Chapter 899: Turning Offense to Defense?
The fierce fighting of the Battle of Kuah Island and the long duration of the battle are not unrelated to the fact that China has not moved in the surrounding area for a long time.
Regardless of whether it was the Japanese or the Americans, they were all on the embankment at the beginning, and the Chinese took advantage of the fire to loot, and they always kept their hands behind to guard against the Chinese army stationed in Australia to advance north or east, and took advantage of the weakness to settle in New Caledonia and Fiji and other islands.
But after half a month of fighting, Australia's Chinese army still has no intention of attacking, and even the small Australian navy is shrinking near Sydney and Melbourne.
Even if there was no sign of the mobilization of the Chinese army, the Japanese and Americans did not dare to take it lightly, but conducted an in-depth investigation of the actions of the Chinese in Australia. The news came to them all stunned:
"What are they doing?"
A large number of Chinese troops laid down their guns and, together with the immigrants, turned cities and towns into large construction sites.
It is very convenient to pave roads and build bridges with the sapper equipment directly produced by those bases, and it is not a problem to dig trenches and extract soil. The light tanks produced from the sub-bases are engineering machinery with a slight modification. Coupled with the hundreds of thousands of Chinese immigrants who were busy facing the scorching summer of Australia, the cities destroyed by the Japanese and the evacuated Allies were changing day by day in the ruins.
"They're busy building their new home?" Someone laughed.
At this time when the war was raging, the army was asked to put down its guns and be busy with the resettlement of immigrants? Could it be that the Chinese occupied Australia and were carried away by victory?
"Idiot! Where are they building a new home? They are demolishing the city and collecting materials in the name of construction. Their purpose is to build fortifications! Someone saw the eyebrows.
Cities and towns are not expanding, they are shrinking.
If the white Australians who were arguing about returning home returned, they would surely find that most of their homes no longer existed.
From the inside out, it was replaced by an unfamiliar building and an unfamiliar owner, or it was empty.
The local Chinese administrators would smile and say sorry to them, their real estate had been destroyed in the war, and they could go to the Japanese for compensation.
Not to mention that the aborigines who were quickly turning to the Chinese people strongly opposed the re-entry of those white Australian invaders into Australia, so that they did not dare to return to their homes with scruples. The complete destruction of the homeland. It also made them extinguish the slightest bit of luck.
A large amount of materials were dismantled and cleaned up with the help of war losses, and they were used to repair the wounds of the city and build fortifications in important defensive areas.
If you want to build fortifications, you need to consider them in addition to sub-bases. In order to hide people's eyes and ears and increase speed, it is also necessary to use local materials.
When the Allies withdrew from Australia, they had enough time to prepare and enough explosives to blow up some factories.
Although the Japanese repaired some of them, after the final madness, they also broke a handful and destroyed them again, leaving Australia's local production capacity of steel and cement and other building materials insufficient.
All kinds of building materials were transported by sea due to the blockade of the Japanese Navy. It's unrealistic now, and the limits of air freight costs are even less realistic.
Considering not to overpress the nerves of the British, Americans and Japanese, the scale of Chinese airlift migrants to Australia is shrinking, and now there are only about two dozen Hercules in operation a day, transporting supplies and thousands of immigrants.
Although outsiders were surprised by the previous Huaxia's generosity, they also estimated the extent of the damage to the transport plane, which was difficult to maintain for a long time, especially in a country with a weak industrial base like Huaxia. I'm afraid there is not enough stamina, let alone to transport those building materials.
Even the deep-pocketed Americans, except in individual actions. Except for the transportation of construction materials, emergency construction of fortifications, temporary airports and other facilities, it will not be used on a large scale for a long time. …,
The Chinese army still has 800,000 troops in Australia, and there is no long-sighted trouble for the time being, and without rushing for time, it will never be such a loser.
Australia's cement factories and steel mills are still slowly being repaired, as well as the sub-base fortress building function, although Australia's defense system is still imperfect, but the steel, wood and masonry extracted from the so-called ruins are in line with the soil. It will soon be possible to erect fortifications here and there, making up for the lack of fixed fortifications. Especially along the coastline.
"It's over! They really want to wait a long time and not leave! "Exploring the strings of fortresses built by Huaxia along the coast, anyone thought of the plan of the Huaxia people to live for a long time. The Japanese and British, as well as the Australians, could not help but wail.
According to the scale of the current Chinese army stationed in Australia, they already have no bottom in their hearts, if they have the assistance of those fortress fortifications. Isn't it hard to hope that Australia will be reclaimed?
Negotiations between the Australian and British governments and China in Australia have reached an impasse.
Even Curtin personally went to China, but he was disgusted by a representative of the Australian Aborigines.
The aborigines next to the Chinese trees did not let go of the reason that the white Australians were also invaders this time, and resolutely did not let go.
Huaxia Le's continued stalling for time.
And if they want to do it, the Australians who ran to a stable New Zealand are not capable of facing the huge Chinese army, and the British, whose nest is still smoking, can only leave the account for later. If they have their hands free, they will rely on their former world's first naval power to make China suffer enough in Australia, and some British even thought that they would toss until the Chinese people personally exchanged Australia back.
The harassment and attacks of a powerful navy were enough to tear through the fragile coastal defence, leaving the adversary bleeding to death.
But now the Chinese are trying their best to make up for this shortcoming.
With the availability of aircraft, especially in Huaxia, which has performed several large-scale airborne operations, and when a continent has less demand for the sea, as long as the seaside fortifications and fortresses are used to withstand the fleet's attacks on important parts, it is possible to reach a stalemate.
This is obviously not what the British, the Australians, who are expected to reclaim Australia, see. The stronger the Chinese people's defenses, the slimmer the hope in their hearts.
The Japanese have some bitterness in their hearts, if they try their best to build and improve the defense system first like the Chinese, they will not be so easily driven away by the Chinese.
But it's already here, and it's too late to say anything. They also learned their lesson and began to build defenses in Southeast Asia on a large scale to deal with the onslaught of the Americans and the Chinese.
Kuah Island is no exception.
The Japanese had already made up their minds that even if the American warships regained the surrounding seas, they would have to pay a heavy price on the island.
"The Chinese people turned offense to defense, and they wanted to try their best to keep Australia. Even the army is involved in civil engineering, and I am afraid that it will be difficult to send a large army against us. That's a blessing for us! "The same desperate move of a white Australian, the Japanese saw that China's strategy had been biased towards defense, and could only comfort themselves in the sourness of not being able to eat grapes.
"The Chinese have been fascinated by Australia, which is full of cattle and sheep. The country is more obsessed with land, and under the influence of their officials, who can extort private property at will, they are convinced that what they get is the best. The country lacks sufficient offensive awareness, otherwise they would not have stopped at the Urals! If it was those Soviet Russians, the Bering Strait did not block them back then. The Americans were also very pleased with this information.
"We got a copy of Huaxia's internal information!" Since the relationship between the United States and China is not bad, many pro-American people who have studied in the United States with Gengzi indemnity are also in high positions in the Chinese government, and they have more opportunities to contact high-level intelligence than the pro-Japanese faction who are like rats crossing the street. ”…,
"They're really busy consolidating! This information covers not only the Australian continent, but also Siberia and the Far East, as well as Central Asia. The Chinese already have enough vast land in their hands to consolidate and digest, if they only care about greedy devouring, they may be like the Japanese, and eventually they will not even be able to take care of the mainland! ”
A simple excuse to hold on to Australia was not enough to make the United States and Japan let down their southern guard, and the Chinese army completed the final blow on the Korean Peninsula in October, just before the bitter cold came.
At Meng Xiang's wedding, a foreign reporter who was not long-sighted mentioned Meng Xiang's sentence and asked whether the Korean Peninsula was a Chinese territory, of course, this time he did not face Meng Xiang directly, and he could not get a direct answer from Meng Xiang.
However, two days later, when the news came that the Chinese army swept across the southernmost part of the Korean Peninsula and wiped out half of the 150,000 Japanese entrenched there, and half of them were completely driven into the sea, the facts gave the best answer.
Although there are still remnants of Japanese troops in the original border mountainous areas such as Myoxiang Mountain under the leadership of Okamura Ninji, many Koreans have taken out most of the Japanese troops with weapons and equipment similar to those of the Japanese in order to make meritorious contributions, to pay enough votes, and to get rid of their former Japanese traitors or pro-Japanese identities.
After paying the lives of 1.8 million young and strong Korean men in battle, dealing with deserters and Japanese traitors, there were less than 60,000 Japanese troops entrenched there, and they were relegated to some places that were easy to defend and difficult to attack. If it weren't for Meng Xiang's need for them to consume the disobedient Koreans and puppet Manchus, they would have been cleaned up a long time ago.
The presence of these people no longer interferes with the overall situation. The entire Korean Peninsula has been taken over by China, and it stops at the Korean Strait and faces the Japanese across the sea. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to (.) to vote for recommendation, monthly pass, your support is my biggest motivation. )