The battle of Australia was quite tragic, the casualties of the Chinese army here were close to half of the Japanese battlefield, and more than 5,000 Chinese soldiers remained in this rich and desolate land forever.

The combat effectiveness of the 15th Infantry Corps of the US Army is weak, the quality of its soldiers and officers is particularly poor, and its will to fight is very poor. However, this force has a huge amount of heavy firepower and uses strong fortifications to hold on, which to a certain extent conceals the essence of the "rookie" of the US military. The two infantry divisions of the British army were not as large as the American army, but their combat effectiveness was quite good, and most importantly, the commander of this unit was good at using the cover of allies to try his best to stay away from the front-line battlefield where the fighting was fierce.

The Australian Army, which inflicted the greatest casualties on the Chinese army, was the Australian Army, which consisted of five infantry divisions, one armored division and three cavalry brigades. They were much tougher than their British masters, and the harsh environment of the Australian continent made for the fierce Australians, and the superiority of the Westerners in the face of the Easterners also made them not easily succumb to the Chinese army. In southwest Australia, the coalition forces lost a number of towns one after another, and the main force suffered heavy losses in field battles with the Chinese army, and was simply unable to withstand the armored assault of the Chinese army.

After the defeat in the frontal battle, the coalition forces began to change their tactics, taking advantage of the favorable factors of familiarity with the local terrain and climate, they dispersed the main forces in companies or battalions, with the help of local herders and farm workers, rode horses, and moved between the logistics and transportation lines of the Chinese army, launching short attacks and quickly withdrawing.

A large number of Chinese army trucks and supplies were burned and looted by the Australian army, although the Chinese army quickly increased the defense of the logistics line, but it did not completely solve the problem. Those Australian troops came and went without a trace, and the pursuing Chinese troops often got lost in the vast Australian grassland Gobi, and even if the air force dispatched reconnaissance planes, it was difficult to cover all areas.

When the Chinese army was equipped with motorcycles, military off-road vehicles and other mobile units to defend the logistics line, the harassment of the Australian army was reduced a lot, but the Chinese army on the front line was deeply involved in urban street fighting. The Australian army held every city in the path of the Chinese army's advance, and the local residents took the initiative to transform into armed civilians, who used their experience in fighting wild beasts and harsh nature to deal with the Chinese army, using the weapons and ammunition provided by the regular army to surprise the Chinese soldiers.

It's just that for the Chinese army, which has experienced the baptism of the Japanese archipelago, the troubles encountered by Australia are not difficult to solve, and the biggest difficulty still comes from logistics and supply. Australia is currently underdeveloped, with a low gross industrial output, and its main sources of income are mining, livestock, fisheries and food exports. Most of the population was concentrated on the southeast coast, and the rest of the country was vast and sparsely populated, and there was a lack of efficient railways or even roads on the routes of the Chinese army's advance.

However, the situation changed after the Chinese landed on the southeast coast, when the Chinese army had ample transport forces to spare after withdrawing from Southeast Asia, and troops from two marines, four infantry divisions, and one tank division were transported ashore, marking the countdown to coalition resistance.

If Australia is lost, the United States will lose the last bunker against the Chinese army, and in view of this, the Americans have developed a counterattack plan called "Typhoon". The intention is to open up the transportation route from the Americas to Australia and regain some of the sea control in the eastern Pacific, at least to prove to the people that the government has not been passively beaten, and to enhance the confidence of the people to continue fighting.

The plan was at the behest of Washington, and the White House gave the order even though the military was strongly opposed to taking the initiative in the face of a lack of strength. The domestic and international situation no longer allowed the US military to retreat into violence, and the range of activities of German submarines on the east coast extended to the coast of North America, and news of the sinking of crews and transport ships into the Atlantic Ocean was transmitted back to China every day. As the war progressed to the present, the Americans lost the entire Pacific Ocean under the attack of the Chinese army, because the declaration of war on the Central Powers by joining the Entente led to a much less efficient way to obtain wealth from Europe. Instead of hard-line countries such as China and Germany, it is better to negotiate peace, stay out of the matter, and continue to gain wealth from the world war.

In this kind of public opinion atmosphere, which covers all aspects of the entire society, and greatly exceeds the posture of the main war faction, the White House urgently needs a victory to overwhelm the peace talks faction and let the people see the dividends that the war can bring.

The direction of the counterattack was also well thought out, and the Germans in the Atlantic direction retracted to the port again because of the defeat in the naval battle in the North Sea, and the British and American warships gradually dominated the Atlantic. But the strength of the German army in the land direction was not damaged, even if several million troops entered Russia, more than a million troops were still deployed in the German direction in Western Europe, the Atlantic barrier to prevent the landing of the Entente was taking shape, and the Americans did not want to go to war with the powerful German army when the army was not prepared. The coalition has strengthened its military presence in North Africa and is still mainly defensive, and despite Russia's resistance desperately in need of allies, and despite Nicholas II's letters for help filling the desk of the White House president's office, Britain and the United States have decided to place their counterattack in the Pacific.

The strength of the navy was the main reason for the decision of the Entente, and they also wanted to replicate the situation of the naval battle in the North Sea in the Pacific, and even the defeat of the Chinese navy was a bearable outcome. As long as the Chinese navy can be forced to temporarily retreat, it will be able to open up contact with Australia, and even open up the North Pacific route, and continue to send strategic materials to Russia.

The "Typhoon" counterattack plan was classified as top secret, and the Bureau of Investigation did not obtain details of the plan, but knew that the Americans were sending troops against China and could be sure that the battle would take place at sea. On the west coast, the U.S. Pacific Fleet has only one aircraft carrier and four battleships, which is slightly insufficient if it wants to counterattack. Therefore, the US military transferred a fleet aircraft carrier, two battleships, and two battle cruisers from the Atlantic Fleet to the Pacific Ocean, and the transfer of this detachment is the node for the Investigation Bureau to obtain key information, and there are too many loopholes in the process of its transfer that can be mastered by the Investigation Bureau.

If the US detachment wants to enter the Pacific Ocean, it can only make a detour through Central and South America and sail into the Pacific Ocean through the Strait of Magellan, and the capital ships with a displacement of up to tens of thousands of tons cannot pass through the Panama Canal. The canal was opened to navigation in early 1910, and after the Americans obtained the right to dig it and the ownership of the canal company, they increased the speed of excavation under the great pressure of the Chinese state. The scientific and technological progress led by China also made the canal more and more advanced tools, coupled with sufficient funds and manpower, so that the canal was finally opened to navigation in 1910. However, due to the tropical rainforest climate and complex terrain of the canal zone, the Panama Canal cannot be navigated by ships of more than 15,000 tons, and needs to be continuously built.

The detachment that had to make a detour needed to stop at many ports along the way to resupply, which was an important way for the Bureau of Investigation to obtain information. After receiving the news that the US Navy was about to make a sortie, the Chinese Pacific Fleet immediately began to prepare to meet the attack. The four capital ships that assisted the Army and Marines in landing operations off the southeast coast returned to Guam for a few days of repairs and resupply. The two fleet aircraft carriers and two capital ships that returned to the mainland for repairs immediately stopped repairing, and the officers and men stopped taking leave and rushed to Hawaii. One fleet carrier and two main ships in the North Pacific blockade operation will also rush to Hawaii, plus one aircraft carrier and two capital ships at Pearl Harbor, the main force of the Pacific Fleet will gather and wait for the US forces to arrive.

The crux of the matter lies in the fact that the Chinese army does not intend to be passively beaten and arbitrarily speculate on the target of the US military's attack. They have ample forces and can adopt more proactive tactics. Using islands in the eastern Pacific Ocean as temporary bases, more than 50 ocean-going submarines entered the west coast of South America to reconnoiter the intelligence of the US detachment and obtain information on their advance. Twenty-one light cruisers also joined the search, but finding such a fleet in the Pacific Ocean was not an easy task. The Chinese army did not know the route of the US detachment, nor did it know the specific time and speed of their advance, and the main Chinese fleet had to wait patiently until this fleet was discovered.

During this time, the movement of the US warships in San Diego attracted the attention of the Chinese army, and accurate intelligence showed that the warships here were entering a state of combat readiness and could leave the port for combat at any time. Three days later, a top-secret piece of information from San Francisco confirmed the speculation of the main fleet of the Chinese army, and the US military wanted to merge the detachment fleet with the fleet in San Diego, and then look for opportunities to operate in the southeast Pacific to threaten the troops and sea routes of the Chinese army landing in Australia, attract the Chinese fleet to come, and wait for the opportunity to fight a decisive battle, and finally cover the land of the army on Christmas Island to start a counterattack.

The ability to obtain such detailed intelligence is due to the painstaking operation of the Bureau of Investigation for more than ten years, and the United States is one of the priorities of the Bureau of Investigation, and thousands of high-level genetic people have infiltrated the country and are distributed in various industries. And this piece of information came from a logistics major officer of the US Navy Staff Office, a genetic spy.

When the U.S. detachment departed from the port of Santiago de Chile, the main fleet of the Chinese army had already sailed into the southeast Pacific, and the target of this fleet, consisting of three fleet aircraft carriers, seven capital ships, and 39 other warships, was the U.S. detachment.

The Americans also received the news that the main fleet of the Chinese army had left Pearl Harbor, and they had more than 150 ocean-going submarines operating in the Pacific Ocean, and since the Battle of Hawaii, the submarine warfare and antisubmarine warfare between the Chinese army and the US military have not stopped, and the intensity is no less than that of the Atlantic. On the bottom of the blue Pacific Ocean, there are the wreckage of more than 50 US submarines, seven Chinese submarines, and more than 100 transport ships, which can prove the tragedy here.

The U.S. submarine that was sending the Chinese fleet out of Hong Kong was soon sunk by the pursuing destroyer, and the sacrifice became extremely valuable, and the U.S. detachment sailing on the coast of South America immediately became alert, coupled with the favor of Lady Luck. This detachment sailed through the Galapagos Islands without danger and was not even discovered by the Chinese army when it was more than 50 nautical miles south of Clipperton Island.

Unfortunately, the good fortune ended here, and it was discovered that the US detachment was not a Chinese submarine or cruiser, but a Chinese long-range high-altitude reconnaissance plane. The thing is so ridiculous that the high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft, which are considered the least efficient, have discovered the enemy, but the submarines and warships, which are the most numerous and relatively efficient, have not been discovered.

PS: There are still a few chapters in this book to end, as Xiaobaijun's test of the waters, it has also gone through eight months, and the ending is too rough, and there is no way to do it. Thank you for your company and support during this time! Flattered! (To be continued.) )