Rise of Australia

Chapter 873 The Flame of Revenge

"My people, I have to announce a very heavy news. In the early hours of this morning, our Pacific Fleet base port was attacked by an unknown fleet and aircraft, causing many of our warships to sink and dozens of aircraft to be destroyed. and the deaths of hundreds of naval soldiers as a result.

After investigation and evidence collection, it was found that the fleets and aircraft that attacked us were all island troops. It was these damn islanders who launched a surprise attack on us.

So far, we have lost a total of 147 outstanding naval soldiers in this attack, and 322 naval soldiers have been injured, 55 of whom were seriously injured.

This is a declaration of war on Australasia and a serious violation of Australasia’s national security and people’s interests. I declare that from this moment on Australasia is in a state of total war with the island nations.

I hate a country that goes to war undeclared, and I hate a murderer who resorts to despicable attacks. Let the fire of revenge come more fiercely!
As the Emperor of Australasia, I ask you that from now on, no matter what your status is, as long as you are an Australasian, you have the obligation to devote yourself to the country's war and give everything for this war!
We want everyone to know that the majesty of Australasia cannot be violated and the status of Australasia cannot be challenged! "

At 6:17 pm on June , all radio stations in Australasia broadcast Arthur's speech.

The people were surprised at Arthur's sudden speech at first, but after understanding the reason, they became angry at the island country's undeclared war.

The next day, Australasia officially released the number of Australasian casualties in the attack.

在岛国人的袭击中，澳大拉西亚太平洋舰队一共有1艘战列巡洋舰、3艘驱逐舰、2艘巡洋舰和1艘潜艇被击沉，还有1艘航空母舰和1艘战列舰负伤。

In terms of aircraft, there were close to 200 aircraft, more than 40 crashed directly, and more than half of the aircraft were injured.

Only less than 200 of the 10 aircraft were intact, and the others were more or less damaged in that air battle.

In terms of personnel, it is even more accurate to everyone. According to an announcement from the Australasian government, the attack resulted in a total of 501 casualties in Australasia.

Among them, 469 soldiers suffered casualties, including 147 dead and 322 injured.

There were 32 civilian casualties, including 4 dead and 28 injured.

The island nation attacked a naval base, so why were ordinary people injured?

This has to mention the air battle. After an unlucky island nation's plane was hit, it lost its way in the dark night sky. Finally, it crashed in a residential area of ​​Hawaii due to plane failure.

The explosion caused a building to collapse, ultimately causing great misfortune to 32 ordinary people.

As early as Arthur's speech the day before, the people of Australasia were very angry at the undeclared attacks by the islanders.

Australasian anger intensified after seeing damage reports the next day.

The casualties caused by this attack exceeded 500 people. Australasia has not suffered such a heavy loss since its founding.

More importantly, it was the island country, a frontal competitor, that attacked Australasia. Australasia already has a serious White Australia Policy, which discriminates against non-whites to a certain extent.

Faced with attacks from island countries that they originally didn't think highly of, many extreme media outlets have begun to publicize the evils of island countries.

Having said that, such casualty results still seem to be very exaggerated.

However, at this time, the people of Australasia no longer have the sense to distinguish whether the data is true or false. What's more, in the eyes of the people, it is impossible for the government to exaggerate the scale of losses for no reason.

After all, the attack was not a glorious incident. Instead of covering up such a bad thing, we would exaggerate it and publicize it. This is unreasonable no matter how you think about it.

Anyway, no matter what, the war between Australasia and the islanders has indeed begun, and the hatred of the Australasians towards the island countries continues to deepen because of this attack.

As a country far away in Oceania, before the outbreak of this large-scale war, Australasia did not have any obvious hostile countries.

The attitude of the government and the military is basically that whoever has competing interests with me is my opponent.

Since the founding of Australasia, the island country has been the first country to actively provoke Australasia and cause Australasia to suffer a great loss. It is natural that it arouses the hatred of Australasians.

For Britain and France, the island country's participation in the war was definitely bad news.

Especially after attracting the hatred of the Australasians, at least in the short term, the focus of Australasia's offensive will definitely be on the islanders.

This also means that in Europe, in addition to the 60 troops in Australasia that have been agreed upon, it will be difficult for Britain and France to obtain support from Australasia again in the short term.

It is a bad thing for Britain and France, but it is definitely a good thing for Germany and Italy.

As long as the island country can hold off Australasia, the current war situation will obviously still have the upper hand for Germany and Italy.

Of course, whether it is the German-Italian Alliance or Germany that has the upper hand is open to debate.

The island country's participation in the war also means that the widely circulated theory of world war has clearly become a reality.

What's even worse is that this world war is obviously more intense than the last one. The main battlefields of the last world war were in Europe, and it only affected the colonies of European countries.

But now, with the full participation of Australasia and the island nations in the war, it officially represents the opening of the Pacific Theater of World War II.

With its second battlefield, World War II can truly be called a world-scale super war.

At 6:17 pm on June , with Arthur's speech, Australasia officially declared war on the island nation.

At six o'clock in the morning on June 6, the island country first held a diplomatic conference and made many quibbles, and then pretended to be helpless and declared war on Australasia.

At 6 a.m. on June 18, the Philippines and Kalimantan declared war on the island country.

At 12 noon, the United Kingdom of the West Coast and the Kingdom of California also declared war on the island countries respectively, and the Pacific Hegemony War officially began.

The perspective returns to Australasia.

After the war broke out with the island country, Arthur's plan officially entered another stage.

Looking at Arthur, he was obviously not as angry as he was during his speech last night.

In fact, this is indeed the case. The angry appearance is shown to the people in order to mobilize people's emotions and make them more actively participate in this war.

As for the true outcome of that attack, it was actually not as bad as the Australasian government made it out to be.

With its two major killer weapons, missiles and more advanced aircraft, the Australasian Navy would not be able to lose that war.

Although two cruisers were indeed sunk due to negligence at the beginning, it did not have much impact on the overall strength of the Pacific Fleet.

Before five o'clock, the sky was dark. At this time, the island nation's navy and the Australasian Pacific Fleet were almost 50-50 apart.

But after five o'clock, it was already dark, which at least allowed people to clearly see the distribution and movement of enemy aircraft.

It was precisely from five o'clock in the morning that the battle situation ushered in a huge change. The Australasian Air Force quickly secured its advantage and successfully defeated the island nation's navy.

真实的结果，是澳大拉西亚太平洋舰队用1艘战列巡洋舰沉没、1艘战列舰重伤的代价，击沉了岛国2艘航空母舰、1艘战列舰和2艘潜艇。

If the aircraft carriers of the island country had not quickly fled Hawaii when the situation was bad, I am afraid that the results of the Australasian Pacific Fleet could have been expanded again.

Of course, it was precisely because the four aircraft carriers fled first that hundreds of island nation aircraft in the sky became living targets.

400 island nation aircraft fought against 200 Australasian aircraft. Only about 30 Australasian aircraft were destroyed and about 110 aircraft were damaged.

The people of the island country are very miserable. Although the missile's hit rate is not high, it is still very deadly to the aircraft.

It is precisely because of the impact of missiles that more than half of the island country's more than 400 planes crashed, and less than 200 planes fled Hawaii.

Judging from the results of this attack, although Australasia was the party that was attacked, it was the island countries that suffered the greater losses.

However, for Arthur's strategic purposes, the Australasian government instead exaggerated the island country's results and its own losses, making itself the victim from any angle.

At this time, the island country has absolutely no choice if it wants to quibble. After all, they took the initiative to attack. They couldn't win the naval battle with fewer aircraft after Australasia was attacked, right?

This kind of statement is the most unreasonable to other foreign media.

Since war has been declared on the island country, Arthur naturally does not need to be polite.

On June 6, the day after he declared war on the island nation, Arthur held a meeting of the Ministry of National Defense to discuss plans for how to conduct large-scale operations against the island nation.

The meeting was attended by the commanders of the navy, army and air force and senior generals, senior staff officials, Ministry of National Defense officials and a small number of important cabinet ministers.

Arthur expressed his distaste for the island nation from the beginning, which also affected the entire country, making most of them very disgusted with the island nation.

Currently, there are no peace advocates in Australasia for this war with the island countries, and all of them are firm war advocates.

"Your Majesty, I think we should retaliate for this attack." Navy Commander-in-Chief Daniel took the lead and said firmly: "Based on the results of this attack, our navy is obviously more powerful than the island nation's navy.

Moreover, the islanders lost 2 aircraft carriers and 1 strategic ship in this attack, and their naval strength will only become weaker.

As long as we gain absolute superiority on the sea, it is only a matter of time before we defeat the island countries. "

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