Age of Conquest Reborn

"We will definitely invest in the middle line battlefield!" Zhao Yuhe replied firmly. ∮

"Based on that?" Tang Qiuli asked calmly.

Zhao Yuhe explained: "It's very simple. The direct troops left Western Australia and captured Sanggu and Mandola. This has exposed the campaign plan. Ito Yanzaburo will immediately judge that our army is now on the center line battlefield.

The troops have been greatly weakened!"

"The fact is indeed true. Only Commander Feng's Niangziguan garrison is on the center line battlefield now. Therefore, in order to break the siege of the Japanese army on the west line, Ito Yanzaburo must first repel our troops on the center line, and then he can allocate troops.

Reinforce the Japanese troops on the Western Front!"

"However, the Japanese troops on the center line were severely defeated in the MacDonnell Mountains and were pursued for hundreds of kilometers by our army, resulting in serious troop losses. Therefore, the Japanese troops who had just arrived on the Australian battlefield were assembled in order to gain an advantage in strength!

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"What if the ultimate goal of this part of the Japanese army is to reinforce the Japanese army on the Western Front?" Tang Qiuli said thoughtfully: "Or, is it directly used to attack Sanggu and Mandola to open a retreat channel for the Japanese Army on the Western Front?"

"Absolutely impossible!" Zhao Yuhe denied it completely, "Sir, Ito Yanzaburo would never make such a stupid decision. You see..."

Zhao Yuhe walked to the military map, pointed to the positions of Sangu and Mandola and said: "From Mount Molloy and Cooktown, the current starting point of the Japanese army, to Sangu and Mandola on the western front, we must

Across the Australian continent, a distance of more than 1,600 kilometers, even if the Japanese army marched fully mechanized, they would not be able to reach the battlefield on the Western Front in less than ten days. This period does not include rest breaks!"

"Does Genzaburo Ito think that the Japanese army on the western front can sustain it for more than ten days under the attack from both sides of our direct corps and the Sulu Mobile Force?"

"The analysis makes sense!" Tang Qiuli already agreed with Zhao Yuhe's analysis. No matter how you look at it, deploying troops from the east coast of Australia to rescue the Japanese troops on the western front is a far-reaching effort to cross Australia.

Is it that easy to march across more than 1,600 kilometers on the mainland, even if it is all mechanized?

However, Tang Qiuli was still highly alert to the more than 80,000 Japanese troops with unknown purposes. No matter which battlefield this Japanese army was deployed on, it would bring uncertain variables, "Yu He, give it to Deputy Commander Tang and his direct subordinates."

The commanders of each brigade of the Corps sent a telegram that this battle on the Western Front must end within ten days!"

"Commander, what are you most worried about? Ito put more than 80,000 Japanese troops, marching more than 1,600 kilometers, into the battlefield on the Western Front?" Zhao Yuhe somewhat disapproved of the division commander's order.

"Be careful and you won't make a big mistake!" Tang Qiuli said calmly: "The sooner the western front campaign ends, the more mobile troops we will have. Joining the central and eastern battlefields will play a decisive role.

As if to add a little mystery to the analysis just made by Tang Qiuli and Zhao Yuhe, Ge Zhenzhuang, director of the division's staff department, walked in with a telegram and said: "Division commander, chief of staff, just received a message from Feng Zhenzhuang.

The commander's telegram. After many days of defense on the central battlefield, the Japanese troops suddenly launched a counterattack against the Niangziguan garrison troops from multiple directions two hours ago. Commander Feng is commanding the troops to fight back against the Japanese troops!"

"Sir...!" Zhao Yuhe shouted urgently.

Tang Qiuli waved his hand, stopped Zhao Yuhe's words, and said to Ge Zhenzhuang: "Director Ge, call Commander Feng back. You have received all the information about the call. We can deal with it according to the previously established plan! Also, there are more than 80,000 Japanese troops, maybe

Report the situation of joining the center line battlefield to Commander Feng!"

Australia's center-line battlefield, Freville, is where the headquarters of the Niangziguan Garrison Corps of the Independent Division is located. Senior generals including the division's artillery commander Major General Zheng Yong are here. Zhang Hansheng, chief of staff of the corps, is reporting the battlefield situation to Feng Jiwu, "At five o'clock this morning

At any moment, the Japanese army, which had been on the defensive, suddenly launched a counterattack against our corps from the directions of Camuvel, Hallegel, Parkrik, Granitz and other directions. The Japanese army's offensive was very fierce and they took a desperate posture.

Got it!"

"What is the current combat situation of the brigades in our corps?" Feng Jiwu asked calmly.

Zhang Hansheng curled his lips and said contemptuously: "My defeated general is still fighting against us. He is asking for trouble. It has been more than two hours since the fight. In addition to leaving corpses everywhere, the little devil also

No progress has been made! The commanders of the brigades of the forward troops requested that we launch a counterattack immediately. Maybe we can hit Darwin in one fell swoop!"

Feng Jiwu smiled and was about to speak when the director of the communications department of the Corps came in and reported: "Please call me back!"

Feng Jiwu took the telegram, read it carefully, then frowned, shook the telegram in his hand, and said: "Where did I get the confidence to say Ito Yanzaburo? Look, this is the enemy situation report from the division commander. From

More than 80,000 people were transferred from the east coast, and the division commander judged that the Japanese troops in this unit may join the center-line battlefield!" With that, he handed the telegram to Zhang Hansheng.

After reading the telegram, Zhang Hansheng's face became serious and said: "Commander, more than 80,000 Japanese troops are a large force. It is also a mechanized march. We will reach the central battlefield in five days at the latest. What should we do now?"

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Feng Jiwu showed no signs of nervousness at all and said: "The reason why the Japanese army suddenly launched a counterattack must be the knife inserted in the back by the division commander, which cut off the retreat of hundreds of thousands of Japanese troops on the Western Front. Old Japanese Ito wants to fight us desperately, just to kill us."

Let's repel it and then free up our hands to reinforce the Japanese troops on the western front!"

"We don't want to compete with him, Commander Zheng. My opinion is to concentrate all artillery fire to repel the Japanese attack, and then launch a sudden counterattack to push the Japanese back. Then, while the little Japs are busy, the troops

Evacuate south immediately!"

"If Old Devil Ito commands the troops to catch up, he might as well set up a position in the McDonnell Mountains, and maybe there can be a beautiful ambush! What do you think?"

Zheng Yong was delighted and replied: "I am now under the command of Commander Feng. You decide how to fight and I will do it! Anyway, it would be troublesome to retreat south with so many artillery shells. It is better to give them all to the little Japanese to save worry."

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On the central battlefield, the Japanese troops attacking from multiple fronts were suddenly attacked by artillery fire from the Independent Division that was several times more violent than before. Countless artillery shells roared and fell on the charging Japanese troops, causing the battlefield to be filled with smoke and sparkling fire.

, the explosion caused the Japanese soldiers to fly bloody and chaotic.

After receiving the report, General Ito gritted his teeth and pulled out the last five and prepared Italian 150mm heavy artillery to fight back, but they still could not suppress the artillery fire of the independent division's artillery group. Instead, they were suppressed, causing considerable losses.

But General Ito became jealous and gave the order to the attacking troops, "No matter the cost, we must maintain the momentum of counterattack!"

The determination was good and they had the courage to fight, but they could not change the situation on the battlefield. The Japanese army, which was under heavy shelling, could no longer maintain the momentum of the attack and retreated across the board. At this moment, Feng Jiwu's Niangziguan garrison regiment

Suddenly a full-scale counterattack began.

More than a dozen infantry brigades and five or six tank brigades, chasing the explosion point of the extended artillery fire, fiercely pounced on the retreating Japanese army. In one fell swoop, General Ito deployed all his troops and launched a counterattack, which was overwhelming.

Fall, and the roles of offense and defense are suddenly reversed.

On the phone, General Ito yelled at the commanders of the Japanese armies on the center battlefield, ordering them to resolutely fight off the counterattack of the China Independent Division regardless of casualties. General Ito could not afford to fail. This time the counterattack,

It was not only to repel the independent division troops on the center battlefield, but also had a more important campaign purpose, to capture Granitz and open up a way out for hundreds of thousands of imperial soldiers on the western front.

Even though it was a road that needed to cross a large desert, it was almost a dead end. Hundreds of thousands of imperial soldiers walked into the endless desert. Even Ito Fleet himself did not dare to think how many people would come out alive.

But that is not a dead end after all. As long as there is support at the eastern foot of the Dasha Desert, the imperial soldiers on the Western Front battlefield have a very good chance of making it out alive. And Granitz is just a short distance away from the eastern foot of the Dasha Desert.

The edge, the nearest important town, must be captured!

General Ito had to work hard at all costs. Deep down in his heart, he did not have much hope that the Western Front troops could break through the independent division troops, block the attack on the Sanggu and Mandola lines, and successfully withdraw northward.

He knew that Tang Qiuli, the devil of China, was a cunning and dangerous man with ruthless tactics. Since he dared to divert most of the troops from the central battlefield and suddenly devoted them to the western battlefield, it meant that this damned Chinaman had

With sufficient preparation, they will never let go of the hundreds of thousands of imperial soldiers on the Western Front battlefield. How can Sanggu and Mandola be easily broken through?

As for the urgent deployment of more than 80,000 troops from the east coast of Australia to rescue the western front, he still had a glimmer of hope that the imperial troops on the western front could break through Sangu and Mandola. If possible, General Ito would never order the western front.

Hundreds of thousands of Imperial soldiers on the Western Front battlefield took the dangerous road of the Great Desert, but he subconsciously felt that maybe this was the route that hundreds of thousands of Imperial soldiers must take on the Western Front battlefield!

General Ito took out several incompletely organized armies located on the second line after just a few days' rest, and threw them into the counterattack on the center line battlefield. This was his last capital, and the troops behind the Japanese army on the center line hurriedly

When they caught up, the independent division troops that had pushed the Japanese troops back continuously, under the cover of a burst of fierce artillery fire, suddenly began to withdraw southward across the entire line. Moreover, the withdrawal was smooth and neat.

By the time the stunned Japanese commanders came to their senses, Feng Jiwu's Niangziguan garrison had already left the battlefield and was more than 20 kilometers away, but they did not dare to order their troops to pursue them.

In fact, it was impossible to pursue them. They had just received a severe beating. The troops were blown up by artillery shells from the Chinese troops and were in disarray. They could not be gathered together for a while. What's more, the Japanese commanders had no way of judging. They were always cunning and independent.

Division troops suddenly retreated, is this another conspiracy?

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