PS: Happy holidays to everyone!

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"......Boom" With a burst of explosions, a P-55 fighter of the Australian Air Force who was desperately dodging was cut in two at once......

"Fak! The Chinese are so shameless!"

"If you don't fight us, what kind of hero is a missile......"

"They will only hide far away and release missiles, it's too despicable!"

Ever since the Chinese and Australian fighter jets started the war 10 minutes ago, the channel of the Australian Air Force has been filled with the angry shouts and curses of the pilots.

Lieutenant General Mackay stared at the sky with a straight face, and he had seen his fighters dwindle until now. In a moment, a black smoke will fall down. Either that or blow up into a mass of shattered wreckage.

At this time, the Australian fighters finally couldn't carry it, and the remaining dozen or so P-55 fighters turned around and ran. Kangaroo pilots have not yet adapted to air combat in the missile age, they do not know that facing the enemy aircraft is the deadliest maneuver, and they think that the opponent can escape by being far away.

However, the group of J-15 "Dragon Owls" refused to let go of their opponents in this way, and saw a flash of fire under their wings, and more than a dozen "Thunderbolt-3" anti-aircraft missiles were launched.

At this time, the P-55 fighter jet was in full swing in order to escape, and the scorching flames from the tail nozzle were like a lighthouse in the night, becoming the best guide for the missiles' infrared guidance system.

The P-55 fighter is a new gadget in the United States, and it is also the first generation of jet fighters that they officially installed. A large number of copies of several Chinese export models, nose intake, the shape of a hybrid of F-86 and MiG-15, a maximum speed of 950 kilometers per hour, equipped with six 12.7 mm machine guns, the performance in today's world is still quite good, of course, except for China.

But this first-generation jet is just a target in front of the J-15 "Dragon Owl".

More than a dozen "Thunderbolt-3s" chased after it at a speed of Mach 3.5, like meteors catching the moon. Immediately after that, each collided with their own targets, and suddenly exploded under the effect of the laser proximity fuse, and more than a dozen orange-red fire balls instantly surrounded the fleeing P-55. Continuous rod warheads in the shape of folding rulers spread out with flames, and these ring-like chains are like constantly rotating flying "chainsaws", frantically cutting through the bodies and wings of these fighters. China's anti-aircraft missiles now use continuous rod warheads, rather than the original fragmentation warheads. This warhead can have a cutting effect on the target, effectively increasing the probability of damage to the target.

"Damn, the air force is all wiped out......" Looking at the seven or eight more white umbrella flowers in the sky, Lieutenant General McKay's face turned green.

２５:０！

This is the result of the air battle just now, this is 25 P-55 against 8 J-15 "Dragon Owl". The P-55s didn't even get close to twenty kilometers before they were bombarded like ducks by the dragon owls. Although Lieutenant General Mackay knew that China was the number one air power, the results just now were exaggerated, which was too demoralizing.

Seeing that the opponent in the air had been emptied, the dragon owls circled in the air a few times, then shook their wings and went back triumphantly.

"Fortunately, there is a tropical storm ......during this time," Brigadier General Durant said with some rejoicing as he wiped the cold sweat from his forehead.

Yes, if it weren't for the impact of the tropical storm, which made the sortie rate of the Chinese air force very low during this period, I am afraid that there would have been more than 8 Dragon Owls, but the terrifying J-7 "Thunderbird" attack aircraft (A-10 Magic Change) and J-6 "Toucan" attack aircraft (Super Toucan Magic Change).

During this period, China's air strikes have been much less, especially direct support missions, which is also the greatest luck for kangaroos. In addition to the tropical storm, another point is that the Chinese army is advancing too fast. Western Australia is already a vast and sparsely populated country, and after they have defeated a few key cities, they have little decent resistance.

Those mechanized troops are simply like fish in water in this vast plain, and they are completely running around the enclosure with joy.

They are happy, but this has caused a disconnect with the follow-up troops, ammunition supplies and other logistics materials are okay, with the efforts of the navy can still be guaranteed, but the aircraft is not easy to handle. It's not that planes can't be transported, it's that there are no airports that can accommodate them, and this kind of problem will arise if the planes are too advanced. Like the previous piston planes, there is no such trouble at all, as long as the ground is bulldozed, and then a roller is used to run over a field airfield, and the planes can take off and land.

But jets are not good, and without professional airports with various supporting facilities, they simply cannot take off and land smoothly, as well as carry out maintenance and repairs. And this kind of professional airport is not a good repair in a while. So that's the main reason why South Australia doesn't have enough air power right now. The northern region is easy to do, and the plane taking off from the South Sea can cover it, but the South Australia side is too far away to cover it at all.

At present, there are only a few small airports in South Australia that can barely be used, and they can only take off and land the front-line fighters of the army aviation, and the heavy fighters of the air force cannot be used. On top of that, it can't accommodate too many planes yet. If it is in normal times, it can also ask the carrier-based aircraft of the HNA to help, but during this period of tropical storms, the sea conditions are extremely bad, making it very dangerous for the carrier-based aircraft to take off and land.

Anyway, it's not that it can't be defeated, and Wen Desi naturally won't let the carrier-based aircraft take such unnecessary risks.

At present, the only airfield that can support the 11th Division is Kalgoorlie, which is so small that even after emergency expansion, it can only accommodate one squadron of Dragons. In order to ensure air supremacy, only light fighters can be stationed. Because of the small number of them, they cannot yet go to part-time attack aircraft, and they must be specifically aimed at the air.

It is precisely because of this that Australia's Second Army was able to arrive here so comfortably, otherwise it would have been bombed to pieces on the way over.

After seeing the dragonlords return, Lieutenant General McKay ordered to move on.

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If you look at it from the satellite at this time, the Chinese and Australian armies are getting closer and closer, and the two mechanized troops are moving towards each other in the deserted Nullarbor Plain. Both sides have confirmed each other's positions and will not be misguided.

By 11 a.m., the forward troops on both sides were already able to see the smoke and dust on the opposite side.

At 11:20 a.m., the forward forces of both sides began to exchange fire.

An armored reconnaissance battalion and two armored battalions of China collided head-on with two tank regiments from Australia.

When these two hundred chariots were slaughtered, the large forces of both sides also followed.

Australia's armored forces were originally equipped with leftover materials from the First World War, second-hand combat vehicles. However, after 38 years, shotguns began to be replaced, all of which were good things from the United States, and after the tension between China and Australia, it became even more powerful. In order to add to China's blockage, the Yankees even gave Kangaroos the M7 heavy tanks that they themselves were not equipped with.

The Kangaroos are now equipped with mainly M5 light armored fighting vehicles, M6 medium armored fighting vehicles, and M7 heavy armored fighting vehicles. These tanks are obviously influenced by Chinese tanks, and they are much more mature than the original time and space in terms of shape and performance.

The shape of the M5 is somewhat similar to the M551 Sheridan light tank in the original time and space, in order to reduce weight, it also uses aluminum alloy as the main structure of the body, and then adds steel armor reinforcement to the main parts, so that it weighs only more than 17 tons. Of course, don't count on defense, it is generally used as a reconnaissance battalion. Of course, it was not equipped with missiles (the Yankees had not yet developed them), nor did it have the exaggerated 152-mm cannon of Sheridan, and its main armament was a 76-mm tank gun.

The shape of the M6 is completely a copy of the original M48 Patton tank, and it is also equipped with a 90mm main gun weighing 49 tons. The M7 is a copy of the M103 heavy tank, armed with the same 120 mm gun and weighing 58 tons.

Now it is these three tanks that are fighting with the Chinese tanks, and their opponents are also three, the "Red Fox" wheeled armored reconnaissance vehicle, the Red Panda and the Giant Panda. As if they had a heart, both sides picked their respective opponents, the red foxes pounced directly on M5, the red pandas found M6, and the strongest pandas and M7 on both sides also chose each other as opponents.

"Attack!" Lieutenant Colonel Chen Sihua, deputy commander of the 1102nd Regiment of the People's Liberation Army, gave the order directly.

"Destroy them!" Commodore Bridgeford, commander of the 17th Brigade opposite, gave the same order.

As a result, the chariots quickly started moving. On the endless Nullarbor Plains, I saw the chariots on both sides like an ancient cavalry duel, rolling up the sky and quickly rushing towards their opponents. On this front, which is several kilometers wide, it is as if two moving screens made of dust have appeared out of thin air.

The two "screens" quickly approached. When the distance between the two sides was shortened to about 5 kilometers, the northernmost front in the west suddenly split second. China's 22 Red Foxes came to an abrupt halt.

The "Red Fox" wheeled armored reconnaissance vehicle has only a 30 mm tube, and of course it will not be stupid enough to fight hard with the M5, and no matter how awesome the 30 mm machine gun is, it is impossible to compare the firing range with the 76 gun. What's more, the Red Fox is an amphibious armored vehicle with the ability to float on the water, and it can pass through inland rivers and lakes with wind and waves no greater than three levels without preparation. In order to achieve this performance, it can only be made into thin-skinned dumplings, although the skin of the M5 is not thick, but people are also tanks, and they are stupid to fight hard.

Although the Red Fox does not have an advantage in artillery, it is equipped with 4 Red Arrow 4 anti-tank missiles. In fact, this thing is the weapon that the Red Foxes use to fight the enemy's armored fighting vehicles, and the 30mm machine gun is only used to hit people and lightly armored targets.

"Whoosh ......" Red Fox's turret erupted orange flame tails from both sides, and 44 Red Arrow 4 anti-tank missiles flew towards the 48 M5s on the opposite side.

"Damn, it's a missile again, hurry up and evade ......" The Australian battalion commander's face turned green.