The next battle in Australia will be almost entirely a performance by the Western Australian Volunteer Army. The Second Army and other armies need to go all out to pursue and intercept the Australian troops rushing west. Of course, the main thing is to block and chase them, and try to move them as far away from the main population as possible.
The desolate interior of the residential area. =====
As the Australian troops fled westward, the Navy's carrier-based aircraft could no longer reach them due to combat radius issues. The two Dingzhen aircraft carriers just sailed south to provide air support to the Western Australia Volunteers. With these two hundred combat aircraft
The bombers were naturally more powerful and soon reached Adelaide. At this time, there were not many Australians able to go to the battlefield. The remaining old, weak, women and children were naturally unable to block the aircraft and cannons when they were short of guns and ammunition.
The Western Australian Volunteer Army captured Adelaide in just two days.
After resting for a while, the Western Australian Volunteer Army then began to march towards Melbourne. Their opponent was a 100,000-strong army that the Australian federal government had tried its best to put together. It must be noted that there was also a female division among them. This was also
It can be regarded as a major innovation in modern military history. As for the reason, there is no need to explain. And even so, only three-fifths of the 100,000 Australian troops have rifles, and the rest can only play coldly.
Weapons.
What? Can it be equipped with grenades?
There really is no such thing. There is no saltpeter in Australia, or there is no saltpeter in Eastern Australia. Without it, let alone nitrocellulose, antimony, and antimony. They just want to make black poison and now they have no raw materials.
When the war reached this point, there was actually no point in continuing. The reason why they could still persist was because they were forced by the burning, killing, looting and looting of the Chinese soldiers. However, this little bit of indignation could not last long.
Anyone with any sense understands that bloody street battles like those in Berlin will never happen. At most, there is only a little symbolic resistance in Melbourne.
In short, the outcome of the Battle of Australia is a foregone conclusion. The time it takes for the Chinese to declare their complete occupation of this country depends only on the time it takes for the Western Australian Volunteer Army to cover these hundreds of kilometers.
At this time, the Chinese Navy's African Task Force, which set off from Dar es Salaam, also escorted the First Marine Division to its destination. However, they joined the British and the First Marine Division did not
Instead of landing in Maputo, as the British had previously imagined, they went directly to Durban.
Fortunately, the British were not unprepared. After all, theoretically, the Chinese could land in any city on the South African coast. There was an entire division of the South African Federal Army here, especially since most of the backbone were Boers. This was indeed a bit of a surprise.
Funny. Now the main force of the British defending South Africa are the Boers who disgraced them back then. They have a common interest in resisting the Chinese invaders. After all, Emperor Yang will not be able to give away the Rand gold mine after he comes.
The Boers, given their reputation in this regard, may be more greedy than the British, but on this point the Boers are still very clear-headed.
Unfortunately, what they didn't know was what a powerful opponent they were going to face this time. The landing operation started with the iconic Yang-style tactics, bombing. Almost endless bombing. The Dingyuan-class aircraft carrier with a displacement of more than 30,000 tons could at most
Carrying more than 100 Eagle fighter-bombers, the two ships Zhiyuan and Jingyuan have been improved and can carry up to 120. The two aircraft carriers and 240 carrier-based aircraft first conducted a sustained half-term attack on Durban Port.
After hours of indiscriminate bombing, the port was almost flattened, and then the destroyers and cruisers rushed up to protect the landing ships and seize the beach.
At this time, the remaining heavy artillery on the shore opened fire. Although the bombing caused heavy losses to the South Africans, there were still some heavy weapons left. Unfortunately, the carrier-based aircraft above them were still circling. Looking at the barrels of the heavy artillery fire below
Mouth flames. Immediately afterwards, the wings flipped and flew down, and then came one after another fifty kilogram aerial bombs. If the South Africans' heavy artillery protection was better, for example, there was a fortress or something, this would be easy to handle, just call the sea battleship.
, more than 300 kilograms of 280-penetrating explosive bombs flew over, and everything was quiet. As for the remaining machine gun forts on the coast, those cruisers and destroyers took care of them. It was not just the aircraft in the sky that had the ability to call naval guns. Landing
The infantrymen also carried radios on their backs. They called out the coordinates and the artillery shells came right after.
The poor former guerrillas have never seen this. I think they did make the British disgraced back then, but the British did not have airplanes or naval guns at that time, not to mention that they were fighting on the vast pastures of the Transvaal.
Black guns, and this was squatting in the fortifications and taking shells and bombs. The only thing they deserved praise for was their tenacious fighting will, but it was this that completely ruined them. After discovering that the South Africans were holding on more tenaciously, they became furious.
The Chinese invaders began to use some special weapons.
Of course, it is not du gas bombs. In such an open port environment, the effect of du gas bombs is greatly affected, but another thing is very easy to use, white phosphorus bombs.
Solid Qi decoys are suitable for strategic-level large-scale bombings. Its advantage is not its power. It is not as powerful as white phosphorus alone. But the problem is that it is cheap, even cheaper than ordinary bombs. If it is a carrier-based aircraft for precision dive bombing,
Naturally, white phosphorus is more effective. If you throw this thing away, it can be said to be caught in the wind. It will not stop until it burns the bones of people. The poor South Africans will then start to wail in hell.
This brutal tactic did not take long to completely break their will. As more and more landing ships rushed onto the beach, the South Africans who held on finally began to collapse. Above them, ship-borne ships
The large-caliber machine guns on board sprayed flames and fired recklessly. No one cared about whether they killed soldiers or fleeing civilians.
After the First Marine Division captured Durban, it immediately cleaned up the city, and then organized a defense line on the outside. The transport ship behind it docked, and the army soldiers on board disembarked. This time, a whole army landed, and they would move along the
The railway has been heading northwest to attack Johannesburg, 500 kilometers away.
At this time, after receiving the news of the Chinese landing in Durban, the British and South African troops originally deployed on the northern front quickly retreated and rushed to the east of Johannesburg to set up defenses. In this area, except for the Durban garrison that had just been defeated, they
In addition, there is only one division in Ladysmith. With this small force, it will definitely not be able to stop an entire army of Chinese soldiers. What's more, the Chinese who landed also brought a tank regiment, all composed of
A heavy tank regiment composed of Dragon tanks.
Unfortunately, what they didn't know was that this was just a feint attack. Just after the main force of the British-Southern coalition moved south, the transport ship returning to Dar es Salaam had already loaded up another army and two tank regiments and then headed south.
At the same time, the 1st Marine Division, which was originally in Durban Port, hurriedly boarded the landing ship, and then went directly north under the escort of the fleet. After the two teams met, they immediately rushed towards Maputo.
This is a Portuguese colony, with less than a thousand garrison troops and a few small gunboats. Such strength is like a joke in front of them.
Moreover, the Portuguese governor here was also very wise. After seeing the huge fleet at sea, he immediately ordered the lighthouse to signal surrender. At this time, Portugal was already considered subjugated. The Spanish army occupied Lisbon a month ago. The King of Portugal
Carlos I, the Crown Prince and the main minister Franco went into exile in England. Later, King Alfonso XIII of Spain announced that he would no longer recognize the peace treaty between the two countries in 1668 and the legitimacy of the Braganza royal family.
The King of Spain will once again wear the Portuguese crown obtained under the marriage inheritance of 1580, and the Kingdom of Spain will be renamed the Spanish Empire.
Although the Spanish invasion made the Portuguese people extremely sad and angry, because the hated king Carlos I was deposed, the vast majority of the Portuguese people still acquiesced to this reality. Besides, they are now unable to resist. As for the Governor of Mozambique,
The colonial officials were just trying to recognize the government-in-exile or submit to the Spanish Empire. Obviously, anyone who was not a fool would understand that even if the war in Europe could end at this time, Britain, France, and Russia would not be able to protect Portugal. In this case, it is better to be aware of current affairs.
Just after the Chinese landed, the Governor-General in Maputo immediately lowered the flag of the Kingdom of Portugal, and then raised the flag of the Spanish Empire, which was urgently made. From then on, this place was no longer a Portuguese colony of the Allied Powers, but a Spanish colony of the Allied Powers.
Now, as for the Governor, he has also transformed into the Governor of the Spanish Empire in Mozambique.
After the landing, the 1st Marine Division continued to be stationed in Maputo. Of course, it might run out to land somewhere when necessary. However, the 74th Army Corps that followed them followed them with a heavy tank regiment and
A light tank regiment cleared the way and headed towards Pretoria along the railway.
At this time, the British-Southern Allied Forces had just arrived in Ladysmith, and were engaging in a battle with the attacking Chinese Army's 73rd Army in this city that represented the shame of the British Empire. Facing the carrier-based aircraft overhead and the heavy tanks on the ground, the total was insufficient.
The 100,000-strong Anglo-Southern Allied Forces fought miserably. Especially those heavy tanks were a desperate existence for them. Their 37-type anti-aircraft guns had no effect on the front of such tanks.
For any purpose, as for the infantrymen who use anti-tank grenades to explode, they will commit suicide under the attack of the automatic rifles in the hands of the accompanying Chinese infantrymen. Occasionally, even if a fish slips through the net, it cannot avoid the strafing of the aircraft hovering overhead, and can only watch helplessly.
Watching these steel monsters rush to the battlefield. (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature, the novel is better and updated faster!