The scene was stalemate for a while, and there was no Brooke present to introduce him, others didn't know who this unknown person was, Sun Liren naturally recognized him, but he just looked at him coldly, Chu Tingchang stole his limelight every time, and this time he directly put forward different opinions.

"Major, we need you to suggest some tactical aspects of integrating communication technology into the entire battalion and company, not something as big as this." Stilwell said politely. gave a dismount that is neither big nor small, after all, he is a stereotypical soldier, and it is difficult to reverse the concept of rank and class.

Chief Chu was inevitably a little discouraged, he thought that he was invited to discuss military affairs, but he didn't expect that he just wanted to teach himself some cautions about the use of radio stations and the organization of troops.

"General, let him talk about it," Lieutenant General Slim was very interested in hearing the opinion of Chief Chu. Of course, he had to consult Stilwell first.

In fact, the last time in Jingdong, when Chu Tingchang, with the rank of lieutenant, squeezed next to Song Meiling to take pictures, Slim was very interested in this young man, and felt that his courage was different from ordinary people. In his opinion, the army is the army, not the gang.

"Well, let's hear what he has to say." Stilwell nodded.

"Major, you must know that there is no fleet to protect us, the fortress artillery here is all from the beginning of this century, if the enemy's main fleet appears at sea level, those old batteries can be smashed to pieces in an instant." Slim smiled.

Chief Chu stood up and straightened his military uniform.

"If the Japanese land, we'll let them land."

Chu Tingchang's words, the audience immediately fell silent, and his opening remarks really shocked everyone present.

"Well, go on." Slim encouraged.

"From here to Chittagong, there is a complete network of coastal roads, as well as a deep railway. We organized a highly mobile force, assembled in depth, and did not enter the area that could be covered by the artillery fire of enemy battleships and heavy cruisers. In this way, the power of their main fleet will not be exerted. ”

"Surrender the port to the Japanese?"

"That's right. Let them go ashore, the more the better. Let them bring ashore all the forces they can muster, all the supplies and heavy equipment. Continue to lure them into attacking in depth. We concentrated our superior forces, fought a big battle in a region that was favorable to us, and annihilated its main forces, so that the turning point of the world anti-fascist war appeared here. ”

"What kind of solution is this?"

Stilwell was stunned.

"I have long considered the possibility of a Japanese landing in India, which is the purpose of my troops, fighting to prevent Japanese troops from entering Imphal by land." Chu Tingchang began to talk about his strategic foresight without shame, "If the enemy carries out an attack on land and sea, it will indeed make us suffer from the enemy, but simply from all the way, we are completely sure to annihilate them." ”

Slim walked over to the map with his hands behind his back. Recalling the idea of the Dieppe landing that Lord Mountbatten mentioned to him last month, Mountbatten said at that time that a hasty landing could not be won, and that even with strong naval fire support, the offensive would stop at the range of artillery fire, about 15 to 20 kilometers behind the beachhead, and that this battle was purely a political need to cheer up Stalin, so he was prepared to let the Canadians send the heads.

The Japanese faced the same problem here, a strong navy and an army with insufficient mobility. Fighting west from the Thanh Dun River would have to stop for two weeks at most, unless they built a railway from Rensittwe to northern Burma. If they want to take shortcuts, they can indeed minimize the passage through the mountains through landing warfare, and they can quickly stock up on the coast, but then their next offensive route will become monotonous and easy to guess. He thought, maybe what this poster said was right, when the Japanese came up, the foothold was not stable, and they fought all at once, it would be a huge number of enemies to be annihilated. But there are just over 70,000 Chinese troops and less than 10,000 Commonwealth troops, and behind them are hundreds of millions of unreliable Indians.

"We don't seem to have a choice? Is it? Slim said.

"Yes, General. We did not have time to build a strong defense along the coast. Besides, when the fortress guns were long gone, did they ever play a role in Singapore? We don't have time to build up our lines slowly, we can only make short and powerful counterattacks, and we will take out the enemy wherever they attack. Take advantage of the road network that benefits us and take advantage of mobility. And the enemy does not have such an advantage. ”

"What about the problem of Indian riots? At that time they will sabotage roads and railways in the rear, destroy warehouses and all facilities. ”

"I don't think the followers of Gandhi will be able to launch a real big uprising, and there will only be a few small terrorist attacks. They are just a bunch of India's native elite, unscrupulous lawyers, cynical university students, landlords who are dissatisfied with your taxes, and so on," Chu Tingchang said contemptuously, "and the real terrible mobilization of the lower classes of the people is what they are unwilling, so Gandhi's death may not be bad for us, but on the contrary, it will lead his followers down a narrower and more reckless path, towards endless infighting, you wait and see." ”

Chu Tingchang's words really moved Slim and Vivel, unlike the Americans' mood of considering the entire Pacific Ocean, they wanted to hold here, Chu Tingchang's words were like an anesthetic, making them feel that this possibility existed.

"Tell me about your mobile unit?" Slim said.

"We used the Hump Return Plane to bring in a steady stream of fundamentally trained student soldiers from China, set up a rear base in Assam, and use the Mumbai railroad here to bring American weapons ashore from Bombay to arm them. It's the quickest and most feasible way, you can't arm 100,000 Indians and they'll turn around and turn to the Japanese. ”

Slim nodded frequently. The British Empire was depleted of soldiers, and there was really no way out.

"In addition, we need a new troop formation, and the old command system is not flexible enough. We need a lot of composite units, which are close in function to infantry divisions, and should have direct artillery and armored corps, consisting of a number of mechanized and motorized battalions, reducing unnecessary layers of command in between. ”

Commander Chu Tingchang took the opportunity to sell his flat command style, he wanted a division-sized unit, but he didn't want regiments and brigades, and he didn't want redundant institutions.

Stilwell sat on the side, took out his notebook and quickly calculated how many cars and radio stations were needed for such a force, although he hated Chu Tingchang, but he was also one of the first few people here to understand Chu Tingchang's intentions. He had long discovered the problem of rigid command of troops, and the old-fashioned system of layered command was designed for the era of backward communications, when orders were conveyed by laying telephone lines and communicators on horseback, but now that radio is popular, it really should be more flexible. The Japanese army also faced a similar poor command of Shen Ke, but the Japanese troops had a strong ability to stand alone, so when they lost their command, they often defeated the Allies with chaos.

Sun Liren next to him also listened attentively, he thought to himself: Chu Tingchang has some small talents, according to his army, it is indeed possible to release greater combat effectiveness, but the biggest problem now is that the so-called American weapons ashore in Bombay are still a long-term thing, at present, there are only 2 divisions of American military equipment here, 80,000 close to the bare-handed Allied troops, so, who are these weapons distributed to?

Governor Vivier had a gloomy face, since the beginning of the Burma campaign, he had been avoiding too many Chinese troops from entering British territory, and now it was better to arm the Chinese army in India, but he had no choice. The British Empire was in turmoil, and the wall-mounted Turkey seemed to be betting away, and they had already deployed 6 divisions on the Syrian border under the command of German advisers, the most elite of which was the Kemal Division, and even an armored division, and the Turkish Air Force was equipped with Mozu aircraft, which were better equipped than the British troops there equipped with Hurricanes. The army was forced to deploy troops from North Africa to Iraq, and not a single soldier would be here anytime soon.

An officer hurried into the large conference room and whispered a few words in Vivel's ear. The governor's expression changed dramatically, and it was clear that there was some bad news coming.

"Guys, I just got bad news." He looked at everyone in amazement, "The aircraft carrier Athletic God has just been sunk by the main fleet of the Japanese army. At the same time, six other cruisers and destroyers were lost. ”

Everyone looked at each other, and the main Japanese fleet finally appeared here, which meant that the landing battle would happen soon, so the most important question was to find out how many troops the Allies still had to fight.

Yamamoto Isoroku stood on the bridge of the Yamato, and the giant ship was passing through the Strait of Malacca. Passing through here is bound to be discovered by the adversary spy, but this is exactly the deterrent effect he wants; Yesterday, Tojo, who was speaking at the East Asia Conference, suddenly heard the bad news, and even choked up on the spot, and then knocked on the table and swore that he would make the colonizers pay. This morning, Japan, the Republic of China (puppet), Thailand, and Myanmar issued a joint statement of condolences to the Mahatma for his crusade against the colonizers. The indignant Wang Ching-wei government proposed the idea of sending troops to help Japan attack Britain.

Now the Combined Fleet was ordered to march towards the Bay of Bengal, and the group of ships behind it, loaded with the empire's most elite 2nd Division, was destined for Burma, which was the base camp's greatest support for the newly appointed Kimura Hyotaro. The base camp drew up a compact plan, taking advantage of the opportunity of the Indian people's uprising at any time, to immediately carry out a landing in the Bay of Mengjiala, and at the same time the army swept the whole of New Guinea, where the combined fleet would make a false shot, immediately return to the Pacific Ocean to kill a rifle, and seek an opportunity to annihilate the relaxed American fleet. When the Army settles India here, it will immediately transfer its precious fleet eastward to make peace with the victorious Combined Fleet, and then proceed with a landing battle against Australia.

Yamamoto thought that in this way, he would be able to bring the absolute superiority of the navy to 1943, when Makino's weapons should be almost complete, and it would be exciting to think about the rockets that could automatically search for enemy warships, even if the shipyards on the east and west sides of the United States launched new ships every day, they would not be able to stand up to such powerful weapons. By 44 years, Makino's promise that one could destroy a city* should be about the same, so that it was ahead of the Manhattan Project, and as long as one was thrown in Hawaii, it might be able to force the United States to withdraw from the war. No, the Americans must not be allowed to withdraw, they must hit the West Coast.