"Buzz Buzz Buzz..."

Listening to the humming of the plane overhead, a group of Japanese soldiers quickly ran into the combat position.

"Fire !!"

A Japanese officer roared loudly, and soon the anti-aircraft fire on the ground opened fire, and for a moment the entire sky was covered with barrage.

After the end of the Indian campaign, the large forces originally located in India could be gradually transferred to other battlefields, so after leaving some troops, the remaining forces began to be returned to the country or directly transported to the South Sea Islands by ship.

After dividing India into seven parts, China occupies four of them, and Britain has three, so China has a relatively clear voice in the Indian region. However, in order to guard against possible small moves by the British, although the war in India was over, the Nationalist government still had a certain amount of troops in India.

Basically, each of these four countries had a single army of troops to prevent a possible surprise attack by the British―――――― and, of course, more importantly, to prevent the British from provoking local forces against the rule of the Nationalist government.

Although after India was divided into seven countries, most Indians had an attitude of indifference, after all, for most Indians there is no such thing as a national concept. Not every Indian is like this, and there are quite a few Indians, like Gandhi, who have a unified view of India, and there are not a few such people in India, and many of them are still very influential.

If such people were to collude with the British, it would be a troublesome matter for the Nationalist government.

Among other things, Gandhi's practice of non-violent non-resistance was a very troublesome thing for the Nationalist government, which had encountered such a thing for the first time.

Fortunately, the Communist government only wanted to divide India, and did not want to colonize them like the British, so this trouble would not last long.

And wait until a few more years...

When the new rulers get used to this life, then India will no longer be able to be united.

The reason is very simple, not to mention anything else, in later generations there were many ethnic and racial groups in India, known as the "Ethnographic Museum". Among them, the Hindustani ethnic group accounts for about half of the total population of India and is the largest ethnic group in India. Each ethnic group in India has its own language, and there are as many as 22 official languages recognized by the constitution alone. Among them, Hindi is designated as the Chinese language, and English is very popular in India, especially in South India, and its status is even higher than that of Hindi. Other than that. India is also a multi-religious country, with four major religions – Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism and Sikhism – all originating in India. Most Indians believe in Hinduism, and Islam also has a large number of adherents in India...

Although the Hindustani population in India is also large, it does not make up the majority like the Han Chinese in China, so let's not mention whether this is a good thing for the time being. At least the unity of one country can be guaranteed.

In addition, each ethnic group has its own language, and there are 22 officially recognized ones alone...

In other words? How many are there that are not officially recognized?

It would be strange for a country with 22 languages to have no barriers between them.

Not to mention the religious problem, the religious conflict in India in later generations is also relatively famous, before Yan Guang crossed to this, I remember that there was a religious conflict in India, which caused a large number of people to flee...

In addition, even in later generations, there are still separatist forces such as the Maoist armed forces...

Such a country. It's really unreasonable not to divide him...

Not to mention the Soviet Union in later generations. At the time of the disintegration, weren't many of the people of the Soviet Union in favor of preserving the Soviet Union? But as a result, the USSR was broken down into several countries...

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After India began to divide into seven countries, Britain's power and influence suffered a severe decline. After all, India is known as 'the brightest jewel in the crown of the British crown', and the loss of this gem would be too great a blow to Britain.

But none of this is important to Yan Guang...

The most important thing now is the offensive against Australia.

After the end of the Indian campaign, except for a part of the troops that remained in India to defend against the local opposition and the British. The rest will either be repatriated to recuperate or will be taken directly by boat to the South Sea Islands. Prepare for a new campaign against Australia.

At this time, the situation of the Japanese in Hawaii was becoming more and more difficult, and they were not in a hurry.

After all, it really has to wait for the Americans to pull out their hands. Things are going to get more troublesome.

"In any case, Australia and New Zealand must be taken before the Americans settle the Japanese..."

Slapping the table, Yan Guang's face was full of serious expressions.

For Yan Guang, Australia and New Zealand are both ambitious, but New Zealand can also be left behind when necessary, after all, New Zealand is really not comparable to Australia.

You know, it's the only continent that is independent.

As long as you can occupy Australia, you can own an entire continent on your own.

At this time, only Britain had all colonies, but in later generations it was only Australia.

As for New Zealand?

In later generations, New Zealand was known for its pleasant climate, fresh environment, beautiful scenery, tourist attractions, rich forest resources, rich surface landscape, and the standard of living ranked third in the United Nations Human Development Index.

Polynesian immigrants arrived between 500 and 1300 AD and became the Maori, the indigenous people of New Zealand.

The first known Europeans to arrive here were the Dutchman Abel on the orders of the Dutch East India Company? Tasman's fleet arrived on the west coast of the North and South Islands in 1642. At that time, they did not know that the two islands were separated, so they named the whole country staatenLandt. It was later renamed Nieuw Zeeland after their base in present-day Batavia, Indonesia. The base was originally named after the province of Zealand in the Netherlands itself.

In 1769, Captain Cook began to study New Zealand, visiting the South Pacific and New Zealand three times and making maps for New Zealand. Its original map referred to Stewart Island as a peninsula and Banks Peninsula as an island. Cook's maps led European whaling ships to expand their activities in the waters, and New Zealand eventually became a European colony.

After the Treaty of Waitangi was signed in 1840, New Zealand became a British colony. However, the treaty was available in English and Māori, with the British Crown signing the English version and the Māori version signed by the Māori. The Maori edition promised to give Maori "tinorangatiratanga". The word means "autonomy" in Māori, but the English version translates it as "chieftain's position", and the two sides have different meanings and interpretations. This and other issues remain at odds with the New Zealand Government and Maori to this day. For example, the issue of ownership of the seabed and foreshore.

By 1905. The Northern War between the White and Māori in the North Island of New Zealand led to the decision in 1907 to become a British Dominion rather than join the Australian Commonwealth. In 1947, New Zealand became independent.

In addition, in later generations, New Zealand was the world's largest producer and exporter of deer antler velvet. Production accounts for 30%. The main mineral deposits are coal, gold, iron, natural gas, silver, manganese, tungsten, phosphate, oil, etc., but the reserves are not large. It has 30 million tons of oil reserves and 170 billion cubic meters of natural gas reserves. The forest is rich in resources, covering an area of 8.1 million hectares. Up to 30% of the country's land.

Such a country may be good if it is a tourist country, but if it is an industrial country, it is not good, because there are too few resources for industrial countries......

For Yan Guang, New Zealand is only a fraction of the way around.

"At present, the war situation in Hawaii is still very tight, and the Japanese have also sent a lot of troops to Hawaii, and I believe that the Japanese can hold out in Hawaii for a longer period of time. But..."

When I say that. Chen Shaokuan glanced at the audience.

"Although the Japanese can hold out in Hawaii for a while, it is unknown how long they can hold out, and more importantly, our target Australia is too big this time, and even if we can successfully attack Australia, it will be difficult to occupy this continent in a short period of time."

Hearing Chen Shaokuan say this, everyone present also nodded.

That's true. You know, Australia is about the same size as India, and India at least has railways all over the country. It's easy to get around, but what about Australia?

The central part of Australia is almost entirely wasteland. In other places, due to the sparse population, transportation is not very developed.

If we really send troops to Australia, maybe the landing or something will be easy to solve, and the key is how to fully receive the whole of Australia before the Americans intervene...

"How many troops can be mobilized at the moment?"

"After the end of the Indian battlefield, counting the troops on the South Sea Islands, there are almost more than three million, right?"

Although the Indian side has been settled, there are still many areas where the national government uses troops.

For example, in North Korea, nearly a million troops have been hoarded, and there is a long Sino-Russian border, plus the German battlefield, where more than one million troops have also been gathered, and there are also a considerable number of troops in the country that need to be left, and although nearly 10 million troops have been mobilized, many of them are recruits who have not yet been trained, and they need to be trained for a period of time before they can go to the battlefield.

In addition, there are garrisons in the Indochina Peninsula, the Philippines and other regions, where there are still Japanese guerrillas who have not yet been wiped out, so the garrison is absolutely indispensable.

Therefore, the only troops that can really be used now are the troops in Nanyang, and those who have just come down from the battlefield in India.

"More than three million..."

Thinking so, Cai Yi said.

"If it really doesn't work, let's just attack on multiple fronts..."

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It is said that it is a multi-line attack, but in fact, it can only be regarded as a three-line.

Because Australia's geography is very good, the more densely populated areas in Australia are Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney in the southeast, and there are basically no people in other areas, even if they are occupied, it is of little use.

So in the end, the targets selected by the Ministry of Defense were Darwin, Townsville in the north of Australia and Brisbane in the east...

Brisbane is more troublesome, which is about 2,000 kilometers away from the nearest airport, and the only way to bomb it is to use H40 bombers.

In addition, in order to avoid being perceived by the Japanese as the main target of the Wehrmacht, it was necessary to bomb several more targets to confuse the Japanese.

Fortunately, except for Brisbane, the remaining cities are basically not very far from the South Sea Islands occupied by the Wehrmacht, so except for Brisbane, the rest of the places are only ordinary bombers.

Speaking of Brisbane, it is also quite wronged, after all, Brisbane is the third largest city in Australia. The country's largest seaport, the capital of Queensland, and a major industrial and commercial center.

North Rim Sunshine Coast. It is adjacent to the international tourist attraction of Gold Coast City to the south. With a population of more than 2.15 million, the metropolitan area is the third most populous metropolitan area in Australia, after Sydney and Melbourne.

The name Brisbane derives from the name of the Governor of New South Wales during the colonial era. A river was discovered here that year and named it the Brisbane River. In honor of Thomas, the governor of the time who led to the colonization of the region? McDugger? Brisbane, hence the name of the city. …,

Brisbane is the nearest transportation point to the Asia-Pacific region, and Queensland is the richest area of Australia's natural resources and agricultural resources, rich in coal, natural gas, bauxite, copper, silver, lead, zinc, nickel, mineral sand, timber, etc., as well as sugar, beef, seafood, logs, wheat and fruits and other foods are also very rich.

However, due to the relationship between Sydney and Melbourne. Brisbane has always been the third largest city, and its presence is very small...

But even so, Brisbane is the third largest city in Australia, especially in today's sparsely populated Australia, which is of great significance.

On top of that, Brisbane is a great stopover for the southbound journey to Sydney and Melbourne, so Brisbane is the most important of the three targets, and one that must be won...

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After the plan is finalized. A large number of bombers began to carry out intensive bombing under the coast of Australia. Basically every city on the coastline, even every village and town, was bombed―――――― but was there any accidental injury? In wartime, this is not so much.

On the other hand, the Wehrmacht no longer uses chemical weapons such as VX gas.

After all, there are still a large number of Australians in Australia, and it doesn't matter if one or two thousand are injured by mistake, but if there are more, after all, international public opinion also needs to be considered.

Most importantly. The Japanese began to equip their troops with full-body protective suits, in other words, VX gas was no longer as powerful.

In this case. Continuing to use VX gas would be a waste, and would be better off than using incendiary bombs or regular aerial bombs.

"But the Chinese are really rich..."

Look after the bombing. The Chinese bomber that gradually left, Tony shook his head and smiled bitterly.

"yes, they bomb almost every day, and I don't know where they got all those bombs..."

Hearing Tony's words, an officer on the side also nodded.

"I've heard that it's not just us here now, but other areas are also being bombed."

"There are about seven or eight of them, and I've heard something similar..."

Maybe it opened the conversation, and the other people also discussed it word by word.

"Then now find the main direction of attack of the Chinese?"

"Not yet, but the few areas that have been bombed so far, I believe it should be..."

"Didn't you just say seven or eight districts? How can you keep such a large range? We don't have that many troops!! ”

Indeed, during the entire Second World War, Japan mobilized almost a million troops, and the total population of Japan at that time was only about 73 million. This mobilization is even more than 10 percent of Japan's total population. In fact, Japan simply does not have that much equipment to equip such a large number of people, so a considerable number of them do not have any weapons―――――― if bamboo knives and bamboo guns can also be considered weapons.

On the other hand, due to the fact that it has lost a large number of troops in India, Taiwan, and the Nanyang battlefields, and it is also necessary to deploy a certain number of troops on the Hawaiian battlefield, Japan's troops are quite scarce at present, especially the troops with combat effectiveness.

This is also why Cai Yi will propose a multi-way offensive relationship, if the opponent is Japan in the past, Cai Ye will never propose this, after all, the combat effectiveness of the Japanese is still obvious to all, since it is a Japanese army like this, so many attacks are nothing...

On the other hand, the officers were also discussing with each other. However, while the discussion was accommodating, the topic became more and more pessimistic, and even many officers felt that the war was very likely not to be won―――――― which would never have been allowed in the past. In the current situation, although the officers and soldiers above are strictly forbidden to discuss this matter, the officers below do not care, and no one will report them anyway......

"Isn't it? Are you going to fail..."

Listening to the discussion of his colleagues around him, Tony suddenly felt very sad...

You must know that just two years ago, they were still discussing whether they could kill the United States and then achieve common prosperity in Greater East Asia and obtain the same status as China. But now...

They were cornered by China, which was once considered the best ally...

"Maybe, I can't go back this time..."

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An atmosphere began to permeate the Japanese army, but the fighting power of the Japanese army was not lost because of this. On the contrary, the Japanese are like beasts that have been cornered, trapped and fighting...

For these beasts, perhaps in a desperate situation, it will be even more crazy.

Even some units began to prepare explosives for self-detonation for low-level soldiers. Just want to wait until the Wehrmacht lands. To be able to bring some more people to hell with you...

After seeing some things in Nanyang, they have a sense of undying.

It was in this context that the Defence Forces were almost ready to launch an offensive against Australia.

With more than 3 million troops, it is not easy to prepare the necessary supplies for more than 3 million troops, especially this time it is a cross-sea operation to attack an independent continent.

For this reason, the Wehrmacht is also racking its brains. Not only did a large number of transport planes be dispatched, but almost all the transport ships of the Navy were dispatched. Even some private transport ships were recruited.

Transports, in particular, are perhaps the biggest contributor.

And in the middle of this. The biggest contribution is the Ro-Ro ship...

Ro-Ro ship, also known as "open up and off" ship, or "roll on and off" ship, is a special ship that uses cargo vehicles to carry goods, and uses a tractor to pull a semi-trailer or wheeled pallet carrying box cargo or other pieces of cargo directly in and out of the cargo hold for loading and unloading.

Ro-Ro ships evolved from car ferries. After World War II, Britain used decommissioned landing craft to open a regular route to Hamburg, Germany, where vehicles loaded with cargo could land directly. Although the use of landing craft to transport is uneconomical and has no promotion value, it is an epoch-making event in the history of transportation, because it has created a new form of marine transportation―――――― Ro-Ro transportation.

Since the late 50s of the 20th century, since the birth of container ships in the United States and Britain, people have found that it is not convenient to load and unload containers in the process of using container ships, and many lifting devices and lifting equipment have to be used. It is envisaged that the loading and unloading of containers will be changed to the direct loading and unloading of container ships by cargo vehicles, and the loading and unloading of goods will be changed from hanging up and down to horizontal operations.

At the end of the 60s of the 20th century, on the basis of container ships, a new type of ship 'ro-ro ship' appeared in some countries. This can save a lot of loading and unloading, lifting equipment, simplify the loading and unloading procedures, and can also enable container ships to dock at general terminals, without the need for large-scale transformation of port terminals. In this way, there is a container ro-ro ship, and the ro-ro ship in modern cargo ships refers to this kind of container ro-ro ship.

The first ro-ro ship, the Comet, was built by the United States in 1958. It was not until 1966 that Denmark built the first Nordic ro-ro vessel, the Sumerset. Due to the small tidal range of the coast of the Nordic region, the road transportation network is dense, and the use of ro-ro ships can constitute an integrated transportation system of sea transportation and road transportation, so the ro-ro ship has developed rapidly in Northern Europe, and since the first ro-ro ship was built in the United States in 1958, it has been developed and applied more in Northern Europe, and developed countries are also using it.

In later generations, the first RoRo ships were built by Americans, but the first RoRo ships in this era were built by a shipyard under the name of Yan Guang. …,

At that time, when Yan Guang inspected the shipyard, he found that the use of today's transport ships was extremely troublesome, and at the same time, Yan Guang always felt that there seemed to be something missing in the transport ship, until he saw a landing ship in the shipyard, he suddenly realized and understood.

In fact, the Ro-Ro ship was built together with the Fengxue-class amphibious landing ship, but because the construction technology of the Ro-Ro ship was relatively simple, the Ro-Ro ship appeared earlier than the Fengxue class.

On the other hand, because the RoRo ship is extremely efficient, at least several times higher than those of today's transport ships, it has also contributed a lot in military operations this time.

However, since ro-ro ships have only recently appeared, they are only available in China so far, and the number is not particularly large, only about one-third of the existing transport ships.

In fact, the Ro-Ro ship does have a strong military use, and the first 5,000-space car Ro-Ro ship 'Shengshi' built by China in later generations can even unload an armored brigade within a few hours.

Such a strong carrying capacity and military use have led to the involvement of the military.

You must know that even in this era, the Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth, which are claimed to be able to carry tens of thousands of people, are only capable of transporting people. It's like a tank or an armored car, but it's something you can't even think about...

It is also with the help of these new types of equipment that the Wehrmacht has been able to transport so much material to the war zone in such a short period of time. And the Ro-Ro ship can not only load supplies, after the capture of the port, the Ro-Ro ship can even directly unload a unit in combat condition ...

And after all the supplies were ready, the war began ...

On the day of the outbreak of the war, everything was as usual, and a large number of bombers began to bomb the target sites, and the Japanese were used to this.

After all, even if it is a one-ton heavy bomb, as long as it hides in a strong fortification and is not directly hit, it will basically be fine.

However, it didn't take long for the Japanese to realize that today's bombing seemed much stronger.

At the same time, the Japanese command in Sydney also got a reaction, that is, the original several places that were bombed were not bombed today...

"It seems that the main attack positions of the Chinese are these three places..."

With that said, an officer marked three places on the map: Darwin, Townsville and Brisbane...

"It was expected..."

Looking at the three places on the map, an officer nodded.

This was to be expected, as there were only a few suitable places to land in northern Australia, and the most suitable of them were Darwin and Townsville.

It's just that the original large-scale bombing did have a certain purpose of interference, so that the Japanese did not dare to make judgments, after all, if there was a deviation, it would cause unpredictable consequences. However, even so, the Japanese still deployed a relatively large number of troops in these three positions.

"Can those three places be kept?"

"Who knows..."

Saying this, an officer smiled wryly.

"This shows how the Chinese are offensive..."

Although Japan's industrial strength has been greatly improved after the capture of Australia, it is still not enough to equip the remaining seven or eight million troops in Japan. At this moment, there are only more than 2 million troops in Australia, and if they want to rely on more than 2 million troops to control the huge Australia, these people have no confidence...

After all, even when they were at their strongest, they didn't defend the Philippines and the South Sea Islands...

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