Thinking that the attack on New Guinea was so smooth, and that the inherent history had begun to be reversed, Yamamoto couldn't help but think about it, but unfortunately Makino was not around at this time, and he really wanted to find someone to talk to. But maybe there's a chance to talk to Asano.

He himself was not interested in landing in India, which was British territory and would stretch the entire logistics by increasing the transport line by 2,000 kilometers. Moreover, the empire on which the sun never sets is destined to be weakened and does not pose much of a threat, and the only interesting part of the plan to attack India is the part that he came up with and joined the new base camp action plan through the military command department, Tojo felt that it was harmless and did not interfere. He thought about how the U.S. Army would feel when the main force of the Combined Fleet crossed Malacca, and he would have gathered troops from all over the Pacific and galloped to Port Moresby to try to get the men back to Australia. And his fleet immediately turned back, mastered the position of the enemy's main fleet by reconnaissance by roadbed aircraft, and then annihilated it in one fell swoop.

The Nagumo Mobile Force was already 1,400 kilometers away, but it adhered to the principle of communication secrecy and did not send back a combat report, but it was possible to listen to the telegrams sent by the fleeing British fleet, which were not encrypted, and the British officers obviously felt that it was not necessary, and from the communications they could see every enemy ship sunk by the mobile forces, including, of course, the aircraft carrier Athletic.

The British are in the funnel-shaped Bay of Bengal, and it is not the first time that they play hide and seek with the mobile forces, and they will run if you come, and they will come back again if you go, so this time the Kuroshima staff officers made a careful plan to use Imamura's 16th Army to land on Borneo to attract the British fleet over, and then the Nagumo troops took advantage of the night to pass through the Sunda Strait between Sumatra and Java, waiting for the enemy to show up.

Seaplanes took off from Andaman Island without interruption, and the underwater submarines also spread their nets to search, all the while reporting the traces of the British fleet, so the Nagumo Mobile Force, which had five aircraft carriers, quietly circled behind the British fleet from the south and blocked its retreat across the Indian Ocean and fled to South Africa. There was no suspense in the battle, and the few Swordfish that took off on the Athletic God could not resist the attack of the Zero fighter at all, and the battle lasted for 30 minutes before sending the aircraft carrier to the bottom of the sea.

Now the Combined Fleet can rush to the Bay of Bengal with all its might, and then it can sacrifice the 460-mm cannon of the Yamato, which has not fired a single shot since the start of the war, and the Navy has specially dispatched a film crew to wait to shoot some spectacular shelling scenes.

In the governor's palace of Calcutta, the news that the main force of the fleet was completely annihilated came, and the people here were already panicked, and everyone had no countermeasures, and most people felt that the opinions of Chu Tingchang were inappropriate, but they could not propose other methods.

Although the stars are shining in this place, there is no shortage of generals and lieutenant generals, but most of them have strength, and those who really have soldiers in their hands can actually be counted on one hand.

Lieutenant General Slim had 10,000 well-equipped men at his disposal, but his morale was low; Sun Liren has 5,500 people under his command, the morale of the troops has just won the battle, and the equipment is relatively complete, Liao Yaoxiang's 22nd Division still has 4,500 people left, but they basically lost all their weapons along the way, and their morale is also very low.

The commander who ranked fourth, and his rank dropped several levels at once, was Major Chu Tingchang, and his troops were full of people and their morale was high, and there were 4,000 people. In fifth place was Stilwell, who had a staff team, a communications corps, and an understaffed engineer regiment, and another engineer regiment that only reached a shelf, totaling about 2,500 men, which was the entire ground strength of the US military in India.

In fact, no one has ever allocated a large force to Commander Chu Ting, his initial foundation was a few companies, all the way to patchwork together, recruit stragglers, pick up allied equipment along the way to arm himself, and even gathered such a large team in the continuous retreat of the allied forces. If it weren't for the fact that he didn't cross the river in time to cover the large army, he would still be able to keep a lot of heavy weapons.

No matter how much Stilwell didn't like Chu Ting's pretending to be a ghost, he had to admit that it was one of the two people he had to rely on. Moreover, the mode of combat he just mentioned is almost the only way, and there is no other choice.

If such a small number of troops were pushed to the beach and the Japanese army was not allowed to go ashore, then the Japanese army would soon be wiped out by the heavy artillery of the Japanese navy without taking action. So, even the weakest generals would have come to a similar conclusion that they had to retreat inland.

Stilwell knew in his heart that there were as many as 1,200 trucks, 120 tanks, and a large amount of weapons, ammunition and fuel hoarded in Kolkata and Chittagong, and they must be transported away immediately, otherwise the scene of Rangoon being completely supplied to the enemy would be repeated, without which it would be impossible for the Japanese army to assemble six divisions in Burma. So as the old saying goes, you can't fall in one place repeatedly. That is, the issue of the distribution of weapons must be decided immediately.

In addition, he had to persuade Chiang in Chongqing to revoke the names of the troops that had fled to Burma to disrupt their formations, reorganize them, and then replenish the main force. He hoped to use this group of personnel to immediately expand the new 38th Division, and give the remaining personnel and equipment to Chu Tingchang, but in the current situation, Sun Liren must strictly guard against the Qingdun River, where he cannot relax at all, and cannot transfer the main force to the south. However, the enemy situation in New Binh Duong does not seem to be serious, and the British railway has been built all the way to Dinsugia, and the road extends to Lido, not far from Pingyang, and it is very easy to use the railway to transport them anywhere.

He repeatedly counted the supplies in his notebook, and it was really unnecessary and did not have time to re-establish the huge infantry division, and now was a very critical moment, and any mistake could lead to a major historical turn.

If you think about it in a rational way, of course he trusts a lieutenant general who graduated from the Virginia Military Academy more; not a major of unknown origin, who has been running several ranks; But on the other hand, judging from the statistics of enemy annihilation, Chu Tingchang seems to be much stronger than Sun Liren, and the exchange ratio between Sun Liren's division and the Japanese army is about 1.5 to 1, indicating that the combat effectiveness of his division is still inferior to that of the Japanese army, although it is much higher than all other Allied troops, but it is far inferior to Chu Ting's long army. Brooke didn't even dare to count what he had counted, and Chu Bu's unreasonable exchange ratio was written in the first version of the report, fearing that his father-in-law would think that he had counted the wrong decimal point or simply accepted a bribe. Judging from that number, Chu Ting's long army has always consumed the Japanese army with one as ten, and no matter which ten regiments he faces, the exchange is almost the same. With the expansion of troops, the exchange ratio is slightly weaker, but it still maintains a 1:8 exchange.

But this may only be a manifestation of a skirmish. He thought. However, he didn't count what he said here, and he also learned that he would meet Chongqing, and in addition, from the command level, he must also pass through Du Yuming. Du Yuming is currently in the British Army Hospital, and his condition has stabilized. On the contrary, the new 38th Division is basically out of the control of Chongqing, and Sun Liren privately confessed to him: fuck old Jiang, now he only listens to the Americans. Then it is necessary to give priority to him.

The meeting was inconsistent, so everyone went back to the heavily guarded hotel to rest. Chu Tingchang was a little sleepy and wanted to go back to sleep, but he didn't escape, and was found by Lieutenant Colonel Morris of the War Service of the United States Department of Defense.

The lieutenant colonel in the car gave him a script, as well as a sketch of the storyboard. There are some simple voiceovers in the script, which will be accompanied by sonorous military music, and all Chu needs to do is point at the new equipment, or pretend to look at the map, talk to the Americans around him, and his face is full of confidence.

They arrived at the open storage yard at the port of Calcutta, where there was a mountain of American weapons, some of which had just arrived, but now the transport had been cut off.

He was guided by the film crew to the front of the huge canvas-covered weapon, which looked strangely shaped from a distance, and seemed to be Grant, but the gun was not in the right position.

Several American soldiers unraveled the canvas, it was a self-propelled gun, looking at the same chassis as the Grant. The huge artillery was biased to the right side of the hull, with almost no directional firing range, and on the same side there was a cylindrical viewing window like a mailbox, and on the other side there was nothing. American designers did not like symmetrical designs, did not pay much attention to the direction of the firing of cannons, in short, took a strange route in terms of aesthetics and practicality.

"What kind of tank is this?" He asked.

"This is our latest M7 self-propelled gun, armed with a 105 mm * gun." The lieutenant colonel said proudly.

"Oh, M7."

Chu Tingchang couldn't help but step forward and touch the thick artillery. Then he stood on the tank as the script required, and took the telescope to look at the sea in front of him.

He was quite fond of this self-propelled gun, and it seemed that the Allies had a bit of a clue about the definition of mobile warfare, and designed the first self-propelled * gun that could compete with mechanized troops.

"A total of 12 cars arrived, ready for General Sun. Create a howitzer battalion for him. The lieutenant colonel said that he was in and out of Stilwell's headquarters a lot, and he heard a lot.

"What? Give this thing to Sun Liren? ”

"General Sun put forward his idea, he wanted to maneuver firepower, so that he could better defend the Qingdun River defense line and bombard the enemy assembled on the opposite bank at any time."

"Use these weapons for defense?"

"What's not to do?" The lieutenant colonel was puzzled.

"That's just ......," he wanted to say that the dog wears a chewing horse, but it was hard to express in English. It seems that Sun Liren has already extended his black hand by taking advantage of the opportunity to go to India first, but the Americans have not really opened up in mobile warfare. They created self-propelled guns, which were towed guns with their own engines, rather than as indispensable parts of a compact machine.

He jumped off the self-propelled gun and followed them sullenly, flanked by a large number of Stewart tanks and half-track vehicles, in the eyes of Chu Tingchang, everything he wanted for the mobile troops, he had it here, but it was given to them privately and arbitrarily distributed. At the end of the chariot was a row of tanks that were noticeably taller than Stuart, and he recognized it as Sherman.

"Is there anything else here?"

"Yes, the latest M4 tank, before the sea was cut off, arrived at a company, which was used to build the 7th Armored Brigade of the British Army."

"What a Stilwell, it's a mess." He cursed in his heart, "This matter must not be finished, in order to save the world, you must use your own human relations." ”

"By the way, is Major Brooke still on the staff?"

"Oh, he went back to the United States the day before yesterday. As a field observer, to submit a report to Marshal Marshall, this time will definitely be promoted to lieutenant colonel. ”

"Damn, personal relationships are ruined." Chu Tingchang scolded in his heart.