Chapter Seventy-Seven: The Last Battle for the Conquest of Australia (I)

Although General MacArthur's view of the final struggle of the Australian federal government and the Australian allies at Cape Shank is already quite pessimistic, the actual situation on the frontline battlefield is even worse than MacArthur's pessimistic view, and it has reached a terrible level. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

-- Because the Australian Allied forces did not have any plan in advance, and were forced to press forward by the Japanese army step by step, the entire rush to transport supplies lasted less than a week before it was forced to end, and from the second day of the transfer and retreat, the rainy weather that had briefly sheltered the Australians turned clear again, and all the transport teams of the Australian Allied forces, whether they were land trucks or sea fleets, were exposed to the indiscriminate bombing of Japanese aircraft......

As a result, according to John. Prime Minister Katyn's later statistics show that during the entire Melbourne retreat, more than 80% of the transport ships in the hands of the Australian allies were destroyed and sunk during the crossing from Melbourne to Cape Shank. About 60 per cent of the vehicles were also bombed on the road to Cape Shank, while more than 10,000 soldiers from all over the world were killed or scattered on the congested road.

As a result, the ammunition, food, clothing and fuel that were successfully transported to Cape Shankke were far less than expected. A considerable number of the troops that were preparing to retreat to Cape Shank did not reach their destination in the end. On the contrary, the number of Melbourne citizens who flocked to Shank Point to avoid the Japanese army far exceeded expectations - the fifty or sixty kilometers from Melbourne to Shank Point may seem a bit far, but in fact it can be completed on even two legs. In addition, all the way to the bay walking, there is no danger of getting lost, in order to avoid the bombing, the citizens also choose to walk at night......

As the current Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of Australia, John Brown. Prime Minister Katyn could not reasonably abandon his own citizens entirely.

All in all, when the first Japanese sun flag began to fly in the center of Melbourne, the Cape Shanker Peninsula, 50 kilometers to the south, was crowded with about 15,000 Australian federal troops, 5,500 American troops and less than 1,000 New Zealand soldiers - and when General MacArthur abandoned Manila and retreated to the Bataan Peninsula, there were about 15,000 American troops and 65,000 Filipino troops in his hands, which was far more than the Japanese army on the Philippine battlefield at that time. Then another 50,000 Australian civilians followed the retreating Allied forces into Cape Shank, squeezing the place to a pulp. Only a maximum of 20,000 of these people were able to live in houses or caves, and the rest had to camp...... But that's not all, and what's worse is that because the supplies shipped to Cape Shank were far less than expected, John . Prime Minister Katyn has enough food on hand to last these 70,000 people for half a month!

Then, on the very day that the first Japanese reconnaissance unit entered the city of Melbourne, a further disaster befell the Australians again - the Japanese army organized more than 600 sorties of "Galaxy Land Attack" bombers to carpet bomb Cape Shank. Because the Allies did not have time to dig bunkers, most of them were bombed in the wilderness, and as a result, more than 5,000 soldiers and civilians were killed and wounded on the spot, and most of the food and ammunition that were forced to pile up in the open were also blown up...... So, after the end of this great air raid, the allies at Shank's Point found that they had only enough food left to last for another ten days, and this was only possible thanks to the fact that many people were killed and many mouths needed to eat were reduced......

Despite this bleak outlook, John. Prime Minister Katyn tried to cheer everyone up, and hung a sign of the Provisional Government of the Australian Federal Government in the small town of Flinders, the southernmost tip of Shank's Cape, to symbolize that the Anglo-Saxon nation had not relinquished its domination of the southern continent.

Next, he sent all the troops he could collect, as well as the temporarily conscripted Civic Volunteers, to the northern root of Cape Shank, which was connected to the mainland, and stationed there in two towns—Balcombe, on the west side of the peninsula, facing Phillip Bay, and Hastings on the east side of the peninsula, between which the Allied command planned to build a forward line of defense with a total length of about ten kilometers based on the terrain.

Tens of thousands of Australian soldiers and civilians bravely braved the indiscriminate bombardment of Japanese planes and desperately dug trenches as fast as they could, and although the food was only half of the standard ration and everyone was hungry, their morale was still very high at this time. These Australians are no longer willing to retreat, and they have no way back, hoping to be able to fight with honor. In the end, they finally completed this rudimentary line of defense before the Japanese launched a ground offensive.

But this line of defense could only protect the land, but not the sea behind it—six brand-new Yamato-class battleships were quickly mobilized outside the harbor of Hastings, raining down bullets on the defenders there day and night, with each shell scorching half a football field...... The trenches that the Australians had worked so hard to dig were soon blown to pieces, and the surviving remnants of the army and civilians were forced to retreat inland away from the coast.

Then, to their greater despair, these tenacious fellows discovered that they had probably been defeated by starvation before they had even been knocked down by bullets......

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At the same time, the Japanese Army north of Cape Shank was also preparing for a final general assault on the city of Melbourne.

- During the Philippine Campaign, when MacArthur retreated to Bataan, he declared the capital Manila an "opencity". This is a kind of chivalry of Western military commanders in war, so that those historical relics and cultural treasures are not destroyed by the flames of war.

However, such chivalry only applies to the wars between "civilized people" or white Europeans. And now the war between the Anglo-Saxon nation and the Yamato nation for Australia is obviously not among them - when the Japanese army had just landed in Australia and the Allied beachhead defense failed, the Australian high command formulated a detailed and brutal scorched earth policy: destroying ports, bridges, power plants, and waterworks, burning grain, polluting meat, and regressing civilization to the barbaric flood era in the soon-to-be-conquering North Australian states...... Because they didn't expect the Japanese to behave like a gentleman at all.

And the performance of the Japanese army confirmed the above pessimistic judgment - concentration camps, mass graves and comfort stations became the final destination of millions of white Australians...... It's basically the same as when they exterminated the Australian aborigines and appropriated this southern continent for themselves.

No way, who made the Japanese always take the British as their teacher? Naturally, you have to learn everything decently and even get better!

Therefore, when the Japanese planes destroyed the last small steamer in the port of Melbourne, and the Japanese armored forces rushed into the beach of Phillip Bay from the east, completely cutting off the only road between the city of Melbourne and Cape Shank, the last 10,000 or so allied troops trapped in the urban area of Melbourne did not think of abandoning their weapons and surrendering, and preserved Melbourne, a famous city in the southern hemisphere, relatively intact, but determined to meet their final destruction, fight a flesh mill-like street battle, and use this city that has been guarded for many years as their own cemetery. And pull as many Japanese devils as possible to accompany the burial.

It's a pity that the Japanese army on the opposite side has been fighting with them in Australia for so many years, and the Japanese can also guess the ideas of these stubborn Australians, and they don't plan to risk their lives to accompany them, and start a deadly house-to-house battle with them in the city - after the preliminary fire reconnaissance, the Japanese troops besieging the city directly used a large number of lethal **** nerve gas bombs to completely "clean" the neighborhood held by the remnants of the Allied forces...... Then, the Japanese infantry, about three divisions in size, under the cover of light tanks, unhurriedly broke into Melbourne, which had been reduced to a dead city.

A handful of Allied soldiers who had survived the gassing in sealed spaces such as cellars and underground shelters made their last tragic resistance to Melbourne's ruins, but only lasted a few hours before they were wiped out by the sound of gunfire and explosions...... At noon on September 8, the last organized resistance of the Allies in the city of Melbourne was completely annihilated, and the old capital of the Australian Commonwealth was finally planted with the sun flag.

Then, a few hours later, Lieutenant General Masanobu Tsuji, who had led the 152nd Division from the northeast to kill, also happily rode into a captured American jeep and braved sporadic cold guns, and broke into the dilapidated downtown area of Melbourne, reaching the beach of Phillip Bay at the other end of the city.

Phillip Bay, south of Melbourne, is an almost closed pocket-shaped harbor, with only an exit about two kilometers wide leading to the open sea, the water here is turquoise and clear, calm and calm, like a beautiful emerald twisted between the thumb and index finger, a bit similar to Port Arthur in China, but Phillip Bay is much larger than the port area of Port Arthur - because of the special topography of Phillip Bay, Melbourne has the beautiful scenery and humid climate of the harbor city, and avoids direct typhoon attacks. The flat, wide coastal road is a great beach with a flat sandy beach, and the hills on the other side of the road are lush with vegetation and several farms are covered with beautiful lavender.

However, at this time, Melbourne and Phillip Bay have long since lost their picturesque appearance, but have been ravaged by the war - all kinds of scattered wrecks and swollen floating corpses, as well as a large area of heavy oil spilled from the wreck on the water, are polluting this calm and beautiful bay. The coastal roads were also devastated by aircraft bombs and long-range heavy artillery, and there were bomb craters everywhere, and there were burned farm houses, abandoned vehicles and baggage, as well as all kinds of belongings left by the fleeing citizens, and charred corpses that had not had time to be buried......

However, as a veteran professional soldier, Lieutenant General Masanobu Tsuji had long been accustomed to such disgusting and terrifying scenes, so he turned a blind eye to them. On the contrary, looking at the sun flag fluttering on the roof of Melbourne City Hall, he was filled with a fluttering feeling.

- For the past 300 years, white Westerners have always boasted about how witty, brave and resolute, and how they dominate the four seas, and for no reason. They invented all new things, discovered all new places, they were the leaders of civilization, and every scientific theorem, every overseas mountain range, river, and island, has its name. Any person of color is worthy only to be their slave and vassal.

Now, it's all turned upside down. It's your turn to take back this world from them, the yellow people who have been despised for hundreds of years!

Thinking about the strategic policy of the Americans in the early days of the war, they had already been beaten into this bear by the Imperial Japanese Army, and what kind of "Europe First" they were still engaged in, it really felt funny...... However, it is no wonder that since entering the Age of Discovery, the aura of the "mysterious East" has long faded, and white Westerners in modern times have always despised the yellow race and the East. Do not think that inferior Orientals can cause much trouble to noble Westerners. But they forgot that the Orientals also have thousands of years of war experience, and they are also able to learn all kinds of war techniques with hunger, and they do not hesitate to pay a heavy price in order to win. This self-righteous contempt of the Americans for the Japanese in terms of strategy was the fundamental reason for their loss of Australia.

Of course, the Imperial State also paid an extremely heavy price for this, a full 20 million soldiers and civilians were "shattered" in the war, more than half of the cities on the Japanese archipelago were reduced to ruins, and even to this day, the imperial capital Tokyo is still groaning under the iron hooves of the American and British white animals...... But these are all necessary sacrifices. For the glorious future of the nation, in the vast continent of 8 million square kilometers under our feet, our generation must grit their teeth and persevere to the end no matter what!

——Throughout the ages, which great empire has not risen from a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, and the flames of war? The Romans were nearly broken in the back by the Carthaginian general Hannibal, the Russians were forced to burn Moscow in front of Napoleon's army, and even the Americans were once set on fire to the White House by the British...... But they all endured all these setbacks and sacrifices to win their respective glorious eras.

In the same way, since the Japanese are looking forward to establishing their own imperial hegemony, they naturally have to have the consciousness of sacrificing one or even several generations.

However, now is not the time for such philosopheric divergent thinking...... After all, even this battle in Australia is not over yet!

Thinking of this, Lieutenant General Masanobu Tsuji couldn't help but raise his head and squint his eyes at the sunny bay to the south, and far behind the horizon at Cape Shank, the last Allied position on the Australian continent. Regarding the plans of this remnant enemy, Lieutenant General Masanobu Tsuji thought that he was very clear.

You know, he also set foot in the Philippine battlefield back then, and personally participated in the battle of the Bataan Peninsula that made MacArthur famous all over the world.

“…… Hmph, want to repeat the Battle of Bataan in the Philippines at the southernmost tip of Australia? That's a good idea, but what do you white people think of us? Do you think that the majestic army that swept across the Pacific Ocean does not even have the ability to learn this little lesson? ”

——The reason why the Japanese army planted a heel on the Bataan Peninsula in the Philippines was that they first suffered from the carelessness of the enemy, thinking that only one artillery fire could scare the enemy into rout and surrender, but as a result, they recklessly ran into the strong fortifications arranged by MacArthur and took a hard beating; The second is that the Japanese army is insufficient, and the Japanese attacking troops that are engaged in the Bataan Peninsula are not only intermittently in place one after another, and they have become a procrastinating refueling tactic, but also the strength of the Japanese army as the attacking side is always less than the number of US-Filipino forces in the encirclement! Again, the Navy and the Army did not cooperate well, and when the Japanese Army braved the fierce attack on the narrow terrain of the Bataan battlefield, the naval fleet did not provide artillery support from behind with sufficient intensity...... However, none of this is likely to happen again at Cape Shank: the Japanese are now in no hurry to storm these remnants of the enemy, who are already in a dead position.

——“…… Let's rest in Melbourne for a few days for the time being, and wait for the air force and navy to flatten Cape Shankke......"

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PS: The U.S. Olympic delegation apparently anticipated the poor conditions in Rio de Janeiro, so not only did they not live in the Olympic Village, but they even did not live on land, but directly chartered a luxury cruise ship to park in the port as an apartment...... One can't help but think of the scene when Cleopatra went to see Anthony by boat.

On the other hand, the Chinese delegation went through various trials such as theft, robbery, and roadside shootouts, and had to exclaim as if they had come to the old Shanghai Beach.

Another: I was shocked to hear that Fang Zhouzi had hit Prince Ma for academic fraud, saying that his "Little Seal War" and "History of the Mayan Conquest of the Yin Shang Fleet" were completely inconsistent with historical common sense...... This, what people wrote was originally a satirical novel! Why don't you criticize Shi Nai'an's "Water Margin", Grandma Qiong Yao's "Huanzhu Gege", Jin Yong's "The Condor Heroes" and the "Desert Ballad" that wrote Huo Qubing as an infatuated fool are completely inconsistent with historical common sense?

Well, of course, in view of some kind of cosmic will in the dark, I have to say the last sentence as usual: auspicious and free, the house is safe!