Just as the Australian government was hesitating, the Tang Empire took the lead in launching an attack on the French Loarty Islands.

The Loatic Islands are located between the Fiji Islands of the Great Tang Dynasty and Australia, and are composed of Uvea, Lifu, Mare Islands and nearby islands. The land area is 2,000 square kilometers, and the population is mainly Melanesians, with about 11,000 people, with fisheries and coconuts as the main sources of economic resources.

Since the alliance between France and Japan, the French army has built a large number of fortifications and airports on the main island of Lifu Island. About 800 French soldiers were stationed on the island, equipped with heavy weapons such as aircraft, tanks, cannons and machine guns. Among them, 24 aircraft were complicated, d513, mb150, ni161, Roval 252, etc., which were temporarily deployed from French Vietnam, French East Africa and other colonies. The initial purpose was to shock the Tang army. 20 Renault R35 light tanks, with a maximum caliber of 120 mm, were used as anti-aircraft guns.

Because the Loarty Islands are too close to the Fiji Islands in the Tang Dynasty, the French army built military fortifications on the island and once aroused strong dissatisfaction from the Tang Empire. Although France and Japan formed an alliance at that time, France did not want to offend the Tang Dynasty or even go to war. Therefore, under repeated consultations between the Tang and France, the French army's garrison was reduced to 800 people, and aircraft, tanks, etc. were also greatly suppressed.

The Tang army did not pay much attention to the French Central and South Pacific islands. The French Navy was far away in Europe. The Tang army only needed to send more than a dozen warships to completely block these archipelagos. Therefore, the Tang army's first target was Australia and New Zealand. They had a large land area, a large population, a large resource, and a strong military power. This was the first target that the Tang army had to remove.

However, the Lotia Islands are just between the Tang Dynasty and Australia. If the Tang army wants to raid the Australian political and military centers, Canberra, Sydney, Brisbane and other places, they just have to pass through the Lotia Islands, which are easily disturbed by the French air defense firepower, otherwise they will have to take a detour. Therefore, the Tang army had to remove the Lotia Islands first.

Fortunately, the Tang Empire's diplomatic efforts against Australia forced the other party to hesitate, which gave the Tang army a chance to suddenly blitz the Loarty Islands. As long as the French island is quickly taken down, the Australian government can launch an attack on the Australian army before making a decision. The military airport built by the French army on the Loarty Islands can be used by the Tang army, and it takes less than 40 minutes to take off to the Australian naval base. It takes less than an hour and a half to arrive in Canberra, and the strategic initiative will fall into the hands of the Tang army, and whether to fight or not is decided by the Tang Dynasty.

In the early morning of November 25, the Tang army dispatched 400 land-based Hellfire fighter bombers from Yanjing Air Base, Daxing Air Base and Jinling Air Base to eight air bases in the Fiji Islands, increasing the number of bombers in the Tang army in the Fiji Islands to 900. The 900 bombers flew into three batches to take turns to the Loarty Islands, forming uninterrupted cyclical bombing.

Although the French army on the Loarty Islands had already received orders from the French government to strengthen their vigilance, at night, French planes could not take off. When Tang bombers flew over the air, French anti-aircraft artillery counterattacked but had little effect. The experienced Tang bomber pilots quickly locked in important military facilities such as French airports, anti-aircraft artillery and military camps. The first round of bombing destroyed most of the French resistance forces on the island. Since then, several rounds of bombing have almost destroyed the bodies of the French army.

At dawn, the French army's air defense firepower had completely stopped. At this time, the Tang army sent 200 land-based Raptor fighters to participate in the battle and carried out a series of sweeps of the remaining French troops on the island, forcing the remaining French soldiers to hide in the woods and dare not come out.

The Tang army aircraft completely controlled the air supremacy over the Loarty Islands. Eight Tang army destroyers escorted two large amphibious landing ships to Lifu Island, the main island of the Loarty Islands. The French army laid a large number of landmines, anti-landing obstacles, anti-tank obstacles and other facilities on the beaches around the island, but the Tang army was not afraid. More than a dozen demining armored vehicles shoveled out several safety passages along the way. Then, two land battalions of the Tang army successfully landed under the cover of more than a dozen amphibious tanks.

The French army guarding the beach was extremely sad. They thought that the obstacles were enough to prevent the Tang army's armored troops from coming ashore, and the machine gun castle built by the French army was enough to shoot the landing Tang soldiers. But they found that the Tang army had all the armored armored roads. French landmines and obstacles were vulnerable in front of those armored vehicles similar to bulldozers, and French machine gun bullets could not shoot through the Tang army's tank armor.

Scream! Scream! Scream!

Two of the landing Tang army tanks were very special. They were not equipped with large-caliber tank guns, but multi-barrel fire spurts. This is the experience accumulated by the Tang army over the years of war against Japan. Previously, the Tang army relied on individual fire spurts to carry out flame attacks on the enemy's basin on the beach. Although it was very successful, its own fire spurts also suffered heavy casualties. Then the Tang army changed a batch of amphibious tanks to multi-barrel fire spurts, so that the tanks shot directly against the enemy's machine guns, and sprayed fire dragons a hundred meters away, directly burning the enemy in the castle to death or forcing them to run out and kill them.

This new tactic that the Tang army exchanged for blood was extremely effective for the Japanese army, and now it was even more effective for the French army. After all, the French army had not fought for many years, and they were all new recruits who had never seen blood. How could they bear the torture of such cruel war?

Sure enough, the French troops crawled out of the castle one by one, but were shot into hornet's nests by Tang army machine guns.

When the Tang Marines broke through the French coastal defense line, facing the fierce attack of the Tang soldiers like wolves and tigers, the only 20-two Reynolds in the French army were vulnerable to the bombardment of the Tang army's tiger tanks and were destroyed one after another. The remaining hundreds of French troops immediately raised their hands to surrender when they saw that they were defeated by the Tang army.

It is slightly different from the way of treating the Japanese army. The Japanese army rarely surrendered, and the Tang army would directly kill Japanese prisoners. However, when treating French prisoners, the Tang army did not kill them, but instead carried out international conventions to treat prisoners well. After all, the French fought in their colonies rather than local areas. Treating French prisoners well would disintegrate the resistance of French soldiers in other colonies and would be helpful to the Tang army's future military operations.

In less than half a day, the Tang army captured the Loarty Islands, and then spent less than three days restoring the French airport on Lifu Island, making it a relay station for Tang army aircraft. The Tang army will use this as a springboard to attack Australia or New Zealand.

As the news of the Tang army capturing the Loarty Islands reached Australia, the Australian government finally panicked, because the Loarty Islands were a barrier between Australia and the Tang Dynasty and are now captured by the Tang army, the Tang army will obviously launch an attack on Australia in the next step.

The next day, the New Zealand government reached an agreement at the request of the United Kingdom to formally declare war on the Tang Empire. Australia and New Zealand's lips were dead and their teeth were cold. The war on the Tang Dynasty finally led to the Australian government's dominance.
Chapter completed!