As an allies and a small number of people who came to help and assist, dozens of U.S. military personnel worked here in Darwin. They were mainly civilians responsible for the diversion and transfer of American materials at ports, and coordinated the U.S. Navy sailors who came here to rest and recuperate.

Darwin may not be as passionate and comfortable as other big cities, but small cities also have the tranquility and comfort of small cities. The US military personnel working here are happy to find such a good job far away from the battlefield.

But no one knows that today, the Chinese ended this ideal and comfortable life with airplanes, cannons and bombs.

The US major named Dasef is also very entangled now. The tangled side is that three days ago, a US fleet ended its rest and left the port. The work he had completed was already completed. He had the opportunity to leave here with the fleet.

But fate is just so tricky. Kedasef, who has been living here for more than a year, wanted to make his way back more comfortable. At that time, he felt that the conditions of the military fleet were not as comfortable as civilian ships, so he gave up leaving early and chose to leave tomorrow. What was the result?

Now it is estimated that the comfortable cruise ship of the private company has been detained by the Chinese, and he has to face the choice of life and death. Thinking of this that made him crazy, Dasef's heart had already stirred up a huge amount of regret.

Looking at Dasef, who was struggling and speechless, Lieutenant Colonel sighed secretly in his heart. Of course, he knew clearly what the US major in front of him was now struggling with.

"Mr. Dassef. In this case, I suggest you to surrender..."

The lieutenant colonel pointed out the most suitable bright road to Dasef. Although the future of this road is not clear and full of shameful reputation, many times, which one do you choose in the face of the two choices of reputation and life?

"Surrender?" Dasef never thought that the lieutenant colonel in front of him would say such a thing.

"Yes. Surrender, although we don't know whether the Chinese will treat prisoners preferentially. Moreover, as the first officers and soldiers to surrender to the Chinese, this is very bad in reputation, but it is precisely because of this that you will not be massacred or abused by them."

"On the contrary, the other party will consider the role of image and domestic publicity, and you will never be executed. At the same time, you will also receive certain preferential treatment from the other party, which is much more comfortable than being blown to death by them in the room. At the same time, I will bear the greatest responsibility for losing. I only ask you one thing, which is to fight for more preferential treatment for these soldiers in the prisoner-of-war camp."

After saying that, the lieutenant colonel ignored Dasef, who was still in a daze, left the room and returned to his office.

After a low gunshot came from the small building, a wooden stick tied with white cloth stretched out from a window.

"Don't shoot, we surrender!"

The entire Darwin city has fallen into the control of the Chinese army. It is located directly north of Australia and is an important gateway to connect US military supplies.

There are almost one million Allied troops stationed in the South Pacific, most of which are US soldiers. With such a huge base, it is naturally impossible to rely on the local Indonesian area, and Australia can only bear the main responsibility.

But now that the Chinese army was stabbed to the weakness, the US military was cut off in half without the support of industrial products from Australia. The US military's military operations in Southeast Asia will be greatly restrained.

Although Australia is at the end of the world among the great powers, at least it is also an industrialized country. It is definitely not comparable to Indonesia or the Philippines.

A huge fleet of transport is crossing the Solomon Sea, with the navy blue dragon flag rising high. These armed merchant ship clusters belonging to large frigates are the Chinese sea supply lines.

Carrying supplies that could be consumed by 100,000 troops for a month, he detoured the South Pacific, avoided the main force of the US Navy stationed in Indonesia, and arrived at Darwin Port.

There are no troops in the whole of Australia. The population of Australia is only more than 7 million, and the total Australian army has only a few more than 100,000 troops. Half of them are national defense militias. They followed the British master to station two divisions in the Middle East.

The British master was deeply trapped in the quagmire of the German war threat and couldn't take care of himself and wanted to throw his bag directly to Australia. Then, a few years ago, the British and French coalition forces fought in Southeast Asia, fled all the way, and in the defense of Singapore, the Australian army broke into more than 8,000 more people.

Now Australia is reorganizing a new army to prepare for war, but they never expected that China would move so quickly that they would dare to go directly from the South Pacific region to the eyes and ears of the Americans and face the city of Australia.

You should know that since the United States destroyed the main force of Japan's naval force in the Midway Battle, they have been treating the entire Pacific Ocean as the United States' inland sea. A large number of cruisers patrolled and monitored the main routes from time to time to prevent the Chinese from raids. Unexpectedly, they were caught off guard.

After occupying the Darwin area, Mo Xiong, Liu Jianfeng and others were not satisfied. They stared at the city of Catherine two hundred kilometers away.

"A distance of two hundred kilometers is not far or near. If you forcefully march in two days, you will definitely be there. Organize a battalion to launch an attack and you can directly take down Catherine."

Mo Xiong and Liu Jianfeng seemed a little excited when they stood in front of Zhou Zhihao. Their positions were higher than those of Zhou Zhihao, but their military ranks were lower. They knew the other party’s special status in the military system, so they had always served them respectfully.

"You can see that the total population of the entire northern region is less than 100,000 points, which is one of the sparsely populated areas in the world. We are a little braver, and even one is enough, but I think it would be a bit too frustrating to send our assault team to only take this small mission."

Li Yanlin stared at the map, and everyone followed his eyes and found that his eyes were heading south along the railway line and highway line...

"You're too brave..." One of the officers around him was a little shocked. His name was Moganshen, who was transferred from the military academy and other troops after the establishment of the assault regiment. He was mainly responsible for mechanized operations, heavy fire support and logistics work that Liu Jianfeng and others were not very proficient in.

"No, Yanlin, please continue talking." Zhou Zhihao signaled Chen Lixin to continue speaking.

"Now the vanguard has also been sent out. According to the reconnaissance, it is a vast land that we cannot imagine. It is normal for the situation outside the non-residential area to be without people within a radius of dozens of miles. And we were raiding again. The landing battle caught the Australian army off guard. If we still fight like this in this situation, it would be meaningless."

"Don't our assault regiment have the authority to formulate small-scale combat missions in special times? Therefore, my opinion is to implement the command center's plan and report our ** regiment's own combat ideas. After taking Catherine, you don't have to wait, and directly penetrate south along the railway and highway routes!"

Li Yanlin's speech did not surprise the others present. He directed everyone in the car in a small space. However, he was thinking about Chen Lixin's plan in his mind.

In addition to the two staff members who were just transferred, who were not very familiar with the characteristics of the troops, they were also very self-aware and knew that this time was not the time for them to speak. What is more important now is to speak less and listen more.

"I agree on this combat idea. Just as Yan Lin said, since the other party was caught off guard by us, it seems a little scared to act like this carefully." Liu Jianfeng, the first sniper in the regiment, was also the old brother of several old comrades, was the first to agree. His statement quickly received response from several other people.

"If you want to talk about quick attacks, the above will definitely agree. But the key is two issues, one is our supply line issue. You all know that we have just taken Darwin and the shipwreck in the port has not been cleaned up. If you want to expand the scale and speed up the offensive speed, you will definitely be restricted by the logistics progress."

"In addition, although the land is vast and sparsely populated, a small town has a population of more than 10,000 people. Our team is only about 6,000 less than a division. We are definitely not afraid of fighting. But how far you can fight, how hard you fight. And how to prevent the opponent from counterattacking after the fight is also very particular."

"You can see that along this railway line we can even directly attack the more important transportation center of Alice Springs, a thousand miles away in the north. But what should we do about the defense along the way? The Australian army can organize and easily recapture it on this railway line. Even if the railway is cut off, we will lose the source of supply in the rear."

Gan Daoguang is not very talkative among several people, but everyone knows that among these old comrades, his brain is the best and the most comprehensive viewing of problems. Therefore, the troops he commands are the most stable among several main battle camps.

"After all the time, the problem of logistics constraints is the most troublesome."

This sentence seems to be a bit venting and a little helpless, but it is precisely this problem that must be dealt with directly that limits everyone's progress.

Australia's vast plains provide excellent conditions for everyone to advance quickly, but the vast plains also provide enough room for the other party to penetrate. And no matter what, they are also landlords and have the advantage of home games. The right time, place and people are not on their own side.

In fact, in the small-scale discussion of logistics before the war, when attacking, everyone also considered robbing food on the spot like Japan using war to raise the war to reduce the demand for logistics.

But the problem is that most of Australia's land is not actually suitable for growing crops, let alone most of the northern region is adjacent to the desert with dry and barren land, and these lands are exactly the area that Li Yanlin wants to advance for a long distance.

"I don't think too much. Reducing some food will not affect our battle, let alone the time is not waiting for people. Once the defeated soldiers flee to Catherine, we must pay a higher price if we want to seize it. Because the sea transportation channel is not smooth, after the United States suddenly reacts, it will be difficult for us to get enough supplies." Li Yanlin put forward his own opinions, and then continued to say that after seeing everyone focusing on him again:

"In fact, what restricts our combat is oil. Our logistics oil support can allow our regiment to raid and drive up 500 kilometers without getting other supplies. This distance is the limit of our ** combat. If we do not consider the combat support of certain oil after the mechanical troops arrive, this distance can be pushed forward for more than 100 kilometers."

"But if we look carefully, the guys in the army who need oil are divided into first-line combat machinery and logistics machinery. Therefore, I have an idea that the opponent's strength is not strong, and we don't need to bring these oil-eating tigers. Think about it, the Australian Army currently has not even a few tanks, airplanes, cannons and other firepower support units. We don't need to carry tank armored vehicles to destroy them."

This said, and some people continued to talk about it: "To put it bluntly. In the past, when I fought with the Japanese in the local army, I was most worried that I would not have support, but I still had to fight the war without support! Now, after the reorganization, I have all dreamed of tanks, planes and cannons, but I found that if I had no such things, would I not have fought a war..."

Li Yanlin's words suddenly opened up everyone's thinking. Indeed, for a long time, our troops were chasing others against the situation of our strong and weak enemy. This kind of combat ideas and strength back-end support is of course the combat policies and industrial strength formulated by the senior management of Hualian at the beginning.

But now facing the Australian army, which is not the same level as the Japanese army, the self-propelled artillery, tanks, armored vehicles and other auxiliary machinery seems to be useless. What should I use heavy artillery to attack?

On the map, it seems to be a small town, in fact, there are only a few families. Two shells hit the town and nothing happened.

Self-propelled air defense firepower?

There is nothing else in the sky that can fly except birds.

Armored car?

This thing is good, except that it consumes a little more fuel than the truck.

"Agree! Anyway, the Australian army is in a hurry now. It is impossible to organize enough armed forces to counterattack for a while. Taking advantage of this time to quickly tear the opponent's wounds is the king. I agree with Lao Chen's opinion. If the troops in the ** regiment are separated, the fuel-consuming households like tanks will not be considered, and only carry some armored vehicles and all the supplies transport vehicles."

"Although doing this will slow down our advancement, we have been walking a lot since we joined the Sixth Army!" Liu Jianfeng, who advocated offense as the best defense, was not a fool. He was the first to react to the meaning of Lao Chen's words and jumped out to support him.

"That's right, driving a tank to hit Sherman is also bullying people, and carrying a rocket launcher to hit it is also bullying people. This has been too much support in recent years. Instead, it makes everyone feel uncomfortable with how to fight without firepower support..." Gan Daoguang also nodded in approval.

"If this is the case, we can send the heavy firepower units in the regiment to the troops that follow. The troops that follow will provide and guarantee their oil supply. We only use it in the troops that follow together. The most oil and ammunition can be loaded, so that our maximum combat propulsion distance can even be nearly twice the original number..."

Some young and strong non-commissioned officers who had just graduated from the Nansha Military Academy finally understood why these people became commanders of the main combat troops. Not only did they have rich combat experience, but they could also accurately analyze the fatal weaknesses of the strength of the enemy and us in an incisive way. The most important thing is that they have a strong sense of combat and enterprising spirit.

When other troops are also worried about the distance of the logistics line, they dare to come up with ways to solve practical problems under the conditions of existing supplies, not waiting or relying on them, but using their wisdom and strength to squeeze out the resources of their opponents.

Thinking of this, Zhou Zhihao believed that this combat plan could be formed in just one hour. Now he was only worried that the Ministry of National Defense would approve the combat idea of ​​such a big stride in the assault regiment.

Of course, his concern about not using this combat plan above makes sense, because as a front-line combat unit, although he can adjust the combat methods or tactics by himself during combat to better complete the combat tasks assigned by his superiors.

But be aware that as a soldier, his duty is to obey orders!

Front-line commanders can communicate and put forward opinions with superiors as much as possible in advance, but once the task is determined to be issued in the form of an order, it must be completed resolutely even if an unforeseen situation occurs during execution! There is no room for maneuver, and there is no room for change or bargaining with superiors in the middle.

In other words, after an army accepts a certain task, it must first execute the command to meet the task requirements in the most perfect way.

At this point, Zhou Zhihao, Mo Xiong and others knew quite clearly. After reporting their combat ideas, the assault regiment did not waste time while waiting, but first completed the task assigned by the command center to them to break through two hundred kilometers within three days to capture the town of Catherine.

The task of capturing the destination was completed within the specified time. How do you want to complete it? The command center only needs one result. As for the process, this is not what the command center needs to consider, but what the front-line combat commanders such as Shi Jiping need to consider.

Another important issue is that in the command center, the progress and supply of the entire battle have been planned in advance. Changing the combat plan will change the implementation of the entire combat plan. This is the biggest problem.

The assault regiment quickly entered the raid for such a long distance, which would greatly affect the progress and improvement requirements of other subsequent follow-up units, which actually caused problems for the entire landing force.

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