Everything seems to be just reasoning, but it is reasonable that the * battle is indeed very suitable for night fighting, because it is not easy to see, and there is no way to dodge naturally, especially when the Beishang has just sailed into the narrowing area of the estuary, where the enemy will form a concentrated floating area by dropping floating mines upstream.

Yamamoto Fifty-six paced back and forth a little confused, it was not easy for him to be a family in the Combined Fleet, he had to be careful with his calculations, he always wanted to use old ships to do this kind of dirty work, but sometimes it was self-defeating.

The army was about to launch a landing there and carry out a pincer offensive, but he couldn't wait any longer, and the order to ask the navy to fully cooperate was issued by the base camp, and he secretly transferred the Nagumo fleet to ambush the American fleet, which he did himself, and if it was messed up here, Nagano pushed it three, six, five, and this pot was his own.

Gritting his teeth, he ordered the two heavy cruisers Kaohsiung and Atago, who were waiting at the mouth of the river, to enter the Ganges to carry out this mission. Of course, this is his favorite cruiser, and it must have all lightning protection measures, so he ordered that the Kaohsiung in front of it must be under the strict protection of a group of small boats before it can move, and he strictly ordered these two huge ships that serve as heavy fire support to sail only during the day, moored at night and lay mine protection nets, as for whether stopping on the river will attract firepower from the shore, he is not worried about this, these are two heavy cruisers with a full load of 15,000 tons, he does not believe that any army firepower can pose a threat to it, as for the Royal Air Force, It was indeed a concern that the army did not yet have a close enough airfield to provide protection, so he ordered the aircraft carrier Longchamp to follow closely behind, ambushing the sandbar east of Calcutta to provide adequate cover for the fleet in the Ganges.

As Yamamoto feels more and more confused about the recent battle situation, the differences between Asano and Makino seem to have reached a delicate tipping point. After the start of the war, Asano's invincible anticipatory ability clearly prevailed, and the progress of the Japanese army and the decline of the Allies seemed to have been recruited entirely in Asano's bombastic rhetoric; But now, the situation seems to have changed, and Asano is starting to dumb up, and his plan to force an invasion of India before the rainy season has not been fulfilled, so he has to send the navy to the army to wipe his ass.

Originally, Yamamoto's mind was more inclined to Makino, but I don't know how he's progressing lately. He was at sea, and it was not very convenient for him to communicate with the mainland. So he wanted to send a seaplane to Sittwe, Myanmar, to see if he could take Asano to the ship and have a good chat. Of course, to arrange all this, you have to send a telegram to the Sittwe Navy Agency, and then they will forward it to the South Agency; The telegram sent was quickly intercepted by 419.

In addition to the use of naval codes, the content of this telegram uses the obscure title of A-kun and B-kun, which shows that although Yamamoto has this string in his mind about secrecy, the concept is still very vague, and he really wants to be safe, he should send a plane to deliver the official document, and should not mention this kind of easily guessed part in the telegram. As a matter of fact, in the Bay of Bengal, others did not ask a word about the movements of Nagumo, who went to ambush the US fleet off the coast of Australia, and the fact that he was specifically looking for an army intelligence department that could not be hit by eight poles was already very suspicious.

Of course, Lin Xiuxuan immediately deciphered Yamamoto's intentions, he was originally thinking about the opportunity cost of sinking the Yamato and eliminating the two traversers, but now it seems that neither of the traversers was on the Yamato, and it seems that Yamamoto intended to let them board the ship. For the time being, however, they could only wait for the enemy to make a mistake, and now their top priority was still to help Deputy Captain Chu pretend to be a ghost and hold the East Indies.

Chu Tingchang's troops withdrew from the river bank overnight, and on the way he received news that two heavy cruisers of the enemy had entered the Ganges and would arrive in about two days, and another small aircraft carrier was operating in the rear.

It seems that the Japanese are not willing to give up. It seems that it is necessary to use the 234 mm caliber gun, this gun is powerful enough, the weakness lies in the speed of loading one round in 40 minutes, of course, with his experience, the British self-reported data, everything that involves manpower is retained, they work relatively lazy, they should rest, they should stop, he has seen Alexander being chased by the Japanese when he was retreating from the north of Yangon, and he had to arrange afternoon tea between the combat meetings. When eating and drinking, they never mentioned the war, as if the Japanese would stop during this time.

Arriving in the valley, a telegram came from the rearguard cavalry unit to see two Japanese seaplanes passing over their heads, one of which was coming towards the main force.

Chu Tingchang looked at the map, there was no large forest nearby that could be hidden, but he was not afraid, and he happened to show his troops' tricks in front of the British liaison officer. His troops had encountered numerous attacks and reconnaissance by Japanese planes when they were in Burma, and they knew very well that in this era, aerial reconnaissance that relied entirely on visual was flawed, and to deal with them, there must first be early warning, you have to know when to stop, and if the troops are still moving, they will definitely be seen; So he left the rear guard and the flanking motorized cavalry, and they all carried radios. Secondly, of course, the concealment itself must not be sloppy, and Tao Mingzhang did the best job in this matter.

With his order, the tanks and self-propelled artillery ammunition trucks stopped along the side of the road in the shade of the mountain and small trees, deliberately scattered, trying not to make the queue look too regular and blend in with the nearby woods. A queue that is too neat is easy to attract the attention of the heavens.

Soon the buzz sounded in the southeast, a Japanese Type 95 seaplane flew over slowly, and Chu Ting sat on a self-propelled gun and looked at the sky with a kettle. He was familiar with this kind of aircraft, it was this cargo that first strafed the 419, and he knew that the sound was slow, and it would take a while for it to arrive. He ordered everyone not to open fire and not to observe enemy aircraft with binoculars so as not to be exposed.

He had a camouflage net over his head, covered with leaves and vines. The arrangement was so tight that the machine gunner even had to pluck the leaves to aim at the plane. All the mechanized troops, unhurried and completely stationary, would soon be killed by the 12.7mm machine guns below if the low-altitude and low-speed enemy aircraft took action.

In this effort, only one person destroyed the concealment, quickly ran to Chu Tingchang's sports car, and exposed the commander's position in battle, which was simply a crime of shooting, and the man went to the side of the car and slapped the armor vigorously, it turned out to be Johnson's coward.

"Sir, this place is still within the range of the enemy's naval fire, you can't stop, you have to rush forward 5 kilometers immediately to dodge." This kid is very familiar with the geography here, but he is a usable talent, but unfortunately he is as timid as a mouse.

"Hehe, don't worry, you wait and see, I'll make a bet with you, it can't see us."

Johnson turned to look around, and saw that all the Chinese soldiers on the vehicle were standing or seated, and no one left the car to hide, and they were all waiting for him, looking at him with contempt. It was nothing more than a reconnaissance plane with weak firepower, which scared the lieutenant so much that he almost peed his pants, which was simply a shame.

Johnson didn't say much, quickly ducked behind the M7 and kept moving to hide himself as the Japanese planes moved. Sure enough, the Japanese planes buzzed over the entire queue and did not react at all.

Chu Tingchang looked down for Johnson, and found that he was no longer in front of him, and he turned around to find that he had hidden behind the car again. He bent down and slapped the Englishman's watermelon-skinned steel helmet.

"Hey, do you see, we Chinese have a saying, excellent commanders are good at hiding......" He originally wanted to say that the good defenders are hidden under the nine lands, but the literary language turned into the vernacular, and then into the foreign language, for his kind of rote memorization of the exam, it was really difficult, so it was simplified.

Johnson raised his head and looked up at the Chinese soldier with his back to a round of sunshine. He couldn't believe that this team, which contained 75 military vehicles of various types, had not been discovered by the Japanese at all? Could it be that the Japanese sent a short-sighted eye to fly the plane? Or these ancient wisdom of the Chinese, can really paralyze the enemy?

The sound of machine guns interrupted the admiration he had just generated, and it seemed that the Japanese still found out?

Chu Tingchang immediately turned around, put his hand on the pergola and looked into the air, and sure enough, the Japanese plane was diving, and turned sideways to the fuselage and used the rear machine gun to strafe. It was the only British sidecar in the entire queue that was not camouflaged and led the way at the front, the British motorcycle panicked and was thrown into the ditch by bullets, and the Japanese pulled up contentedly, turned and flew away.

In this unexpected attack, Chu Tingchang did not have time to give orders, but the troops did not react at all, and all of them did not move at all, showing extremely strong discipline.

"Hey Lieutenant, go ahead and take a look, is your guy dead?"

Johnson held his helmet in his hand, waited until the sound of the Japanese plane was far away, and then cautiously moved forward, and found that the buddy was covered in mud and had crawled out of the ditch by himself.

The army continued to move, and Johnson, with his mouth half-open, stood on the side of the road and watched the swarm pass by. Chu Tingchang drove to him, Johnson saluted violently, obviously he was shocked by the ability of this living professional soldier, this time Chu Tingchang did not rely on pretending to be a ghost to win respect, completely relying on his old army in Burma from the change of psychological quality and excellent military quality.

Each of them knows very well how to disguise themselves, because here everyone has been tested by Japanese planes more than once, the kind of way that only a bunch of grass is placed on the top of the head, thinking that it can be fooled, can only deceive passing planes at high altitudes, will be seen to the side by the enemy flying from a low altitude of 200 meters, and experienced people will hang upside down on the sides with branches, blocking tracks and wheels. And those chariots that don't bother to change until the grass and trees are yellow, from the air will be a strange bush out of season, easy to attract more serious pilots.

Johnson now thinks that what Chu Tingchang said to him can use the shadow on the side of the mountain to disguise the whole train, maybe it is not just talking. It suddenly occurred to him that the plan to attack the enemy's large warships with train guns might be feasible? Before that, he did not believe in the Chinese's plans in the slightest, and he came here to be a lobbyist for his superiors, so as to prevent the Chinese from using Stilwell's pressure to force the British soldiers to put themselves at risk.

Tao Mingzhang called Chief Chu on the radio: "Master, there is one thing I have always wanted to ask, why didn't I see Camp Chief Zhou?" Went to scouting? ”

"No, I asked him to escort the fuel truck back, and supervise the soldiers in the rear training camp, I hope that within 10 days, at least 2 battalions will come. In this way, you can barely fight. He casually fooled things over.

"That'...... What are you going to do with that cannon? ”

"I can't move during the day, so I'll help them disguise it first, and I also have to let the British practice it well, and I can't play the piano every 40 minutes."