When the Battle of Moscow began, Mu Haoyang began to prepare for the attack on Australia.

According to Mu Haoyang's plan, entering Australia would definitely be a combat operation that was even larger than that of the Battle of Moscow and several times larger.

At that time, he prepared as many as five million troops.

Among them, there must be the Pacific Fleet commanded by Tong Shaoyun. Including the officers and soldiers in the rear port, the total force invested by the navy is about 700,000.

The Marine Corps is naturally indispensable. Pang Yuelong prepared twenty Marine Divisions, and the combat troops were as many as 400,000, but twelve of them were still sent by Wei Chenglong on the mainland battlefield. In addition, Pang Yuelong also prepared eight landing fleets, with a total number of officers and soldiers exceeding 200,000. According to his deployment, in the first two months of the operation, eight Marine Divisions deployed in the Solomon Islands could be used. In the fourth month, twelve newly formed Marine Divisions could be obtained, and by the sixth month, twenty Marine Divisions would be added. In other words, Pang Yuelong actually prepared sixty Marine Divisions, but only scored batches of investment, and the total force invested by the Marine Corps was as high as 1.4 million.

In the Air Force, the mother Qi Tie has made a guarantee to invest 3,000 bombers and 8,000 fighter jets, but two thousand of them will be drawn from the mainland battlefield. In addition, the Air Force will also requisition 58 airports in Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines, use 12 airports in the Solomon Islands, and build ten new airports in Papua New Guinea. Including ground crews, guards, defense forces, etc. deployed at the airport, the total force invested by the Air Force is more than one million.

In the army, Wei Chenglong also promised to provide at least ten armies, that is, 500,000 people.

In terms of maritime transportation, Mu Haoyang is preparing to requisition 1,200 merchant ships, form 60 fleets, and set up 30 escort fleets to transport combat supplies to forward ports, especially ports in Southeast Asia and the Solomon Islands. The number of officers and soldiers on these ships is more than 500,000.

Of course, the most important thing is air transport force.

In addition to the 6,000 large electric transport aircraft that Wei Chenglong promised to provide, Mu Haoyang will also use the 7,000 large electric transport aircraft produced in the second half of 2054. In addition, the Marine Corps has 4,000 tactical transport aircraft, while the Army provides as many as 12,000 tactical transport aircraft. In other words, if it is counted as the Shanghai Army's tactical transport aircraft, Mu Haoyang had already collected 30,000 transport aircraft at that time. Among them, except for about 8,000 tactical transport aircraft, other transport aircraft, including 13,000 strategic transport aircraft, were electric transport aircraft. The flight crew of these transport aircraft, plus ground crew, logistics personnel, etc., totaled about 900,000.

It can be said that such a huge air transport capacity is enough to support ground troops with a scale of three million.

Of course, this does not mean that attacking Australia is a very easy thing.

If combat troops were sent entirely by air transport, then in the early days of the war, Mu Haoyang could only use large electric transport aircraft, and there would not be more than thirty airports supporting these transport aircraft. More importantly, this included front-line airports for deploying tactical fighters, so there were about ten airports that could actually be used by large electric transport aircraft. In this way, there were only more than one thousand large electric transport aircraft that could be put into combat.

To solve this problem, you can only open field airports on the front line.

Fortunately, the Chinese army has occupied New Guinea Island, controlled Port Moresby, and completed surveys on the southern coastal areas.

Here, at least more than 100 field airports can be built, and the distance from each field airport to the coastline will not exceed ten kilometers. More importantly, in the southern coastal area of ​​New Guinea, there are enough deep-water bays that can be anchored by transport ships and simple docks can be built.

There is no doubt that this is a huge project.

As a result, in early October, the Chinese Marine Corps sent tens of thousands of engineers to New Guinea, which later increased to 140,000.

According to Mu Haoyang's arrangement, the Marines will build fifty field airports in the southern part of New Guinea Island.

Based on the calculation that fifty large electric transport aircraft are deployed at a field airport, it can accommodate 2,500 aircraft, and ensure that these transport aircraft need to return to the air force base behind for comprehensive maintenance after twenty flight missions, so as to maximize the effectiveness of the transport aircraft.

In fact, as long as you land on the Australian continent, the problem will be much simpler.

The northern part of Australia is mainly deserts and Gobi. The terrain is relatively flat, which is very convenient for the Marines to open field airports on site, and it is difficult for the US military to defend. As long as field airports are opened on the battlefield, large electric transport aircraft can use the airports of the Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia as bases to transport combat troops and combat materials to the frontline, and then tactical transport aircraft deployed at the frontline will send troops and materials to various battlefields. If the number of airports is large, fighter jets can even be deployed at the frontline to improve the combat efficiency of the air force.

Of course, this also needs to be prepared.

In early 2054, Mu Haoyang asked Pang Yuelong to order prefabricated parts for field airports in large quantities. By the end of 2054, there were almost 200 sets of Marine Corps' warehouses. If the Army had not adopted new tactics on the mainland battlefield, the number would have been higher. If it were half a year, and the Army had withdrawn from the mainland battlefield, the total number of prefabricated parts for field airports that could be used by the Marine Corps was about 400 sets. In other words, the Chinese Marine Corps could spread field airports throughout the Australian continent at a distance of 150 kilometers. Of course, in actual combat, the Marine Corps would definitely not do this, but would open several, or even dozens of field airports on the main battlefield.

With cooking utensils, you naturally need the ingredients for cooking.

Mu Haoyang's preparations were more fully prepared. By the end of 2054, the materials accumulated in major ports in China and major ports in Southeast Asia had exceeded one billion tons. At that time, the materials stored in Singapore alone were as high as 1.4 billion tons.

What is this concept?

Australia's pre-war population was about 100 million, which means that an Australian could get ten tons.

Of course, these materials are not all combat materials. A large part of them are engineering materials and civilian materials, such as about 200 million tons of cement, 70 million tons of steel, 30 million tons of grain, and 15 million tons of fuel. At that time, considering the lack of water in northern Australia, Mu Haoyang even asked the logistics department to stockpile 1 billion bottles, about 10 billion liters of barrels of pure water, and prepared 50 million portions of seawater desalination medicines.

In fact, the material preparation has been too much.

In the end, the Chinese army consumed only 60% of the stockpiled materials, and the rest were all used in the later combat operations that attacked the Hawaiian Islands.

Of course, this also reflects China's strong war potential from one aspect.

You should know that these billion tons of materials were all produced in the past two years, and the nearly two billion tons of materials that have been consumed on the battlefield have not been included. More importantly, this is the surplus materials produced without tightening the belts of the Chinese, that is, without significantly degrading the quality of people's living.

By comparing it, you can see the gap between China and the United States in terms of war potential.

At that time, the United States hoarded less than 400 million tons of supplies in Australia, of which about 100 million tons were produced in Australia and New Zealand. In other words, only 300 million tons of supplies transported from the United States to Australia, and even if the previous combat consumption was included, it would not exceed 500 million tons. More importantly, by the end of 2054, American citizens had clearly felt the impact of the war, such as butter, fish, milk and other daily necessities, and some areas were still shutting down at night to limit power.

In fact, the actual gap in war productivity between China and the United States is not as big as twice as big.

According to some information disclosed after the war, at the end of 2054, the actual gap in the war productivity between China and the United States was within 20%.

The main reason why the US military's front-line supplies are only half of the Chinese military is the long transportation line.

In 2054 alone, the United States lost nearly 3,000 large transport ships, with a total load of more than one billion tons, of which 70% were sunk on the way from the United States to other countries, and 700 million tons of materials were lost alone, while the production-lossed transport ships consumed hundreds of millions of tons of materials. More importantly, due to the heavy losses of the transport ships, the US military's maritime capacity has been greatly reduced, resulting in a large amount of materials that should have been sent to the battlefield in the ports of the United States, such as nearly 300 million tons of materials were hoarded in San Francisco and Long Beach.

The culprit that caused the US military's poor shipping was the "tuna" class fully electric submarine mass-produced in 2054.

This submarine can patrol the sea east of the Hawaiian Islands for two months if it departs from the Mariana Islands or Fuso. If it departs from the Mariana Islands, it can also be active in the Southwest Pacific Ocean for two months, and from the Solomon Islands for seventy-five days.

That year, the "tuna"-class submarine with the most results sank thirty-two US military transport ships.

In the largest ambush, fourteen "tuna" class besieged two transport fleets in the Eastern Pacific, and sent seventy-seven transport ships to the seabed in one night.

Faced with the "Tuna" class all-electric submarine, the US military was basically unable to resist.

It was not until the second half of 2055 that the US Navy's "Shark" class electric submarine was put into service in large quantities (the submarine was designed for the "Tuna" class, and its most outstanding performance was that its submarine speed reached an astonishing fifty knots). With more than 100 escort aircraft carriers modified by merchant ships, the US military initially curbed the Chinese Navy's break-breaking offensive, but this situation lasted for less than a year. With the increase in the number of the "Great Wall" class, the break-breaking mission began and acted as the first boat in the group of broken-breaking submarines, the good days of the US military were over.

Strategically speaking, the root cause of the US's defeat is that the transportation line is too long.
Chapter completed!