Jennings waited for a while, and his company commanders came in, but his right-hand man, the battalion commander Scott, did not show up. He rarely came to this 2nd battalion, and because it was notoriously difficult to manage, he was usually lost to Scott. But several battalions in his regiment had their own division of labor, the 1st and 3rd battalions were good at building roads, and the 2nd battalion was good at building bridges. This time they had to come.

The 2nd Battalion, which originally belonged to another transport regiment composed of blacks, was training at the home base in Takto, where clashes broke out between white officers and black soldiers, and eventually the gendarmes arrived and shot 26 black soldiers indiscriminately. Several white officers were found guilty of managerial responsibility by court-martials and dismissed from military service, and dozens of blacks involved in the protests were sentenced to one to three years in prison. Such a trial without any fairness caused a huge backlash among the troops.

The Army disbanded the old units and reorganized a number of battalions, and in compensation, black company commanders were appointed to the new units, but the officers above the company level were still controlled by whites. Out of distrust of blacks, they were not allowed to participate in the fighting, and only some transport and engineering work was responsible. But German spies took advantage of the loophole in due course, and they established contact with the unit on American soil.

The black soldiers received the wrong message, including that Germany was a country committed to desegregation, while Japan's goal was to liberate the Anglo-ruled peoples of all of Asia. Roosevelt, on the Palestinian question, openly favored his cousin Churchill and supported him in suppressing the Arabs; Hitler and in 1937 openly questioned the American policy of apartheid, but Roosevelt did not respond positively.

After coming to India, the internal relations of this unit were taken over by the Yugoslav authorities, and a rebellion could have been carried out a long time ago, but because the troops were always on standby in the rear, it seemed that they could not find the opportunity. But today, the time has come for them to realize their value.

Jennings stood in front of him, glancing viciously at the deployment sitting below, and the subordinates looked at him with expressionless faces. Every time there is such a scene, Jennings is not confident, so he needs to bluff to suppress these men.

His three company commanders did not meet the U.S. Army's academic standards for officers at the company commander level, did not have a bachelor's degree in engineering, and American universities were still monopolized by whites, and blacks could not meet this standard. At present, the actual management of the troops is actually in the hands of three company commanders, and they sometimes deliberately delay the project.

"Why isn't Major Scott here?" He asked sternly.

"I don't know, in the morning, he and the reconnaissance platoon went to the jungle on the other side to inspect the road. And then it never came back. A company commander said.

"He didn't have a radio with him?"

Jennings waited for a long time, but no one answered the question, feeling that the officers ignored him.

"I want to talk about the pontoon, which, according to my order, should have been completed 48 hours ago, why, there is still a little section in the middle that has not been closed. The equipment is already in place. Twenty minutes will solve the problem. ”

"It's such a major, the drawings and the equipment sent, there are some errors." Someone replied. He couldn't name the second lieutenant, and sometimes he felt that his men were all about the same age.

"How is this possible, these pontoons are assembled first and then disassembled. Each part is numbered, so that even the monkeys can be loaded in order. As he spoke, he slammed a stack of papers into his hand on the table.

Silence was again below. He was most afraid of such scenes, because he didn't know whether they were afraid or not. These officers are not only difficult to distinguish, but also difficult to read their expressions, which is precisely what makes Jennings most weak, if they see through that they are just bluffing, then they will be very mindful of the racist remark just now.

"You go back to the construction site first, and I'll be right there."

"Stand up." The adjutant next to him shouted, and the people below stood up, saluted hastily, and then went out, Jennings observed a few people, and even omitted the salute.

He shook his head and looked back at the map to see what needed to be done on the remaining roads after the bridge was built.

"Sir, I don't think it's right."

His adjutant Lieutenant Charlton said.

"What do you think?"

"I think the atmosphere is weird, how did Scott disappear? Captain Bobby should have known the whole thing, and I noticed that he was nervously flickering. ”

"Do you think he was ambushed by the Japanese?"

"No, I think the officers seem to ......," he pondered his words, "and I think there is a danger of mutiny in the troops." ”

Jennings turned his head and looked at him for a moment.

"You come with me to the construction site and take the guard platoon."

"Yes."

As soon as he finished speaking, he heard something roll into the tent, and several white officers sensed that something was wrong and tried to hide, but * had exploded, and then several outside* began to strafe, and the tent was full of holes. The disagreement among the black officers over whether to defect to the Japanese or continue to grind for foreign workers was bridged by the metaphor that monkeys can assemble bridges. The colonel paid for it.

Chu Tingchang has not yet received Ma Qiang's communication, and the mountains in northern Myanmar are getting lower and lower the more south, so the communication distance from south to north is somewhat different. He stood on the mountain, looked to the south, and finally looked back at the Qingdun River in boredom, and found that the pontoon bridge on the river was actually completed? Isn't it that after Jennings came, his efficiency has increased greatly? It seems that the Americans are also lazy donkeys on the mill.

The stone in his heart finally landed, and he began to bury his head in planning the steps of mobilizing troops from the west bank to cross the river tomorrow, which must be arranged in advance and done in an orderly manner, otherwise it will be easy to mess up. As he circled the map, he naturally didn't notice that several jeeps and trucks quickly crossed the pontoon. Then someone jumped out of the jeep and quickly lit a wire.

The core participants of the entire mutiny were no more than 60 people, but a large number of grassroots soldiers were aware of these things, but they did not care, they were just numb bystanders, or some schadenfreude. For them, it is a big deal to return to China and disband, and accept a year and a half of investigation, since the war cannot end in a year, so they can be reunited with their families earlier. There are few reasons for them to die for a country that once enslaved their ancestors and is still in apartheid, but there are many reasons to betray it.

The huge continuous explosion woke Chu Tingchang from his meditation, and he was still planning how to make reasonable use of the pontoon bridge's capacity, when suddenly the pontoon bridge did not exist. He turned around and looked through his binoculars, and found that the entire bridge had begun to explode from the aluminum approach bridges on both sides, and the steel cables that held the pontoons in place and prevented them from going with the flow were blown up at the root. The pontoons broke away from the steel plates covering them and began to move, soon scattering and drifting downstream.

He was stunned at the top of the hill, it was clear that this was not an accident, it was a deliberate incident. Such a well-planned event is obviously just the beginning, and there must be other supporting plans later? He thought quickly about his situation.

Apparently, he and about 450 people were trapped in Koto. The enemy's target should be himself. In addition to the small number of people, there is also a shortage of ammunition and equipment, and there are only a dozen heavy machine guns, dozens of tents, a few radio stations, and a statue of Guan Gong at present.

He immediately spoke to his own troops on the west bank of the Qingdun River, asking for control of the American troops on the west bank, and at the same time trying to pull up a few steel cables, perhaps climbing the ropes like the Japanese and throwing away some things. However, he has already observed that since yesterday, the water flow in the upper reaches of the Qingdun River has increased sharply, and the water level has risen a lot, and it seems that this plan is not feasible.

After receiving the telegram, Zhou Youfu immediately dispatched five infantry companies plus a tank company to quickly rush to the river and control the 250 American soldiers involved in the construction project.

Zhou Youfu pretended to agree, deceived several officers who came to negotiate to his camp, and then tied them up. He didn't interrogate either, but ordered a few and threw them into the river. His hand really shook everyone in the engineer battalion, and the others did not dare to resist and immediately disarmed. He controlled these people, and then kept calling Chu Tingchang. Of course, he was still not very nervous in his heart, one of which was of course because the master seat was omnipotent; Second, as long as you find an open space and let Stilwell send a plane to land, you can take Chu Tingchang over. However, it was impossible for Chief Chu to leave the soldiers behind and choose the second option. That would cause the prestige he had accumulated to fall quickly.

Xu Chong observed a new movement of the enemy's troops, and a unit from the south rushed in a truck. His company relied on the terrain to make a blockade, but it could not stop it completely, and before the ammunition ran out, it destroyed the road and retreated. He estimated that the enemy would repair the road within a few hours.

The situation is changing rapidly, and the purpose of the enemy's limited counterattack this time can only be Chu Tingchang himself. After losing tens of thousands of men, they hoped to regain a city by a trick.

In the waters off Okinawa, 419 overheard the standby time of the crews of enemy seaplanes.

This information is mixed in a large amount of useless information, but Qin Xiaosu is a good hand, he can sift through the massive amount of communication to detect the useful parts. For example, he found out the duty hours of all the seaplane crews in Kagoshima, including the number of people and times, and the crew of the Type 2 was more than that of other types of aircraft, and he could easily tell from the number of people that the enemy would take off in two days. The destination is unknown, and the identity of the boarding dignitaries is unknown. But it is precisely in this way that it is more like real information, and if all the elements you want to know appear in one intelligence, it is easy to make people afraid.

Makino continued to stay in Kagoshima to sort and salvage the items, while Asano packed up the northeast and prepared to accompany Kagesa to North China for an investigation. Makino gave him a general purpose - to inspect the nuclear base. Even people like Asano, who have little common sense about industry, can see that this is impossible. North China, where there is no industrial base and no electricity in most places, cannot build such factories in a short time. It is simply unrealistic to want to build a dam on the Yellow River to generate electricity or use coal from Shanxi, not to mention the capacity, these places are not peaceful at present, and there are a large number of eight roads infested.

But there was a reason to convince him that Kagesa Zhenzhao promised him to participate in the development of military plans in North China. He has been studying the history of World War II for many years, and he has long had a plan to raid the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army in Shanxi, and he really wants to fight it.