Colonel Jonandel, the commander of the British Navy in Australia, watched the fast protection cruiser of which he was the captain quickly sink to the surface of the sea, clenched his fists and slammed the concrete wall inside the fort.

In order to take overall command of the defense of Sydney, Jonander made the first mate of his fast protection cruiser temporarily take over the right of his captain, while Jonander came to the No. 1 battery in the harbor and was responsible for coordinating and commanding all the troops and warships of the British and Australian countries guarding the city of Sydney and the port of Sydney.

I didn't expect that the fast protection cruiser I was originally on would be sunk so quickly, and I didn't even have a chance to rush into the shallows of Sydney Harbour and use it as a fixed battery.

Yonander said to the adjutant beside him in a deep voice: "Continue to convey my order, let the 8 warships that rushed to the shoal, except for the personnel responsible for controlling the artillery, leave the other warships immediately leave the warships and land ashore, enter the fortifications in the harbor, and prepare to resist the attack of the Chinese Imperial Army, and let all the 8 fighters and 6 bombers at the airport rise into the air to attack the warships of the Chinese Imperial Navy, and order our British Navy and Australian Navy torpedo boats to attack the fleet of the Chinese Empire, Fight for a torpedo attack from battleships close to the Chinese Empire. ”

The British and Australian armies were not prepared to fight to the death with the landing force of the Chinese Empire here in Sydney, so only more than 1,000 people from one regiment of the British Army and more than 8,000 people from one division of the Australian Army were left, in addition to five batteries in the hands of Yonandell, the original more than 1,500 Australian port garrisons, and the 200 British artillery officers and men assigned to him by the commander of the British Army in Australia, Lieutenant General Mihil Layton.

In order to increase the strength of the army, Yonander let all the officers and men on the wooden warships of the Australian Navy. All of them abandoned the ship and went ashore to form an infantry force of more than 700 people. Organized as a defensive force in the port, after all, if the wooden warship faced the wolf-like Chinese Imperial Navy in a naval battle. It's like sending them to death, and it's better to turn these Australian Navy officers and sailors into a garrison force in the port.

The 8 sailors who rushed to the shoals and evacuated were left on the immobile warships, and it was no longer useful for Jonander to turn them into infantry to strengthen the port guards, and these 8 warships became fixed batteries, leaving only the personnel in charge of the ship's guns.

As Australia's largest port city, Sydney is also the base camp of the British army in Australia, and Sydney Harbour is the military port of the British Navy stationed in Australia. And there is also the general headquarters of the British Army in Australia in Sydney, and even the British Air Force, all the fighters in Australia are also concentrated here in Sydney.

The British deployed a total of 8 fighters and 6 bombers in Australia, all at the airport near Sydney, these are the fighters that the British Air Force has long been equipped with, and the performance is very big compared with the fighters of the Royal Air Force of the Chinese Empire, but at this time the fighters of the Imperial Chinese Air Force could not come here. So Yonander ordered all 8 fighters and 6 bombers to take to the air, and it was time for the Chinese Empire to taste what it would be like to be bombed.

The British and Australians combined had 12 torpedo boats, and if they could get close to the main warships of the Chinese Empire, their torpedoes would pose a very big threat. This is also the only means that the British and Australian navies can think of to launch an attack.

Inside the bridge of the dreadnought battleship, the flagship of the Fourth Fleet, Chen Ming, the commander of the Fourth Fleet, saw several slightly larger warships of the enemy. They all washed up on the shore and smiled indifferently.

The British Navy and the Australian Navy in the port of Sydney. The largest warships are just a few fast protection cruisers, for the escort fleet that they lead. There is really no pressure at all, and the warships of the two countries of Britain and Australia took the initiative to run aground on the shore, it seems that they hope to use a few slightly larger warships as fixed batteries, but how can our escort fleet let them make a wishful calculation.

Chen Ming ordered: "The main guns of the 2 dreadnought battleships will aim at the stranded warships for me to fire, blow these stranded warships into a pile of scrap metal for me, order 4 all-steel battleships and 4 large fast armored cruisers to approach the direction of the port, and after they are pulled into the port of Sydney to 10,000 meters, they will bombard the batteries and fortifications in the port of Sydney, as well as the warships in the port, and at the same time let the 4 all-steel battleships and 4 large fast armored cruisers be careful, at a distance of 10,000 meters, Some of the large-caliber shore defense guns in Sydney Harbour have probably reached their range, and I don't want to lose any major warships here in Sydney Harbour. ”

"Boom-", a stranded Australian Navy fast protection cruiser was hit by a 305 mm shell, if it was in the sea, this Australian Navy fast protection cruiser basically had no other possibility except to sink, but because it had run aground, so although this 305 mm shell almost blew its stern to pieces, most of the naval guns on it still maintained combat effectiveness, but the warships of the Chinese Empire had not yet entered the range of naval guns, The Australian Navy fast-deft cruiser could only continue to stand up for the bombing, hoping to deal a heavy blow to the Chinese Imperial Army when it landed.

It is a pity that the Australian Navy fast protection cruiser did not survive to the landing of the Chinese Imperial Army, and then it was hit by the main guns of the dreadnought battleship in succession, and the ammunition compartment was destroyed, all the ship's guns were blown up, and the entire warship was shrouded in fire, and when the fire was extinguished, it was just a pile of scrap metal.

With more than 200 Australian Navy officers and sailors, Vice Admiral Natalita, the Minister of the Australian Admiralty, who withdrew from 2 Australian fast protection cruisers to the port fortifications, saw the warship shrouded in fire, and only a few Australian Navy officers and sailors who remained on it escaped, and trembled in his heart, if he had evacuated a little later, he would have gone to see God now, damn the British, if it weren't for that bastard Colonel Yonander, how could he be in such a dangerous situation, And this time, the entire Australian Navy basically doesn't want to leave Sydney Harbour.

No! It is certainly inseparable from the current situation. It's impossible to run, and Australia has built up a navy with great difficulty. It looks like it's going to be ruined today.

Soon, the 4 all-steel battleships and 4 large fast armored cruisers of the Imperial Chinese Navy were 10,000 meters away from the port of Sydney. At this time, several of the British and Australian warships that rushed to the shallows and ran aground had already been bombarded into a pile of scrap metal by the two dreadnought battleships, and the 12 torpedo boats launched by the British and Australian navies were all sunk by the secondary guns of the main warships of the Imperial Chinese Navy and other small warships that followed the main warships of the Imperial Chinese Navy.

One of the five batteries in Sydney Harbour was also heavily damaged, being hit by several 305-mm armor-piercing shells from dreadnought battleships, and several shore defense guns were blown up without firing, this battery numbered No. 4. Basically no combat effectiveness has been lost.

In the No. 1 battery, Colonel Yonander saw that the four all-steel battleships and four large fast armored cruisers of the Chinese Empire had been pulled into the port at a distance of 10,000 meters, and immediately ordered the six 260-mm coastal defense guns in the No. 1 battery to open fire, and 10,000 meters was already the effective range of the 260-mm coastal defense guns.

After seeing the cannon fire from one of the batteries in Sydney Harbor, the four all-steel battleships and four large fast armored cruisers of the Chinese Empire immediately concentrated most of their fire on this battery, and the No. 1 battery was immediately covered with countless large-caliber shells.

The sudden appearance of 8 fighters and 6 bombers of the British Air Force in the sky did not cause panic among the officers and men of the Royal Navy of the Chinese Empire, and the Military Intelligence Bureau of the Chinese Empire had already informed Sydney, Australia. There was an air force of the British Air Force, and Chen Ming, as the commander of the escort fleet, was unimpressed by the current warplanes of the British, believing in relying on anti-aircraft fire from warships. Don't worry about this small British Airways team at all.

In fact, just as Chen Ming expected, the British Air Force's 8 fighters and 6 bombers, which were not fast, were just approaching the Royal Navy escort fleet of the Chinese Empire. It encountered extremely heavy anti-aircraft fire, and one after another was shot down. Without causing any losses to the escort fleet, all 14 fighters of the British Air Force were destroyed by anti-aircraft fire.

From 8:50 a.m. At 11 o'clock at noon, only more than two hours had passed, but the British and Australian armies in the port of Sydney had already suffered extremely heavy losses in these two hours, and it can be said that they had lost the capital to prevent the Chinese Imperial Army from landing in the port of Sydney.

Most of the warships of the Royal Navy escort fleet of the Chinese Empire have approached the sea less than 5,000 meters from the harbor of Sydney, while all the warships of the British Navy and the Australian Navy have either been sunk or become a pile of ruins on the shoals, and the five port batteries that pose the greatest threat to the escort fleet have all been destroyed by the large-caliber shells of the main warships of the Royal Navy of the Chinese Empire, including the No. 1 battery with 6 caliber 260 mm shore defense guns. Even the fortifications built in the port to resist the landing of the Chinese Imperial Army were bombed beyond recognition, and now the defense force of the port of Sydney has basically been bombed, which also indicates that the landing operation is about to begin.

After achieving such a great result, the commander of the Fourth Fleet, Chen Ming, did not have a smile on his face, and a city-class all-steel battleship of the Fourth Fleet was killed by the shore defense guns in Sydney Harbor.

1 shell with a caliber of 260 mm pierced through the 65 mm deck armor of this city-class all-steel battleship, penetrated several layers of steel plates, and exploded near a power compartment, causing several boilers of this city-class all-steel battleship to explode, blowing up a gap of more than ten meters under the water surface, as the sea water continued to pour in from the gap, the measures to close the hatch were ineffective, and now only one-fifth of the hull of this city-class all-steel battleship was still above the water. The rest of the ship has already sunk into the sea, and it may not be long before the city-class all-steel battleship will completely disappear from the sea.

Chen Ming sighed, he didn't expect that his Fourth Fleet had suffered a big loss here, facing the extremely weak British Navy and the Australian Navy, as well as the 5 batteries in Sydney Harbor, 1 city-class all-steel battleship under his command was actually killed, which was really unlucky.

Chen Ming then said to the captain of the Longwei: "Inform the three division commanders of the Marine Corps that the batteries in Sydney Harbour and the enemy warships in the harbor have all been destroyed. Now the marines can start landing operations, alas - it was not expected that 1 more all-steel battleship would be lost here. This time it will be a joke for several other main fleets. ”

In a private house in the city of Sydney, Colonel Yonandel has gauze wrapped around his head. The look on his face was not very depressed, he said to the 7 or 8 British and Australian officers in the room: "Now the naval fleets of our two countries have been wiped out, and the 5 batteries in the port have also been destroyed, but our efforts have not been in vain, 1 powerful all-steel battleship of the Imperial Chinese Navy was sunk by us, and several warships of the Imperial Chinese Navy were damaged by us, and then we will start a life-and-death street battle with the landed Imperial Chinese troops in Sydney City, and we will try to inflict heavy losses on the Chinese Imperial Army here in Sydney." , fight to the last moment. ”

Battery No. 1 in Sydney Harbour was hit by multiple large-caliber shells. The cement block on the top of the fort fell and hit Colonel Jonandall's head, knocking him unconscious, and his adjutant and guards hurriedly carried him to the field hospital in Sydney, but not long after Colonel Jonandel left, Battery 1 was turned into a ruin in a violent explosion, and Jonendel escaped.

If it weren't for the cement blocks that were knocked down by shells. Yonander was already buried under the rubble.

Vice Admiral Natalitan, the Australian Minister of the Navy, who was bandaged on his arm, was hit in the arm by shrapnel during the fortifications of the port, but he was lucky compared to the large number of British and Australian officers and soldiers who died in the fortifications of the port. Natalitan's face turned pale, and he said to Yonander: "Colonel Yonander, didn't you say that you would hold on to the port? We endured the bombardment of the large-caliber naval guns of the Imperial Chinese Navy, not counting the people in the batteries. Thousands of people were killed and wounded in the port fortifications alone, and as a result, the troops of the Chinese Empire had not yet landed. You gave the order to withdraw all the troops from the port to the city of Sydney, and the officers and soldiers of the two countries who were killed by the bombing were lost in vain! How did you command! ”

Yonander snorted coldly and said, "I don't have time for you to talk about it here. You just need to carry out my orders, and immediately take your people to the designated city and prepare to fight to the death against the Chinese Empire that has entered the city of Sydney! ”

The fortifications of the port were bombarded by the large-caliber naval guns of the Royal Navy of the Chinese Empire, and the five batteries that were used as the support points of these port fortifications were all destroyed, so Jonander hoped that the British and Australian armies, which were less than 10,000 people, could rely on the buildings in the city of Sydney to start a tragic street battle with the troops landed in the Chinese Empire.

However, the tragedy is very tragic, but compared with the officers and soldiers of the two countries of Britain and Australia, the marines of the three divisions of the Royal Navy of the Chinese Empire, after easily landing in the port of Sydney, hundreds of sea lion medium amphibious tanks and HZ1 amphibious armored vehicles, with a large number of infantry, rushed into the city of Sydney.

In the face of the Marines armed to the teeth, especially with a large number of tanks and armored vehicles, the street fighting of the British and Australian armies in Sydney became a joke, and it took only one afternoon to completely disappear the fierce gunfire, and the entire city of Sydney fell into the hands of the Marines, and the seriously wounded and unconscious British Navy commander in Australia, Colonel Yonander, the Australian Navy Vice-Admiral Natalitan, and nearly 5,000 other British and Australian officers and soldiers were captured, More than 3,000 officers and soldiers from the two countries of Britain and Australia in the other cities of Sydney became a cold corpse.

The day after Sydney was captured by Imperial Chinese forces, the stubborn British Navy Captain Jonandel died in a makeshift prisoner of war camp for the Royal Marines of the Chinese Empire due to his worsening injuries.

After the capture of Sydney, only the 1st and 2nd divisions of the 3 divisions of the Royal Marine Corps of the Chinese Empire landed in Sydney, and the 2 divisions except for a small number of troops left in Sydney, divided their troops into 4 routes and began to attack the whole of Australia from Sydney.

The 5th Marine Division, on the other hand, continued to travel on troop carriers, escorted by a part of the escort fleet warships, and then headed southeast, and the 5th Marine Division was targeting New Zealand, another country in the British Commonwealth.

Subsequently, the escort fleet of the Royal Navy of the Chinese Empire defeated the British Navy in New Zealand and the New Zealanders' own navy, covered the landing of the 5th Marine Division in Wellington, New Zealand, and routed the British and New Zealand forces defending Wellington with nearly 20,000 combined forces, and then the 5th Division also began to attack the whole of New Zealand.

Because the British Army, the Australian Army and the New Zealand Army in Australia and New Zealand adopted the guerrilla tactics of the South African Boers against the British, the progress of the three marine divisions was not satisfactory, so in order to occupy Australia and New Zealand as soon as possible, the Ministry of Defense sent another field army into the battlefield of Australia and New Zealand, and in order to achieve the complete occupation of Australia and New Zealand, the army of the Chinese Empire, The systematic deportation of European immigrants from Australia and New Zealand and the indigenous people of the 2 countries began. (To be continued.) )