Age of Conquest Reborn

When a dozen jeeps and large trucks from the Australian Allied Forces Command turned a mountain ridge, more than 20 Japanese tanks, followed by thousands of Japanese soldiers, rushed to an open space in front of the cave. It was so dangerous.

In just over thirty minutes, the majestic U.S. Army Lieutenant General Bachlisman became a prisoner of the Japanese army. "

The Japanese soldiers began to search and soon discovered the cave. There were pieces of paper and ashes that had just been burned everywhere, bombed radio stations, and rags that were too late to clean up. The whole cave was in a mess. The Japanese commander who led the team was very worried.

With experience, he judged that this must be the location of a high-level headquarters of the Allied Forces, at least a division-level headquarters, which meant that there were big fish nearby, so he immediately reported the situation to the division headquarters.

Coincidentally, General Ito Genzaburo happened to be in the direction of the division's advance. After listening to the division commander's report, he became interested and went to the cave to check in person, including every scrap of paper with writing on it.

Yes, I looked at it very carefully and carefully.

"Gentlemen, what is certain is that the Allied commander here has just left not long ago, and he left in a very embarrassed manner. It can be seen that the Allied troops are now defeated. They immediately ordered the troops to search nearby to capture anyone alive.

!" General Ito ordered confidently.

Then, he said to Chief of Staff Kawaguchi: "Kawaguchi-kun, don't waste too much time on these allied troops that have lost their combat effectiveness. Each division has enough troops to leave one regiment. The rest of the main forces will be sent immediately.

Go to the northeast and outflank the Allied forces in a battle of annihilation. What I want is a battle of annihilation!"

Thanks to General Ito's order, the superior Japanese troops were beaten to pieces on the front line of the Flinders Mountains and the Baril Mountains. The Allied soldiers who had been trapped by the Japanese army were already desperate, and there were big holes in the defense line.

, countless Japanese soldiers surged in like rising tide. The Allied troops had long lost their original organization. They were divided into countless pieces by the Japanese army, surrounded, and awaited their fate. That is, they were captured by the Japanese army.

Or be beaten to death!

I don’t know why, but most of the Japanese soldiers surrounding them suddenly withdrew. For the Allied soldiers who were on the verge of despair, this was tantamount to surviving a desperate situation. Taking advantage of the dark night and the small number of Japanese troops surrounding them,

The Allied soldiers had been dispersed and gathered together automatically. Three groups of two walked specifically to a place where there was no road and far away from the sound of gunfire. They used various means to slip out of the Japanese encirclement.

In the northeast, after nightfall, hundreds of thousands of Allied soldiers who were still in the organic form quietly left their positions and retreated to the south. They walked in such a mess that they didn't even have time to bury the bodies of their fallen comrades.

, even discarding artillery and other heavy equipment. What they didn't know was that hundreds of thousands of Japanese soldiers were rushing towards them like hungry wolves.

As of the early morning of January 16, the troops of the 11th Allied Division in the northeast, numbering about 150,000, had been separated from the battlefield dozens of kilometers away, while the Japanese troops on the opposite side were not aware at all that their enemies were

It has slipped away, not because of the carelessness of the Japanese frontline commander, but because the headquarters has not ordered a high-intensity attack for so many days. What's more, the Allied troops, who have been suppressed by the Imperial Japanese Army, have not paid much attention to them.

in the heart of the Japanese commander.

After daybreak, the Japanese artillery began to bombard the Allied positions at the same pace as before. The bombardment lasted for more than an hour. Then, a large number of Japanese infantry began to charge. However, when the Japanese soldiers were beaten to death, they rushed forward.

When they arrived at the position, they found that there was no trace of the Allied soldiers who were beaten so hard that they could not lift their heads. They only saw empty trenches, as well as ammunition boxes and weapons and equipment that they had no time to take away.

Walking onto the empty position, the Northeastern Transfer Commander of Japan's Southwest Pacific Expeditionary Force, Lieutenant General Okada Haruki, the commander of the Ninth Army, was dumbfounded at the time and immediately reported the situation to the Expeditionary Force Headquarters. At this time,

The hundreds of thousands of Japanese troops outflanking the Allied retreat in northeastern Australia, the fastest vanguard, were still more than a day away from the scheduled battlefield.

After receiving the telegram from Lieutenant General Okada, General Ito Genzaburo was almost furious. He was not able to encircle and annihilate hundreds of thousands of Allied soldiers in northeastern Australia. This made him very angry, not because the combat attempt failed, but because

He had greatly lost face in front of his subordinates and escaped with hundreds of thousands of Allied soldiers. He was confident that he would wipe them all out in the subsequent battle, and the entire Australia would be under his control!

General Ito, who was deeply embarrassed, naturally wanted to vent the evil fire in his heart. Therefore, Lieutenant General Okada, the commander of the Northeastern battlefield, became a natural target. In addition to being dismissed from his post, he was also imprisoned by General Ito.

The gendarmerie.

As for this time, General Ito's decision to abandon the battle was also widely criticized by senior officers at the headquarters of the dispatched army. If the elite Imperial Army broke through the Allied defense lines from the direction of the Flinders Mountains and the Barrier Mountains one day ago,

The troops quickly move south to attack. I am afraid that the flag of the Japanese Empire has been planted in the land of southeastern Australia!

After learning from the painful experience, General Ito finally gave up his original plan to encircle and annihilate hundreds of thousands of Allied soldiers in the northeastern region of Australia. In fact, it could not be carried out. The expected enemies had long since disappeared without a trace. He issued an order

The entire army was ordered to rest for a day, and then the troops were divided into six groups, each with nearly 200,000 troops, and quickly moved south.

One day later, the Japanese soldiers, who had regained their energy and stamina, and with the remaining power of victory, and the murderous aura and bloodthirsty in their hearts, had been completely aroused, followed the retreating Allied soldiers, with a murderous aura soaring to the sky,

Like a flood opening, it rushed along the high mountains and narrow plains of northern Australia towards the Allied second line of defense.

The exhausted Lieutenant General Bahlisman, with his headquarters personnel, kept retreating all the way to the south. The sound of gunfire became farther and farther, but no one felt safe. During the retreat, what he saw was

The situation made this previously confident U.S. Army lieutenant general feel so heavy that he could hardly breathe.

It's very miserable. Allied soldiers who have lost their organizational structure can be seen everywhere, with blank faces and ragged clothes walking on the rugged mountain road. From time to time, they see the corpses of collapsed soldiers on the roadside, and wounded soldiers who have lost the ability to move, shouting in pain,

He asked his companions to take him with him, but the passing Allied soldiers seemed not to have seen him, and did not even glance at his seriously injured comrade.

"The army is defeated like a mountain!" Lieutenant General Bahlisman sighed and thought that all he could do was to find as many officers as possible to take care of the wounded soldiers along the way. Three days later, Bahlisman was so haggard that he almost lost his appearance.

Lieutenant General Sman finally arrived at the Allied second line of defense. At this time, General Phil Nades, deputy commander-in-chief of the Australian Allied Forces, had already established a headquarters in Berry City on the south bank of the Lachlan River.

Lieutenant General Bahlisman, with the headquarters staff, rushed to Berry without stopping. When the two met, they both felt as if they were in another world. There was less of a barrier. They probably had the same problem. Both of them were attracted by Ito Yanzaburo.

The fight was so embarrassing that no one could laugh at anyone!

In the next two days, General Fernades was busy taking in the withdrawn troops and adjusting the deployment of the second line of defense. He deliberately let Lieutenant General Bahlisman, who was beaten half to death by the Japanese, rest.

In the past few days, although I rarely had a favorable impression of Americans, especially Lieutenant General MacArthur, I still admired Lieutenant General Bahlisman who had taken over his position.

Not only was he able to safely withdraw many troops under the fierce Japanese attack, but he also ordered the Allied troops on the second line of defense to dig a large number of air-raid shelters and artillery holes, which was a prescient move.

The artillery holes will become the biggest support against the Japanese army and the trump card to save lives.

While General Fernadez was too busy to touch the ground, Lieutenant General Bachlisman, who was lying on the hospital bed, was bleeding from the pain in his heart, watching the casualties of the frontline troops reported by the staff department.

On the defense lines in southwest and northeastern Australia, there were 21 Australian Allied Divisions and nearly 450,000 troops. A few days after the Japanese launched the attack, only more than 200,000 soldiers were withdrawn from the second line of defense.

People, especially in the direction of the Flinders Mountains and the Baril Mountains, of the nearly 300,000 troops, less than 100,000 were withdrawn. Even the five divisions that had gone up for reinforcements were beaten to almost nothing.

, those who lost were all elite troops.

More than 200,000 Allied soldiers fell on the first line of defense, and the losses were extremely heavy. This made Lieutenant General Bahlisman, who was in so much pain, even more deeply worried.

The terrain conditions of the defense line are obviously not comparable to those of the first line of defense. Only the Lachlan River, Murrumbidgee River and Asle River are natural barriers.

The troops are also insufficient. Counting the withdrawn troops, the total strength is less than 300,000. Compared with the Japanese army's strength, it is more than three to one. Moreover, it does not have an advantage in equipment, and there are still losses.

air superiority, defending a front line of more than 800 kilometers,

After summarizing all aspects of the situation, the two commanders of the Australian Allied Forces, the commander-in-chief and the deputy commander, both had a deep sense of crisis. The reconnaissance troops sent out kept sending back bad news. Even in Berry City, they felt that a hundred

There were tens of thousands of Japanese soldiers, coming from the north, with murderous intent rising to the sky.

Short of troops, artillery, and no planes, the next battle would be very difficult to fight. After discussion, Lieutenant General Bahlisman and General Fernades decided to report the crisis situation on the Australian battlefield.

To Allied Headquarters.

In the telegram, they jointly proposed that if there were not enough reinforcements and a large amount of heavy equipment, especially the support of combat aircraft, Australia would fall between February and March.

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