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- "Buzz buzz buzz buzz"
Listening to the buzzing of planes overhead, a group of Japanese soldiers quickly ran into the fighting position.
“Fire!!!”
A Japanese officer roared loudly, and soon the anti-aircraft firepower on the ground opened fire, and for a while the entire sky was covered by barrages.
After the Indian campaign ended, the huge forces originally located in India could be gradually deployed to other battlefields. So after leaving some of the forces behind, the remaining forces began to return to the country or be transported directly to the Nanyang Islands by ship.
After dividing India into seven parts, China has occupied four of them and the United Kingdom has three. Therefore, China has a relatively clear say in the Indian region. However, in order to guard against possible small moves by the British, although the war in India has ended, the National Socialist Government still retains a certain level of troops in India.
Basically, each of these four countries has a military force to prevent possible surprise attacks by the British. Of course, the more important thing is to prevent the British from inciting local forces to resist the rule of the National Socialist Government. .
Although after India was divided into seven countries, most Indians held an indifferent attitude. After all, for most Indians, there is no so-called national concept. But not every Indian is like this. There are also many Indians, such as Gandhi, who have a unified concept of India. There are not many such people in India, and many of them are very influential. kind.
"If this kind of people really collude with the British, it will be a troublesome thing for the National Socialist Government.
Apart from anything else, the non-violence and non-resistance advocated by Gandhi was a very troublesome thing for the National Socialist Government, which encountered this kind of thing for the first time.
Fortunately, the National Socialist Government only wants to divide India and has not thought about colonizing them like the British, so this trouble will not last long.
And wait until a few years later
By the time the new rulers get used to this kind of life, India will never be able to be unified again.
The reason is very simple. If nothing else is mentioned, India has many nationalities and races in later generations, and it is known as the "Ethnographic Museum". Among them, the Hindustani people account for about half of India's total population and are the largest ethnic group in India. Each ethnic group in India has its own language, and there are 22 official languages ??recognized by the constitution alone. Among them, Hindi is designated as the national language, and English is not widely used in India, especially in South India, where its status is even higher than that of Hindi. India is also a multi-religious country. The four major religions in the world - Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism and Sikhism all originated from India. Most Indians believe in Hinduism, and Islam also has a large number of followers in India
Although the Hindustani people have a large population in India, they cannot make up the majority like the Han people in China. Let’s not talk about whether this is a good thing or not. At least it can ensure the unity of a country.
In addition, each ethnic group has its own language, and there are 22 officially recognized languages
in other words? How many types are there that are unofficially recognized?
“In a country with twenty-two languages, it would be strange if there were no barriers between them.
What’s more, there are religious issues. Religious conflicts in India are also relatively famous in later generations. Before Yan Guang traveled to this world, I remember that there was a religious conflict in India, which caused a large number of people to flee
In addition, even in later generations, there are still separatist forces such as the Maoist armed forces
Such a country. It would be unreasonable not to split him up
Not to mention the Soviet Union in later generations. When the Soviet Union disintegrated, didn't many people in the Soviet Union also agree with the country's closeness to the Soviet Union? But in the end, the Soviet Union was still divided into multiple countries
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After India began to split into seven countries, Britain's national power and influence suffered a serious decline. After all, India is known as 'the brightest jewel in the British crown'. The loss of this jewel would be a huge blow to Britain.
But these are not important to Yan Guang
The most important thing now is the offensive against Australia.
After the Battle of India, except for a part of the troops, they stayed in India to guard against local opposition forces and the British. Those who left were either transferred back to China for rest and recuperation, or they sailed directly to the Nanyang Islands to prepare for a new battle against Australia.
At this time, the situation of the Japanese in Hawaii has become increasingly difficult, and Yan Guang and the others cannot help but not be anxious.
After all, it will be more troublesome to wait for the Americans to show mercy.
"No matter what, it must be done before AmericansTake Australia and New Zealand before pacifying the Japanese"
Yan Guang’s face was filled with serious expression as he slapped the table.
For Yan Guang, both Australia and New Zealand are determined to win, but New Zealand can be forgotten when necessary. After all, New Zealand really cannot compare with Australia.
You know, that is the only continent in the world.
As long as you can occupy Australia, you can own an entire continent by yourself.
At this time, only the United Kingdom, which had colonies all over the world, had this honor, but in later generations, there was only one country, Australia.
As for New Zealand?
In later generations, New Zealand is known for its pleasant climate, fresh environment, beautiful scenery, tourist attractions, rich forest resources, and varied landscapes. Its living standard ranks third in the United Nations Human Development Index.
Polynesian immigrants arrived between about 500 and 1300 AD and became New Zealand’s indigenous Maori people.
The first known Europeans to arrive here were the fleet led by Dutchman Abel Tasman, who arrived on the order of the Dutch East India Company and arrived on the west coast of the "North and South Island" in 1642. At that time, they did not know that the two islands were separate, so they named them Staatenandt as a whole. The name was later changed to nieueeland after their base in present-day Batavia, Indonesia. The base was originally named after the Dutch mainland province of Zealand.
In 1769, Captain Cook began to study New Zealand carefully, visited the South Pacific and New Zealand three times, and drew a map of New Zealand. Its original map treated Stewart Island as a peninsula and Banks Peninsula as an island. Cook's map led to the expansion of European whalers' activities in the waters, and New Zealand eventually became a European colony.
After the Treaty of Waitangi was signed in 1840, New Zealand became a British colony. However, the treaty has two versions, English and Maori. The British royal representative signed the English version, and the Maori signed the Maori version. The Maori version promises to give Maori people "tinorangatiratanga". The word means "autonomy" in Maori, but the English version translates it as "chief position." The two sides have different meanings and interpretations of the word. The word and other issues are still between the New Zealand government and the New Zealand government. A grudge among the Maori people. For example, the issue of ownership of "Ownership of Seabed and Foreshore".
By 1905, the Northern War between white people and Maori occurred in the North Island of Zealand. In 1907, New Zealand decided to become an autonomous territory of the United Kingdom instead of joining the Australian Federation. In later generations, in 1947, New Zealand exploded.
In addition, New Zealand is the world's largest velvet antler producer and exporter in later generations. Production accounts for 30% of the world. The main mineral reserves include coal, gold, iron, natural gas, silver, manganese, tungsten, phosphate, petroleum, etc., but the reserves are not large. Oil reserves are 30 million tons, natural gas reserves are 170 billion cubic metersIt is rich in forest resources, covering an area of ??8.1 million hectares. . Reaching 30% of the country’s land.
Such a country may be good as a tourist country, but if it is an industrial country, it is really not that good, because there are too few resources suitable for industrial countries
For Yan Guang, New Zealand is just a little bit better than useless.
"The war situation in Hawaii is still very tight at the moment, and the Japanese have also sent a lot of additional troops to Hawaii. I believe the Japanese can stay in Hawaii for a while longer. But"
When you say that. Chen Shaokuan glanced at the entire audience.
"Although the Japanese can still hold on in Hawaii for a while, how long they can hold out is unknown. And more importantly, our target Australia this time is really too big. Even if we can successfully attack Australia, we don't think so. It is also very difficult to occupy this continent in a short period of time.”
Hearing what Chen Shaokuan said, everyone present nodded.
indeed so. You must know that Australia is about the same size as India, and in India at least railways are spread all over the country. The transportation is very convenient, but what about Australia?
The center of Australia is mostly wasteland. In other places, transportation is not very developed due to sparse population.
If we really want to send troops to Australia, maybe landing and other issues can be easily solved. The key is how to fully take over the entire Australia before the Americans intervene
"Approximately how many troops can be mobilized at present?"
"After the Indian battlefield is over, counting the troops on the Nanyang Islands, there are almost more than three million, right?"
Although the situation in India has been solved, there are still many areas where the National Socialist Government uses troops.
For example, in North Korea, nearly one million troops have been accumulated. There is also the long Sino-Russian border. In addition, more than one million troops have been assembled on the battlefield in Germany. In addition, a considerable number of troops need to be left behind in the country., and although nearly ten million troops have been mobilized, many of them are new recruits who have not yet been trained and need to be trained for a period of time before they can go to the battlefield.
In addition, there are garrisons in Indochina, the Philippines and other areas. There are still Japanese guerrillas there that have not yet been wiped out, so garrisons are absolutely indispensable.
So the only ones that can really be used now are the troops in Nanyang and those that have just come off the battlefield in India.
"More than three million"
With this in mind, Cai E spoke.
"If it really doesn't work, just attack on multiple fronts"
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It is said to be a multi-line attack, but in fact it can only be regarded as a three-line attack.
Because Australia’s geography is very unique, the most densely populated areas in Australia are Brisbane, Melbourne, and Sydney in the southeastern region. There are basically no people in other areas, and even if they are occupied, it will be of little use.
So the final targets selected by the Ministry of Defense were Darwin, Townsville in northern Australia and Brisbane in the east
The more troublesome thing is Brisbane. The nearest airport there is almost 2,000 kilometers away. If you want to bomb there, you can only use 40 bombers.
In addition, in order to avoid being noticed by the Japanese as the main target of the National Defense Forces, it is necessary to bomb a few more targets to confuse the Japanese.
Fortunately, except for Brisbane, the remaining cities are basically not very far from the Nanyang Islands that the National Defense Force has occupied. Therefore, except for Brisbane, ordinary bombers are enough for the remaining places.
It’s unfair to talk about Brisbane. After all, Brisbane is the third largest city in Australia. The country's largest seaport, the capital of Queensland, and a major industrial and commercial center.
The northern edge of the Sunshine Coast. It is adjacent to the international tourist resort Gold Coast City in the south. The metropolitan area has a population of more than 2.15 million, making it the third most populous metropolitan area in Australia, second only to Sydney and Melbourne.
The name Brisbane comes from the name of the Governor-General of the New South Wales Colony during the colonial era. A river was discovered here and named Brisbane River. To commemorate Thomas McDougall Brisbane, the then governor who promoted the colonization of this area, the city was named.
Brisbane is the nearest transportation hub to the Asia-Pacific region. It is the richest region in Australia in natural and agricultural resources in Queensland, rich in coal, natural gas, bauxite, copper, silver, lead, zinc, nickel, ore sand, and timber. etc., as well as foods such as sugar, beef, seafood, logs, wheat and fruits are also abundant.
However, due to the relationship between Sydney and Melbourne. Brisbane has always only existed as the third largest city, with a very small presence
But even so, Brisbane is the third largest city in Australia after all, especially in today's sparsely populated Australia, which is of great significance.
The most important thing is that Brisbane is a transit point for non-cooperative travel south to Sydney and Melbourne, so Brisbane has become the most important of the three goals and the one that must be won
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After the plan is finalized. A large number of bombers began to carry out intensive bombing along the coast of Australia. Basically every city on the coastline, and even every village and town, was bombed————As for whether there was any accidental damage? During the war, this can't be controlled so much.
But on the other hand, the National Defense Forces no longer use chemical weapons such as VX poison gas.
“After all, there are still a large number of Australians in Australia. It doesn’t matter if ten or twenty thousand are accidentally injured, but if there are more, after all, international public opinion also needs to be considered.
the most important is. The Japanese army has begun to equip its troops with full-body protective clothing. In other words, VX gas is no longer so powerful.
in this case. Continuing to use vx poison gas is just a waste. It would be better to directly use incendiary bombs or ordinary aerial bombs.
"But the Chinese are really rich"
Looking after the bombing. As the Chinese bombers gradually left, Tony shook his head and smiled bitterly.
"Yes, they bomb almost every day. I don't know where they got so many bombs"
Hearing Tony’s words, an officer on the side also nodded.
"I heard that not only our area, but other areas have also been bombed."
"There are probably seven or eight other regions. I have also heard similar news"
Maybe it opened the conversationSon of a bitch, the other people also discussed it word by word.
"Have you found the main direction of the Chinese attack now?"
"Not yet, but I believe it will be in several areas currently being bombed"
"Weren't you just talking about seven or eight areas? How can we defend such a large area? We don't have that many troops!!!"
Indeed, Japan mobilized almost ** million troops during the entire World War II. You must know that Japan's total population at that time was only more than 73 million. This kind of mobilization intensity even exceeded 1% of Japan's total population. ten. But in fact, Japan simply does not have that much equipment to equip such a large population, so a considerable part of them do not have any weapons - if bamboo swords and bamboo guns can also be considered weapons.
On the other hand, due to the loss of a large number of troops in India, Taiwan and Nanyang battlefields, and the need to deploy a certain amount of troops on the Hawaiian battlefield, Japan's troops are currently quite scarce, especially those with combat effectiveness. It is very lacking.
This is why Cai E proposed a multi-channel attack. If the opponent was Japan in the past, Cai E would never have proposed this. After all, the combat effectiveness of the Japanese is obvious to all, but since it is the current Japanese army, then There's nothing wrong with multi-channel attacks
On the other hand, the officers were also discussing with each other. However, during the discussion, the topic became more and more pessimistic, and many officers even felt that this war might not be won——this would never have been allowed in the past. But in the current situation, although the superiors strictly prohibit officers and soldiers from discussing this matter, the officers below do not care, and no one will report them anyway
"Is c going to fail"
Listening to the discussions among his colleagues, Tony suddenly felt very sad
You must know that just two years ago, they were still discussing whether they could invade the United States and achieve common prosperity in Greater East Asia and gain the same status as China. But now
They were driven to a dead end by China, which they once considered their best ally
"Perhaps, I really can't go back this time"
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An atmosphere has begun to permeate within the Japanese army, but the combat effectiveness of the Japanese army has not been lost as a result. On the contrary, the Japanese are like beasts that have been cornered and are still fighting
For these beasts, perhaps they will become even crazier in desperate situations.
Some troops have even begun to prepare weapons for self-destruction for lower-level soldiers. I just want to wait until the Wehrmacht lands. Being able to take a few more people with me to hell
After seeing some things in Nanyang, they actually had a desire to fight to the death.
It is under this circumstance that the National Defense Forces are almost ready to launch an offensive against Australia.
With more than three million troops, it is not easy to prepare the necessary supplies for more than three million troops, especially this time it is a cross-corridor battle to attack a huge continent.
The National Defense Forces are also racking their brains for this. Not only were a large number of transport aircraft dispatched, but almost all the navy's transport ships were dispatched. Even some private transport ships were recruited.
Especially transport ships, their contribution may be the greatest.
And in the middle. The biggest contributor is the roll-on/roll-off ship
Ro-ro ships, also known as "roll-on, roll-off" ships, or "roll-on, roll-off" ships, are special ships that use cargo vehicles to carry cargo. A tractor is used to tow a semi-trailer carrying box cargo or other pieces of cargo. Or transport ships with wheeled pallets directly entering and exiting the cargo hold for loading and unloading.
Ro-ro ships are developed and evolved on the basis of car ferries. After World War II, Britain used decommissioned landing craft to open a regular route to Hamburg, Germany, and vehicles carrying cargo could directly land on the land. Although the use of landing craft for transportation is poor in economy and has no promotion value, this is an epoch-making event in the history of transportation, because it created a new form of post-transportation-ro-ro transportation.
Since the birth of container ships in the United States and the United Kingdom in the late 1950s, people have found that loading and unloading containers is inconvenient during the use of container ships, requiring the use of many lifting devices and lifting equipment. It is envisaged that the container loading and unloading method will be changed to using cargo vehicles to directly get on and off the container ship, and the cargo loading and unloading method will be changed from a crane to a horizontal operation.
In the late 1960s, based on container ships, a new type of ship 'ro-ro ship' appeared in some countries, which can save a lot of costs.Multiple loading, unloading and lifting equipment, simplified loading and unloading procedures, can also enable container ships to dock at general terminals, without the need for large-scale transformation of port terminals. In this way, container ro-ro ships appeared, and ro-ro ships among modern cargo ships are Refers to this type of container roll-on/roll-off ship.
The world’s first ro-ro ship, the Comet, was built by the United States in 1958. It was not until 1966 that Denmark built the first ro-ro ship in Northern Europe, the Somerset. Due to the small tidal range on the coast of the Nordic region and the dense road transportation network, the use of ro-ro ships can form an integrated transportation system of combined transportation and road transportation. Therefore, ro-ro ships have developed rapidly in Northern Europe. Since the first ro-ro ship was built in the United States in 1958 After the ship, it is widely developed and used in Northern Europe, and is also used by developed countries in the world's shipping industry.
In later generations, the world's first ro-ro ship was built by Americans, but in this era the first ro-ro ship was built by a shipyard under Yan Guang's name.
When Yan Guang inspected the shipyard at that time, he found that today's transport ships were extremely troublesome to use. At the same time, Yan Guang always felt that something was missing in the transport ships. Until he saw a landing ship in the shipyard, he Only then did I suddenly realize and understand.
In fact, the ro-ro ship was built together with the Fengxue-class amphibious landing ship. However, because the construction technology of the ro-ro ship is relatively simple, the ro-ro ship appeared earlier than the Fengxue class.
On the other hand, because the efficiency of ro-ro ships is extremely high, at least several times higher than those of today's transport ships, ro-ro ships played a large role in military operations this time.
However, since ro-ro ships only appeared recently, so far they are only available in China, and the number is not particularly large, only about one-third of the existing transport ships.
In fact, ro-ro ships do have extremely strong military uses. The first 5,000-space car ro-ro ship 'Shengshi', which was designed and built by China in later generations, can even be unloaded in a few hours. An armored brigade.
“Such a powerful carrying capacity and military use have led the military to get involved.
You must know that even in this era, the Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth, which are said to be able to carry tens of thousands of people, can only transport people. Something like a tank or an armored vehicle is something you can't even think about
It is with the help of these new types of equipment that the National Defense Forces can transport so many materials to the war zone in such a short period of time. Moreover, the ro-ro ship can not only load supplies, but after capturing the port, the ro-ro ship can even directly unload a troop in combat status
And after all the supplies were ready, the war began
On the day when the war broke out, everything was as usual. A large number of bombers still began to bomb the target locations, and the Japanese were accustomed to this.
After all, even if it is a one-ton heavy-duty aerial bomb, as long as it is hidden in a solid fortification and is not hit directly, it will basically be fine.
However, it didn’t take long for the Japanese to discover that today’s bombing seemed much stronger.
At the same time, the Japanese headquarters in Sydney also received a response, that is, several places that were originally bombed were not bombed today
"It seems that the Chinese's main attack positions are these three places"
With that said, an officer marked Darwin, Townsville and Brisbane on the map
"It's as expected"
Looking at the three places on the map, an officer nodded.
These are indeed expected, because there are only a few places in northern Australia suitable for landing, and the most suitable ones are Darwin and Townsville.
It’s just that the original large-scale bombing did serve a certain purpose of interference, which made the Japanese dare not make rash judgments. After all, if there was a deviation, it would cause unpredictable consequences. But even so, the Japanese still deployed relatively large numbers of troops in these three positions.
"Can those three places be defended?"
"Who knows"
With that said, an officer smiled bitterly.
“Let’s see how the Chinese offensive goes…”
Although Japan's industrial strength has been greatly improved after winning Australia, it is still not enough to equip Japan's remaining seven to eight million troops. At this moment, there are only more than two million troops in Australia. If they want to control the huge Australia with more than two million troops, these people really have no confidence
After all, even when their troops were at their strongest, they could not defend the Philippines and the Nanyang Islands
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