Chapter 883 The Last Straw that Broke the Camel's Back

The crisis situation did not only occur in the port. Even Naha, the largest city in the Ryukyu Islands, was not so safe at this time.

Due to the importance attached to this city, Australasia invested most of its paratroopers, more than 4,000 troops to attack the city.

Because of the surprise, the raid achieved very good results.

In just over an hour, more than 4,000 paratroopers successfully occupied Naha's city government, radio stations and important squares, and deployed defensive positions on the roads leading to the outside world in Naha.

The number of people was almost twice that of the port, which also led to the paratroopers attacking Naha having more heavy weapons, including more machine guns and artillery.

During the attack, these heavy weapons did not play a big role. But after entering the defense, machine guns and artillery showed their power.

Because Naha is more important, another Type C division chose to send out the entire army to protect the largest and only city in the Ryukyu Islands.

But the entire Type C Division has only a little over 20,000 soldiers. When most of the soldiers are recruits who have not been trained for a long time, it is very difficult to take the entire city through attack.

In addition, there are Australasian aircraft in the sky to help, and it is even more difficult to win through attack.

Not to mention breaking through the defense position of Australasian, it is difficult for this Type C Division to even approach Naha.

Since the Meiji Restoration, the enemies faced by the islanders, including Russia, have an absolute advantage in armaments.

But this time facing Australasian, they understand what the real strength of the great powers is like.

Australasian has always adhered to the principle that human life is more important than heaven, and would rather waste more bullets and shells than make unnecessary sacrifices.

This also led to the fact that the firing of various heavy weapons in Australasian was almost uninterrupted during the attack and defense. A large number of machine gun bullets and shells continued to pour towards the island army, as if they didn't need money.

Although it is indeed very costly and expensive to do so, the benefits are also visible to the naked eye, that is, the island country's army cannot break through the Australasia firepower network.

In order to capture the defensive position against the Australasia firepower network, the island country's army must have a killer weapon on the battlefield, that is, a sufficient number of tanks and armored forces.

But the problem is that the terrain of the Ryukyu Islands determines that it is impossible to deploy too many armored forces on the island.

You know, this is an archipelago composed of multiple islands, and the largest island is not too large, so the role of armored forces will be infinitely reduced.

Although the islanders have deployed 100,000 troops on the Ryukyu Islands, it can be said that there is no deployment of armored forces at all.

Without excellent armored forces, it is impossible for the island country's infantry to break through the Australasia defense position.

Although the island country's army has an advantage in artillery, the Australasia army also has fire support in the sky, which makes it have an advantage in overall firepower.

Telegrams for help were constantly transmitted from the front battlefield, and finally reached the two most powerful forces in the Ryukyu Islands, the two Type A and Type B divisions responsible for defending the landing of Australasian.

"Baga! These rubbish, two divisions of troops, can't even defend the port and Naha." On another battlefield, the highest-ranking general in the Ryukyu Islands, the commander of the Type A division, Murai Nofu, cursed angrily.

The work assigned to the two Type C divisions was the simplest, just stationed near the port and city, maintaining the order of the port and city, and sending people to patrol.

But unexpectedly, the coast of the island with the greatest pressure has not been breached, but the cities and ports inside the Ryukyu Islands have been captured by the enemy.

What's more terrible is that the actions of the Australasians were completely outside the plan of the island army. In other words, all the senior officers of the island country, including Lieutenant General Murai Nofu, did not expect the sudden attack of Australasian.

"Your Excellency, the Australasians must have dropped a large number of troops by airborne to raid our ports and cities." An infantry regiment commander guessed at the division meeting table.

"In the final analysis, it is because we have completely lost air superiority." Major General Tanaka Taro, commander of the First Infantry Brigade, said: "Your Excellency, the division commander, Naha and the port are very important to us. We cannot sit idly by and allow Australasian to occupy Naha and the port."

"Everyone, who is willing to go to support Naha and the port?" Murai Nofu was silent for a while, and then looked at his subordinates.

It is very necessary to support Naha and the port, but it is absolutely impossible to mobilize the entire Type A division to support it.

After all, the biggest task of the Type A division is to protect the coastline of the most important main island of the Ryukyu Islands, prevent the Australasian army from breaking through the coastline, and thus occupy the entire Ryukyu Islands.

However, even if only a part of the troops are sent, it is the troops separated from the elite Type A division.

Although the organization of the army is similar, the combat effectiveness of an infantry brigade of the Type A division is almost comparable to that of an entire Type C division.

The island nation is most proud of the elite troops of the small number of Type A divisions.

After hearing what Murai Nofu said, many of his infantry regiment commanders had ideas.

A division has two infantry brigades, each infantry brigade has two infantry regiments, each infantry regiment has three infantry battalions, and each infantry battalion has four infantry squadrons.

In addition, a division is usually equipped with a cavalry regiment, an artillery regiment, an engineering regiment and an axle-heavy regiment, as well as a medical team, a field hospital, a communications team, a logistics unit and other division-affiliated units.

For a more elite type A division, the infantry regiment, artillery regiment, engineering regiment and other division-affiliated units will be larger, and the number of various types of weapons will be more, and the overall combat effectiveness will be stronger.

However, for any island country division, an infantry regiment is at least one-fifth of the entire division's strength, with a number of about 4,000-5,000 people.

According to Murai Nofu's psychological expectations, the size of the army supporting the rear cities and ports will be limited to one infantry regiment, which is about 5,000 people.

If there are more, it will definitely affect the defense of the coastline. After all, no one can guarantee whether the attack of Australasia will be limited to one place, and the protection of the coastline is also very important.

Once the coastline is breached, Naha and the port will not need to be defended at all. Because the continuous flow of Australasia troops will make them exhausted, and they will eventually be dragged to death by the Australasia army in the Ryukyu Islands.

Moreover, the biggest problem at present is not how many troops to support Naha and the port, but whether the two Type C divisions can delay the enemy before the supporting troops arrive.

The two arms divisions are stationed near the port and Naha, and can reach the battlefield in more than ten minutes.

But the Type A division cannot. Because the main task is to defend the coastline, the entire Type A division is deployed at the outermost edge of the main island, which is a certain distance away from Naha and the port.

In addition, it takes some time for the army to be mobilized. According to conservative estimates, it will take at least an hour for the supporting troops to arrive.

This one hour is crucial. If the two Type C divisions can completely hold back the Australasian army, and wait for the support of the Type A division to arrive, they can naturally launch an attack and retake the port and the city.

But if the two Type C divisions cannot hold back the Australasian army, and let the enemy continue to improve their defensive positions.

Even if they wait for the support to arrive, they will face a more solid defensive position, which will be more difficult to break through.

So the question is, can these two Type C divisions successfully hold back the Australasian army?

The answer is of course no.

It is undeniable that the island army has an absolute numerical advantage over the Australasian army.

On the port side, the number of island troops is about 19,000, and the total number of Australasian troops is only over 2,000. The ratio of the two sides is almost as terrifying as 1 to 10.

And the city side is not much better. The number of Australasian troops is still only over 4,000, while the island side is a whole division of 20,000 people, and the military strength comparison is still as high as 1 to 5.

If it was 50 years ago, with such a huge gap in the number of troops on both sides, it would be hard to say who would win or lose.

But now it is 1936 after all, and heavy weapons such as machine guns and artillery have been developed quite well. In addition, Australasia has complete air superiority, and the gap in numbers has long been made up.

With a large number of planes circling overhead, the island army cannot launch a large-scale charge against the Australasia army.

If people stand too densely, they will become live targets for Australasia's machine guns and planes. But if people stand too dispersed, the threat of attack will not be so great, and the gap in the combat effectiveness of soldiers will be widened.

In addition, the soldiers of the arms division have not undergone long-term military training. They are not familiar with the battlefield and have not experienced a real battlefield that determines life and death, which will have a greater impact on combat effectiveness.

Seeing their comrades fall one after another, even if these island soldiers have been brainwashed, they will involuntarily give birth to fear.

After all, people's fear of death is innate. Unless there is a stronger belief to support it, fear will be greater than everything.

For such a Type C division, what would shatter the belief in their hearts?

Of course, it is the cruel reality.

As the two Type C divisions launched a full-scale attack on the city and the port, their division headquarters were gradually exposed.

Under the premise of having air superiority, the headquarters of these two Type C divisions became the best targets and the focus of the Australasian Air Force.

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