Chapter 77: The final battle to conquer Australia Although General MacArthur's view on the final struggle of the Australian federal government and the Australian Allied Forces at Shank Point was quite pessimistic, the actual situation on the frontline battlefield was even worse than MacArthur's pessimistic view.
To the extent that it is too terrible to look at.
Since the Australian Allied Forces did not have any plan in advance, and were forced by the Japanese army's pressing step by step, the entire task of transporting supplies only lasted less than a week and was forced to end, and starting from the second day of the transfer and retreat, The rainy weather that briefly sheltered the Australians cleared up again, and all Australian Allied transport teams, whether trucks on land or fleets at sea, were exposed to indiscriminate bombing by Japanese aircraft.
As a result, according to Prime Minister John Cutting's subsequent statistics, during the entire Melbourne evacuation, more than 80 transport ships in the hands of the Australian Allied Forces were destroyed and sunk during the ferry from Melbourne to Shank Point.
About 60 vehicles were also blown up one after another on the road to Shank Point.
At the same time, more than 10,000 soldiers from various countries were killed or scattered on this congested road.
As a result, the ammunition, food, clothing, and fuel that were finally successfully transported to Shank Point were far less than expected.
A considerable number of the various troops preparing to retreat to Shank Point failed to reach their destination in the end.
On the contrary, the number of Melbourne citizens who flocked to Shank Point to escape the Japanese army far exceeded the estimated fifty or sixty kilometers from Melbourne to Shank Point.
Although it seemed a bit far, in fact it was possible even with just two legs.
Finished walking.
Moreover, you walk close to the bay all the way, so there is no danger of getting lost.
In order to avoid the bombing, citizens also choose to walk at night.
As the current Prime Minister of the Australian Federation, Prime Minister John Cutting cannot logically completely abandon his own citizens.
All in all, when the first Japanese sun flag began to fly in the center of Melbourne, the Shank Point Peninsula, fifty kilometers away to the south, was crowded with about 15,000 Australian federal troops, 5,500 American troops and less than one Thousands of New Zealand soldiers.
When General MacArthur abandoned Manila and retreated to the Bataan Peninsula, he still had about 15,000 American troops and 65,000 Philippine troops.
In terms of numbers, they even far exceeded the Japanese troops on the Philippine battlefield at that time.
Then 50,000 Australian civilians followed the retreating Allied forces and poured into Shank Point, crowding the place to the brim.
Only a maximum of 20,000 of these people can live in houses or caves, and the rest can only camp.
But this is not the most terrible thing.
What is worse is that the supplies transported to Shank Point are far less than expected. , Prime Minister John Cutting only had enough food on hand to feed these 70,000 people for half a month.
Then, on the day when the first Japanese reconnaissance force entered the city of Melbourne, a further disaster befell the Australians again.
The Japanese army organized more than 600 sorties of "Galaxy Land Attack" bombers to attack Hong Kong.
Corner carried out carpet bombing.
Since the Allies had no time to dig bunkers, most people had to be bombed in the wilderness.
As a result, more than 5,000 soldiers and civilians were killed and injured on the spot, and most of the food and ammunition that were forced to be piled in the open were also destroyed. , after the major air raid ended, the Allied forces at Shank Point found that they only had enough food reserves to last for another ten days, and this was thanks to the fact that many people were killed in the bombing, which reduced the number of mouths that needed to eat.
Only then can we have such a result Despite such bleak prospects, Prime Minister John Cutting tried to cheer everyone up and hung a sign of the Australian Federal Provisional Government in the small town of Flinders at the southernmost tip of Shank Point, symbolizing that the Anglo-Saxon nation had not given up on its struggle.
Dominance of this southern continent.
Next, he sent all the troops he could collect, as well as the temporarily recruited citizen volunteers, to the northern end of Shank Point connected to the mainland.
He stationed two towns there.
The western root of the peninsula faces Phillip Bay.
Between Balcombe and Hastings at the eastern root of the peninsula, the Allied command planned to build a forward defense line of about ten kilometers in length based on the terrain.
Tens of thousands of Australian soldiers and civilians bravely withstood the indiscriminate bombing by Japanese planes and dug trenches as fast as possible.
Although the food was only half of the standard ration and everyone was hungry, their morale at this time was still very high. high.
These Australians were no longer willing to retreat, and had no way out, hoping to stand up and fight with honor.
Finally, they were able to complete this crude defense line before the Japanese launched a ground attack.
But this line of defense could only protect the land, but it could not protect the sea behind it.
The six brand-new Yamato-class battleships were quickly mobilized outside the port of Hastings Town and poured into the defenders there day and night.
The rain of bullets, each shell can burn the land as big as half a football field into coke.
The trenches dug by the Australians were soon blown to pieces, and the surviving remaining soldiers and civilians were forced to move inland away from the coast. retreat.
Then, these tenacious guys discovered even more desperately that they might have been defeated by hunger before they were knocked down by bullets.
At the same time, the Japanese Army north of Shank Point was also preparing for the final general attack to capture urban Melbourne.
During the Philippine Campaign that year, when MacArthur retreated to Bataan, he declared the capital Manila to be an "oencity".
This is a kind of chivalry behavior of Western military commanders in war to prevent those historical relics and cultural treasures from being destroyed by the war.
However, this kind of chivalry only applies to wars between "civilized people" or white Europeans.
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The current war for Australia between the Anglo-Saxon nation and the Yamato nation is obviously not on this list.
When the Japanese army just landed in Australia and the Allied beachhead defense failed, the Australian Army High Command formulated a detailed and cruel scorched earth policy. : In the soon-to-be-fallen Northern Australian states, they destroyed ports, bridges, power plants, and waterworks, burned food, polluted meat, and regressed civilization to the barbaric prehistoric era because they did not expect the Japanese to behave as gentlemen at all.
The performance of the Japanese army really confirmed the above-mentioned pessimistic judgment.
Concentration camps, mass graves and comfort stations have become the final destination of millions of white Australians, basically just like they wiped out the Australian indigenous people and took this southern continent as their own.
The methods are exactly the same.
There is no way, who makes the Japanese always regard the British as their teachers?
Of course, they have to learn everything decently and even get better at it.
Therefore, when Japanese planes destroyed the last small steamer in Melbourne Port and Japanese armored troops rushed into the beach of Phillip Bay from the east, completely cutting off the only road between downtown Melbourne and Shank Point, they were trapped.
The last more than 10,000 Allied troops in Melbourne's urban area had no Have you thought about surrendering and preserving Melbourne, a famous city in the southern hemisphere, relatively intact?
Instead, you are determined to welcome your final destruction, fight a bloody street battle, and use this city that has been guarded for many years as your own cemetery.
Grab as many Japanese soldiers as possible and bury them together.
Unfortunately, the Japanese troops on the opposite side have been fighting with them in Australia for so many years.
The Japanese can also guess the thoughts of these stubborn Australians, and they do not intend to risk their lives to accompany them and start a fight with them in the city.
After the preliminary fire reconnaissance, a house-to-house battle with heavy casualties occurred.
Afterwards, the Japanese troops attacking the city directly used a large number of deadly nerve gas bombs to completely "clean" the neighborhoods held by the remaining Allied forces.
Then, the Japanese infantry of about three divisions were under the cover of light tanks. , unhurriedly broke into Melbourne, which has become a dead city.
A few Allied soldiers who were hiding in sealed spaces such as cellars and underground shelters and who were lucky enough to escape the baptism of poisonous gas put up a last tragic resistance in the ruins of Melbourne, but they only lasted a few hours and were shot by gunfire.
They were destroyed one after another amidst the sound of artillery and explosions.
At noon on September 8, the last organized resistance force of the Allied forces in urban Melbourne was completely wiped out, and the old capital of the Australian Federation was finally planted with a sun flag.
Next, a few hours later, Lieutenant General Masanobu Tsuji, who came from the northeast with the 152nd Division, also happily rode in a captured American jeep and fired sporadic cold guns.
Shi Ran broke into the dilapidated urban area of Melbourne and reached the beach of Philip Bay at the other end of the city.
Philip Bay, south of Melbourne, is an almost closed pocket-shaped harbor.
There is only an outlet about two kilometers wide that leads to the sea.
The water here is turquoise and clear, and the waves are calm.
It is like a beautiful piece of land held between the thumb and forefinger.
Emerald is somewhat similar to Port Arthur in China, but Philip Bay is much larger than Port Arthur because of the This special terrain allows Melbourne to have the beautiful scenery and humid climate of a seaport city, while also avoiding being directly attacked by typhoons.
Driving along the flat and wide coastal road, there are flat and fine beaches along the way, making it an excellent beach. , the hills on the other side of the road are lush with vegetation, and several of the farms are covered with beautiful and fragrant lavender.
However, at this time, Melbourne and Philip Bay were no longer as picturesque as they used to be.
Instead, they were ravaged by the war and were in a mess.
There were all kinds of scattered shipwrecks and bloated floating corpses, as well as those on the water.
Large areas of heavy oil leaking from the sunken ship are polluting this calm and beautiful bay.
The coastal road was also devastated by aircraft bombs and long-range heavy artillery.
There were craters everywhere.
Burnt farm buildings, abandoned vehicles and luggage, as well as various belongings left behind by the fleeing citizens, as well as those who had no time to bury them, could be seen everywhere. charred corpse However, as a professional soldier who has experienced hundreds of battles, Lieutenant General Tsuji Masanobu has long been accustomed to such disgusting and horrific scenes, so he turned a blind eye to it.
On the contrary, looking at the sun flag flying on the roof of Melbourne City Hall, he was filled with a feeling of elation.
In the past three hundred years, Western white people have always boasted about how resourceful they are, how brave and resolute they are, and how they dominate the world without any reason.
They invented every new gadget and discovered every new place.
They were the leaders of civilization.
Every scientific theorem, every overseas mountain range, river, and island all bear their names.
Any person of color is only worthy of being their slave and vassal.
Now, it's all turned upside down.
It’s the turn of the yellow race, who have been despised for hundreds of years, to take back the world from them.
Thinking about the strategic policy of the Americans at the beginning of the war, they had already been beaten into such a bad shape by the Imperial Japanese Army, and they were still pursuing "Europe first".
It is really funny to hear it, but it is no wonder.
Since entering the Age of Discovery, Since then, the aura of the "mysterious East" has long faded.
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In modern times, Western white people have always despised the yellow race and the East.
I don’t think inferior Easterners can cause much trouble to noble Westerners.
But they forget that Easterners also have thousands of years of war experience, and are also eager to learn various war techniques, not to mention paying a heavy price to win victory.
The Americans' strategically self-righteous contempt for the Japanese was the fundamental reason why they lost Australia.
Of course, the empire also paid an extremely heavy price for this.
A total of 20 million soldiers and civilians were "shattered" in the war, and more than half of the cities on the Japanese archipelago were reduced to ruins.
Even to this day, the imperial capital Tokyo is still under the iron hooves of the United States and Britain.
I groan but these are necessary sacrifices.
For the glorious future of the nation, with this vast continent of eight million square kilometers beneath our feet, our generation must grit our teeth and persevere to the end no matter what.
Throughout the ages, the rise of any great empire has not come from mountains of blood and endless wars.
The Romans once almost had their backbone broken by the famous Carthaginian general Hannibal.
The Russians endured being forced to burn in front of Napoleon's army.
The tragedy in Moscow, even the Americans were once set on fire by the British army and burned down the White House, but they all withstood all these setbacks and sacrifices before winning their own proud and glorious era.
In the same way, since the Japanese are looking forward to establishing their own imperial hegemony, they naturally have to be willing to sacrifice one or even several generations.
However, now is not the time to engage in such philosophical divergent thinking.
After all, Australia’s war has not yet ended.
Thinking of this, Lieutenant General Tsuji Masanobu couldn't help but raise his head and squinted his eyes to look at the sunny bay in the south and the last Allied position on the Australian continent at Point Shank far behind the horizon.
Lieutenant General Tsuji Masanobu believed that he was very clear about the plans of this remnant enemy.
You know, he also set foot on the battlefield in the Philippines and personally participated in the Battle of Bataan Peninsula that made MacArthur famous.
"Humph, it's a good idea to reenact the Battle of Bataan in the Philippines at the southernmost tip of Australia, but what do you white people think of us?
Do you think that the majestic army sweeping across the Pacific has even learned this little experience?
Don’t you have the ability to teach a lesson?”
The reason why the Japanese army stumbled in the Bataan Peninsula of the Philippines was that they first suffered from underestimation of the enemy.
They thought that a single artillery fire would scare the enemy into defeat and surrender.
As a result, they recklessly ran into the strong fortifications laid out by MacArthur.
It was a severe blow; secondly, the Japanese army was insufficient in strength.
The Japanese offensive troops that entered the battle on the Bataan Peninsula were not only in place intermittently, but also engaged in a protracted refueling tactic.
Moreover, the strength of the Japanese army as the attacker was always less than the number of US-Philippine coalition forces in the encirclement.
Once again, the navy and army did not cooperate well.
When the Japanese army risked their lives to attack on the Bataan battlefield with narrow terrain, the navy fleet did not attack from behind.
Sufficiently intense artillery support, however, none of the above could be repeated at Shank Point: Today's Japanese army knows well the principle of a trapped beast still fighting, and is in no rush to attack these remnant enemies who have been trapped in a dead end.
"Let's rest in Melbourne for a few days and wait until the aviation and navy bomb the Shank Point." s: The U.S.
Olympic delegation obviously expected the bad environment in Rio de Janeiro, so not only did they not live in the Olympic Village, they didn’t even live on land.
Instead, they directly chartered a luxury cruise ship and parked it in the port as an apartment.
It’s hard not to think of it.
The scene where Cleopatra takes a boat to meet Antony.
On the contrary, the Chinese delegation experienced various tests such as theft, robbery, and roadside gunfights, and could only exclaim that they felt like they had arrived at the old Shanghai beach.
Another: I’m shocked to hear that Fang Zhouzi’s academic fraud has hit Prince Ma, saying that his Xiaozhuan War and the history of the Mayan conquest of the Yin Shang fleet are completely inconsistent with historical common sense.
What he wrote is a satirical novel.
Why don’t you criticize Shi Nai'an's Water Margin, Grandma Qiong Yao's Return of the Princess, Jin Yong's The Legend of the Condor Heroes, and the Ballad of the Desert, which depicts Huo Qubing as an infatuated fool, are completely inconsistent with historical common sense.
Well, of course, in view of some kind of mysterious will of the universe, I have to say the last sentence as usual: auspicious royalties, safe home oshow7: