For Makino, today is considered a smooth pass, he and the whole of Japan have once again taken a small step that cannot be missed, his schedule is extremely tight, the next will be a controllable* launch test, the current technical bottleneck of the whole project appears in the lack of sufficiently strong wire materials. *During the launch phase, there is a 90% chance of tearing off the copper wire that carries the command, and the only solution is to reduce the power during launch and reduce the speed to 30 knots. Another problem is that the launch boat cannot be observed at any time through the periscope*, so it is difficult to implement remote control in a targeted manner.

Makino knows the technical direction of *, pure remote control* is not very valuable, because * needs to be set to increase concealment, and the launcher is difficult to control it to sail towards the target by observing the relationship between the target and *. The solution to the problem of not being able to see * is not to fix the depth before launch, * after launch, * sail directly to the surface of the sea, and add a tracer tube on top to facilitate the captain under the periscope to observe it. This is, of course, only a stopgap measure, * exposure in advance also means that the submarine will also be exposed. The remote-controlled* speed of 30 knots is a waste of Japan's unique technology that uses oxygen mixture combustion to generate power.

But even if it is not of real combat significance, this is still a necessary technical reserve to move in the right direction. * The design drawings of the guidance part of the active and passive sonar and wake guidance have been salvaged from the Kasuga Maru. It is currently waiting for some technology nodes to make breakthroughs.

Thinking that there are still a lot of technical obstacles to be solved in the future, Makino can't be optimistic, he hopes that Ishihara's strategy and Yamashita command can stop Chu Tingchang's offensive, and don't let this damn guy hasten the end of the war.

On the front line in northern Thailand, Chu Tingchang ushered in the first batch of newly trained troops, with a total of ten battalions, most of whom were overseas Chinese, and a small part were from the border people of Yunnan. He used these forces to augment the three divisions of the front.

New divisions are still being formed in the rear, while waiting for American equipment. After gaining insight into the wolf ambitions of Chief Chu Ting, Chongqing has taken precautions against him, and the only thing that reassures Chongqing a little is that the training and personnel rights of the new army are still in the hands of his own person Xiong Xianghui.

Xiong Xianghui tried his best to hide under the noses of Chu Tingchang and his henchmen, and regularly secretly reported to Chongqing on Chu Tingchang's various actions and his timely judgment of Chu Tingchang's personal ambitions.

Chu Tingchang's recent move to separate from Chongqing was to conduct a strict identity review of the Yunnan soldiers who had taken refuge on the north bank of the Nu River, and a large number of personnel from the former Three Youth Leagues or other peripheral organizations of the military command who were mixed in with them were refunded. All of Dai Li's plans to mix sand have failed.

According to Xiong Xianghui's report, every time he signed to accept people in accordance with Chongqing's will, he would receive a list of non-accepting people sent by Chu Tingchang's confidants in the following days, and he would almost clear out all those who were about to be placed, or send them to Zhang Lingfu's troops nearby.

Xiong Xianghui believed that without sufficient intelligence capabilities, it would not be possible to do such a precise internal cleansing, and he suspected that Zhou Youfu, a confidant of Chu Tingchang, had established an intelligence department in Yunnan while carrying out the smuggling trade, specializing in bribing high-ranking officials to obtain information in this regard. Of course, Xiong Xianghui's other judgment is that Chief Chu may have obtained information from the US side, and he learned that the US special envoy Wilkie had a close relationship with Chief Chu Ting, and perhaps this was a source of information for him.

Chongqing is naturally very big, but Chu Tingchang's victory in Chiang Mai has once again focused the world's attention on this miraculous general, and now at least two war news reporting teams of the US Department of Defense are closely following Chu Tingchang's actions, which makes Lao Jiang unable to completely break with Chu Tingchang.

Mr. Chu had just met with U.S. Presidential Envoy Wendell Wilkie, and was awarded a second medal from the United Kingdom. For the time being, Chongqing can only urge other generals in northern Myanmar to be able to play some situations and slightly block the dazzling light of Chu Tingchang.

In January of '43, the world war was still in a terrible stalemate. The active defense of the German army along the Volga River was successful, thwarting Vasilevsky's counterattack, in this battle, the German army allowed the Soviet army to establish a bridgehead, and quickly launched a counterattack, annihilating 110,000 Soviet troops and destroying 400 tanks, which can be regarded as a city on the Soviet-German battlefield. According to information obtained by British intelligence, Hitler was waiting for his new tank, which he had just mass-produced, to be ready to be put into a new offensive, which would be launched somewhere on the southern front, with the aim of regaining the initiative.

If intelligence is reliable, the new offensive will not rely on superior forces, but on new military technology, and Hitler will then commit to a 95-ton tank powered by electricity, which is a drop in the bucket compared to the Tiger tank discovered in Leningrad at the end of last year.

The Asian War was similarly confusing, and the victory of Chu Tingchang forced Thailand, a populous country on the wall, into the war, which seemed to be a political victory for Japan.

Japan's new leaders were more pragmatic and rigorous than their predecessors, and if no miracle had happened, MacArthur would have been defeated in a very short time, and President Roosevelt had cut off the possibility of letting the beloved general leave the army and flee again. At present, the Allies are still fighting in the coastal zone with the army under the mountain, and because of the absolute sea supremacy obtained by Japan, the Japanese army's supply capacity far exceeds that of the Allied forces. The war is becoming very desperate. The whole world waited for MacArthur to muster the courage to die in battle and avoid becoming a prisoner.

Stilwell sat in the headquarters of Chief Chu Ting, waiting for Commander Chu and his generals to worship the gods before the military meeting. He waited patiently for the long, smoky incense ceremony to end. This group of people, whether they are fighting or gambling, cannot do without that statue. In fact, in Stilwell's view, Guan Yu can hardly be called a real military god, he was proud and conceited during his lifetime, and many of the military operations led by him were failures. But the Chinese worship such soldiers.

After worshipping Guan Gong, everyone finally returned to the sand table and the front of the map, and the power of the divine stick that Chu Tingchang had recently recovered made most of his generals more and more confident.

Stilwell couldn't resist to speak, his plane was nearly shot down by a Japanese plane that suddenly appeared when it landed north of Chiang Mai, and after 40 minutes of superstitious activity, he was now desperate to sell his plan. In fact, the plan was not just his, it was Roosevelt's. Roosevelt wanted to do everything in his power to save the Allies in Australia, and he wanted Chu Tingchang's army to immediately move south to capture Bangkok. Then, either choose to attack Malaya by land, which can contain the Japanese navy from coming back. Either attack Dalat, where the headquarters of the Southern Army in Vietnam is located, so that the entire Japanese army can be pinned.

He talked for 30 minutes, comparing this place to the key to the turning point of the world war, and the 5th Army became the key to the overall situation, and Chu Tingchang became the core of the decisive victory. Normally, his self-esteem would limit him from giving him excessive praise for someone, and he never met the president with such a sensuality. But today he had to put a high hat on Chief Chu. About 100,000 U.S. troops and 150,000 Australian troops are in danger. In his view, saving the white army was the first priority, and the casualties and risks faced by the Chinese army were the second priority.

“…… At present, there are only a few Japanese troops in the entire Indochina Peninsula, and most of them are second-line security brigades, and the British have already made contact with the Vietnamese resistance...... In short, we will do everything in our power to solve the supply problem, so that the entire southward offensive will no longer have to worry about the future. ”

"Chief of Staff, do everything in your power to solve the supply problem?"

Chief Chu immediately caught the part that Stilwell was trying to slip past in order to coax himself into following his plan.

"It's supplies in the air. We already have a large number of transport planes, and the fleet can follow your troops to resupply at the rear airfields. ”

"Nonono, you haven't even seized air supremacy over the Indochina Peninsula yet, I don't believe you can test the airlift to support the attack of the three armies."

"Chu, in any case, must immediately carry out the offensive, taking advantage of the coup d'état that has just taken place by the enemy. If they miss this opportunity, they will send Yamashita Bongbun here. ”

Chu Tingchang turned around with a smile and looked at his overconfident generals.

"Are you afraid of Yamashita Fengwen?"

"Fuck, how old is Yamashita Fengwen?" Zhou Youfu was the first to express his dissatisfaction, in fact, this name that can scare Western generals into peeing their pants is the first time he has heard of it.

"That is, we have fewer Japanese generals killed? I'll make a statement first, and I, Zhao, admire our military seat. Zhao Xiaoli hurriedly made a statement, and patted Chu Ting's long horse by the way.

Stilwell was a little deflated, he flew from India, he didn't expect to harvest such a result, it seems that Chu Tingchang is determined not to go south.

"Chief of Staff, you and I don't talk darkly, and whether air transportation is reliable or not, we all know it in our hearts. Moreover, if you hit Bangkok and hit Singapore, you can save Australia? Not necessarily, the Japanese are not so stupid? They knew the truth of Wei Wei to save Zhao. In my opinion, it is better to turn back and take Mandalay and open up the entire railway, and my old Chu promised that as long as the railway is captured, it will be able to fight all the way to Da Nang. ”

Stilwell must admit that from a purely military point of view, Chu Tingchang's plan is correct, of course, politically wrong, Chu Tingchang will always do his own thing, which makes him feel strange, he thought that he had left Chongqing and could only obey the orders of the United States wholeheartedly, but in fact it was not that simple, Chu Tingchang seemed to be loyal only to himself, but it was not the same as the traditional Chinese warlords.

Before Chu Tingchang returned to the sand table, to the west of his troops was the Shan Plateau, and the railroad built by the Japanese army at the cost of tens of thousands of prisoners of war stretched deep in the mountains to Mandalay.

"Commander Zhang is still grinding, giving him cannons, and he can't beat Mandalay for a month. Looks like we're going to have to help him. ”

He immediately made a plan for Zhou Youfu to advance westward along the railway as fast as possible to prevent the enemy from destroying the railroad tracks and bridges along the way. The follow-up troops advanced by train and quickly formed a flanking attack on the 4th Division in Mandalay.