Winston Churchill once famously said: This is not the end, not even the beginning of the end, but the end of the beginning. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

These are the words of Churchill during World War II after the Battle of El Alamein, a turning point in the North African campaign, which seems a bit awkward, a bit of a play on words, but it is a true reflection of the situation at the time.

The same applies to this fight.

After abandoning the Outer Harbor Battery, for the defenders, the battle entered the second phase, which was a new beginning.

But for the uninformed Paz Expeditionary Force, the capture of the Outer Harbour Fort was tantamount to finally smashing the hard shell of Port Hedland, and then enjoying the delicious fruits.

When the shore defense battery completely stopped firing, there was a dead silence in the bridge of the "Pass", and then there was a loud cheer, everyone couldn't believe that the defenders gave up the battery so easily, originally according to the strength of the battery's counterattack just now, the expeditionary force still had a bad battle to fight, James Jerome was even ready to cover the landing of the assault team, in this case the defenders actually gave up the battery, which is really unbelievable.

Of course, there is another possibility, and it may be that the defenders and killer weapons have not come up with them, so they will easily abandon those fort facilities that look quite strong.

If there is a doubt, James Jerome has to make it clear.

With the victory just now, James Jerome still accumulated a lot of prestige, at least this time the commander of the expeditionary force, Derek Chaplin, did not directly refuse James Jerome's proposal, so a transport ship tremblingly approached the breakwater of the outer harbor, lowered two lifeboats full of soldiers, and fled in a hurry.

There was really no need to be so cautious, the artillerymen had already withdrawn through the underground passage, the batteries were empty, and the soldiers did not receive any resistance.

When the Australian flag was waved on the breakwater, Derek Chaplin could no longer hold back and ordered the fleet to enter Port Hedland and prepare for a landing operation.

James Jerome did not know the details of the battery, and if James Jerome knew that none of the guns on the battery had been destroyed, and even the shells and fuses were intact, then James Jerome would not have agreed to land anyway.

This is clearly a trap, and only a guy like Derek Chaplin, who has been blinded by materialism, will stupidly crash into it.

James Jerome is not a fool, but with a boss like Derek Chaplin, even James Jerome has the talent to show it.

During the entire landing, the Paz expeditionary force did not receive any attacks.

Again, this is a very abnormal situation.

Generally speaking, the best way for the defenders to fight is to attack halfway, even if the attacking side has already landed, the defenders can rely on the familiar terrain and pre-built fortifications to drive the attacking side back.

What's more, according to James Jerome's standards, the Paz Expeditionary Force is really a little unfamiliar with landing operations, whether it is the opening of the landing field or the order of the landing of troops, there are even extreme cases where soldiers have landed, but officers are still on warships.

The purpose of the formation of the Perth Expeditionary Force was not pure, and these soldiers of the Expeditionary Force joined the Expeditionary Force because of the instigation of the Perth City Council and wanted to come to Port Hedland to make a fortune.

Such troops basically do not have much military discipline, and even in those units where the officers have not yet landed, many soldiers who have not been given the next order have even begun to rush around, trying to find something good to reward themselves.

So the docks were now in great disarray, full of hordes of soldiers, like unorganized rioters, wreaking havoc on any house they could see, scrambling for everything they could find, and even going on to do so.

The chaos on the docks naturally looked in the eyes of James Jerome, and out of professionalism, James Jerome still proposed his own advice to Derek Chaplin, asking Derek Chaplin to restrain his troops and guard against a possible counterattack in Port Hedland.

At sea, Derek Chaplin would question James Jerome's authority, and now on land, Derek Chaplin is even more dismissive of James Jerome's advice: "Don't worry, they just need to vent now, we have to think from the soldiers' point of view." ”

To tell the truth, whether it is the East or the West, the army and the bandits are all one family, and the troops in the world who do not take the masses are PLA this one, and there is no other semicolon.

Even if Westerners already claim to be "civilized", Westerners still have extensive restraint on the military, and even in order to stimulate the fighting power of soldiers, Westerners encourage this kind of plunder in war, and of course, they will turn a blind eye to other crimes such as "insulting women".

It is difficult to say how powerful such an army is, perhaps in terms of military skills, they are indeed excellent, but in terms of will to fight, such an army is not worth mentioning.

Whether it's robbery, or something else, in the final analysis, it's the violence of the strong against the weak, if an army is used to this way of venting, when facing an army that is weaker than them, this army can indeed burst out with strong combat effectiveness, but when faced with troops that are about the same as their combat effectiveness, or even stronger than their combat effectiveness, this army will quickly collapse.

When you think about the Korean War and the war in Afghanistan, it's a stark contrast.

Of course, the behavior of "bullying the weak" is an out-and-out hooliganism from the moral point of view of the East, but in the eyes of many Westerners, the weak should be bullied by the strong by nature, and they are not qualified to be respected by the strong at all, so those Westerners had better pray every day and pray that their national will will be rich and strong, otherwise, hehe-

The behavior of the Paz expeditionary force on the docks of Port Hedland is a concentrated embodiment of the inferiority of these Westerners, of course, because Jack and Chen Zhaoqiang are in place, and there are no women and children in the docklands, which avoids many indescribable things from happening, which is a blessing in misfortune.

Robbery, if it rises to the height of the group, it will become an uncontrollable atrocity, and it is different from Derek Chaplin's imagination, when those officers landed, the officers did not gather the soldiers to emphasize order, but joined the robbery team, making the order more chaotic, which made Derek Chaplin and Chen Zhaoqiang, who was secretly observing, very angry.

"Is this group from Paz or from India? How can it be like they haven't seen anything, so why can they be poor and have no curtains at home? Chen Zhaoqiang's chief of staff, Tian Yongfu, shook his head as he watched a soldier of the Paz Expeditionary Force who walked out of a house with a pair of curtains in his arms.

Or when Jack just arrived in Port Hedland, in order to eliminate the vigilance of the Paz people, Jack hired a group of Indians, but the performance of this group of Indians made Jack really speechless, lazy and gluttonous, and not hygienic, but everywhere he was proud of the loyal lackeys of the British Empire, and pointed fingers at the Chinese and Annamite everywhere, offending the Annamite people It's okay to say, offending the Chinese, that is equivalent to offending the "gold master" behind Jack, so this group of Indians was quickly sent back to their hometown, now Port Hedland, except for Indian women, There are very few Indian men.

Well, Indian men don't go on the road, women are still good.

Although India is also one of the four ancient civilizations, it is very different from the Chinese in terms of the spirit of resistance. For thousands of years, Westerners, Arabs, Mongols, and so on took turns ruling India, so the ethnicity of India was quite complicated.

There is a situation that many people know, that is, mixed-race children tend to be quite beautiful, and India is a country with a serious mixed-race, so Indian women are still very good, whether it is by Western standards or Eastern standards, Indian women can see it.

As a result, the vast majority of Indians introduced to Port Hedland were women, such as Chen Zhaoqiang, whose concubine he had just accepted at the beginning of the year was Indian.

"How good do you think the living conditions of the Paz people are? It's not much better than us, and even many people are far inferior to us, take these soldiers as an example, they were either homeless or proletarians before, and people with a little status would not join such an army, not to mention curtains at home, whether they have a home or not. Chen Zhaoqiang looked down on these people.

Originally, Chen Zhaoqiang was also planning to use this war to get some prisoners to replenish the labor force, but now Chen Zhaoqiang is not sure, if these people are thrown into the prisoner of war camp, these soldiers may become laborers, but they are more likely to become troublemakers.

"What then? To fight or not to fight? We can't just watch them do what they do to us. What Tian Yongfu said sounded like an inquiry, but in fact there were psychological implications.

"Fight, fight, send a signal to the submarine forces on standby at sea, prepare to clean up the fleet of the Paz Expeditionary Force cruising in the outer harbor, and at the same time order Wu Chengzhi and Ruan Xingfei to attack immediately, catch if you can, and kill if you can!" Chen Zhaoqiang was murderous.

The Perth Expeditionary Force fleet had indeed entered Port Hedland, but at the same time James Jerome had an eye on it, and James Jerome ordered the "George V" and the "Black Swan" to patrol the open sea to prepare for possible changes, and only the "Pass" and "John Monash" were sailed into Port Hedland to provide fire support for the landing operation.

Such an arrangement seems to be invulnerable, but under the targeting of the submarine forces in Port Hedland, it can only be broken by each one.

(To be continued.) )