Age of Conquest Reborn

The sun rose, and the fog finally completely dissipated. Cape York, hidden in the thick fog, finally revealed its true face in the sun. Tang Qiuquan and Yuan Jinghao raised their telescopes almost at the same time, and looked through the lens of the telescope.

, they all saw the deathly silent Japanese position in Cape York, with bomb craters all over the place. The original ground could not be seen, patches of scorched land, and burning materials still sprouting from the embers.

"Deputy Commander, do you think the fire strike has achieved the desired effect?" Tang Qiuquan asked Deputy Commander Amosiyev with a smile.

Amoshiev shrugged exaggeratedly and said: "Commander, what I saw is the most desolate land on earth. Unless God, no living thing can survive!"

"Hahaha!" Tang Qiuquan laughed and said to the combat staff: "Send a telegram to Commander Yuan that the obstacles to the troops' landing have been cleared and the landing operation can be carried out!"

A few minutes later, hundreds of landing craft and landing ships shot like arrows towards the beach at Cape York. The hatches opened and the soldiers of the North China Field Corps waded through waist-deep water and rushed to the beach with shouts. Everything was like

As Tang Qiuquan judged, there was not a single retaliatory gunshot heard on the beach. Under three consecutive rounds of sea and air fire, the Japanese soldiers defending on Cape York Beach were all mixed together with the sand and mud.

Yuan Jinghao led the Corps Headquarters personnel and rushed to the beach with the troops. He stepped on the hot gravel under his feet, looked at the completely changed appearance of the earth, shook his head and said with great dissatisfaction: "Oh! This battle!

It’s not much fun to fight. Why don’t the little devils fight back?”

The Chief of Staff Han Guangqi on the side took over the words speechlessly, "Commander, isn't this the best result? The troops successfully landed at Cape York without any casualties. Why, you still want to see the troops fighting in a bloody battle on the beach.

ah?"

"You don't understand!" Yuan Jinghao replied in an unpredictable manner, then looked at his watch and said: "Send a telegram to the division commander. The division commander pointed out that the first batch of more than 80,000 landing troops of our North China Field Corps arrived early this morning.

At exactly 6:45, we successfully landed at Cape York without any casualties. We are now attacking and advancing towards the port of Mount Molloy according to the planned plan! The second batch of landing troops has already begun to board the ship!"

This night, not only did the division troops launch a sudden landing battle at Cape York in northern Australia, but also in the places of Karenburu and Pendebay in northern Australia, the first wave of sea-crossing combat troops of the Songhu Garrison Corps also launched a powerful attack =

Under the cover of sea and air fire, they landed successfully, but the time was more than an hour later than Yuan Jinghao's troops.

Jiang Yanming, commander of the Songhu Garrison Corps, also followed the first batch of landing troops and set foot on Australian soil. He looked at his watch, frowned slightly, with a very dissatisfied expression, and said to He Jinshan, the Corps Chief of Staff: "Chief of Staff, immediately.

Send a telegram to the division commander and inform the division: Our Songhu Garrison Corps landing force of 140,000 people has all landed at Kalumburu and Pendebe. The Japanese army has been able to resist, and the troop casualties are not heavy!"

"After more than an hour of fighting, the Japanese troops guarding the beachhead have been completely wiped out. However, it is one hour and twenty-three minutes later than the original landing time. Now, we are heading towards Bodham and Brassaud as planned.

Attack forward!"

After Chief of Staff He Jinshan sent the telegram, he frowned and said: "Commander, according to the plan, our current landing time is more than an hour later than the original plan! I don't know whether the North China Field Corps and others will land on time.

Already?"

Jiang Yanming glared at He Jinshan and said angrily: "Order the troops to speed up the advance. We can't control others. In the subsequent battles, if we fall behind again, I will withdraw the brigade commander who is not fighting well!"

The telegrams from Yuan Jinghao and Jiang Yanming reached Tang Qiuli's hands one after another. Chief of Staff Zhao Yuhe said: "Commander, the Songhu Garrison Corps is more than an hour later than the original landing time. Will it affect the subsequent operations?"

?Teacher, should I send a telegram to urge you?"

"No need! It won't affect the overall situation!" Tang Qiuli shook his head and said: "Two corps with more than 200,000 troops landed at three locations at the same time. This cannot be hidden from Ito Yanzaburo's ears. He will definitely mobilize troops.

Counterattack!"

"The back road was fired. Ito Yanzaburo was an expert and knew what the consequences would be. He sent telegrams to Yuan Jinghao and Jiang Yanming respectively. After the troops landed, there was no need to rush to the Japanese defense to advance in depth. We must overcome impatience and focus on advancing steadily and steadily.

Prevent the Japanese counterattack!"

Looking at the sunny sky, Tang Qiuli said: "Yuhe, the troops have landed successfully and deployed a lot of troops. Order the troops of each corps on the frontal battlefield to carry out the most violent attack on the Japanese troops facing them. Don't let them.

Divide your forces to counterattack the landing troops!"

The pressure was huge, I was worried all day and night, and I didn't rest for days and nights. General Ito Genzaburo, the commander of the Japanese Australian Front, looked at the sky, it was almost dawn, and wanted to be confused for a while, but he was too tired, and his muscles ached all over his body.

It's like a fight.

But he sadly found that he couldn't sleep at all. Although his body was extremely exhausted, his mind was still excited and chaotic. When he closed his eyes, his mind was filled with the terrible situation of the Australian war. Facing the increasing pressure of the division,

Under pressure, he has yet to come up with a way to break the situation. The Australian Army is now hanging alone overseas, with ammunition and military supplies increasingly consumed, but no source of supplies.

What made him even more worried was the top-secret telegram he received yesterday from the general staff of the base camp, as well as a detailed withdrawal plan. After reading it, General Ito's face was ashen and his hands were trembling. It was not because of anger, but because

Sad, and at the same time, I feel a bit ridiculous about the almost whimsical order from the base camp.

This is what the mysterious strategy for dealing with the Australian war situation was in the telegrams of the past two days. It is that I have no objection to withdrawing troops from the Australian battlefield. In fact, the empire has no other choice but to withdraw its troops from Australia.

Otherwise, in the face of the powerful offensive of the division, without the combined navy fleet, the Australian front army will have no choice but to fight to the end, and in the end everything will be shattered.

The terrible situation on the Australian battlefield cannot help but force the Empire not to give up on Australia. However, this troop withdrawal plan is too whimsical and wishful thinking. Let’s not consider for the moment. More than one million Imperial soldiers have withdrawn from the Australian battlefield to the mainland. The safety of sea voyages alone is

How to escape from the battlefield also left me at a loss.

The troops of the China Division that besieged them from the south and west of Australia are attacking with increasing intensity. The Australian Army is in a state of struggling to support itself. The two armies are so tight. Do you think they can leave? If things go wrong, they will be defeated by the troops of the China Division.

, to the point of not letting go and chasing after him fiercely!

General Ito seriously doubted that the big guys at the base camp had just slapped their heads on the head and formulated some kind of Australian troop withdrawal plan, and also stipulated that Mount Molloy, Cooktown, and Townsville on the east coast of Australia

The three places are the locations for troops to board ships, and they also require themselves to complete the Australian withdrawal plan without losing troops.

Damn! When he thought of this, General Ito became angry. Without strong air force to cover the boarding port and dock, and without enough troops to block the pursuing divisions at three landing sites, withdrawing troops would be a joke.

The current Australian Front Army troops can still cope with ground interceptions, but they are at an absolute disadvantage against the air fleet of China Division Aviation. After air battles, the Front Army Aviation Command has less than 200 fighter jets capable of taking off into the air.

Even if more than one million soldiers can successfully assemble at three ports, they will probably be a living target for China's aircraft.

No matter how you look at it, General Ito feels that the Australian withdrawal plan formulated by the base camp is similar to the Dunkirk retreat of the British and French forces on the European battlefield, which was finally wiped out by the German army on the south bank of the English Channel. More than 400,000 soldiers were all killed.

The army was almost wiped out.

Therefore, General Ito replied to the base camp with a very tough telegram. The core meaning was one, "If the base camp does not have enough aviation forces, it will provide powerful air fire cover for the imperial soldiers evacuating the Australian battlefield and master the boarding control."

In the case of absolute air supremacy in the region, I do not agree with the hasty withdrawal of troops, and I refuse to implement the plan!"

Without absolute air supremacy over the boarding area, there was no way to evacuate, but General Ito didn't want to do it. He gathered the imperial soldiers together, and then, Chinese bombers and fighter jets dropped bombs overhead and shot bullets, leaving corpses everywhere.

Instead of blood flowing like a river, it would be better to fight to the death with the soldiers of the China Division on the Australian battlefield.

After the telegram was sent, General Ito felt an indescribable sense of relief in his heart. He waited for a call back from the base camp with a resigned attitude. Just as he was thinking wildly, Major General Akutagawa, the chief of staff of the front army, turned pale and his cheeks twitched.

Breaking in.

"Commander, very bad news!" Major General Akutagawa said with trembling lips, waving a telegram in his hand.

General Ito's head felt like a "bang". Although he had not heard any good news in the recent period, this was the first time that he had seen the usually calm Major General Akutagawa so rude and frightened.

"Akutagawa-kun, what happened when we arrived?" General Ito jumped up suddenly. Due to the excessive exertion, his head felt dizzy, stars were flying in front of his eyes, and his body was shaking.

In normal times, the attentive Chief of Staff Akutagawa would have pounced on him with concern about his identity and called the military doctor anxiously. But at this moment, as if he had not seen him before, he said in a hoarse voice, minding his own business: "The staff just received the call.

After receiving the telegram, the China Division troops landed at Cape York, Karenburu and Pendebay respectively. It is estimated that the number of troops is as many as 300,000!"

"Ah?" General Ito exclaimed, his eyes turned black, and he fainted at that time.

(To be continued)(To be continued)

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