On the morning of 22 September, a large fleet appeared in the waters near Port Moresby, the capital of the island of New Guinea, with the Chinese flag flying on every warship, and the sea area south of this sea area was Australia.

On the flagship Yingzheng, Cheng Biguang walked out of the cabin to the deck to do chest expansion exercises, and when he saw his naval officers and men, they all stood up and saluted him, and he kept returning the salute. Came to the side of the ship, ran along the side of the ship a few laps, sweated, changed into clean clothes, and after breakfast, came to the command cabin, Shen Shoukun was already here.

"Old Shen, why is it so early? Have you had breakfast? ”

Shen Shoukun said with a smile: "After eating, I got up early, and I was about to arrive in Port Moresby, I was worried that something unexpected would happen, and I couldn't sleep, so I got up early!" ”

Cheng Biguang heard this: "Old Shen, what are you worried about? The Germans no longer have a fleet here, the biggest power in this vicinity is Australia, and Australia is our ally, how can something happen? ”

Shen Shoukun shook his head and said: "Lao Cheng, you are too sincere, as the saying goes, 'you can't have the heart to harm people, and you can't do without the heart to prevent people', although they are allies, we can't help but guard against him, although Australia's fleet can't be called large, but there are a few ships anyway, and the strength is still good, you see, this is a telegram just sent from China, it was sent by the president himself, he told us to be careful with Australia, we can't fully trust, after all, what are we doing here now?" It's here to grab food from their mouths, we are going to rob New Guinea and the Bismarck Islands, can Australia not be annoyed? You know, this is their doorstep! ”

Cheng Biguang took the telegram handed over by Shen Shoukun and looked at it. Sure enough, it was a telegram sent by Xiao Zhenlei, to the effect that it was similar to what Shen Shoukun said. He pondered for a moment and nodded, "Yes, I was careless." It seems that we are really guarding against Australia, by the way, have the reconnaissance planes been sent out? ”

"It's been sent out, oh, almost a quarter of an hour!" Shen Shoukun said, lit a cigarette and smoked.

At this time, a green light began to flash on the machine in front of him, and an officer sitting in front of the machine wearing headphones immediately twisted the knob of the machine, twisted it twice, and then stopped, saying: "This is the flagship, this is the flagship." Please! ”

After a few seconds, the officer took off the headset and put it down, got up and walked over to salute Shen Shoukun and said, "General, the No. 3 reconnaissance plane requests a call!" ”

After the military action against the Japanese naval fleet, Cheng Biguang, Shen Shoukun, and others all felt that instant contact was very unacceptable; during their return to China for recuperation, they immediately learned that the Military Science and Technology Research Institute had invented and produced radio talkers, and immediately equipped some major warships and reconnaissance planes with a batch of radio talkers, but because the size and weight of this kind of radio talker were still relatively large. At present, it can only be installed on ships and reconnaissance aircraft, and after installing this kind of wireless intercom, reconnaissance planes can no longer be equipped with weapon systems, and many large internal parts have been removed. The structure of the reconnaissance aircraft was simplified as much as possible and the weight was reduced, otherwise the range of the reconnaissance aircraft would have been much smaller, and due to the problem of the power of the wireless intercom. The distance between the reconnaissance aircraft and the battleship before it could only be at most 150 nautical miles, which means that its reconnaissance radius was only 150 nautical miles. But this is enough for the current naval fleet.

"Oh, is there a situation?" Shen Shoukun dropped the cigarette butt and immediately walked over, picked up the headphones and put them on. said into the microphone: "I'm Shen Shoukun, No. 3, what's the situation?" ”

"Snort?????? Sneer?????? Sir, a fleet of cruisers, destroyers, and torpedo ships was spotted shelling the port of Morbis, and the flag of the other side should be the Australian Navy."

"What? Australian Navy fleet? Did they do it to Port Morbis? Shen Shoukun said and looked at Cheng Biguang, and then said to the microphone: "No. 3 reconnaissance plane, report the size of the Australian fleet!" ”

"Two cruisers, four destroyers, four torpedo ships, and four offshore patrol gunboats, a supply ship!"

Shen Shoukun said again: "Their fleet doesn't have troop carriers? ”

"No, sir!"

Shen Shoukun heard the words and said: "Okay, you continue to monitor and reconnoiter the surrounding sea areas, and the fourth reconnaissance opportunity will take over you in two hours!" ”

"Understood!"

After putting down the headset and intercom, Shen Shoukun turned around and said, "Lao Cheng, what do you think?" ”

Cheng Biguang took out a pack of cigarettes, lit one, smoked a few puffs, thought for a while, and said: "Because of its mountainous and rugged terrain on the island of New Guinea, domestic land transportation is very inconvenient, and sea routes are also very inconvenient, so the residents basically gather around the city, and the Australians also know that it is better to land from other places, it is better to attack the port of Morbis directly, and now that the Germans have no fleet here, then the Australian fleet can shell the port of Morbis at will, and fight if you want, and leave if you don't want to fight!" In my opinion, since Australia wants to fight, let them, they will fight theirs, we will fight ours, we will now move closer to the coastline and start the landing, the Germans should not have many troops here, we will land first, transport the army and equipment up, the attention of the Germans has been attracted by the Australian fleet, it is estimated that by the time they find our army, all the ground forces of our army have already landed! After our ground forces come ashore, we will contact the Australian fleet, so as not to have any misunderstanding between the two sides, you see? ”

Shen Shoukun weighed it and nodded: "It's not far from Port Morbis here, okay, let's do it!" ”

In fact, why didn't Australia want to send its army to conduct a landing operation on the island of New Guinea? It's just that more than eighty percent of the domestic army has been transferred to Britain and North Africa, and now the domestic army of Australia and New Zealand is less than two percent of the past, and the recruits are in training, so there is no extra army to land on the island of New Guinea, and they are ready to wait for the new recruits to be trained.

"Order the fleet to move closer to the coastline, let the troop carriers prepare for landing operations, the soldiers land first, and the equipment will follow!"

In two hours, the fleet landed on the seashore a dozen miles southeast of Port Morbis, and despite the short beach line, it was able to land, and a regiment of troops landed in two hours, after which artillery and other heavy equipment were also transported to the shore. During the landing, there were no accidents, and it seems that the German forces here are extremely limited.

It was already noon after the infantry landing, and according to information from reconnaissance planes, the Australian fleet was still anchored in the waters of Port Morbis, but the shelling had ceased and had not left.

After Cheng Biguang saw that the ground troops had landed, he sent a telegram to the Australian fleet, informing them that the Chinese fleet was coming, that the infantry had successfully landed, and that they were marching in the direction of Port Morbis.

After the Australian fleet received the telegram sent by Cheng Biguang, the top management of the fleet was extremely surprised to see the content of the telegram, and was a little worried, they never thought that the Chinese fleet would come all the way here to fight the Germans, but they couldn't say anything, they couldn't stop the Chinese from beating the Germans, right? Now that the Germans are everyone's common enemy, and the situation on the British mainland is not very optimistic, they must not offend the Chinese at this time, and on the bright side, they must also welcome the arrival of the Chinese fleet.

What worries Australia is that the Chinese fleet has already sent infantry to land, and the infantry has begun to march to Port Morbis, but this time they only came with the naval fleet, and they did not transport troops, so they can't let the sailors land to block the German machine guns, right? If the Chinese had occupied the port of Morbis first, what would they have done about it? Is it a login? Or don't log in? If they want to land, they will have to transport troops from the mainland, which is not a short time, and it is estimated that when the infantry is brought over, the Chinese will have already completed the full occupation of the island of New Guinea, and what will the Chinese do if they do not let them land at that time?

The top brass of the Australian fleet discussed on the flagship for several hours, and before they could come up with a result, they heard the officers report that a huge fleet had appeared on the sea behind them, and all the Australian officers walked to the deck to watch, but when they saw the size of the fleet, the hearts of all the senior officers of the Australian fleet were cold.

Some officers muttered in their hearts, "Why do you need to drive such a large fleet to an island like New Guinea, where there are not many enemy troops?" Didn't you fight mosquitoes with a cannon? Do you have other intentions?

But when the entire fleet of the Chinese fleet appeared, all the senior officers of the Australian Navy were speechless, and the battleships were all opened, and there were two of them, what kind of battleships were there? There are no naval guns on the deck, and there are planes parked? I'm rubbing, I'm not afraid that the plane will slip into the sea?

All the high-ranking officers of the Australian Navy know that it seems that there is no hope of seizing the island of New Guinea, and the Chinese have brought in the most powerful fleet in the country, and Australia only has some cruisers and destroyers, and it is impossible to grab them.

In the afternoon, the high-ranking admirals of the two navies met aboard the Yingzheng, and the two sides exchanged views on the issue of attacking the German troops on the island of New Guinea. Although the top brass of the Australian army wanted to oppose it, but what they said was the truth, they really did not have infantry, and the top brass of the Australian army had no choice but to agree with Cheng Biguang's opinion, they played soy sauce on the sea, and the Chinese infantry carried out the battle to seize the island. (To be continued......)