Morton Bay is a small shallow bay in the east of Australia, facing the Pacific Ocean. It is recessed on the southeast coast of Queensland, Australia. There is Bribe Island in the north, Morton Island in the east, and Sterbrook Island in the south as a barrier. It is 105 kilometers long and 32 kilometers wide. It accepts the Blisburn River and is the gateway to the Port of Blisburn. The main channel is between Bribe and Morton, and is one of the main bases stationed by the Australian Navy.

After the Tang army captured the Lotia Islands, it pointed at Australia and New Zealand. The New Zealand Navy had only a few old destroyers and offshore gunboats eliminated by the British navy after World War I. It was not worth worrying. Only the Australian Navy was relatively powerful. The Tang army attacked Australia and first destroyed the Royal Australian Navy.

The Royal Australian navy is not strong either. The main battleship consists of a battleship, Australia, a battleship, Melbourne, two light cruisers, Sydney, Darwin, and eight minesweepers.

The Tang army was concerned about the main force of the Royal Navy's Singapore fleet, who had arrived in Australia after the British and Tang Dynasty declared war and joined the Australian Navy fleet. The British Navy brought the Prince of Wales battleship and the Counterattack battlecruiser, as well as three heavy cruisers, four light cruisers, seven destroyers, etc., which caused the number of warships in the Brisbane naval base to surge, posing huge obstacles and threats to the Tang army's attack on Australia.

Fortunately, the British and Australian naval forces are relatively strong, the air force is much weaker than the Tang army, and the total army is not much stronger, basically the same as the Tang army, but the equipment and combat effectiveness are much worse.

Australia has one of the few air force forces, about 36 Pili fighters. The UK has transferred 36 Sea Spitfire fighters from Singapore Air Force Base and deployed them together at the Australian capital Canberra Airport to surround the capital for safety. These 72 aircraft are both thin versions of the Australian Air Force's Pili fighters and the British Air Force's Sea Spitfire fighters. They are all streamlined versions of Raptor fighters sold to the two countries by the Tang Empire. The difference from the Raptor fighters used by the Tang army is that the level of protection is very low. The Tang army's advanced avionics system will naturally not be exported. The advanced turboprop aircraft engine has also been replaced with traditional European star-shaped air-cooled piston aircraft engines. The overall performance is one level worse than the Raptor fighters currently in service by the Tang army.

However, this air force cannot be underestimated. Before the Tang army launched a full-scale landing operation, the Tang Air Force dispatched 200 Raptor fighters to escort. An air strike formation composed of 300 mid-range heavy bombers of the JF-11 medium-range heavy bombers was launched on the night of the 28th, 8 hours after Australia declared war on Tang.

Although the Australian government has issued a comprehensive order to prepare for the Tang war, the Australian Air Force troops located at Canberra Airport were still half a beat slower. Because it was Sunday that day, most of the base personnel were on vacation. They failed to transfer or hide the fighter planes and related facilities in time as per the order. As a result, they were bombarded by the Tang army bomber group that night.

It was a sad night for Australians. It had not been baptized by war since the day the Australian government was established. Although the war started in Australia and Tang Dang, Canberra was still full of laughter and joy. There was no wartime control and lights turned off at night. When the Tang bomber group arrived in the air, they did not need to release flare assistance. They could directly find the location of the Canberra Air Force Base.

Aerial bombs fell one after another. The entire Canberra Air Force Base suddenly became a sea of ​​fire, and 72 Australian fighter jets were destroyed on the ground at the first time. Then the airport runway, fighter maintenance room, pilot dormitory, ammunition depot, oil depot and other key military facilities were all bombed.

When the thunder sounded loudly and the entire Canberra land was trembling, the Australians finally woke up, and they looked at the Canberra Airport in the distance, where a fire was soaring into the sky.

That's war!

Cruel and ruthless, humans with sheep-like nature cannot survive.

The air defense sirens over Canberra were ten minutes late, and of course, this alarm was also the first time. Not only did the Australian military personnel responsible for pulling the alarm find a way to start, but it was the first time that the citizens of Canberra heard this sound. They didn't know it was an air defense sirens, but they could guess that the thing was sending an alarm to them.

The Tang army successfully launched an air strike on Canberra Airport and did not bomb other places. The Tang army was very cautious this time because Australia was the energy and material supply base of the Tang Empire. The Tang army received the order from the Shangfeng Mountains and could never attack civilians and their living facilities unless they had to, because the Tang Empire wanted to annex Australia intact, so that Australians could not rebel everywhere to resist the occupation of the Tang army.

The next morning, the Australian Prime Minister rushed to the Canberra Air Force Base. After hearing the war damage report, he was immediately sad. All 72 combat aircraft in Australia that could fight against the Tang army were destroyed, and the air supremacy over Australia would completely fall into the hands of the Tang army.

"Notify the Navy Command to strengthen the alert. The Tang army first blew up our airport and destroyed our planes. Their next step may be to air strikes the warships in our naval base."

As soon as the Australian Prime Minister finished speaking, a Ministry of Defense official ran towards him with sweat on his head. His heart suddenly became entangled and realized that something terrible must have happened.

"His Excellency Prime Minister, I am very unfortunate to tell you that just an hour ago, the Port of Brisbane, where my naval fleet was stationed, was bombed by a large number of Tang army aircraft. I have lost contact now and I don't know what the situation is going on."

After hearing the news, the Australian Prime Minister's heart suddenly sank to the bottom of the valley, and it was so cold.

Just as the Tang army dispatched bombers to attack Canberra Air Force Base, dozens of warships from the Third Aircraft Carrier Battle Group of the Datang, led by the USS Chiyou aircraft carrier, had quietly sailed to Morton Bay where Brisbane was located. When the Tang army bomber group completed the bombing of the Canberra Air Force Base, all the bombers took off again and flew to Morton Bay overnight. Because the Tang army headquarters believed that after the air strike Canberra Air Force Base, the Australian and British troops were sure to be alert, so they temporarily decided to go to the Brisbane Naval Base overnight.

At dawn, the Tang army's bomber group happened to fly over Morton Bay, and the warships anchored in the Brisbane Naval Base were clearly visible. More than 300 Tang army's JF-11 bombers quickly dropped aviation bombs, and the enemy ships anchored in the military port sank or severely damaged them.

Since it was already dawn, the Australian and British troops had already gotten up, they could quickly organize the battle. Unlike the Canberra Air Force Base, the Brisbane Naval Base had strong air defense power, and several Tang army bombers were shot down and exploded, and then fell to the sea.

The Tang army's JF-11 bomber is not a dive bomber, and it is still possible to bomb a fixed target. When the enemy ship is urgently activated and left the dock, aviation bombs fall into the sea water, stirring up huge water columns hundreds of meters high, and the hit rate is greatly reduced, but it can also cause considerable chaos to the enemy fleet.

Half an hour later, the third aircraft carrier battle group of the Tang army rushed outside Morton Bay and quickly took off 90 Hellfire heavy carrier-based bombers from the USS Chiyou aircraft carrier, and took off from other escort aircraft carriers, with a total of more than 200 Hellfire heavy ship bombers, which made the third aircraft carrier battle group have more than 300 Hellfire carrier-based bombers take off at the same time.

The reason why they are all carrier-based bombers and no carrier-based fighters is that the Tang army has destroyed Australia's air resistance, so the Tang army's aircraft carrier combat group is so bold that they all replace them with bombers, with the purpose of destroying the Australian fleet in Brisbane to the greatest extent.

When more than 300 heavy Hellfire Bombers of the Tang Army flew over the Brisbane Naval Base, both the British and Australian troops were scared. When sharp whistles sounded, as if they were captivating, the hands of soldiers fighting against the air were trembling. Tang Army Hellfire Bombers dived and dropped aviation bombs one after another, almost completely shot, and each bomb directly hit a warship

These are all the skills and experiences that the Tang army has been practicing hard and practically in the past eight years. When aviation bombs weighing 500 kilograms exploded on the warship, the entire warship was trembling violently.

The battleships Australia, Prince of Wales, the battleship cruiser Melbourne, and the counterattack were all shot and caught fire. The light cruiser Sydney and Darwin were instantly blown to pieces after being hit by an aviation bomb. Other small battleships such as minesweepers and destroyers all ended up in the same way. Basically, a 500-kilogram aviation bomb was enough to blow it to pieces.

In just the first round of attacks, most of the battleships of the Australian fleet were sank. Not long after, the battleships Australia and the battlecruiser Melbourne were both hit by an aviation torpedo and sank within three minutes.

After the second round of bombing, the battleship Prince of Wales and the battleship Counterattack were also sunk, and there was no intact battleship in the entire Brisbane naval base. There was a sea of ​​fire, with fire burning and burning the sky, and thick smoke covering the sky.

At noon that day, the third aircraft carrier battle group of the Tang army drove into Morton Bay. More than a dozen light cruisers and destroyers launched shelling the Brisbane naval base, and the British and Australian coalition forces resisted, but to be precise, they were fighting and retreating.

In the afternoon of the same day, the third aircraft carrier battle group of the Tang army sent two landing ships to carry an armored land battle battalion to land on the shore at the Port of Brisbane. The British army had already fled. After firing several symbolic shots by more than 2,000 Australian troops, they immediately surrendered when they saw that the Tang army's armored troops could not be destroyed or defeated.

After the Australian Prime Minister in Canberra learned that Brisbane had fallen and the fleet was wiped out, he immediately held a meeting. Without the naval and air force, the main war faction was much weaker. The originally even-matched main and political faction again took the initiative. They once again proposed a merger with the Tang Dynasty and received a majority of votes in favor.
Chapter completed!