Chapter 868 Landing in Australia
The Japanese suffered enough in the hands of China for air raids, so they worked hard under the air defense network arranged in Southeast Asia.
They also knew that it was not enough to rely on only seven radar stations to make observations, so they deployed thousands of kilometers of artificial observation posts.
Although the manual transmission of messages is slow, it can make up for the lack of radar and some shortcomings in performance, especially for large-scale monitoring, it is still somewhat effective.
In those days, heavy bombers were not fast enough to reach supersonic speeds, and the engine noise during large-scale air operations was enough to alert the adversary first. In the case of close-range bombing and airborne landing, there is simply not enough reaction time for human observation, but in the case of long-range operations, this may cause the Japanese to be alerted in advance.
When the time comes, as soon as the devils send reconnaissance planes to investigate, or send fighter planes to intercept them, they will be completely exposed.
So under Meng Xiang's order, the largest airship transport operation was dispatched.
There are only 62 airship units directly under the control of Meng Xiang, and except for a few that are still carrying out reconnaissance and command tasks in various places, the remaining 54 airships are dispatched together.
When some of the bomber units and transport planes in China helped the Chinese armed forces in Southeast Asia and attracted the attention of the Japanese, they did not notice at all that the shadows of huge objects were floating overhead.
Each second-class Kirov airship can carry 800 soldiers, although in many places, Meng Xiang has left enough weapons reserves for the troops through the base, but in order to prevent accidents when landing, many airships also carry heavy weapons, and even some airships directly carry multi-functional combat vehicles that are enough to deal with the Japanese Peanding tanks, which also reduces the number of people carried a lot.
There are also several airships that serve as air cover in their respective formations, mainly carrying various types of bombs, clearing obstacles when airborne, and encountering troubles during the attack.
In this way, the airship carried only 26,000 troops.
Even after the dismantling of quite a few facilities for each I-400 submarine. After modification, it can carry 300 fully armed soldiers, and 28 ships can only carry more than 8,000 people.
This total of more than 30,000 people is obviously a little thin compared to the total number of 500,000 Japanese troops who were still defending Australia at this time.
But once these Japanese troops were dispersed throughout Australia, they were immediately diluted and disappeared. In addition to the 200,000 Anglo-American troops in the southeast of Australia in order to defend against New Zealand. In addition to the 300,000 troops gathered with the help of the better economic conditions in the southeast, the defense of other regions is completely empty, and even in the southwest corner facing the Indian Ocean, only two divisions with less than 30,000 people are stationed.
With the repatriation of elite Japanese veterans back to mainland China and Indochina, many areas of Australia are not only underpopulated, but also many of them are new recruits.
This made it enough for the Chinese army to knock a few points before a large reinforcement from the rear arrived. Stand your ground.
On the night of June 13, on a sunny moon, in a calm bay not far from Brisbane Harbour, huge steel monsters emerged from the bottom of the sea, and then kayaks crawled out of the giant monsters like ants.
"The answering officer is there!" Someone pointed ahead, although the moon in the sky had begun to plump, but the guidance of the light was still irreplaceable. In order to ensure the success of the landing, many clones and spy agents who had been in Australia early jumped out for this operation.
There is only one wing of the devils in the vicinity. Or mainly concentrated in Brisbane.
Within a radius of dozens of kilometers, there are clone spies and natives led by a few clone soldiers. The noisy sound of the landing, even if the waves cannot hide it, is not afraid that anyone will hear it.
Under the carelessness of the Japanese. The landing went unbelievably smoothly, much to the chagrin of the Marines, who had been on the alert.
"Our mission has only completed the first step, and there are battles to fight behind. You little bunnies don't be shrunken turtles when the time comes! Major Zhou Yunong breathed a sigh of relief and scolded with a smile.
"Wow!" Not far away, a soldier's vomiting seemed to be contagious, and several soldiers around him bent down with pale faces.
"These army amphibious armored soldiers are too vegetable, right, this is seasickness?" A Marine next to him couldn't help but smile gloatingly.
This time, more than half of the I-400 submarines were members of the Marine Corps' armored forces.
There were originally few people transported, and Meng Xiang could not have any interest in fighting bayonets with the Japanese. Steel armor has always been the sharpest means of attack of the Chinese Army, so it is natural to use its own strengths to attack the weaknesses of devils.
And in order to win the quota to attack Australia, the powerful army also intervened. Although the situation of the operation at sea was also taken into account, many bigwigs of the army still crammed in many people from Hu Lian's amphibious landing force. In the name of excluding elite tankers, a lot of landing personnel were squeezed out.
Although the tankmen of the amphibious landing force were selected to swim and roam the rivers and lakes, some of them still could not adapt to the sea conditions and could not hold on to the long journey in the submarine.
This drew laughter from some Marines who were squeezing out the Army's slots.
"Shut up! From the very beginning of the battle, they are your comrades in life and death! We are all Chinese soldiers. Where else are they divided into each other? How do you train in the boot camp? Zhou Yunong shouted angrily, and immediately silenced several smiling marines.
Zhou Yunong glanced at the amphibious troops in the distance, waved his hand and shouted again, "Don't hurry up and get on the truck, ready to get your mount!" ”
The nearby sub-base has produced enough armored tanks to form a new hoplite cavalry as long as the personnel are in place.
More than half of the I-400 submarines ended up here, bringing in a large number of tankmen.
At 4:30 a.m. on June 14, the armored force of more than 5,000 people began to roar towards Brisbane.
The port of Brisbane was more important to the Japanese because it was a transit point for the Japanese army, but after the Fiji Island was captured by the Japanese army, the garrison here gradually decreased, and only one and a half wings remained, but there were more immigrants, and in a short period of time, more than 100,000 Japanese expatriates gathered here.
But the large number of people does not work, and it is simply impossible to stop the tank troops armed with steel. In particular, Brisbane's proximity to the sub-base, the crazy grizzly bears and rhinos appeared again, and it was a sweep in the face of the rudimentary fortifications that the Japanese had not had time to build perfectly. In just over two hours, a wing of Japanese troops who had not yet woken up from their sleep was wiped out.
The remaining half of the wing and part of the Japanese expatriates were forced to retreat into the city, using the buildings to resist stubbornly.
This is no longer the task of this group of armored vanguard units.
Before the battle began, more than 200 Hercules transport planes and more than 500 C-47 transport planes had already taken off and flew towards Australia with a large number of reinforcements at some airfields in the Indochina Peninsula and the south.
The clearance work was mainly carried out by follow-up reinforcements, and the follow-up task of this armored vanguard force was to continue the offensive with the neighboring Goldxter, and lay a strong defensive line on the Brisbane line to resist the counterattack of the Japanese army from Sydney and other places.
Even with the help of the base, Meng Xiang could not directly sweep the entire Australia at once.
For this reason, Meng Xiang abandoned the southeast corner of Australia, which seemed to be the most prosperous and the largest number of Japanese troops stationed, and turned to seize other parts of Australia.
The Japanese must have fought back fiercely against China, but they would also not abandon this quintessential place in the southeast corner of Australia, which was just right to suppress the counteroffensive of the Allied forces in New Zealand and leave more time for China to completely control the Australian mainland.
As long as you stand firm, take advantage of this time difference, and through continuous immigration, it is enough to completely submerge the last land of Australia, even the Americans can only sigh.
At the same time as the Battle of Brissepan began, under the cover of the natives, more than 3,000 marines who had successfully descended from another part of the I-400 submarine were also armed with some steel armor, and under the guidance of more than 500 clones and ordinary soldiers who had already infiltrated the natives, they attacked directly to Darwin and Cape York.
Because these two areas are sheltered by the Indonesian islands, they are each stationed only a wing-sized Japanese army.
Conquering is also not a problem, and the reinforcements in the air are coming faster than the Indonesian devils, which is enough to make the Japanese helpless.
At the same time, near Perth and Kalgoorlie in southwest Australia, and near Port Hedland in northwest Australia, huge airships carrying troops are constantly taking to the air to carry ammunition and supplies to the weapons depots scattered throughout the sub-bases, and even some of the bombs needed by the airships responsible for bombing missions.
The armoured units below grew smaller and smaller, and puffs of smoke and dust rolled straight towards various targets.