Chapter 886 No One Left Behind

The island government was a little restless after learning that the war in the Ryukyu Islands had fallen into a disadvantage.

The Ryukyu Islands are very close to the island country's mainland and can pose a greater threat to the entire East Asia, which is something the island country does not want to see.

What's more terrible is that the island country is clearly at a disadvantage in terms of the air force.

If the Ryukyu Islands are occupied, as long as Australasia sets up a large air force base in the Ryukyu Islands, the coastal cities in the south of the island country may be bombed at any time.

And now the only one who can support the Ryukyu Islands is the navy that is equal to Australasia.

Of course, the so-called equal strength only exists in the imagination of the island government. After the last unsuccessful sneak attack on the Hawaiian port, the casualties of the island navy were greater than those of the Australasia navy.

So far, the island navy has a total of 9 battleships, 7 aircraft carriers, 16 heavy cruisers, 18 light cruisers, 106 destroyers, 72 submarines, and a total naval tonnage of 1.07 million tons.

On the Australasia side, there are a total of 12 battleships, 10 aircraft carriers, 6 battlecruisers, 77 destroyers, 8 heavy cruisers, 22 light cruisers and 249 submarines, with a total naval tonnage of 1.28 million tons.

Of course, because of the vast territory of Australasia, the fleet is naturally divided into the Pacific Fleet and the Indian Ocean Fleet.

The larger Pacific Fleet is responsible for fighting the island nation's navy.

The Pacific Fleet currently has 7 aircraft carriers, 4 super dreadnoughts, 3 dreadnoughts, 5 battlecruisers, 6 heavy cruisers, 12 light cruisers, 43 destroyers and 217 submarines. The size of the fleet is at the same level as the island nation's navy.

However, the water inside the island nation is obviously much deeper than that of Australasia, and the contradiction between the army and the navy is far more intense than imagined.

Although it is already facing war, even a failed country may perish. But for the contradiction between the army and the navy of the island nation, the war does not seem to be that important.

At a meeting within the island government, the island navy formally rejected the government's resolution to support the Ryukyu Islands Army, and stated that the navy would never put itself at risk for the army.

In this way, the Ryukyu Islands Army completely lost any channel to obtain support.

When the news was passed back to the Ryukyu Islands, the head of the Type A Division, Murai Nofu, was furious and vented his anger to his subordinates: "Damn the navy, at the critical moment of the country's survival, they are still only concerned about their own interests.

If the Ryukyu Islands are lost, I want to see if their navy can stop the Australasian army from the coastline."

Angry as he was, Murai Nofu also knew that the army on the Ryukyu Islands was completely isolated and helpless.

If they could not give it a final try, I am afraid that all the island army on the islands would face the fate of being eliminated or captured.

As a senior army official, Lieutenant General Murai Nofu understood what kind of sensation it would bring to the country if he was captured by the Australasians.

If the moment of defeat really came, perhaps a division commander like Murai Nofu would have to face the fate of committing seppuku to apologize.

When Murai Nofu decided to give it a try, more than 3,000 Australasian troops in the northern part of the Ryukyu Islands, after a temporary repair, marched towards Naha in the south.

The long and narrow main island of the Ryukyu Islands is only about 100 kilometers from south to north. The distance from the port to Naha is even only 55 kilometers. Under the premise of using a certain number of trucks, it only takes more than an hour to arrive.

So the question is, where do the trucks come from?

Of course, they are obtained from the ports and the island army.

You know, the ports of the Ryukyu Islands are joint military and civilian ports. Before they were occupied, a large number of civilian ships would dock every day.

These ships will bring a large amount of supplies to the Ryukyu Islands. If these supplies want to be transported to various places on the island, trucks are naturally indispensable.

What's more, there are nearly 100,000 troops stationed on the island. In order to transport the supplies of these 100,000 troops, trucks are indispensable.

The number of trucks in the port and the island army added up to hundreds, which is enough for more than 3,000 Australasian soldiers to move quickly.

The technology of island trucks originated from Europe and the United States. Although it has developed some of its own characteristics, it is generally the same.

It is precisely because of this that Australasian soldiers can skillfully drive the island trucks after a short period of adaptation.

More than an hour after the end of the war at the port, more than 3,000 Australasian soldiers finally successfully arrived near Naha.

The current situation is that Naha has been occupied by Australasian, and a large number of island troops are attacking in the east and south.

After seeing the situation clearly, these more than 3,000 paratroopers who supported chose to go around the rear of the island army from the east to encircle it.

In order not to attract the attention of the island country's army, the Australasian soldiers chose to move forward on foot when they were close to the island country's army.

These island country trucks are still very noisy when they drive. If they are discovered by the island country's soldiers, it means that the encirclement operation has failed.

However, the island army is fighting fiercely with the Australasian army in Naha, and it is thought that they will not find the whereabouts of this Australasian army.

Because they are walking, although there is a greater chance that they will not be discovered by the island army, it also means that it will take longer to complete the encirclement.

However, according to the current situation on the battlefield, the Australasian army is not in a hurry, but the island people are in a hurry.

Since Naha was successfully attacked, the island army has never approached the city of Naha again.

And most of the residents of Naha do not seem to have the intention to resist the rule of the Australasian army.

If you know the history of the Ryukyu Islands, there were three countries on this island, which also corresponded to the three larger islands in the Ryukyu Islands.

After the unification of the three countries, the fairly famous Ryukyu Kingdom was born. But in the late Ming Dynasty, the Ryukyu Islands were invaded by the island country, and eventually formed a situation of actual control.

But at this time, the Ryukyu Kingdom had not yet perished, and this area was still called the Ryukyu Kingdom.

Until 1872, the island country, under the so-called emperor's personal rule, reduced the Ryukyu Kingdom to the Ryukyu Domain, and formally confirmed the subordinate status of the Ryukyu to the island country.

In 1879, the island government announced the abolition of the domain and the change of the Ryukyu Domain to Okinawa Prefecture, and completely completed the occupation of the Ryukyu Islands.

But it is obvious that it has only been more than 50 years since the demise of the Ryukyu Islands, and many Ryukyu people still have feelings for the Ryukyu Kingdom.

Naturally, there is not much goodwill towards the role of the island country as an invader.

Even in later generations, there are still many independentists in Ryukyu who want to be independent from the rule of the island country.

Although the Ryukyu people have no great influence on the rule of the island country, once the island country loses its rule over Naha, the Ryukyu people will never miss or even help the island country.

For some special reasons, Australasia has no interest in the land of the Ryukyu Islands.

Therefore, after occupying Naha, Australasia officers found some people who are more prestigious among the Ryukyu people and expressed their willingness to let Ryukyu be independent.

Of course, the premise is that the Ryukyu people must support Australasia to defeat the island country. Only on the basis of winning the war, Australasia will support the independence of Ryukyu.

Of course, in return, Australasia will not interfere in any affairs of the independent Ryukyu. The independent Ryukyu will be an independent country with full sovereignty.

What makes Australasia have no interest in Ryukyu? Of course, it is a terrifying creature called river crab.

The conditions offered by Australasia naturally won the welcome and "loyalty" of the Ryukyu people.

At least after Australasia occupied Naha, the order in Naha was still very stable, and these Ryukyu people had no intention of creating chaos.

Thanks to the stability of Naha, the Australasia army can safely resist the attack of the island army.

As for Naha, only a few hundred people need to be left. One is to protect the order of the city and prevent problems from occurring inside the city when the army goes out to fight.

The second is to prepare logistics for the front-line troops. Naha has a large weapons warehouse, and many weapons and equipment in it can also be used by Australasia, which is good news.

The second is to collect some food supplies from Naha City and transport them to the front line.

According to the current attack of the islanders, they will never give up the city of Naha.

Naha is not only the largest city in the Ryukyu Islands, but also the largest weapons and equipment storage warehouse and food supply storage base in the Ryukyu Islands.

If Naha is gone, the tens of thousands of island troops in the Ryukyu Islands will have nowhere to find so many supplies.

In other words, if Naha cannot be taken back, these island troops will not only face an ammunition crisis, but also a food crisis, and will have to fight the Australasian army with hunger.

Just as the island army was advancing forward to attack the Australasian defense position, the more than 3,000 paratroopers on the other side finally completed the final encirclement.

Before the encirclement was implemented, the paratroopers had contacted the Naha army to ensure that the encirclement could be implemented smoothly.

After receiving the reply from the Australasian army in Naha, the action here officially began.

After a long period of fighting, the island army on the Naha side has less than 15,000 people, to be precise, only about 14,000 people.

Most of the division's troops surrounded Naha on three sides, among which the infantry regiment from the Type A division was responsible for the main attack.

Not to mention, the gap in combat effectiveness between the Type A division and the Type C division is huge. With the 20,000 troops of the entire Type C division, it is difficult to threaten the defense position of Australasia in the case of a frontal attack.

They don't even have the qualifications to approach the defense position of Australasia, and the charge is just easily slaughtered.

But after the arrival of this infantry regiment, the situation has changed slightly.

At least the current island army can approach the defense position of Australasia as much as possible, and can even threaten the lives of the soldiers in the position.

If it weren't for the excessive firepower in the air, and the overall quality of the Australasia soldiers exceeded that of the island soldiers, I'm afraid that this offensive and defensive battle would have been regained by the island army.

As for now, the two sides have entered a delicate balance.

Australasian was able to rely on its defensive advantages, coupled with the air force in the air, to cause a large number of casualties to the island army.

And every charge of the island army could also bring considerable casualties to the Australasian army.

In addition to competing in the storage of supplies, the two sides were also competing in the enthusiasm for war and the strength of both sides.

The number of ammunition, the number of soldiers and the enthusiasm for war, these three elements, once any one of them is at a disadvantage, it means that this side will be at a disadvantage in the entire war.

What the island army did not expect was that they were enthusiastic about the government and the emperor, and the Australasian army had the same enthusiasm for Arthur.

In addition to the pension policy and military merit system formulated by Arthur, the island army saw for the first time an army that was more terrifying than itself and a warrior who was more fearless of death.

The time came to more than 10 o'clock, and the two sides were still fighting fiercely.

Bang! Bang!

Accompanied by several gunshots in obviously different directions, the island army instantly fell into chaos.

As the outflanking party, the Australasian army naturally discovered the strongest of the three armies of the island country.

After a brief consideration, the Australasian army set the target of the attack on the island country's Type C division on the east and west flanks.

The two flanks each have about 5,000 troops, but the gap in combat effectiveness is a bit too huge compared to the Type A division infantry regiment in the middle.

Because of the war with the island country's Type C division, Odarasia naturally understands the true combat effectiveness of the island country's Type C division.

As long as the Type C divisions on the left and right flanks can be quickly defeated, no matter how powerful the infantry regiment in the middle is, it can only be attacked by the Australasian army on both sides.

Just as expected, when facing the attack of the Australasian army, the armies of the Type C divisions on the two flanks seemed a little panicked.

Because it was a sudden attack, in a short period of time, the Australasian army caused a large number of casualties to the island country's flank army.

Coupled with the panic and untimely response of the island army, by the time they reacted, hundreds of island soldiers had already lost their lives.

Seeing the poor performance of the island soldiers on both sides, the commander of the Australasian side smiled and ordered his troops to charge forward.

Looking at the brave warriors around him rushing forward, the Australasian commander did not forget to add: "By order of His Majesty, these island soldiers, not a single one will be left alive!"