"Thank God the Japanese never showed up!" James Potter couldn't help but relax when he saw that the land shadow of New Zealand had already appeared in front of him.

Along the way, almost all the Australian refugees prayed, and it seemed that it had finally worked. The battleships of the Japanese never appeared.

Escorted by American warships, they crossed the Tasman Sea smoothly and reached New Zealand.

The Japanese did a lot of damage to the fleet this time. Forward bases near Australia, berths and occasional replenishment of supplies are fine, but repairs are difficult, unlike the Americans who can rest on Melbourne's Grand Harbourne. The Americans were very attentive in transporting civilian ships this time, and there were many warships escorting them. Coupled with their superiority in aircraft carriers, even a sneak attack by the Japanese will not make much profit.

Perhaps the soft carried by those civilians may have been very oily, but it can be said to be insignificant compared to the entire Australian continent.

Once the Japanese intensified the interception, the Australians retreated to Melbourne, which would make it more difficult to unify the entire Australian continent.

As for the wealth of the Australian treasury, it must have been moved to the large American warships, and it could not be stopped easily.

They may be able to intercept the treasury ships carrying gold and silver, but they may not get them, and they may have fallen into the trap of the Americans. Although the Japanese had hot eyes, they swallowed and endured it for the sake of the ultimate strategic goal.

But after Meng Xiang heard the details of the Australians going to transport 500 tons of gold, he couldn't help it.

The 300 tons of gold consigned this time not only had the state treasury, but also the bottom goods of some wealthy businessmen.

Australia has amassed some stocks of wool and grain, and the gold rush that was once popular in Australia has also saved a lot of gold. In 03, Australia ranked first in the world with an annual output of 119 tons. Even after South Africa's gold production squeezed its place, it remained one of the main producers of gold in the Commonwealth until the end of World War II.

It is not uncommon to put together 500 tons of gold at once.

The Japanese don't know the exact number, but they can hold back. But Meng Xiang, who inquired carefully, was a little addicted to robbery.

The treasury of the Dutch, Belgium, France, and England was looted by Meng Xiang when it was being transported by sea. The Russian treasury was also robbed by Meng Xiangpai, Natasha and others when it was transported by land. Thinking about Australia's heavy actions to China in later generations, the idea of Meng Xiang's robbery came to mind again.

When it came to robbing the Russians, it was the most difficult. Going deep inland, evacuation is difficult. Moreover, the spirit of the Soviet Russians fighting to the death to protect the treasury property has increased the great difficulty.

In other countries, few have resisted to the last man. As long as the threat of death looms over them, they usually succeed.

The people who transported this part of the gold together with the United States, Britain and Australia are also not the kind of people who sacrifice their lives and money.

Later generations said that when Lao Chiang withdrew to Taiwan, he only took 20 tons of gold with him. It is said that when the new dynasty was first built. There were only 0.187 tons of gold in the treasury, so the fruits of labor had to be used as the basis for monetary credit.

With the continuous trading, the purchase of machine technology, especially the large-scale purchases from the Americans, and the slamming of the door with hard currency, the total amount of gold in Meng Xiang's hands plummeted to 1,237 tons, in order to cope with the next step of the banknote issuance more stable. Five hundred tons of gold was enough for Meng Xiang, whose money bag was deflated, to take a risk.

Besides, allowing the Americans to evacuate so smoothly made it easy for the Japanese to get hold of Australia. This is not Meng Xiang's plan either.

With the Americans unable to provide more assistance in a short period of time, the overall situation in Australia has been decided.

There is already news in the United States that there is a basis for this battle of Bass. It's time to evacuate.

While rebuilding facilities in Hawaii, they plan to wait for an opportunity to stay in New Zealand, just like Europe.

In this case, Meng Xiang wished that the allies and the Japanese would fight the last tragic battle again, and weaken the strength of the United States and Japan again.

So Meng Xiang unceremoniously gave the order to plunder again.

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"It looks like the Japanese won't come!" Turnerson looked around with a telescope, but it was still calm.

The civilians have been transported for five days in a row, but the Japanese have not moved.

At the beginning, the Americans specially spread false news about the transportation of the treasury, and the plan to ambush the Japanese also failed.

After two unsuccessful attempts, on the sixth day the Australians finally carried away the most important part of the treasury.

Completed in '39, the Wichta Heavy Cruise was the last of the U.S. Treaty-type Heavy Cruises. It is a ship type that has transitioned to the Baltimore class, and its performance is superior. In the case that the wounded Hawaii could not be dispatched, and Baltimore had not yet disembarked from the slipway, except for the aircraft carrier, it was already considered the strongest battleship with the last armor and the largest naval guns. This time, 300 tons of gold were carried on this main battleship. In addition, there were more than two hundred tons of silver and other valuables.

It and a light cruiser, four destroyers, and the USS Lexington aircraft carrier escorted more than 70 civilian ships of all sizes to transport some civilians away.

"I heard that the Japanese will not come to attack us." Captain Locke, who was beside him, said in a low voice.

"Huh?"

"The Australian government privately signed a ceasefire agreement with the Japanese, but the Japanese did not agree, and it seems that they have to seize the entire Australian continent. However, civilians were allowed to leave freely, so that there was no Japanese attack......" Locke teased the news that had been circulating among the refugees, but before he could finish speaking, a scream interrupted his prolonged note.

"Torpedo!"

More than a dozen waterlines raised by the white waves rushed towards the Wichta at the same time, and the dense attack within a kilometer made it impossible for the Wichta to dodge the slow following the civilian boats.

Sharp enemy sirens sounded one after another on the nearby ships, but these were completely drowned out by a loud explosion.

"Boom, boom!" Not expecting a submarine at all to lurk at close range, the Wichta took four torpedoes in a row and began to sink.

The entire fleet, shrouded in death, began to go into disarray.

I thought that the Japanese would not appear, but I did not expect that a submarine would attack them at close range, without evading the sonar scanning of the ships in front of them and the cruising of aerial reconnaissance planes. This is almost unthinkable in the wars of this era.

The roar of the aircraft engine got closer and closer, and the warplanes that were on guard around approached to follow the trail of the submarine.

"Over there!" On board the ship, you can easily spot the periscope of a submarine sticking out on the port side of the fleet, but it is a little far away.

Some people later suspected that these two submarines were attacked.

However, his guess was right, Meng Xiang dispatched a total of 6 submarines this time, and all of them were second-class red alert attack submarines.

The Red Alert submarine at the base can be produced very early, but this type of submarine is inferior to the German submarine before the second stage, and it also needs to consume more valuable brain control points.

Red Police warships, especially large warships or submarines, are different from Red Police Chariots, even if they are manually operated, they need to consume 1 valuable Brain Management Star. Before, Meng Xiang had no plans to produce at all, and only used the quota for aircraft carriers and battleships.

However, with the increase of sub-bases and the upgrading of bases, these management stars are no longer too scarce. Meng Xiang also produced 6 Red Alert submarines to give it a try.

This robbery, for the sake of secrecy, all these submarines were dispatched.

Because such an operation does not need to expose the secret of the missile, it is enough for Meng Xiang to choose the second-class Red Alert submarine. The third-class submarine is mainly used for missile attacks, but it is not as convenient as the second-class submarine.

The second stage is about the same as the conventional submarine of the post-war 50s, which is somewhat similar to the famous W-type submarine in Soviet Russia, but the performance is much stronger.

This time, except for the two ships that came from a little distance to reconnoiter and attract firepower, the other four ships sent out their torpedoes and urgently dived.

Two dreadnought dive bombers rushed towards them, and even though they were on reconnaissance and alert duty, they could not carry heavy bombs with them, but they still dived down and began to strafe with their 12.7mm machine guns.

Due to the suddenness of the attack, the Americans were slow to react, and the panic of those civilian boats, even in order to avoid the panicked ramming of several civilian ships sent out by Meng Xiang, also blocked their ability to take further action.

By the time bombers began to take off on the deck of the Lexington, which had also been attacked and torpedoed, and the two nearby destroyers had begun to aim their guns here, the two submarines had already dived quickly.

Depth charges on the sea surface continue to bring up columns of water that soar into the sky, but they can no longer affect the two second-class Red Alert submarines that have dived below 200 meters, while the other four second-class submarines have secretly stayed on the bottom of the sea under the cover of some civilian ships.

Their mission was accomplished, and the most violent blow sent the Wichta to sink, and the sinking was so fast that it couldn't even move the gold out, and the sailors were busy running for their lives, who cared about this.

The Americans, Australians, and Britons could only watch as the ship of fortune sank into the sea with the flames of the explosion.