Age of Conquest Reborn

At the banquet held at the Allied Australian Theater Command to welcome the general officers of the Allied reinforcements, Lieutenant General MacArthur, who was sitting alone, was in a strong and proud mood. He just kept talking and said what should and should not be said.

Shake them all out.

The expression on the face of the British Army General Fernandez, the supreme commander of the Australian Theater of the Allied Forces, was immediately filled with dark clouds. The proud heart of the British Empire nobleman was stung so violently that he wanted to kill someone in pain!

What MacArthur's attitude was, whether he was arrogant or a villain, was not the most important. Anyway, this annoying American could not represent the attitude of the Americans. But what he mentioned was the Allied reinforcements that had just arrived in Australia.

The commander, Lieutenant General Barry Hersman, had already submitted a request to the US government to change the commander of the Australian Allied Forces, but General Fernandez had to take it seriously.

This is by no means groundless. Reminiscent of the fact that on the day when the Allied reinforcements arrived in Canberra, I went to the pier to greet them, but was told that "Lieutenant General Barry Hersman has been picked up by Lieutenant General MacArthur!" It is very possible!

What is surprising is that these two Americans have reached a certain tacit understanding in order to seek to seize the supreme command of the Australian Allied Forces!

"General Barry Hersman, I am the supreme commander of the Australian Allied Forces officially appointed by the Allies. Of course, the Allies also have the power to remove me from my post. Well, I will wait and see what General MacArthur said about the American general.

Command the Allied forces to fight!" General Fernandez said with anger in his eyes as he stared directly at Lieutenant General Barley Hersman.

"General Fernandez, you have misunderstood. I have just arrived in Australia and do not understand the situation on the battlefield. I will not have the idea of ​​taking over your command!" Lieutenant General Barry Hersman explained hurriedly. At the same time, I thought about the person who could cause the most trouble.

Eight generations of MacArthur's ancestors have scolded him.

General Fernandez did not buy it and said in a strong tone: "What General MacArthur said just now cannot but make me suspicious. It also expresses great indignation at his insult to our general of the British Empire. I'm sorry, General Barry Hersman.

, I suddenly felt a little unwell. I'm sorry!"

After saying that, General Fernandez, accompanied by Lieutenant General Wagnerzer, Chief of Staff, left the table angrily. A banquet that was originally intended to reflect the comrades-in-arms of the two armies of the United Kingdom and the United States who fought hand in hand against the Japanese.

Being completely disturbed by MacArthur, a guy who made a lot of trouble out of nothing, General Fernandez, a landowner, left the meeting angrily. At this point, the atmosphere of the welcoming banquet was gone.

With these words, the arrogant British guy walked away. MacArthur was so complacent that he didn't take it into consideration at all. The senior British officers attending the banquet around him wanted to strangle their eyes to death. The American military officers who knew the inside story

, with contempt and helpless eyes.

Lieutenant General MacArthur, who had always been a troublemaker, was indeed a master of inciting hatred. After years of silence, his first appearance in public caused an irreparable rift between the senior British and American military officers who had been relatively united.

"General MacArthur, what you just said was too rash. It is very inappropriate to do this before the results of the matter come out! It will damage the relationship between us and the British allies!" Kicked Balih to death, MacArthur was thinking too much.

Lieutenant General Siman said to this troublemaker with a gloomy face.

"Ah! My dearest General Ballyhersman, your experience is still insufficient. Don't worry about this. The British should have given up the position of supreme commander of the Australian Allied Forces long ago! Believe me, there are many people in the country.

There will be good news soon!" MacArthur, who thought he had done the most beautiful thing, said in a somewhat cynical manner.

"You...!" Lieutenant General Barry Hersman simply didn't know what to say to this troublesome old guy. "General MacArthur, the troops have just arrived in Australia and there are many military affairs that need to be handled. I would like to express my gratitude to you."

Farewell!" He had no choice but to leave. Otherwise, if he stayed in an awkward banquet hall with this old guy and listened to his talk, he would be pissed to death?

"What a young man with insufficient qualifications. He can't keep his temper! All Allied forces must be commanded by Americans!" Lieutenant General MacArthur curled his lips as he looked at Lieutenant General Barry Hersman's back, which seemed to be running away.

Son, he said to himself with a look of disdain.

In the following days, Lieutenant General Barry Hersman, with a subordinate mentality, worked hard to cooperate with General Fernandez, spending all day in the Australian Allied Forces Command, integrating the Allied forces so that the reinforcements could be integrated as soon as possible.

He went to the original Allied troops. As for MacArthur, he kept a respectful distance and deliberately avoided his former teacher.

However, rifts already existed. At the welcome banquet, Lieutenant General MacArthur's words deeply hurt General Fernandez's proud heart. Therefore, he was quite hostile and indifferent towards the new American Lieutenant General.

Fortification, can two such commanders expect close cooperation?

This hostility is also reflected in the cooperation between the original Allied Australian troops and the reinforcements. Originally, the seven mechanized infantry divisions of the reinforcements were supposed to be deployed in the second-line area of ​​​​the Flinders Mountains and the Barrier Mountains.

, as a strong backing for the front-line Allied forces, it is also more conducive to strengthening the depth of defense and forming a second barrier in southeastern Australia.

However, General Fernandez ordered the seven mechanized infantry divisions of the reinforced Allied forces to immediately go to the front line to take over the defense of several major defense areas. The reason for the original Australian Allied defense was very reasonable and sufficient, "Lieutenant General Barry Hersman

, your troops are the elite of the Allied Forces, and the commanding skills of the American generals are also very superb. Therefore, when used on the front-line battlefield, they can give the Japanese army a heavy defeat!"

"I very much look forward to the fact that under the command of the general, the Allied reinforcements can create brilliant achievements and change our current passive situation!" Facing Lieutenant General Barry Hersman who kept shaking his head, General Fernandez said very sincerely

He said it, but everyone could smell the sour taste in his words.

In the view of Lieutenant General Barry Hersman, the Japanese army is maintaining a constant small-scale offensive posture. Under such circumstances, it is definitely not a wise move for troops to change defenses. If it goes wrong, when hundreds of thousands of troops take over the defense, they will be

The Japanese army took the opportunity to break through the position!

But he had no choice at all. At least for now, he was still a subordinate of General Fernandez, so he could only reluctantly order his seven divisions to march north from Canberra at starry night, with hundreds of thousands of Allied soldiers.

headed for the war zone.

More than ten days later, an order from the Supreme Allied Headquarters finally changed the selection of the supreme commander of the Australian Allied Forces. In the order, U.S. Army Lieutenant General Barry Hersman was appointed as the supreme commander of the Australian Allied Forces.

General Fernandez, the former supreme commander of the British Army, assumes the position of deputy commander-in-chief. It is considered that the positions of two people are reversed.

However, the position of chief of staff of the Australian Allied Forces Command did not fall on MacArthur as he had expected. Instead, the original chief of staff, British Lieutenant General Wagner, continued to serve, while Lieutenant General MacArthur, who was actively planning a comeback, remained in office.

He is standing still, taking up the dispensable position of leader of the Allied Forces Headquarters' Australian Theater Observation Team. This appointment can be said to be relatively sudden.

I don’t know what kind of deal Roosevelt and Churchill reached, or whether people had to bow their heads under the roof. The British Empire’s government-in-exile, with thousands of people, relies on the charity of Americans to support them, regardless of the Americans.

Look, okay?

Anyway, the dilapidated British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill compromised and gave up the supreme command of the Australian Allied Forces whether out of willingness or not. Of course, Churchill, who never did business at a loss, should have got it from Roosevelt.

I don’t know what the satisfactory thing is exactly!

Lieutenant General Barry Hersman and General Fernandez were in very complicated moods, but they were able to accept the reality. Only Lieutenant General MacArthur, who was jumping up and down, lost the most miserably, gained nothing, and became a stranger inside and outside. Fernandez was extremely

He hated himself so much that Barry Hersman kept him at arm's length and ignored him. It seemed that MacArthur's life in Australia was even worse than before.

According to the U.S. military police responsible for guarding the security of the residences of senior Allied generals, it was widely reported that on the day they arrived at the Allied Forces Command in Australia under the orders of the Allied Forces Headquarters, Lieutenant General MacArthur, who always paid attention to his own image and regarded himself as a gentleman, learned the news.

, locked himself in a mansion in the city, got extremely drunk, and cursed at the Melbourne January night sky like a madman for most of the night.

The vulgar language came out like a barrage, shaking the roof, cursing heaven and earth, cursing Roosevelt, cursing Churchill, cursing the British, cursing the U.S. Congress and the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and even scolding Lieutenant Colonel Barry Hersman.

The general also smashed many valuable items that had been taken by force, so that the American military police on guard were so surprised that they almost lost their breath!

The first batch of seven Allied divisions to reinforce the Australian battlefield, in accordance with previous orders from the Australian Allied Command, are rapidly heading to the defense lines of the Flinders Mountains and the Barrier Mountains. In Orange, where the Australian Allied Command is located, the former

The commander, General Fernandez, was handing over the relevant command authority to the successor commander, Lieutenant General Barry Hersman, with extremely complicated emotions.

The transfer of command was relatively smooth. General Fernandez, who knew that the situation was over, was not cautious enough to hinder his successor in a major matter involving the life and death of the Allied Forces, and acted very cooperatively. This actually made things difficult for him.

The uneasy Lieutenant General Barry Hersman felt increasingly ashamed of his former boss and ally for showing enough respect to General Fernandez!

Now, Lieutenant General Balihersman finally has the power to command the Australian Allied Forces to fight according to his own deployment. However, the seven divisions that have begun to enter the Ferrinders Mountains and Barrier Mountains defensive line theaters are unable to If we make further deployment adjustments, we can only let nature take its course!

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