Lin Xiuxuan observed the port, and sure enough, there were several cranes standing, and the task was easily completed. 419 observed that the departing *boat did not return to Australia, and that a Japanese destroyer fleet was cruising in the Afra Sea in preparation for the landing of the army in Darwin, so it seemed that they were heading to Bassoon Island or Flores Island, which was also not occupied by the Japanese and could temporarily gather forces, and then use the *boat to make trouble for the Japanese.

Of course, before 419 emerged, the situation on Rodi Island needed further reconnaissance, whether there were needed supplies, and whether there were any other people who might identify the 419 submarine.

The Dutch have been preaching universal education and basic medical care for hundreds of years on these remote islands, and sometimes those granite-headed priests are willing to believe that it is God's own examination to stay and face the Japanese army.

Lin Xiuxuan and Qin Xiaosu continued to reconnoiter the island, and they were first in the undestroyed barracks. Some uniforms of the 6th Infantry Division were found. In addition to the 6th Infantry Division, the 14th Air Force is also a relatively concentrated unit of Chinese American.

At this moment, the Chinese Exclusion Act in the United States has not yet ended, and Chinese Americans are already the most active minority in joining the military. The 6th Infantry Division had as many as 60 percent of the troops stationed on the island, and there was a racial prejudice (or racial discrimination) among Americans that Asians were more tolerant of bush diseases.

They soon found churches and hospitals in nearby villages, but they were empty, not only churches, but also the natives who discriminated against the fishing villages. According to drone reconnaissance, the villagers fled after the explosion at the military port. And the church has been sealed for a long time, apparently the missionaries and doctors have long since fled, it seems that the Japanese have a reputation for brutality, and everyone knows that it is not good to stay, which of course gives 419 a certain chance.

That night, submarine 419 surfaced and landed at an undestroyed berth. Most of the personnel had to rest on the island.

However, the danger is far from over, as a destroyer fleet of the Japanese Navy is shelling the port of Darwin, a land-based air force of the Japanese Navy has just been stationed in East Timor, and several new runways are under construction.

If these planes join the bombardment attack on Darwin, they may fly over the island of Roti if the navigation deviates when they return, so they must be careful.

Shuping's construction could only be concentrated at night, so that the planes of both sides flew by, and they could not see the situation below. Of course, the construction site must maintain a certain amount of light, but fortunately, the 419 air search radar can help Cheng Dayang grasp the opportunity. Shu Ping estimated that this was a long process, and he had to disassemble the hair canister without damage, and then hang the * to find a way to crack it. At this time, the submarine cannot dive, but can only cut off the lighting power.

For Cheng Dayang or Lin Xiuxuan, the potential threat is not actually a large-scale landing of Japanese troops or planes flying overhead, these actions can be early warning through sonar or radar, and the real concern is that small ships on both sides suddenly appear from a certain direction of the archipelago, causing a situation of surprise.

The Nusa Tenggara archipelago is composed of dozens of large and small islands, as detected by drones, and the small ships of the Allied forces have not completely withdrawn from here, and MacArthur also hopes to use this as a base to entangle with the Japanese and contain their forces. And these islands play the role of a topographic shield, mainly against sonar.

The sonar of the 419 is in the open ocean and can detect targets thousands of kilometers away, but here the situation becomes complicated. After Shuping is hoisted*, it is difficult to dive in time, which is a difficult problem.

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are a good means to discover these hidden dangers, but UAVs have reconnaissance blind spots, and if those small boats of less than 30 tons are close to the coast or even island inland rivers, it is easy to use the vegetation along the coast to hide. If these ships come back with infantry, the trouble will be multiplied.

The vigilance task could only be completed by Lin Xiuxuan's team, and of course he did not have many manpower, so he had to transfer some people from the boat deck team managed by the boatswain to occupy the commanding heights of the cape on both sides of the island to observe. But these people don't have a long way to do it.

Sure enough, the 419 had just floated up, and before the * hoisting, the air battles between the two sides became frequent, and the U.S. Marine Corps dispatched 16 of the latest F4U Corsair fighters that night, and the 419 followed the planes across the strait, and at dawn, arrived at the unfinished airfield of the Japanese army in Timor-Leste, fired rockets for a while, and then left in a hurry. The Japanese air defense forces had been prepared for a long time and shot down 2 of them. According to the information heard, the airstrike destroyed several bulldozers, as well as a bomber. It can be seen that the results of the battle are not ideal. There was almost no impact on the construction progress of the Japanese.

At the same time, radio surveillance showed that a frustrated MacArthur had asked for more fighters and bombers to be stationed in Australia to thwart a possible enemy landing in Darwin.

He told Marshall that within ten days a Japanese division would land in Darwin. So it was demanded that everything possible be done to weaken the rear bases of the Japanese army by using air power. The Marine Corps' new fighter may be able to cope with the Zero fighter relatively well, but the ground attack is really not satisfactory. And the width of the Afra Sea also limits the depth of these aircraft's sorties. He hoped that the Navy's long-range bombers could be stationed at the airfield on Melville Island and play some role. Apparently he knew that the Navy had several squadrons of carrier-based aircraft in reserve, which were being trained in New Zealand, waiting to replenish the losses on the carriers, and the reality that two aircraft carriers had been sunk and the new aircraft carriers were not yet completed, made it impossible for these aircraft to board the motherships in the short term. In MacArthur's opinion, instead of eating and waiting to die in New Zealand, it is better to come here and fight.

Nimitz actually agreed to MacArthur's suggestion. In addition to pressure from the president, perhaps he believes that the intensity of the battle in this minor area is less than that of an aircraft carrier duel, which will help the recruits grow quickly with less losses. And the Japanese Navy's Ryūchū good aircraft carrier appeared in the Afra Sea, perhaps the luck of the novices can help them take out another enemy aircraft carrier. In the recent battle, he destroyed the enemy's 5 main aircraft carriers at the cost of 2 aircraft carriers (including 2 heavy losses in the 1st air battle), which also made him feel that the turning point of the navy had arrived, and if he did not let go of the army at this time, the counteroffensive nodes in the Pacific Ocean would be lost by the army, and there would be no way to talk about the counteroffensive in the new year. Two newly formed squadrons of navy* aircraft and a squadron of dive bombers were quickly deployed to Melville Island, near Darwin, to threaten the Japanese landing fleet.

Inside and outside the Diet Hall of Remembrance in Tokyo, Ryoji Shikata, commander of the military police, and members of the special high division of the Metropolitan Police Department, were carefully searching the venue. Originally, the security search had been carried out several times, but Tojo, the teacher of the Quartet, suddenly sensed that something was wrong, and he wanted his most loyal student to double-check it a few more times. Tojo didn't trust the Guards Division, which was often in trouble, so he didn't let them participate in the inspection of the venue, lest it turn out to be okay and something would happen to the inspection. He trusted the gendarmerie the most. For all the guard duties, the Guards Division is only responsible for the periphery, while the interior of the council chamber is responsible for the gendarmerie.

What made Tojo aware of the danger was the fact that the Duck Nest had recently abruptly released some political prisoners on the grounds that some of the younger prisoners in less serious cases were eligible for conscription.

This is definitely an unusual move. Japan has not yet reached the point where the army has been exhausted to the point where it is necessary to release prisoners for the army, and even if it does, it should not release leftists. After all, he is a political veteran who has experienced many incidents, and he quickly smells that something is wrong.

When the Quartet was in Shanghai, he learned a few tricks from Kagesa Zhenzhao, and when Oki was arrested and the Zorge gang was dug up, the Quartet also made great efforts, so Tojo trusted him very much in his loyalty and business ability. If he had seen the internal comments to the Quartet that Ying Zuo Zhenzhao wrote to the Intelligence Bureau when he left Shanghai, he should have had some concerns about the Quartet's capabilities.

Everything is still the same, no anomalies have been found in all the passages, and Ryoji Quartet's subordinates do not have special equipment, and they are still using army mine detectors and military dogs to find *. Their searches for dangerous goods mainly focused on metal objects. * In itself, it cannot be discovered by these things, and can only be sniffed by military dogs. However, specially treated* can easily hide the smell of *molecules, and the new enemy type* captured on the battlefield may also be outside the familiar smell of military dogs.

Several searches were carried out and nothing suspicious was found. He also checked the list of people who were going to attend the meeting several times, and those leading party from Nanyang spoke strange languages, and few people in the whole of Japan could speak them, so they could only be drawn from the small language departments of various universities. The details of these people were checked by the Metropolitan Police Department, and there was no problem when they came back to report.

At the same time, in a basement in Shibuya, the Japanese communists had just received information from the upline, the security level of the meeting place had been raised, the vigilance of the gendarmerie and the Guards Division had been strengthened, the Metropolitan Police Department had sent to the university, and the second place was to investigate the identity of the interpreter, but nothing was found.

According to the plan, they would get rid of the Burmese teacher who was going to the venue the night before the operation, and then Saito would pretend to be him and bring * into the venue. The almost literal internal pass that Saito had obtained from the upper line was that he could retreat through the safe passage of the council chamber after the night* was to be laid down, where a comrade who had been placed inside would be waiting for him, and then the whole group would split up and go to Nagasaki to take a boat to Manchuria, where they would be met by Manchurian men, and then to Shanxi to join the Eighth Route Army. The whole plan was much more elaborate than all previous operations, and if they had such a rigorous plan in the past, they would not have been arrested, this plan was actually planned by Kagesa Zhenzhao.

"It's a pity that we haven't gotten poison gas yet." Saito said dejectedly. In front of him, there were messy action drawings with pictures of the currently arranged guest seats, and Bamo was replaced by Wang Jingwei, which caught them off guard. Obviously, the power of * is difficult to affect Tojo, although the superiors asked them to just mess up the scene, and other comrades took over, but the inability to kill Tojo in person still made them a huge regret.