Australia is frantically reinforcing its maritime defenses, countless mines regardless of the cost of investment, mines are very simple, the technical content is lower than artillery shells, even if it is an incomplete industrial country like Australia, it can be produced, before, there is not much spare in the navy, not enough to block the entire port, and now, at the stall where the emperor may come, most of the Australian military enterprises have switched to producing mines.

As long as there are raw materials, the efficiency of the conversion is very high, and the quantity is also guaranteed, countless mines, like dumplings sprinkled into the sea, the Australian port to blockade, at this moment, Cheng Biguang does not know everything that happened in Australia, he led the 4 emperor-class just passed through Cape Horn, into the Drake Passage, this is the widest in the world, but also the deepest strait, before the Panama Canal was not through, is a busy waterway, even now, is one of the important sea lanes.

But now, there is a depression here, on the one hand, the penetration of Panama, so that most of the ships have passed through Panama, this era, most of the merchant ships, can pass through Panama, than the Panama Canal has a greater capacity of ships is not nothing, very few, does not belong to the mainstream, although one side of the Panama Canal, attacked by Cheng Biguang, has been unusable, most of the ships have not been bypassed, besides, China is so hard against the United States, before not sure of these warships, before completely leaving the Americas, They did not dare to go around Cape Horn at all, even if there was a chance that they would be touched by a warship, they would be miserable, and the American flag that flaunted its might in the Americas would be a death if they met these Chinese fleets.

completed the sneak attack on the United States, not only destroyed Wall Street and Panama, but even when he left, he put 12 battleships, more than 100 battleships, and had already overfulfilled the task, before coming to North America, including Yang Yuanzhao, he didn't dare to imagine that the four Fantasy class could achieve such a big result, as for Cheng Biguang, he probably just thought that Yang Yuanzhao was just a symbolic revenge, and he could get a little bit of sinking figures, and it would be enough to strike at the mainland of the United States.

No one thought that the result would be so brilliant, the powerful United States, his coastal defense, almost undefended, not only achieved breakthrough results on Wall Street, in the whole United States, the fantasy class almost refers to where to fight, crazy swept the entire United States, and reached the extreme in Panama, not only killed the Panama Canal, which the United States spent decades and spent a lot of money to build, so that the United States within a year or two, actually lost this canal, and sank 12 battleships, no matter which result, can be called incredible brilliance, not to mention the sum of these achievements, no matter what the course of the war is, how many wonderful naval battles have occurred in the future, Cheng Biguang, who commanded this battle, can already go down in history.

Maybe it's the dullness after the climax, Cheng Biguang was very relaxed from the beginning of crossing Cape Horn, not to say that he completely relaxed his vigilance, the level of vigilance has been reduced from the original highest level, to level 5, just turned on the radar, fixed lookout, there is a seaplane hovering in the surrounding 40 kilometers range, compared to before, at least 8 seaplanes, non-stop search around more than 100 kilometers during the day, compared with the reduction.

Of course, if you enter China's waters, for example, through the Philippines, into the South China Sea, it can be reduced to the level of only lookout and radar, in unfamiliar waters, this is already the lowest, so that it can only guard against the sneak attack of battleships, or small-scale, once there is a large-scale ship surrounding, maybe the fleet will not be able to escape.

Cheng Biguang is very clear that in the Caribbean World War, 12 battleships were sent to the bottom of the sea, which has shown the strength of the emperor-class, in this case, the less battleships are not enough, and I am afraid that the Entente does not have the courage to do so, except for the sneak attack of a small force, the rest, basically do not care, in fact, the British and American powers, far less bold, dare to send a small force in South America to sneak attack, they are calm along the way, there are no enemies, let alone staggered ships.

Drake Strait, is a good strait, rich in fisheries, in this era, but not much development, after a calm journey, out of the Drake Strait, into the Pacific Ocean, Cheng Biguang chose a more remote channel, such a choice of course for their own safety, not to hide their own sneak attack, although Cheng Biguang himself, once thought about doing something in Australia, even a few young officers under him are also instigating, but some older officers all objected, In the Americas, the entire fleet fought for 2 months, in a completely hostile environment, surrounded by all enemies, the fantasy class is very powerful, 4 ships against a powerful country, think about it is impossible, in case it falls into an unfavorable state, it is a catastrophe.

From top to bottom, all the officers and soldiers are under tremendous mental pressure, and they have been in the United States and Panama for 2 months, and there have been at least a dozen major battles, especially the last one, which seems to have defeated the opponent heartily at the fantasy level and won the final victory of the war, but in fact, almost all of them are on the edge of the tip of the knife, and any failure is the result of a catastrophe, so after entering the North American route and lowering the early warning indicators, it seems that the strings that have been tight have suddenly relaxed, and the officers and soldiers have problems of varying degrees. It can be said unceremoniously that when the fantasy level was 10 percent or even 12 percent of the combat effectiveness in the United States, at present, the combat effectiveness of the fantasy level may not even be 6 percent, although this can be a small intensity attack, but to attack Australia, forget it.

Perhaps, it will take at least 1 month of rest in Southeast Asia before the fantasy class can recover its full combat effectiveness, now, Cheng Biguang's greatest wish is to bring the fantasy class back as soon as possible, these experienced soldiers, none of them can be missing, these soldiers should appear in the position of imparting experience, even if they teach their knowledge to three or two people, it will increase the strength of the Chinese fleet, cross 20,000 kilometers, run long distances to the opponent's city, and finally confront a fleet with a tonnage much higher than theirs, These are rich experiences.

Australia, in order to suddenly appear in front of the emperor, is crazy to lay mines in the port, not only including the ports of the three major cities, even some small and medium-sized ports, the entire southeast sea, everywhere are mines, which also makes Australia relatively safe for a long time, Australia's mines, almost casually arranged, there is no complete map, a little here, that side, a large area of the sea have mines, plus ocean currents, monsoon and other climate changes, For a long time, no ship dared to come here, cutting off Australia's foreign aid and preventing Australia from being attacked by China's superior navy.

Australia, the focus of defense on the southeast sea, but Darwin, the Chinese side of the action is intensifying, transporting army and military supplies on Darwin's merchant ships, after unloading, the first time to return to Timor-Leste, the remaining materials, gradually transferred to Darwin, more and more personnel, more and more machinery, concentrated in East Timor, the Chinese began to expand Darwin's port, 3000 tons, without any tower cranes and lifting devices port, the efficiency is too low, The Chinese engineers are going to use about one month to temporarily renovate a wharf, so that he has the capacity to handle containers, and expand the berth from 3,000 tons to 10,000 tons.

In addition to the expansion of the port, the construction of Darwin is also continuing, temporary houses, tents, can not support the long-term war, for the Australian war, will be a long-term, protracted war, this, Zhang Xiaohuai is clear, only the core of Darwin, the most core port and basic point control, next, is to continue to expand, steady and steady, is the first task that must be carried out.

However, with the gradual arrival of Chinese, personnel and machinery could not be expanded in Darwin, so they were released, and high-standard highways through the entire northern region began to be built, Australia's backwardness, is all-round, including roads, except for some simple roads on the southeast coast, other places, there are no roads, for China that has entered the automobile era, there are no roads, these are completely different things,

At present, in a short period of time, it is impossible for China to build railways and highways to the extent that it is all over Australia, but it must be built in the northern region, and a complete base will be formed here, and after the strength of this place has accumulated to a certain extent, the attack of war will be launched next year, and the central part of Australia will be included in the sphere of influence, and the highway will also be repaired at that time. so that there will be no logistical problems.

The Chinese's measures, not hidden from anyone, but the most stable and solid, although Australia knows what happened near Darwin, but can not believe China's speed, three days and one floor and the like, there is no difficulty at all, even the speed of laying 12 kilometers a day, let the road network begin to spread all over Australia, even if the Australian government once did not have the luxury of building such a high standard, such a high-density road in the northern region, these Chinese did it, Australia's top management is very clear, With such a large amount of capital in the Chinese, their plans will be even larger, perhaps, this is not a partial division, but the focus of the real attack. (To be continued.) )