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Volume 1 On the Songhua River Chapter 2965 Australia is attacked

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    More than five hours later, it was already past nine o'clock in the morning. The armored command vehicle Yu Guanghan was riding in drove across the bullet-riddled Lachlan River Bridge and drove onto the east bank land littered with bomb craters and the broken corpses of Japanese soldiers.  It has not yet dissipated. Under the bright sunshine of a June morning in South Australia, traces of the aftermath of a great war can be seen everywhere.  \¡¡\

    "Have the statistics of the battle results come up?" Yu Guanghan asked the deputy director of the Corps' Operations Department as the armored command vehicle was bumpy.

    "Preliminary results statistics have come out. After more than five hours of fighting, our army annihilated the entire 40th Division of the Japanese Army. Among them, more than 14,000 people, including Lieutenant General Suzuki, the division commander, were killed and captured.  More than 3,000 people!" the deputy director of the Operations Department replied accurately.

    "Huh?" Yu Guanghan was greatly confused, "The numbers don't add up. The full strength of the 40th Division of the Little Devil should be about 22,000 people. How come your statistics only add up to 17,000 people?"  There are more than a thousand people, and the remaining five thousand people have escaped?"

    The deputy director of the Operations Department explained with a wry smile: "At first, the Operations Department also thought that more than 5,000 Japanese troops took the opportunity to escape. Later, after investigation, it was not the case at all. Our ground artillery fire was all large-caliber heavy artillery. What was that?  The power, especially the salvo of rocket launchers, burned many Japanese soldiers to ashes. Coupled with the subsequent bombing by the aviation bomber group, heavy aviation bombs covered all directions. The more than 5,000 Japanese soldiers who were not worthy of the number were left without bones.  There¡¯s no way to count it!¡±

    "Hahaha!" Yu Guanghan laughed self-deprecatingly and said, "Send a telegram to the Australian Campaign Command and Commander Battle. Our troops in the Adelaide direction. After more than five hours of fighting, the fourth Japanese army was completely annihilated.  There are more than 22,000 people from the 10th Division, including Division Commander Suzuki, who have escaped the net! Now, the troops are cleaning the battlefield and waiting for the next order!"

    When Yu Guanghan sent the telegram, the battles in Boaodun and Ararat had ended successfully an hour ago. The main forces of the Japanese 43rd and 45th Divisions had not escaped and were surrounded.  The fate of annihilation.  In comparison, it falls faster.

    Tang Qiuzong used eight main field brigades with more than 130,000 troops to strengthen three tank brigades.  Three artillery brigades, eight rocket launcher battalions, and fire support from naval carrier-based aircraft units dealt with the main force of the two Japanese divisions.  There are less than 40,000 troops.  The attack was launched with an absolute advantage, and the tactics adopted were outflanking by the left and right wings and a frontal assault.

    The commander of the 43rd Division of the Japanese Army, Lieutenant General Temple, was killed in the battle. The nearly 20,000 Japanese troops of the 43rd Division were wiped out. The commander of the 45th Division, Lieutenant General Tomosaka, was wounded and captured. Nearly 20,000 Japanese troops  Soldiers, except most of them died in battle.  The rest were all captured.

    At this point, the South Australian encirclement and annihilation campaign of the independent division's Australian campaign troops has come to an end.  In this battle, Lieutenant General Tang Qiusheng, commander of the Australian Campaign Command of the Independent Division, dispatched 12 mechanized infantry brigades, five tank brigades, five artillery brigades, as well as the aviation team and the naval carrier-based aircraft unit of the Corps, respectively.  On three battlefields, a rapid and violent attack was launched against the three main divisions of the Japanese army.

    The participating troops of the Sulu Mobile Regiment of the Independent Division, at a small cost, achieved a record of wiping out more than 50,000 Japanese troops and capturing more than 6,000 people. Since the landing, the troops of the Independent Division first conquered Adelaide and Melbourne, and then,  Give full play to the spirit of continuous combat and wipe out the main force of the Japanese army in southern Australia in one fell swoop. Since then, there has been no main force of the Japanese army in southern Australia, and the rest are nothing more than some second-rate local garrison forces!

    At noon that day, Tang Qiusheng issued an order, "The troops of the Australian Campaign Command will immediately disperse to various parts of southern Australia in regiments. They will use about two weeks to wipe out the Japanese local garrison, destroy the Japanese and puppet local regimes, and stabilize the rear!"  "

    Tang Qiusheng was struggling with issuing such an order. According to the original Australian campaign plan, the troops should quickly advance to central and northern Australia at this moment, trying to push the front to northern Australia before the Japanese base camp could react.

    But Tang Qiusheng looked at the map of the Australian continent and gave up his original plan. Australia's territory was too vast. The twenty mechanized infantry brigades under his command, with nearly 400,000 troops, would be spread among the specific occupied areas.  , I¡¯m afraid, not even one battalion is strong enough.

    Although the four main divisions and three aviation groups of the Japanese army in southern Australia have been completely wiped out, there are still Japanese local garrisons in various places. If they advance north now, the rear will be unstable and everything left behind will be hidden dangers. Tang Qiusheng  He absolutely didn't want to have his troops fighting at the front, but the rear area was messed up by these second-rate Japanese troops. The rear area was unstable. How could he fight at the front with peace of mind? Therefore, he had to spend more than two weeks and all his troops to stabilize the rear area.

    In the city of Darwin in northern Australia, Lieutenant General Morishita, commander of the Japanese Army in Australia and commander of the Eleventh Army, received three divisions from the south and was completely attacked by the independent division.After the news that the entire army was wiped out, a mouthful of blood spattered out.

    The main force of nearly 100,000 people was wiped out in less than two days. The entire Australian army only had a strength of more than 200,000 people, and nearly one-half of it was lost in one fell swoop.  , what can we do to resist the hundreds of thousands of troops of the China Independent Division who are bound to advance north?

    After calming down his emotions, Lieutenant General Morishita's face turned sallow. He steeled himself and sent a telegram to the base camp to report the unfortunate news. In the telegram, Lieutenant General Morishita asked for punishment, stating that it was the loss of the imperial troops of the four southern Australian divisions.  Take full responsibility and be willing to accept any punishment from the base camp!

    After defeating the battle and losing nearly 100,000 troops, he certainly had to bear the responsibility, but in Lieutenant General Morishita's heart, this was not entirely the case. He always believed that the four divisions of the Australian Southern Empire, the headquarters of  should bear primary responsibility.

    When Adelaide was attacked by the independent division troops, he sent a telegram to the base camp. When Melbourne was attacked, he sent a second telegram, both emergency telegrams, requesting instructions from the base camp. If the base camp was in the shortest time,  Call back within a certain period of time and give clear instructions whether Adelaide and Melbourne must be recaptured or whether to retreat temporarily.

    Otherwise, I would definitely not have ordered the 40th, 43rd and 45th Divisions to stay put for a day and a half, so that they would be surrounded by heavy troops from the China Independent Division and end up in a state of disarray.  The ending where everyone is shattered.

    At least, he could issue an order to gather the imperial troops of the three divisions together, or to evacuate to the central region of Australia first to avoid the offensive edge of the independent divisions. To be fair, Lieutenant General Morishita was a bit resentful.  As a senior commander, he is unable to grasp the accurate situation on the battlefield and cannot see the huge dangers faced by the troops. This is in itself a dereliction of duty or a lack of ability.

    Therefore, Lieutenant General Morishita wrote at the end of the telegram, "To sum up, the loss of the Imperial Army's troops in southern Australia is not all my fault, but I am willing to take full responsibility. I only make the following suggestions. Australia is responsible for  This is the fundamental center of the Empire¡¯s North American War and cannot be lost. If it falls into the hands of the Chinese, the Empire¡¯s North American War will be hopeless. Therefore, it is recommended that the headquarters mobilize all its forces to annihilate the China Independent Division and the Australian mainland!¡±

    Lieutenant General Morishita's telegram, which seemed to be just and awe-inspiring, but was actually full of resentment, was like a stone's throw at the Japanese base camp in Tokyo. There was no response at all. What's even more strange is that there was not even a telegram to investigate the failure of Australia's southern battlefield. Lieutenant General Morishita  Cake, the commander of the Australian Army, is still acting well. He doesn't know why and can only guess dullly about what happened on the mainland?

    What happened locally?  The current situation in the Japanese base camp can be described in several idioms. It is in chaos, exhausted, and unable to do anything. Lieutenant General Morishita's telegram failed to attract the attention of these big bosses at all. They have things that are thousands of times more important than this.  The military situation is troublesome, but the news that the nearly 60,000 soldiers of the three main divisions were shattered and the three aviation groups were completely wiped out still makes these big bosses tremble with distress.

    After learning that the Independent Division troops suddenly launched an attack in Adelaide, southern Australia, not only Emperor Hirohito was petrified with shock, but all the military leaders in the base camp were also shocked.  It was burnt on the outside and tender on the inside, with stars flying around in the eyes. The big bosses ran into the palace on their own initiative without His Majesty the Emperor calling him.

    The Japanese headquarters and Emperor Hirohito both knew clearly that the Chinese devil Tang Qiuli, who had millions of troops in the Indochina Peninsula, would not be idle. Sooner or later, he would take action against the empire's southwest Pacific occupation area. Therefore, the independent division troops could be attacked at any time.  Japan is extremely vigilant from top to bottom about any possible attack and has made the most thorough defense arrangements possible.

    With Sumatra and Kalimantan as the main barriers, more than 200,000 heavy troops were deployed on the two small islands respectively to prevent the independent divisions from attacking. However, who could have imagined  , that damn China devil started taking action in an unexpected place - southern Australia.

    Moreover, the attack was extremely ruthless. With hundreds of thousands of heavy troops supported by powerful sea and air firepower, they captured Adelaide and Melbourne in less than a day, opening two openings in the southern part of the empire's Australia.  Big gap.

    When the heavyweights from Japan¡¯s base camp arrived at Emperor Hirohito¡¯s palace, Hirohito was already waiting for them in the conference room.

    His face was ashen, and he had long since lost the high-spirited and high-spirited Emperor Hirohito he had been some time ago when the troops of the Imperial North American Combat Command were dominating the central region of the United States and leaving the Germans at their wits' end.

    Hirohito looked at the ministers with a dull expression and said in a hoarse voice: "I have received another very bad report., the nearly 100,000 imperial soldiers of the four divisions deployed by the Imperial Australian Army in southern Australia were all shattered to pieces!  "

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