Chapter 610: Sheep Hunting
Thirty heavy bombers dropped 90 tons of coagulated bombs on Sydney in an instant, and the flames that rose into the sky jumped dozens of meters high, as if a crater with lava suddenly appeared below the city, and the Australians outside the bombing range were dumbfounded.
If they still have some courage to resist in the face of naval guns at sea and carrier-based aircraft overhead, but in the face of hellfire, they can only be wiped out, and the reputation of this thing has long been known to everyone, especially in Australia, there are many people who have tasted this thing on the battlefield in Europe, and those wounded soldiers who were burned like demons are still the best accusations against the enemy in the newspapers.
General Richard's hands were shaking.
"Forget it, give them a chance, it's all a bunch of old and weak women and children, it's not like a thing to really burn them to death, send someone to give them an ultimatum, tell them that if they don't surrender, our bombers will keep blowing up until Sydney is burned to ashes." Lin Guoxiang, who was at sea, looked at the fire in Sydney, and said to the adjutant beside him.
In fact, his subordinates are indeed a little embarrassed to start, look at what kind of goods those defenders on the shore are, one by one or gray-haired or not as high as a gun, and even women, here are heavy artillery and solidified qiyou bullets, this is too cruel, in the final analysis, they are all educated by normal thoughts, it is difficult to have the level of the emperor's majesty, it doesn't matter how they fight on the battlefield, but if they want to do this kind of work similar to slaughtering the city, it is inevitable that they will be a little resistant.
As for the issue of ultimatum, there is nothing to say about this, those militiamen in Sydney are almost weak, how can they have any courage to fight, since Lin Guoxiang gave them the opportunity, of course they will not miss it, and soon under the threat of artillery and bombers, the Sydney defenders raised a white flag. Immediately after that, the Chinese marines, who had long been impatient at sea, washed up on the beach on landing ships. After swiftly taking control of the port, two army divisions landed in troop carriers and the city changed hands.
The capture of Sydney was tantamount to cutting the Australians in two, and completely cutting off the logistics of the Brisbane defenders, whose entire 500,000-strong army held out for less than a week before completely crumbling, but their opponents were not as kind as Lin Guoxiang.
"How many Australian troops do we have on our side?" Ye Feng asked his chief of staff with some curiosity.
"According to intelligence, when the fighting first began in Brisbane, the Australians had a total strength of 500,000 troops in two armies, and the number of killed, wounded and prisoners reported by the various divisions is 120,000, of which 50,000 were killed and captured, which means that there are 450,000 including wounded soldiers. However, it has been broken up, and there will not be more than 300,000 people who have really become an establishment, but it can be said that they are completely out of ammunition and food, and even if they get to Sydney, there is only one way to surrender. ”
"Surrender? Why did they surrender? Almost a third of the men in white Australians are here, what a good opportunity to send a telegram to Lin Guoxiang, asking him to send all the landing ships over, and at the same time ask his carrier-based aircraft to load bombs and bomb all railway stations and bridges along the way. Our bombers also loaded bombs and bombed non-stop, to paralyze all the railways heading south from Brisbane, and when the landing ships of the Navy came, our infantry was divided into divisions. Landing on the coast and attacking from the flanks, and two of Sydney's divisions were also to move north, putting on a posture of encirclement to force them to retreat westward. Ye Feng said.
"To the west?" The chief of staff was at a loss.
"Yes, to the west. Let them retreat to the interior of Australia, hundreds of thousands of people will rush over together, and I will see what they will eat then. Ye Feng said with a cruel smile.
The chief of staff shuddered. To put it bluntly, Australia has a bit of population on the east coast, and the vast inland to the west, except for a small number of settlements in the Darling River Valley, it can be said that it is really uninhabited, and hundreds of thousands of rout troops are pouring inland, and it is better to come to their senses and surrender as soon as possible, if their minds are not so bright and keep running, they will really starve to death. This is not a team of dozens or hundreds of people, just a little hunting can meet the food needs, hundreds of thousands of people just eat up the kangaroos and pull out all the rabbits in the field can't fill so many stomachs, and Australians like to go inland to hunt or something, they never worry about food, they will never think about this problem.
This trick is ruthless enough, of course, this is definitely a clever trick for China, if you really want to drive these more than 400,000 people inland to starve to death, then the blood of white Australians will be completely drained.
Immediately after receiving the commander's order, those army bombers were dispatched first, and then the navy's carrier-based planes also followed, and these air beasts crossed the defeated Australians, and blew up all the bridges, stations and other nodes on their way to the south, while the Second Army of the Chinese Army, the German Army and the German Colonial Army of the German Philippines, which captured Brisbane at the same time, slowed down the speed of the southward pursuit, and instead boarded the landing ships of the Navy one division after another and set off from Brisbane. Landing operations were played in coastal cities in the south of Australia's rout, blocking more than 400,000 Australian soldiers in the Lismore area.
This small place is crowded with so many people at once, then the next Chinese bombers can be considered happy, one after another Liberators, thunder, eagles, loaded with bombs and thrown down, the Australians have no way in front and behind, all railways within hundreds of kilometers forward are paralyzed, and major cities are occupied by the Chinese, they only have to retreat westward except surrender, go west along the Darling River, carry out a long expedition of more than a thousand kilometers back to Melbourne, or avoid the coastline to the south, However, the latter is likely to be intercepted halfway.
In fact, at this time, the Australians almost all understood that even if they returned to Melbourne, it would only be a long time to survive, and surrender should be the most reasonable choice, but the problem was that they couldn't swallow this breath, especially Ye Feng's burning and looting all the way during the attack had aroused great indignation among the Australians, and in the final analysis, they were also dignified.
Just when the remnants of these Australians were defeated and entangled in honor or life, the Second Army of the Northern Front began to move south from Brisbane, and then under the cover of naval guns at sea, a Chinese division landed at Byron Bay and established a solid beachhead.
Hundreds of thousands of troops left Lismore and fled to Tentfield in the west, embarking on a long escape, they didn't think about the problem of food, from generals to soldiers, Australia was too rich, millions of colonists lived on this vast continent, they had long forgotten what famine was, in their memory, they always had endless food to eat, there was endless prey in the wild, they often didn't take anything with nothing but horses and guns on their backs and could walk for months, Although the vast majority of them now do not have horses, it does not prevent them from remembering the land.
It's a pity that everyone ignores one point, their numbers, just like Du Yuming led the expeditionary force into the savage mountains full of prey and the Filipino Japanese army ran to starve to death in the mountains and jungles full of food, they forgot their numbers.
"Very well, order the troops who have landed on the southern front to attack to the west, assume the posture of continuing to block them in front, and the main force will follow the Australians, do not chase too fast, and give them hope of escape." After learning that the Australians had begun to retreat westward as he wished, Ye Feng said with satisfaction.
As for how many of these Australian troops can escape back to Melbourne, he is no longer interested in considering this question, even if they can all be withdrawn, it will not have any impact on the situation in Australia.
Just when the Australian army on the northern front embarked on a long march, the Western Australian SAR Volunteers who set off from Western Australia on the southern front had also conquered Port Augusta, and the army of 100,000 people was all composed of overseas Chinese in Western Australia and workers of the Yang Consortium, well-equipped but the soldiers were not high, after all, they were not a regular army, and the Australians put a whole army in Port Augusta, and the city was stuck on the road to Melbourne, and there was nowhere to go around, so in the end it became a tough battle.
At the cost of nearly 10,000 casualties, the WA Volunteers finally blasted the fort with artillery without air and sea support, and then they will go straight to Adelaide, the capital of South Australia.
Up to now, the only thing that the Australian Commonwealth can control is a small area of southern New South Wales, Victoria, and southern South Australia, and the vast lands on other continents have been replaced with the Yellow Dragon Banner, and even Emperor Yang's treatment of Australia has been made public.
However, instead of including Australia and New Zealand into the territory of the Chinese Empire, but as a direct territory of the royal family like Kuwait and Puerto Rico, Emperor Yang was ready to give Australia to his daughter, Her Royal Highness the Princess born to Her Majesty the Empress as a fief, and then get her a Queen of Australia, and even Western Australia to her.
As for New Zealand, it will continue to be his direct territory, at this time the North Island of New Zealand has been completely occupied, and there are still a small number of whites on the South Island to resist, in the future, Emperor Yang is ready to forcibly relocate the vast majority of the population on these two islands to Australia, and then turn it into his giant zoo and vegetable garden, and then take his wife and children over to feel the fresh and natural air, of course, the main thing is to provide him with pure and pollution-free food and water, this world has been poisoned by his Monsanto company A little uneasy. (To be continued......)