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Chapter 226 Strategic Attack

On May 18, the Australian Parliament passed a proposal to move the capital.

On that day, the Australian Prime Minister and all senior government officials flew to Hobart on Tasmania, and important politicians such as MPs also set off the next day. However, the Australian government only took him in Hobart for a week and then moved to Wellington. Finally, the Australian Prime Minister, more than a dozen ministers, speakers of parliament, party leaders and more than 30 people established an exile government in the United States.

Judging from time to time, the Australian authorities just happened to get through the disaster.

On May 20, the Chinese army launched another attack.

According to Pang Yuelong's deployment, five Marine Divisions besieged Canberra, three armies attacked Melbourne, five other Marine Divisions and two armies marched towards Adelaide, five more Marine Divisions were responsible for capturing other important towns, and the remaining thirteen Marine Divisions acted as reserves.

This time, Pang Yuelong has extremely sufficient troops.

You should know that ten armies are equivalent to twenty-five marine divisions. Although five armies remain in the rear and are responsible for controlling the occupied areas, the five additional armies are equivalent to twelve and a half marine divisions. In other words, Pang Yuelong has about 800,000 troops that can be used for offensive operations.

In the three previous large-scale ground battles, Pang Yuelong's available troops were less than 500,000.

During the fourth battle, his available troops were less than 400,000.

With sufficient troops, the tactics are more flexible.

On that day, the Marines surrounded Canberra and gave the defenders twenty-four hours to make a choice, and by the way, hundreds of thousands of civilians in the city were evacuated.

Canberra is Australia's administrative capital, not a big city, and has a large population.

At that time, the army was the most suitable to attack Canberra, not the Marines, because the army was ashore in Sydney and drove directly over only about 300 kilometers. Pang Yuelong did not ask the army to attack Canberra, but instead sent five marine divisions from the rear by air transport, mainly to let the Marines complete this battle of great political significance, because occupying Canberra meant defeating Australia.

Fortunately, several army commanders did not object.

In any case, the Marine Corps has achieved a decisive victory. The Army came here to sweep away the remaining enemies, and it would be very good to be able to participate in the war. Besides, for several armies, arriving on the Australian continent is equivalent to writing a new chapter in the history of the army, which has already made several commanders very satisfied. You must know that there will definitely be a major disarmament after the war, and most of the troops will be cut off, and those who can be retained are definitely the troops with the most achievements, the best performance, and the richest experience. Therefore, participating in the Australian Battle is of great significance.

This time, the Marines still wanted to take Canberra without any blood.

Unfortunately, the Canberra defenders did not surrender, but only allowed more than 300,000 women, children and the elderly to withdraw within 24 hours given by the Marines.

The Australian army did not surrender, mainly because Winston was in Canberra and personally directed the Australian army to fight.

As a result, the attack on Canberra became the most intense city battle since the Battle of Brisbane, which lasted until May 27, when Major General Avery, who succeeded Winston, hit the white flag.

At this time, the Army had already captured Melbourne.

Like the Marines, the Army gave the defenders twenty-four hours to surrender or evacuate civilians after surrounding Melbourne.

At that time, the defenders of Melbourne evacuated civilians first, and seemed to intend to live and die with Melbourne.

After twenty-four hours, the three armies launched an attack, first carrying out eight hours of artillery preparations.

This move was brought from the Russian battlefield. When attacking some Russian cities, the Chinese Army's artillery preparations were even twenty-four hours long.

As a result, when the army began to advance on the ground, the defenders of Melbourne surrendered.

You know, before that, the Chinese Marines had never made such a long preparation for artillery fire when attacking the city, and often they did not even prepare for artillery fire. The Australian army was obviously defeated by eight hours of artillery fire, so they chose to surrender very rationally.

In Adelaide, the battle started on the 21st, mainly because the Army and the Marine Corps were fighting together for the first time.

After besieging Adelaide, the Army and the Marine Corps had a dispute over who was the main attack. Two army commanders and three Marine Division commanders (the commander of the Marine Division also had the rank of major general) decided to draw lots, and finally the 38th Army and the 7th Marine Division were attacked.

The battle was a bit chaotic, but it did not affect the result.

On May 24, the Adelaide Garrison Command was captured, and the ground assault troops of the 38th Army and the air assault troops of the 7th Marine Division arrived almost at the same time. There was a misunderstanding that both sides believed that the other side was the Australian army coming to the headquarters.

Winning a battle does not mean that there is no trouble.

At that time, the Army and the Marine Corps had arguing with the Marine Corps at that time. The key was who had the right to own the captured Australian military flag. The 38th Army believed that they had attacked the Australian Military Command, while the Seventh Marine Division believed that they occupied the commanding heights first.

This incident later went to Mu Haoyang.

Mu Haoyang's approach was very simple, and he imitated two Australian military flags, one for the 38th Army and the other for the 7th Marine Warrior Division, and the authentic one was handed over to the National Military Museum.

These things that happened in Adelaide have had a very far-reaching impact.

Not long after, ten armies were sent back to the mainland battlefield, which was related to this matter.

It can be said that the battle in Adelaide exposed all the conflicts between the Army and the Marines. These two ground forces seemed to be like oil and water, and could never be integrated together. When they encountered each other, problems would arise, and they often caused troubles in some trivial matters.

Since then, although the Army and the Marine Corps have cooperated many times, they have always adhered to the principle that on the same battlefield, they are either the army or the Marine Corps. Even if they are mixed combat, they must first clarify their command authority, and no similar situation has ever occurred again.

Of course, most of the time, they still fight their own.

In fact, what happened in Adelaide also has a positive effect. For example, this reminds Jiang Bowen, who is planning a strategic offensive in the Middle East. On the battlefield in the Middle East, he has four Marine Divisions and six armies. If he does not recognize the conflict between the Army and the Marine Corps in time, a major event may occur.

Fortunately, what happened in Adelaide did not have a negative impact on the Australian Battle.

On May 28, the Marines entered Canberra and the fifth battle came to an end.

At this point, the eastern part of Australia, including the capital Canberra, the largest city of Sydney, the largest port of Melbourne, and the largest military port of Adelaide were all occupied by Chinese troops. The Australian government fled to Hobart, and the remaining US-Australia coalition retreated to Perth.

At this point, the Australian Battle is basically over.

Although after this, the Marines took two months to sweep across southern Australia, advance to Perth in early August, and occupied Perth until September. Then, in order to pursue the US-Australia coalition forces fleeing north, three Marine divisions rushed north, arrived at Darwin Port in early January 2056, and occupied Darwin Port at the end of January, and declared that the regular combat operations on the Australian continent were over. Because some US-Australia coalition forces fled into the hinterland of Australia, sporadic battles continued until the end of the war. However, by the end of May 2055, after the fifth battle, large-scale combat operations on the Australian continent had ended.

By this time, the Australian Battle lasted only three months and fourteen days.

Interestingly, the Western Alliance Group did not think that the Australian Battle ended here, but set the ending time on January 27, 2056, the day when the Darwin Port fell, and believed that the US-Australian coalition forces had persisted on the Australian continent for nearly a year.

In three months and fourteen days, the Chinese army killed 33,186 people, injured 77,824 people, disappeared 5,677 people, captured 3,868 people, wiped out 3,280,000 American and Australian coalition forces, including more than 380,000 people killed, injured and captured more than 2,650,000 American and Australian officers and soldiers, and about 250,000 American and Australian officers and soldiers were missing. By the end of January 2056, the US and Australian coalition forces had nearly 300,000 casualties and captured people, while the Chinese Marine Corps had less than 3,000 casualties.

Of course, it was a bit too early to say that the Australian War was over at the end of May 2055.

After that, the number of Chinese troops stationed in Australia has never been less than 500,000, and when it was planning to attack New Zealand, it once exceeded one million. Even after the end of January 2056, the Allied troops stationed in Australia were more than 500,000, but most of them were the troops of the Allied.

Of course, letting the Allies take on the occupation task can be regarded as taking care of the Allies.

In any case, other members of the Oriental Alliance Group have long complained about China on the use of military power, believing that China's monopoly operations and excluding allies is disrespectful to the actions of allies and seriously hurt the feelings of allies.

As a result, at the Fifth Oriental Alliance Group Summit, Huang Hanlin formally promised to increase the proportion of allied troops in combat operations and fully take care of the interests of allied countries. In response to Huang Hanlin's call, the Marines naturally handed over the task of occupying Australia to the Allied forces.

It can be said that the Chinese army has spent a lot of effort to control this continent.

Fortunately, Australia is a rich continent. In addition to supporting 100 million locals, it also feeds all garrisons and even feeds tens of millions of people on various islands in the Southwest Pacific. The excess supplies are also supplied to more than a dozen members of the Eastern Alliance Group. For example, in the second half of 2055, the amount of food transported from Australia to South Asia and the Middle East was as high as 15 million tons.

From a military perspective, the Australian Battle kicked off the prelude to China launching a strategic offensive on the Pacific battlefield.

Chapter 226 Strategic Attack
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