Lord Mountbatten saw a dazzling glimmer of light, and the sun on one side suddenly dimmed. This was the last scene the Lord saw. His field of vision then shimmered white, an illusion in his brain after the retinal nerve had been burned.

Using off-the-shelf control circuitry and relays, the fission explosion was the expected success, reaching at least 95 percent of the design yield, a 16,000-ton nuclear explosion.

On the slightly low-lying, unsheltered terrain chosen by Sakagaki, the power of the explosion was able to extend in any direction with a devastating momentum.

About a thousand Indian soldiers who were preparing to attack the Japanese position, closest to the center of gravity of the explosion, were instantly swallowed by the heat and turned into gas, leaving no remains behind. The attacking force, about 3,500 men a little further away, was also exposed to absolute lethality. Most of them were killed immediately, and some were burned within the next ten seconds.

The fifteen-ton tank thrown in by the British army was like a piece of paper, blown away by the strong wind, and a huge annular shock wave swept across the ground with a momentum exceeding the speed of sound, destroying all obstacles.

All the steel facilities and ordinary buildings in this Dutch oil field were flattened in an instant. Only the concrete oil storage tank in the southeast retained most of the wreckage under the huge shock wave, and some of the Indian soldiers attacking from this direction were able to save some lives by blocking them with these facilities, but most of them still died of heat and suffocation.

Even if it is far away from the blast heart, the lethal power is still enough to cause the military uniform to burn, and the hood cloth, which is difficult for Indian soldiers to extricate, has become a potential cause of death. Many people will die from extensive skin burns and other traumatic injuries within the present day.

The two Indian divisions in the offensive were disintegrated in an instant, and even though the division headquarters was 3.5 kilometers away from the center of the explosion, they were still destroyed with great force, the personnel of the command headquarters were burned to varying degrees, and all communication equipment was destroyed. Two planes carrying out artillery instructions in the air were instantly burned by the flames, and several Halifax bombers at higher altitudes were blown around by the air current, and only one escaped by chance.

The seismic wave brought another layer of casualties, but it did not directly affect the British army.

About 2,000 Japanese soldiers hiding in underground fortifications of more than 10 meters felt the strong shaking of the ground, and most of them had no mental preparation. The geological upheaval caused shallow oil to spread along with various fractures, and the associated gases quickly filled all the underground space.

The Japanese, who thought they would be fine if they hid underground, found that their bomb shelters were quickly filled with oil and gas. Some people drowned in the oil, which was good, and then the oil and gas were ignited by the high temperature outside, and about 2,000 Japanese soldiers in the entire underground facility were all reimbursed, and none of them were spared. The experimental data that the base camp tried to collect was also destroyed with the destruction of the underground facilities.

Seishiro Itagaki stood 40 kilometers away, watching the mushroom cloud rise, trembling with excitement, he knew that this was the weapon he wanted. It's hateful that there is only this one for the time being, and he regrets agreeing to the base camp and semi-experimentally dropping it in such a remote area, otherwise this * will fall on the head of Chu Tingchang's troops. If it is used in Malay, the breakthrough will obviously be opened.

Seeing that the momentum of the mushroom cloud was weakening, Sakagaki ordered the Guards Division to quickly attack and annihilate the struggling British. He didn't know much about the lethal effectiveness of nuclear weapons, and he didn't know that the dust scattered around him would carry a large amount of radioactive material at the moment, but even if he knew, it was imperative to launch such an attack, and he simply didn't have time to wait any longer, the lives of soldiers were essentially just insignificant bargaining chips in war, like small flags on the sand table that could be pulled up at any time. For him, it's time to think about how to attack with infantry in conjunction with nuclear bombs, and in the future, there will be a lot of such occasions.

He observed the approximate radius of destruction, which was very useful for opening key breakthroughs on the battle line, such as quickly defeating a main enemy division, and then his own troops could quickly break through from the front of the division and destroy the entire defensive line.

After losing nearly 20,000 men, his troops had advanced less than 70 kilometers in Malay, and Tao Mingzhang had been methodically building a rear line while defending. It's a model of step-by-step action.

If there is a *...... Although use is still an issue. The thing was too bulky, and the base camp told him that the weight of the second batch of improvements would be reduced to 4 tons, but it was still too heavy.

Chu Tingchang's plane landed in Kolkata, and so far, his trip has been safe. However, Lin Xiuxuan knew that the military commander had an intelligence station in Calcutta, so he still needed to be careful.

East India is already very close to 419, and the communication is very smooth, but before the plane landed, the communication was suddenly interrupted, Lin Xiuxuan felt a trace of ominousness, since the crossing, 419's communication ability has not been challenged. But Chu Tingchang's blind date task was just around the corner, and he had to work with Xu Chong on the security side, so he had to give up continuing to communicate, otherwise he would know what was happening in Sumatra.

In a room at the Kolkata Hotel, Dai Li was sitting in person, waiting for the arrival of Pavilion Chief Chu.

Before, Chiang Kai-shek listened to Song Meiling's opinion and decided to win over Chu Tingchang with his in-laws, but when the Cairo Conference was over, he suddenly recalled that the entire conference process was actually led by Chu Tingchang, otherwise the conference declaration would not have added so much content.

Although the meeting itself won more expediency for China, Chu Tingchang's dominance of this matter was a taboo for the old Jiang. He felt that Chu was a virtual person, quite a city government, and he was definitely not a person who could be bought. In addition, Lao Jiang himself has little confidence in Miss Kong Er, and feels that Chu Tingchang is definitely not a thing in the pool, and it is impossible to be swayed by women, especially Miss Er is actually not very much like a woman.

However, Chu Tingchang promised to meet Miss Kong Er in Calcutta, but it provided an excellent opportunity, he knew that Dai Li had built a new intelligence point in Calcutta, and there were a lot of people, so he decided to let the military commander arrange another kidnapping, after all, Chu Tingchang was a person who talked and laughed with Roosevelt Churchill, so it was not feasible to kill him directly, and Lao Jiang still tried to tie Chu Tingchang back to China and put him under house arrest.

The Calcutta Hotel used to be the headquarters of Chu Tingchang, and he and Lin Xiuxuan were very familiar with this place. Nowadays, the place is back in business, but during the war, there were basically no large customers. The hotel is deserted.

Lin Xiuxuan went to the front desk, showed his identity, easily got the registration record, and quickly screened out suspicious characters from the few guests. One of the most suspicious was the one who moved in in the name of the Chinese timber company, and they arrived a day earlier than Miss Kong Er. lived on the same floor as the second lady.

Chief Chu had booked the entire sixteen rooms on the top floor in advance to ensure that there were no more guests. But if the military commander arrives in advance, there will still be trouble.

Lin Xiuxuan's first step, of course, is to check the bugging, of course, there is no wireless bugging in this era, so the frequency sweeper is useless. Typically, bugs in this era were usually wired outside the house with the help of telephone lines or electric lights. So Lin Xiuxuan didn't bother with that, looking for it house by house.

Taking advantage of the night, he directly used a small drone to fly to the balcony of the suspicious guest's room for surveillance.

Sure enough, his judgment was correct, this was Dai Li's listening station, through the curtains, you could see several people on duty listening, and a wire recorder for recording. Looks like a lot of money has been spent.

The big battle of the military commander was somewhat unexpected by Lin Xiuxuan, if Lao Jiang intended to recruit An Chu Pavilion Chief, it would not be so. The drone rotated its camera to track everyone who appeared at the window, and Xu Chong identified at least two of them as Bangkok station personnel who had appeared in Thailand.

After the failed attempt to sabotage Chu Tingchang's plane at the Bangkok station, Xu Chong used Huang Tianyang's gangster forces to investigate and found the fake identities of these people as China Airlines employees, but the photos on the ID documents were real, so he remembered these faces. It seems that there will be many variables in this blind date.

Rabaul Combined Fleet flagship on the Nagato. For the first time, the new commander, Toyota, convened a meeting of his generals. It was also the first meeting of senior officers since Yamamoto was killed, and he took over as commander.

Originally, the deputy commander of Toyota, who was appointed in danger, had little confidence, but the recent naval victory was enough to boost people's hearts. The Japanese Navy has always had no technological superiority, so it has always emphasized one-sidedness: the tactical aspect focuses on concentrating forces, the strategic level emphasizes sneak attacks, and the personnel level strengthens mental strength. But now, in a turning direction, Japan has suddenly stood ahead of the United States, Britain, and Germany in terms of new technological weapons. It's really worth celebrating.

Of course, at today's meeting, the commander also hopes to have some discussion on the next step of the strategy, of course, it is a retreat in nature, in Toyota's view, the defeat of the Americans has delayed the final decisive battle that Commander Yamamoto feared for another half a year, which allows the Japanese Navy to wait for more warships to be launched. He did not think about attacking immediately.

"First of all, I want to tell you a new, shocking piece of good news from the Army...... "Toyota's vice president Sekiko said. The officers on both sides of the long table were at a loss, and only Onishi, who had his hands down, knew what was going on, and he sneered and disagreed.

"The new type of army * has been a great success in Sumatra, and I have just received information that tens of thousands of enemies have been annihilated."

"I heard that our navy also got such weapons?" Someone asked.

"Well, the base camp gave one to the Navy. Originally, it was ready to enter a naval battle, but now that the US army has been defeated and retreated, it will not be needed for the time being. However, we can actively think about tactics and wait for the domestic ...... after this * miniaturization"

"Why wait for miniaturization?" Onishi, who was sitting next to Toyota, interrupted the commander, and now here, no one could really suppress him.

"Onishi-kun, what do you think?"

"If Halsey flees back to Hawaii, we will chase him to Hawaii, and if he goes to San Diego, we will chase him to the continental United States, and we must quickly wipe out all his fleet."