When the Chinese army was operating, secrecy was done very well. It always makes the Japanese unguarded and appears in places they don't expect.

The Japanese have already suffered enough from the surprise attack of the Chinese army, and they will no longer be negligent.

Even though the Chinese army is still advancing slowly on the Korean Peninsula and the Indochina Peninsula, the Japanese still do not dare to relax their protection of the South Asian islands, lest the Chinese army suddenly land in the Philippines and Indonesia. After all, the Chinese army can raid Taiwan, Hainan, and even the Malay Peninsula, and it is possible to go further.

They had to send a large number of warships to patrol the Bass Strait, the Spratly Islands, and the Java Sea.

The navy was perhaps the only force that the Japanese could feel safe with.

However, part of the main force of the Combined Fleet blocked the Americans near the Marshall Islands, part of it was far away in Ceylon and the Maldives to fight against the British, and part of the mainland was deployed to prevent the Chinese from landing on the mainland.

None of this could be missed, and the Japanese gradually felt overstretched and had to transfer some of the main forces from the South Pacific to support the South Seas.

The Japanese South Pacific Fleet, which drove the Americans and Australians to New Zealand, while killing the Americans with a rifle, and with the help of Meng Xiang, they conquered the Fiji Islands on 9 May, and confronted the American troops in Samoa along the International Date Line. A whole island chain was formed, which jammed the actions of the Americans towards Australia.

Therefore, except for some warships stationed in Fiji to intercept US troops and stationed in Sydney and Melbourne to confront New Zealand, almost half of the other warships of the South Pacific Fleet have been transferred to Southeast Asia. While supporting the defense of the Indochina Peninsula, it also cooperated with the army of the South Seas to deploy a tightly sealed island chain in Indonesia and other regions.

As for the fact that a large number of main forces and many warships have been dispatched in many parts of Australia because of the crisis in the Indochina Peninsula and the mainland, resulting in the empty defense of some towns and towns along the coast and land, the Japanese are not too worried.

Each island has a large number of guard posts. There are large and small boats between the islands. Even civilian ships and natives were dispatched to patrol various places, and there were constantly army and navy reconnaissance planes flying in the air, and the Japanese were confident that they were under this large net of land, sea and air arrangements covering most of Southeast Asia. It was no longer possible for the Chinese army to slip under their noses.

It's a pity that they forgot again, there is another word in the dictionary called miracle.

They have also forgotten that the current one has driven them away. The Chinese army, which defeated Soviet Russia, was a team that constantly created miracles.

The Chinese army once again surprised them, abandoning Southeast Asia and attacking Australia.

The General Staff also considered a step-by-step assault, and after conquering Southeast Asia, it would consider attacking Australia. But it was vetoed by Meng Xiang.

"After all, the United States is the United States, and we have no time left for such a momentum of development." After reading the reports on the military industry and the army collected from the United States, Meng Xiang felt more and more that time was pressing.

The Japanese kitchen knife that Meng Xiang swung out was unfortunately a little blunt. And the Germans' chariot turned a little too fast.

On the other hand. Huaxia's foundation is too thin, and it only consolidates the primary foundation of industry, even if it has a golden finger. It took five years. Although, for the time being, the Americans are mainly stuck in Europe. But the U.S. industry is too strong.

As long as Huaxia makes a move in the south, they will inevitably react quickly. Burst out with more war potential to take care of the South.

By the time China opens up the passage to Southeast Asia, the Americans may have already dispatched a large army to counterattack Australia.

If the Americans are involved, it will be difficult to gain an advantage in Australia unless they completely tear their faces in the future.

"We can only clear one direction in the shortest possible time." understands that Meng Xiang wants to plot against Australia's model, and he also said solemnly.

Then hit the name of the Japanese and seize the opportunity, there is only one chance. For this reason, Meng Xiang had already made a choice of strategic directions to the west and south.

In two years, although the Japanese offensive has weakened, it has also laid down a large area of domination.

In addition to the southern invasion of mainland Australia, the Japanese had already captured Ceylon and the Maldives in the west, and if it had not been for the fact that the Chagos Islands had been replaced with warships by the Umbrella Company earlier, they would have occupied this place to confront the British forces in the Seychelles.

With the British busy in Europe, the Americans did not intervene in the war in the early stage, and the Japanese also spent two years, even if Meng enjoyed the grasp of the golden finger, but under the eyes of the Americans, it is difficult to say that in a short period of time, all the territory can be occupied.

In order not to give the Americans enough time to react, Huaxia can only concentrate its forces first, make a breakthrough in one direction first, form an established fact, and let the Americans jump on their feet, and there is nothing to say.

Meng Xiang chose the south without hesitation.

There were the British to the west, and it was difficult for the Americans to meddle. Moreover, with India, a chaotic land with a large population, Meng Xiang simply cannot use the advantages of Chinese and immigrants to create complete control.

Whether it is the Chinese in Southeast Asia or Australia, which was driven out by the Japanese, it is a target that Meng Xiang can control more easily.

And even these two goals, according to the existing conditions in China, cannot be fully grasped before the Americans take a drastic reaction.

Meng Xiang, who had been thinking about it for a long time, once again chose Australia without hesitation.

Under the massacre of the Japanese and the aborigines who were pushed forward, the white inhabitants of the entire Australian continent died and fled, and now there are fewer than 200,000 people. The empty Australian continent is already ripe fruit, and if it weren't for the Americans being pinned down by Europe, they would have counterattacked the Japanese a long time ago.

They would never have imagined that Huaxia would come to pick the fruit so soon.

This is only one chance.

As long as Australia occupies it first, even if the Americans react, when the war in Europe is raging, they will have to consider it if they want to tear their faces with China.

And if they are in a hurry to attack Southeast Asia, they will inevitably collide with the Japanese first, and there will be trouble for the aborigines and Chinese, and the Chinese who are stuck in Australia will create a little trouble for them at any time.

Since the plan of attack this time was to bypass Southeast Asia and capture Australia first, in order not to let the Japanese detect it in advance, the General Staff came up with many methods.

For example, this time the submarine transports troops.

The Japanese had also heard that Huaxia had a cow force composed of submarines, and they had also considered the idea of carrying soldiers on submarines, but they never expected that Huaxia would use submarines to transport large-scale troops.

They can block the sea, but they don't have enough power to do so below sea level.

It is impossible for them to even equip all the sonars on all the warships, let alone the radar. Even if they had these equipment, the Chinese army had a way to interfere and dodge.

A full 28 converted I-400 submarines, accompanied by more than 30 Assassin attack submarines, passed through what the Japanese called the island chain blockade line and sailed to various target areas in Australia.

After the war, the Soviet Russia's 621, 626, 648 and other troop transport submarine plans were all abandoned halfway, although the base can rely on production, but the cost of these troop transport submarines is so high that Meng Xiang can not afford it, and finally chose the cheap I-400 in World War II after modification to transport the army.

Because the coastal defense at this time was not as strict as in the Cold War, the Yi-400 could carry 300 troops after being refitted, with the help of other bases along the way.

Of course, the submarine troop transport was only one part of this troop transport operation.

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"What kind of Type II ship did you pass by just now?" Mu Xuanzhu stood on the edge of the airship's cabin, put down the telescope in his hand and said in surprise.

Zhao Xingbiao glanced at the H8K2 two-type seaplane that flew farther and farther away, and said disdainfully: "What a big ship, our airship is the real big ship in the air!" ”

In fact, the Japanese H8K2 two-engine seaplane with a crew of ten people is also a large aircraft in World War II. Its comprehensive performance in all aspects is not inferior to that of the British Sunderland seaplane, and it is much more powerful than the American PBY.

Later generations called this Type II ship, which had shot down the B-17 bomber, the best seaplane of World War II, because its range was nearly twice that of Sunderland, which carried the best seaplane of World War II, and it was much faster. It is only because of the embarrassment of the Japanese that the Type II seaplane is rarely used, and it is far less famous than Sunderland.

Of course, if it is much worse than the take-off boat, the 7,150-kilometer range is much worse than the Kirov airship that can sail around the earth without landing for several days, in addition to the speed advantage of the maximum speed of 465 kilometers per hour, the volume, armament and carrying capacity are not in the same grade.

"I'll just say, how many people can be loaded on such a plane, it may not be more than our Hercules, and it can be called a big ship? Not to mention, our spaceship, which can hold five or six hundred people, no, airships! Mu Xuanzhu nodded solemnly in response.

The C-130 transport aircraft equipped in the Chinese National Defense Force, Meng Xiang didn't even bother to change the name, and it has been well-known to many people.

Compared with Hercules, the Japanese Type II seaplane is naturally much inferior in all aspects.

"Where is that Hercules transport plane comfortable with our airship?" When Zhao Xingbiao heard this, he blinked his eyelids a few times, and said quietly.

Hercules is not only extremely fast, but also has a super carrying capacity, and some people in the army have already proposed to purchase more of this kind of transport aircraft to replace the strategic position of the airship, which makes the people of the airship unit always feel very unhappy when they mention the Hercules transport plane.

However, in this Australian operation, in order to avoid the attack and eyes and ears of the Japanese, the first to be dispatched was an airship.