stonecrandall Chapter 1087
Chapter 1087
“The Foot Basin has once again mobilized domestically!”
Since the Foot Basin’s sneak attack on Australia, Mainz has been very concerned about the war situation in the Far East.
Although the Empire is temporarily unable to send troops to the Far East to fight, before the Empire’s troops arrive, letting these countries and forces in the Far East consume each other’s strength is obviously one of the necessary preparations before the war.
And from the current situation, the plan is progressing quite smoothly. The Foot Basin won first and then lost in Australia. In order to avoid being completely driven out of Australia, they will definitely continue to increase troops at all costs to stop the British army until they are defeated!
However, according to the current situation in Australia, it may be a bit difficult for the Japanese army to complete the task of completely defeating the British army!
The British Army has a very favorable mass base in Europe. The local Australians all support the British Army. They will provide intelligence, logistics and other support to the British Army, and will also sign up to join the army to provide the British Army with an endless supply of reserve troops.
If the Japanese Army simply defeats the British Army, it will be difficult to achieve a complete victory. They must prevent the Australians in the occupied areas from continuing to resist and provide support to the British Army while defeating the British Army!
Otherwise, they have to deal with the British Army’s offensive on the front battlefield on the one hand, and the fierce resistance of the Australians in the occupied areas on the other hand. In this case, it will be difficult to win on any battlefield!
“Even if they continue to increase their troops, I’m afraid it will be difficult to win!”
The mustache was not optimistic about the prospects of the Japanese army in Australia. He did not think the Japanese army could win!
“From a strategic point of view, it is true, but nothing is absolute!”
Mainz agreed with the mustache’s opinion, but he did not completely agree with it.
“”Mr. Führer, do you think the Japanese army still has hope of turning the tables?”
General Rundstedt, who was transferred to the General Staff, was obviously very concerned about military affairs, so he immediately asked after hearing what the Führer said.
“Militarily, the Japanese army was not at a disadvantage, so increasing the number of troops could indeed achieve some victories. However, if the resistance of the Australian natives was not resolved, no matter how many victories they achieved, they could not make up for their strategic failure!”
War is a very complicated matter, and it is not just about the military.
There are many other issues, including culture, people’s livelihood, politics, economy and other factors.
“The reason why the Japanese army was stuck in the quagmire on the battlefield of the Celestial Empire was indeed the same as the situation in Australia, because of the fierce resistance in the occupied areas. There are many similarities between the two places.
First, the civilians in the occupied areas of the two places took fierce resistance measures against the Japanese army, forcing the Japanese army to devote a large part of their energy to maintaining order in the occupied areas, which dispersed the Japanese army’s troops and made the Japanese army’s rear unstable, affecting the combat operations of the Japanese army on the front line!
Second, the areas of these two places are very large, so a lot of troops need to be divided to control various key points. The more land is occupied and the larger the territory is controlled, the more troops need to be dispersed, resulting in a lack of follow-up after advancing to a certain extent!”
Everyone nodded frequently, and some young staff officers even began to take notes. Obviously, they all recognized the analysis of the head of Mainz. After all, this method of thinking about problems beyond a simple military perspective has greatly broadened their horizons for them and benefited them a lot!
“Mr. President, according to your analysis, the Japanese army has no chance of winning. But you just said……”
Rundstedt was a little confused. Mainz’s analysis seemed to prove his previous point. If that was the case, then why did the leader of Mainz still think that Foot Basin still had a chance?
“The reason is very simple, China is not Australia, and Australia is not China!”
The Japanese army currently occupies more than 3 million square kilometers of land in the Chinese region, including a large number of areas such as Northeast China, North China, Central China and East China, where more than 200 million people live, and the total number of Japanese troops stationed here does not exceed 2 million. Even if the military police and puppet troops of the peacekeeping association are included, the total number of troops does not exceed 3.5 million!”
“If all these troops were used to maintain law and order in the occupied areas, there should be no problem.
However, the Japanese army’s sneak attack on Australia transferred hundreds of thousands of troops from China, and then hundreds of thousands of them were annihilated in the south.
In order to deal with China’s counterattack and the British attack, most of the Japanese troops were mobilized to the front battlefield.
Only a few old, weak, sick and disabled people were left in the rear, plus some useless puppet troops to guard the rear!
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“What these puppet troops had to face was the resistance of 200 million people in an area of 3 million square kilometers. This was the basis for the situation in the Japanese-occupied areas to remain unstable!”
“But Australia is different. The land area here is actually much smaller. Excluding those areas in the middle that are not suitable for human habitation and survival, the land area that the Japanese army needs to control is not large, and most importantly, the population of Australia is far smaller than that of China!
Australia has a population of less than 10 million, and most of them are concentrated in the southeast of Australia. There are less than 5 million Australians in the area controlled by the Japanese army, and the Japanese army has 1.5 million troops in Australia at this time!”
The contrast between 200 million and 5 million is so strong that everyone woke up all of a sudden!
Australia and China are really completely different!
The Japanese army may be trapped in China, but if it is in Australia, it will be extremely difficult to trap them with the vast ocean of people’s war!
“Führer, you mean that the Japanese army might……”
General Rundstedt was very surprised when he heard Mainz’s words. He was a pure soldier who liked to defeat the enemy in an upright way and did not like the method of the foot basin people. So after hearing the possible results of Mainz’s analysis, he was deeply shocked!
“That’s right!”
“The Japanese army is likely to go on a killing spree in Australia next!”
Mainz’s prediction was very accurate. As the situation in Australia deteriorated!
After realizing that the serious threat and drag were actually these Australian local residents, who were not numerous but extremely active and extremely difficult to deal with, the Japanese army immediately changed its strategy!
After the arrival of the reinforcements, they did not immediately launch an attack on the British army to regain the lost territory, but strengthened the defense of the front line, and then invested a large number of troops in the repeated cleanup of the occupied areas in the rear!
The Australians in the occupied areas were either expelled, massacred, or thrown into concentration camps.
In just one month, more than 2 million Australians were driven away by force.
More than 1.
5 million people were massacred, and more than one million were captured by the Japanese army, thrown into concentration camps, and sent to uninhabited areas in western Australia, where they took turns working in the iron mines that the Japanese army had just dug, serving as free labor for the Japanese army!
After this series of clearing operations, the Japanese occupied areas were empty, the local residents were swept away, and the hidden dangers and threats they faced in the rear were eliminated!
The Japanese army, which had drawn energy from the endless security battles in the rear, soon put almost all of its troops into the front battlefield, preparing to launch a counterattack against the British army!