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Just when the Limbo and Kunlun were launched and put into service under the eyes of the world, the construction plan of the Wind-and-Snow class amphibious assault ships was also approved. It's just that although the Storm and Snow class belongs to amphibious assault ships, they were built in the name of escort aircraft carriers.

After all, now Yan Guang still needs to use the Japanese, and it is impossible to suddenly build a large number of landing ships at this time, so as not to arouse the suspicion of the Japanese, you must know that China does not have any landing missions now...

And compared with landing ships, escort aircraft carriers are much more hidden.

You must know that during this period, several countries, including the United States, were building escort aircraft carriers on a large scale, and even Japan itself had several escort aircraft carriers, and in this case, the aircraft carriers built by China were inconspicuous at all.

Of course, as a large ship with a standard row of 20,000 and a full row of 30,000, the Wind and Snow class is still very deterrent, after all, even Japan's Yunlong-class aircraft carrier during this period is only a standard row of 17,000, and the full row is only 22,000 tons.

Ten such large escort aircraft carriers are already on the same level as the main aircraft carriers of other countries.

However, with the Lingbo and Kunlun Zhuyu in front, although the wind and snow level is also very eye-catching, it is still...

At this moment, the feeling of the wind and snow level is probably similar to the Kunlun that has been beside the Lingbo during the launching ceremony. Since there is already a very successful senior, it is impossible to be noticed at all...

Although the displacement of the Fengxue class is larger than that of ordinary aircraft carriers, because the Fengxue class exists as an amphibious assault ship, and a considerable part of the hull needs to be used as a dock, the number of aircraft in the Fengxue class is not very large, and it is only 50 if you count the deck mooring.

However, in the dock of the hull, it can carry multiple landing craft, these landing craft can carry a ZT-41 tank or 150 soldiers up to 60 tons, and the Blizzard class can carry 4 landing craft, so the Blizzard class can transport at least 4 ZT-41 tanks or 600 soldiers of a battalion at a time.

At the same time, the space inside the ship can carry at least 16 ZT-41 tanks, and if it is a short-distance operation, a Buran-class can even carry three battalions of troops―――――― but in that case, the space on the ship will be very cramped...

In addition, the earliest amphibious tanks appeared as early as the First World War, at least Yan Guang knew that Italy had developed a model at that time, but it did not seem to be very successful.

Before 1933, the Soviet army was equipped with the T-37 amphibious tank, and then successively equipped with the T-38 and T-40 amphibious tanks.

After the end of World War I, due to the need to attack Taiwan, the Wehrmacht has also developed several models of amphibious combat vehicles, and the Marine Corps has been equipped in batches with a 15-ton amphibious combat vehicle equipped with 85mm tank guns, which can drive slowly on water. Therefore, in the event of an emergency, the Blizzard class can even drop these amphibious combat vehicles directly on the water, and at the same time, the deck of the Blizzard class has also been specially designed to park tanks or amphibious combat vehicles directly, and when in use, these tanks or amphibious combat vehicles can also be driven directly into the dock through the inclined passage...

Even when it comes to transporting goods, it is possible to load the transported cargo on the deck.

This also greatly increases the loading capacity of the Blizzard class.

Although the cost of the Blizzard class is expensive, it is still worth it considering its extremely strong amphibious combat capability, after all, ten Blizzard-class ships can project at least one brigade at a time, and even one and a half divisions if necessary, and if they carry out activities in Southeast Asia...

In addition, the Fengxue class can use carrier-based aircraft, which can not only provide necessary fire support during landing operations, but can even conduct large-scale naval battles with the enemy's aircraft carrier fleet with the cooperation of the escort fleet to cover the landing operations of ordinary landing ships. …,

It can be said that at least in this era, the design of the wind and snow level is still perfect.

If there is anything imperfect, it is that the cost and construction man-hours of the Storm and Snow class are too high compared to ordinary landing ships, and the speed is only 21 knots, so it cannot fight with the aircraft carrier fleet when necessary...

And because the helicopter of this era is only initially practical, a large number of people are not to be thought about at all, which also makes the amphibious combat capability of the wind and snow class have been greatly reduced.

Although technology was changing rapidly during the war years, according to Yan Guang's own speculation, if you want to see those really practical large carrier-based helicopters in history, I am afraid you need to wait at least until after the 50s...

Fortunately, the foundation of the wind and snow class is good, and if you change it, even if it is used until the sixties and seventies, there is no problem, so that there is no need to be like Britain, the United States and other countries, after the war can only disassemble and sell those useless escort aircraft carriers―――――― there is no way, congenital insufficiency, even if there is a catapult, it cannot take off and land jet aircraft with a large increase in weight.

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Due to the good performance of the Wind and Snow class, and the fact that the government of the Republic of China also made a lot of money when it was an arms dealer, the first batch of orders was only ten ships, which can be called full of courage.

The National Defense Navy intends to take advantage of this opportunity to overwhelm Germany, the United States, Britain, Japan and other countries and become the world's largest navy.

However, when the navy was competing with the army and the air force for more military spending in front of Yan Guang, the Australians who were far away in Australia were not as happy as them...

"I've surrendered, what do you want to do?"

In a village just over ten kilometers from Canberra, Australia's capital, an Australian soldier with a gunshot wound in the shoulder shouted.

However, beside him, more than a dozen Japanese soldiers were smiling hideously.

Contrary to what some might think, Australia's capital is not Sydney, but Canberra.

This may not be understood by many people, but it is no wonder, after all, in later generations, whether it is Sydney or Melbourne, it is much more famous than Canberra, not to mention that Sydney has hosted the Olympic Games in later generations...

In fact, unlike cities that developed from early colonies or incidental due to scenic beauty, Canberra was built with careful planning from the start. When parliamentarians from the two major state capitals, Sydney and Melbourne, competed for their place in the Commonwealth and none of them gave up their demands, the proposal for a new capital was passed. In 1900, Australia's constitution proposed the establishment of a federal territory at the seat of government, and in 1908, after inspecting 23 regions, the parliament chose a piece of land at an altitude of 580 meters, 300 kilometers southwest of Sydney, with an area of 2,359 square kilometers, from New South Wales to form the Australian Capital Territory.

Canberra is a young city, more than 100 years ago in the foothills of the Australian Alps, discovered in 1820, then developed into a small town by 1840 when immigrants came to build ranches. In 1901, after the establishment of the Australian federal government, the two major cities of Sydney and Melbourne quarreled for eight or nine years, until 1911, when the federal government passed a resolution to choose a place with good wind and rain, mountains and rivers to establish a new capital between the two cities, so it chose this vacant land 238 kilometers away from Sydney and 507 kilometers away from Melbourne. This was the beginning of Canberra.

In 1912, the federal government hosted a worldwide urban design competition, and a year later, Congress selected the famous American landscape architect, 36-year-old Chicago Walter Brown, from 137 editions sent in. Bury? Griffin's scheme by Walter Burley Griffin. The designer's Canberra street map was painted on a piece of cotton cloth by him and his wife, who is also an architect, and this precious original is still preserved in the National Archives of Australia. After a 14-year hiatus due to World War I, it was completed in 1927 and the capital was moved here. Later, after a long period of deliberation on the name of the new capital, the traditional name of the local residents was chosen―――――― Canberra, which means 'meeting place', and the people called it 'meeting place'. …,

Of course, as mentioned above, Canberra is nothing more than a product of the dispute between the cities of Sydney and Melbourne, because Canberra is not one of the largest cities in the country like other capitals...

It may be unimaginable, but Sydney, Australia's largest city, has a population of 4.284 million in later generations (2006), while Melbourne, the second largest city, has a population of 4.07 million (June 2010).

Poor Canberra, although the capital of Australia, has only 325,000 people (2004)...

Of course, this is only in the later generations, in fact, Canberra in this era is even more pitiful, and in the later generations Canberra can be counted as one, uh, small city?

However, Canberra had only 2,000 people in 1910, and only 12,000 in 1940, 30 years later...

As for the first and second largest cities in Australia in this era, they have a population of 1.3 million and 1.07 million respectively...

What is the concept that the population of a country's first and second largest cities is more than 100 times that of its own capital?

To do this in the capital, Canberra is really pitiful...

But it is precisely for this reason that the Japanese have set their sights on Canberra...

We all know that Australia is the only country in the world that occupies a continent on its own, but because of Australia's vast and sparsely populated population (a total population of only 7 million), the Australian government's control over Australia is not tight, coupled with a long coastline and its own extremely weak military strength...

Anyway, several port cities in northern Australia have been conquered.

This did not come as a surprise to anyone, as Australia itself was too weak, especially since its population simply could not provide it with enough soldiers. What's more, when the Australian Navy was completely wiped out and the Japanese army began to carry out an offensive on the Australian mainland, a considerable number of Australians fled back to India and the United Kingdom―――――― although they were separated, but it was also their mother's home, wasn't it?

Unlike later generations, Australia and Canada during this period were not the doglegs of the United States, and their relationship with their mother's home Britain was still relatively close.

The weakness of its own military, coupled with the flight of a large number of people, soon fell Brisbane, Australia's third largest city.

After the capture of Brisbane, the Japanese did not pause at all, but directly turned south to Sydney, wanting to capture Sydney like Brisbane.

It's just that Sydney is Australia's largest city after all, and the Australians have long been prepared to buy a large amount of arms from China and the United States, so the Japanese, who are invincible in northern Australia, soon hit a wall in Sydney.

Since the previous military operations in Southeast Asia and Australia were invincible, the Japanese were surprised by this encounter.

So not long after, the Japanese launched several offensive again, but each time it was...

Cough...

After throwing behind countless corpses, the Japanese had no choice but to leave Sydney in disgrace.

Even so, the Australians are not much better, after all, the difference in strength between the two sides is too big, although the Australians have a geographical advantage, but they still pay a great price.

However, after the Japanese retreated, the Australians hurriedly repaired and strengthened the offensive, waiting for the next Japanese attack.

However, at this time, the Japanese gave up on continuing the offensive on Sydney, and simply sent a fleet to blockade Sydney's harbor, and then diverted to Bartmansby...

Bartmansby is a seaside town, only a little more than a hundred kilometers away from Canberra, of course, this is nothing, in the end what is needed is that Bartmansby has a port, suitable for the Japanese army to land there ......,

After hitting a wall in Sydney, the Japanese decisively shifted their target, and that target was Canberra.

Because Brisbane had fallen by this time, the only targets left worthy of the Japanese were Sydney, Canberra, and Melbourne.

Among them, Sydney has already hit a wall, as for Melbourne? Melbourne is in the direction of Antarctica, and Melbourne is not much inferior to Sydney, so if you really want to bypass Sydney and launch an offensive against Melbourne, it is better to continue the offensive attack.

So in the end, the only target that the Japanese could choose from was Canberra...

There are many advantages to capturing Canberra, first of all, Canberra is not very far from the port by the sea, there is even a direct railway to Canberra, where landing is a very convenient thing for logistics supplies―――――― but if you really want to land, it is estimated that the Australians will definitely destroy the railways and bridges along the way first, and in fact, it is the same as the Japanese estimated, the Japanese have just landed in Batemansby, and the Australians have already blown up everything they can along the way...

In addition to the geographical benefits, Canberra is the capital of Australia, no matter how small the capital is, the third is so small that it can't even rank in the top three in Australia, but he is still the capital of Australia after all.

If Canberra could be captured, it would be a great blow to the morale of Australia and the entire Allied Powers, and it would be very beneficial for the Japanese to conquer other parts of the Allied Powers in the future, especially if they launched an offensive against Sydney and Canberra.

And there's...

There are only 12,000 people in the whole of Canberra, and this time the Japanese sent an expeditionary force to Australia alone has 200,000 or 300,000, and it is really a piece of cake to take Canberra, and it does not need to pay too much price...

"Why didn't I think that taking Canberra first would attack Sydney..."

After such a decision was made, there were even army generals who lamented such laments.

After all, as long as Canberra can be taken, the morale of the Australians who have fallen to the capital will definitely plummet, and it will be easy to take Sydney by then.

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The so-called heart is better than action, and that's what the Japanese do.

So after the decision was made, the Japanese blocked the harbor of Sydney with a fleet to prevent the Australians from fleeing or outside reinforcements from coming in, and the Japanese expeditionary force went to Batemansby.

As I said earlier, Bartmansby is just an ordinary seaside town, and there is no resistance to the wolf-like Japanese.

In fact, long before the Japanese attacked Sydney, all the townspeople had moved to Canberra, so the whole town was completely empty.

While it's a good thing that there is no resistance, the Japanese don't have the locals to lead the way.

Fortunately, in this era, it is difficult to find anything else, but the leading party is still easy to find, at least in Brisbane, the Japanese have found a lot of voluntary leading party―――――― and the current affairs are Junjie, this sentence is not unique to China...

Of course, the original words are certainly not true, but the meaning is certainly the same.

With Brisbane's Belt-and-Road Party helping to lead the way, the Japanese were able to move smoothly at first, until the Australian guerrillas blew up all the bridges, railways, and roads along the way.

But none of this was a slight delay in the pace of the Japanese march.

In fact, apart from these small obstacles, the Japanese movement was absolutely unimpeded, and the only resistance along the way took place on a defensive line near the village, more than ten kilometers from Canberra...

It's just that as a capital of only 12,000 people, Canberra's defenders have only one regiment in total, and the Australian government in Canberra has already moved to Melbourne at this time...

It can be seen that the Australians also understand that Canberra cannot be defended, so after the Japanese army landed in Batemansby, while sending guerrillas to blow up railways and bridges to delay time, the Australians are also hurrying to move to Canberra...

And the Japanese, who held back the fire along the way, but didn't catch even a small fish, naturally wanted to vent...

How to vent?

Naturally, it came as usual... (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to subscribe to the mobile network (.), reward, your support is my biggest motivation. )……，