"I'll stay?" A trace of confusion flashed on Chu Tingchang's face.

"This is the opinion of the central government, and the chief asked me to decide whether to mention it to you, but I think it is better to mention it. If Chu Junzuo leaves, with the current three divisions of the 5th Army, I am afraid that it will ...... Master Tao and I couldn't hold it down. Here's how I see it. In the newly built troops, the military commanders have mixed a lot of sand, and it has been discovered that many so-called young students from the mainland have tattoos, such as serving the country with loyalty, defending the leader, and so on. In short, unlike students, I usually send these unreliable recruits to Sun Liren and Liao Yaoxiang, but they must still be mixed in a lot, and they will be potential troubles in the future. ”

"Are you afraid that the troops will turn back? Or will Zhou Youfu rebel? ”

"Yes, I have done an extensive survey, not mentioning the recruits, and the situation with the veterans of the 5th Army is not very good. In addition to the relatively simple personnel of the 201st Division, the personnel composition of the 200th and 202nd Divisions is complex, especially the 202nd Division is simply a miasma. The 202nd Division was basically a straggler called up when it was withdrawn to India. Among them, the Dian Army, the Gui Army, the Guizhou Army, and the Central Army all have them, and there are also Taoist members. You probably also know that Zhou Youfu and his officers usually gamble and smuggle, calling them brothers, although this person is a worker, according to our investigation, he also participated in the pickets in Shanghai during the Great Revolution, but he is not our fellow traveler. ”

"Deputy commander, don't worry, Zhou Youfu I have my own way, now that I am fighting, I still need him, I think you can also see that Tao Mingzhang's military talent still needs to be tempered. As for...... Whether I stay or not, let me think about it first. ”

Chu Tingchang replied vaguely.

"Yes, please also have a serious intra-party discussion on this issue, and the Central Committee would like to know your opinion. You can put forward any idea, don't be inhibited. ”

He put on his hat, saluted Chu Tingchang, and left. In the conference room, there were only five people left in Lin Xiuxuan's group. Everyone fell silent, obviously the central government's consideration is long-term and thorough, since it wants to occupy the Indochina Peninsula, it is bound to establish an independent kingdom from Chongqing here, but the personnel of the 5th Army are complicated, it is also a fact, from this point of view, Zhou Youfu or a large part of its middle and high-ranking officers cannot be called like-minded comrades. There are both progressive young people in the 5th Army, as well as members of the Sanqing Society, and there are many hooligan gangs, these people from * came together in order to resist foreign humiliation, but the Japanese will fail sooner or later, and then they will face splits, this is a complex political issue, and it is not as simple as Chu Tingchang thought at the beginning, just promote Tao Mingzhang, and then take some money to fight Zhou Youfu and return to his hometown, you can solve it.

Zhou Youfu will definitely support Chu Tingchang to establish an independent kingdom here, but will he give up his military power in due time? Will give up his warlord dreams? It's hard to say at the moment.

"Vice-Captain, there's still one more problem." Lin Xiuxuan said, "Your newly recruited troops account for six or seven divisions, and Chongqing does not pay military salaries, how should it be maintained?" ”

"There is no hurry at this point, I have some gold hidden in the mountains of the East Indies, which can be maintained for the time being...... In addition, I had to meet with the Chinese Chamber of Commerce in northern Myanmar, and I helped them go back to their hometown, and they had to give me the taxes. ”

"You want to get Britain and Chongqing to unite against you."

"Chongqing is on the other side of the mountain, Britain is on the other side of the sea, here is the mountain is high and the emperor is far away, let them hate me. Captain Lin, there are not many enemies in front of us anymore, and we can quickly attack to Da Lat, Vietnam, and wipe out the headquarters of the Southern Army. ”

"In my opinion, the priority is not Vietnam. Rather, it is tens of thousands of people in Sakagaki, which may pose a threat. ”

"Sakagaki? Even if Sun Liren can't eat him, he can't threaten our plans. ”

"No, look here." He led the co-captain to the front of the map, pointing to the land bridge area (a narrow area near the Kra Isthmus) connecting the Malay Peninsula in Thailand, "If the British naval blockade is unfavorable and the Japanese navy burrows into the Bay of Bengal, they are likely to establish a temporary route between the Malay Peninsula and Rangoon to retreat the Japanese troops in Rangoon to the coast of Tanintharyi, so that not only can the siege of Sakagaki be lifted, but he may also attack your flank north." ”

"It's very difficult to do this, I read the intelligence of the British army, as soon as the Mikawa army passed through Malacca, the fleet was full of light cruisers and destroyers, and it was impossible to confront the British army in this area. The British already have three aircraft carriers here. ”

"But the air bases in the Andaman Islands and southern Thailand are all in the hands of the Japanese, and the British army does not have more aviation except for carrier-based aircraft, and I am very worried that Makino's new weapons are likely to be put into use at such a critical moment."

"If you don't mention it, I forgot, to what extent has Makino's current weapon developed?"

"It's still a mystery, but it's unlikely to stay at the level of the last time in the Solomon Sea. According to Shuping's speculation, with the support of the Kasugamaru drawings and the national mobilization, Japan may rush to produce transistors, so that they can design more complex logic circuits to support their*. Also"

"This is the worst-case scenario?"

"Yes, in the medium case that Shu Ping expected, the enemy still uses a very low and inefficient electron tube to achieve seeker control, which may create a simple active-guided anti-ship*. Maybe still on the platform of the V1, maybe an airborne variant will also be developed. In this way, you will gain, a great advantage. ”

"How can such a simple design resist the interference of clutter on the sea surface?"

"Maybe there are certain requirements for sea conditions, but this is not certain."

"So what is the most optimistic scenario that Shu Ping expects?"

He believes that the best-case scenario is that every project of Makino gets stuck on a bottleneck and ends up with nothing, mainly depending on what they get from the Kasuga Maru and the speed of transformation of Japan's electronics industry capabilities in this era.

"I think let's take out the worst and the best and prepare for the middle of what he predicted."

"In that case, the British fleet may be seriously threatened, and enemy transports will be able to land in your south without having to pass through Malacca."

"If this is the case, we can preemptively deploy a defensive line in the narrowest part of the peninsula, and with very few troops, we will be able to resist the enemy's attack so that it will not interfere with our main direction."

"Although this plan is conservative, it is feasible, and if it is blocked, the Japanese army in the Malay Peninsula and the entire South Seas will be isolated from the Indochina Peninsula." Lin Xiuxuan said.

"I hope that the British Navy will be more courageous and not let the remnants of Sakagaki escape."

At the naval base in the Andaman Koniba Islands, the 753rd Air Force (formerly the Kaohsiung Air Force) had arrived from Kaohsiung, and they were the first force sent by Yamamoto to save the army, using a type of land attack aircraft, which was a very fast horizontal bomber, of which there were six Type 24D, which had been improved to carry the new "Yanlong" air-launched anti-ship*, but * was not delivered at the same time, because there was still a lack of necessary experiments, and Makino blocked Onishi's request to put it into service immediately.

The 903rd Air Force (formerly the Tateyama Air Force) is on its way, and the unit is equipped with relatively new Nakajima Tenshan* aircraft.

The unit served as a land training base for Japanese carrier-based pilots, and had quite a few experienced instructors, which was why Yamamoto sent them. The Tien Shan bomber does not need any modifications to throw a new type of acoustic guidance*. Ten pieces* are currently being transported by seaplane. In addition, out of distrust of the Army Air Force, another Tainan Air Force, which is equipped with Zero fighters, has also drawn fighter jets and will arrive in the Andaman Islands in a day or two.

Yamamoto knew that there were not many cards in his hand, so he didn't want to send the main fleet to deal with the British Eastern Fleet, which was an opponent who was not high or low, and he felt that Makino had been working hard for a while, and the domestic industrial layout was also revolving around him, and it was time to come up with some results to cheer everyone up. Therefore, based on the report of Onishi Makino, he formulated this plan, and only sent a detachment fleet to lure the British Eastern Fleet into dispatch, and then use land attack aircraft to destroy the British fleet.

After the threat was lifted, the army's transport ships passed through Malacca, building a short transport line between Yangon and the Malay Peninsula to transport the remnants of Burmese troops to the peninsula.

This plan was supported by the base camp, which was anxious to see the results of Makino on the one hand, and on the other hand, it seemed to be the only feasible plan (although there was a lot of Yamamoto-style gambling).

The General Staff Headquarters presided over by Shunroku Hahata was working on a plan to counter Chu Tingchang, planning to transfer one or two elite divisions from southern China, board ships from Guangzhou, transport them to the Malay Peninsula, join up with the remnants of Sakahara, form a new front army, and attack Chu Tingchang's flank to the north, while the fleet of the Mikawa Junichi retreated through Malacca and entered the Gulf of Siam, waiting for an opportunity to help the army land on the coast, so as to disintegrate the possibility of the Chinese army entering Vietnam and seek a decisive battle in the vicinity of Bangkok.

In addition, the General Staff Headquarters is reviewing the next phase of the deployment plan against Australia, and has decided to use the Marines to stop the pursuit of MacArthur's remnants after successively occupying the major port cities along the coast, and the final end of the attack is drawn in Melbourne to isolate the Allied forces on Tasmania from Australia's support.

The General Staff judged that this was the best stop-loss plan, and that the enemy would retreat into the inhospitable southern zone, sustained by the limited resources provided by the U.S. Navy, but that the loss of the main recruiting site could not pose a major threat.

Toshiroku Hata believes that at least 550,000 troops are needed to occupy all the coastlines of Australia, and if Chu Tingchang did not make trouble in the Indochina Peninsula, it may be possible to achieve it, but now it is impossible to continue to support the logistics of such a large force, and the Australian occupation army must be controlled at about 150,000, and the main force must be withdrawn to deal with the more tricky Chu Tingchang. The General Staff was in a hurry to transfer the 5th and 6th Divisions, which were the most capable of fighting, to the Indochina Peninsula to compete with the Fifth Army of Chu Tingchang.