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The Kalahari Basin is the main topographic region of south-central Africa, with a total area of about 630,000 square kilometers. It is the largest wide shallow basin on the South African plateau and is located in the southern highlands region of Africa. It is located between the upper reaches of the Orange River and the Zambezi River in the north and south, between the Zimbabwe Highlands and the Southwest African Highlands in the east and west, and the middle part of the basin is the Kalahari Desert, the largest desert in South Africa. In the aftermath of the original time and space, there is the famous Kalahadi Oryx National Park.

At this moment, on the northeastern edge of the Kalahari Basin, on the border between the Iwase region of Japan (Zimbabwe) and South Africa, a large army in khaki military uniforms is gathering here.

In this endless tropical desert, countless Japanese officers and men are busy with their work. They were dressed in desert camouflage uniforms, and the military caps were the kind with the back curtain, which was nicknamed the "fart curtain", which was very familiar to military fans of the original time and space. In fact, this "fart curtain" hat was invented by the French, mainly used in the North African Corps, and its main purpose is to adapt to the tropical desert climate of Africa. As for the history of the original plane, the Japanese also used this kind of military hat in other regions and even in the cold zone, which can only show that they lack a string in their brains, but it is very suitable for them to use this plane here. Of course, this kind of "fart curtain" hat is not only adopted by France and Japan, but also by almost all the great powers that have territory in the desert area, including China.

The place where this army was assembled was Wanji in the Iwase (Zimbabwe) region, which was the original time and space of Hwange, and after the Japanese succeeded in taking possession, they changed their name to "Wanji". Less than 70 kilometers away, the Manji Basin is home to Japan's largest coal mine. The quality of Wanji coal mines is quite good, with reserves of more than 15 billion tons, including more than 3.5 billion tons of high-quality coking coal, and most of them are open-pit and semi-open-pit coalfields, which are easy to mine. After Japan got here, it built a lot of construction here to develop coal resources. As of last year, more than 37 million tonnes of raw coal had been produced here, accounting for about half of Japan's national production. In the 21st century, the coal output of the place was only 3 million tons, which is of course the reason for the lack of industrial skills in the black maize, not the lack of coal here.

The build-up of Japanese troops was mainly done through this heavy-haul railway, which was used to transport coal.

As the saying goes, "more than 10,000 people, boundless", once the crowd reaches 10,000 people, it is very spectacular. Only the kind of person who lacks the least common sense will think that a small town can ambush 100,000 cavalry. At this time, I saw that on this endless tropical desert, it was densely filled with Japanese officers and soldiers wearing yellow camouflage and "fart curtains".

There are now more than 150,000 Japanese troops gathered on this land, and the mountains are full of people. Moreover, the 150,000 Japanese troops were not gathered together in a chaotic manner, but a very organized action, and the organized crowd was far more powerful and deterrent than a scattered crowd. At this moment, looking from the air, these neat Japanese military queues have a feeling of marching ant migration.

The "Buzzing ......" engine roared, and countless trucks, off-road vehicles, and armored vehicles shuttled through the ranks of the Japanese army, like a swarm of busy beetles. It was also mixed with hundreds of armored fighting vehicles, infantry fighting vehicles, self-propelled artillery and other tracked vehicles, which were carried by large flatbed trucks, roaming among their dwarf counterparts like ancient behemoths.

Admiral "Shadow Bird", who is flying in the sky, will see all this.

"Circling around here for a moment, we're going to film the whole scene......" said the backseat crew.

"Okay......" the pilot agreed, and then turned the plane around and circled around the area below at Mach 0.95 (1,100 km/h).

The pilot looked at the image on the screen and said: "There are at least 6 divisions, I have already seen the signals of 6 divisional headquarters, and they are all mechanized troops......"

The "Shadow Bird" has a radio detection system and an electromagnetic detection system, the former is to detect wireless communications, and the latter is to detect the work of electronic communication instruments (including wired communications, but it can only determine the working state, not analyze the content). The communication volume of the division-level headquarters is huge, and the power of the equipment is also large, whether it is the wireless signal or the electromagnetic fluctuations generated by the instruments, they are very strong, and there is nothing to hide in the detection instruments, unless they are not turned on at all.

At this moment, on the instrument screen, the 6th Regiment was bright and huge, and the crimson halo of blind dog eyes clearly marked the location of the large headquarters of the Japanese army. In addition, around the 6 clusters of crimson halos, there are dozens to hundreds of smaller clusters of orange and yellow halos. According to the experience of the scouts, these are the headquarters at the regimental and battalion levels, but at the company level.

When the electromagnetic detection system is working, the synthetic aperture radar on the plane, and more than a dozen cameras and camcorders of different media such as ultraviolet, infrared and optical are also faithfully recording everything on the ground.

The "Shadow Bird" has a high degree of automation, and these reconnaissance results do not need to be recorded by scouts, and the computer will automatically record all the reconnaissance results and send them to the headquarters through a data link. Therefore, it is very easy to fly the "Shadow Bird", that is, to fly the plane over the target for a circle.

When the "Shadow Bird" circled twice in the sky and flew away, the Japanese troops on the ground were still at a loss.

Japanese command.

"What's the situation on the other side?" asked Admiral Sugiyama. He is the commander of the Western Cluster. This time against South Africa, this dude is the most positive.

The Chief of Staff, Lieutenant General Tadamichi Kuribayashi, reported to him: "Commander, according to reconnaissance, there has been no movement of the South African troops on the opposite side, and there has been no increase in troops......"

"What about the U.S.?" Vanji is also adjacent to the U.S. state of Namibia. Some time ago, the relationship between the United States and Japan was tense, and the United States also had heavy troops on the border, but now the main force of the United States has gone north to Congo to fight the East African Black Silk. Even the heavy bombers used to threaten Japan were transferred.

"No change was found......

"Okay, just wait for the other side down the mountain. Sugiyama nodded and said to everyone in the conference room, "We are ready, once war is declared, we will rush across the border......"

Under him sat a group of high-ranking officers, among whom were several war criminals familiar to Chinese in the original time and space, such as Matsui Ishine, Umezu Mijiro, and so on. What is more ironic is that these war criminals of the original time and space are precisely the category of "ideological revolution" in the Japanese Army on their own plane, otherwise they would have to go home and eat old rice even if they escaped the gallows of the great purge after the revolution of the new Japanese government.

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Komatiput, South Africa.

Komatiput was a famous tourist city in later generations and was the entrance to the Kruger National Park. But at this point it's just an ordinary border town. The Comati River passes through here and enters Moshan (Mozambique) and is an important market for border trade between the two countries due to its ease of water transport.

After the deterioration of relations between the two countries, business here does not seem to be affected, and a large number of Japanese still enter Komatiput every day to do business.

But today, it is destined to go down in history.

At this time, hundreds of soldiers of the two countries are facing each other on the border between the two countries. There were less than 50 men on the South African side, while there was a whole battalion on the Japanese side.

"Our people are missing, it's over there, get out of the way! We're going to go and find someone!" said Terumo Ando, the Japanese colonel who led the team, in stiff English.

The leader of the South African side was a major, and he said angrily: "Nonsense, I have been here today, and I have not seen a single Japanese soldier at all, and we are not allowed to enter armed men!"

"Bastard, you don't even admit it!" Teizo Ando immediately called a man dressed as a civilian and said, "Look, this is a witness. Come, tell me what you see......"

The Japanese civilian said in a slur manner: "I went to Komatiput this morning to buy crocodile meat, and I did see a Japanese officer in the town, who seemed to be a lieutenant colonel......"

"Look, is this this person?" asked Terumo Ando, pulling out a photo.

"Yes, yes, yes...... That's him!"

"Is he still holding a briefcase?" said ......," Teruzo Ando motioned to the soldier to pull out an officer's briefcase.

The Japanese civilian thought for a moment and said, "I want to think about it...... Oh yes, it seems to be, it's such a bag!"

Teruzo Ando shook the photo in his hand at the South African major: "Okay, you see it." This is one of our lieutenant colonel staff officers, named Masanobu Tsuji, who has disappeared in your town today! We have received orders from our superiors that we must find him! I will give you five minutes to think about it now, or we will forcibly enter and search!"

"You are deliberately provoking! I will not allow it!" Major Thomas was furious. Although he has few people in his hands now, the pride from the white man makes it impossible for him to show weakness. Could it be that the yellow-skinned monkey still dares to come hard.

Teruzo Ando's attitude was very tough, and Major Thomas did not give an inch, and the atmosphere of the two armies was extremely tense, and each side pointed their guns at each other.

Well, this time Teizo Ando's gang really didn't know the plan from above, and the order they received was that a staff officer of Masanobu Tsuji was missing, but this girl still had important military secrets on her body, so she must find out. So he's really in a hurry.

"Woo ......" At this moment, a gunshot rang out from inside Komatip.

"Woo ......" followed by a few more sounds.

Then they faintly heard a cry for help in Japanese.

"Osa, this is the voice of Staff Officer Tsuji...... "A major staff officer sent to assist hurriedly said.

"Okay, you really did it! You must have kidnapped him!" Teizo Ando quickly made up a scene of Masanobu Tsuji being trained by a group of white-skinned strong men in a secret room.

After hearing the gunshots and cries for help, Major Thomas and his men were also a little uncertain.

What's going on with this Nima?

Before he could answer, Teruzo Ando, who was opposite, gave the order to do it.

"Subdue them!"

The Japanese GIs, who had long been ready to move, pounced at once, and several against one prepared to take each other. Teruzo Ando didn't think to shoot either.

"Bah......" A South African soldier opened fire in a panic, and a Japanese soldier covered it. This time it was terrible, and the Japanese soldiers, who were already very nervous, also opened fire......