Chapter 873: Counteroffensive by the Japanese and Americans
"Fight to the death with the Chinese!" The day itself has been clamoring lately.
This time, I'm really anxious.
They can withdraw from China, from the puppet Manchuria, from Taiwan and the Bay, and will not fight with the powerful China because of this. Even the Chinese people have long been psychologically prepared for the Korean Peninsula and the Indochina Peninsula, but this time the Chinese have not yet conquered the South Seas, so they went straight to the Australian mainland, which made them completely anxious.
"Knowing that you guys are amazing, we have been hiding from you, and we have to hide in Australia, isn't it enough?" I was very annoyed.
After suffering repeated losses on Huaxia, the "Day" himself also understood that Huaxia was no longer the original East Asia or the sick man, and it was difficult for the "Day" himself to bargain for any more bargains, and even the rising Huaxia might pose a certain threat to the "Japan" capital.
After the bribery, assassination, and infiltration of the top leaders of the vanguard army basically failed, as the excellent opportunity appeared in the south, the "day" himself began to turn his strong hopes to the south. Especially in the south, the successive victories made the "Japan" himself see the hope of a powerful country that monopolizes the Australian continent.
It is precisely because of this that the Japanese themselves endured it and listed the capture of the Australian continent as the primary goal.
When the Australian continent was completely occupied, the "Day" himself reveled. Even many people's self-confidence is inflated and they will have to deal with China next, but in the end, the top management of Japan has not yet been brain-dead and at the same time challenged several strong enemies of Britain, the United States and China.
They need to recuperate, first beat the Americans to the negotiating table, and after accumulating sufficient strength, they will attack China, strive to become completely strong in China, and solve this enemy of hatred, which has become irresolvable. And Australia is where their confidence lies, even if the mainland is threatened by China, or even completely destroyed, the huge Australian continent is still the capital of their rise.
But now, the foundation of this hope for the future has been directly airborne by the Chinese people, and most of it has been occupied. shattered the dream of the "day" himself.
As soon as Hirohito heard that his land was going to be occupied by Huaxia. Immediately he was in a hurry, and beckoned all the ministers to come and discuss.
"The Chinese people are on an expedition to Australia across Indonesia and other places, and they can't support it for long!" Hideki Tojo said directly.
"But they're now wreaking havoc in most of Australia. And our army can only be cowered in a corner. Fumiro Konoe retorted unceremoniously.
After the occupation of Australia, Hideki Tojo's power crisis was eliminated and climbed to the highest point. In order to compete for the interests of developing more places such as Australia and Southeast Asia in the future, and even India, Fumiro Konoe has been fighting with Hideki Tojo very hard recently. Although there is a crisis of the Huaxia offensive, the two sides that have fought have torn their skins and can no longer retreat and compromise, so they can only continue to fight.
"That's because we have fewer troops, and it takes a lot of resources to mobilize more troops. Even if we use ships, it takes a lot of energy, needless to say that the Chinese people only rely on air transportation, how long can they support it? "Hideki Tojo pointed directly at logistics, which was the biggest weakness of the Chinese army.
Although he also knows that there is no need to worry about Australian food. Local materials can be used, but the consumption of weapons and ammunition can definitely drag down China's logistics. Therefore, he strongly advocated that he should continue to hold on to the South Seas.
"As long as we guard against it. Do not let the Chinese supply ships rush through the Indonesian line. Then block the arms supply routes of other forces on the Australian sea, and the more the number of Chinese troops. The faster it will crash. "Hideki Tojo.
"What about Australia?" Fumiro Konoe asked rhetorically.
"Defend to the death, hold the southeast!" Hideki Tojo said gloomily, "We can only do this, the empire is not strong enough, and it is difficult to effectively support Australia now!" ”
The crowd was silent for a moment.
Huaxia now has deployed 800,000 troops from Vladivostok to the mouth of the Heilongjiang River, threatening the northern part of Japan, 1 million troops on the Korean Peninsula and threatening the southern part of Japan, 600,000 troops stationed in Taiwan, and 500,000 troops along the coast from Lianyungang to Fuzhou, and these 1.1 million troops can threaten the Ryukyu Islands.
For the sake of the security of the homeland, Japan itself had to station 2 million troops on the mainland, as well as on the Korean Peninsula and Sakhalin Island, even many newly recruited recruits remained. After all, most of the belongings of the Japanese are still in the local area, and the local is the fundamental.
With the experience of the previous landing and raid of the Chinese army, Japan has stationed about 400,000 heavy troops in the Philippines, about 300,000 heavy troops in the oil-producing Brunei area in the north of Kalimantan, about 300,000 on Sumatra, about 200,000 in Singapore, and about 150,000 near Yangon.
After Saigon and Phnom Penh were successively captured by the Chinese, the number of Japanese troops retreating to Thailand exceeded 200,000.
In order to do his best to improve the blockade chain in the South Seas, he deployed 150,000 troops on the islands of Java, Bali, and Timor, 30,000 on Sulawesi, and 60,000 on New Guinea.
Fearing that China would counterattack from Australia, or to prepare for a counterattack on Australia, 100,000 troops were coming to this line one after another.
In order to control half of India, even if the Japanese themselves transferred elite troops, they still left about 300,000 troops.
The territory of the Pacific Ocean has also expanded to the extreme, from the Aleutian Islands to Midway, to the Marshall Islands, to Fiji and Tonga. But they also paid the price for this greedy expansion, just to defend the many small islands in the Pacific, even if some of them were unmanned, even if some of them were less than a thousand troops, but scattered together, the total number exceeded 400,000.
The total number of Japanese troops climbed to 7.1 million. But under this large-scale raid in China, 1.7 million were annihilated one after another.
The remaining 5.4 million, excluding the more than 500,000 navy and about 300,000 army still in Australia, the remaining 4.6 million are scattered on the mainland and everywhere, and there is no reserve to mobilize.
Even if I wanted to support Australia, I couldn't mobilize many people.
The 100,000 troops urgently dispatched to aid Australia were not long overwhelmed by the Chinese army.
The only one who can maneuver is the proud navy, but how much can the navy of Japan itself have the ability to land and fight, they can only block the sea route and prevent the supply ships of China or other forces from passing through.
They could only watch as the Chinese army swept through most of Australia until they couldn't hold their breath anymore.
"It can't be like this anymore! If we continue, I'm afraid we will lose the whole of Australia! "Looking at the past two or three months, Australia's Chinese army is still alive and kicking, splashing bullets extravagantly, and I can't help it anymore.
"Decisive battle! Fight to the death! There are more and more voices in Japan, so that Hideki Tojo can't help but change his mind.
"Can't let the Chinese people in Australia be too easy!" Although he still insisted on strict defense in Southeast Asia, and still insisted on consuming Huaxia's military supplies and making them collapse directly, he also flexibly wanted to increase the consumption of the Huaxia army through a large-scale battle at this time.
As a result, an Australian counteroffensive plan against China was released, but this plan was delayed by more than two months, and the Chinese army, which had already gained a firm foothold, was not afraid of any fighting style of the Japanese themselves. Even though he has assisted Australia for a short period of time and re-increased the army to 600,000, in the face of the 800,000 Chinese regular army that is transforming from motorization to mechanization, the outcome has long been doomed.
On August 21, the Japanese army began to deploy troops on a large scale to the Chinese army in Brisbane, Kannamara, near Lake Eyre and Forrestal, in preparation for a major counteroffensive.
They only moved on their front feet, and the Americans began to attack behind them.
Japan's own big move could not be concealed from either China nor the Americans.
"God forbid!" When McMathur heard this, he was immediately overjoyed.
He had a hard time.
The strategic withdrawal of the Americans in Australia originally wanted to trap the British, but they also wanted to relax the vigilance of the "Japan" themselves, so that Huaxia and the "Japan" themselves would lose in Southeast Asia.
But who knows, Huaxia skipped Southeast Asia and landed directly in Australia.
The Americans who were caught off guard were powerless to restrain them, and could only hope that the Chinese army would be annihilated by the Japanese themselves due to poor logistical supplies.
For this reason, they joined forces with the British to secretly prohibit the delivery of arms to China in Australia, and even persuaded the Umbrella Company and other neutral arms dealers to embargo arms to China in Australia on favorable terms.
But who knew that the Chinese people were becoming more and more nourished in Australia, not only transporting troops on a large scale, but also immigrating on a large scale.
The Americans also couldn't hold their breath.
The United States has even criticized the failure of the US strategy in Australia.
So MacArthur, who lost the Philippines and assumed the post of commander-in-chief of the US forces in the South Pacific, became a scapegoat.
If this matter had not been the idea of the US high-level, I am afraid that MacArthur would have been directly removed from his post and would have no chance of turning over.
However, MacArthur's folk image was completely ruined, and the name of "Runaway General" hung over his head.
In order to wash away this humiliation, MacArthur was always looking forward to the counterattack of the American army.
After the gradual arrival of large quantities of reinforcements and supplies, the Americans prepared a plan of action.
When they saw that the Japanese navy was heading north to increase the interception of Chinese ships in Southeast Asia, and the main force of the army was dispatching preparations for a counterattack on the Chinese army, the Americans knew that the opportunity had come.
On the 23rd, when the counteroffensive of the Japanese army on the front line entered the countdown, the Americans launched the Australian landing operation in advance.