Age of Conquest Reborn

It was impossible to rain in the desert, so where did the thunder come from? The Japanese soldiers lying on the sand opened their happy eyes and looked at the sky. They saw that under the scorching sun, the horizon appeared in the distance.

There was a shadow of the plane, but few Japanese soldiers wanted to move. They thought it was an imperial plane coming to airdrop supplies.⊙

Deputy Chief of Staff Yoshitake had just poured a mouthful of sweet water into his thirsty throat when he heard and saw hundreds of planes flying in. He was momentarily absent-minded, and then his face turned pale. General Ito and

If you didn’t tell yourself in the telegram that you would send planes to drop supplies, then the only ones that would come would be Chinese planes!

"Air strike!" Deputy Chief of Staff Yoshitake shouted, "Baga! Order the troops to conduct air defense immediately!" He yelled at all the staff officers around him.

The Japanese soldiers who had replenished their drinking water, filled their stomachs, and were enjoying their happiness saw countless small black dots suddenly falling from the sky as the fleet approached. The black dots were shining under the bright sunshine.

The dazzling luster fell rapidly. Almost in an instant, the faces of all the Japanese soldiers turned pale. They were all veterans who had fought hard on the cruel battlefield. They still didn't know what was falling?

"Boom! Boom! - Boom!" Strings of bombs, with ear-piercing screams, fell on the pile of Japanese soldiers, blowing up pillars of sand, mixed with the fragmented corpses of Japanese soldiers, and scattered everywhere.

On the sand, the smell of blood and gunpowder smoke spread in the hot air.

In the unobstructed desert, there was no place to hide from the air raids. Bombs chased the Japanese soldiers and exploded. There were also fighter jets swooping down, strings of bullets tearing apart the bodies of the Japanese soldiers. This desert became a place of massacre.

The supply point where hundreds of thousands of Japanese soldiers hoped to survive was also the main target of the independent division's land-based air force bombing in the Australian battlefield. Amidst a burst of explosions and fireworks, the water and supplies accumulated at the supply point were turned into ruins in the desert.

Liu Cuigang strictly carried out the division commander's order. However, the combat aircraft assembled at the field airport in Mount Vernon were not three bomber regiments and corresponding escort fighter jets. Instead, they were six bomber regiments and eight fighter regiments. Now

Liu Cuigang has enough mobile combat aircraft fleet to be used on any battlefield.

Tang Qiuli's order to Liu Cuigang was, "After receiving the order from the division commander, carry out destructive bombing of the Japanese supply points in the Dasha Desert."

According to Tang Qiuli, it is very difficult to find supply points set up by the Japanese army in the vast desert. Liu Cuigang's fleet can follow the footsteps of the Japanese soldiers and bomb them when they find one. This is enough for the Japanese soldiers.

Yes.

However, Liu Cuigang obviously gave full play to the order of the division commander. He sent a reconnaissance plane to conduct a carpet search in the straight line distance from Roy Hill to Granitz. Then, he recorded the coordinates and carried out bombing at the same time. The Japanese soldiers

The first supply point reached was just one of the bombing targets.

After more than forty minutes of bombing, the Independent Division aircraft fleet returned, leaving behind a mess. The bodies of Japanese soldiers were mixed in the sand, and the gravel was soaked red with blood. Deputy Chief of Staff Yoshitake got up from the sand and looked at

The tragic scene made me cry without tears. A few hours later, the remaining Japanese soldiers began to rush on their way, leaving the bodies of nearly 10,000 of their comrades behind.

Fortunately, more than half of the Japanese soldiers had their military kettles filled with drinking water and carried enough food in their backpacks. They rushed to the next supply point and saved some food and drink, but it was still enough. Deputy Chief of Staff Yoshitake sent the troops under attack

The situation of the air raid was immediately reported to General Ito, who hoped that the Commander-in-Chief would dispatch combat aircraft to cover the march of the troops in the desert.

Deputy Chief of Staff Yoshitake was thinking about the threat posed by the Independent Division's aircraft to the troops trudging in the desert, but a few days later, he knew that the threat to the Imperial Army soldiers, who had already lost a lot of strength, was not just bombs falling from the sky.

General Ito, who received the report from Deputy Chief of Staff Yoshitake, was once again so angry that he vomited blood. He made a dangerous move on his own, allowing the Imperial troops on the Western Front battlefield to escape a narrow escape, but the Chinese combat aircraft came again.

Making trouble, this is obviously not a way for people to live, right?

Anyway, there is no war on the western front now, and the center battlefield is in a stalemate. General Ito still has room to mobilize some combat aircraft to provide the best possible air cover for the imperial soldiers struggling for their lives in the desert. What he doesn't know yet is

, the supply points set up along the way from Granitz on the eastern edge of the desert to the hinterland of the desert were basically destroyed by the fleet sent by Liu Cuigang within one day.

Since the aviation force of the Japanese Australian Front wanted to fight, Liu Cuigang was naturally willing to accompany him. So, in the desert airspace and under the hot sunshine, the land-based aviation group commanded by Liu Cuigang and the aircraft group of the Japanese Australian Front Aviation Command started a battle.

Fighting in the air, Japanese soldiers squirmed like a colony of ants in the desert. From time to time, they saw planes blown to pieces and landing not far away. Most of them were imperial combat aircraft.

However, the Japanese soldiers who retreated from the Western Front battlefield into the desert had no interest in the rare air battle. They faced a greater crisis. The next supply point was bombed, and everything within a few miles was bombed.

It was fried food, water sources that had long been evaporated by the sun, and the sun-drenched corpses of the soldiers left behind.

When these exhausted Japanese soldiers, with their bodies almost depleted of body water, saw the scene in front of them, almost all of them were desperate, and officers at all levels could not suppress the desperate emotions of the soldiers...

More than ten days later, on the eastern edge of the Dasha Desert, groups of ragged and haggard Japanese soldiers walked out. Deputy Chief of Staff Yoshitake, who was so thin that he was almost inhuman, finally walked out of the Dasha Desert alive. Behind him were six soldiers.

, 70,000 soldiers who struggled out of the desert by drinking the blood of their dead comrades.

The four armies and more than 400,000 Japanese soldiers on the Western Front lost more than 100,000 people on the battlefield, and the remaining 200,000 people walked into the vast desert and finally came out alive.

There were only 60,000 to 70,000 people, and hundreds of thousands of them stayed in the desert forever. The entire Australian Western Front battlefield swallowed up the lives of more than 300,000 Japanese soldiers.

Tang Qiuli's method of replacing troops with sand achieved unprecedented success. The Directly Affiliated Corps and the Sulu Mobile Corps did not dispatch a single soldier, but hundreds of thousands of Japanese soldiers died in the desert. Otherwise, even if

It was the last time that all the Japanese troops on the Western Front battlefield were wiped out. The casualties among the soldiers of the Independent Division were also not small.

The almost humanoid Deputy Chief of Staff Yoshitake was taken back to Darwin in northern Australia by a plane sent by General Ito. However, the 60,700 to 70,000 Japanese soldiers who had just come out of the desert were still resting in Granitz.

One or two months of recuperation will not restore combat effectiveness at all, and will consume a lot of resources.

For General Ito, he had to swallow the bitter pill of failure on the Western Front battlefield, and he also had to face the problem of how hundreds of thousands of independent division troops would act on the freed Western Front battlefield. This independent division troops,

If it were added to any part of the central and eastern battlefields, it would be a fatal blow to the Imperial Australian Front.

As for the more than 80,000 troops that rushed from the east coast of Australia to the Western Front battlefield to try to rescue the Imperial Army on the Western Front, General Ito never dared to send them into the tiger's mouth. Therefore, they walked to Wo

While doing science popularization in the area, we received an order from the Australian Front Army Headquarters and organized them into the center-line battlefield combat unit sequence on the spot. This was also the last unit in the hands of General Ito.

Tang Qiuli also needs to seriously consider the issue of the next direction of attack for the Directly Affiliated Corps and the Sulu Mobile Corps after solving the Japanese army on the Western Front battlefield, which is in Roy Hill City. Tang Qiuli and Tang Qiusheng met

.

The military meeting lasted all day, and finally it was decided that the Directly Affiliated Corps and the Sulu Mobile Corps would be united and attack from the north from the Sanggu and Mandola areas, passing through the Kimberley Plateau, and heading directly towards the important town in northern Australia -

—Darwin.

Then, they attacked south from Darwin and, together with the troops of Feng Jiwu's Niangziguan garrison in the MacDonnell Mountains, surrounded the Japanese troops on the central battlefield at Granitz, Waukop and Mount Isa.

This is a bargain-hunting battle plan. After solving the Japanese army on the central battlefield, victory in the Australian campaign is already certain. In this plan, Tang Qiuli also has another intention, which is to take advantage of the Japanese Navy's combined fleet to leave Australia.

Opportunities in the northern seas will allow the Jiang Yanming Department of the Songhu Garrison Corps to stay on Java Island, and the Yuan Jinghao Department of the North China Field Corps to stay on Irian Island, cross the sea and go south, forming an absolute advantage in strength over the Japanese troops in the Australian battlefield.

On the Australian battlefield, annihilating the only heavy overseas Japanese army group was the core purpose of the Australian campaign. Tang Qiuli could not allow the Japanese troops on the Australian battlefield to have the opportunity to withdraw to the Japanese mainland and let the tigers return to the mountains, so as not to interfere with future combat plans for attacking the Japanese mainland.

, increasing the difficulty.

Therefore, no matter how high the price is, Tang Qiuli will make the Australian battlefield become the burial place of nearly two million Japanese soldiers. The Japanese have lost their last overseas heavy military group, and the local defense force is extremely empty. Australia

This is the meaning of the decisive battle.

After the troops of the Directly Affiliated Corps and the Sulu Mobile Corps rested for three days in places such as Roy Hill, Sanggu and Mandola, Tang Qiuli and Tang Qiusheng commanded an army of more than 500,000 and marched northward, attacking almost

The west coast of Australia where there are no main Japanese troops.

The independent division troops on the Western Front battlefield have finally taken action. This is a fact that General Ito Yanzaburo both wants to see and is afraid of seeing. If the Independent Division troops on the Western Front battlefield stand still, he will have trouble sleeping and eating.

After he started to move, he felt unprecedented pressure. The biggest problem was that General Ito did not have enough troops.

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