Yamashita finally waited for the Japanese base camp to speak.

The above agreed with his delaying strategy, but not for his own reinforcements, but for the sake of the situation in Australia.

The 200,000 elite troops transferred from Indochina were not an ornament, and their experience quickly tore through the Allied defenses laid out in Sydney. Most of the city of Sydney had fallen to the Japanese, leaving only the port area.

After all, with the Japanese navy harassing on the side, the assistance of the Americans did not go as smoothly as they imagined. Especially the number of troops or marines.

The street fighting in London, which was about to be in ruins, drew much of the energy of the American Army, and the lads who went to war were loaded straight from the barracks and transported to the other side of the Atlantic. Today, the strength of the U.S. Army and Marine Corps to aid Australia has just exceeded 100,000, distributed on three fronts in Australia: the Western, Central and Eastern Fronts.

Sydney had the largest number of American troops on the Eastern Front, but only two divisions of Kruger's 6th Army plus the 1st Marine Division, a total of only about 50,000 men. The Australian army also barely concentrated 80,000 troops here. With the addition of some other 20,000 miscellaneous cards, the Allies barely reached 150,000 in defending Sydney. However, the number of Japanese troops led by Masaharu Honma on the opposite side had already reached 250,000 at the beginning.

The two sides fought fiercely in Sydney for more than two months, and the Japanese hit an iron wall here, and they were greatly damaged by more than 130,000 casualties, but the Allied casualties also exceeded 100,000. Although the Australian army suffered the most damage, the US army only had more than 30,000 people left, with nearly 20,000 wounded, and because of the tension in Europe, there was no hope of asking for help for the time being.

In the whole of Australia, including New Zealand and further Samoa, the U.S. Army only came to the 6th and 8th Armies and the 1st Marine Division. A lot of military supplies were sent, mainly counting on the Australians' desperate efforts.

More than half of the 200,000 elites transferred from the Indochina Peninsula by the Japanese were thrown into the stalemate Sydney battlefield and launched the largest attack in the early morning of February 4.

Although the Australian army also came with 50,000 reinforcements and replaced some of the disabled soldiers, the difference between 100,000 and more than 200,000 was huge. It was still difficult for them to stop the madness of the Japanese.

In order to cooperate with the final attack of the Japanese Army on Sydney, the Japanese Navy's Combined Fleet also increased its support for the South Pacific Fleet.

Japan's South Pacific Fleet, consisting of two Yamato-class and three Nagato-class battleships and five aircraft carriers, suddenly appeared 15 nautical miles outside Sydney Harbour and shelled Jackson Harbour.

When Nimitz heard the news, he immediately sent his main force in the direction of Sydney.

Compared with the advantage of the Japanese this time directly relying on the port of Newcastle for supply, it was a little too late for the American fleet to arrive from the supply ports of Wellington and Melbourne that they had chosen.

The replenishment of large ships is not something that ordinary small ports can do. As the world's famous coal export port and Australia's oldest port in the future, the Port of Newcastle is relatively complete because of the transportation of coal, coupled with the industrial convenience brought by the nearby steel mills, and the proximity to Sydney, so that the Japanese can serve as the forward base of the navy.

While large-tonnage warships such as the Yamato-class could not dock, small and medium-sized warships such as cruisers and destroyers, as well as supply ships, could easily dock. With the renovation of this port by Japan. Even part of the supply on aircraft carriers and battleships could be provided.

Previously, only a fleet of Nagato-class and one aircraft carrier, the Shozuru, roamed around. The two sides rotated their main warships from time to time, but apart from occasional gladiatorial fights with naval aircraft and two skirmishes of the light cruiser and destroyer-class skirmishes, the battleships of the two sides did not continue to bombard.

Both sides are replacing new fighters, transferring strategic materials, sending troops, and accumulating the strength for a decisive battle.

This time, Japanese battleships and aircraft carrier reinforcements took the lead in the attack, playing a trick to deceive the world. Sneaking over from Rabaul, he evaded the detection of the Americans.

In this era, the Americans do not yet have spy satellites flying all over the sky. Spotting the opponent's traces in advance in naval battles is the key to victory.

The Caroling, Marshall Islands, and the Solomon Islands have all fallen into Japanese hands. The Japanese, on the other hand, were adept at concealing themselves, and were not discovered by the Americans until they had replenished their supplies in Port Castle, New York.

After receiving the news of the critical situation in the port of Sydney, the Americans reluctantly found that except for the Montana-class Hawaii, which was cruising nearby with its back to the port of Sydney, other warships had no time to rescue at all.

The constant falling bombs and shells on Sydney Harbour and the destruction of port equipment for various reasons made the Americans afraid to choose this place as a forward base. In addition to Sydney Harbor, the US military, which relies heavily on logistics and transportation, can only choose large ports such as Wellington or Melbourne to make the logistics supply channel smooth. Otherwise, a large amount of supplies will be piled up on the ship, and it will not be unloaded at all.

Nimitz decisively dispatched HNA fighters to the rescue first.

The two sides are in the battle of Sydney for more than two months. The navy fighters on the aircraft carrier have all flown more than 1,000 sorties, and they have never stopped testing and attacking the opponent.

The Zero and Wildcat, the Ultra Zero and the Hellcat, and even the Army Airlines fighters were also mixed in, and the battle was non-stop.

After the last Battle of Sydney, the Japanese lost more than 200 fighters one after another, which made them feel a little distressed. And the Americans lost no less. However, the casualties of the pilots were fewer than those of the Japanese, and the Americans, who had deep pockets, sent the latest fighters in the blink of an eye.

Seeing that the American fighters were gradually gaining the upper hand, it was also a reason why the Japanese were eager to end the stalemate battle of Sydney.

Once the Americans really occupy air supremacy, I am afraid that even the rest of Australia may be threatened.

After the sinking of a light cruiser in Newcastle Harbour in January by a group of B25 bombers taken off from a land airfield by the Americans, the Japanese knew they had to pull the American Sydney springboard as soon as possible.

In the final battle, each side put more than 300 fighters in the air.

The Americans, both by land and navy, again had the advantage, but the ground forces were defeated.

The naval guns of the Japanese battleships, which completely overwhelmed the shore defense artillery fire of Sydney Harbour with the assistance of aerial bombers, shattered the last resistance confidence of the Allies with devastating heavy blows again and again.

All along, Japan wanted to accept a relatively intact city of Sydney without wreaking havoc, and now the situation is so critical that they can't care about it.

Buildings collapsed in the sound of explosions, and street fighting in the ruins became even more difficult to fight. But the Allies did not have the same dedication as the Russians. They were frightened by the bombardment of naval guns that had nothing left.

The huge casualties in Sydney's meat grinder and the lack of enough reinforcements have spread disillusionment among the Allies. The complaints and dissatisfaction were finally detonated in the sound of the ship's guns, and whether it was the US or the Australian army, the morale of the Japanese naval guns was already dissipated under the huge shock of the Japanese ship's guns.

Although the Allies finally detonated and collapsed part of the 503-metre-long single-hole span Bridge across Sydney Harbour, which had been built 33 years earlier, it still did not stop the Japanese forces. In the smoke of the explosion, they rushed directly over the broken bridge deck and rushed to the southern part of the port.

The Japanese even rowed rubber boats and rafts to cross the river upstream at night, desperately breaking through the Allied perimeter defenses.

Bleeding from the ears and nose, the Japanese soldiers followed closely behind the bombardment drumbeat of the annihilating naval artillery shells, and gradually occupied the Allied positions where the American soldiers were still echoing.

The Hawaii, which was surrounded by 2 Yamato-class battleships and beat a bag, could not stop the Japanese Navy from bombarding Sydney.

By the time the main American fleet arrived, the tide was over. The Japanese had reached the south shore of the port of Sydney.

The Japanese South Pacific Fleet, which had been raging in Sydney for most of the day, blocked the main Pacific fleet of the United States, and the two sides, who were familiar with each other, did not try to probe and directly started a fight.

But at this time, the remaining more than 20,000 American soldiers and more than 40,000 Australian troops did not hold out for 24 hours, and they withdrew backwards under the frenzied onslaught of the Japanese army. The Japanese army tirelessly pursued behind.

Nimitz could only reluctantly give the order to cover the evacuation.

When night fell on the 4th, Sydney fell.

The remaining resistance in Sydney's urban area was completely quelled in despair on 5 February.

Sydney was lost. The Japanese could calmly be deployed in Sydney Harbour to cut off the aid sent by the Americans from the direction of the Pacific Ocean at any time.

The Atlantic route also faced a blockade by the Germans, and since Paz had already fallen into the hands of the Japanese, he could also cut off support from the Indian Ocean.

Without outside support, Melbourne is in danger, and so is Australia's last Allied position.

After paying the price of more than 400,000 killed in Australia, the Japanese finally saw the dawn of victory.

It's just that no one knows that Meng Xiang is the driving force behind it.

Without the support of the base, the Japanese would have been unable to fight in Australia for a long time. Although the number of Australian troops is small, the vast area of Australia is not something that the Japanese can gnaw.

In order to drive the wolf and chase the tiger, Meng Xiang promoted the Japanese in Australia regardless of the cost, and he has already seen the time to pay off.

"As long as the Americans are driven out of the Australian continent, they will have to count on us in Asia, or the long supply lines will drag down their confidence. It's time for us to show more power! Meng Xiang, who was thousands of miles away, couldn't help but smile in his heart when he heard that Sydney had fallen.