Age of Rebirth

At the Allied Australian Theater Command, at the banquet to welcome the generals and officers of the Allied reinforcements, General MacArthur, who was alone, was in a strong mood of elation, and he just said what he should say or not. Shake it out. ?Le?Read?Novel.Leread x.com

The face of Fernandez, the supreme commander of the Allied Forces in the Australian theater, the face of the British Army General Fernandez, immediately covered the sky with dark clouds, and the proud heart of the nobles of the British Empire was stabbed violently, so painful that he wanted to kill someone!

MacArthur's attitude, whether he is arrogant or a villain, is not the most important thing. Anyway, this annoying Yankee can't represent the attitude of the Americans, but what he mentioned is that the Allied reinforcements who just arrived in Australia The commander, General Barry Hessman, had already submitted the request to the US government to replace the commander of the Australian Allied Forces, but General Fernandez had to be serious.

It is by no means groundless. I think that on the day when the Allied reinforcements arrived in Canberra, I went to the pier to greet them, but was told that "General Barry Hussman has been picked up by General MacArthur!" It is very likely that , These two Americans have reached a tacit agreement in order to seek the highest command of the Australian Allied Forces!

"General Barry Hessman, I am the Supreme Commander of the Australian Allied Forces officially appointed by the Allied Powers. Of course, the Allied Powers also have the power to remove me. Well, I will wait and see what General MacArthur said. How does the American General Command the Allied Forces to fight!" Admiral Fernandez said with anger in his eyes, staring straight at General Barry Hessman.

"General Fernandez, you misunderstood. I just arrived in Australia, and I don't know the situation on the battlefield, so I don't have the idea of ​​taking over your command!" Barry Hessman hurriedly explained.At the same time, I scolded all the eight generations of MacArthur's ancestors who were the most troublesome.

Admiral Fernandez didn't buy it, and said in a strong tone: "General MacArthur's words just now made me suspicious, and I expressed great indignation at his insult to our general of the British Empire. I'm sorry, General Barry Hussman , I suddenly feel a little uncomfortable. Excuse me!"

After finishing speaking, Admiral Fernandez, accompanied by Chief of Staff General Wagnazer, left the table angrily.A game originally intended to reflect the two armies of Britain and the United States.The banquet of comrades-in-arms who fought side by side with the Japanese army was completely disrupted by MacArthur, a guy who made trouble out of nothing. As a landlord, General Fernandez left the banquet angrily. So far, the atmosphere of the welcome banquet has disappeared.

With just a few words, this proud British guy walked away in a huff.MacArthur was complacent and completely ignored it.The senior British military officers who participated in the banquet around wanted to strangle their eyes, and the American military officers who knew the inside story looked contemptuously and helplessly.

General MacArthur, who has always caused troubles, is indeed a master of hatred. He has been silent for many years. When he appeared in public for the first time, he caused an irreparable rift between the British and American senior officers who were still sincerely united.

"General MacArthur, what you said just now is too reckless. It is very inappropriate to do so before the matter has come to fruition! It will damage the relationship between us and the British allies!" General Siman said to the troublemaker with a gloomy face.

"Ah! My dearest General Barry Hessman, your experience is still insufficient. Don't worry about it. The British should have given up the position of the supreme commander of the Australian Allied Forces long ago! Believe me, the domestic There will be good news coming soon!" MacArthur, who thought he had done the most beautiful thing, said a little cynically.

"You...!" General Barry Hessman, he didn't know what to say to this troublesome old guy, "General MacArthur, the troops have just arrived in Australia, and there are many military affairs that need to be dealt with. I will take my leave. It's gone!" He had no choice but to leave, otherwise, if he stayed with this old guy in an awkward banquet hall and listened to his mouth full of cannonballs, he would be pissed to death?

"What a young man with insufficient qualifications, you can't hold your breath! All Allied troops must be commanded by Americans!" Looking at the back of General Barry Hussman, who seemed to be running away, General MacArthur curled his lips, With a very contemptuous look in his eyes, he said to himself.

In the next few days, General Barry Hussman, with the mentality of a subordinate, worked hard to cooperate with General Fernandez, spending all day in the Australian Allied Command, integrating the Allied forces so that the reinforcements could be integrated into the army as soon as possible. The original Allied troops left. As for MacArthur, he deliberately avoided his former teacher with a mentality of keeping a respectful distance.

However, the rift already existed. At the welcome banquet, General MacArthur's words deeply hurt Admiral Fernandez's proud heart. Therefore, with considerable hostility and indifference towards this new American general, he set up defenses everywhere. Can such two commanders count on close cooperation?

This hostility is also reflected in the cooperation between the original Australian troops of the Allied Forces and the reinforcements. Originally, the seven mechanized infantry divisions of the reinforcements of the Allied Forces should be deployed in the second-line area of ​​defense in the Flinders Mountains and the Barrier Mountains. , as the strong backing of the first-line Allied forces, it is also more conducive to strengthening the defense depth and forming the second barrier in southeastern Australia.

However, Admiral Fernandez ordered that the seven mechanized infantry divisions of the reinforced Allied forces immediately go to the front line to take over several major defensive areas. The original defense of the Australian Allied Forces is very reasonable and sufficient, "General Barry Hessman, Your troops are the elite of the Allied Forces, and the command art of the American generals is also very superb, so if used on the frontline battlefield, it can give the Japanese army a serious setback!"

"I am very much looking forward to the fact that under the command of the general, the Allied reinforcements can create a brilliant record and change our current passive situation!" Facing General Barry Hessman who kept shaking his head, General Fernandez said very sincerely , but anyone can smell the sour taste in the words.

In the view of General Barry Hessman, the Japanese army is maintaining a continuous small-scale offensive posture. In this case, it is not a wise move to switch troops. If it is not good, when 10,000+ troops hand over the defense, the Japanese army will take advantage of it. Breakthrough!

But he has nothing to do, at least for now, he is still a subordinate of Admiral Fernandez, so he can only reluctantly order the seven divisions under his command to go north from Canberra Starry Night, with 10,000+ Allied soldiers, mighty Drive to the war zone.

More than ten days later, an order from the Supreme Headquarters of the Allied Forces finally changed the candidate for the Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Australia. It was ordered that General Barry Hessman of the US Army be appointed as the Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Australia. The former supreme commander, General Fernandez of the British Army, served as the deputy commander-in-chief. It must be the position of two people, just reversed.

However, the position of chief of staff of the Australian Allied Command did not fall on his own head according to MacArthur's expectations. Instead, the former chief of staff, the British General Wagner, continued to serve, and MacArthur, who was actively planning a comeback, was still the original In front of the dispensable post of head of the observation team of the Allied Forces Headquarters in Australia, this appointment can be said to be relatively sudden.

I don’t know what kind of deal Roosevelt and Churchill reached, or people had to bow their heads under the eaves. The British Empire’s government-in-exile, with thousands of people, depended on the charity of the Americans to support them. face, okay?

Anyway, Sir Winston Churchill, the British Prime Minister with a poor family, compromised. I don’t know if he gave up the supreme command of the Australian Allied Forces out of his will. Of course, Churchill, who never traded at a loss, should be from Roosevelt. I don't know what I am satisfied with, exactly what it is!

General Barry Hussman and Admiral Fernandez had very complicated feelings, but they could accept the reality. Only General MacArthur, who was jumping up and down, lost the worst, gained nothing, and was a mixed bag. Fernandez hated it extremely As for himself, Barry Hussman ignored him at a respectful distance. It seemed that His Excellency MacArthur's life in Australia was worse than before.

According to the U.S. military police responsible for guarding the residences of senior Allied generals, rumors went viral afterwards that on the day they arrived at the Allied Forces Command in Australia under the order of the Allied Forces Headquarters, after learning the news, General MacArthur, who always paid attention to his own image and regarded himself as a gentleman, Locked himself in a mansion in the urban area, got drunk, yelled at the January night sky in Melbourne like a lunatic, and cursed for most of the night.

The vulgar language rushed out like cannonballs, shaking the roof tiles, scolding the sky, scolding Roosevelt, scolding Churchill, the British, the US Congress and the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and even more scolding Barry Hessman will , and smashed a lot of precious objects taken by robbers, which made the American military police on guard so surprised that they almost lost their breath!

The troops of the first batch of seven divisions of the Allied Forces to reinforce the Australian battlefield, according to the previous order of the Australian Allied Forces Command, are rushing to the defense lines of the Flinders Mountains and the Barrier Mountains. In Orange, where the Australian Allied Forces Command is located, the former The commander, Admiral Fernandez, is handing over the relevant command authority to the successor commander, General Barry Hussman, with extremely complicated emotions.

The transfer of command went smoothly. Admiral Fernandez, who knew that the general situation was over, hadn't yet realized that he had stumblingd his successor in matters involving the life and death of the Allied Forces, and acted very cooperatively. General Barry Hussman, who was worried, felt more and more ashamed of his former boss and ally, and showed enough respect to General Fernandez!

Now, General Barry Hessman finally has the right to command the Australian Allied Forces to fight according to his own deployment. However, the seven divisions that have already begun to enter the Flinders Mountains and the Barrier Mountains defense line theater can no longer To make deployment adjustments, you can only let nature take its course!

(to be continued) (to be continued...)