Chapter 605

The fighting in Australia is not going well these days. Although the Japanese army deliberately chose a relatively remote landing area to avoid counterattack, due to the increasing number of troops, it began to gradually capture several important areas of Australia a few days later.

The Japanese troops who went down to the South achieved little success and were basically useless. They attacked several unimportant towns along the way. It was this army that moved forward in the boundless desert. The areas they attacked were not important areas of Australia, and there were almost no defensive forces.

Half a month ago, the northward Japanese troops occupied kalumbulu and Windham, and then launched a fierce battle with a nearby Australian infantry regiment. A few hours later, the fierce Japanese soldiers, regardless of their own losses, forcibly invaded Timberlake, and their forerunners occupied the long-awaited port of Kitts in Western Australia on July 27.

Once the Japanese army occupied Darwin, the logistics supply of the Japanese Australian landing forces would be much more convenient, even if they had a firm foothold in Australia.

In fact, throughout the history of Japan's invasion of China, we can see the characteristics of the Japanese nation. They are extremely fierce, but with a trace of sinister cunning. They learn and understand a powerful opponent, and strive to master all the details of the opponent, so as to judge and evaluate the opponent, and finally win a decisive battle by surprise, defeat and surpass the opponent.

This is what the Japanese did when dealing with tsarist Russia. They knew about the Tsarist Russian troops deployed in the Far East. Because of the support of the British and French, they even knew that the tsarist Russia could not transport a large number of more elite European troops to the Far East. So they won the first World War and defeated Russia.

This is especially true when dealing with the Manchu Qing government of China. Their spies are all pervasive. They even know the level of China's products and military enterprises, and frantically collect all kinds of Chinese intelligence. In the end, they know more about China than the Chinese themselves, so they won the first World War in the Sino Japanese War of 1894, laying the foundation for the rise of Japan.

But this time, things have changed a little. The continuous victories of the Japanese make them feel a little elated, which is the inevitable result of the rapid rise of the lack of information. Because of the tight time, they can't observe their opponents for another three or even five years, so this time Japan feels a little blind.

They could not understand the Soviet troops behind Nomenkan, and they were still using the intelligence of the Tsarist era to evaluate this powerful opponent. They don't understand the United States, at least they don't fully understand the opposite United States, and they can't understand the terrible production capacity of the United States. The Japanese leaders themselves did not think that the war would be so smooth, and their expected plan was not written here at all. In their mind, after Japan captured the Philippines and Malaysia, the United States would choose to give in when it won the Wake Island. However, at present, this estimate is too optimistic, and the Japanese military has to prepare the second round of action plan in a panic.

Whether a country's invasion plan is detailed enough, whether its strategic vision is far-reaching enough, and whether its strategic prediction is accurate enough determine whether the country's invasion process is smooth or not, whether its control after occupying the target is secure, and whether the country can eat its own target and realize its own strength.

Japan's relatively comprehensive operational plan is the war of aggression against China. Therefore, even if the Chinese army was repeatedly strengthened by Germany and the United States, it still failed to prevent the Japanese army from expanding its occupied areas in China's coastal areas. But now Japan's war is totally unplanned. No wonder there are all kinds of problems.

For example, the Japanese army and the Navy had serious differences on the occupation of Australia. The Navy hoped that the army could attack all the way to the East in the coastal areas, control the prosperous port cities in eastern Australia as soon as possible, and prepare for the invasion of South America and the United States. As for those western areas, it is dispensable.

However, the army believes that it must occupy Australia in an all-round way in order to save its troops to the maximum extent. Now Japan has mobilized 40 divisions to fight in Australia, more than 20 of which have been sent to Australia and its surrounding areas. If the Australian War can not be ended in a short time, the Japanese army will have to add another 40 divisions to Australia, which will make it worse for Japan, which is obviously short of troops.

According to Japan's consistent solution, this kind of serious disagreement finally made a wonderful joke: since everyone can't stand each other, let's not care about each other, let's fight separately! This kind of playful fighting method has been running through the whole Japanese Pacific War. From weapon research and development to tactical arrangement, the Navy and the army do not belong to each other.

As a result, all kinds of funny things that broke up with each other appeared in the fighting performance of the Japanese military: the navy was defeated, and the news was not told to the army. As a result, when the army fought, it found that there was no naval force to cooperate, and the result was even worse. The Navy went to dig caves to fight for a long time, and the army was still foolishly digging trenches on the beach to fight against the U.S. landing. This is the performance of the Japanese military in the real situation, without exaggeration.

So the Japanese Navy began to organize some Marines and other forces to attack northward along the coastline to complete their plan to seize the industrial zone on the east coast of Australia as soon as possible. It has to be said that this time, the plan of the Japanese Navy seems to be more intelligent than that of the army. However, based on the principle of "as long as the Navy insists, the army will oppose it", the high-level Japanese army ordered the elite army to attack south in an attempt to conquer the whole island of Australia.

However, compared with several elite divisions of the army, the combat effectiveness of the Japanese marine corps is still far behind. At least in the configuration of heavy weapons, it is incomparable with the Japanese army. Therefore, in the process of entanglement with Australian troops, the Japanese troops going northward did not find any decent bargains. They had to rely on limited naval cover to advance bit by bit. As for the main force of the Japanese naval fleet, they had already killed the American island of Oahu with full confidence. In order to draw a clear line between the Japanese army and the Japanese Navy, the Japanese army took artillery and a small number of chariots to "fight" with the Australian desert. It had no intention of supporting the Marine Corps. But soon the army commanders found a fatal problem. They couldn't go far without the support of the port. Seeing the army landing more and more troops, but unable to give full play to the number of advantages, the high-level army had to find the Japanese Navy disheartened, hoping to share the port transportation of army materials. The matter finally came to an end when it came to the emperor of Japan. For the sake of Japan's future, the Japanese army finally got the coveted port of Kitts. However, after some bargaining, the Japanese army was forced to promise the Japanese Navy to help capture the more important port of Darwin. It had been a month of mischief. On August 15, the Japanese army resumed its attack on Darwin harbor. Only this time did the Australian garrison really understand the combat effectiveness of the elite Japanese army. The crazy Japanese soldiers attacked one after another like waves. Finally, the Australian garrison surrendered to the 19th division of Japan, and Darwin harbor fell. In fact, some insightful people at the top of Japan have already seen that Australia is a huge trap. Japanese troops entering such a vast area will only make their own forces more dispersed and their troops more exhausted. However, due to the lack of a systematic analysis and plan, they do not know how to deal with the current situation. Give up Australia? Are you kidding? Nearly 300000 Japanese troops have landed there. Do you think it's fun to try your best to take these troops back home? Don't even think about this kind of thing for Japanese leaders. No one will agree to spit out what they eat. Continue to attack in Australia? We'll have to send another 300000 soldiers up. The territory of Australia is larger than that of China occupied by Japan. If we refer to Japan's garrison troops in China, Japan needs at least one million people to be able to control such a vast territory. It's like Japan's death. China has trapped nearly two million people in the pit, and another one million people will be thrown in, What else is there to attack the United States? Japan is also confused about the current script. It expects that the United States will surrender to Japan a few days ago, but the United States has no intention to surrender and compromise at all. In response to Japan's aggression against Australia, the United States mobilized 1 million Army soldiers to defend their Pacific Ocean and the United States. Nimitz, however, had seven more destroyers and three more cruisers in one month. At the same time, the three aircraft carriers originally refitted to Britain were in the final stage. These independent light aircraft carriers can only carry 40 aircraft, far from being the rivals of the aircraft carriers of the Japanese Navy Fleet. These three aircraft carriers were originally refitted to aid Britain. In the original history, they were launched only 43 years ago, but because of the failure of the British navy in this time and space, They joined the US Navy four and a half years in advance. With these three light aircraft carriers, the York City and the raider, and the hornet, which is about to be completed in the dock, the US Navy has the strength to fight the Japanese Navy. Nimitz is considering whether it is safe to give up the defense of Oahu. Just when Japan swaggered in Australia, the Americans were not idle. They used all their strength to set up solid Fortifications on Oahu Island. Three American divisions with higher combat effectiveness were deployed on Oahu Island, and they were ready to fight against the invading Japanese army.