Admiral MacArthur chose for himself the chief of staff, Major General Sutherland, who had two major faults, "sex. Not. Can be "and" with. Sex. Love", this is an open secret of the top level of the US military. But this man was cautious and did things well, and MacArthur liked and trusted him very much.

For the benefit of the United States, for the sake of the dangerous situation in the southwest Pacific, the chief of staff, Major General Sutherland, was ordered to leave the Allied Command in Brisbane and go north with two staff officers and a Chinese interpreter.

Time is of the essence now, and there is no room for delay.

It is said that Chen Jie, in accordance with Bai Shujie's order, and Chen Dazhu, the chief of staff, rushed to Darwin on June 1, 1942 with his own guard battalion, reconnaissance battalion, baggage battalion, and a group of mineral experts.

Chen Jie remembered the words of the boss Bai Shujie when he set off five days ago: "You need to determine a few principles after you go over, if the other party is cross-fertile, this time the prisoners and the fleet will become our trophies, and the places we occupy now will not be caught." ”

"First, we want to establish the Republic of Laemfang in the existing area, and the land area and territorial sea area will include the Java Islands, Sumatra Islands, and the Malay Peninsula in the west, in addition to the existing areas. Recognizing the legitimacy of the Papuan Jewish Republic, the Allies could no longer manipulate the Papuan Islands. ”

"Second, in order to prevent the Pacific Combined Fleet of Japanese devils from advancing westward, we will lease the area north of the 20th parallel of the southern latitude line. In particular, the Darwin Peninsula, the Gulf of Carpentalia, and the Cape York Peninsula were to be garrisoned here. ”

"Thirdly, in order for the garrison to be self-sufficient and not to increase the burden on the locals, we need to build a number of factories and mines here to provide the necessary supplies to the troops."

"Fourth, we will undertake the task of annihilating the Japanese devils in the Java Islands, Sumatra Islands, the Malay Peninsula, and Taiwan. But the Japanese devils in the Solomon Islands, the Marshall Islands, Guam, Wake Island, and Palau Islands were dealt with by the Allies. ”

"Fifth, after destroying the Japanese troops on the island of Taiwan, our army will participate in the attack on the main island of Japan. In order to prevent the resurgence of Japanese fascism and militarism, we will station troops on the islands of Japan in the future and monitor their every move. ”

In fact, the white book Jerory listed so much is nothing more than to hide one main purpose, that is, the third point: "to build a number of factories and mines here to provide the necessary supplies to the troops." ”

Northern Australia has been uninhabited, let alone developed. According to the inherent history, it will be 40 years before anyone will survey this place.

But Bai Shujie doesn't need to survey to know: the whole of Australia is a huge ancient landmass, and it is a cornucopia through and through.

Australia's uranium reserves account for more than a quarter of the world's total reserves. The Arnhemdi Peninsula, where the city of Darwin is located, is a huge uranium mine.

Also, the Arnhemti Peninsula and the Cape York Peninsula to the east make up a Carbonentalia Bay, an area that is all treasured.

Carpentaria Bay, located between the Arnhemdi Peninsula and the Cape York Peninsula in northern Australia. The maximum width from east to west is 670 kilometers, the length from north to south is about 600 kilometers, the water depth is generally not more than 80 meters, and the bay covers an area of 310,000 square kilometers.

The southern shore of the bay is mostly mangrove mudflats, and the southeast end is dominated by Normanton and Burketown. The main islands are Groot Island, Wellesley Islands, etc. The coast and islands are basically composed of bauxite and manganese ore.

The bay is located in the northern, middle, and western halves of the Carpentaria Basin. There are large manganese ores in the western part of the bay, and the salt pans on the southeast shore of the bay are rich in bauxite, manganese and prawn (river shrimp).

In addition to the Burman uranium mine on the Arnhemti Peninsula and the manganese mine on Groot Island, there are also large bauxite and gold mines in the Weipa and Cape York Peninsulas, the Gove Peninsula and Arnhemland.

In the northern part of Australia's west coast, the average annual rainfall is 260mm, while the evaporation is as high as 3300mm/year. The annual minimum temperature is 27 degrees Celsius and the maximum temperature is 46 degrees Celsius.

There are no mountains and no mountains along the coast, the endless plains are in the typhoon-free area, and the salt pans and salt drying will not be damaged by typhoons. It is one of the few natural salt farms in the world, with a sodium chloride content of 97.0-97.5%.

The western plateau desert is widely spread, iron, aluminum, nickel, uranium and other mineral deposits are in the forefront of the world, coal, copper, lead, zinc, manganese, silver, tin, tungsten and other mineral deposits are also quite rich, oil, natural gas, phosphate and other important discoveries have also been made.

The mineral deposits are mainly distributed in three major regions: in the western region, the ancient Precambrian rock formations of Western Australia are very rich in iron, manganese, gold, nickel, tungsten and other mines, and the west coast continental shelf has oil and gas.

Whether it is scarce uranium ore, or iron, aluminum, nickel, coal, copper, lead, zinc, manganese, silver, tin, tungsten, oil, natural gas, phosphate and other mineral deposits, this is an indispensable thing for a country's national defense and people's livelihood.

Although there are also in the Philippine Islands and the Brahman Islands, Bai Shujie has designated these places as his own territory.

Now that someone else's stuff is available, it's not for nothing.

Otherwise, why did the Eight-Nation Coalition enter China back then? Why did the little Japanese devils invade China?

For other mineral resources, Bai Shujie can wait for a while, but uranium ore, iron ore, bauxite, copper ore, nickel ore, manganese ore, lead ore, and zinc ore are all the most urgently needed things at the moment.

What are you fighting a war for? It's these minerals that are hit. Whether it's guns and bullets, or high-energy explosives, or even atomic bombs, hydrogen bombs, and neutron bombs, these things are needed.

Lead-zinc mines, zinc mines, large-scale high-energy lead-zinc batteries, diesel-electric submarines just need this thing as power? Bauxite zuò profiles, smelting aluminum-nickel alloys, that is the skin of airplanes, can it not be urgently needed?

As for the world's best salt farms, the natural dried sea salt off the western coast of Australia has reached 97.0-97.5% sodium chloride, which is the most urgently needed chemical raw material. Nowadays, the Philippine Islands and Borneo Islands cannot find such a good place.

The most painful thing for Bai Shujie is that the corrupt Qing court was ripped off by others all day long, and many treasures were knocked away by the foreign powers.

This time he caught MacArthur and Nimitz's sore feet, and if he didn't knock the bamboo pole loudly, Bai Shujie felt that it would be detrimental to the glorious title of "the devil of China".

Chen Jie had to plan the things that the boss had explained, let Chief of Staff Chen Dazhu handle the coordination of the troops, and Deputy Division Commander Zhong Guitang was responsible for the mobilization and command of troops on the front line.

Because the Australian Sixth Division on the Northern Front had been captured, and the Seventh Division, the main force of the raid, had also become prisoners of war, there was not a single soldier in the entire northern part of Australia.

By now, the 1st Panzer Regiment had advanced south along the eastern coastline to Chatsburg, and the 2nd Tank Regiment had taken the Winton Line in unison. The current posture of these two arrows is directly aimed at Brisbane, the headquarters of General MacArthur.

The 2nd Panzer Regiment did not advance much, only capturing Hols Creek on the southeast side of the Kimberley Plateau, blocking the western gate of the Arnhemdi Peninsula, and remaining as a defensive force under Chen Jie's command.

The air defense regiment all entered the Cape York Peninsula and took over the fortress of the two battalions of the original Australian Third Division, and now the object of defense is the little devil more than 1,000 kilometers to the west.

More than 1,000 kilometers, if it is placed in the era of cold weapons, the enemy may not be found for centuries. But now with planes, in two hours the enemy can hit the door.

Chen Dazhu, chief of staff, was not idle, and ordered the reconnaissance battalion to lead the radar crew to start setting up radars with equipment and building a complete air-to-sea early warning system.

The baggage battalions did not need to construct fortifications, but their task was to assist the Jewish mining engineers in digging trenches in the Bourman area, with the main purpose of finding the most convenient area for open pit mining of uranium.

Mineral resources here in Australia are not deeply buried, and most of them can be mined in an open mining style – of course, this is pure predatory mining, at the cost of ecological damage.

Now that there are little devils almost all around, there may be a huge enemy situation at any time, so Bai Shujie is not in the mood to consider the environmental protection of other people's homes.

His main task now is to get back 2 million tons of uranium ore for those Jewish experts who don't want to die within a year! In a hurry, what bullshit is environmentally friendly? That's about 30 years later.

The guard battalion commander of Chen Jie's second division is a woman, the famous Huang Suzhen: "Report to the division commander: Deputy division commander Zhong of the front-line command sent a telegram, saying that it was the chief of staff of the US military headquarters, and a group of six people drove over to visit you, and Deputy Division Commander Zhong asked if you would let you go." ”

"It's all guests, how can you not let them go?" Chen Jie smiled: "The boss asked me to come over, isn't he just waiting for them?" Your guard battalion must also be put in order, lest others say that our troops are like savages. Hahaha-"

Huang Suzhen pouted: "Hmph, you dare to talk nonsense here, if you return to Dragon City, let the commander-in-chief hear your words, I don't think you can eat and go around!" ”

"Seriously, you should stay at the General Headquarters, there is no need to follow to the end." Chen Jie said solemnly: "As for your husband, he is also the deputy commander of the armored regiment now, is it necessary to follow?" ”

Huang Suzhen shook her head: "I was used to fighting guerrillas near Lianshan Pass back then, and I felt uncomfortable as soon as I arrived at the headquarters. ”

"The boss told you that the war will always end, and what is even more difficult is to engage in construction." Chen Jie said seriously: "If we build a world, we must build it well." I think it's better for you to go back with the fleet after a while, there are 280,000 female soldiers over there, and you need a backbone like you. ”

At half past ten in the morning of June 3, 1942, in the conference room of Chen Jie's headquarters, Major General Sutherland finally met the real Buddha.

Major General Sutherland was born on November 27, 1893, and is 50 years old this year. He didn't expect that the division commander, who was in charge alone, would be so young.

In fact, Chen Jie is not young, and he is also in his thirties this year. However, in the US military, which is a group that ranks seniority and must have graduated from a military academy, division commanders are all after the age of 40.

It's a time of war, there is no nonsense on both sides, sit down and start negotiating.

Sutherland's main task is to find out what Chen Jie wants. Chen Jie didn't know how to negotiate, so he simply put the five conditions put forward by Bai Shujie on the table.

"Ahem, Mr. Division." Major General Sutherland knew that his trip would definitely not be easy, but he didn't expect that the other party didn't want to talk nonsense at all, so he said with some embarrassment: "Can I ask how long you want to stay here?" ”

Chen Jie said angrily: "Then who knows? You should ask this question to the Japanese devils. When will they be wiped out, and when will we be able to sit here and discuss this. ”

Major General Sutherland bowed slightly, and then changed to another question: "Excuse me, our General Wainwright, how is the situation now?" Will I be able to meet him? ”

After all, what happens next, let's see how it will be broken down next time.