Age of Conquest Reborn

With a "pop!", the commander of the Japanese Australian Front, General Ito Genzaburo, slammed the tea cup to the ground, and in front of the chief of staff, Major General Akutagawa, he yelled at General Nagumo Chuichi, "Baga! Nagumo Chuichi!

The old bastard, he just let go of the air defense in northern Australia without even asking for permission in advance. No, I will truthfully report the matter to the base camp and ask the base camp to punish him!"

What made Admiral Ito furious was not just that the combined fleet did not even say hello, but went to carry out the latest mission of the Naval Command, leaving the air defense portal in northern Australia open, and there were 50,000 Imperial Army soldiers.

Although the naval fleet was escorting, all of them were destroyed in the waters of the Solomon Islands. When he learned the bad news, Admiral Ito was so heartbroken that he almost fainted.

Two elite Imperial Army divisions that fought hard in the North American battlefield would be of great use if they were deployed on the Australian middle battlefield. But Nagumo Chuichi, an old bastard, didn't even have a single explanation for the ineffective naval escort.

Isn't it his responsibility to cause heavy losses to the Imperial Army?

Now, they are acting without warning. They have not even left time for the Australian Front Aviation Command to deploy troops in northern Australia. Also, once they lose the deterrent effect of the combined fleet, they will be entrenched on Irian Island and opposite Australia.

It is uncertain whether the hundreds of thousands of troops of the China Independent Division on the Java Islands will cross the Timor Sea and the Arafura Sea and attack Australia from behind.

This is really unreasonable. Ever since he joined the imperial world, he has never seen a commander who has such disregard for the overall situation. General Ito even suspected that there was no latest mission of the Navy Command at all. It was entirely up to that old bastard Chuichi Nagumo to do his own thing.

No matter how you say it, the Combined Fleet is still under the control of the Australian Front Command in name only. But you don’t even know what the Combined Fleet is doing?

Admiral Ito is so cruel that even if he uses his own future as a bargaining chip and fights against the commander of the Imperial Australian Front, he still has to expel Chuichi Nagumo, an old bastard, from his position as the commander of the Navy Combined Fleet. Otherwise,

Maybe I will be pissed off by this old bastard?

The Chief of Staff, Major General Akutagawa, remained silent while his superiors roared angrily. Seeing that His Excellency the General's face was twisted with anger and turned livid, he opened the drawer, took out a pen and paper, and wanted to send a telegram to the base camp, so he said:

"Commander, please calm down, the staff has something to say!"

"Huh?" General Ito looked up at him angrily and said, "Akutagawa-kun, if you want to persuade me, don't do it. I have made up my mind. Nagumo Chuichi must be responsible for the incident of 50,000 Imperial Army soldiers being broken into pieces!

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"Haha!" Chief of Staff Akutagawa chuckled. Then he said: "Commander, General Nagumo is a member of the navy. If you want to move him, it will not be easy. Even if you send a telegram to the base camp, I'm afraid there won't be any.

What result!"

"Shouldn't the old bastard Nagumo Chuichi be fully responsible for the destruction of 50,000 Imperial Army soldiers in the waters of the Solomon Islands?" Admiral Ito shouted in anger, but his tone did not contain the angry bullfighting tone just now.

Momentum, he knew that Major General Akutagawa was telling the truth.

Chief of Staff Akutagawa heard the helplessness in his superior's tone, and further analyzed: "What the Ministry of Staff means is that the matter of fifty thousand Imperial Army soldiers being broken into pieces is not a trivial matter, and it will definitely attract the attention of the General Staff Headquarters and the Army Ministry.

You don’t need to express any opinions, the base camp will not let Nagumo Chuichi go!"

"For you to send such a telegram to the base camp at this time, it is suspected of adding insult to injury, or may cause dissatisfaction among the navy. Therefore, the staff's suggestion is to wait and see what happens. The top priority now is to make up for the loss of the combined fleet as soon as possible.

The evacuation resulted in a situation of empty air defense in northern Australia!"

General Ito looked at Chief of Staff Akutagawa for a long time, and then sighed: "Okay, let's follow Akutagawa-kun's advice and send a telegram to Aviation Commander Okazaki, ordering him to immediately start deploying air defense in northern Australia.

, if there is another plane from the China Independent Division bombing the northern ports of Australia, I will only ask him!"

The night is dark, the wind is rising, and huge waves are rising in the southwest Pacific. The Independent Division fleet is sailing in the direction of Luzon and Mindanao in the wind and waves. The fleet is not very fast. In the command cabin of the flagship "Chang Long", the fleet commander

Lieutenant General Tang Qiuquan, deputy commander Lieutenant General Amosyev, chief of staff Major General Ge Zhenzhuang, deputy chief of staff Colonel Tang Yunfei, and other officers of the headquarters were all present.

Although it is already late at night, no one is sleepy. The fleet is using it as bait to catch the big fish of the Japanese Navy Combined Fleet in order to implement the second phase of the campaign plan. This in itself is a very dangerous thing. If it is

The combined fleet bites. With the current strength of the fleet, it is not enough to squeeze through the teeth. The gap in strength is obvious!

Even though it took less than a day to completely annihilate the Japanese Fourth Fleet in the waters of the Solomon Islands, Tang Qiuquan and others felt like they were in the dark. Without the land-based aviation mixed combat brigade commanded by Le Yiqin, they would not have been able to survive the first round of attack.

In the battle, almost all the Japanese carrier-based aircraft were killed. In the next battle, even if the above results are achieved, the fleet's losses will not be small. With the strength of the Japanese Fourth Fleet, it is not difficult to fight to the death of both sides!

Therefore, to grasp the distance from the main force of the Japanese Navy's combined fleet, one needs to be very precise in order not to let Nagumo Chuichi lose his trace, but also to prevent him from being bitten. Tang Yunfei has arranged a large number of reconnaissance aircraft. So far,

, no trace of the Japanese combined fleet has been found, and even Tang Yunfei personally flew a fighter plane to conduct reconnaissance, but he did not find it.

Now, the fleet commanders sitting dullly in the command cabin are all wondering in their hearts whether the Japanese Navy's combined fleet has dispatched, and whether the plan of using people as bait has worked?

A staff officer pushed the door in, glanced at the silent commanders, whispered something in the ear of Chief of Staff Ge Zhenzhuang, and then Ge Zhenzhuang frowned. After the staff officer went out, Ge Zhenzhuang said: "Commander

, Deputy Commander, we have just received a report from the minesweeper detachment that a Japanese Lu-class submarine was found about fifteen nautical miles behind our fleet, following the fleet. They asked for instructions whether to sink it?"

"Huh?" Tang Qiuquan and Amosiev looked at each other, and then asked: "When was it discovered? Is this the only one?"

Ge Zhenzhuang replied: "Two hours ago, the submarine hunting detachment discovered the target. So far, they have discovered this one. According to the report of the submarine hunting detachment, it should be the Japanese Fourth Fleet that slipped through the net!"

"Why didn't you report it until now?" Tang Qiuquan was dissatisfied.

Ge Zhenzhuang explained: "The submarine hunting detachment needs time to confirm the model and location of the Japanese submarine so that it can sink it quickly after receiving the order!"

"Deputy Commander, what do you think?" Tang Qiuquan asked Amoshiev, with a cunning light shining in his eyes.

"Don't you have an idea?" Amosiyev also asked a riddle.

"Hahaha!" Tang Qiuquan laughed and said: "Zhenzhuang, order the submarine hunting detachment not to disturb the tail, let alone let it notice that we have discovered it, just let the tail continue to follow, it will be of great use!"

"In addition, please ask the division commander's intelligence office to assist in finding out whether all the warships of the Japanese naval combined fleet in various ports in northern Australia have left the port and where they are going? And please ask the intelligence office to pay close attention to their movements. If you have any information, you can directly contact the fleet.

Contact the Intelligence Department!”

When he received the telegram from the Fleet Headquarters about the victory in the waters of the Solomon Islands, Tang Qiuli commanded the regiment directly under his command and had already arrived in the Mabubar area of ​​Western Australia. After several days of hard march, the troops had walked out of the edge of the Great Sandy Desert.

, saw the green plains as far as the eye could see. The soldiers who had been tortured by the desert edge landscape for several days in a row were in high spirits, and the marching speed of the troops was obviously faster!

The first to fourth brigades of the vanguard were less than a day away from the planned attack targets of Sanggu and Mandola. According to the intelligence detected by the Chutian Special Forces Detachment, there were two attacks in Sanggu and Mandola.

, each is defended by a Japanese brigade, with a strength of approximately 20,000 people. The terrain is open and there is no solid defense system, making it a difficult-to-defend and easy-to-attack target.

The more than 400,000 Japanese troops on the Western Front are in an offensive posture. There is no need to build a solid defense system at two unimportant targets. In addition, that area is already the Japanese rear area, and they would not have thought that there would be an independent force.

The division's most elite field troops came across from the center.

Tang Qiuli used four mechanized brigades and more than 60,000 people to launch an attack. It was a killing of chickens with a sledgehammer. He used the fastest movements and the most ferocious attacks to capture Sanggu and Mandola in the shortest time. Then, the troops moved along the

As this line unfolds, before the Japanese troops on the west route can react, block their retreat, and attack from front and back with Tang Qiusheng's Sulu Mobile Corps to annihilate the Japanese troops on this route.

Chief of Staff Zhao Yuhe sent the telegram from the fleet to Tang Qiuli. He read it carefully several times by the light of the car and said: "Great news, the Japanese Fourth Fleet has been completely wiped out in one battle.

, my losses were slight, this battle can be included in the classic battles of our army!"

"With Chuichi Nagumo's character, even if he doesn't get angry, the goal of dragging the Japanese naval combined fleet in the southwest Pacific should be achieved! Tamawa, in the name of the division commander, issued an order to commend the fleet!"

"Commander, the fleet is using itself as a bait to attract the Japanese Navy's combined fleet. This is a dangerous move!" Zhao Yuhe said worriedly: "The comparison between the two sides is too great. Commander, do you want to send a telegram to remind the fleet headquarters?"

one time?"

"No need!" Tang Qiuli said without hesitation: "The division commander will not interfere with the fleet's battle plan. What I am most concerned about now is when the first to fourth brigades will launch an attack on the target.

Once we leave the edge of the desert, the whereabouts of the troops may be exposed!"

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