East of Magway Airport. Chu Tingchang's troops monitored the road to prevent the newly arrived 31st Division of the Japanese army from coming north to rescue. In fact, the appearance of this division has shown that the deviation between reality and history is miserably mixed with the will of the Japanese traversers, and some of their intentions can also be interpreted. In the original history, Iida defeated more than 100,000 Allied troops with only 4 divisions (18, 33, 55, 56). Lin Xiuxuan has always judged that being able to make such a bloody capital in Myanmar (and even temporarily abandoning Borneo) means that the Japanese crossers are focusing on India. However, now it seems that the problem is not too big, and even if there is one more division, it is unlikely that the situation will be reversed.

Lin Xiuxuan sat cross-legged on the ground, watching the video of the drone come back, he was now a few kilometers away from Chu Tingchang's troops, reconnoitring the enemy situation for him. Looking at the chaos ahead, it seems that the British army, who had attacked in the morning to grab the credit, fled back. He had just overheard the British commander's call to retreat, and claimed that he had encountered superior Japanese troops, could not resist, and was defeated. Now the entire Allied forces in Burma are winning, and only here can the Japanese army regain a little face.

Over there, Chief Chu quickly received information that the waste had escaped back along the road, and the 8 taels of armored vehicles when they went out were lost. He got out of the tank and prepared to block it in advance, and saw Brooke rubbing his hands together and walking back and forth excitedly. In the morning, he had just learned that a Japanese army had crossed the central mountain range in New Guinea and was heading behind Port Moresby, and that the whole of New Guinea was already in danger, and now it was the only place where he made a name for himself, and he saw that the whole game of chess was alive, and perhaps he would be rewarded by the president again.

"You're here just in time," Brooke hurried over when he saw Chu Ting coming out, "we should attack with the British, for General Sun, and make some more flank depth to ensure that the 31st Division can't get close." ”

"Well, you're too optimistic about the British, I think they're going to be defeated soon."

"Why do you always have so much prejudice against the British?"

"Prejudice? Look there. ”

Chu Tingchang sneered and looked into the distance, Brooke hurriedly raised his binoculars to watch, only to see that the smoke and dust were billowing there, and the motorized retreat of the British army was indeed a strong point.

"Alexander, this waste, how many times has he said that he can't attack along the road, he just doesn't listen, but I can see it, he also wants to escape conveniently." Chu Tingchang sneered and teased.

Brooke shook his head helplessly, he knew that Chu Tingchang had said too much, and judging from the smoke and dust, it could only be the British, and the Japanese didn't have so many cars.

"General Alexander has withdrawn all the defense troops of Sittwe this time to support General Sun."

"As I said earlier, the Japanese fleet is accustomed to concentrating forces, and in the current situation, it is impossible for the main fleet to stay in the Bay of Bengal. There could also be no amphibious assault. ”

"You're such an all-rounder, even the Navy knows it." Brooke sneered. Chu Tingchang, a major (just promoted), dared to criticize the vice admiral, which was already difficult for him to accept, and now he commented on the naval strategy across the military, in this world, there is simply nothing he does not understand.

"I said, did you Americans get the parts? I towed all the airport cranes, why haven't they arrived yet. ”

"It's almost there. I'm really convinced of you, I choose the mountains every time, otherwise how can it wear out so quickly? ”

"Isn't it true that you give you more than half of the motorcycle hours? I've noticed that you've been getting less and less interested in me lately, and I'll say a word, and you'll say a word. ”

Yangon Sea Port. Japanese merchant ships loaded with soldiers are preparing to enter the port one after another, and even if everything goes well today, it is still 600 kilometers from the front line.

The commander of the 58th Wing of the 31st Division, Inage Rang Osa, was standing on the deck, urging the soldiers to line up and prepare to leave the ship quickly, because the other ships behind were still waiting to carry heavy weapons. His troops boarded the ship from Lianyungang and drifted at sea for half a month, and they already missed the land very much. But suddenly, the signal corps came, saying that the radio had received a telegram asking all ships outside the harbor to stop their original plans and drop anchor to wait for orders. Inamo Dazuo didn't know what kind of wind his superiors had smoked, so he sent a telegram to ask, but he didn't reply, so he could only wait in a huff.

An hour later, a port* boat approached, and two orders were delivered, one for him and the other for the captain.

Why aren't orders given directly through the radio? Da Zuo puffed and unfolded the order. There is only one simple line: order your troops to continue to the port of Sittwe and prepare to launch a landing operation.

Inamo's head buzzed. When he got on board, no one told him that he needed to land for an operation. Five years ago, he once led a brigade to land in Hangzhou Bay, that operation, because it was a sudden mission (the battle of Shanghai was stalemate), the intelligence was a mess, the troops made a mistake in the tide, and they did not know the depth of the Jinshan wetland, the whole afternoon, he and his men were stuck in the mud and could not advance or retreat, but if there was a company of national troops on the shore, they could shoot them like targets. Fortunately, the command of the national army was always an afterthought, and the local Chinese were easy to buy, and finally they went to shore in the mud.

But Jinshan was not Sittwe, he knew that Sittwe had British fortress artillery, a garrison of 2,000 men, and the largest air base in Britain outside of Singapore, and about 50 aircraft.

At the same time, the southern fleet of Ozawa Jizaburo, which had carried out a feint off the coast of Sittwe, had not yet received the order to cover the landing of the army, and they bombarded the enemy's coastal defense offensive with the main guns of the light patrol as usual, in an attempt to pass off as the main fleet.

An Army Ka2 rotorcraft took off from Yangon and rumbled onto the deck of the aircraft carrier Longchamp. The pilot tried several landings and finally came down.

When the gyroplane stopped, there were only a dozen liters of fuel left in the weird gyroplane.

Half a day ago, Ozawa received an order from the command headquarters, informing the army that it would send a liaison plane to deliver the content of the coordinated operation in an interesting way, but he didn't expect it to be such a thing. Normally, the Navy perceives the Army as lacking in creativity, and that doesn't seem to be the case now. Obviously, in addition to showing imagination, what the Army is really worried about is the lack of encryption capabilities of its own radio stations and being eavesdropped by the British. The Army's recent setbacks in Burma have led them to suspect that the British have eavesdropped on their plans.

While the sailors on the deck were watching the strange rotorcraft, someone sent a cooperation agreement from the Iida Command, and of course the army could not give a direct order to the navy, but sent the contents of the agreement, and then the navy, through the Combined Fleet command on the Yamato, sent a message of order to the detachment fleet to be carried out according to the agreement. In this way, even if the British intercepted the naval cable, they would not be able to see any reputation. Of course, all thanks to the coordination work done with Onishi when Asano left Rabaul.

After reading the contents of the document, Ozawa couldn't help but shake his head, and the army suddenly decided to land in Sittwe. When the Nagumo Fleet was there, it was proposed to take advantage of the fact that the main force of the British army was in Rangoon to cut off its rear route from the Sittwe landing, but they did not listen, saying that the army was invincible in the world, and that it could be fought all the way to northern Burma, and there was no need for an amphibious landing in one more move. Now there is only one aircraft carrier Longxiang and a dozen destroyers and light cruisers here, and they are going to land again? Does Iida have a long brain?

Just fighting for planes, only one Longxiang's southern fleet suffered a loss, not to mention the British and radar.

Inside the headquarters of the 15th Army in Yangon. Iida is still standing in front of the map, looking up at the port of Sittwe on the huge map. He had already made a desperate gamble and launched an amphibious landing on the Allied flank.

A few days ago, if any of the staff officers had offered him such a strategy, he would have beaten him out, but now, he had to start from the most dangerous place and make a move. The only chance of victory lies in the naval supremacy and the ambiguous assurances that Keiji Suzuki made to him. He said that he was basically sure to persuade the Indian army to turn back and blow up the fortified artillery. Because the previous work of plotting against the Indians was all carried out by Kagesa, Suzuki used the excuse of being in a hurry to leave room for himself.

Today's war situation in Burma. To the west, the British firmly controlled the passage back to India along the Qindun River, and the rest was lost to the Chinese army. And Sittwe Port has become the only place where it is possible to land. If Amaterasu favors him, a series of sneak attacks will go smoothly, and eventually a force will be able to go ashore. There are still some variables, mainly in the determination of the British to resist. If the landing force does not quickly advance in depth, but is confined to the bridgehead, in a few days Chinese reinforcements will arrive, and then ......

He stopped behind him to the sound of footsteps, turning his stiff neck. It was Masanobu Tsuji and Keiji Suzuki who came.

"Your Excellency, General Bose's men, have completed contact with the Indian defenders. If all goes well, today you can send someone in and secretly sabotage the artillery, install it at the ammunition depot *. Originally, this card was to be used in the attack on Chittagong, but now that the crisis is in place, it can only be played first. Suzuki still seems to be a little distressed.

"For the whole night, I can only send two brigades, seven or eight cannons, and if the enemy counterattacks......" Iida said worriedly.

"We'll use the radio to simulate the call of Nagumo's fleet to try to scare the British, who might run away when they hear it." Masanobu Tsuji confidently said that using the radio to scare his opponent was an unexpected idea, and after Asano proposed it, he felt that it seemed feasible, so he directly used it to comfort General Iida.

"Maybe?"

Iida's face suddenly turned angry, but he calmed down, and he realized that he didn't have a choice.

"Yes, Tsuji-kun, you're right, maybe the British will run away on their own."

Asano told Masanobu Tsuji that the British would quickly retreat as soon as troops landed in Sittwe, based on his study of Churchill's strategy. Churchill said in his memoirs that since March 1942, he has been waiting for news of the fall of northern Burma, but he is not at all worried that the Japanese will continue to exist for a long time, the only thing that keeps him awake is that the war process will allow the Chinese power to enter, or the Burmese independence force will grow, and he decided that no matter how history evolves, the two must be one or the other. The final historical trend proves his latter judgment.

West of Magway Airport. Lin Xiuxuan continued to observe the battle between Chu Tingchang and the Japanese northward advancing troops. This unit that came was not the main wing of the 31st Division. They chased the British happily, and when they arrived at Chu Tingchang's preset position, they were immediately beaten on the head and bleeding. The captain of the Japanese army immediately sent troops to try to make a detour, Chu Tingchang naturally calculated the opportunity everywhere, and showed a few hands in front of everyone, almost completely annihilating and outflanking the Japanese army, and in one afternoon, the Japanese army lost 300 people, and did not get closer to Sakurai at all.

He contacted Xu Chong, who was watching from the east, and learned that the new 38th Division had encountered difficulties in encircling and annihilating Sakurai, and that the Japanese artillery fire on the other side of the bank had provided strong support to the headquarters of Sakurai's division, but the enemy's bridge building work had never progressed. He learned from an overheard message that Chennault was discussing with the British that he was using his fighter planes to escort the bombers, preparing to use the air force to take out the enemy's 105th Field Artillery Division. A wing of the 56th Division, which was in concealment, had already moved towards central Burma, which was a harbinger of Iida's abandonment of his plan to attack Lashio.