Great time travel

Chapter 77, the final battle to conquer Australia
Regarding the final struggle of the Australian Federal Government and the Australian Allied Forces at Cape Shank, although Admiral MacArthur's view is already quite pessimistic, the actual situation on the frontline battlefield is even worse than MacArthur's pessimistic view. To the point of appalling.

——Because the Australian Allied Forces did not have any plans in advance, and were forced by the Japanese army's pressing step by step, the entire work of looting supplies lasted less than a week before being forced to end, and it began on the second day of the transfer and retreat , the rainy weather that once sheltered the Australians turned fine again, and all the transport teams of the Australian Allied Forces, whether it was land trucks or sea fleets, were exposed to the indiscriminate bombing of Japanese aircraft...

As a result, according to the post-event statistics of Prime Minister John Katyn, during the entire retreat of Melbourne, more than 80% of the transport ships in the hands of the Australian Allies were destroyed and sunk during the voyage from Melbourne to Cape Shank. .About 60% of the vehicles were also bombed on the road to Cape Shank. At the same time, more than [-] soldiers from various countries were killed or scattered on this congested road.

As a result, the ammunition, food, clothing and fuel that were finally successfully transported to Cape Shank were far less than expected.And a considerable part of the various troops preparing to retreat to Cape Shank failed to reach their destination in the end.On the contrary, the number of Melbourne citizens who flocked to Cape Shank to avoid the Japanese army far exceeded expectations—the fifty-sixty kilometers from Melbourne to Cape Shank, although it seemed a bit far, was in fact even with only two legs. It can also be finished.And all the way is walking close to the bay, there is no danger of getting lost. In order to avoid the bombing, the citizens also choose to walk at night...

As the current Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of Australia, Prime Minister John Katyn cannot rationally ignore his citizens completely.

All in all, when the first sun flag of the Japanese army began to fly in the center of Melbourne, about 2 Australian federal troops, 7 American troops and less than one Thousands of New Zealand soldiers—and when General MacArthur abandoned Manila and retreated to the Bataan Peninsula, he still had about [-] U.S. troops and [-] Filipino troops in his hands, even far exceeding those on the Philippine battlefield at that time. Japanese army.Then there were [-] Australian civilians who also flooded into Cape Shank with the retreating Allied forces, crowding the place tightly.Only a maximum of [-] of these people can live in houses or caves, and the rest can only camp... But this is not the worst, and what is worse is that due to the far less supplies shipped to Cape Shank Contrary to expectations, Prime Minister John Katyn only had enough food to sustain these [-] people for half a month!

Then, on the day when the first Japanese reconnaissance unit entered the urban area of ​​Melbourne, a further catastrophe hit the Australians again-the Japanese army organized more than 5000 sorties of "Galaxy Land Attack" bombers, Carpet bombing of Cape Shank.Since the Allies had no time to dig bunkers, most people could only be bombed in the wilderness. As a result, more than [-] soldiers and civilians were killed and injured on the spot, and most of the food and ammunition that were forced to pile up in the open air were also destroyed... So, after the big air raid was over, the Allied forces at Cape Shank found that they only had enough food left for another ten days, and this was thanks to the fact that many people were killed in the bombing, reducing the number of mouths that needed to eat , to have such a result...

Despite such bleak prospects, Prime Minister John Katyn tried his best to cheer everyone up. The sign of the Provisional Government of Australia was hung in the small town of Flinders at the southernmost tip of Cape Shank, symbolizing that the Anglo-Saxon nation has not given up. Dominion over this southern continent.

Next, he sent all the troops he could collect, as well as the temporary volunteers, to the root of the northern end of Cape Shank connected to the mainland, and stationed in two towns there——the root on the west side of the peninsula faces Philip. Between these two towns, Balcombe in Bay of Bay and Hastings at the root of the eastern peninsula, the Allied Command planned to build a forward line of defense with a total length of about ten kilometers based on the terrain.

Tens of thousands of Australian soldiers and civilians bravely withstood the indiscriminate bombing of Japanese planes and desperately dug trenches at the fastest speed. Although the food had only been distributed to half of the standard ration and everyone was hungry, their morale was still very high at this time. high.These Australians are no longer willing to retreat, and there is no way to retreat, hoping to stand up and fight with honor.In the end, they finally completed this crude line of defense before the Japanese launched a ground attack.

But this line of defense can only defend against the land, but it cannot protect the sea behind it—six brand new Yamato-class battleships were quickly mobilized outside the port of Hastings Town, to attack the guards there day and night. The army poured bullets, and each shell could blow up the land as large as half a football field into coke... The trenches dug so hard by the Australians were quickly blown to pieces, and the surviving soldiers and civilians were forced to move far away. Inland retreat from the coast.

Then, these tenacious guys found out even more desperately that they were probably defeated by hunger before they were knocked down by bullets...

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At the same time, the Japanese army north of Cape Shank was also preparing for the final general attack to occupy the urban area of ​​Melbourne.

——During the Battle of the Philippines that year, when MacArthur retreated to Bataan, he declared the capital Manila as "Opencity" (undefended city).This is a kind of chivalry of Western military commanders in war, so as to prevent those historical relics and cultural treasures from being destroyed by war.

However, such chivalry is only applicable to wars between "civilized people" or white Europeans.And now the war between the Anglo-Saxon nation and the Yamato nation for Australia is obviously not included in this list - when the Japanese army just landed in Australia and the Allied beachhead defense failed, the Australian Army Command formulated a detailed and cruel plan. Scorched Earth Policy: Destroying ports, bridges, power plants, and waterworks in the soon-to-be-occupied North Australian states, burning food, polluting meat, and bringing civilization back to the barbaric prehistoric era... because they didn't expect the Japanese to behave like gentlemen.

And the performance of the Japanese army really confirmed the pessimistic judgment mentioned above—concentration camps, mass graves and comfort stations have become the final destination of millions of white Australians... Basically the same as when they wiped out the Australian aborigines and ruled this southern continent The means for oneself are exactly the same.

No way, who made the Japanese always use the British as teachers?Naturally, you have to learn everything in a decent way or even work harder!

Therefore, when the Japanese plane destroyed the last small steamer in the port of Melbourne, the Japanese armored forces rushed into the beach of Phillip Bay from the east, completely cutting off the only road between downtown Melbourne and Cape Shank, and were trapped. The last more than 1 allied forces in the urban area of ​​Melbourne did not even think about abandoning their weapons and surrendering, and preserved Melbourne, a famous city in the southern hemisphere, relatively intact. Instead, they were determined to meet their final destruction and fight a street battle like a blood mill. Take this city that has been guarded for many years as your own cemetery, and take as many Japanese devils as possible to be buried with it.

It is a pity that the Japanese army on the opposite side has fought against them in Australia for so many years. The Japanese can also guess the thoughts of these stubborn Australians, and they do not intend to risk their lives to accompany them in the city. A house-to-house battle with numerous casualties—after the preliminary fire reconnaissance, the besieging Japanese army directly used a large number of deadly anti-inflammatory nerve gas bombs to completely "clean" the neighborhood held by the remaining Allied troops... …Then, about three divisions of Japanese infantry, under the cover of light tanks, unhurriedly broke into Melbourne, which had been reduced to a dead city.

A small number of allied soldiers who hid in sealed spaces such as cellars and underground shelters and escaped the baptism of poisonous gas made their last tragic resistance in the ruins of Melbourne, but they only persisted for a few hours. Amidst the sound of gunfire and explosions, they were destroyed one after another... At noon on September 9, the last organized resistance force of the Allied forces in downtown Melbourne was completely annihilated, and the old capital of the Commonwealth of Australia was finally planted with the sun flag.

Then, a few more hours later, Lieutenant General Tsuji Masanobu, who was killed from the northeast with the 150th Second Division, also excitedly rode in a captured American jeep, with sporadic cold guns, Shi Shiran rushed Entering the dilapidated urban area of ​​Melbourne, it goes straight to the beach of Philip Bay at the other end of the city.

Phillip Bay in the south of Melbourne is a pocket-shaped harbor that is almost closed, with only one outlet about two kilometers wide leading to the sea. The sea water here is green, clear and calm, just like a beautiful piece of sand twirled between the thumb and forefinger. Emerald is somewhat similar to Lushun Port in China, but Philip Bay is much larger than Port Arthur’s port area—because of the special terrain of Philip Bay, Melbourne has the beautiful scenery and humid climate of a harbor city, and avoids direct exposure to typhoons. Driving along the flat and wide coastal road, there are flat and fine sandy beaches along the way, which are excellent beaches. The hills on the other side of the road are lush with vegetation, and several of the farms are covered with beautiful and fragrant Lavender.

However, at this time, Melbourne and Phillip Bay were no longer as picturesque as they used to be, but were devastated by the flames of war—all kinds of shipwrecks and swollen floating corpses, as well as the water surface. The large expanses of heavy oil leaked from the sunken ship are polluting this peaceful and beautiful bay.The coastal road was also devastated by aircraft bombs and long-range heavy artillery, with bomb craters everywhere, burned farm houses, abandoned vehicles and baggage, as well as various belongings left by the fleeing citizens, as well as things that were too late to bury. charred corpse...

However, as a professional soldier who has experienced many battles, Lieutenant General Masanobu Tsuji has long been accustomed to such disgusting horror scenes, so he turned a blind eye to it.On the contrary, looking at the sun flag fluttering on the roof of Melbourne City Hall, he was filled with a sense of elation.

——In the past 300 years, white people in the West have always boasted how clever they are, how brave they are, how they dominate the world, for no reason.They invented all new gadgets and discovered all new places. They are the leaders of civilization. Every scientific theorem, every overseas mountain, river, and island has their names.Any colored people are only worthy to be their slaves and vassals.

Now, it's all turned upside down.It's my turn for those yellow people who have been despised for hundreds of years to take back the world from them!
Thinking about the strategic policy of the Americans in the early days of the war, they have already been beaten into such a bear by the Imperial Japanese Army, and they are still doing "Europe first", it is really funny to hear... But it is no wonder, since entering the After the age of sailing, the aura of the "mysterious East" has long since faded. Since modern times, white people in the West have always despised the yellow race and the East.It is not thought that the inferior Orientals can cause much trouble to the noble Westerners.But they forget that the Easterners also have thousands of years of war experience, and they can also eagerly learn various war techniques, not to mention paying a heavy price for victory.This self-righteous contempt of the Americans for the Japanese strategically is the root cause of their loss of Australia.

Of course, the imperial kingdom also paid an extremely heavy price for this. A total of 2000 million soldiers and civilians were "shattered" in the flames of war, and more than half of the cities on the Japanese archipelago were reduced to ruins. Groan...but it's all a necessary sacrifice.For the glorious future of the nation, the vast continent of 800 million square kilometers under our feet, my generation must grit their teeth and stick to it no matter what!
——Throughout the ages, which great empire did not rise from the mountains of corpses and seas of blood and the flames of war?The Romans were almost broken by the famous Carthage general Hannibal, the Russians suffered the pain of being forced to burn Moscow in front of Napoleon’s army, and even the Americans were once set on fire by the British army to burn down the White House... But they all After enduring all these setbacks and sacrifices, they have won their respective glorious times.

In the same way, since the Japanese are looking forward to establishing their own imperial hegemony, they naturally have to have the consciousness of sacrificing one generation or even several generations.

However, now is not the time for such philosopher-style divergent thinking... After all, the battle in Australia is not over yet!
Thinking of this, Lieutenant General Tsuji Masanobu couldn't help raising his head, squinting his eyes and looking at the sunny bay in the south, and Cape Shank far behind the sea level-the last position of the Allied forces on the Australian mainland.Lieutenant General Tsuji Masanobu thought he was clear about the plan of this remnant enemy.

You know, he also set foot on the Philippine battlefield back then, and personally participated in the Battle of Bataan Peninsula that made MacArthur famous all over the world.

"...Hmph, want to repeat the battle of Bataan in the Philippines at the southernmost tip of Australia? It's a good idea, but what do you white people think of us? Do you think that the majestic army sweeping across the Pacific Ocean even sucked Don't you have the ability to learn from this little experience?"

——The reason why the Japanese army stumbled in the Bataan Peninsula in the Philippines was first of all because they underestimated the enemy. Second, the Japanese army was short of troops. The Japanese offensive troops that participated in the battle on the Bataan Peninsula were not only in place intermittently, which became a protracted refueling tactic. , is actually always less than the number of US-Philippine coalition forces in the encirclement!Once again, the cooperation between the navy and the army was poor. When the Japanese army was desperately attacking on the narrow Bataan battlefield, the naval fleet did not provide sufficient artillery support from behind... However, none of the above was possible in Shank The corner is repeated: Today's Japanese army is well aware of the truth that trapped animals are still fighting, and they are not eager to attack these remnants who have already fallen to death.

—— "...for the time being, rest in Melbourne for a few days, and wait for the aviation and navy to flatten Cape Shank before we talk about it..."

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PS: The U.S. Olympic delegation obviously expected the terrible environment in Rio de Janeiro, so not only did they not live in the Olympic Village, they didn’t even live on land, but they directly chartered a luxury cruise ship to be parked at the port as an apartment... It’s unbearable I can't help but think of the scene where Cleopatra took a boat to meet Anthony.

On the contrary, the Chinese delegation experienced various tests such as theft, robbery, and roadside shootouts, and could only exclaim as if they had come to the old Shanghai Bund.

Another: I was shocked to hear that Fang Zhouzi’s academic anti-counterfeiting hit Prince Ma on the head, saying that his "Xiaozhuan War" and "The History of the Mayan Conquest of the Yin Shang Fleet" did not conform to historical common sense... This, they wrote satirical novels!Why don't you criticize Shi Naian's "Water Margin", Qiong Yao's grandma's "Returning the Pearl", Jin Yong's "The Legend of Condor Heroes" and the "Da Mo Yao" that wrote Huo Qubing as an infatuated fool. It is completely inconsistent with historical common sense. ?
Well, of course, in view of some kind of cosmic will in the dark, I have to say one last sentence as usual: Xiangrui Yufang, the house is safe!