Everyone is waiting for Chief Chu Tingchang to make a statement, about Chongqing. Conspiracy theories always spread unusually quickly, about the military seat in Calcutta, deliberately snubbing Soong Meiling's niece in order to have a showdown with the commission; And the ensuing burden on the Chongqing side, the story of the pilot parachuting the plane. There is no doubt that these two things are intrinsically related, and most people believe that Chu Junzuo's humiliation of Miss Kong Er was to divide the territory in the southeast, and perhaps the initiator behind all this was the Americans. Zhou Youfu, as a representative figure who closely follows Chu Tingchang, has recently repeatedly said: The Cairo Conference is not a Big Three, but a Big Four. It seems to indicate that the split situation is rapidly taking shape.

It is the appearance of many signs that makes the hearts of the people in the army fluctuate, Tao Mingzhang and Xiong Xianghui saw the undercurrent, and they both hoped that Chief Chu Tingchang could immediately express his stance to stabilize the hearts of the people. The vast majority of the middle and senior officers in the army came from the original expeditionary force system, and even if they were to surrender to the five-body body that Chu Tingchang admired, they would not approve of the establishment of an independent Chinese state in Southeast Asia.

"I'm sure you've all read the Big Three's communiqué...... Hehehe, Chu Mou, it is an honor to be a participant in history with the three giants. Chairman of the committee, his old man......" Chu Tingchang mentioned Lao Jiang, instead of gritting his teeth, he whimpered, "His old man is actually ...... It's been so thin that I haven't seen it for a year, but my temples are white, and Chu Mou can't bear to ......"

Tao Mingzhang was still worried about Chu Tingchang's negative spirit just now, and it was difficult to take care of the overall situation, but now he felt that the military commander had acted too much, and the chairman of the committee was clearly bald, where did he come from with white sideburns.

After sobbing for a while, Chu Tingchang suddenly turned to a straight color.

"Recently, some people have tried to drive a wedge between us and the military committee in Chongqing, saying that I want to build an independent kingdom, and these rumors are really ridiculous." Bian Xingzhou Youfu unconsciously felt a chill in his neck, although he knew that most of what Junzuo said was not himself, "I was about to send a report to Chongqing to expose Dai Li, a sinister villain, but I heard that he absconded in fear of crime and his whereabouts are unknown." ”

"Come to think of it, Dai Lia is a Japanese spy." Zhou Youfu said.

"This possibility cannot be ruled out. Of course, in order to eliminate unnecessary differences, I suggest that in the name of the senior generals of the whole army, send a telegram to Chongqing to show our army's loyalty to the central authorities and its determination to resolutely resist Japan. ”

"Okay, Wise Commander." Xiong Xianghui took the lead in applauding. Everyone applauded, and Zhou Youfu suddenly realized that he actually couldn't understand the mind of the military seat, maybe, the time has not yet arrived, right?

Seeing that everyone's expressions gradually calmed down, it seemed that it was time to deploy a new attack. Chu Tingchang walked to the map.

"I just mentioned the Japanese super*, when I was in Calcutta, the British and the United States reported about it, and I also saw the photo."

Everyone looked at each other, and everyone's imagination was not enough to piece together a scene of 10,000 thousands of tons* of explosion, causing great damage.

"It's a ruined wall. It is said that General Mountbatten was watching the explosion and was blinded by the fact that his eyes lit up. ”

"Junza, how can you prevent such a powerful weapon?"

"Prevention?" Chu Tingchang thought for a moment, "Maybe the Japanese don't have a lot of such super*, and these weapons are very heavy, weighing more than a dozen tons, and they are not so easy to throw on the battlefield." Actually, it's just a paper tiger. ”

Looking at the doubts of the generals, he knew that he was a little frivolous to say that a super* was a paper tiger, and now he had to give a solution. Of course, he knows that the best way is the reconnaissance ability of 419, of course, he can't say it directly, and he must deduce it in his own way.

There is no doubt that if the Japanese rebel against the way of heaven will be defeated. I watched the stars of Zhou Tian last night, and the white tiger star trembled, which can be described as dangerous for a while, but the stars of Zhongtian are not chaotic, and the general trend has not changed. ”

"Of course, these are just general trends, I often say, days are the body, tactics are the use...... Therefore, it is still necessary to avoid the edge. Zhou Youfu! ”

"Yes!"

"Give up the plan to attack Saigon, and your troops will attack Hue instead."

"Hue? The military seat, Hue is mountainous and rugged, which is not conducive to the supply of our army. ”

"So attack Hue first, the enemy is super * too heavy, we can only deploy along the coast and wait for the rabbit, we can't crash into the trap."

"Understood."

"Tao Mingzhang."

"Commander."

"Malay, it's better to focus on defense, don't counterattack."

"Yes."

"What about Huang Tianyang?"

"Division Commander Huang's deployment is too long, and the coastal defense has been delayed. Still on the way. ”

"Okay, that's about it, adjourn."

Chu Ting waved his hand and announced the dismissal of the meeting, the meeting will be held today, the military strategy, but secondly, the main thing is to calm the people's hearts, for this he needs to convey two messages, first, the 5th Army will not deviate from Chongqing, and second: *, just a paper tiger.

He was in a hurry to contact 419 now to discuss the next step, and that was the right thing to do.

At present, it seems that the Japanese have not hesitated to use nuclear bombs, and have almost completely failed to consider the possible consequences at the political level. It seems that the time has come to discuss the issue of the 419 nuclear counterattack. At the meeting just now, he exaggerated the weight and difficulty of maneuvering the nuclear bomb, saying that it was almost impossible to put it into actual combat, but it was easy to imagine that the Japanese would set their sights on their own troops that swept through Southeast Asia after a nuclear explosion of a verified nature.

Thinking about it, with the intelligence ability of 419, I already have a certain understanding of the power of that primary nuclear bomb. He needed some advice from Shuping on how to deploy, march, and defend his troops, and through some computer simulation-based schemes, it should be possible to minimize the losses of his troops in the event of an attack. Judging from past experience, experience that transcends the times has a very good effect on guarding against weapons of mass destruction. He had encounters with both the poison gas and bacteriological units of the Japanese army, with almost no losses.

Near the Aleutian Islands, a large Japanese submarine is rapidly heading toward the coast of the United States, and the I-12 submarine, which had just received an order a day earlier, was to cross 4,500 kilometers to carry out a reconnaissance off the west coast of the United States. For this submarine, it is not the first time that it has approached the coast of the United States, half a year ago, Yi 12 took advantage of the night to take off and land a seaplane off the coast of Oregon, and was originally going to drop several incendiary bombs over the forest, causing a forest fire. In the end, the plane did not return at the specified time (at dawn), and the captain Kanda did not dare to wait any longer, and ordered to dive, abandoning the pilot and the plane. The only sortie, that's how it ended. But this failure became a shining mark on his resume, and Onishi gave limited consideration to letting his boat carry out this important mission.

Captain Kanda did not agree with the order given to him, this task was far more complicated than the last time, and even deliberately updated the strange code book.

The mission required to go within 100 nautical miles of the coast of California, reconnoiter the naval deployments of San Francisco, Los Angeles, and San Diego along the coast, search for the enemy's fleet under training, explore and study the pattern of fleet deployment, and send it back in a timely manner by telegram. Kanda didn't know who in the staff had made the plan. In short, it is like a person who does not understand submarine tactics at all, shoehorning an impossible task into himself.

In his opinion, to accomplish reconnaissance on such a scale, a large number of reconnaissance aircraft were required to get close to the enemy fleet, coupled with covert surveillance by land spies, and submarines could only be used as the most minor means of supplementation.

Although supplies were supplied, such a long period of reconnaissance actually sacrificed the return range of the submarine, that is to say, after the completion of the reconnaissance, the submarine's fuel will only be enough to go to the Marshalls, and this is not counting, and the long-term underwater reconnaissance and repeated charging of the battery will inevitably cause excessive fuel consumption. Apparently the person who made the plan was a fool who only knew how to sit in front of a map and whimsical things with a slide rule and scratch paper.

Of course, Kanda didn't know that Onishi Takijiro, who had made the plan, had just been promoted to lieutenant general, and his common sense certainly knew that the submarine was ineffective in reconnaissance, and in fact, Onishi didn't care at all whether the submarine could return or not. All he wanted was the message sent back by the submarine through a one-time codebook (Makino confirmed that this way would not be deciphered by the hidden enemy in a short time), which was enough to make a sneak attack plan.

Along the way, Kanda has been careful to avoid enemy routes during the day, mainly the route from Seattle to Vladivostok to aid the Soviet Union, and these American cargo ships loaded with grain, fuel, aluminum, iron and rubber are all flying Soviet flags, and out of the constraints of mutual nonaggression, the Japanese navy turned a blind eye to these unescorted ships. Of course, this does not mean that these ships will not inform the mainland, in fact, the Americans have been using this route to reconnoiter the Japanese Navy.

The next day's route was from San Francisco to Hawaii, and the U.S. ships were intensively on this route, and each fleet was escorted by an anti-submarine fleet, so Kanda could only keep his eyes open and be vigilant at all times, and as soon as he saw smoke in the distance, he immediately dived. It was only at night that it surfaced and increased its horsepower to sail south.

After 15 days of sailing, the Yi-12 finally approached the target area, and the US anti-submarine deployment on the west coast was not as dense as the east coast, but there were still a large number of anti-submarine planes that took off from time to time. So, close to the coast during the day, still be vigilant. However, most of the Catalina seaplanes that took off from San Francisco were on training missions, and the route was relatively fixed, and one of the gains of the last time the Yi 12 was close to the American coast, that Kanda knew how to judge the direction of the plane by listening to the navigation conversation between the coastal radio station and the rookie pilot. Sometimes, pilots would use the Honbo fleet as a false enemy and inform the base of the location of the discovered anti-submarine fleet, and this radio information could also help Kanda avoid some trouble. Of course, before deciding whether to go deeper, Kanda decided to send a seaplane for a night reconnaissance, which would allow him to determine the general location of the enemy's fleet, and he didn't want to waste too much fuel by searching every corner of the California coast through the periscope.

The submarine, 220 nautical miles from the coast, began to assemble that plane on the deck, and the I-12 is still not a submarine carrier in the true sense of the word. To take off an aircraft, it is necessary to take some risks, especially for a submarine that does not have an air warning radar.

Fortunately, during the two-hour assembly and refueling process, no enemy aircraft or ships approached.