The telegram sent by Chu Tingchang to Zhou Youfu repeatedly demanded that the counterattack should be extremely cautious. However, it is not possible to specifically indicate the direction of the threat. The Japanese have already exploded a nuclear bomb, but if they stop all attacks because they are afraid, it is clear that the strategic goal of the Japanese has been achieved. This is a difficult time, although there are all indications that the enemy's next nuclear bomb will be used in the Mekong basin.

Zhou Youfu also noticed some problems. Although the cooperation between the Japanese Navy and the Army is greater than confrontation, and it is not as intriguing as the internal struggle of the Nationalist Army, which can sacrifice the overall situation, it still makes him feel strange that he came over so desperately.

Of course, huge benefits are in front of us, and annihilating the enemy in the field is far more cost-effective than letting the enemy retreat back to a fortified city, especially since the reconnaissance unit reported that the landing enemy was scattered in four or five landing areas on both sides of the strait, and the scene was in chaos, and it was simply meat sent to the door. And he can mobilize forces on both sides of the strait to break the enemy individually.

He was determined to monitor the enemy in Dalat with a weaker division, and he himself led the main force to counterattack, eating thousands of enemies who did not know whether they were alive or dead in one fell swoop. Fears of the threat of * have faded over time.

Lao Zhou thought to himself: If they really had it, they should have used it a long time ago, right?

Lin Xiuxuan still did not go to the front line in person, but waited for the intelligence to be gathered, if the people of the special team could rush to the river to take a look, it would not be easy to miss the strange, unpowered barge. In terms of appearance, the ship does have some irregularities, first of all, the large amount of armor causes the draft to be too deep, and secondly, the two cranes on the top, which are also not found in ordinary tugboats. These cranes were originally designed to hit the one docked on the shore, and the river gunboat was modified with a huge lifting platform, of course, the river gunboat was blown up by Xu Chong, and it was useless, and now this barge has replaced the explosion mission.

In Saigon Harbor, the Japanese observation ships that stayed here left one by one, and they will split up near the explosion site and raise their tethered airships to carry out the task of data collection.

Kagesa Zhenzhao kept pinching the time and did not let these ships deploy in advance. He knew that these airships, once they had taken off, could become a visible sign that would alert their opponents. In fact, he didn't want the ships to accompany the operation, because it was useless for the mission itself, but the mission of the base camp was very heavy. The base camp is really reluctant to blow up a nuclear bomb somewhere on the mainland and use it for routine testing.

From the front, it appears that enemy forces are approaching from several directions. The sortie of the marines and the enemy's counterattack force collided with everything, and the victory and defeat were quickly divided without any suspense, and now the enemy forces, which had the absolute initiative, were rapidly dividing the landing fields that had not yet been connected to the city, forming a situation of breaking through each other.

For a force of only 4,000 men, as many as five landing sites were divided, which was Sakagaki's plan.

After the nuclear bomb exploded in Indonesia, he hung an old pocket watch in his jacket pocket. This was a clear violation of the Army's dress code, and of course no one dared to ask, and no one saw him wind up the old watch.

In fact, the purpose of this table is very simple, just to simply calculate the explosion radius of a nuclear bomb on a military map of 1 to 50,000. This table, with a diameter of 5 centimeters, provides him with an intuitive concept of the range of destruction. In the past week, he has used this table on various maps more than 2,000 times to cover the troops of Chu Tingchang who are bent on eliminating them, from Tao Mingzhang's defense line to Zhou Youfu's offensive spearhead. He had to make the most of this precious weapon in the most precise way possible.

After deciding with Kagezo Zhenzhao on the plan to lure the enemy into the depths with the Taiwanese army, one of the problems that bothered him the most was that the attack radius of * was too small, especially the killing effectiveness of shock waves and thermal radiation, which attenuated too quickly at distance. Then, the only way to make effective use of the equivalent is to make the battle a dog-tooth situation. For this reason, he did not hesitate to go against the common sense of using troops and scattered his weak troops on several beachheads one or two kilometers apart. He had studied Zhou Youfu's use of troops, and he was old, decisive, and good at maneuvering, so he judged that the enemy would definitely take advantage of such a gap to get in and divide the left battalion of the navy. He calculated that just when all the positions were compressed by the enemy and were about to be destroyed, it would be enough for the explosion to cover the enemy's range. In order to encircle all five positions, the enemy's forces must be deployed to the maximum extent possible, far greater than what is required to besiege one position, and this is almost a matter of geometry rather than military strength. Of course, success or failure depends on the tenacity of those Taiwanese. Once either position falls, it means that the enemy will attack less frontally.

Zhou Youfu's artillery unit began to show its might, and the artillery regiment given to him by Chu Tingchang had been blocked by the road and could not be put into the front line in time, but the left battalion of the naval corps suddenly attacked his rear, so that the heavy artillery on the way could just be put into battle. Now is the time for those who are crying and shouting for the emperor's cannon fodder to suffer a little.

The main 202nd Division quickly divided the weak links between the enemy's positions and besieged the enemy in isolated positions. But in the Mekong, the enemy's artillery was still stubbornly resisting, which made it difficult to succeed in the attack. The purpose of not being blessed is not enough, and it is not achieved overnight. He himself was willing to delay the battle for a while, while the enemy was still increasing his troops along the river.

Zhou Youfu hoped that the troops would attack one of the enemy's core positions first, but this could not be done in the morning. Enemy reinforcements are taking advantage of the river to support the attacked positions. The battle seems to have been refueled in some sorts of ways. To some extent, Zhou Youfu can accept such a situation. If the Japanese are willing to add fuel to their superior forces and firepower, he can accompany them. The exchange ratio here will obviously be much better than attacking a city like Saigon. For this reason, he did not even use a cluster of tanks, cutting off the Mekong route.

The morning offensive failed to break through any of the enemy's positions, but the enemy's positions were constantly compressed, and they could not be supported for long.

Lin Xiuxuan had been waiting for decisive information, but it did not appear. He still doesn't know where the nuclear bomb went. If there really is such a nuclear bomb, it is possible that it will appear anywhere in the entire lower reaches of the Mekong, and since there are so many tributaries, so far, his reconnaissance troops have not found it. The enemy's telegram is no longer the best channel for intelligence gathering, as it once was. The advice he gave to Chief Chu was that he must fight back cautiously. These ambiguous suggestions are useless, and to some extent, they just throw the responsibility for the final decision to Chu Tingchang, who is farther away from the battlefield. He saw Zhou Youfu's troops coming from all directions, but he was not in a hurry, just with the support of artillery fire, he ate away at the enemy's position little by little. The enemy's defense is costly, and there is no point in delaying it for any other than delay.

By 3 p.m. he had captured seventy percent of the enemy's position, and four enemy gunboats had been sunk on the river, but several Occupant-class gunboats had arrived to fill the gap, and they were still struggling to hold on.

Ma Qiang and Xu Chong, who were rushing here, encountered an ambush by the puppet army, and their trip was blocked in a place where the rumbling cannon could be heard across a mountain from the battlefield. They led the Viet Minh forces to fight the puppet army, and Ngo Dinh Diem's troops did not have much combat effectiveness and were quickly repulsed. But Xu Chong saw a strange airship rising from the nearby river. It was going against the current, slowly heading north, under the tow of the ships below. If it wanted to provide observations for gunboats near the battlefield, it came a little late. Soon, the ship dropped anchor and stopped moving forward. As artillery observation balloons, they were a little far away from the battlefield.

Chu Tingchang, who is far away in Thailand, is also facing this huge dilemma. All the information was gathered to him, but it only made it more difficult for him to make decisions.

It is inevitable that there will be discrepancies in the information, positive and negative, and cancel each other out. Although Xu Chong discovered the enemy's empty detonator ship, it was too early to judge the enemy's true intentions, and perhaps, his purpose was only to scare him off with a fake ship.

Zhou You's telegrams were sent as blessedly as an ox. Lao Zhou even suggested slowing down the offensive and waiting for the enemy to continue to increase his forces. It was here that he wanted to use the Flesh Mill, which was very beneficial to his firepower, to drain the blood of his enemies. This is clearly the best option.

At the same time, Qin Xiaosu, who was approaching from the other side, also observed another airship passing nearby. He was on the river, very close, and the airship that was drifting towards him by the direction of the wind almost passed overhead. This allowed him to look closely at the airship through a telescope, and he noticed that there were people in the gondola, and no optical equipment was found, and generally speaking, observers on artillery firing missions would inevitably use telescopes.

Qin Xiaosu carefully observed the rope that was tied and noticed the cable that was wrapped around it. His mind was racing: without a manned airship, it was clearly not good for artillery. It obviously gathers intelligence through other sensors, and these devices need to be powered by cables......

Observed the airship again and noticed the glittering reflective layer, which was deliberately arranged to improve the survivability of the airship near the center of the explosion, otherwise it was meaningless. He quickly measured the distance between the airship and the core of the battlefield on the map, about 7.5 kilometers.

Finally, the task force came up with a man who dared to make a clear judgment. Qin Xiaosu is not the kind of person who likes to be ambiguous, as an intelligence analysis officer, he is not like Lin Xiuxuan, who has experienced too many setbacks, and naturally does not have too much psychological burden. Sometimes, he is simply overconfident and willing to take the initiative to take over the decision-making responsibility for his superiors.

He did not hesitate and decisively sent a report to Lin Xiuxuan, asserting that the nuclear bomb was already near the attack position, although there was no direct evidence.

He noticed that the enemy had raised at least 4 airships nearby (he was also listening to Xu Chong's communications), and all of them stayed 6 to 8 kilometers away from the battlefield and did not advance, which was enough to prove that the nuclear bomb was about to explode.

When Qin Xiaosu assured that the nuclear bomb must have been in place, Lin Xiuxuan suddenly had a wonderful feeling of relief. A minute later, Chu Tingchang received Lin Xiuxuan's assurance: the enemy would soon use nuclear bombs, which were in Zhou Youfu's offensive area.