The Rise of Australia

On June 12, 1936, the German and French armies launched a rather brutal offensive and defensive battle in Charleroi.

In order to keep the German army away from the border, the French government was willing to go all out. In conjunction with the 100,000 troops supported by the British, the 100,000 troops mobilized by Belgium and its own 400,000 troops are to hold on to the line from Charleroi to Kortrijk.

The good news is that up to 600,000 British, French and Belgian troops successfully blocked the German army from Kortrijk to the north of Charleroi.

But the bad news is that all Belgian cities to the north, including the original capital of Brussels and another large city, Antwerp, have fallen under German control.

Currently, the territory controlled by the Belgian government is less than one-fifth of its original size, and the 100,000 troops it maintains are almost the limit of Belgium.

Although many Belgians resisted heroically in the areas occupied by Germany, if you want to rely on these Belgian people to defeat German rule, it is better to pray for victory on the frontal battlefield.

The current situation in Europe is clearly favorable to Germany and Italy. But the problem is that if France or Austria cannot be defeated quickly, the German and Italian armies will be exhausted sooner or later when British and Australasian supporting troops continue to arrive on the European continent.

In addition to pinning their hopes on the island nation's participation in the war, the Germans also began to contact their other ally in Western Europe, Spain, which had completed its ideological transformation and established a new government.

Spain’s location is still very important. France is currently fighting on two fronts, attacking Italy in the south and defending Germany in the north.

If Spain could enter the war, the French army would have to detach part of it to defend the Spanish army.

If France wants to mobilize its troops, the most likely possibility is to mobilize some of its troops from the south to attack Italy to defend Spain.

This would relieve the pressure on Italy and allow Italy to devote its army troops to the attack on Austria.

More importantly, Spain is located at the western mouth of the Mediterranean Sea, and its importance is unquestionable.

Once Spain joins the German-Italian Alliance, the Germans will be able to quickly control Gibraltar through Spain and open up a channel from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic for the German-Italian Alliance.

In this way, Germany and Italy can obtain supplies from the outside world through the Mediterranean and the Atlantic Ocean, making up part of the gap with colonial powers like Britain and France.

For Germany and Italy, if either Spain or the island country can join this war, they will be able to expand their advantages a lot.

Once both countries are willing to join this war, the balance of victory will continue to tilt towards them.

While Europe was in dire straits, Arthur was in Oceania, also patiently waiting for the island country's response.

At present, it is indeed a good opportunity for the German-Italian alliance and the island countries to defeat their competitors.

Once this opportunity is missed, it will become much more difficult to defeat countries like Britain, France and Australasia.

Moreover, the island country is a country that is good at gambling on national fortunes. Arthur believes that the island country cannot resist the temptation to defeat Australasia, and they are destined to participate in the war.

what is the reason? After the demise of the United States, the island country will have no large import and export partners.

Australasia has a lot of mineral resources and petroleum energy that island countries are extremely short of, but Australasia prohibits exports to island countries.

Although island countries can also obtain a small amount of materials from more distant areas, the freight and time costs will be higher. This is also the reason why the industrial development of island countries has stagnated.

If the island country wants to change this situation, a war must break out with Australasia. The winner can have more resources, which naturally include mineral materials and petroleum energy that the island country is in urgent need of.

As expected, Arthur did not wait long.

June 17, 1936, Hawaii.

A fleet composed of 6 aircraft carriers as the main force is slowly moving towards Hawaii. In order to remain concealed, except for necessary communications, the radios of all warships remain silent most of the time.

This fleet not only has 6 powerful aircraft carriers, but also 2 battleships, 3 cruisers, 9 destroyers and 3 submarines.

Obviously, such a powerful warship lineup is an ultra-luxury fleet that non-powerful countries cannot produce.

At six o'clock in the evening, the fleet finally successfully arrived in the waters a hundred kilometers away from Hawaii, and continued to approach Hawaii at an extremely low speed.

At 12 o'clock in the evening, the fleet was very close to the port of Hawaii. In order to prevent being detected by radar, following the order of the warship commander, Lieutenant General Chuichi Nagumo, the warship officially stayed 60 kilometers away from Hawaii.

The three submarines began to dive. After diving to a sufficient depth, they continued to move slowly towards the Hawaiian port.

At about two o'clock in the morning, aircraft from six aircraft carriers also began to dispatch. The planes flew into the sky one after another, reaching their highest speed in the nearby sky, and then sped towards Hawaii.

About 2:36 a.m., Naval Base Hawaii.

"Andric, do you think the people from the Islands will declare war on us?" Henry, the radar observer, looked at his comrade, Andric, who was also a radar observer, with some boredom.

"Who knows? Henry." Andric shook his head and replied: "But I don't think those dwarfs have the guts to declare war with us. We are not the former Tsarist Russia. As long as His Majesty gives the order, I am willing to be the first Landing on the island country will let those damn island people understand how big the gap in strength is between them and us. "

Henry smiled and nodded, without any doubt about Andric's words.

These radar monitors are also affiliated with the army and can be regarded as technical personnel and civilian arms in the army.

But even technicians like them are still willing to shoulder their spears and join the army's charge as long as Arthur gives the order.

Under Arthur's constant influence, the army's loyalty to the royal family and Arthur himself was very high. Even these ordinary naval soldiers are still full of fanaticism and trust in Arthur.

"Damn! What is that?" While the two were chatting and mocking the island country, a large number of bright spots suddenly appeared on the radar, which immediately attracted their attention.

"Damn, are these things airplanes?" Henry asked Andric in disbelief, a little surprised and surprised.

"Damn, I'm afraid so, Henry. Contact Fleet Command quickly, a large number of unknown objects are rapidly approaching Hawaii." Andric said quickly.

Such news was quickly detected by other radars and reported to the navy's headquarters.

Before the Pacific Fleet could react, the enemy attack had arrived.

Of course, the attack did not come from the sky, but from under the ocean.

boom!

A torpedo hit a medium-sized destroyer docked in the port, directly blowing a big hole in the destroyer.

Because it was already early in the morning, except for a small number of naval soldiers on duty on the destroyer, most of the naval soldiers were at the naval base on the port.

Although this prevented more soldiers from facing life and death crises, it also slowed down the navy's response to the attack.

"Damn it, all combatants return to their warships immediately, and carrier-based fighter jets take off immediately to guard against possible enemy air attacks." Vice Admiral Jon O'Dell, commander-in-chief of the Australasian Pacific Fleet, quickly ordered.

Although it is not clear which force or country is responsible for the sneak attack on the Hawaii naval base, there is a high probability that it is from the island country.

After all, in the Pacific, there is only one powerful country like the island country that has both the strength and the motive to sneak attack the Australasian Navy.

Although General Jon had already been prepared for the islanders, what he did not expect was that the islanders could cross thousands of kilometers and directly attack the base of the Australasian Pacific Fleet.

You know, the distance from the mainland of the island country to the Hawaii Naval Base is much farther than the distance from the mainland of the island country to New Guinea.

The Pacific Fleet's defense against the islanders is mainly to prevent the islanders from possible sneak attacks on important areas such as New Guinea.

But I didn't expect that the islanders would be so crazy that they crossed half of the Pacific just to attack a small Hawaii.

boom!

While General Jon was giving the order, another torpedo hit a cruiser.

When small and medium-sized warships face torpedo attacks, as long as they are hit, they will basically sink.

Only main warships with tens of thousands of tons can withstand torpedoes, but if they are unlucky and hit in a relatively vulnerable place, there is also a risk of sinking.

Just as the navy soldiers quickly returned to their warships, a series of buzzing sounds also sounded in the sky.

When General Jon heard this, he understood that this was an island nation's plane.

Listen carefully to the buzzing sound in the sky, which seems to be deafening. This proves that the islanders have dispatched a lot of aircraft.

"Very good, since you have the guts to sneak attack us, then be prepared to sink in this sea forever." General Jon sneered and issued the order he was most looking forward to since he became the commander-in-chief of the Pacific Fleet: "All main battleships , the first salvo of anti-air missiles!"

The launch of the missile takes a certain amount of time, and this time also happens to allow the island country's aircraft to get closer to the naval base in Australasia.

The night concealed the whereabouts of these island country aircraft, but the increasingly obvious buzzing proved that these island country aircraft were getting closer and closer.

About ten seconds later, when the island country's aircraft at the front spit out tongues of fire, the missiles from the main warships of the Pacific Fleet were officially launched into the sky.

Snapped! boom!

Following two obviously different sounds, a large number of unknown objects burst into bright flames and flew rapidly towards the direction of the buzzing sound.

"What is this?" Many island country pilots looked at the approaching flames and the outlines of some supplies illuminated by the flames, their eyes widened and they fell into deep thought.

Seeing these objects getting closer and closer, many pilots from island countries reacted and tried to maneuver their planes to avoid them.

But they soon realized something was wrong. It was obvious that these tails had flames coming out, and they could only be seen as long strips, and they were faster than their planes.

boom! Boom boom!

Although this process may seem long, it actually takes less than a minute.

A large number of missiles quickly flew into the island nation's aircraft group, and many missiles hit their targets.

Looking at the flames exploding in the sky, General Jon nodded with satisfaction, and finally showed a smile: "While the enemy has not yet reacted, all carrier-based aircraft were dispatched immediately, and no enemy aircraft could be spared.

The fleet releases sonar to detect underwater submarines. I don't want any more warships to be attacked and sunk by the enemy. "

As sonar was released, Australasian warships also began launching torpedoes to attack enemy submarines underwater.

Pacific Fleet submarines also began to dive to find enemy submarines.

A large number of Australasian aircraft began to take off, with only one goal, and that was to chase the island nation's aircraft that had fallen into chaos.

Obviously, high-tech products such as missiles are completely unknown to the people of these island countries.

Although the hit rate of the missiles was not high, at least 200 missiles were fired in the first salvo, and less than 30 missiles hit the island nation's aircraft.

But nearly 30 aircraft were destroyed before they even met, which will definitely shock and even panic the pilots of these island countries.

In fact, if the night was not too dark, covering the whereabouts of these island country aircraft, the hit rate of the missiles could be further improved.

But it doesn't matter anymore. The missile successfully delayed the Australasian Navy for more than a minute, which also allowed many warships and aircraft to react and prevent them from being successfully attacked by the enemy again.

The Pacific Fleet currently has a total of 12 main warships, 4+5+3, including 5 aircraft carriers.

If it were a complete Pacific Fleet, it would not be afraid of this island nation's attack at all.

But the problem is that in order to prepare for possible attacks by the islanders and conduct patrol missions, 2 battleships, 2 aircraft carriers and 1 battlecruiser were sent out to perform the mission.

This also means that the current Hawaii Naval Base actually only has 2 battleships, 3 aircraft carriers and 2 battlecruisers.

Because Hawaii is an isolated island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, there are no islands from other countries within hundreds of kilometers.

Therefore, there are no air force bases in Hawaii. The number of aircraft in Hawaii depends entirely on the number of aircraft on the Pacific Fleet aircraft carriers stationed in Hawaii.

Because there are currently only three aircraft carriers, this has greatly reduced the number of aircraft owned by Hawaii.

As for the islanders, 6 aircraft carriers and various other messy modified warships carry a total of more than 400 carrier-based aircraft.

The total number of aircraft carried by Australasia's three aircraft carriers is only a little over 200, which is only half the number of aircraft in the island country.

Although 30 island aircraft were destroyed at the beginning, the number of enemy aircraft was still far ahead of Australasia.

Moreover, after the air forces of the two sides started fighting, Australasia's missiles had no use.

The current missiles cannot accurately lock on the enemy. In this dark night sky, if the missile accidentally hits your own plane, it will be great fun.

The good news is that in terms of aircraft performance, Australasia is still far ahead of the island countries. Although the Australasian Air Force is basically in a one vs. two situation, with the powerful combat effectiveness of the aircraft, it is not difficult to do one vs. two.

However, because there are nearly 600 aircraft in the sky of the naval base, it is difficult for Australasian aircraft to exert their speed advantage and cannot defeat the island country quickly.

At 3:17 a.m., a torpedo launched by an island nation's submarine hit a battleship in Australasia.

The good news is that the armor protection capability of this battleship is very good. Although the torpedo caused the battleship's armor to fall off and the hull that was hit was slightly deformed, it did not affect the battleship's combat effectiveness and could only be regarded as a minor injury.

After discovering the submarine, the Australasian fleet's counterattack also directly destroyed the submarine.

When a submarine is underwater, how can you tell whether it has sunk the enemy's submarine?

The principle is also very simple. Although the submarine is underwater, if the submarine is sunk, various living materials in the submarine will float on the water, and the fuel used by the submarine will also float on the sea surface because of the characteristics of oil floating in water.

Seeing the sneak attack plane being held up by the Australasian plane, the islanders couldn't sit still.

Many bombers hidden in the rear were dispatched one after another, and while all the Australasian aircraft were dispatched to intercept the island nation's fighter jets, they began to attack Australasian warships and naval bases in the ports.

But what the islanders did not expect was that Australasia installed a large number of anti-aircraft weapons on warships and ports, including large-scale killer weapons such as small-caliber machine guns and anti-aircraft missiles.

A round of bomber attacks did not cause too many casualties in Australasia, but caused the island country's bomber formation to lose at least 20 bombers.

You know, when the islanders carried out this operation, the number of bombers they carried was only one-sixth of the total number of aircraft, which was about 70.

Such an attack caused the islanders to lose less than half of their bombers. How can this be justified?

The air force's frontal confrontation had no hope of a quick victory, and the side sneak attack was easily repelled by the enemy, which put the islanders into a dilemma.

Where is the hope? The islanders can only pin their hopes on the rapidly approaching fleet.

After all, according to the intelligence of the islanders, Australasia's Pacific Fleet is not at full strength at this time. This fleet carefully prepared by the islanders can definitely compete with the current Pacific Fleet.

As long as the advantage can be obtained in the sky, the final result of this disgraceful naval battle will still be the victory of the islanders.

This is also the final result that the islanders have in mind. After all, the difference in the number of aircraft between the two sides is twice that.

From the perspective of the people of the island country, maintaining a two-fold aircraft gap is already the result of the island country's best efforts.

If the two-fold aircraft gap still doesn't give them an advantage, then the islanders have nothing to do. After all, they can't match Australasia in terms of aircraft production and reserves.

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