Chapter 478: The Light Flying Dragon Riding Face Can't Do It, You Have to Fight Dimensionally Downgrading! (Ask for a subscription, ask for a monthly pass)
Amid the rumbling artillery fire in the distance, there was a tense and busy atmosphere on the pier of Liberation Beach. Smoke from steamships covered the sea, and shirtless Navy and Army soldiers were busy unloading their ships. The pier at Liberation Beach was much larger than it had been when the main force of the Pacific Fleet had left seven days earlier, and the naval engineering units on the shore and the army engineers worked together to carry forward the spirit of the Ming Dynasty's infrastructure madness, and urgently built two improvised roads, one leading to the Brisbane Fortress and the other to the Tiburtop Hill battlefield.
However, the amount of cargo brought in these days far exceeded the consumption of the siege of Brisbane Fortress and the front line of Mount Teburtop, so the army and navy sappers also built a large number of warehouses, ammunition depots and oil depots near the beach to store the constant flow of supplies. However, the capacity of the Ming Navy is too strong, far exceeding the capacity of the simple dock to digest. It looks like the port of Brisbane will have to be restored as soon as possible, which was taken by the Ming army five days ago, but it cannot be repaired and put into operation for the time being because it remains under the long-range artillery power of the Brisbane Fortress.
And at this time, on the ocean outside the liberation beach, a huge fleet in square kilometers once again appeared! However, it is not the main force of the Pacific Fleet commanded by Zhuge Weidao, but a huge escort formation composed of the South Ocean Fleet and the Western Ocean Fleet plus more than one or two million transport ships of more than 1,200,000 tons! This escort formation was driven from Borneo, the base camp of the Nanyang Fleet, and in addition to carrying hundreds of thousands of tons of supplies, oil, and munitions, it also loaded the ace thug troops of the Great Ming Dynasty - the Sendai Division, the Ezo Island Tuntian Division, and the Tuzuo Division of the Japanese Shogunate Army, a total of about 60,000 Japanese devils!
This Mu Dashuai uses soldiers, of course, to reduce the dimension and attack, but also to fly the dragon and ride the face. You can't have armored vehicles and you don't want Japanese devil soldiers..... The work of cannon fodder is still very easy to use.
On the personnel dock of the Liberation Beach, the heavily armed devil soldiers of the brigade had already disembarked, and under the command of the devil officers, they had formed a team, and then they lined up and drove towards the Brisbane fortress - all the easy places outside the fortress had been knocked down by the armored forces of the Ming army, and the most difficult core fortification area was left...... Fighting in these areas, armored vehicles are not good, after all, the "armor" of this armor-11 car family is very thin, and the light anti-aircraft artillery and heavy machine guns of the British army can penetrate them.
And there are still "thieves and soldiers" on the British side who are not afraid of death!
Those are all criminals whose hands are stained with the blood of the natives of the Southern Continent, and they all believe in the truth that "defeat means extinction". And they didn't believe in the promise of the Ming army not to kill the prisoners - the same promise they had made to the natives of the southern continent, but they never kept it......
Therefore, when the Ming army attacked, they all showed the determination to fight to the death, and even some of the crazy "thieves and soldiers" carried bombs on their backs to die with the armored vehicles of the Ming army!
In the face of such an almost frantic defense, it is natural to invest in the equally ferocious Japanese devils.
The battleship "Daqin", the flagship of the South Ocean Fleet, also joined in the fun, and this battleship is now getting together with the "Nanjing" of the Pacific Fleet - the "Nanjing" command ship is now also on loan to Mu Zhongjun, and Zhuge Weidao took the people of the Pacific Fleet Command on the "Da Zhou", and is now showing off his might outside Sydney Bay!
Therefore, Guan Tianpei, who came all the way from the Java Sea, did not see his old friend Zhuge Weidao, but he was chatting happily with Mu Zhongjun at this time.
"Borrowing a plane? Yes! One word...... I brought 1 aircraft carrier and 1 aircraft-carrying battle cruiser this time, with a total of more than 130 aircraft, all of which can be used to support your Southern Continent Corps...... Also, the 360mm main gun on my Daqin has hit a long way, and the cannon from Brisbane Bay can definitely blow up the Brisbane Fortress, and this time I also let the Daqin carry more than 1,000 high-explosive shells. It was a 360 mm high-explosive bomb, weighing nearly 1,500 kilograms, and a single shot could blast out a crater of several hundred square meters. When you launch a general attack, I will ask my gun staff officer to take people ashore to Zheng Guoxian's military headquarters to be the eyes of the Great Qin! ”
Guan Tianpei talked about bombing the British army and shelling the British army, and there was an indescribable joy in his heart!
In particular, Guan Tianpei heard that the admiral of the British army in Australia was Hugh. Gao Fu, the anger in my heart will not be in one place......
Listening to Guan Tianpei's words, General Mu was also overjoyed, and said with a smile: "That's really good...... With the heavy artillery of the Great Qin, the Brisbane Fortress is not a problem at all! ”
Guan Tianpei asked: "Then when will the general attack?" ”
"Tomorrow, the general offensive will begin in the early hours of tomorrow morning." Mu Zhongjun said, "Hugh. Goff's main force had been attacking Mount Tabor for six days, and today is the seventh day...... In my experience, Hugh. The ammunition and supplies in Gough's hands should have been almost depleted. Tomorrow we should be on the defensive, waiting for supplies to arrive. And let's take advantage of this opportunity to launch an offensive in Brisbane and Tabourtop Hill at the same time, and strive for the rest of the world. Gough's main force repelled and captured the Brisbane Fortress. If you succeed in both directions, the next step will be to divide the troops into two ways, all the way to the prairie chasing Hugh. Goff went to Sydney to attack; Walk the coastline all the way to Sydney...... The two sides finally meet outside Sydney! If all goes well, 200,000 troops will be in the siege of Sydney by mid-to-late February. As long as Sydney is taken, the overall situation of the Southern Continent campaign will be decided. ”
At present, there are only two central areas in the southern continent, Brisbane and Sydney, and about 80% of the southern continent whiteskins live in these two areas. Once Sydney and Brisbane were occupied by the Ming army, it was basically impossible for the British army in the southern continent to turn the tables.
After listening to Mu Zhongjun's words, Guan Tianpei just smiled vigorously, stroked his beard and said, "Okay, it should be like this, you must use thunder means to beat them so that they have no power to fight back...... Only in this way can this continent return to our Ming hands! Only then can we comfort the souls of millions of living beings in the vassal states of the Southern Continent that were exterminated by the British Yi! ”
Well, in this timeline, the pot of Yingyi's genocide of the natives of the Southern Continent can't be shaken off no matter what!
Because the southern continent is gone, there are not many natives left in the southern continent...... This is not extinction, what is extinction?
On the Teburtop front, the decisive battle had been going on for several days. For the soldiers on both sides on the front line, these few days of fierce fighting can definitely make them unforgettable for life...... Of course, for the vast majority of British officers and soldiers, their lives were numbered. However, in the past few days, they still made a lot of progress, advancing 3-5 kilometers on the whole line, and capturing hundreds of ring fortifications held by the Ming infantry. And they also figured out the details of the Ming army - the strength of the Ming army was indeed very limited, and it was not enough to build a continuous defense line along Mount Tabourtop, so they could only build some independent ring fortifications to block the road over Mount Tabourtop.
However, the British army could still rely on the advantage of numbers and familiarity with the terrain around Mount Tabourtop, and use infiltration and detour to force the Ming army to abandon the fortifications and retreat. Although the price paid for this style of play was not small, and the infiltrating troops were often strafed by the fire of the Ming army's chariots, progress was made in the end.
But when it comes to the crucial scramble along Highway 1, which crosses Mount Tebultop, the tactics are less than bright. The Ming infantry held Highway 1 through the pass of Mount Tebultop, where they built two interdependent ring fortifications, and placed multiple firing points and observation posts on the hillside to direct artillery fire in the rear.
At the same time, the chariot units of the Ming army were constantly sweeping back and forth on the road behind the ring fortifications, clearing out the British troops who had infiltrated the past, so that a long stretch of the road was full of corpses .....of British officers and soldiers.