This is China's first landing operation. Zhang Xiaohuai is a famously cautious person, so he prepared quite well. 150 3,000-ton transport ships transported nearly 250,000 tons of supplies, and two divisions of soldiers, totaling 50,000. This is the first wave of attack power. For the population of only a little over 100,000, and nearly thousands of Chinese Darwin, it is enough. As early as 10 days ago, there were almost 500 soldiers from special forces, which had been already

Darwin, who had secretly entered, hid in the underground storage room of Chinatown. Australia had no idea about China's actions, let alone be alert. The 400 special forces, even a competition-level city like Chita, could overturn it, let alone an ordinary Darwin who did not have enough defense and preparation. Even in Australia, Darwin was not an important city, at most it was an emerging city with gold mines. ∈◆,

East Timor, near the equator, seemed a little hot. 300,000 troops were already tanned here, but finally adapted to the climatic conditions here. When the sirens were approaching the military port, the sound of police sirens sounded long ago. After the expansion, the port was enough to accommodate 100 large and small ships, and only 50 ships boarded the ship at the same time. Various logistics and military supplies had been almost ready. At the other end of the military port, 12 new landing ships were making final preparations.

The landing ship is not something of this era. In fact, the predecessor of the landing ship has appeared in the Russian Black Sea Fleet and was called Elpidiford. It is a flat cargo ship with very shallow draft and can be logged in some places with poor conditions in the docks or without docks. Later, someone valued its military uses and gradually developed in World War II.

After China's rise of science and technology, ship manufacturing directly surpassed the ordinary era and entered the era of auxiliary design and construction. There is no pressure to build such a flat-bottomed ship. Yang Yuanzhao didn't know much about landing ships, but he could propose uses and even draw out the general direction. Naturally, there were ship design experts to complete him. Landing ships could transport main battle tanks without changing water and land tanks. This had a great effect on landing. Although amphibious tanks were powerful and had good adaptability, they were not as thick as main battle tanks in landing operations. Under the guidance of the tank, infantry followed the attack, which had a great effect on landing operations.

Realizing this, especially the military, who was shocked by the landing operation exercise, immediately agreed to the construction of the landing ship, and even the first batch of up to 200 ships. In the future, the landing ships are the most valuable. They can conduct landing wars under complex sea conditions and directly project armored forces to ports or coastal areas that are not ports. In this regard, the effect is extremely good, and can effectively increase firepower and reduce casualties.

However, there is a huge problem with landing ships and shallow water heavy gunboats, that is, the speed. The landing ships are a little better. The speed of 12 knots to 22 knots is really accelerated, and they can still follow the ordinary fleet. The shallow water heavy gunboats are not good. The maximum speed is only 12 knots, and their seaworthiness is still poor. Many times, they can only be dragged away, which greatly restricts their use range. However, at critical moments, Zhang Xiaohuai, like him, does not rush to attack and wait for the opportunity quietly, these ships can still be transported here.

It is only 500 kilometers wide, and the narrowest part is less than 450 kilometers. This is not a long-distance width for ordinary merchant ship cruises of less than 12 knots. Whether it is shallow water heavy gunboats or landing ships, they are suitable for carrying them. With them, they can greatly reduce casualties.

At around 4 o'clock in the morning, boarding the ship began. 50 ships boarded together, and only 1,000 soldiers were accommodated on each ship. These merchant ships are not the strongest merchant ships in the future. They are under construction in China's docks all over the north and south. They are a rapid transport ship. From the beginning, they have not been based on civilians, but on military use. Their strength has reached the standard of warships and the speed is as high as 19 knots.

In the war meeting, the speed of every second is very critical, maybe one or two hours faster. For the battle, it is another world. However, in terms of commercial use, the pursuit of performance is the biggest disadvantage. It will put merchant ships at a disadvantage in the competition. The Chinese Navy decided to build 500 military transport ships based on several considerations. First, the attack on the United States caused huge losses to the United States, but it also exposed the strength of the United States. The Pacific War will be a protracted process. Even if the war is won, China will have many military islands in the middle of the Pacific in the future, and these military ports will also require a large number of transport ships.

However, warships that are military purposes cannot be completed in a short period of time. Conservatively estimated that the first batch of 32 high-speed military transport ships will not be put into use until the end of 1916, and at present, they can only be modified by ordinary merchant ships.

This is not the first time to land on the battlefield, but it was in Taiwan. Before attacking Taiwan, it was ready to send special forces to disrupt Taiwan, thus achieving twice the result with half the effort.

Taiwan is the land of Chinese people, and most of them live in Chinese. Even if there are Japanese, they are all yellow people. Chinese people have natural advantages in entering. Australia is different, and the indigenous people are different from the Chinese. As for the mainstream ethnic groups, they are white people. China relies on Chinatown to ambush some of the special forces, as a secret move, is already the greatest effort. If the move is big, it will alarm the Australian government and make them all be prepared.

At 6 o'clock in the morning, shortly after the sun rose, all the people boarded the merchant ships, a total of 150 merchant ships and more than 70 large and small warships left the East Timor Pier. Their goal was to be firm, the Timor Sea, which was close to the Timor Sea. As long as you pass through the Timor Sea, they were their goal this time. It is expected that this voyage will last one day and one night. If you are lucky, you will arrive tomorrow morning before the sun rises.

Among the more than 70 large and small warships, except for 12 landing ships and 6 shallow water heavy gunboats, the rest is the main combat force that determines naval battles. Landing ships and shallow water heavy gunboats are both specific ships. They strengthen one aspect and ignore the other aspect, which are all ground attacks. They have great advantages in landing and ground attacks, and can be said to be overwhelming. However, if they do not have naval escorts at the sea, they are targets. Any naval ship that exceeds destroyers can easily deal with them. Therefore, special ships such as landing ships and shallow water heavy gunboats can only be used when they obtain the sea control power. What really determines the naval combat power is a special warship against the sea.

In addition to 18 professional ground warships, the escort of a combined fleet of 11 heavy patrols and 41 destroyers and light patrols is not an opponent to Britain and the United States. If the opponent only has one battleship, it will be enough to deal with this escort formation. However, for Australia, which has only one battleship and is detained by Britain, it is enough. Australia's largest battleship is only a 9,000-ton heavy patrol, and there is only one. At present, in Sydney, it is beyond the reach. There are only a few gunboats near Darwin, and they are all old gunboats.

How can gunboats resist? It is like a wolf or a tiger, and the Chinese warships that are preparing to attack. Not to mention that they are not prepared, even if they are prepared.

The effect of sneak attack was not ordinary powerful. China's attack made Australia unprepared. Almost in the morning of the next day, when the Pacific Ocean was not angry, the warship formation arrived first. They came to Darwin's coast. Without Darwin's defense, they launched a shelling attack on Darwin's key targets. There were only 100,000 people, and there were only 500 defenders, and there were no artillery batteries on the road. The barracks and military targets were hit by a devastating blow. If they were not afraid of destroying the port and affecting the subsequent landing, the artillery fire would be even more intense.

Darwin never thought that he would be attacked. He suffered a devastating blow at the first time. All the places where he could be defended on the port were attacked by Chinese naval guns. This was the result of the failure of shallow water heavy gunboats. The shallow water heavy gunboats with a speed of only 12 knots were unable to reach Darwin. When the naval formation arrived next to Darwin, the shallow water heavy gunboats were at least 50 nautical miles away from Darwin.

That is, Darwin was not prepared for the first time, and the Chinese ship formation launched the first wave of attacks. The first thing that was attacked was the military ships next to Darwin. Whether they were located or dared to give gunboats next to them, or the military camp, they were all devastating.

Now, it is the electronic age. There is a wired telegram contact between Darwin and Sydney. They immediately informed the news of the Chinese invasion, and there is also the idea of ​​shirking responsibility. Faced with countless Chinese warships and possible landing operations behind, they could not defeat them. The 500-man army suffered a devastating blow in the first round of artillery fire. Almost half of the actual casualties were killed or killed, but the remaining half ran away after seeing the fierce artillery fire of the other party. The Australian army, even the United States, was not as good as the United States, and barely supported the British troops with hundreds of thousands of support, was unable to bear the role. Now they were attacked by Chinese naval and air forces, and had no effect at all. Darwin's defenders were dismantled by China at the first time.

The war ended from the beginning. Even then, the Chinese army used landing ships to land on the beach and landed 4 regiments on one side of the dock. They quickly controlled the situation of the port. When they began a large-scale landing, they did not suffer a large attack. They only took over the military power of this port and occupied the largest city in the north.

Even Zhang Xiaohuai did not expect that the combination offensive he organized was disintegrated by Australia from the beginning. It was not that his preparation was not strong enough, but that Australia's protection was like paper, and it was broken with one stab.

Darwin's capture is very important for China's next strategy. It can be said without politely that Darwin is a fulcrum. Without this fulcrum, China will not have a foothold on the Australian continent. Even if it lucky enough to occupy part of its territory, Australia reacts and may be beaten to the sea. However, after occupying Darwin, there is no problem. This is a real port. Even if it is located in the northern region, a less important place. As long as it occupies here and continues to extend, it is equivalent to finding an important place on the Australian continent.

Next, China will send enough ships to transport enough materials to truly expand Darwin's city into a comprehensive chassis that can support the entire Australian war. Next, in the winter months, all the Chinese landing troops have to do is to occupy the city one by one and control the entire Northland in the hands of the Chinese.

Darwin's homework is a good thing for China, and it means that everything goes well in Australia is a bad news for the Allies. The territory located in Oceania was invaded by the Chinese, and the Allies faced a full-scale invasion of the Allies.

For Britain, since the end of 1915, bad news came one after another. First of all, the submarines suddenly appeared in Germany, which posed a huge threat to the waterway. Not to mention the escort destroyers, even if it was a heavy patrol, there were some problems with this, let alone other merchant ships. The safety of the North Atlantic shipping was decided in this way. The Allied Powers' combat plan in Europe was absolutely not to be lost. The United States was attacked again. To be honest, when the United States was just attacked, the British were a little secretly happy. After all, this guy in the United States has gained enough benefits from the Chinese, and China may not be able to bear it.

Only with the premise of endurance can the United States be attacked, but the news is constantly coming, with the increase of the genre, especially the power shown by the four Chinese warships, Wall Street was destroyed, and the dam of the Panama Canal was also destroyed. By the way, when leaving, the 12 American main battleships were also killed. China's ability to fight at sea was highlighted. Most of the Allies, including Britain, were weighing China's strength. The Chinese became a new growth point for the allies with the strength far beyond the Allies' imagination. Britain unknowingly gained its biggest enemy in Asia, which is difficult for Britain to accept. (To be continued.)
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