The search vessel made a radio call, but there was no answer. The next morning, they searched for the Yukikaze coming from the north, and after collecting all the information, they were still not sure that the ship had been sunk, so they wasted another two days and walked back along the original route, but there was nothing to be found. If they had a high-frequency hydroacoustic sounding system, or underwater camera equipment, of course, it would have been easy to find a shipwreck on the bottom of the sea, but they didn't.

Yamamoto was alerted at this time, and he ordered the naval aviation of New Britain to send several large seaplanes to search part of the day and night; However, no trace of this fleet has ever been found. However, when the search fleet flew over the sea at low altitude, it repeatedly witnessed American submarines and dropped bombs several times, but they did not hit. In fact, they were not without clues, one of which was that all the navigation stations from the Philippines to New Guinea, the communication units and warships recorded unusual communication interruptions, which are usually the case in the event of a large sunspot eruption, and the time of the interruption was recorded consistently; The other is the strange rain clouds photographed in Baicun, which is a strange landscape formed by the rising clouds after the nuclear explosion for half a day, although it no longer has the shape of a mushroom cloud, but the sea and the sky are spectacular.

Yamamoto began to regret it, and then became suspicious, feeling that he had spent too much money to verify that the password had been leaked. Whether it is the battlefield or the experience in the casino, he is told that he is reluctant to let the child trap the wolf; Of course, in practice, his calculations are not shrewd. In fact, under his rule, the Japanese navy did not pay a heavy price while reaping huge results.

The Navy's intelligence department has always despised the US military's submarine warfare technology and weapons, and the Navy believes that a mere dozen submarines will not pose any threat at all in the vast Pacific Ocean, but this time it seems to have been self-defeating. An ambush of this magnitude required a huge concentration of forces in a short period of time, which was difficult for even a seasoned German navy to do in the relatively narrow Atlantic. Of course, the information was leaked by Yamamoto himself, and he naturally refused to admit it, but he was inevitably silently annoyed in his heart.

Yamamoto Toonishi asked Asano for advice on the various possibilities of this matter, and Asano was noncommittal, and sure enough, once history began to change on a large scale, Asano couldn't say why. However, there is another candidate in Yamamoto's mind, and that is Makino, who is currently refusing to see guests.

Makino's self-defeating approach actually moved Yamamoto a little, although from a bushido point of view, such cowardice was not advisable. But in fact, Asano's rhetorical comments on the war and how to win made Yamamoto feel a little afraid, and Asano regarded war as a game and victory as inevitable, which of course would be very much in line with the appetite of most soldiers, but the attitude was too frivolous, unlike the strict people of the left. The more he thought about it, the more he felt that it was so important that he couldn't sleep for a few days, and he couldn't wait to hear Makino's opinion.

In the Tokyo countryside, in the private residence of Eisaku Sato. Ishihara and Makino were sitting on the edge of the courtyard, playing chess in the corridor, they were all idle people now, Ishi's reason was suspected of the failure of the coup, and he didn't dare to show his head, Makino didn't need to say, he was already disheartened, and he didn't care about the war at all.

However, there is still a difference between the two people's situation, after all, Ishihara Waner seems to be concerned about the empire, and he is still very lucky about the war, and he will talk about the war from time to time, wanting to explore the style of Makino.

"The army has been doing a good job in Southeast Asia recently, and the guys in the military department are very motivated, and they are all staring at Australia."

Makino on the other side was thoughtful and seemed to be indecisive, he was a stinky chess basket, and if Ishihara didn't let him, the situation would be almost one-sided.

"No, it looks like I'm going to lose again today."

"It's going to be a long time coming."

"Forget it, I know it's a loss, why do you have to hold on."

Makino Toko admits defeat, he is already aware that the other party has been letting him.

"That's not what the words say, what the soldiers say, put it to death and come back to life." Ishihara said seductively, "You see, Germany has taken Moscow, and our army is about to go south to Australia. The situation is very different from what you said at the time. ”

"It's just a nice endgame."

Makino suddenly picked up the conversation, the first time in months that he had talked about the battle situation. No matter how much he hinted at him, he talked about him left and right, and avoided talking about war.

"Endgame?"

"Yes, although I don't know the way of chess, I do know that there are some endgames on ancient chess games, and no matter how advantageous black chess is, it will eventually lose. Because of all the plays, the opponent has a routine to deal with, and they are all fast. ”

"A few days ago, Onishi-kun called, saying that he had obtained a new type of aircraft from Germany, with a speed of about Mach 0.7, and I would like to ask you to go out of the mountain to change the original design and increase the speed a little more, so that our fighter can occupy a greater advantage."

"What a fighter, that's a kind of German *." Makino sneered, and as soon as Asano pouted his ass, he knew what the plan was.

“*？”

"Yes, a weapon that doesn't need to be operated by a human and looks for a target on its own, but it's still very primitive in this year. What Onishi and Asano wanted was not a high-speed fighter, but a suicide weapon. Used to ram enemy warships. ”

"Oh?"

Ishihara was slightly surprised. However, Makino knew that he would not hate this kind of thing as much as he did, and the most enlightened old soldier he had ever seen was Kagesa Yoshiaki, but he was also quite ambiguous about suicide weapons, and felt that if there was military value, it didn't matter if he sent people to the cockpit of death.

"If you can use an airplane and change it to a warship, you can use it at a critical moment." Ishihara continued, and sure enough, his attitude was the same.

"Let's not talk about that, how about we play mahjong tomorrow? When I was at Tokyo Institute of Technology, I was the convener of the mahjong club. ”

"But Mr. Sato isn't here, so I can't find enough people here."

As he was talking, he suddenly heard someone knocking on the door outside, and the knock was very urgent. The two of them immediately became nervous, because it was not uncommon to find a suspicious person appearing across the street, could it be someone from the special high class.

The servant, who was sweeping the courtyard, put down his broom and hurried to open the door. It was Takijiro Onishi who came in. Ishihara immediately sensed that something was wrong, because the last time he called to say that the plane had happened only a few days ago, he had suddenly rushed back from Rabaul.

Unmoved, Makino continued to stare at the board, trying to review the game and find the cause of the defeat.

Ishihara greeted him and chatted quietly with Onishi, and he could vaguely hear them bringing down the First Division. Mu Yuan thought to himself, could it be that the coup d'état was revealed, and it didn't stand out, all the participants in that operation were killed, and it wouldn't wait until today to do it.

“…… The commander of the Nakazawa Division, he ......"

"The entire First Division plus a Taiwanese detachment disappeared together, and no one was found on the sea, so the commander felt strange and asked me to hurry over and meet with Makino-san to see his opinions."

Rakhine, Myanmar. Chu Aiyun was instructed to lead one of his reinforced battalions here to receive equipment.

Du Yuming asked them to leave the tanks in Ringanqiang and try to travel as lightly as possible, preferably with small arms, helmets, and chariot trucks. Although the last battle was a military prestige, but the losses were also very large, many weapons were thrown in the forest and could not be opened, Du Yuming did not eat for a few days, the only relief was that Chu Aiyun leaked his face, and seemed to be able to get a good face from the allies.

He left all the equipment of the motorized infantry battalion and integrated it into the armored regiment. The original motorized infantry battalion, plus hundreds of infantry recruited on the way, formed a reinforced battalion to receive US aid in Sittwe. These places are all British ports, it is difficult to say whether they will have the idea of being close to the water and getting the moon first, the British gave their eliminated Vickers chariots to the national army, and there is a precedent for accepting American weapons themselves.

It was Tao Mingzhang's team that made up for the whole team, and it was encountered during the retreat. At that time, Lin Xiuxuan had a premonition that the war was over, and there were a few military commanders left by Chen Zhiping around him, who might strike first, so he told Tao Mingzhang to look for troops to the east, and he had another business trip to escape.

Tao Mingzhang led the team to the east, and sure enough, he bumped into Chu Aiyun, and they were temporarily grouped together to be responsible for the break. As Lin Xiuxuan expected, Chen Zhiping arrived afterwards and asked everywhere about the whereabouts of the captain surnamed Lin, but he couldn't find it. He had to investigate this matter, but everyone didn't know where Lin went, and he decisively judged that he was an agent of the Southern Agency, but the platoon commanders under Tao Mingzhang, and even the four subordinates who stayed in Yangon and fought a few vicious battles later, all vouched for the head of Xiang Shang, saying that Captain Lin could never be a Japanese spy, because he led the team to end the enemy's nest. He became angry and rewarded his men with a few big mouths, but they just wouldn't change their words.

Du Yuming didn't want to care about this mess, he only knew that this team was a veteran of the tax police, and it happened to be incorporated nearby, and Dai Li had now lost Yangon Station, so it was naturally difficult to say anything.

After Chu Aiyun arrived in Sittwe, the British really began to be cautious, they took a fancy to the newly landed American-made Stuart light tank, and felt that it was more suitable for jungle warfare. So I wanted to exchange those Grant tanks, which proved to be of great value in real combat.

Chu Aiyun couldn't call the shots, so he sent a telegram to Du Yuming, kicking the problem to his superiors, he originally expected Du Yuming to immediately hang up the phone to Alexander, scolding him for being ungrateful, but Du Yuming seemed to like the deal very much, and asked him to hurry up, so as not to change the British fortune.

In Commander Du's view, this was the first time he had bargained for a bargain since he had dealt with the treacherous British. This tank has a 75-mm gun and even a radio. In other words, this is a dual-purpose vehicle that can be used as both a tank and an artillery, and it is the most perfect weapon in the world. He decided that the British should only be temporarily crazy and might wake up, so he sent several telegrams to Chu Aiyun to hand over quickly.

In fact, not to Grant is the unanimous opinion of the British army from top to bottom, the main reason is that since the Burma Campaign, there has been a reality that tanks above medium size cannot be eaten in mountainous terrain, and secondly, the caliber of artillery does not match, but the Chinese army has always been an arsenal made by all nations, and the so-called lice are not itchy, and they are not afraid of logistical troubles.

Now the 5th Army has obtained the first batch of American weapons, 12 monster-like Grant tanks, 8 Stuart tanks, another 8 old-fashioned SDKFZ221 wheeled reconnaissance vehicles, 8 75mm American* guns, and a batch of small arms and communications equipment. The armored forces of China as a whole increased by 10% overnight.