Chapter 752: Give up the puppet Manchurian

"Don't say that tens of thousands of natives can pick up guns so quickly to defeat a regular division! This is a conspiracy of the Japanese, and it is all the Japanese who are playing ghosts! Australian Prime Minister Curtin said furiously. ，

Curtin could accept the defeat of a division, but a series of rumors had already made the whole of Australia panic.

"The natives have received a prophecy from their gods that they are going to become masters of this continent again and to kill all the whites!"

"The Japanese have landed in Australia, and they are pursuing a policy of genocide to kill all the white people."

"Let's go, this war will destroy everything!"

Reliable news that indigenous troops had advanced to Lake Ayding and Brisbane had exacerbated the distrust of government forces.

Amid various rumors, the number of people fleeing Australia from Europe has plummeted. Even Australia's population is declining, and people are looking for opportunities to go to New Zealand, to the United States, to Canada, and even to Latin America. In short, the war has burned half of the Australian continent, and many people are already feeling the danger of approaching.

At this time, almost everyone understood the real culprit of the massacre.

Aborigines are not scary, once upon a time, the shotguns of European immigrants could hunt the heads of those natives. What is really scary is the Japanese who are behind them.

News of the Bataan Death March has spread, and more than 80,000 American and Philippine prisoners of war have fallen on the way to the prisoner of war camp, nearly 20,000 have fallen, and the others have been tortured to the point that they do not look like people and ghosts. The threat of imminence made Westerners suddenly discover the cruelty of the Japanese.

Perhaps the massacre of 10,000 or 20,000 people in Darwin's town has not yet been confirmed whether it was the revenge of the natives or the intervention of the Japanese, but a massacre of 50,000 people in places such as Mount Issa and Cronkery was no longer something that the natives could do alone, not to mention facing more than 20,000 young men defending their homeland, and they had to crush the Australian 4th Division.

"The natives will attack with tanks?" Curtin had never believed that the Natives who couldn't even maintain their guns could achieve such a great deal, and the presence of a dozen tanks at the Battle of Mount Issa clearly confirmed his and many other Australians' suspicions.

"The Japanese army has arrived!" Such rumors have aroused fear in the hearts of many people.

At the beginning of the tragedy in Nanjing, China, they only paid verbal sympathy, and the suffering of European Jews was more of a schadenfreude, and the civilians fleeing in Europe just lamented the fate of the soldiers' cannon fodder, but at this time, the shadow of the massacre fell on their heads, and it fell on everyone's heads, regardless of soldiers or civilians, they could become a cold corpse in the slaughter.

They were terrified.

The British ** team was constantly retreating in the face of the Japanese army, and at this time retreated to India, still retreating step by step.

The Americans' warships sank en masse at Pearl Harbor, and their Western Pacific garrison was already in concentration camps, where they could collapse every day under hard labor and poor living conditions. New reinforcements have not been seen for a long time.

"The Americans said they came to support us, but their fleet couldn't reach the Pacific Ocean at all, and the Japanese were attacking the Solomon Islands,"

Australia has no external reinforcements to count on, and the anxious Curtin can't ask for more external reinforcements for the time being. Even the little army on the ground could not reassure the people.

Australia's vast coastline is full of potential sites for Japanese landings, not to mention that many areas in the north have fallen into the hands of the combined forces of the Aborigines and Japanese. The Japanese can already land directly.

"Japanese troops have landed!" This time it was no longer a rumor, and on July 17, the Japanese 5th Division landed in the Darwin area and the Cape York Peninsula, and with the help of the 6th Division, which had been lurking for a long time, routed the Australian 2nd and 10th Divisions defending there.

The news spread quickly, triggering another wave of exodus.

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"Wasn't the Japanese Sixth Division annihilated by the Chinese and withdrawn?" Meng Xiang couldn't help but be surprised when he heard the news.

Almost all the divisions and regiments that committed crimes at the foot of Nanjing were cleaned up by the vanguard army, and most of them were annihilated and withdrawn by the Japanese army. The 6th Division was also dismantled.

"The Japanese introduced the meritorious compensation method, and some divisions and regiments were resurrected!" Fan said disdainfully.

The establishment of armies that were withdrawn because they were annihilated can generally only become history. However, with the expansion of the Japanese army, as well as the operation of the bigwigs of various divisions and regiments, in the form of compensation for military merits, these divisions and regiments that recorded the honor of the Japanese army were reclassified into the sequence, so as to stimulate the sense of honor and mission of the officers and men.

It was precisely because of the infiltration in Australia that the 6th Division was able to rebuild and strive for greater success in the Australian Raiders.

"Sure enough, there is also a Ninth Division here that is also going to be resurrected in Australia! They know they're embarrassed to reinstate under us! Meng Xiang also sneered, but then said with a tight face, "The successful landing operation of the Fifth Division in the North made the Japanese change their strategy. The Japanese are going to spend a lot of money this time, and in the next three months they plan to invest six divisions to land in Australia. ”

"Six divisions? Can the Japanese still draw so many troops? They have already left at least ten divisions in the northeast, and if they hadn't withdrawn in time, I'm afraid that the entire Kwantung Army would have been wiped out by us! Fan Chong said disapprovingly.

The Vanguard offensive in the Far East did not affect the reconquest of the Northeast, and more corps were constantly being brought in, and by the time Harbin was captured in early June, eight corps had been gathered in the Northeast.

The total strength of the eight army corps is nearly 1.5 million, not only to capture the northeast, but also the four major army corps of Wang Yaowu, Huang Huamin and others before are enough to sweep the northeast.

Starting from the attack on the northeast on April 18, Shenyang was recovered on the 27th in just nine days, and Changchun was slightly later, but it was conquered on May 6. At the end of May, after the Japanese Kwantung Army was annihilated by 300,000 troops in several major battles such as the Battle of Manchuria and Changchun, it took the initiative to shrink to a limited number of places to hold on, but it was still annihilated by 110,000 troops in defensive battles such as Harbin.

At present, the vast majority of towns in the northeast have fallen into the hands of the vanguard army, and the subsequent arrival of the four major armies, including the 11th Army Corps of the Gui system, in addition to Jing'an, will also undertake the task of attacking the Far East and other places from the northeast east.

In addition to the Far Eastern troops of the vanguard army that marched along Siberia, the vanguard army in the northeast attacked from the other side of the Heilongjiang River and conquered these important Soviet Russian towns in one fell swoop.

It was the attack on Soviet Russia that slowed down the pursuit of the Kwantung Army. Of course, there are other considerations as well.

"Of course, it's still up to the Japanese reconciliation plan! They have decided to give up the false man! Meng Xiang sneered.

When the vanguard army invaded, public opinion in Japan clamored for the defeat of the vanguard army at the puppet Manchurian army prevailed. Progress in Southeast Asia had made Japan forget the humiliation of the Vanguards, and the defeat of Britain and the United States had bolstered their confidence. The domestic rhetoric was almost one-sided in favor of the decisive battle between Japan and the vanguard army. All the rhetoric of concern disappeared into the collective frenzy.

But the vanguard army quickly slapped them hard with reality, and they were defeated and even faced the fate of being completely annihilated, which made the Japanese sober up all of a sudden.

Ishihara's plan to abandon the broken arm of the puppet Manchurian has attracted more people's attention, and even Hideki Tojo, who is very bad with him, has grasped this straw, so as not to lead to the instability of the cabinet regime with the defeat of the puppet Manchurian.

"Lose the car and protect the handsome! Give up the puppet Manchurians, appease the grievances of the vanguard army, talk about Sino-Japanese friendship, ensure local security, and strive to open up Southeast Asia and Australia! Our future is on the Australian continent! Ishihara has been collecting information about the Chinese Pioneer Army for several years, and finally has to admit that he failed to put forward the Mongolian and Manchurian policies before, and at least in the last few years, the Japanese Army has not been able to compete with the Vanguard Army.

In the face of the offensive of the vanguard army in the northeast, there is only one outcome, and no matter what, there is no escape from a defeat. Ishihara is worthy of being one of Japan's most strategists, and he dares to give up on the spot.

"We know that Australia has more open land to grow wheat and rice, and even acres of cattle and sheep, but without the coal and iron ore in the northeast, what will happen to our industry?" The stinginess of the Japanese has made them reluctant to invest in the false fullness of net profit and wealth for so many years, and many people refute it with this.

"India's coal mines can supply Australia nearby, and there is coal in the south and east of Australia!" Ishihara also has a very detailed understanding of Australia's information. At this time, although there were not many coal mines in Australia, the number was also objective.

"India's iron ore is better than Anshan's, and the quantity is extremely rich." It was the iron ore of India that was urgently needed by the Japanese, so there was a final attack on India.

"And we've got the good news that there are iron ore mines in Australia, and they're super large!"

"What? Super Big Iron Mine? ”

"Yes, the information we got from Skynet is also being explored near Mount Middlebuck, and the preliminary estimate is that there are at least more than a billion tons of high-quality iron ore! Enough for us to use for a hundred years! This piece of news became a crucial point in the passage of Ishihara's plan.

Although the Japanese had been negotiating peace with the vanguard army since May, it was not until the end of June that the content of the peace talks gradually leaned towards Ishihara's severed arm plan.

"How can you let the Japanese go so easily?" The concept of feud in the indignant thinking has always lingered in Meng Xiang's mind, "But it doesn't matter if you pit them again!" ”

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