The British could not say anything, they were now beyond the reach of the whip, and their hands could not be put in Burma. In the past, Churchill would naturally put pressure on Chongqing, but the prime minister found that Chu Tingchang had not been controlled by Chongqing recently, and he could not understand whether it was real or a double reed played by Chinese. In fact, it was not only Stilwell who was protecting Chu Tingchang now, but Roosevelt was encouraging this behavior to some extent. As things stand, there will be hundreds of thousands of Chinese troops stationed in Burma, some of whom may return to their homeland after receiving perfect equipment, as the Japanese are planning big operations, while others may stay. The Chinese refugees gathered in northern Myanmar have taken root and no longer retreated into Yunnan, and even some Chinese from Guangxi and Yunnan, who had been bombed, have begun to drag their families into Myanmar in reverse, which is a long-term trouble for the United Kingdom.

At the end of the meeting, Chief Chu's plan was approved, and he got up to leave triumphantly, but Stilwell mysteriously stopped him in the hallway, as if he had something to say.

"Congratulations on the unanimous approval of your plan, I received a Washington telegram and the president is looking forward to meeting you."

"Oh, that's an honor." Chu Tingchang desperately pretended to be flattered.

"The general schedule of the meeting of the war leaders has been set, perhaps in the summer, in Palestine or Egypt, and the president wants you to accompany Commander-in-Chief Chiang Kai-shek."

Chief Chu Ting had long known that he might be a candidate to go to the Cairo meeting, and he even ordered a few sets of more decent clothes, and it seemed that this time it was a formal invitation.

"I hope that by the end of summer, most of the enemies in Indochina can be cleared as a greeting gift." He said.

"I just got the news that the candidate for the chief of staff of the army of the new Japanese army has been designated as the commander of the Chinese Dispatch Army, General Toshiroku Hata."

Chu Tingchang's heart twitched, this personnel change was unexpected, and it was estimated that it was affected by the Japanese traverser.

"Then who will take over the Chinese battlefield?"

"Senior General Okamura Ninji will take over the Chinese Dispatch Army. Why, do you have any other opinions about the personnel of these Japanese people? ”

"Oh, I don't have much research." Chief Chu hurriedly avoided answering, in fact, he really didn't have much research.

"Chairman Chiang in Chongqing is bound to run into some trouble. Our intelligence department determined that Shunroku Hata had been working on a plan to mobilize 500,000 men to open up the Pinghan and Guangdong-Han railways, but the base camp had not been approved because of the attrition of the Pacific War, and now that he had become chief of staff, he might push forward with this plan. So I concluded that General Zhang and General Song would not stay here for too long and would return to China immediately. ”

"The Japanese army still has the strength to launch such a large-scale campaign?" He pretended to be amazed, but in fact he knew that it was an operation to open up the mainland's lines of communication.

"Soon, our American submarines in the Pacific Ocean will reach 180, of which 100 are new Shark-class, you see, it will cause huge trouble for the Japanese army to transport islands, even if they take Australia, they will not be able to control it for a long time. Our submarine forces will force them to do two things, the first is to try to open up the line of communication from North China to Guangxi, and the second is to fight to the death with your troops on the line of Thailand and Vietnam, if they lose the Gulf of Siam, then it will be pointless for China to fight. ”

"I agree. You don't mind if I mentioned attacking Hong Kong, do you? ”

"I know you mentioned it on purpose, and I don't think the United States will interfere in your historical dispute with Britain for the time being. Of course, this is just what I said, I am just a military man who has no right to take the place of politicians, to make guarantees. ”

"Yes." Chu Tingchang nodded, thinking to himself, that is not nonsense.

Kagoshima, Naval Weapons Test Site.

Makino's acoustic self-guidance*, which will be tested today.

This is not a new type of weapon, a few years ago, similar prototypes of weapons appeared in the laboratories of the United Kingdom, the United States and Germany, and some products have already entered actual combat, but the actual combat effectiveness of these * is not much better than that of direct flights. Of course, part of the reason is that tracking the target by sound* often follows a smaller section of the stern of the loudest boat, which requires the use of a magnetic fuse for detonation, which is not as reliable as a simple trigger fuse. As a passive detection fuse, it cannot measure distance, so it either explodes early or does not explode.

But Makino is quite confident in this part, as they have the American MK46 Light* brought by Kasuga Maru as a reference. Although this kind of advanced active sonar array cannot be imitated at all, it is mainly used against submarines, and the real reference is its proximity fuze design and navigation design.

This * introduces the concept of the amount of change in the magnetic signal of the target in the magnetic fuze controller, when the magnetic signal continues to increase, it will not detonate, and its detonation point is after the signal peak, and then two cycles of comparison to confirm the formation of this trend.

Although there is a lack of integrated circuits, it is still possible to make a rough summary of the target characteristics through this method. Roughly solve the problem of early explosion of the magnetic fuze once the signal is detected, of course, it will inevitably lead to the problem of late explosion, but considering the slower speed of * and the ship, as well as the use of an oversized, 9-meter-long spear*, its huge charge can compensate for the lack of accuracy.

Makino hopes that this type of weapon will be completed sooner, this kind of sound-guided *, unlike the new Yanlong * (*received a new name after being finalized), it is easy to be jammed, although the * radar part of the rapid frequency design is ready-made, but it is not yet possible to make enough small radar to cram into the * warhead, and now it can still only receive signals on one frequency.

In Makino's vision, only the use of these two weapons together can make it possible for the Navy with heavy losses to continue to compete with the enemy, of course, these two weapons alone are still unable to counter a powerful aircraft carrier battle group, and he also needs to develop a smaller, long-range next-generation weapon based on these two weapons.

The miniaturized * will be used for anti-submarine purposes, while the miniaturized anti-ship * will be able to be mounted on aircraft carrier-based aircraft and have the possibility of carrying out saturation attacks on key targets.

Of course, the development of these tactical weapons is still only to stall for time, and what can really end the war is a strategic weapon. At present, it seems that even if the general war mobilization is partially completed, it is still very difficult for Japan to quickly obtain a high concentration of uranium-235 through the design of the centrifuge on the Kasuga Maru, and no matter how optimistic the calculations are, it is impossible to catch up with the accuracy of the Americans.

Ishihara came up with a bold solution, if he could salvage the plutonium inside Kasugamaru, he could assemble a few* pieces first* and use them to strike at the continental United States. It was not a great hope that the Americans could be forced to give up resistance, but they could destroy the uranium separation plant in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, so that they could buy precious time for Japan.

Makino was taken aback when Ishihara proposed such a plan, he thought Ishihara was a cautious and serious person, but there is always an unexpected side to soldiers in this era. Just like he thought that Kage Sa Zhenzhao was rational and calm, but in the end, he found that Ishihara and Kagesa, their so-called rationality is relative, standing next to Tojo Hideki, they are both rational and cautious, but in essence, they all have the characteristics of being inclined to take risks.

Eventually, Makino accepted Ishihara's plan, which came with certain stop-loss conditions.

One is the successful salvage of these things.

The second was to conduct a secret experiment somewhere in the Pacific Ocean and succeed.

Third, the supply of uranium feedstock is sufficient, and local uranium separation is expected to be feasible after careful assessment.

Fourth, vehicles capable of carrying this kind of weapons and breaking through the US Navy's Pacific defense line have been smoothly developed.

Fifth, the weapon was launched from the Caribbean Sea with a range sufficient to hit a secret base in Tennessee.

If all five of the above are in place, a strike is feasible, and if any of these points are not met, Japan should immediately stop research, destroy all equipment, execute most of the people involved in secret weapons research and contact with the traversers, and then surrender before the US nuclear bomb falls.

Makino must admit that there was still a rational brilliance in the plan, and that it was almost impossible for Ishihara to fulfill all of these harsh conditions. For example, attacking vehicles is not at all. He prefers to use a submarine towed pontoon to carry a ballistic* similar to the V2, but the accuracy of the current ballistic* program is close to zero.

In the future, Japan will have the technology to launch space rockets, but it will not have a ballistic* in actual combat. The simple ballistic* design that Kasuga Maru carried, based on the ground-to-air * used by future designers, could not carry a huge payload, and could not reach the 650-kilometer range of launching from the coast of Louisiana and smashing straight into Oak Ridge. So it had to be a large-scale weapon, but Germany did not agree with the technology to provide such a weapon (in fact, it was not yet admitted), and even if it got the V2, its accuracy would be insufficient. So he had to consider the second alternative, using manned suicide planes to accomplish this feat, and although he himself hated suicide attacks, he had to admit that the Japanese had a talent for it.

As for the other conditions, he could not consider them for the time being, and everything had to wait until the plutonium was salvaged.

A target ship sailing at a speed of 10 knots sailed from a distance off the coast, about 6 nautical miles from the coast. Makino did the old rules, hiding in an underground bunker and learning about the situation outside through a periscope and a telephone.

Assembled *, it will be launched from a launch canister from the shore. The principle of this * is not complicated, sixteen transducers are connected to the * mass, arranged in a ring, and the sound signal obtained by it, after being connected to the amplifier, passes through the logic circuit and compares.

*Sail in the S shape to collect these changes in sound signals, while *will control the rudder to keep the rudder in line with the minimum difference in intensity of all transducers. Since all transducers are perpendicular to the direction of sailing, it can be judged that * is facing the target when each transducer obtains the same sound intensity. In an era where complex integrated circuits are lacking, there are always other options.

Makino picked up the phone and ordered the launch.