878 Qin Xiaosu's ingenuity
Looks like we're going to have to split the group again. In any case, the elimination of Makino was far more important than the elimination of the 5th Division, Lin Xiuxuan asked the rest of the people to continue the reconnaissance mission, and he took Qin Xiaosu to quickly return to the Chu Pavilion Commander's headquarters, where the communication conditions were the best, and if necessary, he would use the Chu Pavilion Commander's headquarters to remotely control the Allied aircraft. Now his group didn't have time to go deep into the Malay Peninsula, but perhaps the Allied bombers could take out Makino for him.
News of Chen Ping was coming in a steady stream, and the proportion of Chinese in Kuala Lumpur was high, and they could observe the movements of the enemy in the city at any time. In the morning, someone saw a convoy of armored vehicles opening the way and entering the army hospital, and some people saw that among the people who got off the train, there were people wearing navy uniforms. Despite the enemy's prescient silence on communications, there was always a few spills. Onishi Takijiro was indeed too careful, and his practice of sending a large fleet of aircraft to escort Yamamoto made the plan exposed. His train of thought is basically straight, and Asano tells him that Yamamoto will be killed by the Allies because of the code, so he responds with two methods: no radio and more escort.
The news of the CPM guerrillas was sent through the code book left by Qin Xiaosu to Chen Ping before Lin Xiuxuan's group left, and the code used the norms of this era, but it should not be decipherable until the enemy collected enough samples.
On the way, Qin Xiaosu had already begun to collect information about the allies and envision possible courses of action, which was the task given to him by Lin Xiuxuan. At present, the Allied bombers in Burma can reach Kuala Lumpur and even Singapore, but it is difficult for the Allied bombers to retreat without escort, and with their poor high-altitude bombing accuracy, to complete such a mission, I am afraid that it will only injure too many innocent citizens. Of course, how to coax the US Army Airlines to carry out such a mission is a more difficult task, but Qin Xiaosu doesn't think about this, these are what Lin Xiuxuan and Chu Tingchang need to consider.
At the same time, Chu Tingchang was at the headquarters and received the news that Huang Tianyang had conquered half of Bangkok, and he immediately strictly ordered Huang Tianyang to cooperate with He Bisheng and annihilate the last wing of the enemy, and not to pursue the remnants of the enemy, so as not to fall into the artillery fire of the enemy's fleet.
Huang Tianyang replied that he was not afraid of Japanese naval artillery, as long as he was allowed to command the artillery battalion (Wolverine destroyer) directly under him, he promised that he could use this battalion to repel the enemy fleet and maybe sink a few ships.
It seems that although Huang Dashao has eaten and seen, some basic concepts are still confused, and he has no concept of the firepower of the enemy's fleet, so that he is overconfident in his own firepower, thinking that more than 20 75mm guns can confront the destroyer fleet and even a few heavy cruisers. Chu Tingchang called again, scolded Huang Tianyang, and asked him to carry out the order, don't think nonsense.
The 8th Division of the Japanese Army, which was at sea, received an urgent order from Sakagaki to stop going to Bangkok to land, but instead landed 120 kilometers west of Bangkok, and he still did not give up the idea of cutting off Tao Mingzhang's troops from the rear. Originally, the 8th Division was going to do this, but the sudden siege in Bangkok made him have to temporarily change the direction of the mobile troops at sea and turn to save the 6th Division.
Sakagaki's upside-down command shows that he has changed from a demon of war who was always unexpected at the beginning, to a headache doctor and a mediocre tinker.
Originally, both sides were extremely exhausted and fought hard in the four areas where they could not support each other, but with the battle in Bangkok falling to Chu Tingchang, the offensive and defensive situation has changed hands. Chu Tingchang will have more troops to invest in other battlefields, and for Sakagaki, the most important thing at the moment is how to rescue the main force under the mountain, rather than besieging Tao Mingzhang.
Lin Xiuxuan, who was on the road, was no longer too excited about the victory on the battlefield. The sudden news from the MCP made him feel very depressed. It seems that the Japanese miniature submarine moved Makino away when it reversed into the reeds, perhaps a plan they had decided in advance, or it may have been a temporary decision of the captain. In short, the month-long layout and tracking looks like it's gone for naught. Of course, Shu Ping had already told him that it would never be easy to hunt down the traverser, and it would become more and more difficult as the number of hunting targets decreased. This set of theories sounds like some kind of metaphysical metaphysics, but it is really based on careful mathematical calculations. There is no shortcut to complete this mission.
Of course, the news from Chen Ping is not without positive information. The most advantageous part is that Makino is likely to be so badly injured that he has been in the army hospital for two weeks. Judging from the reason, if the injury is a little more stable, it will not remain there, but will be transferred to Singapore. Then he can be transferred to the Philippines and Vietnam, Taiwan, and he can be sent back to the mainland.
Of course, it cannot be ruled out that at the moment his condition has stabilized and can be transported by air. This may be the reason for the massive transfer of aircraft of the Japanese Navy. In any case, time is running out.
"Qin Xiaosu, have you come up with any plans to guide the bombers?" Lin Xiuxuan asked while driving. Qin Xiaosu sat next to him. Their guards, driving two other cars, followed behind so that they could talk all the way without scruples about anything else.
"Team leader, I think the bombing is very unreliable." Qin Xiaosu shrugged his shoulders.
"Yes, if it is a light fighter dropping bombs at low altitudes, it may be more accurate, and the high-altitude horizontal bombing I have observed by US bombers rarely has an error of less than 500 meters."
"The Norton Optical Commander is very difficult to work in a big city like Kuala Lumpur. And the radar commander is even more unreliable, this kind of command can only find the city, but cannot find the specific target in the city. ”
"You mean, we're going to give up this opportunity? Light planes with *, simply can't fly so far. ”
"That's not what I mean, I think that if Chen Ping is there, he can get the specific time when the enemy's transport planes take off, and he can use fighter jets to shoot down those planes."
Lin Xiuxuan was silent for a while, he didn't know why Qin Xiaosu had such an idea, because it was not feasible at all, because the range of the fighter was simply not enough, and even if he barely flew a one-way flight, it would be difficult to intercept the transport plane.
"No, it won't work. Mandalay's airport is too far from Kuala Lumpur for P38s to be barely reached, but there is little time to search and intercept. ”
"I don't mean to use Mandalay's airport."
"Take off from the meadows off the coast of Myanmar? It's still too far. ”
"Why do you have to take off from land? Why not an aircraft carrier? ”
"I have already thought about this, the British aircraft carriers near Kalimantan are all damaged, and the planes on the aircraft carriers have also been transferred to India. And the British, who are very selfish, are not so easy to command. ”
"I checked the Allied forces' transportation plans," Qin Xiaosu decided not to sell Guan Zi anymore and poured out his thoughts, "There are several escort aircraft carriers transporting fighter jets for the army, the most recent is the Casablanca, which has reached the sea off Calcutta. ”
"But it was a P10 plane that had been transferred to the 38 Air Force. The deck was full of planes. ”
"I calculated the length of the deck and pushed the front half of the plane into the sea, and the rear plane could take off."
Lin Xiuxuan stopped the car, he decided to smoke a cigarette on the side of the road, and carefully thought about Qin Xiaosu's ingenious idea. Of course, he knew the entire transportation plan of the Allies, so he knew very well that the escort aircraft carrier with a deck length of 150 meters was transporting the new P38H fighter jet, which was lightning-fast compared to the previous one, because it was equipped with a new Allison 1420 horsepower engine, and the range was longer.
If this escort aircraft carrier is allowed to sail to the west coast of the Malay Peninsula and lurk, and then according to the information provided by Chen Ping, the accurate time and route can be set, or those transport planes can be intercepted. Of course, if the enemy decides to deliver it again at night, it will create a certain amount of uncertainty. But these details are not important for the time being, what matters is that all assumptions are based on one of the biggest uncertainties - how to command the US Navy and Army.
"Theoretically feasible, there is also the problem that there are too many aspects involved."
"Perhaps, you can fictionalize a big character, let's say Yamamoto fifty-six is on the plane? The Americans will be eager to avenge Pearl Harbor. ”
Lin Xiuxuan must admit that Qin Xiaosu has a lot of ghost names, and some places are more far-reaching than he thought.
"Team leader, the key is whether the co-captain can convince Stilwell."
"Stilwell can't do anything about it. If Stilwell were to get into trouble with the Navy or the British, it would be endless. However, it may be useful to use the personal relationship between Chu Tingchang and Roosevelt. Roosevelt said last month that Chief Chu could contact him at any time, through his military adviser, Brooke. ”
"Brooke has become an adviser to the president?"
"Yes, he is also the head of the Army's weapons procurement and evaluation department, and the Army's selection of any weapon requires his evaluation, and his position is not high, and he has a lot of power. And most importantly, of course, he could be a bridge between us and Roosevelt. ”
Cambodian border.
Ma Qiang took advantage of the darkness of the night to make a serious assessment of the defense of the 4th Division. At present, the enemy's defense line built by relying on the mountains has become a system. Yamashita probably wanted to hold on and wait for an opportunity. Obviously, his military station is well supplied, so he has nothing to fear.
The breakthrough was chosen on the side of the 4th Division, because its combat effectiveness was not as good as that of the 5th Division, and it had been in the battle for a long time, and the troops were relatively tired.
It seems that the enemy's position was completely dependent on the mountains, which in ten days had been crisscrossed by ravines dug by the Japanese, and some of the firing points were reinforced with pine covers. The firepower configuration is reasonable, both depth and crossing, I believe there are many hidden bunkers, of course, these dark bunkers are difficult to find by night vision devices or drones. In the event of a storm, the losses must have been significant. However, Ma Qiang found that although the surface position was strong, there were not many enemy troops, which indicated that the enemy had hidden the main force in the anticline, or in the tunnel that had not yet been observed. They may have been afraid of our artillery fire, so they made such a deployment. As soon as our artillery bombardment, they will temporarily abandon their positions on the surface of the hill, and when our artillery bombardment stops and the infantry attack, they will quickly come up and regain their position. This is indeed a good way to deal with infantry and artillery coordination, but it requires extremely high speed for the infantry to restore their positions. He quickly reported these discoveries to Chu Tingchang.