When the tank battalion of the 5th Armored Division and the infantry regiment of the 1st Mountain Division got off the bus at a station in the north of Perth, they were discovered by local cowboys. They reported the situation to the Perth City Government, so Perth
The city had three hours of preparation time in advance. They mobilized many ranchers and cowboys and issued some weapons to them. Together with the local police and the hundreds of Australian soldiers, they used furniture on the north side of the city.
, carriages and other items temporarily formed a line of defense to try to stop these miners from being armed.
The cowboys who discovered that the tank battalion and infantry division got off the train at the train station had never seen a tank, let alone a federal army. They thought that what these people unloaded from the train were mining trucks and machinery.
When they went to the Southern Railway Port, they saw it. It was also made of steel. It was a tall and big guy. When it started, it rumbled and black smoke came out. So what they reported to the Perth City Government was that the miners took guns and started
Trucks and machines are coming and there are thousands of people!!!
But when dozens of tanks rushed over in five columns from the grasslands north of Perth at a speed of more than 30 kilometers per hour, the Australian soldiers and veterans of the First World War knew that they were finished, although they could not tell the difference between them.
What type of tank is it, but it is definitely not a mining excavator or bulldozer, and those smaller iron guys following them are not mining trucks.
Although there is a huge disparity in strength between the enemy and us, these Australian cowboys are really desperate. If the fortifications cannot stop the tanks and armored vehicles, they will retreat to the city and use private houses to fight against the federal army. Since this is Western Australia, most of them are
Live on ranches and farms. Almost every family has a rifle or shotgun, and everyone carries a pistol. Even teenage boys have a long revolver hanging on their thighs. That is the number of adults and men.
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For the federal armored battalions and mountain divisions, although the intensity of this kind of battle is not high, it is very cruel and burdensome. Many times, tank gunners have to fire at those houses, knowing that there are old people and children inside.
, but we still have to fight because bullets will fly out of the windows of that room from time to time. Even the veterans of the Mountain Division are not willing to use people to storm those houses in this environment.
As houses were blown up by tank guns and Australian residents were knocked down by heavy machine guns, some young federal soldiers did not dare to look out from the observation holes of armored vehicles. Officers at the company and platoon level could only
With hostile eyes, he forcibly ordered his soldiers to fire at all targets holding guns. Even the children who looked to be in their teens could not be spared, because they actually held guns with two hands and fired.
This kind of street fighting lasted for 2 hours before the armored battalion and the mountain division quelled the resistance of Perth citizens and the Australian army. Most of the city of Perth had been destroyed, and thousands of Perth citizens were killed.
Killings were killed, and hundreds of houses were razed by tanks. Finally, a captain and company commander of the Australian army could not stand it anymore. He proposed surrender to officials of Western Australia and the Perth City Government, and took the lead.
With more than 50 remaining Australian Army men under his command, he raised the white flag.
Subsequently, officials from the Western Australia and Perth city governments, along with the police, ranchers and cowboys, also chose to conditionally surrender to the federal army. Their condition was that they could not retaliate against the citizens of Perth.
The commander of the 1st Infantry Regiment of the 1st Mountain Division, who accepted the opponent's surrender, readily agreed to this request. It was already very uncomfortable for the battle to be fought like this. For those Australian cowboys who had guns but no organization or scale, his men
The soldiers were no longer willing to shoot him.
The city of Perth has surrendered here, and the federal engineering troops from behind have also arrived. They will expand and renovate the airport here to accommodate the landing of federal air force planes flying from Java, while the armored battalion and mountain division will take a short rest.
Engaged in another ambush battle, they planned to ambush the Australian 5th Infantry Division, which was coming from 100 kilometers away. This division was the only federal army stationed in Western Australia. After solving it, Western Australia basically
Even if the occupation is completed.
However, the battle did not start in the end. Officials from the Western Australian federal government used the armored battalion's radio to contact the division headquarters. After simple persuasion, the division also chose to surrender, because in Western Australia, except for Perth,
Apart from Sri Lanka and several small nearby coastal cities that could provide supplies to the army, there was no other place where it could survive.
This Australian division commander who participated in World War I knew very well that this federal army, which was composed entirely of tanks and armored vehicles, was not something his division could handle. In terms of maneuverability and firepower, the two sides were too far apart. If they could not defeat this federal army,
, and he lost the city of Perth
, if other supplies are not available, his division will die of thirst in the desert without fighting. However, before surrendering, the division commander still performed his last duty and brought the troops to the desert.
The general situation was sent to the Australian federal government via telegram.
In addition, the Australian division commander asked the federal army not to mistreat his soldiers. After they laid down their weapons, they still stayed near Perth because most of the members of the division were white natives of Western Australia and they were unwilling to leave their hometown.
Go somewhere else.
At this time, the Australian federal government had just understood its situation. On the morning of June 3, it received telegrams from several cities, including from local garrisons and local governments, all of which alerted the Australian federal government.
, saying that the troops of the South China Sea Federation had landed there, that the troops had suffered heavy losses due to air attacks, etc. Two of the telegrams were sent by the Western Australian government and the 5th Division of the Australian Army before the surrender.
From the establishment of the Governor-General to the establishment of federal autonomy, Australia has not been invaded by other countries for more than a hundred years. Except for Australia sending troops to support its king, the United Kingdom, in World War I, the Australian federal government has basically never considered national defense.
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At present, there are only 7 million people in Australia. There are only 10 army divisions, more than 40 tanks and dozens of aircraft, plus more than 30 warships. Among them, there are only 2 battlecruisers, several armored cruisers and destroyers as the main battleships.
These
The equipment is still from the First World War, and the weapons used by the soldiers are all British-made World War I rifles. Although Australian whites, especially those cowboys, are fierce and aggressive by nature, that is just their character. In the face of a well-organized and commanded army,
, any character is nonsense.
It has only been less than a day since the war started, and four Australian Army divisions have already been completely wiped out. One of them surrendered, and the other three were attacked by air strikes and tanks and have disappeared near Darwin Port and the outskirts of Melbourne. The remaining
Three of the six infantry divisions are on the east coast, two are near the capital Canberra, and one is fighting with federal troops near Melbourne. It is estimated that the outcome will not be better.
The Australian Air Force now has less than 20 Australian aircraft in total. They are still at several airports on the east coast. The airport in Darwin Port in the north has been occupied, but some of the aircraft escaped. Two airports in Melbourne have also been occupied. The aircraft are large.
Parts of it burned on the runway. Only two British Hurricane Squadron aircraft escaped, but it is still unclear where those two aircraft went.
Not to mention the Australian Navy. Most of its main ships were sunk in the ports of Darwin and Melbourne. Only a few inshore gunboats are still anchored in some ports on the east coast, and an armored cruiser went to a New Zealand port.
It has not come back, and now it should be regarded as the only main force of the Australian Navy.
Although the Australian government has sent an emergency telegram to their king, these Australians also understand that their king may not be able to take care of himself at the moment. The king needs to consider being able to stop the Germans from crossing the strait.
As for what else he can do for Australia, I really can't expect it.
At noon on June 5, the federal armored forces had advanced to Albury, only more than 100 kilometers away from the capital Canberra. At this time, news came from Brisbane that a large number of federal army tanks appeared in Brisbane.
A few dozen kilometers west of Brisbane, two local Australian infantry divisions were preparing to fight. But in the afternoon, no news came from Brisbane, and it seemed that there was also a lot of danger there. (To be continued...)
