The Rise of Australia

Chapter 883 The last straw that broke the camel’s back

The crisis situation does not only occur at the port. Even Naha, the largest city in the Ryukyu Islands, is not so safe at this time.

Out of concern for this city, Australasia invested most of its paratroopers, more than 4,000 troops, to attack the city.

Due to unexpected reasons, the raid achieved very good results.

In just over an hour, more than 4,000 paratroopers successfully occupied Naha's city hall, radio station and important squares, and deployed defensive positions on Naha's roads leading to the outside world.

There were almost twice as many people as there were at the port, which also resulted in the paratroopers attacking Naha having more heavy weapons, including more machine guns and artillery.

During the attack, these heavy weapons did not play much role. But after entering the defense, machine guns and artillery showed their power.

Because Naha was more important, the other C Division chose to dispatch its entire army to protect the largest and only city on the Ryukyu Islands.

However, the entire C Division only has a strength of just over 20,000 people. When most of the soldiers are new recruits without long-term training, it is very difficult to capture the entire city through an attack.

Coupled with the help of Australasian aircraft in the sky, it will be even more difficult to win through offense.

Originally, the tasks assigned to the two Type C divisions were the simplest. They only needed to be stationed near the port and city, maintain the order of the port and city, and send manpower to patrol.

Although the islanders have deployed 100,000 troops on the Ryukyu Islands, it can be said that there is no deployment of armored forces at all.

"Baga! This group of trash, with the strength of two divisions, can't even defend the port and Naha." On another battlefield, the highest-ranking general on the Ryukyu Islands, the division A division Nagamura Ino cursed angrily.

Unexpectedly, the coast of the island with the greatest pressure has not yet been breached. Instead, the cities and ports within the Ryukyu Islands have been captured by the enemy.

This also resulted in almost uninterrupted firing of various heavy weapons in Australasia during offense and defense. A large number of machine gun bullets and artillery shells continued to pour towards the island army, as if they were free of charge.

"Your Excellency Lieutenant General, the Australasians must have dropped a large number of troops by airborne before they launched a raid on our ports and cities." At the division conference table, an infantry captain guessed.

Although this does cost a lot of money and materials, the benefits are also visible to the naked eye, that is, the island country's army cannot break through Australasia's firepower network.

Telegrams asking for help were continuously passed from the frontline battlefields, and finally to the two most powerful forces on the Ryukyu Islands, the two divisions A and B responsible for defending the Australasian landing.

What's even more terrible is that the actions of the Australasians were completely outside the plans of the island country's army. In other words, all senior military officers of the island nation, including Lieutenant General Murai Noo, did not expect the surprise attack from Australasia.

Although the island army has an advantage in artillery, the Australasian army also has fire support from the sky, but has an advantage in overall firepower.

Let alone break through Australasia's defensive positions, it would be difficult for this C division to even approach Naha.

Since the Meiji Restoration, the enemies faced by the islanders, including Russia, have been at an absolute advantage in armaments.

If they want to capture defensive positions against Australasia's firepower network, the island nation's army must have a powerful weapon on the battlefield, which is a sufficient number of tanks and armored forces.

It is very necessary to support Naha and the port, but it is absolutely impossible to use the entire Class A division to support it.

Australasia has always adhered to the principle that human life is greater than nature, and would rather waste more bullets and shells than make unnecessary sacrifices.

But the problem is that the terrain of the Ryukyu Islands determines that it is impossible to deploy too many armored forces on the islands.

You must know that this is an archipelago composed of multiple islands. The largest island is not too large, and the role of the armored forces will be infinitely reduced.

But this time facing Australasia, they understood what the real strength of the great powers was.

"Everyone, who of you is willing to go to support Naha and the port?" Murai Noo was silent for a while, and then looked at his subordinates.

Without an armored force with excellent defense, it would be impossible for the infantry of the island nation to break through Australasia's defensive positions.

"In the final analysis, it is the reason why we have completely lost air supremacy." Major General Taro Tanaka, commander of the 1st Infantry Brigade, said: "Your Excellency, division commander, Naha and the port are very important to us. We cannot sit idly by and let Australia go." The occupation of Naha and the port by Dalasia."

After all, the biggest task of the Type A Division is to protect the coastline of the most important main island of the Ryukyu Islands and prevent the Australasian army from breaking through the coastline and thereby capturing the entire Ryukyu Islands.

However, even if only a part of the troops are dispatched, they will still be troops separated from the elite Class A division.

Although the establishment of the armies is similar, the combat effectiveness of an infantry brigade in a Category A Division is almost comparable to that of an entire Category C Division. What the island country is most proud of is actually the small number of elite troops of the Class A divisions.

After hearing Murai Noo's words, many infantry commanders under his command had ideas.

A division has two infantry brigades, each infantry brigade has two infantry regiments, each infantry regiment has three infantry regiments, and each infantry regiment has four infantry squadrons.

In addition, a division is usually equipped with a cavalry regiment, artillery regiment, engineer regiment, and axle-load regiment, as well as health teams, field hospitals, communications teams, logistics units and other units directly under the division.

For example, in the more elite Class A divisions, the infantry regiment, artillery regiment, engineer regiment and other division-directed units will be larger, possess more weapons of all types, and have stronger overall combat effectiveness.

However, for any island country division, an infantry regiment is at least one-fifth of the entire division's strength, with a number of approximately 4,000-5,000 people.

According to Murai Noo's psychological expectation, the size of the army supporting the rear cities and ports will almost be limited to an infantry regiment, which is about 5,000 people.

If there are more, it will definitely have an impact on the defense of the coastline. After all, no one can guarantee whether the Australasian attack will be limited to one place, and the protection of the coastline is also very important.

Once the coastline is breached, Naha and the port will no longer need to be defended. Because the continuous stream of Australasian troops would make them exhausted, and they were eventually dragged to death in the Ryukyu Islands by the Australasian troops.

Moreover, the biggest problem at present is not how many troops will support Naha and the port, but whether the two C divisions can hold off the enemy before the supporting troops arrive.

The two arms divisions are stationed near the port and Naha, and can reach the battlefield in more than ten minutes.

But Class A divisions cannot. Because the main task is to defend the coastline, the entire Class A Division is deployed on the outermost edge of the main island, a certain distance from Naha and the port.

In addition, it takes some time to mobilize the army. According to conservative estimates, it will take at least an hour or so for the supporting troops to arrive.

This hour is crucial. If the two Type C divisions can completely hold back the Australasian army, and when the support from Type A divisions arrives, they can naturally launch an attack and retake the port and city.

But if the two C divisions cannot hold back the Australasian army and allow the enemy to continue to improve their defensive positions.

Even if they wait until support arrives, they will still face a stronger defensive position, which will be more difficult to break.

So the question is, can these two C divisions successfully hold off the Australasian army?

The answer is of course no.

It is undeniable that the island army has an absolute numerical advantage over the Australasian army.

At the port, the number of the island country's troops is about 19,000, and the total number of the Australasian troops is only a little over 2,000. The ratio of the numbers of the two sides is almost a terrifying 1:10.

And things aren't much better in the city. The Australasian army still only has a little over 4,000 troops, while the island country has an entire division of 20,000 people. The military strength ratio is still as high as 1:5.

If it was 50 years ago, the difference in the number of troops between the two sides was so huge, it would be hard to say who would win.

But it is already 1936 after all, and heavy weapons such as machine guns and artillery have been developed quite well. In addition, Australasia has complete air superiority, and the gap in numbers has long been made up.

With a large number of aircraft hovering overhead, the island country's army was simply unable to launch a large-scale charge against the Australasian army.

If people stand too densely together, they will become easy targets for Australasian machine guns and aircraft. But if the people stand too spread out, the threat of attack will not be that great, and the gap in the combat effectiveness of the soldiers will also widen.

In addition, soldiers in arms divisions have not undergone long-term militarized training. They are not familiar with the battlefield and have not experienced a real battlefield that determines life and death. This will have a greater impact on combat effectiveness.

Seeing the comrades around them fall one after another, even if these island soldiers have been brainwashed, they will involuntarily feel fear.

After all, people have a natural fear of death. Unless there is a stronger belief to support it, fear will be greater than anything else.

For such a Type C division, what would shatter the support of faith in their hearts?

Of course it is a cruel reality.

As the two C divisions launched a full-scale attack on the city and port, their division headquarters were gradually exposed.

On the premise of possessing air superiority, the headquarters of these two C divisions became the best targets and the targets of the Australasian Air Force's key attacks.

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