Six** MacArthur brings bad news

The turquoise waters look like a giant Persian gem, and the reddish-brown seaweed floating along the coastline in the telescope tells the sailors what this place is. 【 I want: super fast update 】

A huge formation of ships was slowly moving along the coastline, and several small ships were still burning on the brown and yellow coast, indicating that there had just been a confrontation here.

Eight Hornet fighters flew over the fleet, and under the wings were six Yangtze River-class light cruisers flying the Blood Cloud Dragon Claw flag, three Fire Dragon-class fire support ships, 16 Weiqing-class destroyers, and the Western Zhou mothership, which was temporarily transferred from the First Task Force in the Arabian Sea, and behind them was a convoy of six landing ships and a full 22 ocean-going freighters.

On the deck of the aircraft carrier, the dragon's teeth were already ready, heavy bombs replaced the fish bones, and the ship's guns began to pitch down for rear inspection, and when a few black spots appeared on the sea like sperm whales, the warhawk suddenly deflected its fuselage and flew towards the wide harbor on the left.

As expected, dozens of old biplanes were mercilessly slaughtered as they prepared to climb with great difficulty, because this was an era when engines were the decisive victory, and in just a few dives, the planes turned into clouds of flames and planted in the harbor below.

This scene frightened the few soldiers stationed in the port of Djibouti in French Somalia, and a large number of dense shells began to erupt in the only shore artillery position in the port, and rapid-fire guns also began to fire rapidly.

The port of Djibouti is strategically important, because all ships heading north through the Suez Canal to Europe or from the Red Sea to the Indian Ocean and the Cape of Good Hope must be refueled at the port of Djibouti, so it is known as the sentinel on the Eurasian channel.

After Britain took control of the Suez Canal, France immediately sent troops to occupy it, as one of the means to counter the British, whether in this or future generations, it is one of the strategic points coveted by Limer, and in his heart even more important than Gibraltar.

Because of the opening of the railway to Addis Ababa, Djibouti, which was only a small town, slowly radiated a bright light, but unfortunately the French did not enjoy it for long, and the war came.

As the country with the second largest loss in this war after Russia, which suffered countless casualties in the land reparations, France, which was the third largest in the world before the war, had plummeted, and was in urgent need of a counteroffensive to regain the lost territory in Paris, so the number of troops stationed in France's overseas colonies had dropped to very little, and even in order to strengthen the defense here, it was once considered to let the Italians next to it help.

"Report, the West Week is ready."

After years of exploration, especially with the aircraft carrier, the Imperial Royal Navy's ability to organize attacks on the shore has been greatly improved, from target selection to firepower distribution, until the escort landing, far more experienced than any country in this era. (Full text reading, all in. (.i. Want. Wen. Learning Network)

Gu Junhuo, the commander of the Seventh Fleet, who was standing by the porthole, leisurely held green tea, nodded to the communications staff officer, and looked at the warhawks that began to take off, and his thoughts had already drifted to the future.

From escorting the first batch of 120 large cargo ships to Kuwait through the newly opened Strait of Hormuz, transporting a full 550,000 tons of supplies to Kuwait, and starting to transport them along the Baghdad Railway to Ishtampur at a speed, and then connecting them by the Black Sea fleet organized by Germany, and starting transshipment through Bulgaria or Ukraine, in fact, the idea of the emperor and the general staff has been very clear, unless necessary, the footsteps of the imperial army will stop at the Asia-Europe border.

This is not to say that the empire is imminent, but that the war has reached a critical juncture, and the decisive battle of Australia and the landing on Ceylon are imminent, all in preparation for an imminent and unpredictable post-campaign.

Just like what you have to do today, the empire has to tighten the fence around it before this!

The decisive battle against Australia is to completely solve one direction and release troops.

The landing in Ceylon is to continue to accelerate the transformation of India, forcing the Indian fleet that has been cowering in the harbor to stay honestly, although the empire has the strength to take India, but the army that needs to be invested is too much, so it is better to continue to consume it like this, and wear out the patience of the Entente Indian army little by little.

Come here to close the Suez Canal completely!

The only thing that puzzled him was that under such circumstances, the emperor and the General Staff would also list the Seventh Fleet as a priority for expansion and support, because he originally thought that the General Staff would do his best to increase the strength of the First Fleet, but why did he do the opposite?

Could it be .......

The rumbling explosion interrupted Gu Junhuo's thoughts, 32 dragon teeth raged the ancient and obsolete shore artillery positions, even if the bombing accuracy was not high, but for these bare shore guns, it was extremely deadly.

Six light cruisers and three fire support ships began to line up along the harbor, although the French troops stationed in the harbor laid mines in an attempt to resist the invasion, but unfortunately they did not know that the Imperial Navy had already had the ability to launch long-range artillery attacks through minefields, in addition to aircraft.

"Fire!"

With the shouts of the gunners, 45 triple L52/152 mm naval guns began to drop bottom-exhaust shells at a rate of 675 pieces per minute to the port of Djibouti, 30 kilometers away.

Positions, houses, and the few ships that were in the rain fell like hail, and the French soldiers stationed there were so many shells that they jumped in their heads.

Although the harbor and the town were completely shrouded in artillery fire and smoke, and the clouds of the explosion were denser than the mushrooms in the woods, the artillery fire did not last long, and only an hour later the six light cruisers were the first to stop the shelling, not because they did not want to fight, but because they could not find a valuable target at all.

Six large 9,600-ton landing ships were the first to open their hatches, and one by one the landing craft sailed out of the stern, and then, after making a circle on the sea, they began to rush towards the safe area that had been cleared by the destroyers on the flanks of the harbor.

On August 22, 1916, the Seventh Fleet of the Royal Navy of the Chinese Empire attacked Djibouti, with only 5,000 men, and the lack of support for the French army in Djibouti could not stop the 15,000 Chinese Marines armed to the teeth, and in just two days, the French Somali Governor announced his surrender.

On the same day, five Chinese army divisions, including three armored regiments, coordinated with the three Ottoman army groups to suddenly attack Jerusalem and Gaza, which were occupied by the British.

Faced with the dilemma that Egypt and the Suez Canal were about to change hands, Britain urgently mobilized more than 50,000 troops from all over Africa to support the Egyptian garrison, and asked the Hejaz to cooperate.

With the help of the 5th Mechanized Infantry Division, 30,000 Najd troops began to attack Mecca and Jeddah, and the Hejaz army, which was defenseless in the face of tanks and armored vehicles, began to disintegrate rapidly.

The North African campaign began, and the Suez Canal was suspended.

South Australia.

From the South Australian continental shelf to the south of the Indian Ocean at the same time in the middle of the York Peninsula and the Eyre Peninsula, there is a 322-kilometer-deep V-shaped bay, this is the famous Spencer Bay, the mouth of the bay between the broken islands, a series of black mines undulating with the waves, it is the existence of these mines, to ensure the safety of the bay at the bottom of the port Augusta.

With a wide bay to the south, the equally huge Torrens Salt Lake to the north, and Flinders Ridge to the east, which is 800 miles long, two railways meet and extend into South Wales and Victoria.

Port Augusta was the gateway to Adelaide, the capital of South Australia, so it was the focus of the Australian Entente's defence from the time it was expected to be the start of the war, and just think of Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne and Adelaide behind it.

So now the port of Augusta has become a complete fortress, although not as large as Europe, but the small fortifications are densely packed and countless, the trenches on Flinders Ridge behind him are dug in a circle and circle, plus the soldiers and civilians who fled in the early stage, a full 700,000 troops are stationed here, and as many as 450,000 ordinary people who escaped from South Australia are following this into the stronghold of Australia.

Everyone understands that it is only a matter of time before the flat, mirror-like South Wales and Victoria cannot hold here.

Walking among his dull-faced companions, the young Colonel MacArthur hurried with a telegram, having arrived from the United States with the 42nd Infantry Division before the war, and who had been in high spirits and believed that Australia had enough strategic depth and a strong fleet to defend it, so it was unbreakable.

But in fact, after only a year, the companions who came with him began to become numb, once they were jealous of the beautiful Australian girl, but now even if the woman is in front of them, there is no interest.

The Australian Grand Fleet is finished!

Idiots know what this means, the ammunition will run out, the shells will run out, the soldiers will not be replenished after they fall, they will not even be able to send a letter of peace, and they will be caught off guard in front of the Chinese army, which is advancing like a wolf and a tiger.

What worries him is the growing war-weariness, the Australians can fight bloodily for their homeland, but what about the US military? What about the British army?

Looking at the faces around him, he also knew that they wanted to go home!

Moments later, MacArthur stepped into the thick stone headquarters, saluted, handed the telegram to Major General Jim, and took a deep breath.

"General, the Aland Lake defense line has been lost."

Bang dang!

MacArten heard the sound of the water glass falling to the ground, and no one was not nervous, because he brought bad news, the squadron was 120 kilometers away!

: I'm sorry, the unit is busy today, I've been running outside, I'm free to sit down at 2 o'clock to code words, I'm late, apologize.

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