Chapter 884: This Is Our Last Chance
"How easy is it?" Meng Xiang couldn't sit still, and paced back and forth in the room.
Sydney's smooth and rapid capture not only surprised the Japanese, but even Meng Xiang was a little surprised.
Seeing that Melbourne is also being cleared, it can be said that except for a few small towns along the coast, the others have been occupied by the Chinese army.
The Chinese army attacked so quickly that even Meng Xiang was surprised.
originally thought that it would take a lot of effort to defeat Australia, especially Meng Xiang specially instructed to speed up in order to catch up with Britain and the United States, but who would have thought that this time he had laid down the southeast corner of Australia, and the total number of casualties in various places was only 80,000. The whole of Australia was defeated, but there were only more than 150,000 casualties, of which less than 50,000 were killed.
Such a small number of casualties were also something that Meng Xiang did not expect, after all, the number of Japanese troops annihilated in Australia alone reached more than 800,000, and there were more than 700,000 Japanese expatriates who took advantage of the situation.
But after thinking about it, Meng Xiang also understood. Australia caught the Japanese by surprise at the beginning and landed easily. After the elite of the Japanese army conquered Australia, they began to actively prepare for a decisive battle with China in the Indochina Peninsula, most of which were transferred to the South Seas, and the rest were concentrated in the southeast. However, China's long-distance air transport skipped Indonesia and other places, and directly transported troops to the Australian mainland on a large scale.
The Japanese army spread out a big stall, only concerned with greedy devouring, but did not have enough manpower to stabilize it. The Australian continent is vast, and the scale of the Japanese troops stationed in other places is very small, except for the southeast corner, the level of the wings in other places is already large. In many areas, there is not even a squadron, and many of them are recruit eggs.
The sparsely populated open space also provides the best environment for parachute or airplane landing, with plenty of space to gather and organize. And the next thing is to rely on the armored forces to sweep.
Even though some elite Japanese troops gathered in the southeast of Australia, the Japanese made a strategic mistake and initially transferred the main force to the front line, intending to take advantage of the small number of airborne troops in China and the lack of logistical supplies to counterattack and annihilate completely. Unexpectedly, the number of airborne Chinese troops exceeded the expectations of the Japanese, and under the supply of sub-bases. The Huaxia army is also armed to the teeth.
The steel chariot was naturally invincible in the field against the Japanese, who were short of weapons and ammunition, and the three or four hundred thousand troops on the front line were easily annihilated.
By the time the Japanese woke up to the need for street fighting, they had only 100,000 regular troops left. However, the Japanese did not abandon every city, and scattered these regular troops in a few large cities, although they raised more than 400,000 expatriates, but these people were purely to deliver food to the well-trained Chinese army.
If it weren't for the fact that the madness of the Japanese in street fighting was really troublesome, I am afraid that the number of casualties would be even lower.
Australia has never been at war, and the interior now lacks enough fortifications to break through the coastline. The rest is easy to solve.
Meng Xiang was expected to exceed 100,000 at the beginning, but he didn't expect the Japanese to step into the pit so smoothly under his step-by-step guidance.
In fact, the Japanese have devoured such a large territory, they have indigestion, and they are about to burst their bellies.
I don't have that strength, but I don't have enough greed. Self-inflicted. Not alive.
"I didn't expect the navy to win first before it practiced its hands!" Fan Chong was also a little surprised.
Although he has read all the offensive reports of Australia all the way, he is about to start in the whole of Australia. Looking back, he unconsciously completed the one thing he once thought was the most difficult.
When Meng Xiang first proposed to plot against Australia, he thought it was impossible, but he didn't expect that in just two or three years, his dream would come true.
"The Air Force is playing very well this time!" Meng Xiang said with a smile.
The plan that Meng Xiang made at the beginning was originally to let the new Australian fleet in Huaxia use the advantages of the sub-base to train with the Japanese Navy.
The Australian fleet was enough to attack the coast of Spencer Bay, but it was not fully prepared to fight the veteran Japanese fleet, so it laid a mine array. After the crew and the subsequent battleship were in place, it was time to strike. But who knew that relying only on air superiority made the Japanese fleet in Australia retreat first.
The Japanese had to retreat, lost air supremacy, and could only be beaten passively, and could even be sunk by the bombers of the Army Aviation.
Because of the Japanese interception in Southeast Asia, even the Chinese Navy was sure to break through the Japanese blockade line. It is bound to cause a lot of losses, and the most precious time will be delayed, causing an early rebound in Britain and the United States. So at the beginning, Meng Xiang vigorously stepped up the deployment of air power.
For the sake of the Australian plan, Meng Xiang transferred most of the pilots trained by Huaxia to the past. For this, having received some benefits from the Russians and the Americans, even the air suppression of Siberia was less, and even affected the Korean Peninsula.
And Meng Xiang has always had no shortage of fighters in his hands, and he is not afraid of wasting ammunition and fuel, in the face of such a huge air force, where can the Japanese stop it?
After the Japanese lost more than a thousand fighters in Australia and the South Seas alone, the final outcome seems to have been determined.
Ozawa's choice wasn't wrong. It's just that those high-level people in Japan did not see the overwhelming bombing momentum of the Chinese Air Force, and directly put the black pot of Australia's defeat on Ozawa's back.
In fact, Ozawa's fleet went on the front foot, and Sydney fell on the back foot, which was the collapse of the confidence of the Japanese.
The sky was full of Chinese fighters, and no matter how thick the nerves were, the Japanese could smell the smell of defeat. The evacuation of Ozawa's fleet was nothing more than the last straw that broke the camel's back.
Many expatriates and soldiers, under the propaganda of spies and agents, thought that the naval fleet was going to abandon them, and in order to compete for a place to evacuate, they abandoned their resistance positions and swarmed to the port, allowing the Chinese army to successfully occupy the whole city.
Sydney's solution means that all the slightly larger ports in Australia have been controlled by Huaxia, which makes Meng Xiang breathe a sigh of relief. If Britain and the United States want to intervene in the future, they must first face China.
"The navy will also be of great use in the next step, and our next enemy will not only be a little devil!" Meng Xiang said leisurely, the next thing you need to do is to turn your face on the British and American side.
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"The naval strength of the Huaxia people is not strong, this is our last chance!" Nimitz looked at the few white areas left on the map of Australia that had been dyed red, and couldn't help but say in a deep voice.
After the fall of Sydney, the Japanese top brass was furious and immediately approached Britain and the United States.
The two sides shelved their differences in Southeast Asia, South Asia, the Pacific Ocean, and other regions, and held special consultations on the Australian issue.
At this point, the Japanese have already recognized it. Realizing that they could not confront China, the only way to do so was to take advantage of the situation to bring Britain and the United States in, and let them have a quarrel with Huaxia in Australia, or even fall out, so that the Japanese could watch the fire from across the strait and take the opportunity to reintegrate the resources of Southeast Asia and South Asia.
The bargaining chip in their hands is the Australian city of Bombala and a piece of coastline controlled nearby.
This time, they made a very thorough decision and directly transferred them to Britain and the United States in exchange for a batch of strategic materials in short supply.
Britain and the United States, who were aware of the seriousness of the situation, did not skimp on this material, nor did they continue to pursue the matter of the Japanese massacring millions of white Australians, and directly funded the enemy in exchange for this last opportunity to gain a foothold on the Australian continent.
Otherwise, when Huaxia controls the Australian mainland, it doesn't know when it will be ripped off, or even completely lost.
The negotiations between the two sides were very fast, and in one day, the control of the remaining areas of Japan was transferred, and the Allies were only waiting to take over.
The Americans also quickly laid out a plan of action.
The Japanese Navy had already made way for New Zealand to move from Australia to allow American warships to rush to the Australian mainland as quickly as possible.
However, the Americans were not fast enough, after all, even the US Navy roaming the Tasman Sea would take more than half a day to rush directly to Bombara, and the subsequent landing army would require more preparation time. Who knows what happened in this, after all, the vanguard of Huaxia's armored forces had already rushed to the vicinity of Bangbala.
Borrowing from the rapid airborne landing in China, the Americans also sent their airborne troops.
Considering the repetition of the Japanese and the reception of positions, it is unrealistic to simply send a few people to the receiving positions in a big way.
Before that, there was not enough preparation, even if the Americans had the ability, but now they are simply not able to make a large-scale airborne landing as quickly as the Chinese. However, the 101st Airborne Division, which they had already formed last year, had already partially arrived in New Zealand.
Although the main force of the 101st Airborne Division went to North Africa with the 82nd Airborne Division, and the part in New Zealand also suffered heavy losses in the last landing in Sydney, the remaining part was enough to equip an airborne battalion to give full play to the advantage of airborne and go to Bombala in Australia to occupy territory first. An airborne battalion can almost gain a foothold, and it is much better to wait for the follow-up landing force to come up.
"Waiting for our good news!" Before boarding the C-47 transport plane, Major Clinton, who led the team, saluted the crowd and made a loud promise.
"God bless you!" MacArthur, who had just received an order from Washington to recall him, deliberately delayed for a day, standing at the front of the crowd to see him off. This may be his last chance to turn around.