact, Japan's chemical and biological weapons production capacity in this era is mainly in China, and it is also to prevent leakage in the country.