Due to the presence of the Japanese Grand Fleet on the east coast, the transportation route to Australia was cut off, and the plan to form 20 Australian army divisions according to US military standards was forced to stop. More than 100,000 Australian troops are rapidly armed.

The upcoming World War I was the first time that the Japanese army had actually invaded a white country, and this was a problem that the Japanese Army would have to face, and there would be no more large numbers of leading parties, nor would there be crowds of people welcoming them. Yamashita was notorious for mistreating prisoners of war, and all Allied generals considered surrender suicide.

For the 10 divisions and regiments necessary for this campaign, the base camp withdrew the troops that had been assigned to other battlefields, and the offensive in China was also weakened considerably. Only then did the largest attack group under the Southern Army be pieced together - the Australian Front. This front army has two armies, 28 and 29, which they will face, slightly more numerous than themselves, but the United States and Australia are short of heavy weapons and morale is not high, and they must be defeated in a short time, otherwise with Australia's population base, more than 1 million troops can be mobilized in a year.

The Great Eagle, accompanied by several destroyers, is still floating on the ocean. It is 600 km away from the east coast of Australia. This distance is clearly maintained for safety, and the most equipped Hurricane fighter of the Australian army is only a shorter range fighter suitable for Europe, which is difficult to penetrate deep into the ocean.

There is a theory among the members of the ship that he was in an awkward position to avoid fighting, and that there was an important passenger on board, a man whom Commander Yamamoto was trying to protect, a thorn in the side of the army, and that if he left the ship, he would be arrested by the military police and sent to the mainland.

This can be supported by the fact that when the Great Eagle left Moresby, a part of its fighters were transferred to the airfield on Prince Wales Island, and several * attack aircraft were modified, which usually did not require the addition of auxiliary fuel tanks, but several of them were removed * pylons and fuel tanks were added. One of these planes is always parked in the take-off area, and several crew members are on duty 24 hours a day, but these people do not include the machine gunners in the usual three-person crew, only the pilot and navigator. It can be seen that these planes are there to take someone off to save their lives when necessary.

In the evening, the officer on duty on the deck could see a slightly rickety figure walking behind the deck, sometimes accompanied by several officers. The man was wearing a navy uniform, but it was clearly not a military man.

The battleships Fuso and Yamashiro were 500 kilometers away and were preparing to strike Brisbane with a rifle. Attacking American battleships with slower, older types of battleships was Yamamoto's established plan. The attack on Brisbane with the Longchamp a few days ago was just a lure for the enemy. Yamamoto guessed that the U.S. warships would set sail from Sydney to support the north, so he arranged for this return to the rifle.

Yamamoto's approximate information is that at least four of the American battleships sunk at Pearl Harbor have been repaired and are currently cruising the waters between Sydney and Tasmania with a group of cruisers. These ships are not protected by aircraft carriers and need to be protected by Australian land-based aircraft, so they cannot travel too far. But MacArthur had already determined the landing site, so his army planes were not many on the east coast, and their main forces were all at the airfield near Cape York.

At this moment, the three Yorktown-class aircraft carriers of the main force of the US military may be anywhere between the Solomon Islands and New Caledonia or New Zealand, and may be waiting for a support carrier to arrive from the Atlantic, and German spies have spotted the aircraft carrier Raider, which passed through the Panama Canal a week ago, and will obviously join the fleet. So his strategy was to attack Australia's U.S. fleet first, then lure its carriers to appear, and then eliminate the last obstacles that prevented him from controlling the Pacific Ocean in one fell swoop.

As for whether Fuso and Yamashiro would be able to withstand the enemy battleships, he was not worried, because he had two assault ships carrying Sakura anti-ship * accompanying them.

At 9 o'clock in the night, several Japanese cruisers, quietly approaching the sea off Brisbane, did not take off seaplane observation, and directly attacked the port. Immediately after the attack, the fleet retreated back to the main fleet, avoiding being found by enemy reconnaissance planes that took off at dawn.

The haphazard shelling, which did not hit any military targets, in fact all hit the city. The US Navy's southbound fleet, which was sailing off the coast south of Brisbane, immediately judged that the Japanese cruiser fleet was nearby, which of course was easy to deduce from the enemy's artillery range.

The northbound fleet, consisting of the battleships Pennsylvania and Maryland, prepared to take advantage of the darkness of the night in the hope of encountering the Japanese detachment, which usually consisted of old cruisers and destroyers. Once caught, you can be slashed. Courage for the Australian people.

The commander of the U.S. forces, Rear Admiral Woking, judged that the enemy fleet would have at most one small aircraft carrier to escort him, but he had his back to the coast and could be covered by about 50 Hurricane or Buffalo fighters at any time (the U.S. forces were eliminated and handed over to Australia)

He remained silent, listening attentively to the battle reports from the navigation station, and did not find any reports of enemy fighter planes spotting near Brisbane, although it is sometimes difficult to distinguish between shelling and air strikes, but at present, radars have been deployed on the coast of Australia, and it should be possible to determine that there is an enemy group passing through.

This information strengthened the determination of the US military to go north, and although the details of the sinking of the USS Tennessee were partially grasped by the naval intelligence department, and the technical department had also begun to study the possibility of remote-controlled rocket weapons, and even invited Einstein to participate in the discussion, it had not yet reported the situation internally.

At dawn, the U.S. fleet spotted smoke on the sea, and estimated that a Japanese fleet was facing it, and the enemy should also see its own smoke. But the enemy didn't seem to have any intention of turning around and fleeing.

7:30 a.m. A Hurricane fighter, struggling to sail to the open sea, almost at the limit of the radius of the range, spotted the Japanese fleet. From a distance of several tens of kilometers, the pilot easily recognized the passing of two Japanese battleships, thanks to the memorable size of the Fuso's tall and ugly bridge, but he could not identify the two strange-looking seaplane carriers that followed it.

When Rear Admiral Woking got the news, he could not retreat, because the staff officers calculated that the enemy's fleet was several knots faster than his own.

Since the outbreak of the Pacific War, the first dignified decisive battle of the capital ship is about to begin. On the surface, the two sides were evenly matched, and although the Japanese fleet was 250 kilometers from the coast, the only air support the United States could get was some fighter jets.

The two fleets collided head-on, and a high-altitude drone filmed the two sides approaching the scene without flinching.

Cheng Dayang needed to observe the enemy's tactics through this engagement, and in fact he came here after tracking the Chitose.

There was no point in sinking the Chitose, as it was impossible to determine if Makino was on this ship. All 419 can do in this battle is to sit on the sidelines. In terms of the size of the two sides, the forces are almost equal. There were two warships each, and the United States had one more Cleveland-class cruiser.

Two hours later, the Japanese fleet was the first to open fire, and the USS Birmingham, which was the lead of the American fleet, began to turn left in an attempt to seize the firing position. Two mysterious Japanese * assault ships, secretly leaving the formation, one to the east and one to the west, tried to outflank the enemy fleet.

This new tactic surprised Cheng Dayang, originally he judged that the two ships would move together, and they should move eastward to avoid the harsh sunlight, but it seemed very unwise for the Chiyoda to move westward.

A classical naval battle unfolded slowly but *, and the American forces seemed to seize the initiative, with the first land-based fighters arriving, including a B25 bomber. MacArthur placed the main air force in the north, and the east coast was really small enough to mobilize troops. And the horizontal bomber had a limited role at sea, and was far less useful than a dreadnought.

The air attack distracted the Japanese fleet, and the two clumsy battleships began to turn around to dodge the Mitchell bomber. This was a standard dodge* maneuver, apparently their lookout post didn't see as clearly as 419, and they couldn't tell it was an Army bomber that could only drop bombs horizontally.

The long-range anti-aircraft weapons of the Japanese army began to fire, but they were ineffective. The B25 approached the enemy ship as if in slow motion, unscathed, and began to drop bombs continuously, using a large number of small* as an effective way to increase dispersion.

One 50 kg* hit the roof of the bridge of the Fuso, causing small casualties, but it blew up the huge composite rangefinder on the top, so that the ship's artillery command post could only use a smaller rangefinder.

The B25, which had completed its mission, was immediately hit by the Japanese ship's machine guns and fell into the sea, and the Japanese destroyer fired shells at the sinking bomber. The rest of the fighters flew over the Japanese ships, strafing from time to time, but to no avail.

The drone has been tracking the more active Chitose, but it has detected two very short electromagnetic wave radiations, very similar to the modulated continuous wave method detected at the Kagoshima range. The radiation source came from the Chiyoda.

The command cabin marveled at the new enemy situation that had just emerged.

"It seems that Makino is even more harmful than expected." Cheng Dayang said.

"Old Cheng, what Kagoshima has observed, it seems that their radar guidance method is not yet mature?" The commissar said.

"We'll see."

The Chiyoda hid in a corner of the battlefield, constantly using radiating antennas and emitting short-lived signals, and it is difficult to say whether it was about to launch weapons or just to detect echo signals, and it stands to reason that if it only detected echoes, it did not need to go deep into the battlefield. Judging by the details at hand, this is not an irradiation radar, but a primitive tracking radar that may provide commands to guided weapons.

The first telegrams sent by 419 were not intended to be requested, but to describe some differences between the two telegraphers in terms of interference with clutter on the sea surface.

Lin Xiuxuan suddenly realized that Makino was at sea at this time. Now we need to keep an eye on this place intently, and once a certain ship answers this telegram, then we can preliminarily determine Makino's location.

Naval warfare continued to develop in favor of the U.S. military. The Maryland's main gun hit the side of the Fuso, destroying one of the secondary guns.