novelhk Chapter 1072
Chapter 1072
The local Australian army is divided into two parts.
One is the British army stationed here.
The second is Australia’s own army.
There are not many British troops stationed in Australia. After the British government moved to South Asia, they greatly reduced the number of troops stationed around the world and transferred most of the troops back to their homeland to strengthen the protection of their homeland.
After all, although it is known that the Indians are very docile and it is not easy to break out in armed resistance, considering the huge population of the Indians, even if it is not a nationwide riot, but only a small-scale local unrest, it is not something that the current British government can bear!
Therefore, shrinking the garrisons around the world and concentrating these troops in South Asia to protect the British regime and ensure that the situation in South Asia is stable and controllable is the most important thing for the British government!
However, after the British government withdrew its troops stationed around the world, it did not ignore the defense of these places.
Their response is to delegate power and allow each colony to recruit its own army to protect itself!
In fact, colonies like the Maple Leaf Country and Australia had sent troops to follow the British Empire to participate in the war during World War I and World War II, and their performance on the battlefield was also very good.
Therefore, if they were allowed to expand their own army, they could indeed replace the role of the British army to a certain extent.
It was Australia’s own army that hurried over after hearing the news. After this army arrived at the seaside, the Japanese army had already begun to land on the beach. They had no time to build a defense line and immediately engaged in combat operations.
The commander of the Australian army took a look at the densely packed warships on the sea, and his heart suddenly felt bitter.
There are so many warships on the sea, which means that the number of troops sent by the enemy must be very large. In this case, the regiment in his hands alone will definitely not be able to stop the enemy!
Even if he stopped the enemy in this place, what would he do if the enemy opened a landing site from other areas?
His troops were limited, but the enemy’s troops were still many. The enemy could arbitrarily divide its troops to land, but he could not divide his troops to defend, because the result of doing so would be to be defeated one by one!
So he decided to concentrate his troops and defend this section of the coastline first.
He had just sent a distress telegram to the headquarters, hoping that the headquarters could dispatch troops from other places to reinforce him as soon as possible!
If the reinforcements come quickly, they may be able to defend the coastline before the Japanese army divides its troops.
But if the reinforcements come too slowly, the coastline defense line will definitely not be able to be defended. At that time, they will have to shrink their forces and retreat to the key strongholds nearby to hold the strongholds, block the advance of the Japanese army, and buy enough time for the rear!
Just as the Australian army’s commander was thinking about how to deal with the Japanese army, the battle had already broken out.
After the battle started, the Australian army’s commander immediately found that he seemed too optimistic!
Not to mention that he couldn’t defend against the Japanese army after he divided his troops, even if he didn’t divide his troops, he might not be able to stop the Japanese army!
Boom boom boom!
When the Japanese army landed on the beach and launched an attack on the Australian army that rushed to the shore, the Japanese naval fleet also began to bombard the Australian positions on land.
Because the Australian army had no time to build positions, they suffered heavy losses under the Japanese artillery fire. The large-caliber naval guns combined with high explosives had extremely amazing lethality. When a shell fell, a large area around it often turned into a white land. If there were no solid permanent fortifications, facing the attack of such large-caliber naval guns, the soldiers would not be able to survive!
The Japanese artillery attack caused the first wave of casualties to the defenders, followed by those Japanese soldiers who were fearless and shouted the slogan”Long live Tianhuang” to launch a desperate charge!
The Japanese army knew very well what it meant if they could not take the beachhead position, so after the battle started, they immediately selected the death squad to rush into the enemy’s defense line, with the purpose of disrupting the opponent’s defense line in the first place and laying the foundation for their own breakthrough of the enemy’s defense line!
It must be said that this strategy was quite successful.
Using the charge of this group of death-defying death squads, the Japanese army quickly figured out the firepower configuration of the Australian army.
The Australian Army is not an army with rich experience in war. Since the end of World War I, they have not been on the battlefield for a long time. Moreover, the number of troops sent by Australia in World War I was not large, and most of them have retired. It can be said that there are very few veterans of World War I in the current Australian Army, and most of the soldiers are recruits who have never seen the real battlefield!
When these recruits saw the dense enemy fleet at sea, they were already timid before the battle!
When they saw the Japanese army braving the hail of bullets, heavy machine gun fire suppression and artillery fire, and shouting that the sky was nagging the black card board to charge, they were completely scared!
The number of Japanese suicide squads is actually not large. If they encounter experienced troops, they only need a dozen heavy machine guns to block the position, use cross fire, and cooperate with their own artillery, especially mortars and grenade launchers, to easily defeat the Japanese offensive.
However, this Australian army was inexperienced. Seeing that the enemy rushed so fast and fiercely, it seemed that they were about to rush to their positions. They didn’t think so much at all. They just wanted to get rid of the enemy as quickly as possible and prevent the enemy from rushing to their side!
So, almost all the light and heavy machine guns, mortars and field guns opened fire. They poured all the fierce firepower on the Japanese death squad. Although they successfully defeated the attack of the death squad, the Japanese death squad was finally wiped out when it rushed to a place less than fifteen meters away from the Australian position!
However, the purpose of this death squad has been achieved. In the process of killing this death squad, the firepower of the Australian defense line was exposed.
And exposing one’s own firepower in front of the Japanese fleet is no different from seeking death!
So, after obtaining the information about the specific layout of the heavy firepower of the defenders, the Japanese fleet launched a bombardment on the defenders again!
However, unlike the previous bombing, this bombing was obviously more targeted. They aimed at the heavy weapons in the hands of the defenders!
The Japanese commander knew very well that as long as they could destroy these heavy weapons that posed the greatest threat to them, the defenders would not be able to stop their attack no matter how many people they had!