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May 10, Republic 2782 (1941), Nullarbor Plains, Australia.

The Nullarbor Plain is a limestone plain in southwest Australia, bordering the Great Australian Bay, spanning Western Australia and South Australia from east to west, and extending more than 600 kilometers along the Great Australian Bay. It is narrow from north to south, 240 kilometers wide at its widest point, with an area of about 260,000 square kilometers and an average altitude of less than 200 meters.

The surface of this plain is basically a rock bed, with little soil, and the climate is dry and plants are poor. So the area is quite sparsely populated, and there is not even a decent town except for sheep pastures scattered around the edge of the plains.

In the later generations of the original time and space, there would be a railway on this plain that crossed the east and west of Australia from Perth in the west to Sydney in the east, but this era is still a shadow. So in this day and age, there are fewer people here. Before World War I, the combined population of Western Australia and South Australia was less than 300,000, and the population of Western Australia was even less than 100,000, until China obtained the mineral development rights in the area, and a large influx of Chinese workers pushed the population to more than 500,000.

In Western Australia in particular, the number of Chinese has outnumbered the local whites. The most important thing is that the vast majority of the Chinese in Western Australia are miners from China, most of these people are young and strong men, and these strong men also have to undergo regular military training. According to the "Sino-British Haikou Agreement" with the British at that time, China could set up security guards and militias in factories and living quarters, according to the Chinese side's explanation, to prevent banditry.

When relations between China and Australia deteriorated a few months ago, the local militia stepped up training and secretly stockpiled large quantities of weapons. When the Chinese issued an ultimatum, the local Chinese forces immediately began to prepare for an uprising. Originally, the Western Australian authorities wanted to come over to disarm the Chinese, but it turned out to be a meat bun and a dog, and a Western Australian militia group sent over was captured by the Chinese armed forces.

After capturing the local militia regiment, the local Chinese began a formal uprising, and they soon stormed Perth and captured local officials. Not only did Perth do this, but many Chinese miners' settlements in Western Australia and South Australia were in a commotion.

In fact, by the time the Chinese regular army arrived, many cities and towns in Western Australia, such as Perth and Caernarfon, had already been controlled by the Chinese armed forces.

This is also a helpless thing, when there is no way, there are too few local whites, the total population is less than 100,000, and there are 20,000 people who can pull out to fight the war. There are more than 330,000 Chinese in the area, most of whom are young and strong men, and they also have to undergo regular military training, many of whom are retired soldiers. In other words, if there is a war, more than 200,000 people can be pulled out here at any time.

In addition, the weapons and equipment of the Chinese militia are also excellent, even better than those of the regular army in China. They also had a perfect organization and command system, and in terms of numbers, command, organization, and equipment, they completely destroyed the local white militia. Naturally, there is no doubt about the consequences of the conflict between the two sides, and the kangaroo was blown away by the militia.

Just when the Navy's submarine force was in full swing and completely annihilated the fleet carrying the Australian and New Zealand reinforcements, the army and air force, which were the main forces in this war, were also aggressively attacking on the Australian mainland.

At this moment, a mechanized army was speeding east on the Nulrab Plains, and everywhere they went, the smoke and dust were billowing and obscuring the sky and the sun, like a whirlwind of steel blowing across the Nullarbor Plains.

Although it is not suitable for human life, it is a good place to fly tanks. The dry climate makes the bedside even harder, and there are no trees in the whole plain, except for a few low saline and orchid shrubs.

This advancing unit is the 11th Armored Division and the 109th Mechanized Infantry Division under the command of the 5th Group Army of the Chinese Army. The two divisions were tasked with capturing South Australia, and they would push along the coastal El Highway to Adelaide, the capital of South Australia.

Dozens of kilometers behind them, there were also two armed police mobile brigades and two Chinese militia divisions from Western Australia, which were specially designed to take over the territory. The troops continued to advance at an economic speed of 35 kilometers per hour, not because they did not want to drive faster, but because they had other plans.

They were now located at the junction of Western Australia and South Australia, in what would become Nullarbor National Park, with the vast Victoria Desert on the left and the mighty Great Australian Bay on the right.

In the middle and rear of the 11th Panzer Division's platoon, a "Shirasaw-type" armored command vehicle ran over the dry and eroded limestone surface, and the tracks were rolled with some limestone debris scattered everywhere.

Major General Xu Chen looked out the window, he vaguely saw an Australian wild dog running towards the beach in a panic, the kangaroos and emus in the place had already run away without a trace, this Australian wild dog didn't know whether it was bold or what, it was only running now. There are many limestone caves in this plain, and this wild dog quickly finds one and burrows into it.

Nearby, there is an important archaeological site - Kunalda Stone Cave, which was left by the indigenous people 20,000 years ago, of course, General Xu Chen did not know that this cave has not yet been discovered. Hey, even if he knew, he wouldn't be interested, and he wasn't from the Special Examination Committee.

"This is really the best armored battlefield, a good place for Australians......" Xu Chen looked at the surrounding terrain and nodded with satisfaction.

The young staff officer next to him said disapprerovingly: "Division commander, Australia's armored force is too weak, and it is estimated that it is not enough for us to warm up......"

This 11th Panzer Division is a two-digit Serial Division A Division, and its combat effectiveness is extremely strong. It has three armored regiments, one mechanized infantry regiment, one self-propelled artillery regiment, one army aviation regiment, as well as air defense battalions, anti-armor battalions, combat engineer battalions, missile battalions, armored reconnaissance battalions, joint service battalions, and directly subordinate armored battalions. The total strength is 26,220 people, with a total of 11 tank battalions with 385 Panda and Red Panda armored fighting vehicles, 6 mechanized infantry battalions with more than 400 infantry fighting vehicles, as well as more than 400 other armored combat vehicles and self-propelled guns, as well as 216 aircraft and helicopters.

However, although this heavy division is strong in combat, its weaknesses are also obvious. Because the division has too many heavy equipment and is too large in size, it is impossible to carry out large-scale airlift, and it is difficult to form the rapid strategic mobility capability of the whole division. In addition, the division's own capacity within its own structure is limited, and it needs to receive logistical support at least at the group army level.

The most important thing is that they are very selective about the terrain, and the division's main battle tanks and combat vehicles are greatly affected by the terrain, and it is difficult to exert their combat power in dense jungles, mountainous areas, and terrain with water network obstacles, and they are still less suitable for fighting on urbanized terrain.

Now this Nullarbor Plain is not a complex area, a large flat rocky plain, not even a tree, and the tallest plants are those half-man-tall shrubs. This kind of terrain is perfect for them.

"Hahaha, it's good to have to fight...... Xu Chen smiled and said, "Now I finally know why Mr. Wen put our 11th Division in that ghost place on Jidi Island, it turns out that Mr. Wen has been prepared for a long time......"

The island of Chidi is the island of Timor, and the new name "Jidi" comes from the book "The Stars Chau", which refers to the place as "Giri Dishu". The island's high mountains, steep coasts, and regular mangrove swamps in some coastal plains were certainly not suitable for heavy units such as the 11th Panzer Division.

But Wen Deji transferred them from the Anxi Military Region last year. At first, the officers and soldiers of the 11th Division couldn't figure out why, but after the tension between China and Australia a few months ago, they finally understood that this was putting pressure on kangaroos. But even Xu Chen didn't expect that the day he set foot on the Australian mainland would come so quickly. This is really a fight-and-fight, and before the ultimatum was issued, they were ordered to get on board. When the ultimatum was issued, their fleet had already set sail, and by the end of the ultimatum, their fleet had reached Shack Bay off the coast of Carnarvon in the northwest corner of Australia.

The rest is simple.

First, the Air Force's H-10 "Mountain Eagle" fighter-bombers were dispatched to carry out precision strikes on the Kanafon coastal defense fortress group with "YJ-6" air-to-ground missiles, and then the H-11 "Dapeng" long-range strategic bombers carried out iron bomb scrubbing of the fortress group.

Subsequently, the Navy began to attack, and the J-14 "Bobtail Eagle" that took off from the "Nansui" and "Jinzhou" aircraft carriers of the Third Aircraft Carrier Detachment, and the Qiang-10 "Sea Harrier" attack aircraft that took off from the Wei and Chu amphibious assault ships of the Third Amphibious Detachment began to strike at what was left of the fortress group.

At the same time as the air attack, two Wang Xuance-class and two Tiandan-class fire support ships also ran to the shore and used their six 280-mm, 10 310-mm and four 360-mm heavy guns to strike at the fire points and defensive lines on the shore.

And then there was nothing, the population here in Western Australia was already small, and this coastal defense fortress had only one and a half brigades of troops, less than 10,000 people. Under such a terrifying firepower, more than ninety percent of the fortifications and more than eighty percent of the living forces were directly completed. Half an hour later, the 8th Marine Brigade, which was the vanguard, landed in Shun Shun Dangdang, consolidating the beachhead and clearing out the remnants of the enemy, while taking control of the port of Caernarfon.

Subsequently, the flotilla carrying the 11th Panzer Division docked at the port and began to unload this ace unit.

In the vast wilderness of Western Australia, the 11th Armored Division is a force that is like a fish in water, and they are galloping across the land, and they are invincible everywhere they go. On April 16, they rushed to Perth, and on April 20, they rushed to Albany, the southernmost port city in Western Australia, well, it's still just a small town.

They then swept along the coast until they reached Eyre on the western side of the Great Australian Bay. Subsequently, they received supplies here and rested for a few days and waited for the follow-up troops. Today they were given a new task to eliminate the Australian armoured forces that had arrived from Adelaide. The intended battlefield is this vast Nullarbor Plain.