Amidst the rumbling artillery fire in the distance, there was a tense and busy atmosphere on the pier of Liberation Beach. The smoke from the steamer enveloped the entire sea, and shirtless navy and army soldiers were busy unloading the ship. The pier at Jiefang Beach was much larger than when the main force of the Pacific Fleet left seven days ago. The naval engineering force and the army's engineers on the shore worked hand in hand to carry forward the Ming Dynasty's infrastructure mad spirit and urgently built two simple roads, one leading to Bubu. Lisbane Fortress, one leads directly to the battlefield of Table Top Mountain.
However, the amount of goods transported every day these days still far exceeds the consumption of the siege of Brisbane Fortress and the front line of Table Top Mountain, so the army and navy engineers also built a large number of warehouses, ammunition depots and oil depots near the beach to use to store the supplies that are constantly being delivered. However, the transport capacity of the Ming Dynasty Navy is too strong, far exceeding the digestion capacity of simple docks. It seems that the operation of the Brisbane Port must be restored as soon as possible-the port was captured by the Ming army 5 days ago, but since the port is always under the coverage of the long-range artillery power of the Brisbane Fortress, It is temporarily unable to be repaired and put into operation.
At this time, on the ocean outside Liberation Beach, a huge fleet measured in square kilometers once again appeared! However, it is not the main force of the Pacific Fleet commanded by Zhuge Weidao, but a huge escort formation composed of part of the Nanyang Fleet and the Western Fleet plus one or two million transport ships of more than 10,000 tons! This escort formation came from Borneo, the base camp of the Nanyang Fleet. In addition to carrying hundreds of thousands of tons of supplies, oil, and munitions, it also carried the ace thugs of the Ming Dynasty—the Sendai Division of the Japanese Shogunate Army. There are a total of three elite divisions, the Ezo Island Tuntian Division and the Tozuo Division, with a total of about 60,000 Japanese soldiers!
Marshal Mu's use of troops, of course, requires both dimensionality reduction and attack, as well as flying dragons to ride on his face. But you can't have armored vehicles and you don't need Japanese soldiers... Cannon fodder is still very useful.
At the personnel dock on Liberation Beach, large groups of heavily armed Japanese soldiers had disembarked, organized their teams under the command of the Japanese army officers, and then lined up to drive towards the Brisbane Fortress—— All the easy-to-attack areas on the outside of the fortress have been taken down by the Ming army's armored forces, leaving only the core fortification area that is the most difficult to attack... Armored vehicles will not be able to use in these areas. After all, this armor 11 The "armor" of the Japanese-style vehicles is very thin, and the British light anti-aircraft guns and heavy machine guns can penetrate them.
Moreover, the British also have "thief troops" who are not afraid of death!
Those criminals whose hands are stained with the blood of the indigenous people of the Southern Continent all firmly believe in the principle of "defeat means extinction." And they don't believe the Ming army's promise not to kill prisoners - they also made the same promise to the indigenous people of the southern continent, but they never kept it...
So when the Ming army attacked, they were all determined to fight to the end. There were even some "thief soldiers" who went crazy after taking drugs and carrying bombs to kill the Ming army's armored vehicles!
Faced with this almost crazy defense, it is natural to throw in equally ferocious Japanese soldiers.
The battleship "Da Qin", the flagship of the Nanyang Fleet, has also joined in the fun. This battleship is now together with the "Nanjing" of the Pacific Fleet - the "Nanjing" command ship is now also lent to Mu Zhongjun, Zhuge Weidao took the people from the Pacific Fleet Headquarters aboard the "Dazhou" and was now showing off his power outside Sydney Bay!
Therefore, Guan Tianpei, who came all the way from the Java Sea, did not meet his old friend Zhuge Weidao, but he was having a pleasant chat with Mu Zhongjun at the moment.
"Want to borrow an airplane? Okay! In a word... This time I brought an aircraft carrier and an aircraft-carrying battlecruiser, with a total of more than 130 aircraft, all of which can be used to support your Southern Continental Army... ....Also, the 360mm main gun on my Daqin can hit the Brisbane Fortress very far. If it is fired from Brisbane Bay, it can definitely hit the Brisbane Fortress. This time I asked the Daqin to bring more than 1,000 cannons. Fire high-explosive bombs. That is a 360 mm high-explosive bomb. Each one weighs nearly 1,500 kilograms. One shot can blast a crater of several hundred square meters. When you launch a general attack, I will ask my gunnery staff to Bring people ashore to Zheng Guoxian's military headquarters to be the eyes of the Daqin!"
When Guan Tianpei talked about bombing and shelling the British army, he felt an indescribable joy in his heart!
Especially when Guan Tianpei heard that the commander of the British army in Australia was Hugh Gough, he became very angry...
After hearing Guan Tianpei's words, General Mu was overjoyed and said with a smile: "That's great... With Da Qin's heavy artillery, Brisbane Fortress is not a problem at all!"
Guan Tianpei asked: "When will the general attack be launched?"
"Tomorrow, the general attack will begin in the early hours of tomorrow." Mu Zhongjun said, "Hugh Gauff's main force has been attacking at Tabultop Mountain for 6 days, and today is the seventh day... According to my experience, The ammunition and supplies in Hugh Gough's hand should have been almost exhausted. Tomorrow he should switch to defense and wait for supplies to be delivered. And we will use this opportunity to launch attacks in Brisbane and Tabletop Mountain at the same time. Attack with force, trying to repel Hugh Gough's main force in one fell swoop and seize the Brisbane Fortress. If we succeed in both directions, the next step can be to divide the troops into two groups and chase Hugh Gough all the way across the prairie to attack Sydney. ; Walk all the way along the coast to Sydney... The two sides will finally meet outside Sydney! If all goes well, in mid-to-late February, 200,000 troops will participate in the siege of Sydney. As long as Sydney is captured, The overall situation of the battle in the Southern Continent has been decided."
There are currently only two central areas in the Southern Continent: Brisbane and Sydney. About 80% of the Southern Continent's white skinned people live in these two areas. Once Sydney and Brisbane are occupied by the Ming army, it will be basically impossible for the British army in the southern continent to make a comeback.
After listening to Mu Zhongjun's words, Guan Tianpei just smiled indifferently, twitching his beard and said: "Okay, that's it, we must use thunderous means to beat them until they have no power to fight back... That's the only way, Only then can this continent be returned to the hands of our Ming Dynasty! Only then can we comfort the souls of millions of living beings in the vassal states of the Southern Continent that were exterminated by the British barbarians!"
Well, in this timeline, the blame for the Yingyi genocide of the indigenous people of the Southern Continent cannot be shaken off no matter what!
Because the Southern Continent is gone, there are not many indigenous people left on the Southern Continent... This is not extinction. What is extinction?
The decisive battle on the front line of Tabletop Mountain had lasted for several days. For the soldiers on both sides on the front line, these days of fierce fighting will definitely be unforgettable... Of course, for most British officers and soldiers, they have very little left in their lives. However, in the past few days of fierce attacks, they still made considerable progress, advancing 3-5 kilometers across the entire line, and captured hundreds of ring fortifications held by Ming infantry. Moreover, they also found out the details of the Ming army - the strength of the Ming army was indeed very limited, and it was simply not enough to build a continuous line of defense along the Taibur Top Mountain, so they could only build some independent ring fortifications to block the crossing of Taibur. The road to Mount Top.
However, the British army could still rely on their numerical advantage and familiarity with the terrain in the Taibultop Mountain area to use infiltration and roundabout methods to force the Ming army to abandon their fortifications and retreat. Although this style of play came at a high price, as the infiltrating troops were often strafed by Ming army tanks, progress was made in the end.
But in the crucial battle along Highway 1 through Table Top Mountain, this tactic was not very effective. The infantry of the Ming Army clung to Highway 1 through the pass of Taibultop Mountain. They built two mutually dependent ring fortifications there, and also deployed multiple firepower points and observation posts on the hillside to guide the artillery fire from the rear. .
At the same time, the Ming army's tank troops kept sweeping back and forth on the road behind the ring fortifications, clearing out the British troops that had penetrated past, so that a long stretch of road was littered with the bodies of British officers and soldiers...
