Stilwell's promise to Du Yuming's three divisions of 24 105* guns failed.

24 hours ago, Nagumo's mobile force, consisting of 5 aircraft carriers, 4 battleships, and a dozen cruiser destroyers, quietly approached the Bay of Bengal. The Ozawa South Fleet, which had been covering the landing off the coast of Yangon, was transferred to the Bay of Bengal to attack merchant ships, hoping to use this small fleet as bait to catch the British Eastern Fleet, which consisted of five battleships consisting of three aircraft carriers (Indomitable, Dreadsome, and Athletic). This patchwork but powerful British fleet, hoping to occupy a place in the Far East and secure the route to the Bay of Bengal, was of course in a very dangerous situation.

Qin Xiaosu obtained the full information in advance, he racked his brains to find a way to inform the Allies, and finally forged a telegram from the southern authorities requesting the reconnaissance of the British naval ships in the remaining ports of Burma; Then, in the form of self-questioning and self-answering, he replied to the "superiors" with a confirmation telegram: "I guarantee that by mid-March, all the Eastern Fleet will be in the Bay of Bengal, and the opportunity is excellent." ”

These maneuvers were eventually completed by Chen Zhiping, who informed the British intelligence services. Qin Xiaosu was not sure whether the Americans would salvage the Japanese submarine carrying the cipher machine off the coast of Australia after the change of history, so he helped such a superfluous effort, but in fact everything still happened logically. The British, through eavesdropping on the Japanese cipher, learned in advance of the Japanese army's No. 11 battle plan (it should be said that the cost of Asano's frivolous laissez-faire leakage of the cipher code was not small), and the Eastern Fleet abandoned the escort mission in the Bay of Bengal in advance and fled to the vicinity of Sri Laka. Once the Japanese attack here, the next step is to flee to the Maldives.

However, Ozawa's fleet opened the killing ring in the Bay of Bengal and sank 30 Allied transports in a matter of days. The entire sea transport route through the Bay of Bengal was completely cut off. At present, all transportation must pass through the Atlantic, around the Cape of Good Hope, or through the Mediterranean Sea and the Suez Canal, before it can go ashore from Bombay, and then have to cross the Indian railway to reach the Anglo-Burmese border, but there is no railway connection there, and weapons cannot reach Mandalay, so the artillery promised by Stilwell can only be supplied to the Anglo-Indian 47th Division nearby; In order to appease the national army, the United States won the war, and after the Hump route was opened, it would be transported to Yunnan by Tingjiang Airport, this condition, of course, Chiang Kai-shek could win, but the 5th Army in Burma had actually lost the convenience of being close to the water, so Commander Du was in a hurry to send his men and horses to the British-occupied area to receive some weapons.

Du Yuming was far less optimistic about the prospects of the war than the leader, and he felt that the next time the Japanese launched an offensive, the British would most likely abandon Ringanqiang and run away, which meant that his flanks would be exposed because they abandoned their positions, so he also needed another force in western Burma, both to fend off the Japanese and to spy on friendly forces.

Lin Xiuxuan returned to northern Myanmar to temporarily join Qin Xiaosu, and he needed to immediately make a plan for his next move. The calm on the battlefield will soon be broken, and under the mutual calculation of China and Britain, it will be difficult to reverse the situation, and it will be a good ending to keep northern Myanmar. The enemy has now established itself in southern Burma, backed by a deep-water port and, most importantly, seen through the calculations of both China and Britain.

Lin Xiuxuan saw Qin Xiaosu and knew that Cheng Dayang might have exploded the *, according to the agreement, it should be that all the remedial plans are hopeless, so the next step is to go. The explosion of a nuclear bomb will leave a lot of signs, especially the possibility of eyewitnesses, which is what worries him the most. Although the countries of the world, most likely, do not yet have a precise way to demonstrate the existence of such weapons, at least the United States has begun to study this area.

Of course, now is not the time to shrink back, history has changed profoundly, and it is imperative to judge the next move of the Japanese time-travelers.

Burma and New Guinea were just two of the starting points of Asano's arrogant plan, and he hoped to use the victory of 1942 to extend the Japanese tentacles to Australia and India, not one or the other, but both. Asano may just be a half-known history buff, but when he colludes with the crazed generals at the military headquarters, the plan becomes feasible; The variables facing Lin Xiuxuan mainly depended on how far forward the Japanese timetable for entering the general war was and how far they were going to salvage the Kasuga Maru.

At present, Qin Xiaosu can obtain relatively stable information, but it is limited, and the Japanese army is accustomed to airdropping important official documents to the divisions and regimental headquarters through the reconnaissance plane of the headquarters, and only the second-level intelligence uses the radio. The Japanese army was slow to launch an attack on Indonesia, perhaps because they had developed oil in the northeast, or because they had a sober assessment of the strategic value of the Dutch colony; They can capture Indonesia's main islands at any time if they wish.

It was the Allied telegram that made Lin Xiuxuan gasp. Because of the telegram exchange between the Chinese and British intelligence services, Lin Linqi's name appeared, and Chen Zhiping showed a shrewdness, and he reported the matter to the Military Intelligence Bureau, indicating that Alexander had also noticed the suspicion. Of course, this was a reluctant choice in the face of urgency, and he reminded himself that hundreds of people in Myanmar had seen him, so he had to be very careful.

In the official residence of Eisaku Sato in Tokyo, seven or eight people sat in the living room, waiting for the maid to finish serving tea.

Onishi was a little impatient, constantly raising his wrist to look at his watch, Makino was sitting in the corner, he was the first time since the start of the war between the United States and Japan that he had participated in such a seminar.

"Could it be Tojo's conspiracy, in order to get revenge for what happened last time? There's not a single one left this time. The commander of the Nakazawa Division...... "Eisaku Sato was the first to speak. Immediately glared at him fiercely by his brother, hinting that he would wait for the servant to go away before saying these words, he quickly bowed his head and remained silent.

After sinking for about a minute, the maid could be heard laughing with the gardener outside, and gradually moving away, before Kishi Nobusuke coughed twice.

"This matter is not trivial, let's talk about it first." Everyone turned their attention to Onishi, who had deliberately returned from the front line.

The commander felt strange, he wondered, could it be the problem caused by the disturbance of time and space? Asano-kun was there, and he also mentioned this issue, but he couldn't say it clearly, so Chief Yamamoto motioned for me to come and ask Makino-kun for advice......" Onishi looked at Makino eagerly. He was worried that Makino would continue to pretend to be deaf and dumb, and throughout the afternoon, Makino did not answer his questions with Ishihara.

"The perturbation effect does exist, but this incident is not characteristic of the perturbation effect." Makino said slowly. There was silence at the scene, waiting for the following.

"In fact, many things have proved that Mr. Sato's calculations back then were omission, such as the level of damage suffered by Kasugamaru was a whole order of magnitude larger. It can be seen that in essence, there are many unpredictable consequences of crossing theory. ”

"So will disturbances destroy the jihad? We're really in a good situation at the moment," Onishi asked.

"Theoretically, of course, there will be a negative effect, but it shouldn't be like that. Perturbation is a spatio-temporal adaptive behavior with diminishing efficiency, which does not explode suddenly and then return to calm. Disturbances do cause some low-probability events to occur, which may increase the probability of * crashing into a transport ship, but it is not possible to kill all ships at once; If this was meant to happen, it should have happened on Pearl Harbor, not four months later. ”

It seems that there is no agreement, Makino and Asano can't say why.

"Actually, not all of them disappeared, we have an escort destroyer left." Onishi added.

"One of the convoys survived?" Ishihara asked. Apparently Onishi was so careless that he never mentioned it.

"Yes, the Yukikaze survived, it engaged an American submarine that morning, crashed its engine, and did not follow the fleet. Naturally, I didn't see the situation at that time. ”

"You escort with snow wind?" Makino muttered.

"Yes, the navigator also took some photos along the way, it is said that the navigator saw some strange weather, but unfortunately the imaging is very blurry, I can't see what's going on, by the way, I also brought the photos." As he spoke, he looked down through his bag, pulled out a stack of photos, and handed them out to those present. Everyone who has seen it shakes their heads, because the photo is so blurry.

"Why is there so much noise?" Makino asked with a frown, noting that the photo was taken in a sophisticated way, maybe with a tripod, and the image quality was poor, either because there was a problem with the processing process, or because the film was poorly preserved.

"yes, I really can't see what it is, it's said to be a huge cloud. It's on the original route. ”

"Did you catch anything on the sea?"

"No, nothing. According to Shiramura, they had seen seagulls congregating on the surface of the sea and a few floating objects, but at that time they were in a hurry to catch up with the fleet and did not salvage them. ”

"Where was the location at that time?"

"190 nautical miles southeast of Ramon Bay."

"Where does Yukikaze park in the morning?"

"120 nautical miles north."

"The length of the flotilla at that time?"

"According to Shiramura, it was a single column, 3 nautical miles long in front and behind."

Makino carefully examined each photograph, and there was indeed a magnificent rain cloud, so low that it was even connected to the sea.

"It looks like ......" Makino wanted to speak and stopped, he was not an open-mouthed person like Asano, so he had to be cautious when he spoke.

"Much like what?" Onishi hurriedly asked.

"It's a lot like what happens after a nuclear explosion."

"What?" Nobusuke Kishi exclaimed, "That's what you said, the kind that later destroyed Japan*?" ”

"I can't guarantee it, but the vapour does look a lot like a cloud that formed after an explosion. However, if it was the kind that was thrown in Hiroshima or Nagasaki, it would not be possible to destroy a fleet. ”

Everyone looked around in confusion, not knowing what Makino meant.

"Could it be that the Americans developed this kind of thing in advance?" Eisaku Sato finally asked a slightly meaningful question.

"This possibility cannot be ruled out, but ...... If they had such weapons, why attack the merchant fleet? ”

"To prevent us from increasing our troops in New Guinea? This time we lost about 18,000 people and all the baggage. The Army has come to blame, saying that it is not good for us to protect the fleet. Onishi said.

Ignoring the Army, Makino pulled a map from the side and measured it with a ruler.

"Can Port Moresby take off a B25 bomber?"

"No way, our planes, just blew it up there in ruins, there is only Darwin's ...... at the moment"

"It's 3,000 kilometres from Darwin, which is impossible, even the B29 is barely possible."

"So, it could only be a submarine?"

"Yes, the Commander thinks so too, but unless all * hit all 6 ships at once, and they all fall silent for a moment, there is no time to send an report. Even then, someone should survive. Our seaplanes repeatedly reconnoitred the route before nightfall. ”

"I can't answer you today. Mr. Kishi, could you please contact Professor Nishina of the University of Tokyo, and I would like him, or his classmates, to study and calculate Sato's formula. ”

"No problem, I'll leave this matter to me."