These days, the fighting in Australia is not going well. Although the Japanese deliberately chose a relatively remote landing area to avoid being counterattacked, because of the increasing number of troops, they began to gradually capture several important areas of Australia after a few days.

The Japanese forces moving south had little success and were largely useless - they attacked several less important towns along the way, and it was this force that advanced through the endless desert, none of which they attacked in areas of great importance in Australia, and there were few defensive forces.

The Japanese forces heading north had captured Calomburu and Wyndham half a month earlier, and then engaged in a fierce battle with a nearby Australian infantry regiment, and a few hours later the fierce Japanese forced their way into Timber Creek despite their own losses, and their vanguard captured the long-awaited port of Kitts in western Australia on 27 July.

Once the Japanese army occupies Darwin, it will be much more convenient to supply the Japanese and Australian landing forces, and even if they have completely gained a foothold in Australia.

In fact, looking at the history of Japan's invasion of China, we can see the characteristics of the Japanese nation, they are fierce and abnormal, but with a hint of insidious cunning. They learn and understand a powerful opponent, work hard to grasp every detail of the opponent, use it to judge and evaluate the opponent, and finally win a decisive battle, defeating and surpassing the opponent.

This was the case with the Japanese, who knew about the Russian forces deployed in the Far East, and because of the support of the British and French, they even knew that Russia could not transport large and more elite European forces to the Far East. So they won the battle and defeated Tsarist Russia.

This is especially true against the Chinese Manchu Qing government, their spies are pervasive, and even know the level of China's products and military industrial enterprises, frantically collect all kinds of intelligence about China, and finally they know China better than the Chinese themselves, so they won the Sino-Japanese Naval Battle and laid the foundation for Japan's rise.

But this time, things have changed a little. The Japanese have won a row to make them a little flustered, which is the inevitable result of the rapid rise of the lack of foundation, and because the time is tight, they cannot spend another 3 or even 5 years to observe their opponents, so Japan is a bit of a blind man feeling like an elephant this time.

They did not know much about the Soviet forces behind the Nomenkan, and were still using the intelligence of the Tsarist era to assess this formidable opponent. They do not understand the United States, at least not fully the United States on the other side, and they are completely unable to understand the terrifying production capacity of the United States. The Japanese top brass themselves did not think that the war would go so smoothly, and their projected plan was not written here at all, and in their thinking, after Japan conquered the Philippines and Malaysia, the United States would choose to give in if it took Wake Island. However, at present, this estimate is a bit too optimistic, and the Japanese military has to prepare a second round of action plans in a panic.

Whether a country's invasion plan is detailed enough, whether its strategic vision is far-reaching enough, and whether its strategic prediction is accurate enough determines whether the country's invasion process is smooth or not, whether the control after occupying the target is safe, and whether the country can eat its own goal and achieve self-strengthening.

Japan's relatively comprehensive battle plan was a war of aggression against China, so even though the Chinese army was repeatedly reinforced by Germany and the United States, it still failed to prevent the Japanese army from expanding its occupied area in China's coastal areas. However, the war that Japan is now waging is completely unplanned, and it is no wonder that various problems have arisen.

For example, the Japanese army had a serious disagreement with the navy over the occupation of Australia, and the navy hoped that the army could attack all the way east in the coastal areas, take control of the bustling port cities in eastern Australia as soon as possible, and prepare for the invasion of South America and the United States, while the western regions were dispensable.

However, the army believes that it must fully occupy Australia in order to save its troops to the greatest extent. Now the Japanese side has mobilized 40 divisions for the conquest of Australia, and more than 20 have been sent to Australia and the surrounding areas of Australia, if the Australian war cannot end in a short time, then the Japanese army will have to add another 40 divisions to Australia, which is obviously insufficient in soldiers, and this is simply worse for Japan, which is obviously short of soldiers.

In accordance with Japan's consistent solution, this kind of strict disagreement eventually turned out to be a strange joke: Since everyone is not accustomed to looking down on each other, then no one cares about the other, and we will fight each other! This kind of child's play of combat methods ran through the entire Japanese Pacific War, from weapons research and development to tactical arrangements, the navy and the army were not subordinate to each other.

As a result, all kinds of funny things appeared in the battle table of the Japanese military: the navy was defeated, and the news was not reported to the army, and when the army was fighting, it was found that there was no naval force to cooperate, and the result was even more miserable. The Navy itself went to dig caves to prepare for a long battle, and the Army was silly digging trenches on the beach to prepare for the American landing. This is the Japanese military's performance in real situations, and there is no exaggeration at all.

Therefore, the Japanese Navy began to organize some marines and other forces to attack north along the coastline to complete their plan to seize the industrial area on the east coast of Australia as much as possible. It has to be said that this time the plans of the Japanese Navy look a little more cerebral than those of the army. However, in line with the principle that "as long as the navy insists on the army, the army must oppose it," the Japanese army top brass ordered the elite army units to attack southward in a vain attempt to conquer the entire Australian island.

However, compared with several elite divisions of the army, there is actually a gap in the combat effectiveness of the Japanese Marine Corps, at least in the configuration of heavy weapons, it cannot be compared with the Japanese army. Therefore, in the process of entanglement with the Australian troops, the Japanese troops going north did not pick up any decent bargains, and could only rely on limited naval cover to advance little by little -- as for the main force of the Japanese naval fleet, it was already full of confidence and slaughtered the American island of Oahu.

In order to draw a clear line with the Japanese Navy, the Japanese Army went to "fight" with the Australian desert with artillery and a small number of tanks, and had no intention of supporting the Marines at all. But soon the army commanders discovered a fatal problem, and they couldn't go far without the support of the port. Seeing that more and more troops had landed on the army, but could not give full play to the numerical superiority, the army top brass had no choice but to find the Japanese navy in disgrace, hoping to share the port to transport the army's supplies.

For the sake of Japan's future, the Japanese Army finally got the coveted port of Kitts, but after some bargaining, the Japanese Army was forced to agree to the Japanese Navy to help capture the more important port of Darwin.

It took a month to make a fuss, and on August 15, the Japanese army resumed its attack in the direction of Darwin Harbour. This time the Australian defenders really learned the combat effectiveness of the elite units of the Japanese army, and the crazy Japanese soldiers attacked wave after wave like waves, and finally the Australian defenders surrendered to the Japanese 19th Division, and Darwin Port fell.

As a matter of fact, some far-sighted people at the top of the Japanese leadership have already seen that Australia is a huge trap, and that the Japanese army's entry into such a vast area will only make its own forces more dispersed and more depleted. But because of the lack of a systematic analysis and plan, they did not know how to deal with the situation at hand.

Abandoning Australia? What are you kidding? The Japanese Army has already landed nearly 300,000 troops there, and you think it would be fun to go to great lengths to bring these troops back home? This kind of thing should not be thought of by the Japanese top brass, and no one would agree to spit out what they had eaten in their mouths.

To continue the offensive in Australia, then send another 300,000 soldiers. Australia's territory is larger than China's territory occupied by Japan, and if we refer to Japan's garrison troops in China, Japan needs at least 1 million people to be able to completely control such a vast territory -- this is simply Japan's old life, nearly 2 million people on the Chinese side are trapped in the pit and can't get out, and if another 1 million are thrown in, then what ability does it have to attack the United States?

The current script is also confused, it expects the United States to surrender to Japan a few days ago, but the United States has no intention of surrendering and compromising at all, and in response to Japan's aggression against Australia, the United States has mobilized 1 million Army soldiers to defend their Pacific Ocean and the American mainland. And Nimitz in the course of a month had 7 more destroyers and 3 cruisers.

At the same time, the three aircraft carriers originally converted to Britain have been in the final perch, these Independence-class light aircraft carriers can only carry 40 aircraft, far from the opponent of the Japanese Navy fleet aircraft carriers, these three aircraft carriers were originally modified goods to aid Britain, and they were only launched in 43 years in the original history, but because of the failure of the British Navy in this time and space, they joined the combat sequence of the US Navy four and a half years ahead of schedule.

With these three light aircraft carriers, plus the USS Yorktown and USS Raider, and the USS Hornet, which is already in dockyard, the U.S. Navy is ready to fight the Japanese Navy. Nimitz was considering whether it would be prudent to abandon Oahu's defenses first.

While Japan was showing off its might in Australia, the Americans were not idle, and they used their own strength to begin to build strong fortifications on Oahu, and three American divisions with high combat effectiveness were deployed on Oahu, ready to fight the invading Japanese army.