Currently, the number of US troops in Australia has reached 1.2 million, plus the re-equipped 600,000 Japanese troops and 300,000 Australian troops, the number of allied troops in this area exceeds 2 million. The Republican army will also increase its total strength in a region.
To the 17 armies and 6 divisions of the Marine Corps, the total force reached 1.6 million.
Australia, with a total population of only more than 8 million, cannot support nearly 5 million troops, including the Shanghai Army. Since weapons, ammunition, oil, and even food have to be transported through the navy, the equipment supply of both sides is very serious.
The problem has always restricted large-scale military operations.
Australia was originally an agricultural country and could not become an industrial power in the short term. The British were paying the price for their long-term neglecting Australia's heavy industry development.
The harsh traffic conditions in western Australia have always been the main factor restricting the Republican army's advance. Relatively speaking, the road conditions in East Australia controlled by the United States, Australia and Japan coalition forces are much better and the supply conditions are better. Both sides are in Buck.
The front line of Litaidi has engaged in a protracted tug-of-war.
The Republican Army has a total of 11 armies in the North Australia region, including 6 heavy armored divisions, 13 light armored divisions and 18 mechanized infantry divisions. During the war, the daily material consumption exceeded 3,000 tons, and the later support became the most.
A problem that caused headaches for the Australian Army Commander-in-Chief General Luo Bingnan.
In order to ensure the supply of materials on the front line, the Republican Army built two railway lines from the west coast of Australia to central Australia, one from Darwin Port to Dunmara, and the other from Derby to Barocque in the central area.
Two large material logistics transfer stations were built at two railway stations.
Both sides were accumulating supplies and strength for the next big battle, and the front line was relatively calm. Only some small battles broke out occasionally.
Landia is a small town less than thirty miles southwest of Townsville, Australia. This place is simply not found on ordinary maps. The land in this area is far less abundant than Japan or Taiwan, but it is endlessly green.
The vast grasslands and dark distant mountains still make the Japanese soldiers far away from their hometown feel a little novel.
This is a large army training base, and the first Japanese Marine Division, reorganized with US military equipment, is training in this camp.
The entire camp is about twenty square miles, and the railway from Brisbane to Townsville passes by another town called Baoer five miles away, and there are two roads covered with asphalt in Lantia.
The traffic is quite convenient to Born Railway Station and Townsville.
This was originally the garrison of the 4th Division of the Australian Army, but half of the division was wiped out in the Malay Battle. The rest of the personnel retreated to India with the British army, and then ran from India to North Africa, and had no chance to return to Australia.
.After a Japanese army retreated from Taiwan to Australia, it became a training camp for the Japanese.
Due to the conflict between the army and the navy, the Japanese Navy has never been able to build a Marine Corps. However, after retreating to Australia, Navy Mine, who was in charge of Australian military affairs, imitated the organization of the US military. Finally, he won the organization of two Marine Divisions for the Japanese Navy.
The Imperial Japanese Navy finally could not be constrained by the army and have the highest amphibious combat capabilities.
Lieutenant General Kurihara Nakamoto, who was from the army but had a good relationship with the navy, was appointed as the commander of the First Land Division, but the training was carried out by Major General Imamura Shunnosuke, the chief of staff of the division who was from the navy, and there was also Adams
A US military advisory group dominated by lieutenant colonel.
Compared with the traditional training of the Japanese army with individual subjects, the US military attaches more importance to equipment operation. Every Marine must master one of the technologies such as driving cars, tanks or armored vehicles, controlling artillery and even landing crafts.
To two types, the Americans' strong industrial capabilities opened their eyes to those Japanese soldiers who had only once or twice occasionally.
A team of newly selected soldiers from the Army and Navy arrived from Townsville on a train to reach the barracks named Lantiya. Captain Kiyomizu Sugino led the team to get off the car and saw more than a hundred neatly placed on the training ground.
An M4 Sherman tank, more than 100 LVT buffalo armored landing vehicles equipped with a 37mm anti-tank gun, 54 105mm howitzers and more than 1,000 light and heavy transport vehicles.
At this time, a C-46 transport plane landed on the runway of a large military airport next to the Lantia training camp, and the cabin door opened. The new commander of the first division of the Japanese Marine Corps, Lieutenant General Kuribayashi, got off the plane
, welcomed by Major General Imamura and others, took several jeeps and drove from the airport to the huge training base.
"Americans are really a luxury. A division will have so many heavy equipment. If these things were given to us earlier, then Taiwan and the local government would not be lost!" Captain Qingshui said in an envious tone.
Under the noon sunlight, a team of soldiers were building bunkers with sandbags on the side of the playground. When he heard Captain Qingshui's sigh, a bearded stern sternly stood up and looked at it, "There are so many idiots, just
With these old goods eliminated by Americans, you can beat the Chinese people, just dream of it!" The sergeant muttered to the two soldiers beside him who seemed less than eighteen years old.
"Ba Ge, what did you say just now?" Captain Qingshui heard the sergeant's muttering and turned around and shouted.
The sergeant raised his head, wearing a white-washed old military uniform, covered with sweat stains. He was about forty years old, "Report to the sir, I mean with this kind of equipment,
It is impossible to defeat the Chinese people!" He looked directly at Captain Qingshui and said word by word, but there was no fear in his eyes.
"Bastard, how dare you talk for the Chinese!" Captain Qingshui was furious, picked up a short stick on the ground, and hit the sergeant hard on the body. The sergeant was very tough and flowed upwards.
He was covered in blood, but he didn't say a word.
"You can't hit him!" The two soldiers came up and pulled Captain Qingshui hard, and grabbed the broken wooden stick on his hand tightly.
"Get out of here, if you say such a bastard, you should just pull it out and shoot it!" Captain Qingshui kicked the soldier who stopped him to the ground and roared in his mouth.
"You can't do it, Mr. Liu Ben is a general... he is a general!" Another soldier grabbed the half-piece of the wooden stick in Captain Qingshui's hand and cried in his mouth.
"General?" Quami stopped and looked at the sergeant. Judging from his appearance, he should be a re-summoned veteran.
"What are you doing?" At this time, the jeep that Lieutenant General Li Lin was riding by, and he got out of the car.
"Report to the sir, these soldiers are complaining and speaking for the Chinese people. I am punishing them!" Captain Qingshui quickly threw away the wooden stick in his hand and stood attentively saluting.
"Talk for the Chinese people?" Li Lin turned around and looked at the sergeant who was beaten to death, "You? Liu Benjun? Bastard, how could you attack General Liu Benben?!" When he saw clearly
After the appearance of the military officer, he immediately roared at Captain Qingshui.
"Report to the chief, my subordinate is just a sergeant, and the captain's punishment is due!" Liu Benbu Wasaki said after saluting Li Lin.
"You... come, hurry up and send General Liu Ben to the infirmary!" Li Lin opened her mouth and said nothing in the end.