591 Waste utilization
Several British and American soldiers were forced to exit the tents, watching as the group studied the bodies on the ground, dragged out the younger-looking ones, and then found several older ones. The most incredible scene occurred, the guys picked up their machetes and began to chop off the heads of corpses. For a while, the flesh and blood flew everywhere, and the British officer could not stand this medieval barbarism, and wanted to come and speak again, but when the words came to his lips, he was forced back by the guy who was a head shorter than him just now, with a machete and a murderous look behind the machete.
At the same time, in the Japanese military residence in Sittwe, Asano was walking back and forth to relieve the anxiety in his heart, and just over a month ago, he was still talking about the country, but in the blink of an eye, the powerful offensive launched in the East Indies turned into a disaster. The Japanese did not even break through to anywhere 50 kilometers deep from the landing site before they were devastated. He cursed Yamamoto Fifty-six fiercely, and it was Commander Yamamoto who suddenly withdrew most of his troops, thinking that he could control the entire Bay of Bengal with two old battleships, but as a result, a good game of chess went badly, not only losing the first battleship since the beginning of the war, but also inflicting a burden on the army. In his opinion, if the navy had not given up halfway, the war would never have been fought like this. Now that the Allied air force was growing rapidly, the Japanese navy's bluff in the Bay of Bengal was also seen through. Now it is not just whether the remaining Japanese troops will be able to withdraw from the East Indies coast, but when the enemy will land in Sittwe.
Masanobu Tsuji left for fifteen days and went to New Guinea to investigate the state of preparations for the attack there, presumably knowing the defeat here, and now he had to wait for the offensive against Australia to go smoothly. But it was winter in Australia, and it was not suitable for an offensive, and the military department wanted to wait until September or October to launch an offensive, and the precious year 1942 was passing little by little.
Originally, in his plan, the capture of India could ensure the demise of China; The capture of Australia would expel the United States from most of the Pacific Ocean and all of the Indian Ocean, thus ensuring Japan's absolute geopolitical superiority, but now it seems that the double insurance has been broken in half. He didn't know what the hell Nobusuke Kishi was doing, and he didn't tell the military department directly about the existence of himself and Makino, but did it secretly, which was obviously the character of both ends of Makino's head rat. He was always cautious and didn't know what to worry about. Presumably, the salvage work in the East China Sea has not yet begun, and there is not enough physical evidence to come out of the water, so they dare not rashly confess everything to the higher authorities. Isn't that enough to illustrate the problem that there are still integrated circuits?
He sat in front of the world map, he spent half his life studying the history of World War II, and the United States and Europe were biased, whether it was weapons or tactics, whether it was the Pacific or Europe, everything was a professional level, but now history has become so strange.
The Soviets took advantage of the victory to counterattack to Stalingrad, but were repelled by Manstein's counterattack, which shows that the Germans are still very strong. However, Germany and Japan suffered defeats at the same time and on key battlefields at the same time, which did seriously damage the morale of the entire camp.
Turkey's high-level self-directed coup d'Γ©tat, killed the pro-German Prime Minister Suklu and the chief of the general staff, Gulcell, supported the president to power, and tried to break away from the Axis powers and return to neutrality, but Turkey's weakness in combat has been exposed, and the Soviet Union and Britain launched a limited attack on Turkey from Armenia and Georgia at the same time. In this way, the transportation route of American supplies from the Persian Gulf to the Soviet Union will be shorter, and these consequences will be completely unforeseen.
Asano finally realized that changing history was not as fun as he had imagined, and that once history had been changed, it became extremely elusive. For example, I originally judged that Turkey's fall to the Axis would be an event of great significance enough to pry the victory or defeat of the war, but now it seems that it only contained the strength of two divisions each of the Soviet Union and Britain. This point of strength is insignificant in the big picture, and Turkey's rapid defeat, and then *, will serve as a warning to Romania, Hungary, and Thailand, who will reassess their position in this far unclear contest of giants.
The prospect is so dangerous that Japan must immediately intercept the Soviet Union-flagged American merchant ships and deliver weapons and ammunition from the North Pacific to Vladivostok anyway, and someone should have told the upper echelons that if Japan continues to do so, the Soviet Union will still fight back after Germany's defeat, and he is now anxious to leave Burma and return to the Japanese mainland to present his recent thoughts to Kishi Nobusuke.
Thinking of the anger, he picked up the teacup and wanted to smash it, and there was a non-stop knock on the door in his ears.
He could hear such a quick knock on the door, it must be Masanobu Tsuji, so he hurriedly opened the door.
It was pitch black, and the withered Masanobu Tsuji slowly walked in, looking dazed, and carrying a kettle, which showed that he arrived here as soon as the plane arrived, and he didn't pack anything.
"Dazuo? You're back? Asano said tentatively.
"Why is it playing like this? I was fine when I left, the morale of our troops was high, and the enemy abandoned the coast. You said that with your in-depth study of the history of the war, the British would inevitably be in a hurry to return to the Middle East, and would only make symbolic resistance. Masanobu Tsuji said, frustratedly picking up his hat and still on the table.
"It was the Navy, it was the Navy that suddenly withdrew, which led to the destruction of the transport lines by enemy aircraft and submarines, so how can it be undefeated?"
"I met Yamamoto in New Guinea and saw the U.S. Navy desperately defending the Australian coast, their air force constantly using Australian bases to attack our warships, and I saw that the Navy had done its best to ......"
"If Yamamoto had used his forces skillfully, we could have won on both sides." Asano said lightly.
"Don't talk about that, 5 days ago, I met with Onishi Takijiro again, and he repeated Makino's statement, maybe it's not just you who have crossed over, but also a Chinese submarine that uses atomic power and doesn't need to surface."
"IMHO, it's very unlikely. Makino he has some paranoia......"
"Anyway, I think we should get out of here quickly, there is no doubt that this part of Burma will be on the defensive, and there is no point in you staying."
"Yes, I thought so too."
"Kagesa Zhenzhao has a plan, which was verbally conveyed by Onishi, and he said that you can bring out your best value."
"What's the plan?"
"He didn't say it, but he might want you to go to China and guide the war there."
"Going to China? Great, I have some ready-made plans, suspiciously going straight to Chongqing. β
"Pack up, we'll leave tomorrow."
Masanobu Tsuji didn't say anything about the shadow plan that Onishi Takijiro conveyed, because the plan didn't allow it, and emotionally he felt it was too hurtful. Kagesa plans to use Asano as bait to test the "other traversers" that may exist. Shadow thought deeply from the perspective of this imaginary enemy that might not exist. It felt that if they were hiding in the shadows and trying to counteract the efforts of the Japanese time-travelers, then the best way to lure them into appearing was the Japanese time-travelers themselves. This is also Makino's idea, in the eyes of the two of them, it is only appropriate to let Asano do this, it is simply waste utilization.
"Well, I'm trying to get out of this stuffy place. If I go to China, I am sure that I will quickly defeat the Chongqing army in the Central Plains, and then ...... North China as an ideal war base. β
Asano began to talk about the plan again with gusto, and Tsujimasa thought confidently: What a poor optimist.
The headquarters of the 2nd Division, the final battle was finally over. About a thousand Japanese soldiers fled into the forest, and the bodies of another thousand were piled up into a hill.
In the last ten minutes, the battle was completely one-sided and massacred, and the Japanese tried in vain to climb over the mountain of corpses and launch an attack on the increasingly fortified machine-gun positions of the British troops, but bravery turned into stupidity under the blockade of 4 water-cooled machine guns and more light machine guns. The Chinese troops quickly pounced and formed crossfire on the high ground on the flanks of the battlefield. After the First World War, such terrible machine-gun harvesting rarely took place.
Now the Chinese and British soldiers are in a hurry to search for the corpses, and the British want Japanese sabers, flags, pictures of women in their wallets; The Chinese soldiers wanted a wider range of things: watches, bayonets, pens, gold teeth, frames for glasses, leather shoes, and human heads.
The British military photographer used a 16mm, hand-cranked camera to shoot all this silently, and it is difficult to shoot so many enemy corpses in one lens in peacetime to shoot war news, today is completely different.
Xu Chong captured a few prisoners, all of whom were cooks in the field kitchen, and he took them to the Japanese headquarters and asked them to identify Maruyama in a pile of heads, and several Japanese wept silently and refused to identify the division commander. Xu Chong's subordinates were not ambiguous, and shot two in a row, and the third pointed out that the head in the middle was Maruyama's. It is also pointed out that one of the human heads is Ogiwara's master planner; Next to it is Chief of Staff Kinoshita.
When he got it, he was very excited, and immediately asked the relay station to send a report to the headquarters of Chu Tingchang, and the message was extremely brief: Kill the enemy chief Maruyama Masao. Now that the military merit has been grabbed, it is possible to train the troops here for jungle warfare and command them to fight.
Chu Tingchang was at the command headquarters and had just received a call back from Brooke, replying to his question, informing him that the United States was indeed developing an airborne tank weighing only 7 tons, which was designed for a counteroffensive in Europe, and that the tank had already begun to be produced, but there was a lack of transport aircraft that could be carried, and the only solution for the time being was to land by glider. If the Chinese side thinks that such weapons may be useful for a counteroffensive against Burma, then he can lobby the army department, and he expects that there will be no problem, because these tanks are so poorly protected that they have become an unwanted chicken rib for the army.
Then Chu Tingchang received a telegram from the old man in Chongqing. Chiang Kai-shek was pleased with the 200th Division's victory in Calcutta, praised him and raised his eyebrows for the Chinese soldiers; The words in the letter were sincere and emotional, and if it were not for the scandal of seizing power, it would be quite moving.
The chairman of the committee even called Chu Tingchang his most proud general, although he was not a student of Whampoa, but he was better than his own student, so he resolutely eliminated all kinds of interference and handed over to Chu the army he valued the most. At the end of the letter, Chiang mentioned that he had always adhered to the principle of employing people without doubt, and absolutely supported Chu Tingchang to make persistent efforts to counterattack northern Burma, fight with Songshan's lone army from east to west, reopen Myitkyina, and recover Lashio.
Chu Tingchang could only look at it, Jiang Gong was still looking at Myitkyina, and he was really a little angry.