Age of Rebirth

The telegram jointly signed by the two commanders of the Australian Allied Forces, General Bachlisman and General Fernades, undoubtedly gave Roosevelt, the number one boss of the Allied Powers, a thunderbolt. It is now late January. If the two According to the commander, the fall of Australia was within a month!

This makes Roosevelt, who almost used the power of the whole country to save Australia, feel so embarrassing, and how can he accept this fact?But you have to face it if you can’t accept it. Even if the British are alarmist, Bachlismann, who read the general himself, will never pretend to be alarmist!

Roosevelt's worries about the situation in the Australian battlefield are not only about whether Australia will fall. As a great leader, he considers the angle and depth of the problem, which is naturally superior. The current Australian battlefield is holding back Japan's largest overseas heavy troops Group, what he is worried about is that once Australia falls and millions of Japanese troops are free, where will the greedy and blood-red eyes of the Japanese look next?

There are two directions, one is the southern peninsula that Tang Qiuli now occupies or even the mainland of China, and the other is the mainland of the United States. This is by no means unfounded worry.

Judging from the situation in the southwest Pacific Ocean, Tang Qiuli, the cunning and flexible Chinese, has obviously seen this step, otherwise, he would not have deployed more than 200 million elite troops on the front line of the southern peninsula for the purpose of Beware of the Japanese who won the Australian war, turn around and head north.

Judging from the many years of confrontation between the Japanese and Tang Qiuli, the troops under Tang Qiuli's command have never tasted victory for the Japanese.That was a daunting opponent for the Japanese. It was unlikely that the Japanese would choose to go north to fight Tang Qiuli.

in this way.Roosevelt came to the sad conclusion that the Japanese had only one target left—the United States. The current situation was very unfavorable to the United States. The Japanese Navy Task Force was fighting against the Pacific Fleet. a war machine.The tactical master who made all the US Navy generals frightened, and the Japanese army stationed on the Hawaiian Islands and nearby islands, such as Way Island.In recent years, the number of troops has increased to more than 30.

Of course, in his heart, Roosevelt dreamed that the Japanese would fight Tang Qiuli.in this way.The United States can not only stay out of the matter, sell arms on both sides, and make black-hearted money. opponent.When they were fighting each other to their deathbed, they easily picked the peaches.Just like the First World War.

At this time, Roosevelt most wanted to see the world situation, but judging from the situation of Japan and Japan in the past few years, the Japanese who had just been beaten to death by Tang Qiuli lost Manchuria, the Korean Peninsula, and the Far East. Obviously, the current Tang Qiuli is a behemoth that the Japanese absolutely do not want to provoke. Then, the United States, which has been exhausted by the European war and the Australian war, will fall into the greedy eyes of the Japanese.

Roosevelt had such a dream, but he didn't dare to immerse himself in the dream. The wish was beautiful, but the reality was cold. Roosevelt, who was exhausted and mentally exhausted, had almost stayed up for several sleepless nights. Several confidantes researched and came to the following conclusions, "Once Australia falls, the Japanese army will definitely point directly at the mainland of the United States. Therefore, defending Australia is equivalent to defending the mainland of the United States!"

Therefore, Roosevelt, whose heart was so heavy that he couldn't add it, called his old partner, the Prime Minister of the British government in exile - Churchill. He knew that his old partner was resourceful, had a lot of ghost stories, and was honest or despicable. There are all means, and it is also a question to discuss with Churchill. After all, this British is another giant of the Allied Powers, although the name is not worthy of the name.

As soon as the two met, they were old acquaintances and had cooperated many times. There was no need to play those diplomatic rhetoric. Roosevelt asked the question openly, "How to ensure that Australia does not fall into the hands of the Japanese?" inside?"

Although he was seeking life on the ground of the Americans, Churchill was unwilling to be lonely. He knew the world situation and the situation in the Australian battlefield well. He gave a solution without thinking, "Mr. In the Australian war, at the very least, the Chinese should bear the corresponding obligations of the allied forces, and Tang Qiuli is the key, and it is far from enough to provide transportation channels for reinforcements in the Australian battlefield!"

"Mr. President can write a personal letter, imploring Tang Qiuli to send troops to Australia. At the same time, we can also try our best to speed up the reinforcement of the Australian battlefield. The British Empire can also continue to tap the potential of war in the West Indies, so three Only by working together can we ensure that the southeastern part of Australia will not fall, at least, until the Japanese can no longer support it!"

Roosevelt was still frowning, and expressed his worries: "Your Excellency, that countryman Tang Qiuli is insidious, cunning, greedy and ambitious, and is very difficult to deal with. He asked the people of the country to send troops to Australia. bear!"

"I haven't tried it, so how do I know it won't work?" Churchill encouraged Roosevelt, "If that countryman Tang Qiuli doesn't want to send troops to Australia, at least we can ask him to provide the greatest convenience for the Allies in terms of weapons and equipment in the name of the Allies. , especially in terms of aircraft and heavy weapons, these are what the Australian battlefield lacks!"

Churchill's words aroused Roosevelt's confidence. There was really no other way. If Tang Qiuli was not to beg, who else could beg? However, not as the boss of the allied countries, but as the president of the United States, he knew that the current allied countries were inappropriate for Tang Qiuli!

Roosevelt ordered the confidential secretary to arrange for a special envoy to deliver his personal letter to Tang Qiuli as soon as possible. Churchill was also relieved to see that the lame man followed his advice.

From the bottom of his heart, Churchill, a veteran colonialist, did not have any good feelings for Tang Qiuli, or even hated him. The Americans did not suffer clearly in the hands of Tang Qiuli, but the British Empire was different. In the battle on the India-Myanmar border, the British Empire lost more than two-thirds of its colonies on the Indian mainland in World War I. At the 83rd parallel north latitude, the British Empire became the laughing stock of the world.

Why did the British and Americans fight the Japanese desperately in the Australian mainland, while the Chinese took a stand-by attitude and dragged Tang Qiuli into the Australian war? Churchill’s goal was achieved. Although it is difficult, you can’t know the result if you don’t try ?

Seeing that Roosevelt had finished writing the letter, Churchill knew that he was going to leave. It seemed that he had no need to stay here and was retained by Roosevelt.

With deeper worries on Roosevelt's sallow face, he said: "Your Excellency, we have been thinking about how to deal with the Japanese, but we seem to have forgotten that the Germans, the current Germans, have completely occupied the European continent, the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the fall of Stalin. Hitler fled to West Siberia, lingering on his last breath, and brought the European continent into his pocket, do you think that he, who is ambitious, will always stay in Europe?"

Churchill was taken aback, and immediately understood what Roosevelt meant. He remembered the ferocity of the Germans and destroyed the British Empire. thoughts?"

"Hey!" Roosevelt sighed heavily, and said, "It will definitely be. Sitting on the vast resources of the European continent, that war madman Hitler will definitely not be willing to be lonely, but we don't know where his eyes will be fixed. That's all!"

When Roosevelt and Churchill were frightened and speculating about where Hitler, who had swept across the European continent, would go next, the battle on the Australian battlefield had already reached a fever pitch.

General Fernades, the deputy commander of the Allied Australian Forces, spent three days finishing the reorganization. The Allied forces retreated from the front line, and then, together with Commander Bachlisman, took Fernades to For the second road south of the mountains and the Barrier Mountains, the deployment of defensive troops was adjusted again. Before they could take a breath, the soldiers split up, and more than 100 million Japanese soldiers with fierce and murderous auras came like a storm!

The second line of defense of the Australian Allied Forces was built on the basis of several rivers. There is no shortage of rain in southeastern Australia. Several large rivers are hundreds of meters or even hundreds of meters wide. The waves are rough and the water is fast. All the bridges were bombed. Along the way, the invincible Japanese "Type 97 modified tank" faced the river and lost its assault function.

However, this did not bother General Ito Yanzaburo, the commander-in-chief of Japan's Southwest Pacific Expeditionary Force. At several selected breakthroughs, he ordered all the artillery to form artillery groups and line them up on the north bank of the river, aiming at the Allies on the south bank. There was a burst of ferocious shelling at the army position, shaking the ground, shaking the mountains, and filling the sky with gunpowder smoke. Immediately, on the Allied army position on the south bank, flames shot up into the sky, pillars of smoke rose into the sky, and mud and gravel flew across.

Bullying that the Australian Allied Forces had no combat aircraft, General Ito also recruited fighter jets and bombers from the Joint Air Force of the dispatched army to help out. On the ground, there were thousands of artillery pieces of various calibers, constantly spewing out shells. In the sky, there were nearly a thousand Japanese aircraft Bombers and fighter jets kept dropping heavy bombs one after another, and a string of bullets splashed down, hitting the Allied positions as if they were boiling.

Under the cover of fierce firepower from the ground and air, Japanese engineers began to build bridges on various rivers. General Ito stood on a high ground on the north bank of the river in high spirits, watching the excellent equipment of the Imperial Japanese Army and the power it displayed. , Full of confidence, he said to the chief of staff, Major General Kawaguchi: "Two days, only two days, the imperial army will break through the second line of defense of the Allied forces!"

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