Age of Conquest Reborn

More than five hours later, it was already past nine o'clock in the morning. The armored command vehicle Yu Guanghan was riding in drove across the bullet-riddled Lachlan River Bridge and drove onto the east bank land littered with bomb craters and the broken corpses of Japanese soldiers.

It has not yet dissipated. Under the bright sunshine of a June morning in South Australia, traces of the aftermath of a great war can be seen everywhere.\\

"Are the statistics on the results of the battle up?" Yu Guanghan asked as the armored command vehicle was bumpy and the deputy director of the corps' operations department arrived.

"Preliminary results statistics are out. After more than five hours of fighting, our army annihilated the entire 40th Division of the Japanese Army. Among them, more than 14,000 people, including Lieutenant General Suzuki, the division commander, were killed and captured.

More than 3,000 people were killed!" the deputy director of the Operations Department replied accurately.

"Huh?" Yu Guanghan was greatly confused, "The numbers don't add up. The full strength of the 40th Division of the Little Devil should be about 22,000 people. How come your statistics only add up to 17,000 people?"

There are more than a thousand people, and the remaining five thousand people have escaped?"

The deputy director of the Operations Department explained with a wry smile: "At first, the Operations Department also thought that more than 5,000 Japanese troops took the opportunity to escape. Later, after investigation, it was not the case at all. Our ground artillery fire was all large-caliber heavy artillery. What was that?

The power, especially the salvo of rocket launchers, burned many Japanese soldiers to ashes. Coupled with the subsequent bombing by the aviation bomber group, heavy aviation bombs covered all directions. The more than 5,000 Japanese soldiers who were not worthy of the number were left without bones.

There’s no way to keep statistics!”

"Hahaha!" Yu Guanghan laughed self-deprecatingly and said: "Send a telegram to the Australian Campaign Command and Commander Battle. Our troops in the Adelaide direction. After more than five hours of fighting, the fourth Japanese army was completely annihilated.

There are more than 22,000 people in the Tenth Division, starting with Division Commander Suzuki and below. No one has escaped the net! Now, the troops are cleaning the battlefield and waiting for the next order!"

When Yu Guanghan sent the telegram, the battles in Boaodun and Ararat had ended successfully an hour ago. The main forces of the Japanese 43rd and 45th Divisions had not escaped and were surrounded.

The fate of annihilation. In comparison, it will fall faster.

Tang Qiusheng used eight main field brigades with more than 130,000 troops to strengthen three tank brigades, three artillery brigades, eight rocket launcher battalions, and fire support from naval carrier-based aircraft units to deal with the Japanese army.

The main force of the two divisions, with less than 40,000 troops, launched the attack with an absolute advantage. The tactics adopted were outflanking by the left and right wings and a frontal assault.

The commander of the 43rd Division of the Japanese Army, Lieutenant General Temple, was killed in the battle. The nearly 20,000 Japanese troops of the 43rd Division were wiped out. The commander of the 45th Division, Lieutenant General Tomosaka, was wounded and captured. Nearly 20,000 Japanese troops were killed.

Except for most of the soldiers who died in the battle, the rest were all captured.

At this point, the independent division's Australian campaign force's South Australia encirclement and annihilation campaign came to an end. In this battle, Lieutenant General Tang Qiusheng, commander of the independent division's Australian campaign command, dispatched twelve mechanized infantry brigades, five tank brigades, five artillery brigades, and

The air force and naval carrier-based aircraft units affiliated to the Corps launched rapid and violent attacks on the three main divisions of the Japanese army on three battlefields.

The participating troops of the Sulu Mobile Regiment of the Independent Division, at a small cost, achieved a record of wiping out more than 50,000 Japanese troops and capturing more than 6,000 people. Since the landing, the troops of the Independent Division first conquered Adelaide and Melbourne, and then,

Give full play to the spirit of continuous combat and wipe out the main force of the Japanese army in southern Australia in one fell swoop. Since then, there has been no main force of the Japanese army in southern Australia, and the rest are nothing more than some second-rate local garrison troops!

At noon that day, Tang Qiusheng issued an order, "The troops of the Australian Campaign Command will immediately disperse to various parts of southern Australia in regiments. They will use about two weeks to clear out the Japanese local garrison, destroy the Japanese and puppet local governments, and stabilize the rear!"

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Tang Qiusheng struggled internally with issuing such an order. According to the original Australian campaign plan, the troops should quickly advance to central and northern Australia at this moment, trying to push the front to northern Australia before the Japanese base camp could react.

But Tang Qiusheng looked at the map of the Australian continent and gave up his original plan. Australia's territory was too vast. The twenty mechanized infantry brigades under his command, with nearly 400,000 troops, would be spread across each occupied area.

, I’m afraid, not even one battalion has enough troops.

Although the four main divisions and three aviation groups of the Japanese army in southern Australia have been completely wiped out, there are still Japanese local garrisons in various places. If we advance north now, the rear will be unstable and everything left behind will be hidden dangers. Tang Qiusheng

He absolutely didn't want to have his troops fighting in the front, but the rear area was messed up by these second-rate Japanese troops. The rear area was unstable. How could he fight at the front with peace of mind? Therefore, he had to spend more than two weeks and all his troops to stabilize the rear area.

In the city of Darwin in northern Australia, Lieutenant General Morishita, commander of the Japanese Army in Australia and commander of the Eleventh Army, received the news that all three divisions in the south had been wiped out by the independent divisions, and a mouthful of blood spattered out.

The main force of nearly 100,000 people was wiped out in less than two days. The entire army stationed in Australia only had a strength of more than 200,000 people, and nearly one-half of it was lost in one fell swoop.

, what can be done to resist the hundreds of thousands of troops of the China Independent Division that will inevitably advance north?

After calming down his emotions, Lieutenant General Morishita's face turned sallow. He steeled himself and sent a telegram to the base camp to report the unfortunate news. In the telegram, Lieutenant General Morishita asked for punishment, stating that it was the loss of the imperial troops of the four southern Australian divisions.

Take full responsibility and be willing to accept any punishment from the base camp!

After defeating the battle and losing nearly 100,000 troops, he certainly had to bear the responsibility, but in Lieutenant General Morishita's heart, that was not entirely the case. He always believed that the four divisions of the Australian Southern Empire, the headquarters of

should bear primary responsibility.

When Adelaide was attacked by the independent division troops, he sent a telegram to the base camp. When Melbourne was attacked, he sent a second telegram, both emergency telegrams, requesting instructions from the base camp. If the base camp was in the shortest time,

Call back within a certain period of time and give clear instructions as to whether Adelaide and Melbourne must be recaptured or whether to retreat temporarily.

Otherwise, I would definitely not have ordered the 40th Division, the 43rd Division and the 45th Division to stay in place for a day and a half, so that they would be surrounded by heavy troops from the China Independent Division and end up alone.

The ending where everyone is shattered.

At least, I can issue an order to gather the imperial troops of the three divisions together, or to withdraw to the central area of ​​Australia first to avoid the offensive edge of the independent divisions. To be fair, Lieutenant General Morishita is a little bit resentful.

As a senior commander, if you are unable to grasp the accurate situation on the battlefield and see the huge dangers faced by your troops, you are derelict in your duty or lack of ability.

Therefore, Lieutenant General Morishita wrote at the end of the telegram, "In summary, the loss of the Imperial Army's troops in southern Australia is not all my fault, but I am willing to bear full responsibility. I only make the following suggestions. Australia is responsible for

There is no room for loss in this fundamental important area of ​​the Empire's North American War. If it falls into the hands of the Chinese, the Empire's victory in the North American War will be hopeless. Therefore, it is recommended that the base camp mobilize all its forces to annihilate the China Independent Division and the Australian continent!"

Lieutenant General Morishita's telegram, which seemed to be just and awe-inspiring, but was actually full of resentment, was like a stone's throw at the Japanese base camp in Tokyo. There was no response at all. What's even more strange is that there was not even a telegram to investigate the defeat in the southern battlefield of Australia. Lieutenant General Morishita

Cake, the commander of the Australian Army, is still acting well. He doesn't know why and can only speculate dullly about what happened on the mainland?

What happened on the mainland? The current situation in the Japanese base camp can be described in several idioms. It is in chaos, exhausted, and there is nothing to do. Lieutenant General Morishita's telegram failed to attract the attention of these big guys at all. They have nothing better to do than this.

The military situation, which is tens of millions of times more important, is a headache. However, the news that nearly 60,000 soldiers of the three main divisions were reduced to pieces and that the three aviation groups were completely wiped out still makes these big bosses tremble with distress.

After learning that the Independent Division troops suddenly launched an attack in Adelaide, southern Australia, not only Emperor Hirohito was petrified with shock, but all the military leaders in the base camp were also shocked.

It was scorched on the outside and tender on the inside, and there were stars flying around in the eyes. The big bosses ran into the palace on their own initiative without the need for His Majesty the Emperor to summon him.

The Japanese headquarters and Emperor Hirohito both knew clearly that the Chinese devil Tang Qiuli, who had millions of troops stationed in the Indochina Peninsula, would not be idle sooner or later. Sooner or later, he would take action against the empire's southwest Pacific occupation area. Therefore, the independent division troops could be attacked at any time.

Japan was extremely vigilant from top to bottom about any possible attack, and made the most thorough defense arrangements possible.

With Sumatra and Kalimantan as the main barriers, more than 200,000 heavy troops were deployed on the two small islands respectively in order to prevent the independent divisions from attacking. However, who could have imagined

, that damn China devil started taking action in an unexpected place - southern Australia.

Moreover, the attack was extremely ruthless. With hundreds of thousands of heavy troops supported by powerful sea and air firepower, they captured Adelaide and Melbourne in less than a day, opening two openings in southern Australia of the empire.

Big gap.

When the heavyweights from the Japanese base camp arrived at Emperor Hirohito's palace, Hirohito was already waiting for them in the conference room.

His face was ashen, and he had long since lost the high-spirited and high-spirited Emperor Hirohito he had been when the troops of the Imperial North American Operations Command were dominating the central region of the United States, leaving the Germans at a loss.

Hirohito looked at the ministers with a dull expression and said in a hoarse voice: "I have received another very bad report. The Imperial Australian Army has deployed nearly 100,000 imperial soldiers in four divisions in southern Australia.

The jade is broken!"

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