Singapore's Southern Army Command...

The endless gloom was written on Terauchi Shouichi's face, and the grim situation in the Yangon area in recent days had made his head sad, and telegram documents were piled up on his office desk like snowflakes, full of unfavorable war reports.

Dingdingding......

Suddenly, the phone on the table rang, and Shouichi Terauchi hurriedly grabbed the microphone: "Moxi Moxi..."

"Is it Terauchi-kun?" A middle-aged male voice came from the other end of the phone.

"It's me, Okada-kun, I believe you've received the battle report from Yangon, right?"

Shouichi Terauchi straightened his waist and stared at the air in front of him, he had been waiting for this call for a long time, and it seemed that all his attention was focused on the earpiece.

“… Hey, but I'm sorry that Commander Toyota doesn't agree with your proposed battle plan. ”

"Nani!?" Hearing this, Terauchi Shouichi's face immediately changed greatly, but when he thought of the anxious battle situation, he had to hold back the anger in his heart and tried to communicate again:

"The situation in Yangon is very urgent, please tell the deputy general of Toyota, the empire is on fire on all sides, and I hope that everyone can put aside their grievances and cooperate sincerely. If he can't provide tactical guidance, it will not only be the army headquarters that will be disgraced, but also the land in Burma, which was originally won by the army and navy together! ”

Originally, the Southern Army was in these 44 years

There was silence on the other end of the phone, as if he was thinking hard, and only after a long time did he say: "I will report to Commander Toyota again, but you must also know that after the Battle of Knight Bay, the Imperial Combined Fleet has been heavily damaged, and many capital ships have been sunk... The three ships that can be dispatched from the Tone are already the maximum number of our troops. ”

"末さかってひどいな! Do you still need me to repeat the situation of the Ligon to you? And isn't there still three heavy cruisers in Singapore? Shouichi Terauchi didn't buy it, and immediately asked.

Not to mention the two destroyers sent earlier, the Ligon Heavy Cruiser was seriously injured because it was hit on the side of the Knight's Bay naval battle, and one of the four twin 203mm main guns on the ship was blown up by the aircraft, and two of the eight 127mm secondary guns were also destroyed, and the other anti-aircraft guns were all damaged to varying degrees, and now its speed cannot even reach 15 knots, and when it arrives in Rangoon, it does not know what year and month it will be.

Even when it arrives in Rangoon, it will be difficult to withstand an air attack, because eighty percent of those 25-mm anti-aircraft guns are bad, and it is barely possible to use the main and secondary guns as sea-based fixed batteries.

Terauchi Shouichi couldn't figure it out, obviously Singapore still has three heavy cruisers in full state, "Kaohsiung", "Myoko" and "Ashigara", why did they have to send the Remnant Blood Tone to support Yangon, and the navy's red deer didn't clearly bully honest people.

"Terauchi-kun, is it except for Myanmar... Doesn't the rest of the Pacific need the help of the Navy? Those three cruisers have their own uses, which should be explained in detail in the report of the base camp, and the Tone and those two Akizuki-class destroyers are already the only forces that the 5th Fleet can use! ”

The other party's full of complaints was annoying, and Okada was not used to him, so he retorted unceremoniously.

As chief of staff of the Navy Headquarters, Okada is well aware of the current situation of the Combined Fleet, and there are not many ships at sea that can be used at present.

Moreover, at this time, the Japanese army and navy forces in the Pacific and Indonesia were divided into isolated islands, and the rear supply had been cut off for many days, and the Ashigara and Myoko were now about to begin to take on the heavy responsibility of transporting supplies, while the Kaohsiung had lost the ability to go to sea due to supply problems, so it could only stay in Singapore and anchor at the base as a fixed battery.

Don't look at the "sick" Ligon is a little overwhelmed, originally this heavy patrol was going to return to China to recuperate, but now it is not easy to send you over, and I am not satisfied.

Of course, these difficulties are also due to the successive defeats of the Japanese Combined Fleet in naval battles with the United States, and how could there be such a miserable situation without losing the war.

Originally, he was beaten and retreated, but now he definitely can't do as he did in the early days of the war.

When... Naturally, these problems cannot be talked about with the army's nine-penny red deer, otherwise they may be ridiculed by the other party, and no matter what, the face of the combined fleet of the Navy will still drop.

"いいでしょう、Terauchi くん,I've already arranged the arrangement.,After all, the combat effectiveness of the Chinese people is limited.,I believe that as long as the support of the naval fleet arrives,The Battle of Rangoon won't be too difficult.,In addition... Today is my last day in Singapore, and I will soon go to the waters of Iwo Jima to command the Seventh Fleet to guard against the attack of the United States. ”

It's all ...

Without waiting for the other party to reply, Okada hurriedly explained and hung up the phone, obviously just saying that the words such as asking for instructions were just perfunctory.

Shouichi Terauchi was furious but couldn't attack, so he could only grit his teeth and hold back his face flushed, and the back of his hand holding the earpiece was bruised.

"Yaga! Arrogant Navy stupid pig! You deserve to be buried in the Pacific Ocean forever! ”

A vicious curse blurted out from Shouichi Terauchi's mouth, although he knew that the truth was as Okada said, but it still couldn't calm the anger in his heart, and the other party's attitude was too infuriating.

Looking at the blue sky outside the window, Shouichi Terauchi had a lot of thoughts in his mind, the Empire State Building was about to fall, Burma lost land one after another, the U.S. troops in the Pacific were approaching the mainland step by step, and the Chinese battlefield was crushing to the confrontation, and the overall strength had fallen behind... The situation in various theaters is not optimistic, and it has even reached the point of burning his brows, but as the supreme commander of the Southern Army, he feels powerless and really unable to support himself...

Due to the unfavorable operation, the front-line officers were replaced one after another, and the Burmese Front Kawabe Shozo and the commander of the 15th Army, Mutaguchi Lian, were all replaced, and now they are replaced by the so-called robot deputy officer Kimura Hyotaro is even worse, but this guy only knows obedience and no brains like a machine when he is an adjutant with Tojo, and he can't stop the fierce offensive of the Chinese Expeditionary Force, and it is really unreassuring to hand over Yangon to him.

Originally, some time ago, he was going to move the headquarters of the Southern Army to Vietnam, so that he could better command the front-line operations, but he also wanted to temporarily avoid the sharp edge of the US army, but now he has been beaten to two ends, and if the whole of Burma is lost, then he is estimated to be the commander-in-chief of the Southern Army.

The mountains and rain are about to come, the wind is full of buildings, the black clouds are crushing the city, the Empire State Building will be crumbling, this war has shown a decline, if the situation deteriorates further, maybe it won't be long before the local battle 100 million jade crushing plan proposed by the base camp will really be realized, by then... They will eventually taste the ultimate consequences of war and aggression.

As soon as he thought of this question, Shouichi Terauchi had a splitting headache, and he couldn't help but reach out and grab the phone on the table.

Jingle bell bell...

The phone rang first, and Terauchi Shouichi was very surprised, but he still picked up the receiver with a calm face...

"Moximoxi, what's the matter?"

"Report to Your Excellency Commander, a large number of Chinese troops have been found in the coastal area of Donggua in Yangon, and the Jiutian Township Brigade stationed here has been attacked!"

"What!?"

This was a call from the Operations Staff, and when he heard this, Terauchi Shou was shocked, and hurriedly asked eagerly: "How can they appear in Donggua?" Aren't the main forces of the Chinese people concentrated in the town of Yongsheng in the north!? ”

"The enemy is supposed to be coming from the coastline of Mon State, they have used a large number of landing craft, and a small number of airborne troops, and they have occupied the port of Don Kwa Nan District, and are advancing in a northwesterly direction..."

This... How is this possible...

The news given by the other party made Terauchi Shou feel his scalp tingle for a moment, and he couldn't say half a sentence for a while.