Chapter 1567 Landing in Australia (First update, please subscribe)
On this day, everyone saw an extremely spectacular scene: more than 400 ships densely appeared in the Mandrabilla area of the Great Australian Bight. This was just a small town. Except for a few security guards, there were no other people. Although Australia, with a population of only 3.6 million, mobilized a full 400,000 troops to respond to the invasion of the empire.
However, about half of these troops were deployed in the north to defend against the invasion of the empire. As for the remaining 200,000 people, they were deployed in the densely populated southeast coast, such as Melbourne, Canberra, and Brisbane. The vast majority of Australians live there, and most of the gold mines are also there, so naturally heavy troops must be deployed for defense.
As for other areas, which are the focus of defense, defense is to deploy defenses in important coastal areas. However, Australia's coastline is too vast, and there is no defense in most areas. At most, some wood and rocks are deployed in areas suitable for landing to block landing.
For example, this is the case with Mandela Bila.
On this day, people in the small town of Mandlabila saw an astonishing scene: countless ships appeared on the coast. Faced with the black muzzles of the giant ships, the people in the town chose to flee almost immediately.
As people in the town fled, hundreds of planes circled in the sky. Xu Donghai, who was flying the plane, saw a spectacular scene from the plane. It was a scene that people who saw it from the air would never forget - an attack fleet consisting of hundreds of ships and landing craft was approaching the beach, and the rolling sea was covered with white arrow-shaped tracks left by countless ships. The sea troops had begun to land.
"Be alert!"
When Xu Haidong saw the captain shaking the wings, he immediately flew the plane in another direction to prevent any aircraft from attacking the landing troops.
At the same time, on the beach a few kilometers away, the landing craft rushed towards the beach against the waves. Under the impact of the waves, the landing craft swayed back and forth. Every time the wave lifted the bow of the craft and the wave fell, the sea water beaten by the landing craft kept splashing into the craft. Some seasick soldiers lay on both sides of the boat and vomited, wishing they could vomit out all the breakfast they had eaten in the restaurant of the troop transport ship before landing.
Standing among the soldiers, smelling the familiar smell of the sea, Zhang Gangqiang looked at the coast getting closer and closer, looking at the yellow continent with some excitement. All his impressions of Australia came from the Bingzhou Zoo - there were kangaroos and koalas from Australia, and of course, there were also eucalyptus forests in Bingzhou, where a large number of eucalyptus trees were planted for papermaking. Then there was the continent surrounded by the sea on the geography wall map in elementary school, and the legend about Jinshan.
Turning his head and looking around, Zhang Gangqiang smiled. The brothers in the boat were all very calm. In order to transport as many troops as possible, each landing craft was packed with many people. In the crowded landing craft, the marines held submachine guns and rifles and looked ahead with a relaxed expression.
However, some people are miserable.
"vomit……"
The brothers in the boat bent over and vomited from time to time. Landing on a landing craft has never been an easy task. Although the flat-bottomed landing craft can now take them directly to the shore and they don't have to paddle the sampan ashore like the first generation of Marines, this kind of flat-bottomed boat will be tossed up and down by the waves when sailing on the sea, which will make the stomach shake up and down. Vomiting is simply a normal thing. Fortunately, the sea breeze will blow away the sour smell in the boat.
In the choppy sea, hundreds of landing craft of the Imperial Marines bumped along the coast of Mandrabilla.
As the landing craft was sailing, occasionally loud explosions could be heard from the front. Those were the Marine engineers who had arrived ahead of time and were carrying out blasting operations - destroying the obstacles blocking the landing, namely the triangular wooden rocks. In the violent explosions, the wooden rocks as thick as thighs were blown into pieces.
The landing craft hit the floating wood debris and approached the shore. When it was five or six meters away from the shore, the gangplank hatch opened the moment the landing craft hit the beach.
“Quick, quick, quick…”
The Marines holding rifles and submachine guns jumped out of the landing craft and waded towards the beach. Their landing was so smooth, there was no machine gun fire from the beach and no tracer bullets flying in the air. The moment the hatch opened, accompanied by the shouts of the platoon leaders, the Marines in the boat quickly rushed to the beach.
"Don't block the springboard and land in one minute!"
Amid the sound of waves and the roar of the gasoline engine, the helmsman shouted loudly.
"Port side, starboard side, everyone, regardless of whether there is resistance or not, you must advance as far as possible into the depths of the coast. After advancing 200 meters, you can consolidate the beachhead."
While shouting loudly, Zhang Gangqiang walked in the bumpy boat and pushed half of the company's brothers to both sides of the boat.
"Remember to maintain the tactical formation... When you are landing on the beach, don't let the sand block the gun barrel when you shoot over your head. Take care, brothers! See you in Australia!"
“See you in Australia!”
The Marines leaning against the sides of the ship and hunched over shouted excitedly. They were so excited because they had been waiting for this day for the past year.
Waiting to occupy this continent!
Finally, at the moment the landing craft rushed onto the beach, accompanied by a violent impact, the Marines' bodies suddenly leaned forward. Fortunately, they all grabbed the ropes on the side and did not fall.
"beep……"
A shrill and rapid whistle sounded, the helmsman quickly turned the pulley, and the bow beachhead of the landing craft flew open. When the door was about to be opened, the Marines in the front row showed a bit of nervousness on their seemingly relaxed faces. After all, in teaching movies, the moment the hatch was opened, it would often be subjected to machine gun fire.
"Everyone, divide into two columns, left and right! Quick! Quick! Quick! Go! Go! Go!..."
After the boat door was fully opened, the Marines standing inside the boat immediately rushed out of the landing craft amid the shouts of the officers and non-commissioned officers. When the sea water reached their knees, the warm sea water brought smiles to their faces. All of them raised their weapons high and rushed towards the beach desperately without any pause.
The Marines at the front kept their eyes fixed on the beach, and would immediately throw out smoke bombs if there was any danger.
But the beach was quiet!
No resistance at all!
"This is the landing operation in the era of landing ships - we can land at any time and in any area as long as we want. Landing craft will send infantry ashore, and landing ships will send large equipment ashore. We don't even need a port..."
In the command tower of the "Jingwei Aircraft Carrier", listening to the words of his superior, Sun An nodded in agreement.
"That's true. Amphibious landing operations are the most complex of all combat styles. The essence is to deploy troops from shore to shore, that is, to send troops to the enemy's beach. Before our technicians invented the hatch-type springboard landing ship, the whole world used sampans. At that time, the landing had to be as close to the city as possible to occupy the port in order to transport follow-up troops. But now..."
Pointing at the large landing ship approaching the coast in the distance, Sun An smiled.
"With them, we can land anywhere on the coastline. The enemy can't guard all the coasts!"
This is exactly the change that the new amphibious landing ships have brought to the war. This change has also turned the amphibious landing operations that were once considered daunting into a kind of surprise attack.
In fact, it was not a surprise attack, after all, their movements had been exposed a few days ago, but the British and American Pacific Fleet in Australia had no power to prevent their landing. They had lost their combat effectiveness in the last naval battle.
Now all they can do is watch the Imperial Army land in Australia.
"So there won't be any resistance!"
Wu Anping then said.
"Telegram to the Admiralty - Our troops have successfully landed in the designated area in Australia without encountering any resistance!"
(End of this chapter)
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