Makino doesn't look like he's going to wake up right away. Kagesa and Yasuke Shinosuke must immediately rush to Konoe's meeting of the dead and report to him about Makino's situation.

The meeting of Konoe's Fumiko family seems to be just an insignificant private discussion, but because of the special relationship between Konoe and the emperor, there are actually many things that can set the tone. In fact, the emperor has been like an ant on a hot pot lately, and it is impossible to wait for the imperial meeting with peace of mind, and the brief minutes of every private meeting of the Konoe family will be sent to the palace within a day.

There is no fixed agenda for each day's meeting, and there is no fixed number of people who come. If the scientists of the Imperial University came, the talks would be filled with a large number of confusing technical terms, and Konoe could only sit on the side, and basically could not interject.

If it is the navy, it will talk about a new ship-building plan and a new * cruiser in the air in a gloomy and misty atmosphere. The navy currently controls an unprecedentedly large sea area, but the total tonnage of the fleet has shrunk to the level of Showa 11, according to the latest assessment by the Military Command Department.

Today, unfortunately, all the army generals came, and the atmosphere will be even more pessimistic, although the number of registered army soldiers has expanded to a record 3.9 million, and the scope of conscription is still being increased, but it is not so easy to arm such a large number of troops. As steel production shifted to naval ships, the shortage of artillery and vehicles became apparent. This time, the plan for Chief Chu Ting's plan mobilized almost all the forces that the army could invest.

When Kagesa arrived, the meeting was in a smoky environment, and most of the people were smoking Japanese cigarettes, except for Konoe who smoked cigars.

Gangcun, who had been recalled from the Chinese battlefield, seemed to be ignorant of current affairs and was asking for more troops to make up for the loss of the law and order war in North China, which obviously violated the latest, Indochina offensive strategy, so no one wanted to respond to him.

"The worst is already on the horizon." Gangcun continued to chatter, "Just when we were in Henan and Anhui and defeated the 500,000 Kuomintang troops, the Americans went to Yan'an once and reached some kind of agreement. However, Chu Tingchang reopened the Yunnan-Burma Highway, which greatly increased the amount of American aid to China, and some of them flowed into the hands of the Chinese Communists. According to the calculations of my general staff, the effectiveness of each light weapon in the hands of the Chinese communists is 2.9 times that of the national army, and the effectiveness of heavy weapons is as high as 12.5 times. ”

"Why are there such strange numbers? What is your staff statistics based on? Education Director Lin Milling Juro asked, crossing Erlang's legs.

"It's based on battlefield statistics. It must be noted that the so-called heavy weapons refer to the firepower above the machine gun, including mortars and small-caliber rapid-fire guns. The CCP is extremely lacking in these weapons, and our counter-guerrilla tactics in North China are designed around this flaw. ”

"Rest assured, Chiang Kai-shek will not allow too many weapons to flow to Yan'an."

"Before the Cairo meeting, our unprecedented victory made the Americans start to contact the Chinese Communists, and they have already provided a batch of weapons. For example, the M7* has been improved so that it can be fired with blank cartridges on most calibre rifles. Chiang Kai-shek could not do anything about such light and small arms. ”

"We're discussing*, but you're talking about some insignificant gun*." King Minoruhiko of Higashikuremi, who was the most respected on the scene, pouted and said. He is currently free, and he comes to the guard here every day to attend meetings, and he has to interject a few words if he understands or doesn't understand.

"Your Royal Highness, the tactics of the Chinese Communist Army and the Kuomintang are completely different, the current cage tactics need to rely on a large number of township strongholds, and village concrete fortifications to monitor the village to block the road, when the CCP lacks effective weapons, such a strategy is effective......"

"And what can you do?"

"I need to continue to expand the forces in North China, hoard supplies, and launch several successive encirclements and suppressions of more than 100,000 people in the second half of the year."

The prince shook his head incessantly.

"Over the years, how much energy has the Chinese Front spent building pillboxes in North China? And those blockade ditches? Countless materials were consumed in each encirclement and suppression. Last year, this tactic was effective, but this year the Eighth Route Army's control area has increased again, and it has almost returned to the area before the sweep. ”

"That's why we have to encircle and suppress it repeatedly, and keep sweeping."

"No, no, no, in the final analysis, it is better to eliminate Chu Tingchang and re-close the transportation route from India to Yunnan. At present, the biggest threat to the Chinese battlefield still comes from the 24 Kuomintang American Mechanic Divisions that are being newly formed in Yunnan. It is said that each division was configured according to 60% of the firepower and 20% of the trucks of the Chu Tingchang infantry division. At the latest early next year, it will appear on the battlefield. ”

"When our * mass production is produced, it will not be a problem." Lin Mian Shilang said, "Your Highness, according to the statistics of the General Staff, the nuclear bomb used by Sakagaki-kun annihilated more than 20,000 British troops in Indonesia, and in Vietnam, about 9,000 people were wiped out by Chu Tingchang, as well as 600 cars. The ones killed were all veterans of the 202nd Division. It is said that even if a person sees an explosion from 10 kilometers away, he will be frightened and it will be difficult to regain his fighting spirit. ”

Kagesa Zhenzhao couldn't interject on the side, he knew that Sakagaki counted a lot of water, and he was in Saigon when this nuclear bomb exploded. The explosion area has always been under the control of Chief Chu Ting, and it is impossible to make real statistics at all, and the figures were assessed by several staff officers under Sakagaki who flew around the center of the explosion in an airplane and talked to themselves. If Zhou Youfu's troops lost 9,000 men, they would have been close to annihilation, but then his troops appeared in the battle to attack Dalat, which shows that the losses are not large, and even the psychological trauma of the Chinese army is overestimated.

"Kagesa-kun, how's Makino doing?" Konoe then remembered to ask about Makino.

Dr. Hirano said that the operation was successful and that he would not be in a wheelchair. However, Wang Jingwei died. ”

"Wang's ability to control the occupied areas is getting weaker and weaker, and I have long wanted to change Chen Gongbo. It's fine that Makino is fine. There are many more things that need to be consulted with him. Konoe said that there were many things to ask Makino, but in his tone he didn't care. It seems that the value of Makino has been tapped too late.

"Ladies and gentlemen, I just got word from Kagoshima that the salvage of the Kasuga Maru has been terminated due to the death of half of the divers." Kagesa said.

"yes, I just found out, and I said it was for unknown reasons. Yesterday people in the Navy said that an investigation was underway into the captain and deck commander of the ship who could be codenamed. Maybe some kind of pressurization or decompression procedure is reversed, but the Navy seems to be trying to fool the past. They said that strange sounds were heard from the bottom of the sea, and there could be enemy submarines. ”

"The Navy is like this, nepotism in personnel, covering up each other when something happens, and there is simply no time to do things like that." Lin Mi Shiro said dissatisfied.

"So what now?" Kagesa asked.

"Since there are not enough divers, let's slow down for a while," Konoe shrugged, "There are already a lot of things that have been salvaged, and they are currently piled up in the warehouse in Kagoshima waiting to be sorted, and there are many things that we can't understand." Makino woke up and went to do this. ”

"Yes, I'll go with him personally. But ......"

"Oh, I already know what you think, you can transfer the plane of the Army Airlines, you don't need to ask for instructions in advance, just find the airport commander and show me the document I signed."

Konoe smiled, he still felt in his heart that the elusive way of action that Kage Satsuaki had engaged in was a bit naïve and unnecessary. But now he didn't have time to delve into these things. What he thought about day and night was how to withdraw troops under the noses of the United States and the Soviet Union.

"Now, let's talk about the plan...... Let's see how to eliminate Chu Tingchang. ”

Three days later, at the Royal Palace of Thailand, Commander Chu Ting will announce here that the headquarters of the 201st Division will be upgraded to a group army. The original various places and organs have been upgraded accordingly. Attending the ceremony, in addition to the American and British generals below Stilwell, there were also Liao Yaoxiang, who came from southern Burma, and Sun Liren, who flew from northern Burma.

In order to welcome them, Commander Chu also specially dispatched two battalions to hold a military parade, and the atmosphere was grand and strange. This was the first official contact between Chu Tingchang and Chongqing after he fled from India to the area under his control. The two sides seem to have let go of their previous suspicions.

Four days ago, Chu Tingchang routinely informed Chongqing of his idea of expanding the war zone through the radio, expecting that, like all previous communications, there would be no official response, but he was wrong. The Chongqing Military Commission approved his plan and gave him the number of 3 group armies (41, 42, 43), as well as the following 20 divisions (from 200 to 219). But the favor is made up.

It seems that the Burmese officers came together to participate in the formation ceremony of Tao Mingzhang's 42nd Group Army, and they also came to show their posture. Lao Jiang has always wavered against Chu Tingchang, and it seems that he has recently turned to woo again.

The inclusion of Indochina in the entire Chinese theater of operations was Roosevelt's idea after the Japanese bombed San Francisco.

As a statesman, Roosevelt clearly saw that the focus of the war was in Europe, not only because Germany was stronger, but also because the Soviet counteroffensive in the direction of Ukraine was very strong, and the Germans were constantly sending troops from the Western Front into the bottomless pit from the north to the south of Kharkiv, and the entire front was collapsing. The general trend in Europe has been established, and from then on, it is impossible for the German army to launch a large-scale counteroffensive, and potential opponents are gradually taking shape, so it is inevitable to intervene in Europe.

At this time, he must use superhuman determination to convince the people and the military to continue to focus on Europe, then in the Pacific direction, the only bright spot is Chu Tingchang. He hoped to increase aid to Chu Tingchang and Yan'an, and to counteract the Japanese in a more effective way with their terrible new weapons. The timetable submitted to him by the scientific adviser that the United States would get * in 2 years at the earliest, by which time Germany would probably be extinct.

Chiang Kai-shek saw subtle variables. As far as his political science is concerned, the lesser of two evils is bound to be the lesser of two evils, and if the Americans force him to reconcile with the CCP and Chu Tingchang, then Chu Tingchang can be regarded as the one who can be wooed.

In his eyes, a general who is against himself, as long as his troops are still smuggling, still forcibly grabbing, and still worshipping immortals, it will not be the worst opponent.