Chapter 872: The number of people is enough for the time being

"Damn! The scoundrel yellow-skinned monkeys have taken over our garden, and the savage cowboys have no guts in the face of the Japanese dwarfs! Churchill said angrily.

China's immigration actions cannot be concealed.

Although Huaxia has been shouting that the army of the expedition to Japan needs sufficient logistics personnel to support it, the logistics support is so good that the entire Australian towns, farmlands, and mines are taken over, and the British understand what is going on no matter how stupid they are. However, Huaxia still brazenly continued to delay in the name of conquest of the Japanese, and as long as there was this signboard and enough strength, it would not pay attention to the clamor of the British.

Even the increasing number of Chinese troops has not taken the initiative to continue the offensive to the southeast of Australia, so that the Japanese army there has been suppressed there, and it has also made the Americans' plan to fish in troubled waters and take the opportunity to land has failed.

Seeing the Japanese desperately stepping up the construction of protective fortifications in Sydney, Melbourne and other places, the Americans calculated for a while, and finally gave up the idea of relying on 150,000 American troops and 170,000 Australian and New Zealand troops to force a landing.

The number of 320,000 Allied troops was a little reluctant in the face of the Japanese army of about 300,000 in the southeast, not to mention that the US troops stationed in New Zealand were biased towards defense and navy, and among the 150,000 US troops, only 2 Marine Corps divisions and 4 infantry divisions could land and fight, and all kinds of heavy weapons and equipment were insufficient, and the force of the landing attack was weak.

The Americans are also aware of the crisis brought to Australia by the Chinese, and their changes to Australia's strategic plan have just been passed, but it will take at least more than a month or even longer to actually implement it.

It takes time to prepare the materials for the landing operation, it takes time to mobilize the army, and most importantly, it takes a lot of time to get from the mainland of the United States to Australia. The Chinese, on the other hand, were transporting troops and immigrants in the scale of 20,000 to 30,000 every day, filling the towns that the Japanese had just taken over.

C-130 transport aircraft even at the time of maximum load. It can fly more than 3,700 kilometers. The range under the maximum fuel can even reach more than 7,000 kilometers, and it can fly directly from the Indochina Peninsula to the southwest of Australia.

But the Americans have such a sharp weapon as Hercules, and the Americans only have C-47. Its maximum range is just over 2,600 kilometers.

The C-47 transport planes of the Chinese army can be transferred through the airfields scattered around the sub-bases on the island of Sumatra and the airstrip controlled by the Chinese armed forces on the island of Kalimantan, and the destination is only the north and northwest of Australia. But it will be very difficult for the Americans to cross the Pacific Ocean with this kind of air train.

Most of the islands east of the South Pacific were colonized by the French. Americans have not been allowed to take off and land until now. Moreover, these places are mostly desolate, there are very few airports, and even if there are, they are the kind of airstrips that take off and land light aircraft, and the various facilities and personnel are simply not enough to cope with the large-scale transfer of the C-47.

After Germany swallowed up the Vichy regime in France, many of these French colonies were opened to the United States, but it took a lot of investment and time to meet the conditions for transition.

And after Fiji and Tonga were also occupied by the Japanese. The island chain connected with the Marshall and Tuvalu Islands that they previously controlled completely blocked the American airborne in these areas.

Even the direct flight of the Americans from Pago Pago, Western Samoa, closest to the front line, to New Zealand exceeded the maximum range of the C-47 transport aircraft. Not to mention a direct airborne landing in Australia.

Even some recent shipments from New Zealand to the continental United States. Most of the U.S. military can only use the B-17 with a range of more than 2,900 kilometers, or a general range of more than 3,800. B-32 bombers with an extreme range of more than six thousand.

Since the introduction of the B-29 bomber by Huaxia Renhe and Shanzhai Company, the B-29 launched by one of Mengxiang's shadow companies has failed in the US arms purchase, and the XB-32 launched by the United States has won. The Ruler, which entered service in April '43, became the largest heavy bomber of the U.S. military, and after Boeing added improvements and optimizations, the performance was close to that of the B-29.

Although the first bombing mission has not yet begun, it has been flown several times as a long-distance transport aircraft.

These bombers are equipped with weapons and are much safer. But their carrying capacity is limited, especially the newly commissioned B-32, which has not yet formed a full-fledged brigade and is simply impossible to complete large-scale long-distance airlift missions.

It should be said that in this era, except for Meng Xiang, who can demonstrate a strong long-distance transportation capacity, others, including the Americans, cannot do it for the time being.

The Americans had to honestly use the sea, escorted by warships, little by little towards New Zealand.

Even from San Francisco to Wellington, New Zealand, it is more than 10,000 kilometers. According to the speed of the freighter, which generally does not exceed 15 knots, plus the stops along the way to replenish supplies, it will take more than 20 days at the earliest, and a month will pass after a slight delay.

And in this month's time, Huaxia can at least climb the total number of troops and immigrants to 1 million, or even more.

As the Chinese army gradually took control of the northern and western parts of Australia, as well as the northeast and southwest corners of Australia, those airships had completed most of their missions, and now fifty more airships were returning to join the operation to transport migrants.

The second-class Kirov airship can easily send 800 people to any place on the Australian continent in five or six days.

More and more Hercules planes are being produced and added, and more and more airports are being occupied and temporary airfields are being repaired in various places, and it is still possible to transport 30,000 or 40,000 people a day within an appropriate degree of attrition.

And that's exactly what happened.

More than a month later, when the 100,000 American reinforcements arrived in New Zealand with a large amount of landing equipment and prepared to start a landing attack on the southeast corner of Australia, the number of Chinese troops and immigrants on the entire Australian continent had exceeded 1.55 million.

Among them, 800,000 are regular troops.

The 600,000 male and 150,000 female immigrants who were recruited as recruits began to take over all kinds of real estate in the occupied territories, restoring farms, pastures and factories, as well as towns that had not yet had time to be completely destroyed.

At this time, Meng Xiang breathed a sigh of relief and ordered the idle operation to be restored to its normal state.

In two and a half months, Meng Xiang realized the irreplaceable role of the C-130, gritted his teeth and produced more than 100 more into use, bringing the total number of Hercules in the delivery plan to 400.

However, in the past two and a half months, because of the harsh conditions and frequent applications, as well as the lack of ground staff, accidents have occurred frequently, and if it were not for the existence of the base repair shop, the base air command center and the hard-working clones, the simple destruction of scrapped transport planes would definitely exceed one-third of the total number.

Even so, after two and a half months of busyness, the plane needed to be overhauled, the personnel needed to be repaired, and it was no longer possible to maintain the previous tension.

After using Keli's coal resources as a driving force, Mengxiang adjusted a sub-base to establish in southwest Australia.

Relying on three sub-bases, it barely maintained the normal operation of the 800,000 army.

The 800,000 well-equipped Chinese National Defense Force is enough to deal with the tearing skin from Britain and the United States, let alone the Japanese army, which is constantly dispatched and supported by less than 400,000.

"Maybe 600,000 troops is enough!" Meng Xiang muttered in his heart and said distressedly.

It has lasted for so long, and so far it can be called the largest airlift in human history, and the cost is extremely high under Meng Xiang's investment at any cost. Not to mention the completely destroyed planes and the more than 2,000 soldiers and immigrants who were damaged by various crashes, just one maintenance and fuel money made Meng Xiang feel bitter resentment.

If it weren't for the timely supply of oil from the Middle East sub-base, just one purchase of crude oil would have caused financial and economic chaos in the country. Even so, a large amount of fuel required the continuous transportation of cows, and even the personnel of combat submarines were drawn to participate in the transportation of oil.

The lack of relevant personnel is also the main reason why Meng Xiang had to suspend the emergency airlift status.

There is a shortage of all kinds of talents in China, and even after the sudden training in the past few years, the number of all kinds of talents, especially in the military, is much worse than that of European and American countries.

This operation has already drawn the vast majority of aviation personnel, including those transport aircraft and bomber pilots and crews, as well as a much larger number of ground crews, and it is only to meet the basic needs of the entire large-scale operation.

Under such continuous operation, all kinds of aviation personnel do not get enough rest for a long time, resulting in an increasing accident rate.

Although there were no large-scale wars in Siberia and Central Asia, and the impact was not great, the Korean Peninsula only relied on the army and navy, and under the counterattack of the Japanese, there was not enough air suppression, so that the Japanese were very active in the air on the Korean Peninsula recently.

Huaxia's current strength is not enough to cope with the comprehensive suppression of multiple fronts.

The Japanese also saw this, and there were more and more air operations on the Korean Peninsula, although the various types of anti-aircraft artillery in China made the Japanese somewhat restrained, but such passive defense was not a long-term solution.

Australia's 800,000 troops were enough to deal with the next move of the Japanese army, and Meng Xiang immediately dispatched relevant air personnel to deal with the situation on the Korean Peninsula, and even turmoil from the north, Central Asia or the Middle East.

"The next step is to see how the Japanese and Americans make a move!" Rearranged properly, and the number of troops and immigrants who were airlifted to Australia every day was controlled at about 10,000, Meng Xiang breathed a sigh of relief and said to himself.