Chapter 182: Australia

Ciric didn't pay much attention to the death of the Italians, after all, he was not Mussolini's father, and he couldn't control the party leader to swagger, and the next time he came to Germany to cry with snot and tears, see if he still had the anger he has now.

What kind of strength do you have, don't you really know?

Back then, when Germany was just beginning to develop, it had to rely on the power of Italy, and now, Italy is not in the eyes of Ciric at all, this is not that people are walking tea, but Mussolini is definitely not able to support the wall, there is no need to waste work on him.

Germany has very important things to do, and now the most important thing remains, make all kinds of preparations, fight the USSR! As 40 years come to an end, 41 years are approaching, and the days of fighting the Soviet Union are approaching day by day.

On the other side of the earth, a sea and air battle quietly began.

Island nation, Kure Navy Shipyard.

A tall battleship, camouflaged in a shed erected on the slipway, has taken all kinds of secrecy measures, and until now, this battleship of the island country is still secret.

The proudest battleship of the island nation, the battleship Yamato with a full load displacement of 70,000 tons!

The construction of this battleship was carried out a little faster than in history, and by now the outfitting work has been completed and it is ready to enter the stage of sea trials.

At this time, in a room on the Yamato that had just been painted, a meeting was being held among the senior officers of the Navy, and the presiding officer was the Pheasant Fifty-Six, who was full of ambition at this time.

This huge battleship will be the flagship of the island nation, and in the past, the Pheasant 56, which has always advocated the attack of carrier-based aircraft, does not approve of spending huge sums of money to build such a battleship.

But when it was built, he was quite satisfied, and when he sat here, he seemed to feel the strength of this battleship.

"This year, our mission has been accomplished, but we must see that we still have many shortcomings, the last time we were attacked by American bombers, it was our shame, we must completely eliminate this risk, control the Pacific."

Fifty-six looked at the people present and continued: "Our next target is Midway, as long as we control Midway, we can cut off the activities of the US mainland fleet in the Pacific Ocean!" Now, let me talk about the specific battle plan. ”

First, a fleet was dispatched to attack the Aleutian Islands, landing on Attu Island and Kiska Island in the archipelago, using this as bait to draw the attention of the American fleet to the north, and then sending Nagumo Tadaichi to command the main fleet to seize the opportunity to seize Midway Island.

After the success of the sneak attack on Hawaii, Fifty-Six gained great personal prestige, and now, the plan he worked out, which almost no one opposed, was quickly approved by all members.

"The United States has a strong industrial base and huge potential, but they still need a process to move to wartime, especially now, the Americans are still busy with the general election, so, while we are now, we must achieve more operational objectives, before attacking Midway, we still have a mission, which is to take Australia!"

Although the combined fleet of the island nation has been winning battles all along, and now it has expanded its strength to the east, once the United States reacts, it will definitely counterattack, and it is expected that the United States will start a large-scale counteroffensive in two years.

And once the United States counterattacks, then, it will find a stronghold, and after repeated calculations, it is most likely that the United States will use Australia as a base to carry out a counteroffensive, so now the island country must take Australia in advance, so that the Americans have no stronghold to use!

It's a pity that now the forces of the army of the island country are being pinned, and only the navy of the island country can free up their hands, they will have to fight both Midway and Australia, and even so, they will definitely be able to complete the task!

After a few hours of meetings, a group of naval officials adopted a battle plan against Australia, and the island navy once again took action!

In January of this year, the island nation occupied the Rabaul base in the Bismarck Islands in northeastern Australia, and then occupied Lae and Salamoa in New Guinea.

Thus, the island nation is halfway through its plan, and it is planned that they should immediately make landings at Tulagi and the port of Morbiz in eastern New Guinea.

Although Australia has a vast land, it is sparsely populated, and it only needs to control a few ports to control Australia.

In addition to preventing the United States from using Australia to attack the island nation, more importantly, Australia has a large amount of iron ore, which is the most lacking resource for the island country.

But when they were determined to attack, things changed.

The aircraft carrier formations of the Americans are coming!

Nimitz made up his mind.

Now, the strength of the US Navy is still quite weak, and a sneak attack on Pearl Harbor caused the US Navy's fleet in the Pacific Ocean to suffer a heavy blow, and both aircraft carriers were destroyed.

In the Atlantic, the threat of the Germans was also imminent, and Germany continued to launch new warships, which seemed to be about to compete with the Americans in the Atlantic.

In this case, when it was discovered that the islanders wanted to make a move against Australia, Nimitz still made up his mind to make this operation of the islanders fail!

The U.S. Navy wants to avenge the last attack on Pearl Harbor!

On the calm sea, the 17th Task Force of the US Navy is sailing on the sea, and in the center of the entire formation are the two aircraft carriers of the US Navy, the USS Saratoga and the USS Yorktown.

The Yorktown, an aircraft carrier with a displacement of more than 20,000 tons that only entered service in 38 years, was originally active in the Atlantic, and after receiving the order, it crossed the Panama Canal and joined the Saratoga to prepare for this new battle.

On the bridge of the aircraft carrier, Rear Admiral Frank Jack Fletcher, is looking at the chart in front of him.

A few days ago, when they had just arrived in this sea area, they received a report from the land that the island nation was preparing to land in Tulagi, and as a result, he immediately ordered the carrier-based aircraft to take off and fired the first shot.

It is a pity that his behavior was criticized by Nimitz, and the results were not very great, but the strength of the US Navy was exposed, and now, the island countries are transferring their aircraft carriers back from the Indian Ocean, and a new big war is about to break out.

The first thing is to find the enemy on the sea, where is the aircraft carrier formation of the islanders hiding?