Chapter 036: Peng Debei's Offensive and Defensive Battle
Roosevelt's idea was good, but the British did not think so, and the British plan was to withdraw to Australia if the mainland fell.
After independence, the United States embarked on the road of aggression, and finally had more than 9 million square kilometers of territory today, but before World War II, the United States did not stop the pace of aggression, because of blood relations, the United States has been encouraging Canada to merge into the United States, and every time it almost succeeded, but because of Britain's strong opposition, it finally gave up, otherwise today at least all North America is the United States,
The United States was not able to seize Canada, in fact, it was also the result of the opposition of European countries, after Britain and France divided the world, they felt the need to establish a new order to avoid their colonies being divided again, although the two countries still want to get more colonies, but they don't have much ability, the Americas have the United States, they can't intervene, Africa is carved up, the Asian polar bear Tsarist Russia competes with them, and there is a huge China, they have scruples,
After Napoleon, European countries are looking for a way to avoid internal cannibalism in Europe, Spain, Portugal, and the Netherlands have long been in decline, and there are almost no colonies, Spain's two largest colonies are the Philippines and Cuba and some surrounding islands, and the largest colony of the Netherlands is Indonesia......
Several once glorious but declining empires know that they can no longer catch up with Britain and France, the world has entered the industrial age, like Spain if it is okay to make great efforts, but the country is too chaotic and cannot be stabilized, and the Netherlands and Portugal are too small to have no resources, and they are completely unable to become an industrial power, they only hope to keep their existing colonies are very satisfied, when Britain and France are in their own needs and propose that they cannot use each other and are unable to compete for colonies, they naturally agreed, and Belgium, Italy or something is completely at the mercy of Britain and France,
The United States, an independent American country with a colony, dared to grab Spain's colonies, which naturally angered European countries, and they were worried that the United States would be over once it started, so it was naturally strongly opposed, but the only countries that could fight with the United States were France, Britain, Tsarist Russia, and Germany.
Tsarist Russia was naturally excluded, European countries have always considered themselves civilized, and Tsarist Russia is a barbaric country, and Tsarist Russia is unwilling, although Germany was already strong in the Spanish-American War, but the naval force was not enough to challenge the United States, of course, in fact, these countries, including Britain and France, did not have the intention of fighting with a powerful United States for the interests of other countries, and if they won, Spain will not give them anything, and they will offend the United States regardless of whether they win or lose,
Britain and France did not send troops, but only protested, but this does not mean that European countries will continue to tolerate the actions of the United States, so they have united to isolate and exclude Americans in international affairs.
And after the United States seized the springboard for attacking South America and Asia, in order to avoid a complete reversal, it could only give up annexing Canada and anger European countries, not to mention the United Kingdom, which is still the world's first.
But it is true that the United States did not annex Canada, but Canada cooperates with the United States on all issues, whether it is the civil or the government is very deeply influenced by the United States, and there are no resources, the British are naturally reluctant to go to Canada, and they can only be vassals, and even be annexed, so the British will not go to Canada until the last part.
Australia, on the other hand, has always regarded itself as a subject of the British Crown, far from the European and American continents, and no one but Britain has influenced him.
In addition, Australia is rich in resources, and the British believe that if they go to Australia after the fall of the mainland, they can make a comeback by splicing the rich natural resources and mineral resources there plus the British science and technology, so the British are naturally unwilling to give up Australia, otherwise the British will not even have the last hope, and they will not be able to achieve anything by relying on a Canada that has nothing.
In Australia, with a population of 7 million, more than 600,000 people now join the army or work in the military industry, which means that about 8-9 out of every 10 men aged 18 to 35 serve in the military or government sector, which shows the determination of Britain to defend Australia.
There were signs that Japan was going to attack Australia a few years ago, but at that time Japan was contained, but before Japan surrendered, the Australian side had been making preparations.
Australian Prime Minister Curtin, born in Chryswick, Victoria, on January 8, 1885, died in Canberra on July 5, 1945, joined the Australian Labor Party in his youth, was a member of the Australian Federal Parliament in 1928, was elected leader of the Australian Labor Party in 1935, and after the outbreak of the Great War, he joined the War Advisory Committee.
After the outbreak of the Pacific War, in view of the inability of the British Navy and Air Force to defend Australia, and after the fall of Singapore, an Australian division was also captured, changing Australia's policy of relying on Britain militarily, and instead strengthening relations with the United States, and inviting American General Douglas MacArthur to visit Australia, turning the mainland into a base of operations for the Allies, while ignoring British Prime Minister Winston Murphy. Churchill's opposition, the recall of most of the Australian troops fighting in the Middle East, and the refusal to send a division to Burma, instead ordering the entire army to be stationed in New Guinea, which in fact marked the dissolution of the British Empire's rule in the East, during Curtin's administration, legislation made the states no income tax, committed to welfare measures, laid the foundation for the post-war Australian social and economic development plan, and historically he died in 1945 in the CLAY,
Soon after the Japanese attack, he received a report that the Australian government had always believed that the Japanese army would choose the excellent port of Darwin for landing, but did not expect to land in places such as Pendbay, which was difficult to land.
While the planes were still in the air battle, a wing of the Japanese marines had already taken the lead in the transport ship as the vanguard and was heading for Pendebey.
There were not many defenders of Pendebe, only one division was less, Ao Jun never thought that it would be like this, but in fact it was like this, and they did not have any spare troops nearby to support them,
After the Japanese fighters entangled the Australian planes, the remaining bombers and a small number of escort fighters immediately bombed Pendbay, and the Australian anti-aircraft shells and anti-aircraft guns immediately fired ammunition at the Japanese planes, but the effect was not ideal.
Seeing that the Japanese landing craft were getting closer and closer, and had already entered the range of the artillery, the Australian artillery ignored the Japanese planes in the sky and fired into the water.
Seeing this, the Japanese planes immediately poured shells into the artillery, and the Australian anti-aircraft guns took advantage of this opportunity to fire shells at the Japanese planes.
The Japanese planes were found to have been fooled after their companions were shot down by ground fire, and immediately switched to high-altitude bombing, but by this time several heavy bombers had already been shot down.
In the face of the fortifications of the Australian army, the Japanese suffered heavy losses under the blow of the Australian fortress artillery, and the first attack was forced to stop, and their planes flew from East Timor, which was almost out of fuel, but fortunately, the Shambani Islands had been occupied, they could land there for refueling, and the airstrip had been built,
The refueled Japanese planes took off again from the aircraft carrier and the airstrip, and this time they were all loaded with heavy bombs and incendiary bombs, and the planes once again attacked Pendbay and other places; after the last air raid, the Australian air force was greatly reduced, and it was too late to transfer the planes from elsewhere, and the air force in Darwin and other places did not dare to move, and the Australian army was afraid that the Japanese army would attack the west.
The poor Australian army could only continue to rely on anti-aircraft artillery fire and the remaining aircraft to continue to resist, and lost more than half of it in a day, but the Japanese army did not have a large-scale landing, and the Australian army was not sure what the Japanese army thought for a while.
At this time, the Japanese army was limited by the terrain of Pendbay and could not attack on a large scale, of course, they also had many plans, if the Australian army in Darwin Port came to support here on a large scale, the Japanese army could take the opportunity to attack there,
At this time, Wang Hanzhang had already learned about the Japanese army's attack on Australia, and Wang Hanzhang had been worried that China would attack the Soviet Union, and whether Japan would take advantage of the fire to rob.
It has been controlling the Philippines, Indonesia and India for a long time, Japan has built a lot of arsenals in Indonesia, and has shipped a lot of ore from India to Indonesia.
The great plague in India prevented the Japanese army from moving westward into the Middle East and avoided the Japanese army from strategically encircling China, but Wang Hanzhang thought that the disadvantages outweighed the advantages, and it was obvious that now the Japanese army could no longer attack the Middle East, and the Japanese army had also shrunk its forces, and the Japanese army did not use troops here, so there would be Australia and the Pacific Ocean left.
Wang Hanzhang is not a fool, if he is the emperor of Japan, after taking Australia and driving the United States out of the western Pacific, he will find an opportunity to deal with Huaxia, because at that time the United States can only be regarded as the second enemy, of course, with Japan's current strength, it is impossible to cross the Pacific Ocean to attack the US native troops to take there, and can only pay close attention to Huaxia's movements, and the soldiers take the opportunity to take Huaxia,
Wang Hanzhang doesn't want Japan to take Australia soon, but Wang Hanzhang can't predict how the situation will develop, Wang Hanzhang just doesn't want Japan to stabilize the Pacific Ocean, and India can't attack, so when China attacks the Soviet Union, the Japanese are there all the time, and it's not a good thing for China.
Wang Hanzhang was not worried about the Japanese attack, but worried that if he only attacked the Soviet Union because of the Japanese and failed to kill the Soviet Union in the end, the danger to China would be too great.
Wang Hanzhang's worries are also well-founded, at present, Britain and the United States are preparing to land in Europe, and after the end of the Indian War, a large number of their troops were transferred back to North Africa and the British mainland, Wang Hanzhang now understands that the Great Plague in India should be planned by the British, at least he is the mastermind,
Now the world is peerless is not the development that Wang Hanzhang hoped, if the British and American landings are successful, then Hu Xia and Germany may not be able to succeed in the flanking attack.
Although Wang Hanzhang at least the Allied forces in later generations did land in Normandy, it can't be sure now, of course, the possibility is still the greatest.