Chief Chu knew that Lin Xiuxuan would definitely be able to represent the organization. This kind of thing brought Cheng Dayang here, and there is no doubt that he will be on his side. Of course, logically speaking, Lin Xiuxuan is also absolutely reasonable. On second thought, maybe the photo angle is a problem, the real person is not so "weird" and masculine?

After thinking about it, it was nothing more than a false and wronged snake, dealing with it, and then sending the second lady home, and after thinking about this layer, he was a little calmer.

The Cairo Declaration was to be announced in 10 days at the same time in the capitals of the three countries, and both Chiang Kai-shek and Churchill secretly expected military success during the promulgation period. The British were counting on a seemingly major victory in an area where the enemy was weakly defended to reverse the image of Britain as a declining national power, which was Churchill's greatest fear.

Two days after the meeting, British troops began to land in Sumatra, and this time, with the participation of a small number of American observers, was all British troops. Roosevelt put pressure on Churchill, who said that if the British could not make a name for themselves in Asia in time, perhaps they would consider letting Sun Liren's troops attack Indonesia, but Churchill of course refused. Although Dutch Indonesia was not a British colony, Britain and the Netherlands were tied to oil interests and would never tolerate the entry of Chinese troops.

Just as Chu Tingchang flew to Calcutta, the landing of the British was successful. The Japanese did not implement coastal defense at all. There are too many beaches suitable for landing in Sumatra that it is simply impossible to defend. The advance disembarkation force easily captured the port of Bandazia, and with the support of a strong fleet, within a day an Indian division Koi successfully went ashore. Two security brigades of the Japanese army began to retreat.

The information sent by the CPM guerrillas for the Allies indicated that the Japanese 2nd Division was still in the Malay Peninsula and launched an attack on Chu Ting's army, and no signs of leaving were found. This is the same information that the spies of the British army lurking in Singapore got the same information. However, the Japanese navy still effectively blockaded Malacca and the Sunda Strait, so it was unable to send enough submarines to reconnoiter its troop movements between the islands. There are so many islands in the Fractured Zone of Southeast Asia that even a few American and British submarines have infiltrated and discovered the Japanese army's troop transport attempts.

The 2nd Division, which was originally stationed in Sumatra and Borneo, is indeed still in Malay. However, the 1st Guards Division, which had arrived by ship, had already landed in Sumatra, but it remained in the eastern part of the island and was not ready to move. Nishimura Takuma, the commander of the Guards Division, used to be on the side of Kagesa Zhenaki when he assassinated Tojo, but then he was excluded from the inner circle, so he didn't know to use *, and he had a lot of complaints about the entire command. He didn't think it was a good idea to abandon the beachhead and stick inland. Hatefully, the Southern Army seemed to be stunned by Chu Tingchang, and even the British were afraid of it, so they didn't dare to fight back.

In Sakagaki's telegram to Nishimura Takuma, there was always a set of rhetoric about not being impatient and trying not to expose his troops, which was completely different from the image of the resolute and sophisticated god of war in the past, and the Japanese generals could not figure out what medicine he was selling in his gourd.

The British troops held out at the landing site for two days, waiting for the Japanese to counterattack and accumulate forces at the same time, but the Japanese seemed to have withdrawn all at once. Air reconnaissance also showed that the Japanese had no intention of carrying out a counterattack. Mountbatten decided to take the risk of attacking, not with his main force, but with the incommunicative Indian 9th Division. According to the experience of the British, these unstable troops were prone to cause trouble if they stayed in the rear, and when they arrived at the front, they had no intention of rebelling.

The Indian 9th Division was annihilated by the Japanese once in Singapore, and later the backbone of the Indian puppet army established by the Japanese under the support of the Japanese came from the old 9th Division, but this unit was newly recruited last year, and after Chu Tingchang blocked the footsteps of the Japanese into India, the British began to slowly mobilize India's huge human resources.

Lieutenant General York's troops, under the cover of light tanks, cautiously advanced forward. He did not often encounter the Japanese army, but the Japanese resistance was not strong, and they collapsed at the first touch, which was very different from what happened to him in Malay and Burma. Of course, the Allied intelligence agencies got the information that the large-scale conscription of the Japanese army led to many low-quality soldiers entering the army, and these troops were often assigned to less important areas, which is probably the case with the 75th mixed brigade in front of us. So the 9th Division plucked up its courage and accelerated its advance. The Japanese resistance began to rage in the area close to the oil fields, which the British quickly encircled.

The British reconnaissance planes conducted several reconnaissance of the enemy's assembly area, and found that thousands of Japanese troops were gathering and building improvised fortifications nearby, but the strange thing was that the iron tower located at the core position had not stopped, and it was about ten meters higher than the last time it was photographed. And a crane has been erected around it, and it seems that the work is still accelerating. This piqued Mountbatten's interest, and he ordered the attacking air force not to attack the tower, but to capture it in its entirety. He wanted to see what was going on.

Just when the offensive of Chu Tingchang's army was stagnant, the British seemed to be on the verge of this world war, and the scheming Churchill had been waiting for this victory, and he noticed that the elevation of China's status in the Cairo Conference depended on such a figure as Chu Tingchang, and Chu Tingchang was not only a war, but also an expert in self-propaganda; Therefore, he hoped that Britain could make some propaganda during the trough of the war. On the warship returning to Britain, he sent a telegram to Mountbatten, asking him to do a good job of propaganda work, preferably in the style of American and German war documentaries, with more shots of generals shuttling through the front lines, rather than being too British, with too many generals standing in front of the map with teacups and pointing fingers.

Churchill's words woke up the dreamers, and the Lord immediately set off, leaving the Andaman headquarters on the eve of the attack and flying to the front. He realized that in this way, he could not only firmly integrate his image with this winnable war, but also find out what was hidden under the tower of the Japanese army as soon as possible (he did not expect that there would be a name for himself on the tower).

Sakagaki is still stuck in the Minas oil field, waiting for * hoisting and the installation of various measuring equipment. The one* had just arrived, and it was hidden in the bunker. It was not hoisted in advance, mainly because it was feared that the British artillery fire would destroy the steel frame, but it was expected that tomorrow, the enemy would attack, so it had to be hoisted at night tonight. The disguise of the iron frame as a very long-wave radio station has been successful so far, but with this iron ball, the entire tower will look strange. Maybe enemy fire will shoot at it? Of course, this six-ton thing is quite sturdy, and small-caliber weapons do not pose a threat.

In the darkness of the night, under the light of British artillery fire in the distance, the iron ball was installed in place, and the technicians quickly completed the cable connection and several tests. If the British hit the iron frame with long-range artillery, everything would be lost, and then the Guards Division would have to be mobilized to clean up the mess. That didn't happen, though.

At dawn, the British military film crew came to the top of the hill ten kilometers away from the core position, and Sir Mountbatten took great pains to shoot this documentary, especially transferring a battalion back from the front line, to this place where artillery fire could be seen, but it was not dangerous, and cooperated with the shooting. The distance of 10 kilometers from the enemy's defensive circle was decided by fully considering the firing range of the Japanese mountain artillery.

The Lord stood by the crater, clasped his hands, and looked at the asahi in the distance, a shot that lasted a full twenty seconds. In the background, the British tank is slowly moving, and then he turns and walks forward. Photographers followed closely behind and filmed the Lord entering the trenches and shaking hands with the soldiers who were in good spirits, and some of the soldiers were bandaged on their heads to pose as lightly wounded in order to set off the atmosphere. In the originally designed storyboard script, there was a part where the soldiers affectionately patted the commander's shoulder, but it was vetoed by the lord, such a shot was too American, too scattered, and damaged the image of the nobility.

Mountbatten shook hands with the captain commander at the end of the tunnel, looked at the map and directed the attack, and the captain showed him the captured Japanese flag.

Ten kilometers away, the attacking troops were launching a centripetal assault, and the Japanese army was retreating so quickly that it seemed to be overwhelmed. The 9th and 7th Indian Divisions were in front, and the British 3rd Division, which had not been able to reap the results of the battle, quickly advanced in an attempt to grab some gains.

The Japanese retreated quickly, in order to quickly enter the defensive tunnels, and also in order to prevent the enemy from launching extended artillery bombardment, endangering the iron tower.

Charge room, all the equipment is already running, a red button on the wall, and two backup buttons on the side, will control the power-on and explosion of the *.

The Japanese mixed brigades entered the underground bunkers in an orderly manner, and these bunkers were built very deep, but there were no ground pillbox groups to counterattack, so it was difficult for many Japanese troops to accept such a so-called defense of passive drilling. A part of the Japanese troops, still stubbornly resisting on the outer surface positions, did not know what to expect, only that their superiors had asked them to constantly report by telephone the distance and the size of the enemy's approach, and these observation posts were just below the tower.

The British artillery fire was not covered in time, because the superior asked to protect the facilities near the tower, and the commander felt that there might be some major secrets hidden inside, and perhaps the Japanese communication code could be found.

Under the cover of an underrepresented tank company (a platoon owed to make a documentary), nearly 20,000 British troops advanced to the position, the tower, and the Japanese resistance was minimal.

In the nineteen-meter-deep main control room, the countdown has begun. Through the reports of the last few observation posts on the surface positions, the staff officers on the map, with small flags, roughly outlined the location of the enemy's attacking group, and the size of the group. The enemy, which had about four companies, entered within a hundred meters of the core area, and behind them were about three or four battalions of tanks, and further away they could not be seen. Of course, if you wait a little longer, the enemy will get closer, but the data from the vibration sensors on the tower indicate that the enemy's shelling is getting closer. Perhaps the enemy's tankmen will shoot the iron ball on the roof of the tower because of boredom, and this risk is always there.

There was a voice from the ground: I can't resist, I am ready to break the jade, and I will die to serve the country. Commander Shigedo (Sakagaki had already evacuated before the encirclement was closed) pressed the red button, and at the same time, Mountbatten was pretending to be looking out into the battle zone with a telescope.