Just when the Royal Army of the Chinese Empire concentrated 3 Guards and 6 Field Corps and began a large-scale attack on the city of Ufa west of the Russian Ural Mountains, the Royal Navy of the Chinese Empire, which had just experienced a major war, was not idle, and a large fleet was sailing eastward on the sea surface of the Arafura Sea.

After defeating the combined expeditionary fleet of the Entente and the Allied Powers, the main fleet of the Royal Navy of the Chinese Empire, which returned directly to the Singapore Naval Base to rest, sailed to Australia in accordance with the order of the Chinese Emperor Lin Daxin, from among the warships that had participated in the naval battle, and escorted hundreds of troop transports and supply transport ships.

The warships that were drawn out included 2 Dragon-class dreadnought battleships, 4 all-steel battleships, 2 Taishan-class large fast armored cruisers, 2 Tsavage-class large fast armored cruisers, 4 anti-modification-class fast protection cruisers, 4 anti-aircraft fast-protection cruisers, 4 repellent-class destroyers, 4 destroyers, 6 Mine-B-class torpedo boats, and 6 A-class torpedo boats, and dozens of warships of all sizes that were basically undamaged. As far as the entire Imperial Chinese Navy is concerned, the scale of the escort fleet transferred this time is not large.

However, you must know that the British Navy's strength in Australia is not strong, with only 4 fast protection cruisers, 4 destroyers, 8 torpedo boats and 8 small offshore gunboats, counting the Australian Navy's own 2 fast protection cruisers, 4 torpedo boats, 12 small offshore gunboats and several old wooden warships, in the face of the escort fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy, the balance of forces is also very different.

However, in New Zealand, the British Navy, as well as the New Zealand Navy, were even weaker, with only 2 fast protection cruisers, 3 destroyers, 6 torpedo boats, and 8 small offshore gunboats. Some of the wooden warships were almost negligible, and the escort fleet of the Royal Navy of the Chinese Empire was completely destroyed by the maritime forces of Australia and New Zealand.

The 150,000 officers and men of the 1st, 2nd and 5th Divisions of the Royal Marines of the Chinese Empire, carrying more than 100,000 troops on the escort fleet, will serve as the main force to capture Australia and New Zealand. These three marine divisions were all in accordance with Lin Daxin's orders, after the end of that large-scale naval battle, they gathered from the naval bases of the Chinese Empire to Singapore.

The Royal Marine Corps of the Imperial Chinese Empire, as the main land attack force of the navy, has also developed by leaps and bounds in recent years. From one Marine Corps at the time of its earliest establishment, it has expanded to more than 250,000 people in five Marine Divisions today, a hundredfold increase in size, and the Marine Corps has become more and more sophisticated.

At present, the largest unit of the Marine Corps has only reached the division level, and it turned out that Lin Daxin had reorganized the Marine Corps into a unit at the army level, but later Lin Daxin considered that the tasks of the Marine Corps were mainly island operations and landing operations. One Marine Corps is simply too large for many islands in the world. The Marine Corps has been reduced to a more flexible Marine Division, and five Marine Divisions have been formed, each with a strength of more than 50,000 men.

In addition to having artillery that is not inferior to the main divisions of the field army, the Marine Division has a large number of tanks and armored vehicles, and these tanks and armored vehicles are amphibious by water.

The Sea Lion medium amphibious tank is based on the Black Wolf light tank. The tank was equipped with a suspension system in the water and thrusters in the water, while the thickness of some armor and the caliber of the gun were increased, the armor reached 20 mm to 47 mm, and it was equipped with an 88 mm smoothbore gun, as well as two Type 96 heavy machine guns and one Type 03 anti-aircraft machine gun. The maximum speed is 38 km/h on land and 7 km/h at sea, and there is a small radio station.

The HZ1 amphibious armored vehicle is based on the BTR-60 amphibious armored vehicle purchased by Lin Daxin from the future time and space and the Z2 armored vehicle used by the army, which is designed in combination, using a 90-horsepower gasoline engine, armor thickness of 15 mm to 20 mm, and a maximum speed of 70 kilometers per hour on land, an underwater thruster is installed at the rear of the hull, with a maximum speed of 10 kilometers per hour in the sea, equipped with 2 Type 96 heavy machine guns and 1 Type 03 anti-aircraft machine gun, and a small radio station is also installed.

The equipping of the Sea Lion medium amphibious tank and the HZ1 amphibious armored vehicle has greatly improved the combat effectiveness of the Marine Division, especially in the process of beach-grabbing landing warfare.

On a transport ship with a displacement of 8,000 tons, carrying more than 3,000 officers and soldiers of the 1st Division of the Royal Marine Corps of the Chinese Empire, as well as some equipment, the commander of the 1st Division, Ju Peng, was also on this transport ship, Ju Peng found the other 2 commanders of the Marine Division, Wang Youlin of the 2nd Division and Sha Lei of the 5th Division, in a cabin with a large area on his ship, and then said to the two people: "The Navy has just sent me a message, in about 8 or 9 hours, we will arrive at Ruian Port in Andao Province, We will take a two-day break at the naval base at Port Ryan before continuing our way to the waters east of Australia. ”

In the war between Lin Daxin and the Eight-Nation Alliance, Lin Daxin got German New Guinea from the Germans, and was later renamed Andao Province by Lin Daxin, as for the port of Ruian, which was the original station of the German Far East Navy, Port Moresby, and now it has been built into a base of the Royal Navy of the Chinese Empire.

Ju Peng was appointed by Lin Daxin as the commander of the Marine Division when he only had 1 division in the Marine Corps, but now the largest unit of the Marine Corps is still at the division level, so Ju Peng's official position is only 1 division commander, but unlike the other 4 division commanders, Ju Peng's military rank is lieutenant general, and the other 4 division commanders are only major generals.

Sha Lei, the commander of the 5th Division, is very thin and small, and he is angry with a book, but he has a hot personality and dares to fight. He was definitely a fierce general on the battlefield, he looked at the military map on the table and said: "We have reached the Arafura Sea near the north of Australia, why don't we choose a port directly in the north of Australia to land?" In this way, we will have to take at least 3 or 4 days less boats, and the supply lines at sea will be much shorter. ”

Ju Peng shook his head and said, "I have also considered landing in the north of Australia, but the people of the whole Australia. Most of them are concentrated in the eastern part of Australia, and if we want to occupy Australia, as long as we capture all the eastern coastal areas, the whole of Australia will fall into the hands of our Chinese Empire. The north of Australia is very inhospitable, and it would have been easy for us to find a port here to land, and we might not even encounter any decent resistance, but we wanted to cross Australia from the north to the east. It's going to be very difficult, and as we cross the crossing, resupply will be a big problem for us. ”

Wang Youlin, the commander of the 2nd Division, nodded and said: "The landing in northern Australia is indeed relatively close to our mainland, but the relatively large cities in the entire Australia are all concentrated in the eastern region, so let's take a few more days by boat and directly land in the eastern part of Australia!" ”

Sha Lei continued: "Anyway, we must occupy the whole of Australia, but the emperor is ready to transport all the foreigners in Australia out of Australia." Then there will be a large-scale emigration, and the immigrants can only be Chinese. We're always going to have to cross the whole of Australia, and I think it's the same wherever we land. ”

Ju Peng said with a smile: "By landing from the eastern region, at least we can seize some of the enemy's supplies, especially food, so that we can support our marines and occupy the whole of Australia." ”

Sha Lei thought for a while and nodded and said, "That's the same thing." If we can seize some British and Australian supplies, we can reduce some of the war materials shipped from the mainland, anyway, the British Army and the Australian army in Australia together are not as many as our three Marine Divisions, I believe that we will succeed this time and take down the fat of Australia for the emperor. Oh, by the way, and the fat of New Zealand can't be spared. ”

Ju Peng said at this time: "We can't be careless, not long ago, the military intelligence bureau asked the garrison of Lanfang Province to forward a telegram to us, it is said that the armies of Australia and New Zealand have begun a large-scale expansion after that naval battle, we want to occupy Australia, we may not face the original 30,000 British Army and more than 80,000 Australian standing army, maybe we need to defeat more than our 3 divisions of the enemy." ”

Sha Lei waved his hand unmindfully and said: "In such a short period of time, how many army units can the British and Australians drum up, even if they are in a hurry, that combat effectiveness will definitely make me despise, by the way, how many British troops and New Zealand's own army are there in New Zealand?" ”

Wang Youlin said: "According to our previous intelligence, the British Army is stationed in New Zealand with less than 10,000 troops, about 8,000 to 8,500 people, and the New Zealand Standing Army, which is composed of New Zealanders, is about 55,000 people. ”

Sha Lei said with a smile on his face: "Even to double the number of enemies in Australia and New Zealand, I also have confidence in our 3 divisions, you must know that in the Russian battlefield of Ufa City, our Royal Army of the Chinese Empire is facing several times the Allied and Allied coalition forces, I heard that the number has exceeded 6.5 million, our 3 well-equipped marine divisions, how many enemies can be dealt with, compared with the brother troops of the army outside Ufa City, it is a small thing, If our 3 marines can't take Australia and New Zealand, we'll lose the old man! ”

Ju Peng and Wang Youlin heard this, looked at each other, and showed a smile, they are also very confident about the marine division they lead, you must know that compared with the infantry division of the main force, their marine division is definitely much stronger in terms of combat effectiveness, after all, the infantry division of the main force is not equipped with tanks and armored vehicles, and each of their marine divisions has 200 Sea Lion medium amphibious tanks and 400 HZ1 amphibious armored vehicles, in the sequence of the Chinese Imperial Army, The armored forces of the Marine Division, that is, the Armored Division, which is second only to the Guards.

Ju Peng said: "Let's not be careless, the army's Fifth Field Army and Sixth Field Army have encountered great trouble in the attack on Islamabad and Dhaka in India respectively, and now the two field armies have to end the battle against Islamabad and Dhaka, evacuate India, and return to China to recuperate, and our three marine divisions, this time there is no air force to support." ”

The Royal Navy of the Chinese Empire currently has only 4 Mythical aircraft carriers, although in the bombing of the naval battle, 4 Mythical aircraft carriers lost a large number of Sea Hawk bombers, but the 4 Mythical aircraft carriers themselves did not have any damage, after Singapore replenished some carrier-based aircraft, the 4 Mythical aircraft carriers have recovered most of their combat effectiveness, and it is completely possible to send 1 or 2 ships to join the escort fleet to provide air support to the 3 Marine Divisions that need to carry out beach landing battles.

However, Lin Daxin considered that the Entente and the Allies could not figure out how the bomber group appeared on the battlefield of naval warfare, and the enemy forces of Australia and New Zealand were relatively weak, so Lin Daxin did not send aircraft carriers to participate in the war this time, Lin Daxin did not know, some countries have suspected that the Royal Navy of the Chinese Empire already has a new type of warship that can take off fighters.

Wang Youlin also sighed and said: "No one thought that the Fifth Field Army and the Sixth Field Army would be deflated in India, although the defenders of Islamabad and the defenders of Dhaka are several times stronger than their two field armies, but with the absolute superiority of our air force, coupled with the reputation of the British colonial forces composed of Indians, our army still has not taken Islamabad and Dhaka, it is really a bit unexpected, it may be that there are too many troops composed of Indians, originally I thought that several of our marine divisions would be sent to India, Landing from the coast of India, with the brother units of the army, will join forces in India! ”

Sha Lei continued: "Don't worry, two old brothers, tired Australians and New Zealanders, they can't get as many troops as the Indians, after all, the populations of Australia and New Zealand are there." It doesn't matter if our three divisions don't have the support of air force fighters, and when we didn't have planes before, weren't we invincible and invincible! (To be continued.) )

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