"But sir, with this mask, it's hard to see clearly." The head nurse said.

"If you think this mask is in the way, take it off and I'll be able to watch your lungs later, Bucheon."

Suharto was tied with three belts and sent to the makeshift operating room with a tarpaulin, where he saw an inch of blood on the ground and began to wonder if he was not stupid enough to trust the Japanese completely.

"What's going on? What's going on? He shouted.

"Tomikawa, shut his mouth. If you don't use anesthetic, you're afraid you'll be yelling. ”

"Okay doctor."

Suharto, who found himself gagged, squinted at a nurse who was pushing away a pile of white intestines on the ground with a mop and throwing it in a bucket, while the doctor in the distance was holding a saw, and he suddenly felt that something was wrong and wanted to struggle, but he couldn't move.

"Okay, I announce the surgical plan, and Maeda and I will divide into two groups and use the fastest time to saw the fourth, fifth, and sixth ribs, and then I will cut open the lungs...... This person is close to the location of the explosion, close to His Excellency Tojo, so the concentration of the deadly substance inhaled is likely to be the same, head nurse Tomikawa, you are responsible for pumping out the fluid in his lungs in time, so as not to let him die too soon. ”

"But without the anesthetic, he would have died of pain or choked to death by the effusion."

"I heard that Dr. Heinz said that the vitality of human beings near the equator is very tenacious, hehe, you look at the watch, I bet he can last 6 minutes, who wants to bet with me. Maeda, how about 20 yen? ”

"Senior, I don't want to challenge you on this kind of issue. I think he can last six minutes. ”

Suharto's eyes were blurred by the shadowless lights, but he could still vaguely see the figures above him, and although he couldn't understand what they were saying, judging from their relaxed expressions, it felt like it might not be a big problem.

As the military doctor prepares for the operation, he notices that Arakawa, who is carrying a stretcher, is still standing on the side.

"You fool, get out of here and find a few more people who are still alive."

"Yes."

"These guys from the Narashino Chemical Soldier School are all stupid."

"Your Excellency Quartet has no common sense at all, we need the cadets of the military medical school to help, not the anti-chemical warfare troops."

Arakawa left the operating room on an empty stretcher, he had to quickly find a reason to go out and inform the outside that Tojo was still alive, of course, the other news was that Tojo must have been poisoned, and the doctors here couldn't determine what the situation was facing, and needed to dissect other people to draw conclusions. In fact, according to Machijiri, it had been more than 3 hours since the explosion, and the best time for treatment had been missed.

As he walked out of the makeshift hospital, he heard a scream of exhaustion behind him, a shrill sound that burst out of his throat after his mouth was gagged. The sound evokes horrific memories of Arakawa's childhood, where he lived in the countryside of Gunma Prefecture as a child, where slaughterhouses often let out this desperate hiss. In fact, the sin of those pigs who did not take the anesthetic was nothing more than a knife in the neck, and at this moment Dr. Maeda's knee was on Suharto's chest, sawed open with a saw, Suharto's chest, to see if he could hold out for 6 minutes.

Thirty minutes later, Kagesa gets information about Arakawa, and he hopes to use this information to convince the others to act quickly, and although he doesn't know where Tojo is currently hiding, he thinks that he is sure enough that Tojo is not far from death.

At the same time, newspaper staff in Tokyo had gathered in the news room of the base camp in the middle of the night in the heavy snow, waiting for the latest situation. The censorship and publication of news at the base camp is not under the control of Kagesa, and the base camp still requires the newspaper to block news and not divulge anything that happens in Congress.

But Kagesa still has his own way, and he spreads the news through some channels that the communists lurking in Tokyo have used * to assassinate the supreme leader, and at this stage he needs to control the direction of the news and make the world chaotic.

Yuji Shikata does have a set of emergency plans to deal with all kinds of possible emergencies, and Tojo's assassination must be a regular exercise, so he can handle everything with ease for the time being, but the killing of Muto, who is Tojo's temporary replacement, caused him to lose the cornerstone of the next step to stabilize the situation. Now, he can only hold on to the scene and wait for the situation to change. Everyone was waiting for the Army to elect an emergency to become the Minister of War and Interim Prime Minister, but the Army was slow to act. In the fog, all the higher-ups seem to be watching in indifference.

The news of the civil strife of the Japanese did not have time to spread to the Allied forces on the island here. The showdown between Roosevelt and Chiang Kai-shek had unfolded very gently.

The president sent Chiang a telegram that did not mention that Chiang was secretly teaching a secret to a quasi-Axis member, but instead beat Chiang with the big stick of Chu Tingchang's plan and military aid.

Roosevelt hoped to make full use of the overseas Chinese in Nanyang who stayed in northern Burma to supplement the troops and form a new combat unit, which would be more "operable" than sending weapons to Kunming through the Hump route and arming a group of illiterate and scrawny soldiers.

The president mentioned that Nanyang youth usually have a good educational background, many can drive and operate machines, can adapt to complex weapons faster than Chinese native soldiers, and are more suitable for tropical jungles than northern Chinese, and have a higher will to fight. He thought that 50,000 to 60,000 of them could be armed in a short period of time. These units will be assigned directly to the Allied forces in northern Burma. He did not say which of the Allied generals it would hand over, so it can be understood that Stilwell, the bare-bones commander, would have a unit of his own, and the ownership of this force after the war was also ambiguous.

This letter was enough to make the chairman of the committee furious. He had long known that the overseas Chinese in Nanyang were high-quality soldiers, but Dai Li's intelligence showed that the proportion of ethnic Chinese in Nanyang who participated in the Communist Party organizations in Malaya and Burma was extremely high. Moreover, the slogan of their return to China to participate in the anti-Japanese resistance has always been allegiance to the nation, not to the ruling party. This is unacceptable to Lao Jiang.

Jiang once had a plan to absorb these people through his own troops in northern Burma, but among the generals in northern Burma, Chu Tingchang and Sun Liren, who were the most powerful, were also at ease with him, for fear that these people would not accept the central government after they became bigger. In the midst of all kinds of contradictions between employing and suspecting people, his compromise plan was to attract these people into non-combat organizations such as the Nanyang Mechanic Corps, and constantly send military commanders to check whether their loyalty had changed. In the mind of the chairman, these people have a high level of education and big minds, and they are by no means a group of people who give priority to arming.

The sudden situation caught Chiang off guard, and he had been careful to hide the statistics of the Chinese in the South Seas, telling Stilwell that the number of overseas Chinese staying in northern Burma was 30,000 to 40,000, mostly old and weak, and the potential for soldiers was 3,000 or 4,000. The U.S. side does not doubt and has never surveyed the basic situation of these people, so there is really no need to pay too much attention to such a small number of troops, but now that Roosevelt has played this trick, it is obvious that someone who knows the inside story has given him this insidious idea.

Of course, only the military commanders in charge of military statistics and the high-level officials of the Ministry of Military Administration and Military Command know the actual potential troop figures among the overseas Chinese in northern Burma and eastern India, but President Roosevelt's letter mentions the figures conclusively, and it is not known who leaked them.

As a front-line general, Chu Tingchang actually didn't know the actual number of overseas Chinese in Nanyang who stayed in northern Burma, he only knew that in every battle, these people would report or directly go into battle to support, but there was no exact number, until one day when Deputy Division Commander Xiong chatted with him, he accidentally mentioned this number. This was the basis for him to ask Stilwell for the equipment of the other six divisions, and he knew that it was useless to talk about it, because there were only so many soldiers. At present, the majority of Chinese want to directly participate in the war of resistance, and the most convenient way out is the Chendit detachment in Wingate.

He knew very well that Deputy Division Commander Xiong had a purpose in revealing this figure, and almost all of the anti-Japanese organizations of overseas Chinese in Nanyang had a communist background, which was the most direct reason why Chiang Kai-shek was afraid of these people.

Chu Tingchang simply did a favor, leaving Xiong in Myitkyina to contact the Americans to discuss how to arm these people, and he himself took the 5th Army south to carry out an attack on Thailand in advance.

For the attack on Thailand, he originally wanted to wait until the beginning of 1943, because Chen Zhiping was still in Bangkok, and a direct attack might make the chairman lose face (Chu Cai didn't care whether Chen Zhiping lived or died). But Stilwell's second visit demanded that he must do something to break with Chiang in order to reassure the president that he would hand over the weapons, and that the president did not want to support an opportunistic politician or a warlord.

It seems that it is not without a price to achieve his wish, he must immediately attack Thailand, to embarrass Lao Chiang a little, and it can be regarded as a vote for the Americans.

The end of the year is approaching, and the Thai army on the Thai border has begun to relax. Shangfeng told them that China had already done it here, and that next year the troops would be transferred north to occupy the Cambodian territory that the Japanese had promised.

Tao Mingzhang's troops continued to move towards Mandalay, as well as the group Buddha who demolished the pontoon bridge on the river, deceived the opponent to the maximum, obviously the Chinese were going to fight Mandalay, and they were more afraid of the Thai army attacking from the direction of Jingdong.

In fact, the dry season at the end of the year allowed Zhou Youfu's tanks to quickly cross the rivers near the border in many areas, which was Chu Tingchang's strategy to deceive the enemy. Chu Tingchang's thinking as a submarine officer created his special army command style. He was accustomed to concealment and deceit, never to reveal his intentions and positions easily, deception was the prelude to all his actions, and his troops never attacked a well-prepared fortified position. Of course, the US military reconnaissance planes and two scouts with modern reconnaissance capabilities gave him a huge advantage in intelligence.

The time of the attack was set on the first morning after the Thai army received its arrears for the second half of the year. Although the Thai army stationed at the border still did not relax the alert level and did not announce the New Year's Day holiday plan, Ma Qiang, who entered the enemy's territory to reconnoitre, found a brothel with the army from the interior and had set up camp in the rear of the army. Otherwise, the folk brothels would not follow so closely. Sure enough, the Thai troops did not go out to exercise the next day, and the soldiers left the barracks one after another to have fun, and the junior officers regarded this indulgence of abolishing military discipline as a means of buying people's hearts.