A salvage ship converted from the hull of the unfinished cruiser Agano had been refitted a month ahead of schedule and was on standby in Sasebo, and immediately set sail for that area after receiving the location information. In addition to the large lifting equipment, the ship also carries diving equipment from Germany*, which will allow divers to go deep into the cold seabed for several hours in March.

All of this is more secure than the first roaring salvage. 419 is still tracking both fleets near the Bismarck Islands, completely unaware of these changes. Cheng Dayang and Lin Xiuxuan expected that the enemy would inevitably carry out salvage operations on Kasuga Maru, but they had already destroyed the original buoy, so it was expected that the enemy would have to wait until May, when the sea visibility was better and the water temperature was higher, to start the second positioning work, and only in June could the official salvage work begin. But by that time, 419 should already have their hands free and could carry out all kinds of sabotage to their salvage work. At present, 419 has been divided into two places, all of which are entangled in their respective battlefields and cannot get out. When 419 tracked Kyushu Maru through the vicinity of the wreck, it did not find any signs of salvage, which also became a basis for Cheng Dayang's misjudgment.

Thanks to the weakening momentum of the Japanese offensive, Chu Aiyun's team repaired for ten days, and the Japanese on the Western Front finally realized that they were short of troops. The Chinese army on the Eastern Front also found that the British army had abandoned a large area too happily and was too prominent, and was forced to retreat from Dongwei (Tonggu) to the vicinity of Pyinmana. In short, all his plans were based on not detaching from the railway, and implementing a conservative plan that could advance and retreat. The enemy followed, but no major engagements broke out.

During this period, Sun Liren and Stilwell became closer and closer, selling his offensive plan, and he scoffed at Du Yuming's Battle of Mandalay, believing that he lacked imagination and concentrated his forces and waited for the enemy to advance near the line of communication.

Of course, Du Yuming was not interested in Sun Liren's adventurous plan to start from central Burma and divide the enemy army, his military sense of smell was not as keen as Sun Liren's, but he was politically accurate, and he knew that any attack in central and western Burma would require the assistance of the British, and the British were unreliable. The commander-in-chief, Luo Zhuoying, was not very assertive, he leaned towards Stilwell most of the time, but Du Yuming was able to convince him every time.

Chu Aiyun, who is now independent of the West, has become the target of Stilwell's hope of wooing, and he has entrusted Brooke to do this, and he himself has used the power allocated by the United States to exert direct pressure on Chongqing. He threw Chiang an enticing long-term plan to equip 36 Chinese divisions, but only if the Chinese army could not behave too passively on the battlefield.

Lin Xiuxuan took advantage of this period of calm and began to pay attention to the movements of Ying Zuo Zhenzhao, he was sure that there was at least one traverser in Myanmar, who was in the hands of Ying Zuo, this person had the weakest sense of presence among all the three, but it was difficult to smooth out the disturbance overnight, and he had to be killed one by one.

Hasegawa was (in fact, in the future) hired by the Burmese military junta as an adviser to the Thilova Development Zone, which was the usual way for the Japanese government to export capital and influence to foreign countries after the war, and as a legal cover for espionage; In fact, Hasegawa's resource report to the Burmese government was much simpler than that submitted to the Japanese government, and even concealed Burma's strategic resource reserves and regions, of course, because the U.S. government was obstructing it, fearing that the Burmese junta might spur the country's nuclear program by knowing how rich its uranium reserves were.

So after the Kasuga Maru and the thousands of computers on it sank, Hasegawa became the living computer with the most valuable information, and he was ostracized in the domestic academic circles, forced to study Southeast Asia for many years, and his mind was full of the distribution of Southeast Asian resources far more accurate than those regions that were not open to Japan, such as China's oil resources or North Korea's uranium mines.

He knew very well that this year the United States would build the first reactor at the University of Chicago, and the raw material for the plutonium bomb that fell on Nagasaki a few years later would come from this one, as well as other heavy water reactors. Of course, the most important resources in Myanmar are oil and tungsten, which help to increase their armor-piercing depth and are the most important resources to rely on when exchanging technology with Germany. He led a 500-man Nanyang colonization detachment, which had already begun intensive work and was currently recruiting more than 5,000 local laborers to closely follow the Japanese army in resource development.

Qin Xiaosu searched for Hasegawa's whereabouts from the clues in the telecommunications, and he noticed that the headquarters of the Second Mixed Brigade of Kagezo Zhenzhao was currently near Magway, not far from the front line, but it did not participate in the attack. It is estimated that the place where Kagesa appears will also be the place where Hasegawa appears. Now Lin Xiuxuan's judgment of the situation has changed subtly, if Sun Liren really launches an attack along the Irrawaddy River, he may be able to go there first and take advantage of the chaos to deal with Hasegawa, or he can also solve Kagesa Zhenzhao, so that the third and fourth targets on the list can be ticked off. It seems well worth the risk.

Chu Aiyun waited for Du Yuming's call, but when he didn't come out, Du said that the old man urged to launch an attack. However, he felt that the Japanese army was advancing all the way, although there were many casualties, but they were victorious and undefeated, and their spirit was not defeated; At this time, relying on the position of the British army, it was extremely unwise to launch an attack, and he had no choice but to give a strict order, so he hoped that Chu would cooperate and cooperate, make a show, and only cover and not rush forward, so as to preserve his strength.

Chief Chu also wanted to euphemistically remind Du Yuming to pay attention to the Thai side of the border, because in history, it was not the British who really dealt a fatal blow to the expeditionary force; To a certain extent, it was he who paid too much attention to the British selling their flanks in the west, so that the Japanese army completed a long-distance attack on the east road that could be called a military miracle, quickly broke through the waste-like position of the temporary 55th Division, and cut off the expeditionary force's return and retreat, thus leading to the fiasco of Savage Mountain. At present, the enemy's 56th Division has not appeared for a long time, and Iida must still keep his back hand, but when the words came to his lips, he felt that he was far away from Lashio, and pointed out that the problem there was too abrupt, so he didn't say it, of course, this matter can be transmitted through Chen Zhiping, it depends on how Lin Xiuxuan finds a breakthrough.

As an independent battalion, Chu Aiyun joined the offensive sequence and participated in several military meetings chaired by Sun Liren. Chu secretly uploaded Sun Liren's plan to Lin Xiuxuan, and Lin conducted an in-depth reconnaissance of the attack area in advance, his group currently does not have the reconnaissance capability of a large area, but with the advantage of surveillance and night vision, the attack area can be monitored.

It seems that Sun Liren's choice of offensive area is very favorable, there are rivers blocking the Japanese army on both sides, the Japanese army has an infantry brigade in front of them, and even a field hospital has been built not far from the rear, which shows that it was completely unexpectedly broken through here. In the rear are the 2nd Mixed Brigade and the Road Corps, which are carrying out road construction and topographic mapping, and there is no sign of exploration at all, which is a position of direct development. Many years later, the Japanese, out of conspiracy, concealed the location of the resources from the Burmese, and now they have reaped the fruits ahead of schedule.

In the early morning of March 27, the 38th Division launched an attack on the Japanese army. The 12 guns of Chu Tingchang fired at the Japanese positions in advance, and at the same time, the British artillery fire was also added. The 112th Regiment then went on the offensive and two hours later broke into the core position of the Japanese Nakai Brigade. This unit, formerly known as the tax police, is not below 200 divisions in combat effectiveness.

Chief Chu completed the shelling mission and waited for the replenishment of ammunition. Brooke urged him to immediately enter the battle and cover the flanks of the 112th Regiment, and he found many reasons to continue to grind. He had to wait for the change of enemy situation in front of him, and then carry out some quick assaults, and now let the new 38th Division do it first. His goal is also different from all the allied forces, he has to go a little deeper, and at the moment Lin Xiuxuan's team is already waiting there to see if he can determine the target in advance.

The sound of artillery in the distance was faint, and Ma Qiang lay on the top of the mountain and used a telescope to observe the convoy coming and going down the mountain. It was the 101st Field Road Unit of the Japanese Army, which was fully armed, and they even had bulldozers, and the road quickly stretched to a certain place in the mountains at a terrifying speed of half a kilometer a day.

The nearby migrant workers recruited by the Japanese army with military tickets are in full swing, and there are no overseers or military wolf dogs on the roadside, which is completely different from the situation in China. In China, if the Japanese are not careful, the migrant workers will flee, but the Burmese are happy to contribute to the jihad, and it may be a while before they realize that the Japanese are paying only waste paper.

A convoy of cars headed along the newly built highway, led by two Rolls-Royces, seemed to be some big shots. It's a pity that I can't see the people inside. Ma Qiang informed Lin Xiuxuan on the hill in front of him, hoping that he would pay attention to this movement. There were too few of them, so they had to resort to sharded surveillance, and at least during the day, they couldn't search Hasegawa directly. Any of them wearing a local man's skirt or bloomers would have a hard time blending in with the crowd. The propaganda of the Yugoslav organs has long tightened the string of "Chinese espionage" in the minds of the locals.

Lin soon saw that the convoy instructed by Ma Qiang consisted of 8 cars, 5 sedans and 3 trucks full of infantry, which seemed to be not small, and he even recognized the brown one in front of him as Alexander's car captured by the Yangon Governor's Palace.

The convoy got on the winding road and headed for the hilltop building, and the last truck stopped, and the soldiers got out of the car to guard the main road of the mountain pass.

At the top of the hill is the residence of Sir Gail, chief commissioner of the Irrawaddy Steamship Company, founded in 1864. Lin Xiuxuan sometimes really convinced the British, every time they went to the good mountains and rivers, they had their mansions overlooking Siye, which made it easy for the Japanese who advanced all the way to find some ready-made big houses and take them for themselves, and now the Governor's Palace in Yangon has become the headquarters of Iida, and the Burmese Shipping Company building has become the camp of the commander of the 18th Division.

He predicted that there would be one or two big names in the convoy, whether it was Hasegawa or not, which needed to be investigated further.

The convoy stopped in front of the hilltop mansion. A group of people hurriedly got out of the car and entered the house. About a small squad of infantry stood guard all around, and soon a small hoisting ceremony took place on the second-floor platform, raising a sun flag. He got up, stretched out his hand to measure the direction of the wind around him, and then turned his back to the wind and threw a small drone.

The drone took advantage of the wind to hover over the valley, and then suddenly pulled up with the help of an updraft, and quickly swept over the residence, completing the plane shooting. The plane will land in the jungle in the distance, and Xu Chong will be responsible for recovering it.