Chapter 869: Successful Landing
"Why is it another person?" Shouichi Terauchi said angrily with red eyes.
After the capture of Australia, Terauchi Shouichi, who served as the commander-in-chief of the Southern Army, finally got rid of the shadow of the defeat of China and re-became one of the leading speakers of the Japanese high-level.
Originally, he was still rejoicing that he could take advantage of the opportunity of the development of the new world of Australia to take a step forward, but the news from the Australian parties that the Chinese were attacking him shattered his dream.
"How did they come so fast?" After losing his temper, Terauchi Shouichi's voice became lower and lower, muttering to himself.
The repeated defeats in China had already planted a shadow in his heart, and as the Chinese army continued to squeeze the space of the Japanese, and successively attacked Taiwan, Korea, and the Indochina Peninsula, the shadow on the hearts of all Japanese army forces became even heavier. Whether it is the high-level of the Japanese base camp or Terauchi Shouichi, he has already been mentally prepared for Huaxia to attack Australia, but it is definitely not now.
"Southeast Asia is still in our hands, how dare they cross such a long distance to attack Australia?" The unexpected actions of the Huaxia army against the Japanese confused Shouichi Terauchi, who was gradually calming down, but it did not prevent him from giving the order to counterattack in time and destroy all the Huaxia troops.
In his opinion, the air transport of the Chinese could only supply a small number of troops.
Even though the Chinese had the miracle of landing in Siberia, many people deduced that the actions of the Chinese could not be separated from the support of those White Russians, otherwise it would be difficult to support the supply of the army by air alone.
Anyway, there is very little information about the actions of the Chinese in the north, and few outsiders can have such a rich imagination, and they can only attribute the victory of the Chinese to the advance savings and preparations and the cover and support of the White Russians.
While the Japanese continued to immigrate over, the white people in Australia carried out a large-scale cleanup, either being slaughtered or being detained for labor, and there was no chance of colluding with China, and in the eyes of the Japanese. Those indigenous people who had just come out of the primitive society could not even make iron tools, how could they collude with the Chinese people who had always excluded outsiders? The natives, who followed the Japanese and slaughtered the whites, were content to get a little reservation.
As for the umbrellas and copycat companies that are most likely to provide supplies, the Japanese have long been on guard, and the trading points that have provided them with a lot of material help in the past are heavily armed. No outflow of weapons or supplies has been seen.
Without the help of outsiders, the Chinese can only rely on themselves. How much can be shipped even by air? How can it support the continuous combat of the Chinese army, which has always liked to rain bullets and attacks?
"The number of troops they come over will never be very large, and the supply lines behind them may be stuck by us at any time, this may be a good opportunity to let those arrogant vanguard troops taste defeat!" The more Shouichi Terauchi thought about it, the more excited he became, and the history of the defeat of the Japanese Army in the face of the Chinese Pioneer Army might be ended in his hands.
"This time, I'm going to teach them a hard lesson!" Terauchi Toshiichi continued to dispatch troops to organize a counterattack. On the other hand, he ordered the troops in Southeast Asia to launch a more intensive interception.
Through the coordination of the base camp, the Japanese navy also launched a tighter blockade, preventing not a single supply ship from Huaxia from passing through the South Seas.
More than 800 fighters from the Nanyang Army Aviation and the Hainan Airlines also joined the interception operation, trying to prevent the Huaxia transport planes from passing.
It is a pity that they once again underestimated the determination of Huaxia in this operation, not only did the Huaxia mainland send more than 900 fighters to escort the operation, but more than 500 fighters from the Indochina Peninsula also participated in this operation, and no less than 800 heavy bombers directly copied the old nest of the devil's army aviation and carried out a large-scale bombing of airfields in various parts of the South Seas.
At first, the Japanese were able to take advantage of the geographical advantages of many airports in Nanyang to barely support it. But with the bombing, as well as the sneak attack of the nearby Chinese armed forces and the destruction of the elite Chinese special forces, the only advantage of the Japanese was also wiped out.
Even though the Japanese flew more than 300 fighters from places like Australia and India again to support. still couldn't stop the surprise attack of the Huaxia Air Force, and was even beaten up in turn.
This time, both sides committed more than 1,000 fighters, but the vast sky from Indochina to Australia gave them enough battlefield to gallop and fight.
The fighting was fierce, and in just one day, the Japanese lost 189 fighters in various places.
Although the Huaxia fighters only lost 43 planes, in the chaos of the war, it was inevitable that there would be mistakes, and a total of 11 transport planes were shot down.
For the Hercules transport planes, the Japanese only have dry eyes, but the performance of those C-47 transport planes is already a little outdated. If it weren't for the limited number of Hercules. I'm afraid Meng Xiang won't use them either.
However, Australia needed to replenish reinforcements in time, and in order to maximize support, these C-47s still took on the task of transporting soldiers to the nearest northern Australia.
In this mission, the slow Junker aunt and the prehistoric giant bird may lose even more.
But even so, the follow-up support mission on the first day of Huaxia can be regarded as complete. In addition to the loss of more than 300 soldiers in the process of airlift and airborne landing, the transport plane formation dropped nearly 30,000 people and a large amount of military supplies such as food and ammunition to various parts of Australia. Consolidated the results of the raid.
By the early morning of the 15th, the Chinese army had taken control of the situation in the vicinity of Pass, Darwin, York Point and Port Hedland.
The Japanese forces near Darwin, York Point and Port Hedland were already small and could have been easily annihilated, and even after receiving reinforcements, they began to expand outward, directly parachuting into Mount Isa.
Although there were many Japanese troops in Paz, they were also defeated in the face of the support of the Chinese armored forces and airships.
Although it has not yet conquered Pas, which is retreating in the city, there are only 2 divisions in the southwest corner of Australia, and it is difficult for Japanese reinforcements to arrive in time across the Victorian Desert.
More than 20,000 heavily armed Chinese troops had already taken the advantage, and even conquered the desert border city of Forrest on the same day.
The only thing that made the Chinese army struggling was the Brisbane frontline.
The army closest to the Japanese here, even if the Japanese moved slowly, organized three divisions to launch a counteroffensive on the same day. Even the navy in Coffs Harbour and Sydney sent warships to bombard, and the bomber formations of the Army and Navy near Sydney even came to bomb.
Under the frantic counterattack of the Japanese, if it were not for a steel defense line to block it, the Marines would probably not have been able to hold out on to the arrival of reinforcements.
When they raided Brisbane, they suffered only a few dozen casualties, and the number of casualties quickly exceeded 1,000 in the defense of the Japanese counterattack.
Fortunately, the two pioneer guns at the base near Brisbane began to block the threat from the sea, and the first batch of pilots who landed with them piloted the 50 fighters provided by the sub-base and barely blocked the attack of more than 200 Japanese fighters.
In the five-day defense of Brisbane, the more than 5,000 Marines who defended here were almost all wounded and lost more than half of them, but they also made a name for themselves as marines with this battle.
The madness of the Japanese could not last, among their fighters, even the Zero type was not all popularized, and in the face of the superiority of the Chinese Air Force at the end of World War II, as well as the numerical superiority, they gradually fell behind, especially with the destruction of the airport, their advantage in taking off sorties was also gone, and after losing more than 400 fighters, they were quickly suppressed by the Huaxia Air Force.
The Chinese army, which soon achieved air superiority, mobilized a larger number of transport planes, and successively put 40 Hercules and more than 300 C-47 transport planes into air transport.
This brought the number of air reinforcements in the first three days of China to 150,000.
Brisbane's Chinese army, which also broke through 50,000 men, gained an advantage in the surrounding area and began to organize a large-scale counteroffensive.
And in these three days, the entire northern and western parts of Australia have been controlled by the Chinese army.
The Japanese army did not have the means of communication to cover the company and platoon level of the Chinese army, nor did it have enough means of transportation, relying on the mobilization of its legs, it had not yet mobilized the materials for support, and the Chinese army had already completed the task of the airborne raid.
It was also by air transportation that the front of the Chinese army continued to move forward, and the war soon advanced to central and southern Australia.
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"It's really surprising that the Chinese people landed successfully in Australia and the raid was successful!" Churchill urgently contacted Roosevelt.
Both the British and the Americans received the news of the landing of the Chinese army in Australia on the 14th, but they all adopted a tacit attitude.
The large Japanese army in Australia and the large number of Japanese expatriates are enough to give everyone who intends to land in Australia a headache. Moreover, China had to attack Australia across a Southeast Asian region heavily guarded by the Japanese.
In the hearts of the British and Americans, the landing of the Chinese army was bound to fail.
Even if the landing is successful, it will not last long.
But who knows, three days have passed, and the momentum of the Huaxia army has begun to prevail, and it has gradually gained a firm foothold, which can be regarded as a successful landing.
"I don't think we can sit idly by any longer!" Churchill was straight to the point. The British are too busy in Europe to take care of themselves, and in Australia they can only count on the Americans.