It stands to reason that on such an important battlefield as Australia at the moment, the Japanese army should choose a tiger general or a fierce general to shoulder the heavy responsibility. And there is no shortage of such generals in the current Japanese army. For example, in the Southeast Asian battlefield, Yamashita Fengwen, who was called the Malay Tiger, swept away more than 100,000 British troops in the Malayan Peninsula with inferior troops.

However, when the Southern Army chose generals, it did not choose the fierce generals who were called the Malay Tigers. But he chose to be indecisive, and resolutely opposed war with the United States and Britain. Writing poetry is better than fighting, and under the situation that the troops and firepower are absolutely superior, a Philippine campaign drags on, and even Lieutenant General Masaharu Honma can not be described as losing troops in the future.

This old man, who is quite a bit of a soldier, was under the frantic shelling of the defensive positions of the beachhead by the naval fleets of the United States and Australia, almost regardless of losses. They were horrified and believed that the US Navy's move was an intention to prepare for a landing from behind itself and completely encircle the landing force.

Fearing that he would be wrapped in dumplings, he immediately transferred the 16th Division, which was attacking like a bamboo, back to the landing site from the midst of the pursuit of the US troops, and prepared to carry out anti-landing operations. Only one Fifth Division remained, plus a detachment formed on the basis of the Independent Mixed Fourth Wing.

And this independent mixed fourth wing, which suffered heavy losses in the bombing of the US and Australian air forces at all costs, was no longer able to carry out the overtake pursuit. The pursuit of the rout of the United States and Australia could only be stopped, and the rest was transferred to rest on the spot. The Fifth Division, which was left alone, could only stop in the face of the vast Australian outback.

As a result, when it was discovered that it was a false alarm, the 16th Division turned around again and tried to pursue and annihilate the American and Australian troops. New reinforcements from the US and Australian armies have arrived, and the fighter planes have been missed and difficult to recover. Under the overwhelming artillery fire of the US and Australian armies and the impact of a large number of tanks, the two divisions that landed in the first wave of Japanese troops could only completely abandon their plans to attack.

Originally, this old man, who had always been indecisive, had been transferred to the reserve in the base camp because of the delay on the battlefield in the Philippines. However, the commander of the Southern Army, Marshal Terauchi Toshiichi, under the persuasion of his friend of the same period, Lieutenant General Jun Imamura, commander of the 16th Army, who was fighting in the Dutch East Indies, decided to give him a chance to serve as commander of the 14th Army.

But this old man's hesitant ** disease on the battlefield in the Philippines recurred again, and at the critical moment, he pulled out the troops in the encirclement to return to defense. Not only did it allow some of the U.S. troops to escape, but it also gave the U.S.-Australian coalition a valuable respite and could quickly mobilize new reinforcements.

Although he relied on the two follow-up divisions and four brigades that landed one after another on the Australian battlefield, as well as the sailors who escaped the sunken warships of the Navy, he finally persevered until the end of the battle, dragging a large number of American and Australian troops and unable to reinforce other battlefields.

But his move also completely destroyed the hope of the Japanese army to seize Australia. Let the Japanese base camp completely eliminate the biggest hidden danger in the South Pacific completely failed. But what happened later, no one could have judged it so accurately. At present, the United States and Britain are in a state of distress by the Japanese army's invasion of Australia.

In the face of the entire unfavorable war situation, the United States and Britain, which are already on the verge of fire. It is constantly required that among all the countries and armies currently fighting against Japan, the Anti-Japanese Alliance, which is closest to the Japanese mainland, intensify its air attacks on the Japanese army, so as to weaken the Japanese mainland as much as possible and support the strength of the Pacific theater.

Pearson and Rose's urging made Yang Zhen very disgusted and an unusual headache. Now that they have just experienced a big war and have suffered no less losses, the anti-United Nations air force is now almost lacking in aircraft, air and ground crews, aviation fuel, and even aerial bombs.

Not to mention that it cannot meet the needs of the United States and Britain, even its own air defense needs can only be temporarily transferred to the ground air defense forces. The MiG-3 fighters, which previously served on air defense missions, could not be replenished except for battle damage. A considerable number of aircraft, because after the outbreak of the Soviet-German war, have no source of spare parts, and under the condition of excessive wear and tear and no replenishment, they can no longer support the sky of North Manchuria.

Soviet-made aircraft engines themselves have a short service life, and coupled with high-intensity use, the original randomly imported spare engines have long consumed embers. The Soviets, who are now too busy to take care of themselves, simply do not have the energy to continue to export aircraft engines to the Anti-Japanese Union when they themselves are still unable to meet their needs.

However, the imitation work on its own is due to the lack of technical personnel and a complete industrial system. Such an aircraft engine is not advanced, and the imitation work is progressing quite slowly, and it has not been able to come up with qualified products for a long time. The replica engine is less than two-thirds as powerful and weighs 10 percent.

The most important thing is the service life, which is less than a third of the prototype. There are even engines that only fly one to take off and land, and the engine is scrapped. Although more than a dozen were copied, the aviation did not dare to receive them at all. Such an engine is put on an airplane, and that is a crime against the pilot.

What is lacking is not only the spare engine, but also the key spare parts such as brake pads, wheels, propellers, pipelines in the body, etc., which are almost non-existent. It is so difficult for a country with a weak industrial base and no systematic industrial system to maintain a modern army.

Of those MiG-3 fighters, only about 30 can still fly. The remaining planes that were not damaged in battle were either due to a lack of spare parts, or because the engines had reached the end of their service life, and there were no spare engines to replace, so they could only stay on the ground and become parts donors who could still fly their comrades.

According to the tactics of the anti-coalition air force, the MiG-3 fighters with excellent high-altitude performance are mainly responsible for the air defense of the rear. The struggle for air supremacy on the front line is undertaken by equipped American-made fighters. The MiG-3 fighter unit could not take to the air for combat, and the air defense tasks in the large rear could only be undertaken by ground-based anti-aircraft artillery units.

Prior to this operation, the Anti-Japanese Union had transferred back five 57 antiaircraft artillery companies, 16 37 antiaircraft artillery companies, 21 antiaircraft machine gun companies, and four searchlight companies from the front line to strengthen the rear air defense forces. to make up for the air defense gap caused by the paralysis of air power.

Compared with the embarrassing situation in which the MiG-3 fighters could no longer take to the air for combat, the American-made P-40 and P-39 fighters were in a relatively better situation because the Americans had provided a batch of necessary parts and components for the aircraft before the battle. But in the two consecutive battles last year and this year, the losses were not light.

At present, the total number of the two types of fighters equipped by the Anti-Japanese Union is less than one-third of what it was before last year's battle. The point is that after handing over a part of it to the Soviets in exchange for more urgently needed ground weaponry, the American-made P-40 fighter with the best performance is now without reserves. The battle damage in this battle has not been replenished for a long time, and the bomber unit is now in the most difficult time compared to the fighter unit that is in a better situation. After more than two years of high-intensity use, the A-20 attack plane, which undertook most of the ground attack missions in the anti-coalition air force, from precision fixed-point dive bombing to tactical bombing, not only suffered heavy combat losses, but also consumed a lot of the planes themselves.

With the original successive US aid, plus the purchase of more than 200 planes, only about 40 aircraft remain in the total number that can still fly. The British-made Battle light bomber was only a bluff and could not be replaced. With most of the Il-4 bombers that can be used for tactical support lying on their stomachs, the tactical support force of the Anti-United Nations has slipped to the lowest point.

The losses of the bomber forces were not so great, but they lacked everything. The Il-4 bomber is now also in the dilemma of having reached the end of its engine life, having no spare engines in stock, and can only stay on the ground, and is no longer able to fight. The Americans, although they supplied a part of the B-25 bomber engines, not only were they insufficient, but the work on the refitting was progressing slowly.

The supply of spare parts for the dozens of B-17 and B-24 bombers given by the Americans is also not optimistic. The most important thing is that the reserves of aviation fuel and bombs are difficult to support even a bombing campaign. Warehouses with empty inventories are no longer able to support large-scale operations.

The battle basically achieved the expected goal, but the price paid by the Anti-Union was also huge. Almost all of the planes, tanks, and artillery are in dire need of replenishment. Under such circumstances, the Anti-United Nations has fallen into a considerable predicament in its own air defense capability, not to mention air strikes on the Japanese mainland.

Without enough aviation fuel, how can even the inventory of aerial bombs be combated? The U.S. military has successively given some long-range bombers, but spare parts, so far not even a brake wheel has been seen. Heavily used in battles, these aircraft are also in time for overhaul. In this case, how to bear their demands?

However, fortunately, the general staff of the United States and Britain did not get confused to the end, and forced the Anti-Japanese Alliance, which had just experienced an unprecedented bloody battle, to launch another offensive to disperse the pressure on the South Pacific battlefield for them. It's just that they continue to adopt the means of wheel warfare, forcing the Anti-United Nations to attack the Japanese mainland.

In fact, for the crushing defeat of the American and Australian armies at Midway and in the South Pacific, as well as the crisis facing the Australian battlefield. Yang Zhen, who has always been paying attention to the development of the battle situation, is naturally clear in his heart. As for why the U.S. military lost the war, Yang Zhen was more clear in his heart. The reason is simple, the fiasco of the US military at Midway was single-handedly created by him.

In order to create such a defeat for the Americans, Yang Zhen even activated a special spy who was lurking inside the Japanese navy and had been silent since the Kwantung Army returned to the mainland. This spy, a Japanese Navy pilot, is also the only secret line planted by the Anti-Japanese Union within the Japanese Navy. Yang Zhen activated this dark pile at this time, and his determination and strength were obvious.

What are you kidding, if you still let the wheel of history go step by step, and move forward according to the historical trajectory you know. The Americans, who turned the tide of defeat in the First Battle of Midway, would be so generous there. Only by completely beating them will they know the importance of the Chinese battlefield and make them more generous.

As for the Japanese attack on Australia, it was just a small ripple after the crushing defeat of the American forces at Midway. At this point, Yang Zhen had already imagined such an outcome when he planned the Battle of Midway for the US and Japanese navies.

For the Japanese army, once the Battle of Midway is won, the Japanese army will inevitably use the influence of this battle to find the next target for attack. In the South Pacific, the strategic position is extremely important, with a vast area and abundant resources, and most importantly, Australia, which has a small number of troops, has become the preferred target.

The most important thing is that in the eyes of the Japanese base camp, as long as Australia can be completely occupied, the US military will lose the springboard for counterattacking the South Pacific. Without Australia, a wartime supply base, the Americans wanted to carry out a counteroffensive in the Southwest Pacific theater, and all supplies and supplies, along with the army, were transported from the mainland. It can greatly reduce the pressure on the defense of the Japanese army in the entire Pacific theater.