"Kick the people out of Spencer Bay at all costs!" Shouichi Terauchi, who had just arrived in Sydney to award medals to the victorious Japanese army, gritted his teeth and said.

When China swept most of Australia, Shouichi Terauchi was almost recruited back to China. Fortunately, Sydney's victory gave him a chance to prove himself with this counterattack.

Both Sugiyama Mototo and Shunroku Hata have been reinstated in China, but they lack the aristocratic background of Terauchi Shouyi, and it is difficult to reassure the royal family, so Terauchi Shouichi finally won this opportunity.

But this last chance was also taken away by the Huaxia people.

Originally, he came with 30,000 reinforcements this time, and he wanted to capture Brisbane in one go, but who knew that at this time, the news of the capture of Port Augusta by the Chinese made him feel like he had been hit in the head, and he couldn't believe his ears for a while.

There are more than 140,000 Japanese troops gathered in the Pinon and Tacoura areas to the west of Port Augusta, and about 40,000 Japanese troops are gathered in the Eyre Lake area to the north, and there are more than 100,000 Japanese troops guarding the front line along the Ling River in the east, and Spencer Bay to the south, where there are Japanese naval warships.

"Shina paratrooper raid!" The detailed information was sent to Terauchi Shouichi in a short time, and as he expected, the Huaxia people once again parachuted in to win.

In order to guard against the Chinese airborne troops, the Japanese set up a lot of anti-aircraft artillery in important areas of Australia, but the number was still insufficient.

The anti-aircraft artillery of the Germans is not enough to cover the local defense, and they will not generously support Japan at all, and the umbrella and cottage have been shirking on the grounds that there is no such thing, and Britain and the United States do not expect it, and the anti-aircraft artillery of neutral countries such as Sweden and Switzerland will be accepted by their own supporters, and it will not go into the hands of the Japanese. They can't buy it, they can only build it themselves, not to mention the cost of anti-aircraft artillery. The lack of production capacity alone has been a headache for the Japanese.

Even if they increased their production, the anti-aircraft guns they produced were scattered everywhere and there was not much to be seen. The Japanese had to pay a heavy price for the vast occupation they had swallowed with their greed.

The Japanese have been studying the airborne landing in China and have a good understanding of paratroopers.

In the first half of April. In order to break the stalemate, the Germans parachuted into the British island of Great Britain, but due to the lack of heavy weapons, more than 20,000 parachute troops were completely annihilated.

This also made the Japanese aware of the vulnerability of the lack of heavy weapons in the airborne forces, and concluded that as long as they were prepared to suppress with fire and cooperate with the fortifications, those paratroopers with small arms parachutes were not too much of a threat.

Of course, several airborne landings in China were considered to have received heavy weapons that had been prepared for a long time. is classified as a fluke. This caused the Japanese to search the surrounding area again and again, and even drove the remaining white Australians to the concentration camp, and even the remnants of the aborigines in the southeast corner were concentrated in prison.

The entire southeastern corner of Australia is home to 700,000 Japanese immigrants.

Airports in various places are also strictly monitored, and any open space that may be used as a field airport or a temporary airport is supervised or even destroyed, reducing the possibility of direct landing of Huaxia transport planes.

In addition to the five radar stations, the use of a large number of guard posts also made up for the shortcomings of the Chinese raid.

In addition, fighters are always ready to intercept.

With many measures, the Japanese had confidence in dealing with the Chinese airborne.

It is precisely taking into account the advantage of shelling by Japanese naval warships in the coastal areas, with the exception of Sydney, Melbourne and a few large seaside cities. The anti-aircraft fire of other coastal cities remains vulnerable.

Unexpectedly, when all countries in the world began to use paratroopers cautiously, Huaxia once again dispatched paratroopers to seize Port Augusta.

Pinon's front line is tense. The continuous transfer of manpower has caused the void of troops in Port Augusta. In addition, in addition to the front-line arrangement, most of the Japanese air forces were mobilized to Sydney to fight with the Americans, and the Chinese took the lead, and the surprise attack was successful and easily succeeded.

It made Terauchi Shouichi very annoyed.

But he also knew that there was no way to do it, and like the anti-aircraft artillery, in the face of a vast occupied territory, the shortcomings of the Japanese army's powerlessness were undoubtedly exposed.

China's all-out attack on Japan this time occupied about 7 million troops. This has already exceeded the total number of Japanese troops, not to mention that the strength of the Chinese army, with the help of equipment superiority, has far exceeded the Japanese army, giving the Japanese huge pressure. After the front was fully opened, the Japanese defense was full of holes.

"Act fast and wipe out all of these people!" Shouichi Terauchi sighed in his heart. Then he became excited again.

This time, because the Chinese troops lacked airfields and did not have a plane to land, a simple parachute landing meant that the Chinese army lacked the support of heavy weapons. If the reinforcements arrive quickly, with the help of the artillery support of the warships at sea, the Chinese army there will be completely surrounded and annihilated.

While ordering the fighters in Sydney to take part in the attack on Brisbane to be transferred to the vicinity of Saipane Bay to intercept the Chinese transport planes, he ordered the Japanese naval fleet to rush to support.

For the purpose of the Sydney ambush, most of the warships were transferred to Sydney, and the dozen or so patrol boats and small gunboats in Spencer Bay were obviously unable to complete the support mission, and the Japanese had to send warships stationed in Melbourne or Sydney to rush over.

The first is to despise the Chinese airborne forces, and the second is to guard against the possible retaliation brought about by the US Navy's constant wandering outside the harbor of Sydney; Japan did not send Yamato-class battleships this time, but only sent a formation of two cruisers and four destroyers.

In their opinion, the heavy artillery on the cruiser was enough to suppress the light and thin small guns of the Chinese Airborne Forces, and it would not bring devastating damage to the port of Augusta.

Towns that accepted the Australians, the Japanese had already taken everything here as their own, and a large number of immigrants came one after another, filling the towns and cities and turning them into ruins, only to their detriment.

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"Accelerate!" Shibuya Shiro, the captain of the Nachi, put down the telegram in his hand and frowned, and instead gave an order.

Only this one remained, and the other three were either sunk at the bottom of the sea, or salvaged by the Chinese to be used as training ships or exhibits in museums.

Although there was nothing to do in the face of the super battleships and pioneer cannons of the Huaxia Navy, the Heavy Patrol of the Wisdom had no problem dealing with those paratroopers with ten 203mm naval guns.

Their cruising speed was no longer slow, but the news of the new battle situation had to make him accelerate to the port of Augusta again.

The surprise attack of the Chinese army took control of the port of Augusta at once, and also cut off the material support to Pinong, Takoura and other places, making the Pinong front, which was already short of ammunition, even worse. At this time, the Chinese army on the opposite side was attacking more fiercely.

Huaxia no longer kept a low profile along the way, and scattered more than 800 Type 59 tanks in his hands.

If it had not been for the late construction of the sub-bases, the number of tank units would have been expanded. However, this torrent of steel was enough to break the rudimentary defensive positions of the Japanese.

Before, the preparation was insufficient, except for some rudimentary fortifications, the Japanese could not even complete the minefield.

The port of Augusta in the rear was cut off by Huaxia, and the reinforcements could not go up, and they did not dare to withdraw.

As long as the Chinese army delayed the withdrawal of the Japanese army near Augusta for a while, I am afraid that the retreating Japanese army would be annihilated by the pursuing Chinese army behind. What's more, how could the two-legged Japanese army outrun the Chinese army on wheels?

But the result of stubborn resistance was that in just two days, the Japanese troops on the Pinon and Takoura fronts suffered more than 60,000 casualties, and they were directly disabled, and they were almost unbearable.

The Japanese had to urge the Japanese Navy to hurry up and deal with the Chinese army in Port Augusta first, and open the passage between the front and rear.

There were 76-mm and 105-mm howitzers parachuted into the Chinese parachute troops, and there were quite a few of them, and the small gunboats that came over could not be suppressed at all, and even the Japanese army that was nearby to support the past was deflated. The heavy artillery units were all pulled to the front line to fight against the Chinese army, and the remaining 75-mm mountain artillery, field artillery and 70-mm infantry artillery could not withstand the bombardment of 105-mm howitzers.

The Japanese had no intention of investigating how the Chinese parachute troops had landed their 105-mm naval guns, and they could only hope that the 203-mm naval guns of the Nachi and the No. 2 ships of the Agano class would be able to code the 152-mm naval guns.

"Faster!" Shibuya Shiro urged as he looked ahead.

They had entered Spencer Bay between the Eyre Peninsula and the York Peninsula, and Port Augusta was just the far north of Spencer Bay.

"Torpedo!" A terrible scream startled Shibuya Shiro, who was about to raise the binoculars.

Because the entire Spencer Bay was under the control of the Japanese except for the port of Augusta, which was occupied by the Chinese army, and the Spencer Bay was a safe haven for the Japanese navy, the support fleet that was in a hurry to move forward had no intention of defending the embankment, but he did not expect to encounter a torpedo, and at that moment, he almost thought that someone was joking.

But when he looked through the command room and saw more than a dozen torpedoes turning up white lines, his heart sank at once.