Although Ishii was clumsy in handling his pistol, he was quite familiar with the terrain inside the university, and he saw that these people were heading towards the northwest corner, where the firefighting was thinnest, and if they were too short, they could be stopped. Although Tojo and his party were traveling by car, the winding roads around the school slowed down the motorcade. Ishii rides his bicycle and feels the darkness through the heavy snow. He had just seen Tojo sitting in the back seat of the second sedan. It was an ordinary car made by Ford Yokohama. The license plate was Army 0154, not the Mercedes sedan that Goering gave him as Tojo usually did Army Photo 0001, and it was clear that he was already scared and wanted to hide it.

Illuminated by the flares, Ishii pedaled his pedals with all his might, dreaming of the fascinating viruses that only the electron microscope on Kasugamaru could help him see.

There are still dozens of minutes before New Year's Day in 1943. He had to hold on to his dreams.

He leaned over from the tennis court behind the research institute and saw two troop trucks converging with the Tojo convoy here, which seemed chaotic for a while, giving him a chance to start. Taking advantage of the darkness, he leaned through, passed between trucks and cars, and quietly pulled a pistol out of his coat.

It just so happened that a flare fired by the rebels outside the school went up, and under the huge light, Tojo could be seen sticking his head out to watch vigilantly. Apparently very unhappy with the obstruction of passage by gendarmerie trucks. If it had been a different day, he would have opened his mouth to scold, but now he seems weak.

Ishii approached and pulled the trigger on the bald head that was looking at him in astonishment. He fired three shots in a row, then threw the pistol. Holding on to the handlebars of the car with both hands, the snow on the ground was so slippery that he fell to the ground as he turned, but no one in the convoy shot at him, no one even shouted, the flares continued to fall, and he fled into the darkness.

Apparently the bodyguards and gendarmes were still in a panic. They now need to think about the situation they face, and tracking down the killer is probably secondary.

Kagesa stayed at his headquarters, listening to the gunfire in the direction of the school gradually stopping, and then the bell of the temple in the distance, the monks in the temple were not deterred by the gunfire, they still rang the bell for New Year's blessings, which was obviously a good sign. The phone rang immediately, and he answered the phone nervously, and Ishii's tone was nervous and excited: "The egg has been broken. It's a code phrase, and the egg refers to Tojo.

Holding back his excitement, Kagesa Zhenzhao called Makino, who was waiting for news at Nobusuke Kishi's house, and Makino was calmly sitting in his study drawing self-guided* drawings. After he was rescued, he began to bury himself in these things, thinking about keeping the envisioned weapons improvement plan in writing. He had a * poison on his plate, and if the coup failed, he would swallow the pill as soon as the gendarmes came to arrest him in the morning. It's not that he doesn't want to face a new round of interrogation and torture, it's that he doesn't want to survive and watch Japan perish. In his opinion, he stood on the threshold of 1943, and his hope of saving the situation was very slim, and if he was thrown into prison or a mental hospital for a few months, all hope would be extinguished.

He noticed that the gunfire outside was fading, and knew that there was a winner. He folded his hands and began to pray, and then Kagesa's call arrived.

"Just let it go. The old guy is finished. On the other side of the phone, Kagezo's excited voice came over.

On the morning of January 1, 1943, the troops loyal to Tojo, who were still resisting in various parts of Tokyo, decided to surrender. Ryoji Quartet put on civilian clothes and tried to flee to Kansai, but was caught by the Guards Division. That afternoon, he was dragged back to the gendarmerie headquarters in Akasaka, which had been taken over by the coup army.

Kagesa asked him to write a confession admitting that he had been involved in the rebellion and had planned the assassination. The Quartet eventually held on for a while before signing the fabricated confession, during which time the emperor spoke on the phone with Fumiko Konoe, hoping that he would preside over the chaos.

Hirohito already knew that Konoe was inextricably linked to the coup, at least he knew about it beforehand, and similar situations are common in the history of Japanese coups, so it can be seen that only Konoe can form a cabinet to stabilize the situation for the time being.

419 A few hours later, an encrypted urgent telegram from the German Embassy in Japan was heard, indicating that the troops loyal to Tojo had surrendered, and that Tojo's current situation was unknown. But this coup d'état was unlikely to change Japan's established national policy of war, and even if Japan wanted to withdraw, the allies would not agree to an armistice.

Thirty minutes later, a second telegram from the embassy confirmed that Tojo was dead, and Fumiro Konoe called the ambassador and promised to hand over the drawings of the new naval weapons to Germany as soon as possible. Konoe mentioned that Japan was facing a series of dangers, and that the war in Burma was ostensibly turning for the worse, but that the deep problem was in the Pacific, and that he hoped that Germany would have enough strength to destroy the British Royal Navy.

Judging from the wording of the two telegrams, the biggest variable brought by the traverser has been implemented, which is not good news. Makino is actually the most destructive of the three, as evidenced by the recent use of guided weapons by the Combined Fleet.

Now that the guards want to hand over these things to Germany, do they want to use Germany's power to contain the overall deployment of the allies? Of course, 419 is not worried about Europe at the moment, just those primitive radio commands*, and Britain and the United States will soon figure out how to deal with electronic countermeasures. Qin Xiaosu is planning to leak the technical details of the Japanese army through a forged telegram leak, but the most worrying thing is still the new tricks that Makino may come up with, such as * or actively guided anti-ship*. Shuping analyzed the level of industry in Japan and believed that the latter was not far away.

Now that Tojo is finished, there is no need for 419 to continue to go north to the Japanese mainland, Cheng Dayang decided to go to Myanmar to see the situation of Deputy Captain Chu, Chu Aiyun has been away from this collective for too long, and Cheng Dayang sometimes can't remember what he looks like.

The 419 turned the rudder in Mindanao, passed through Palawan, and headed towards the subcontinent, but they did not know that Chu Tingchang's headquarters had moved to the Burma-Thailand border, where it was deep inland, and it was difficult to find him with 419's drones alone.

At the same time, the elite 14th Division, a unit directly under the Southern Army of Terauchi Shouichi transferred from Vietnam, was already in front of Zhou Youfu.

The railroads of the Japanese played a role, and they completed a secret assembly of 8,000 men under the noses of Allied spies and planes. The Thai Army, which had come to its senses, also mobilized several divisions to rush over and prepare to join the Japanese army. However, due to the lack of unified command on the Burmese side, the 4th Division did not rush to Thailand in time according to the instructions of the Southern Army Command, so that the blocking force planned by Terauchi Shouichi was only half. On the positive side, however, it added to the confusion of the Japanese movement in Thailand.

After all, the Japanese troops in Burma had fought with Chu Tingchang, and they knew a little bit about it, and the commander of the 14th Division, Lieutenant General Kengo Noda, who came from Vietnam, had never suffered the defeat of the Chinese army. He was anxious to show his hand in front of the general in the temple.

Since its establishment in 1905, the 14th Division has claimed to have never tasted defeat, and in 1919 it invaded the Soviet Union and fought all the way to Lake Baikal, becoming a miracle in the teaching plan of the Army University. The unit did not fall behind most of the nodes of the war of aggression against China, and carried out a diversion operation in Manchuria during the 128 Incident, and invaded Rehe in May 1932. When the Lugou Bridge was opened, the 14th Division took the lead in crossing the Yongding River and established a victory. Later, he moved to Hebei, Shanxi, and Jiangsu, and the number of annihilated national troops according to the division was 190,000, and he fought with the Liangguang army and the Central Army, which were more capable of fighting in the national army sequence, and there was no record of defeat.

The 14th Division was originally transferred from the Kwantung Army to the Southern Army, to go to Palawan to replace the garrison vacancy left by the attacking Australian troops, Noda prayed to God and Buddha, hoping not to go to the Philippines, he hoped that he would either attack the main force of Australia, or go to Burma to deal with Chu Tingchang, instead of playing the role of a garrison.

When the troops arrived in Da Nang, the situation in northern Myanmar was deteriorating, and Terauchi Shouichi hurriedly left the unit in Vietnam to wait for the situation to change. Sure enough, Chu Tingchang once again attacked the east and west, and attacked the weakest link of the Axis powers-Thailand.

The general in the temple roughly understood Chu Tingchang's intentions, how vicious his move was, if he succeeded, the entire Indochina Peninsula would be a dead game. So General Terauchi planned a counterattack with two main divisions, the 4th and 14th Divisions, and he knew that his troops were not as good at maneuvering as Chu Ting's commanders, but there was one thing that he had the upper hand for, and that was the railway.

Zhou Youfu was not warned by British intelligence and American aerial reconnaissance, and he was still making great progress. Of course, due to the deep into the hinterland, the supply could not be continued, the size of his offensive team became smaller and smaller, and on New Year's Day, only one reinforced battalion was left, but there was no offensive at all, it was completely a march, and the Thai army had long fled.

Lao Zhou's idea was to take advantage of the fact that the main Japanese force had not arrived, quickly occupy the rice-producing areas south of Chiang Mai, and then wait for the follow-up troops to slowly come up, and then enter the second stage.

He speculated that the time for the main Japanese army to assemble in Chiang Rai Province might be two or three days later, and then wait for a few days for the heavy weapons to change the map equipment, vaccinate, and equip the Manchurian troops with translations, and the staff to study the plan, and then set off about a week later.

But the 14 Division came quickly. Noda began to study the enemy's movements on the train, and he found that the 202nd Division was advancing entirely along a level terrain, apparently to gain a favorable advance route for the rear troops, and he guessed where the enemy's next move would be. Moreover, he found that with the increase in depth distance, the reconnaissance advantage of the US military is weakening. The Americans have been staring at the 4th Division, which is still mobile in Burma, and they have not moved, and the Americans do not think that there is much of a problem.

Noda once again played the trick of the sneak attack on Rehe in 1932, and asked the main second wing to stop a few kilometers in front of the station at night, and then the personnel got off the car and marched forward on foot, only transporting the baggage into the station, so that the British scouts hiding near the station only found a brigade movement of the 49th Brigade, and did not find the main force of the Japanese army and any heavy weapons. Such a small ruse gave a huge distraction to the intelligence work of the Allied forces.

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Comrades, I have to stop tomorrow for a day, sorry.