Tang Qiuli's words caused everyone to burst into laughter, and the happy air spread across the airport, that is, among the brothers, there was this kind of unrestrained talk and laughter, and the generals all knew that the division commander had always stayed away from things like Western food and seafood, and what he loved the most was to eat meat in large pieces.

Tang Qiusheng couldn't help but smile and replied: "Commander, I haven't eaten enough in Outer Mongolia for more than two months, but in Singapore, there is no authentic hand-handled meat, I asked the cooking class in the back finger to prepare a table of Northeast cuisine, is the taste unsatisfactory, let's take a look!" ”

In the afternoon, after resting for a while, Tang Qiuli, Tang Qiusheng, Li Honggang, Ma Chaoyang, and other corps commanders and chiefs of staff, as well as Vice Admiral Tang Qiuquan, commander of the fleet, who had specially rushed back from the task force aircraft carrier fleet, and Lieutenant General Zhang Quan, director of the division's logistics department, who had rushed back from Varanasi in the East Indies, held a small-scale but high-level military meeting in the conference room of the rear headquarters to listen to the generals' reports on the war in Australia.

First of all, Tang Qiusheng, deputy division commander who presided over the overall work of the rear command of the independent division, spoke, he said: "Division commander, in the past two months, on the Australian battlefield, the Japanese Southwest Pacific Dispatch Army and the Allied forces have been in a stalemate, but the Allied forces are on the defensive, and in October, the Japanese army dispatched more than 400,000 troops, divided into three routes, launched the autumn offensive, and advanced the front to southern Australia. ”

"About 120,000 Japanese troops on the west route advanced to the east of the Victorian Desert and the northern foothills of the Musgrave Mountains, and about 130,000 Japanese troops on the center advanced to the west of the Baril Mountains east of North Eyre Lake, and about 150,000 Japanese troops on the east route, with East Australia as the target of attack, had crossed the Australian Basin and entered the area north of the Bawang River. At present, the Japanese army has occupied more than two-thirds of the Australian mainland. ”

"The Allied forces were compressed to the southeast Australian plain, the Victoria Desert, the area west of the Gibson Desert, and was divided into two parts, its main force was on the line of the Bawang River, to build fortifications, if the Bawang River defense line is lost, the main force of the Allied forces will be forced to fight a decisive battle with the Japanese army in the plain area, the situation is worrying!"

Tang Qiu interjected. "It seems that the life of the commander-in-chief of the Allied forces, Fernandez, is very difficult, Brother Qiusheng, how are the casualties on both sides?"

Tang Qiusheng said a few words with emotion. "The battle is fierce, and flesh and blood are flying. Heavy casualties. After several battles and heavy casualties on both sides, the Allies realized that if they lost Australia, they would lose their foothold in the South Pacific. The more than one million Japanese troops who were freed up will pounce there next, in two directions, one is the Indochina Peninsula. The other is the continental United States on the other side of the ocean, and it is not feasible to attack Indochina. ”

"The Japanese do not have the strength or ability at present, and they are competing with the seven or eight hundred thousand troops of our three main corps, and we are waiting for work at ease, hoping that the Japanese will come to the door, and the remaining direction is the United States, so in the face of the Japanese attack, the resistance is very fierce, and it can be said that they will not give up an inch of land, among them, the US army fought the worst, and the troops withdrawn from Luzon Island are basically running out."

Taking a battle from October 16 to 20 as an example, in the five-day campaign, the number of Allied casualties reached more than 120,000, and the Japanese suffered more than 40,000 casualties, but the initiative and rhythm of the battlefield were in the hands of Ito Yanzaburo, and the prospects for the war situation were not optimistic for the Allied forces!"

Tang Qiuli nodded and said: "If the Japanese army does not occupy Australia, it will never stop, how long will the Australian battlefield be fought before it will be known, according to my judgment, in a short period of time, I can't see the result, at least before the end of 1941, there will be no result, the defeat of the Allied forces on the Australian battlefield is a matter of time, by the way, Brother Qiusheng, the Japanese army on Kalimantan and Sumatra, what are the moves?" ”

Tang Qiusheng smiled contemptuously and replied, "Do you dare to make a move?" Honester than rabbits, the Japanese are worried all day long, begging them what bullshit Anameasu, let's not send troops to the southwest Pacific theater, so the patrol planes of the Japanese Army and Navy Air Force, even patrolling the air in the Strait of Malacca and the southern part of the South China Sea, are terrified and automatically draw the air demarcation line to the end close to the area they occupy. ”

"According to the report of the air patrol group of the Southern Flying Group, the Japanese fighters, when they were on air patrol missions, tried their best to avoid encounters with our patrol planes, and even if they did, they retreated and ran faster than rabbits, for fear of annoying us, hahaha!"

Tang Qiusheng said, he couldn't help laughing, the laughter was full of confidence and heroism, not only himself, all the generals who participated in the meeting, they all laughed, the laughter echoed in the conference room, and the special guards who were on guard outside secretly thought to themselves: "What are you happy about?" Make these bigwigs laugh? ”

Tang Qiuli is like a spring breeze, it seems that the hand of sitting on the mountain and watching the tiger fight is absolutely correct, let the Japanese and the allies fight to the death, and he will be the three main field corps stationed in the Indochina Peninsula, and after the situation is clear, he will send troops to the southwest Pacific theater, at that time, the allies on the Australian battlefield will definitely be killed by the Japanese army, and the Japanese will also lose too much blood, weak, take advantage of his illness, and ask for his life.

Roosevelt was a scheming politician, although the Allies were fighting in the Australian battlefield, they were in a hurry, gritted their teeth and endured, and never opened their mouths, asking themselves to send troops to the Australian battlefield, it was really too clever to calculate, it seems that Roosevelt miscalculated and made a bad move, he probably did not expect that the Japanese offensive would be so ferocious, and the sea and air traffic between the United States and Australia was stuck by Yamamoto 56's Combined Fleet, Australia, which hangs alone in the southwest Pacific Ocean, can't hold on for long!

As far as the significance of the Australian War itself is concerned, from Tang Qiuli's point of view, he never wants it to end too early, or end with a complete victory for one side, whether it is the Allies or the Japanese, in a word, it is not in Tang Qiuli's interests, the best outcome of the Australian War should be the Allies and Japan, regardless of manpower, material resources and financial resources, must continue to be consumed, consumed until the two behemoths are anemic, and until the time is suitable for their own actions.

And the rhythm of this war can be controlled by oneself, and the mystery lies in the fact that the logistics supply lines on which the Allies depend, the sea routes from the West Indies to the Australian mainland, all rely on the aircraft carrier task force of the independent division, escorting them, figuratively speaking, the blood vessels of the Allies are pinched in their own hands, and since the Americans and the British are in a tight situation at the moment, they might as well give them some tonic.

Tang Qiuli said with a smile: "Brother Qiusheng, I didn't expect that you are sitting in the Indochina Peninsula and know the war situation on the Australian continent very well!" ”

Tang Qiusheng shook his head and replied: "This is all the credit of the Intelligence Department, before Yu Deshui left for Outer Mongolia, he transferred the intelligence network of the Intelligence Department in the Indochina Peninsula and the Southwest Pacific region to me for management, which can be regarded as a return to his old job, don't forget, in the Northeast, I was the founder of the Intelligence System of the Bloody Hand Regiment!" ”

This is the truth, the originator of the intelligence system of the independent division is Tang Qiusheng, when he was in the northeast, he served as the deputy commander of the Bloody Hand Regiment and the director of the intelligence center, including the now famous director of the intelligence department Yu Deshui, the director of the investigation department Shen Jun, and a large number of high-level and middle-level cadres of the two departments, all of whom came from Tang Qiusheng's disciples.

Tang Qiuli turned his head again and asked, "Brother Qiuquan, how is the situation of your escort fleet?" Didn't the Japanese Navy try to cut off this sea supply line? ”

Tang Qiuquan was dressed in a straight vice admiral uniform, probably because he had been floating on the sea all the year round, his face was black and red, and his body was more robust than when he was the leader of the special operations detachment.

"Division commander, the situation of the escort fleet is not so complicated, at the beginning of escorting the Allied logistics supply line, in the eastern Indian Ocean near the waters west of Sumatra Island, there were several small-scale naval battles with the Second Fleet of the Japanese Navy, and each other won and lost, and after the formation of the Eastern Indian Ocean patrol area of the Southern Flying Group was completed, Chagos Island played an extremely important role as a land navigation sea base."

"Wu Zhenjiang's mixed fleet of fighters and bombers gave the Japanese Navy's Second Fleet two severe lessons, and since then, the Japanese Navy has never shown up again, and now, the route is unimpeded, and there are three major ports of call in Australia for logistical supplies and troop transportation to the Allies, one is the Perth Port in Chografi Bay, Western Australia, and the other is the Port of Melbourne in the Bass Strait of Southeast Australia."

"There is another one, which is the port of Adelaide located in Spanga Bay, but, judging from the information provided by Brother Qiusheng just now, the purpose of the Japanese army's autumn offensive this time should be to connect these three ports that are related to the life and death of the Allied forces, including, the war situation will continue to develop like this, and the escort mission of the aircraft carrier task force will probably end before the end of this year, but it is also good, dealing with the British and Americans is really unpleasant!"

Saying that, Tang Qiuquan shook his head again and again, it seemed that dealing with the Americans and the British was more tiring than fighting a sea battle, Tang Qiuquan couldn't help but sigh, listening to Brother Qiuquan's meaning, taking this task is really a little reluctant, especially the British, who are fighting with the troops of the Independent Division in northern Burma, and now, they are escorting their logistics supply lines, which is really not happy!

Tang Qiuli said with a smile: "Brother Qiuquan, earning the money of the British and the Americans, that's real money, just bear with it, what's more, you can't let the allies be killed by the Japanese so quickly, good people do it to the end, help people to get home!" ”

(To be continued)(To be continued......