Age of Conquest Reborn

"The meeting will begin soon!" Nan Yunzhong nodded and said, "I am rushing to Honiara, just to get familiar with the current situation of the combined fleet as soon as possible!"

More than a hundred senior officers of the combined fleet had rushed back to the conference room in advance, waiting for the arrival of their new boss. When they saw General Long Xiang of Nan Yunzhong walking in, they all stood up and shouted: "Welcome to your Excellency, Commander."

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Nagumo Tadashi had a stiff smile on his wooden face, waved his hand, motioned the officers to take their seats, and said: "Admiral Yamamoto, the former commander of the Combined Fleet, is the most outstanding commander of the Imperial Navy. I myself have

I am very honored to have participated in a series of combat operations against the U.S. Navy's Pacific Fleet under the command of General Yamamoto. Now General Yamamoto feels unwell and is temporarily staying in China to recuperate!"

"Therefore, the base camp has given me the important task of commander of the Combined Fleet. Commander Yamamoto has left the best tradition to the Combined Fleet. We should continue to carry it forward, but I want to remind you that from now on,

, the commander of the combined fleet is Nagumo Chuichi!"

"Okay, the regular meeting is over. The fleet commanders and department heads at all levels of the headquarters will stay. The remaining officers can adjourn the meeting and return to their respective jobs!"

That's it. The more than a hundred senior officers who were about to listen to the new commander's long speech were all dumbfounded. It seemed that Commander Nagumo Chuichi didn't say anything. He just emphasized Commander Yamamoto's achievements and was confused?

Nagumo Chuichi has been idle at home for many years and has long become an unknown figure. Most of the officers of the United Fleet have not even heard of this man's name before. They plan to find some connections in today's commander's speech.

The officers, who were preparing for an eye-catching performance in the future, couldn't help but be disappointed.

But some officers with bright minds smelled something different from the sentence "I would like to remind you that from now on, the commander of the combined fleet is Nagumo Chuichi!" In one sentence,

"With the emperor and his courtiers, the Combined Fleet will change, and the cards will be reshuffled internally. At least, until Admiral Yamamoto recovers from his illness, the Combined Fleet will be ruled by Chuichi Nagumo!"

General Nagumo Tadashi kept saying "Commander Yamamoto," and Chief of Staff Matsuda felt his heart twisting as he heard the inside story. He even heard a different meaning in those crucial words, and he couldn't help but think dejectedly.

Said: "It is not yet known whether the combined fleet can continue to be glorious in the future!"

At the next higher-level military meeting, Admiral Nagumo Tadashi maintained his usual cautious style and only listened carefully to each fleet commander. The specific situation of the current escort mission did not make any new instructions at the meeting.

.Just a few words of instruction, "Continue to execute the original orders from the base camp. The current main mission of the combined fleet is still to focus on army escort!"

As a result, these fleet commanders were confused about the identity of the commander who came in. Unintentionally, they gave Nagumo Chuichi a layer of mystery. After the meeting, the only ones left in the conference room were

General Nagumo Chuichi and Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Matsuda.

Nagumo Chuichi had something on his mind, and Chief of Staff Matsuda felt that he had nothing to say. The two giants of the combined fleet were relatively speechless and silent for a while. After a while, Admiral Nagumo sighed and said: "

Chief of Staff Matsuda, tell me, what accident happened to General Yamamoto?"

Compared with Nagumo Chuichi who took up his new position and used two fighter groups to escort him, General Ito Genzaburo, the new commander of the Japanese Australian Front, is much more low-key. He is the first person who was transferred to Australia from the North American battlefield.

Seven Army troop transport fleets arrived at the port of Darwin in northern Australia together.

The accompanying personnel, in addition to several staff officers and a dozen guards, also included his old subordinates, Major General Akutagawa, who had just served as deputy chief of staff of the North American Combat Command. Just the day before boarding the ship in Los Angeles on the west coast of the United States, General Ito

It has been proposed to the base camp that Major General Akutagawa serve as Chief of Staff of the Imperial Australian Front Command, and it was approved.

The tens of thousands of soldiers of the Seventh Army who came all the way from the North American battlefield had no idea that they were on the same boat as the number one and number two figures of the Imperial Australian Front. General Ito did not want to be too showy, so he arrived

After arriving at the headquarters, the first thing he did was to send a long telegram to the base camp based on General Minamino's suggestion, replenishing a large amount of heavy equipment and requesting more Army aviation.

Then, in the name of the newly formed Imperial Australian Front Army Headquarters, orders were issued to the troops arriving one after another, "After arriving at the Australian battlefield, all troops will mainly rest and adapt to the local conditions in Australia. There will be no combat missions in a short period of time!"

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The second thing was that after resting for more than two hours at the headquarters, General Ito took Chief of Staff Akutagawa, as well as staff and guards, left the Darwin headquarters and rushed to the headquarters where he was fighting fiercely with the independent division troops, with continuous artillery fire.

In the battlefield of central Australia, he wanted to go to the front line in person to obtain first-hand information.

At this moment, on the battlefield in central Australia, Lieutenant General Morishita, the former commander of the Japanese Army in Australia, who was commanding his troops to engage in a fierce battle with Tang Qiusheng's troops, was extremely disappointed and angry. An order from the base camp completely changed everything. Not only the plan

Among them, the throne of Supreme Commander of the Imperial Australian Front was out of reach for him. Moreover, the designation of the original Australian Army was revoked, and the designation of the Army's Fourteenth Army was restored, which was placed under the command of the newly established Imperial Australian Front Headquarters.

In other words, from the moment he received the order from the base camp, he became one of several military commanders under Ito Genzaburo. He was reduced from his previous unrivaled position in Australia to an insignificant role.

The psychological gap is so huge that it is almost disappointing to the extreme!

So much so that Lieutenant General Morishita, who was clamoring for a full-scale counterattack, became discouraged and began to treat the war on the front line negatively. He did not seek no results but no mistakes. This attitude affected the emotions of the first-level commanders of the division.

, which in turn affected all Japanese troops on the battlefield in central Australia.

Tang Qiusheng's experience is so sophisticated that he is keenly aware of the changes in the Japanese troops on the front line. Although more and more Japanese troops are gathering in northern Australia, the troops used on the battlefield in central Australia are still the same. Seize the opportunity and move forward in four directions.

The independent division troops heading north began a fierce new round of offensive.

Tang Qiusheng’s order to the commanders of various offensive forces was, “Take advantage of the weak fighting spirit of the Japanese army to launch a powerful offensive against the enemy in front of you. You do not need to occupy many areas, but mainly kill and injure the effective strength of the Japanese army.

Before launching a full-scale counterattack, wipe out most of the Japanese troops on the battlefield in central Australia!"

When General Genzaburo Ito rushed to the front line with his capable command team, it was exactly when the Japanese troops suffered heavy casualties and were retreating steadily on the battlefield in central Australia.

Tang Qiuli, who had left the Phnom Penh Naval and Air Force Base in the Gulf of Thailand and returned to Yangon Division Command, received the information that Ito Genzaburo was appointed as the commander of the Japanese Australian Front. In front of Chief of Staff Zhao Yuhe, he said with a smile.

: "Ito Kenzaburo, I'm an old acquaintance. We fought in the Yunnan-Burma battlefield before. At that time, Ito Kenzaburo was commanding the Japanese Southern China Expeditionary Force, but he didn't get any favors!"

"Forward the original text of this information to Deputy Commander Tang. He is more familiar with Ito Yanzaburo. At the beginning, it was Deputy Commander Tang who commanded the Southeast Mobile Corps and the 29th Corps to drive Ito Yanzaburo and hundreds of thousands of Japanese troops.

The Savage Mountain at the junction of Yunnan and Myanmar, and the one who drove out the Indo-China Peninsula, he is more familiar with Ito Genzaburo's techniques than I am!"

The Japanese naval combined fleet still focuses on escorting. The number of Japanese troops arriving on the Australian battlefield has exceeded one million, but they have not been invested in the central Australian battlefield. Generally speaking, the Australian battlefield is still roughly the same as before. However,

In recent days, the offensive of the independent division troops has been strengthened, and the Japanese army has only suffered losses. The overall change has not been much.

The Australian battlefield has not changed much, but the North American battlefield, which has been silent for several months, has once again ignited the flames of war. Following the instructions of the head of state Hitler, more than one million Japanese troops were forced away, leaving the commander of the German South American Army Group without any worries.

Marshal Rommel could no longer hold back his murderous aura and began to fight against the Americans.

At the end of July, Rommel commanded more than four million elite German troops to launch a full-line offensive into the northern and eastern United States from Denver, Cheyenne and other places in the center, and Austin, Abilene and other places in the south.

The German South American Army Group, which had been recuperating for a long time, under the command of Rommel, was obviously going to decide the outcome with one blow. It was like thunder. The German Seventh Army Group Army and Eighth Army Group on the south road

, the Ninth Army, the Eleventh Army, the Twelfth Army, the Thirteenth Army, the Fifteenth Army, the Sixteenth Army and other units fought fiercely with the U.S. Army on the Oklahoma, Little Rock, and Jackson lines.

The rest of the troops in the center fought fiercely with the U.S. and Canadian troops on the Lincoln, Topeka, and Kensington lines. In addition to the two main offensive directions, Rommel also used five army groups to attack the northern United States.

Bismarck, Peel, Williston and other places, launched attacks, aiming directly at the U.S.-Canada border in the northern United States, thereby threatening the U.S. wartime capital of Duluth.

Rommel's violent attack immediately put great pressure on the US and Canadian forces. The situation in the eastern battlefield was still sustainable. After all, there was a vast and deep area that could offset the German offensive. However, the situation in the northern battlefield was not optimistic, especially in the northern battlefield.

The wartime capital of Duluth was about to be exposed to the spearhead of the German attack.

Restricted by the U.S.-Canada border, it is impossible for the U.S. and Canadian troops to maneuver on a large scale and defend point by point. The Canadians obviously do not want to lead the war to their own country. On several battlefields, the northern part of the country is fighting.

The fighting was the most intense, and the U.S. military suffered the heaviest casualties.

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