Great Warlord: The Second Ancestor of the Empire

In the past half month, the Daxia Empire has gradually assembled more than 120 million troops in the Mandalay area.

These troops are spread over a defensive line of more than 200 kilometers.

On March 1932, 3, the Imperial Military Headquarters issued the final offensive order. Imperial soldiers were asked to start marching towards Tianzhu.

At the same time, soldiers from Southeast Asia acted as the leading force and began to clear the way in front of the imperial soldiers.

In order to prevent Daxia from attacking Tianzhu, the John Empire took the initiative to destroy the Toungu Kingdom's road to Tianzhu after Daxia took control of Southeast Asia.

Therefore, if you want to enter Tianzhu, the first thing you need to do is to rebuild some bridges and roads.

This requires some local Southeast Asian soldiers to act as vanguards to find a road to Tianzhu, and then imperial engineers to build bridges on these roads.

However, according to the estimates of the engineers below, it will take at least a month to open a road to the Kingdom of Tianzhu.

Because the border areas between the two countries are still virgin forests at this time. It is very difficult to open the road.

Regarding this, Zhou Chuanjun, who has been promoted to Commander-in-Chief of Southeast Asia, said that there is no way around this.

We can only let the engineering team speed up the construction.

Compared with Zhou Chuanjun's predicament, the Australian front troops who were heading to the Java area and preparing to attack Australia were much luckier.

Xue Dingshan had been promoted to Commander-in-Chief of the Australian Front at this time. He had led 120 million imperial soldiers to Papua.

This is the island closest to Australia and capable of large-scale garrisoning. There are not only sufficient supplies here, but also an excellent deep-water port.

The Third Combined Fleet also has a sub-base in Papua, so there is no need to build anything on a large scale here.

After receiving an order from the Imperial Military Headquarters asking them to attack, Xue Dingshan ordered the Third Combined Fleet. In addition to the necessary forces to defend Malacca City, the remaining warships were assembled near Papua.

After receiving the order, five Ming-class battleships, three Fuyao-class aircraft carriers, 8 heavy cruisers, 15 fast cruisers, plus a large number of frigates and destroyers formed a squadron and headed for the waters of Papua.

At this time, the Australian Dominion already knew that Daxia wanted to take action against itself.

While they sent a telegram to the John Empire asking for help, hoping that the John Empire could support them, they also began to actively prepare for war.

Vice Admiral Arthur Weir of the Australian Dominion knew that his fleet had no chance of winning against Daxia's fleet.

But he was not a person who gave up easily. He felt that he had only one chance, which was to ambush Daxia's fleet in the Timor Sea.

After all, at this time, Daxia has not officially declared war on Australia, but its intention to declare war is obvious.

Therefore, he planned to strike first and ambush the Daxia fleet in the Timor Sea, which had not yet declared war.

Here we need to mention the Dominion of Australia.

This place used to be the place where prisoners were exiled by the John Empire, so it can be said that the people of the Australian Dominion are all descendants of criminals.

In addition, Australia's natural environment was very harsh at the beginning, which resulted in the people of the Australian Dominion being naturally more reckless.

Therefore, after the Governor of the Australian Dominion heard Arthur Weir's suggestion, he decisively agreed to Arthur's proposal.

As a result, the Australian Dominion soon also took corresponding measures.

A rather small fleet assembled in Joseph Bonaparte Bay, Australia. Then began to search towards the Timor Sea.

It was not until three days later that the two sides met in the Timor Sea near Timor Island.

Then a firefight broke out between the two sides.

In fact, Daxia was the first to discover the battleships of the Australian Dominion.

The pilot in charge of reconnaissance at that time reported the situation to the fleet command.

The commander of the Third Combined Fleet is Gao Bo.

He is also an experienced commander and has been following Lin Yi for a long time.

When he heard the pilot's warning that a large amount of black smoke was found due south of the fleet, he immediately judged that it was the fleet of the Australian Dominion.

So, he immediately ordered the fleet to enter a state of emergency, carrier-based aircraft immediately took off, and frigates began to cruise near the aircraft carrier to prevent Australian submarines from sneaking close to the aircraft carrier.

The destroyer also began its own anti-submarine mission.

As a new generation of maritime overlords, aircraft carriers also have their own nemesis, which is submarines.

The aircraft carrier's size and tonnage are too large, so its steering is not as agile as a battleship's.

Therefore, once it encounters a submarine, it is difficult for an aircraft carrier to avoid torpedoes. At this time, destroyers and frigates are needed for protection.

After a large number of carrier-based aircraft took off, the air defense field of the Third Joint Squadron was greatly enhanced.

At this time, the Australian fleet also discovered the reconnaissance plane above their heads. Lieutenant General Arthur Weir immediately guessed that Daxia's fleet was not far away from him.

Subsequently, seaplanes from the battlecruiser Australia, the flagship of the Australian fleet, took off and began reconnaissance.

It needs to be mentioned here that the Australian Dominion does not have battleships, and their flagship is a battlecruiser.

In order to succeed in the ambush this time, the Australian Dominion Navy has spent all its wealth.

This Tireless-class battlecruiser was produced by Empire John during World War I and modernized after the war before being distributed to the Australian Dominion.

As the flagship Australia, it can only be said that it is reluctant. If it were not for Daxia, in the original time and space, this battlecruiser would still be able to protect Australia's territorial waters.

But this time his opponent was Daxia's combined fleet. Then there is something not enough about this battlecruiser.

The reconnaissance plane that took off from the Australia within two hours had discovered the whereabouts of the Daxia Fleet.

After obtaining the whereabouts of the Daxia fleet, Vice Admiral Arthur Weir ordered the fleet to assemble and sail towards Daxia's location.

In fact, at this time, the Australian fleet was still sailing in the waters of the Australian Dominion.

So in Arthur's view, Daxia's fleet had no reason to stop him.

At the same time, Arthur also sent a radio signal to Daxia's fleet, asking about the whereabouts of Daxia's fleet, and warning that Daxia's fleet was threatening the security of the Australian Dominion.

Is this really what happened? Not really.

Arthur did this just to paralyze Daxia's commanders and make them think that his fleet was a normal patrol.

The Australian fleet has the right to inquire when it suddenly appears near Australian waters without obtaining navigation permission, and when the two countries are still in extreme opposition.

Gao Bo naturally knew this, but he didn't believe that this Australian fleet was just here to inquire about him.

He could guess with his toes that this fleet was here to cause trouble for him.

Similarly, Gao Bo also wants to cause trouble for them.

If the Australian mainland fleet can be defeated at the beginning of the Australian campaign, then the subsequent escort mission will be much simpler.