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On April 14th, the fourth battle began.

The delay for a month made Pang Yuelong very annoyed, because according to the feedback from the front line, the US-Australia coalition forces have been fully mobilized in this month, establishing a new strategic defense line in southern Queensland and northern New South Wales. The defense depth has expanded to more than 500 kilometers, and even reached 800 kilometers in the eastern coastal area, almost the distance from Brisbane to Sydney.

It is obvious that the US-Australia coalition also realized that traditional defensive measures could not resist the Chinese Marine Corps at all.

At that time, there were some extremely amazing intelligence sent to Pang Yuelong, such as Australia mobilized and armed five million soldiers in this month, and all of them were handed over to Hris to command and deployed on a new strategic defense line. There were even rumors that the United States had added one million troops to Australia, including thirty ace divisions equipped with ground warfare systems, and twenty armored divisions.

In fact, these intelligence and rumors are not accurate enough.

By mid-April, Australia had mobilized less than two million soldiers, and one million of them were deployed in southern New South Wales, with less than one million being deployed on the third strategic defense line set up by Herris. The U.S. troops arrived in Australia actually had only ten divisions. More importantly, only two of these ten divisions had obtained ground combat systems, and only two armored divisions in the other eight divisions, and the remaining six were infantry divisions, because the United States had no extra main combat equipment.

At that time, rumors that the US military had increased its troops by one million to Australia came from a broken battle in early April.

In this battle that took place in the North Cook Islands, more than 20 "Tuna" class fully electric submarines, led by four "Great Wall" class attack nuclear submarines, ambushed a fleet of fifty super transport ships and sunk eight of them.

Obviously, this was not a successful submarine ambush battle, in which the Chinese Navy lost four submarines.

The reason is very simple. This is a fleet that is closely protected. The escort force includes six escort aircraft carriers modified from fast container freighters, eighteen anti-submarine destroyers, eighteen ocean frigates and six attack nuclear submarines. It also carries 18 fixed-wing anti-submarine patrol aircraft and 72 tilted rotary wing anti-submarine patrol aircraft, which has been directly covered by hundreds of shore-based anti-submarine patrol aircraft.

Judging from the escort force, it is almost three times that of an ordinary fleet.

There is no doubt that this is a fleet of ships carrying military supplies and valuable military supplies.

Otherwise, Zhou Yusheng would not have organized a submarine force to take such a great risk to ambush the fleet.

Three days after the battle, a "Great Wall"-class attack nuclear submarine returned to the combat waters and searched for eight sunken transport ships with unmanned submarines. It was found that these eight transport ships were super roll-ro-cargo ships, all loaded with ground war systems and main combat equipment.

According to estimates, the equipment on the eight transport ships is enough to arm twelve divisions.

Based on this, Zhou Yusheng made a judgment that other super cargo ships also carried ground warfare systems and main combat equipment, otherwise it would be impossible to only sink the transport ship carrying these equipment. Judging from the fleet size, the remaining forty-two super cargo ships carried enough equipment to arm fifty divisions. Based on the cargo on the eight super roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll

In fact, there are indeed great coincidences in this submarine ambush.

At that time, there were only twelve super roll-ro-cargo ships in the transport fleet, eight of which were sunk, while the remaining thirty-eight supercargo ships were not sunk.

The equipment carried by the four super roll-ro-cargo ships that escaped could only arm two ace divisions and two armored divisions, and the excess main combat equipment was provided to six infantry divisions.

In fact, the equipment transported to Australia by the US military was originally planned to arm eight ace divisions and six armored divisions.

It can be said that the US fleet was in a bad mood. At that time, there were ten freighters in the fleet carrying some insignificant materials, such as food, fuel, etc., and all of these ten freighters arrived in Australia safely. On the contrary, eight of the most important twelve super roll-ro-cargo ships were sunk.

According to post-war investigations, this is likely to be related to the torpedoes specially used by the Chinese Navy to deal with freighters, because this torpedo developed during the war has the ability to self-guidance of magnetic fields, that is, when attacking the transport fleet, it will first attack the target with the greatest magnetic field strength.

In combat use, submarine captains often use this attack method, that is, they can shoot the torpedo at the target fleet and let the torpedo launch an attack on their own. The most obvious benefit of the captain doing this is that they do not need to expose their whereabouts, and the information provided by passive sonar is enough to complete the attack. In addition, the ability of the torpedo to seek is often more accurate than that of the submarine to judge the value of the target through target noise. The reason is very simple. The larger the tonnage, the more steel it uses, and the stronger the magnetic field it generates.

Judging from the results, this is often the case. According to the combat data statistics of the Chinese Navy submarine force, the results achieved by allowing torpedoes with magnetic field self-guiding capabilities to choose the most valuable attack targets are 20% higher than allowing submarines to select targets and guide torpedo attacks in other ways.

Of course, what is more important is that submarines are safer.

In this battle, most of the twenty-four submarines, especially those fully electric submarines with less than ideal silent effects when sailing at high speeds, almost all adopted this attack tactic.

The result is that twelve roll-ro-roll cargo ships carrying a large amount of heavy equipment are most vulnerable to attack.

The reason is very simple. The main combat equipment on the ground is also made of steel, while other goods, such as grain, fuel, etc., will not produce a magnetic field. Therefore, the magnetic field strength generated by the roll-ro-roll cargo ship loading the main combat equipment on the ground is much higher than that of the freight ship loading other cargo.

In fact, this is why ten cargo ships carrying food and fuel were not attacked.

Of course, this is a good thing, not a bad thing.

In terms of value, a company's ground warfare system exceeded the grain carried by a 500,000-ton bulk cargo ship.

At that time, the total value of equipment on the eight super-roll and roll-off cargo ships that were sunk by the US military was worth as much as the grain or fuel carried by ordinary ten transport fleets of the same size.

However, the information provided by Zhou Yusheng misled Pang Yuelong.

Interestingly, Pang Yuelong did not ask Li Mingyang to check the information at that time, but believed it to be true.

If you check the intelligence with the Military Intelligence Agency, you can find that all the ground warfare systems produced by the United States at that time were not enough to arm thirty divisions.

The result was that Pang Yuelong became more cautious when arranging the fourth battle.

If the rumors are true, it is not wrong for him to be cautious.

You should know that in Brisbane, the four US ace divisions dragged down nine Marine divisions, and the Marines spent a lot of effort to occupy Brisbane at a heavy price of nearly 40,000 casualties, and they failed to invade in time, giving the US-Australia coalition time to sabotage.

If you encounter thirty American ace divisions on the battlefield, it will definitely not be a joke.

At that time, Pang Yuelong had only 28 divisions in his hands. Although twelve newly formed Marine Divisions arrived in the Solomon Islands in early April, these twelve divisions could only be fully engaged in combat until the fourth month of the start of the battle, that is, June. Even if the first-level unit of the Chinese Marine Division was larger than that of the US military division, the twenty-eight Marine Divisions were not far from the thirty US ace divisions.

Don't forget that the US military still has twenty armored divisions, and the Australian military still has five million troops.

In Pang Yuelong's view, if he let go of his hands and feet, the Marines scattered on the front hundreds of kilometers will likely be defeated by the US and Australian coalition forces.

For this reason, he decided to concentrate his troops to attack a place, and then attack the next place after gaining a foothold.

Of course, this move is not to encircle and annihilate the US-Australia coalition forces, but to eat away enemies on various battlefields step by step by step by step by step.

The first target Pang Yuelong chose was Tenterfield, about 200 kilometers southwest of Brisbane.

This small town is located in the northeast corner of New South Wales, and Queensland to the north, just on the second longitudinal railway in eastern Australia. It is about 100 kilometers eastwards the Tasman Sea, and to the west it crosses the watershed and enters the inland plains in southeastern Australia.

You should know that this inland plain separated from the coastal areas by the Great Dividing and Watershed is the most fertile area in Australia.

Not to mention, Australia's agricultural arable land is almost all concentrated on the Southeast Plains. The grain produced not only feeds 100 million Australians, but also exports it to all over the world. You should know that after the agricultural industrialization, the grain grown in the fields became high-end consumer goods. Before the outbreak of the war, traditional crops had become Australia's second largest foreign trade export commodity, second only to mineral resources.

Obviously, compared with the previous attack, the Marines became much stingy this time.

This is just a stingy in the offensive distance, but not at all in terms of military strength.

In order to capture this small town that happened to be located on the Great Divide, Pang Yuelong used eight Marine Divisions, and also allowed four Marine Divisions to serve as reserves, and used sixteen sets of field airport prefabricated parts to prepare to build Tenterfield into a base for marching to New South Wales.

The problem is that it is only 200 kilometers away from Brisbane.

For air assault tactics, two hundred kilometers have almost no impact, and even tactical-level assaults cannot be considered.

You should know that most Marine strongholds are more than 200 kilometers away, and even if the Marine ground troops conduct off-road marches, they can run back and forth on a battlefield of 200 kilometers. The excess power can also allow the anti-armor platform to wipe out a base number of armor-piercing bombs.

This kind of petty style of playing is obviously not in line with Pang Yuelong's usual style.

If we really want to continue to fight like this, it may be the year of the monkey and horses of the world.

Fortunately, Pang Yuelong soon realized that there was absolutely no need to be so cautious.

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