Chapter 873: Flame of Revenge

"My people, I have to announce a very heavy news. In the early hours of this morning, our Pacific Fleet base port was attacked by unknown fleets and aircraft, resulting in the sinking of many of our warships, the destruction of dozens of aircraft, and the death of hundreds of naval soldiers.

After investigation and evidence collection, the fleets and aircraft that attacked us were all island countries' troops. It was these damn islanders who launched a surprise attack on us.

So far, we have lost a total of 147 outstanding naval soldiers in this attack, and another 322 naval soldiers were injured, 55 of whom were seriously injured.

This is a declaration of war on Australasia, and this is a declaration of war on the national security of Australasia. The serious violation of the national security and people's interests. I declare that from now on, Australasia is in a state of total war with the island country.

I hate such a country that has declared war without declaration, and I also hate the murderer who has used such a despicable attack. Let the fire of revenge come more fiercely!

As the Emperor of Australasia, I ask you that from now on, no matter what your identity is, as long as you are an Australasia, you have the obligation to devote yourself to the country's war and give everything for this war!

We must let everyone know that the dignity of Australasia cannot be violated, and the status of Australasia cannot be challenged! "

At 8:30 pm on June 17, all radio stations in Australasia broadcast Arthur's speech.

The people were surprised at Arthur's sudden speech at first, but after understanding the reason for the incident, they were furious at the island country's behavior of not declaring war.

The next day, Australasia officially announced the number of casualties in Australasia in this attack.

In the attack by the islanders, a total of 1 battlecruiser, 3 destroyers, 2 cruisers and 1 submarine of the Australasian Pacific Fleet were sunk, and 1 aircraft carrier and 1 battleship were damaged.

In terms of aircraft, there were nearly 200 aircraft, more than 40 of which crashed directly, and more than half of them were damaged.

Among the 200 aircraft, less than 10 were intact, and the others were more or less damaged in that air battle.

In terms of personnel, it was even more accurate to each person. According to the announcement of the Australasian government, the attack caused a total of 501 casualties in Australasian.

Among them, 469 soldiers were killed or injured, including 147 deaths and 322 injuries.

There were 32 civilian casualties, including 4 deaths and 28 injuries.

The island country attacked the naval base, so why were ordinary people injured?

This has to mention the air battle. After being hit, an unlucky island country plane lost its way in the dark night sky, and finally crashed into a residential area in Hawaii due to a plane malfunction.

The explosion caused a building to collapse directly, and eventually 32 ordinary people were in trouble.

As early as Arthur's speech the day before, the Australasian people were very angry about the island country's unannounced attack.

After seeing the damage report on the second day, the anger of the Australasian people became more intense.

The casualties caused by this attack exceeded 500 people. Australasian has never suffered such a big loss since its independence.

More importantly, the attack on Australasia was carried out by the island country, a direct competitor. Australasia already has a serious White Australia policy, which discriminates against non-white people.

Faced with the attack of the island country that they originally looked down on, many extreme media have begun to publicize the crimes of the island country.

Having said that, such casualties still look very exaggerated.

However, the Australasian people at this time did not have any reason to distinguish the truth from the falsehood of the data. Moreover, in the eyes of the people, the government cannot exaggerate the scale of the losses for no reason.

After all, the attack was not glorious. It is unreasonable to exaggerate such a bad thing instead of covering it up.

Anyway, the war between Australasia and the islanders has indeed begun, and the hatred of the Australasia people towards the islanders has continued to deepen because of this attack.

As a country far away in Oceania, Australasia did not have any obvious hostile countries before the outbreak of this large-scale war.

The attitude of the government and the army is basically that whoever has a competitive relationship with me is my opponent.

Since the founding of Australasia, the island country is the first country to take the initiative to provoke Australasia and make Australasia suffer a great loss. It is natural to arouse the hatred of the Australasia people.

For Britain and France, the participation of the island country in the war is definitely bad news.

Especially after attracting the hatred of the Australasia people, at least in the short term, the focus of Australasia's attack will definitely be on the islanders.

This also means that in Europe, apart from the 600,000 troops in Australasia that have already been agreed upon, it is difficult for Britain and France to obtain support from Australasia again in the short term.

It is a bad thing for Britain and France, but it is definitely a good thing for Germany and Italy.

As long as the island countries can hold back Australasia, the current war situation is obviously still in the upper hand for Germany and Italy.

Of course, whether it is the German-Italian alliance or Germany that has the upper hand is still debatable.

The participation of the island countries also means that the widely circulated world war has obviously become a reality.

What's more terrible is that this world war is obviously more intense than the last one.

The main battlefields of the last world war were in Europe, which only affected the colonies of European countries.

But now, with the full participation of Australasia and the island countries, the Pacific battlefield of World War II has officially opened up.

The Second World War with a second battlefield can truly be called a world-scale super war.

At 8:30 pm on June 17, with Arthur's speech, Australasia officially declared war on the island countries.

At 6 am on June 18, the island countries first held a diplomatic meeting and made many sophistry, and then pretended to be helpless and declared war on Australasia.

At 8 am on June 18, the Philippines and Kalimantan successively declared war on the island countries.

At 12 noon, the West Coast United Kingdom and the Kingdom of California also declared war on the island countries respectively, and the Pacific hegemony war officially started.

The perspective is put back to Australasia.

After the war with the island countries has broken out, Arthur's plan has officially entered another stage.

Looking at Arthur's appearance, he is obviously not as angry as he was in his speech last night.

In fact, it was true. The angry look was shown to the people in order to mobilize their emotions and make them more actively participate in the war.

As for the real result of the attack, it was not as bad as the Australasian government announced.

With missiles and more advanced aircraft, the Australasian Navy could not lose the war.

Although two cruisers were sunk due to negligence at the beginning, it did not have much impact on the overall strength of the Pacific Fleet.

Before five o'clock, the sky was pitch black, and the island nation's navy and the Australasian Pacific Fleet were almost evenly matched.

But after five o'clock, the sky was already light, at least people could see the distribution and movement of enemy aircraft clearly.

It was from five o'clock in the morning that the war situation ushered in a huge change. The Australasian Air Force quickly locked in the advantage and successfully repelled the island nation's navy.

The real result was that the Australasian Pacific Fleet sank two aircraft carriers, one battleship and two submarines of the island nation at the cost of sinking one battlecruiser and seriously damaging one battleship.

If the island nation's aircraft carriers had not seen the bad situation and quickly began to flee Hawaii, I am afraid that the Australasian Pacific Fleet's victory could have been expanded again.

Of course, it was precisely because of the first escape of the four aircraft carriers that hundreds of island nation aircraft in the sky became live targets.

400 island nation aircraft fought against 200 Australasian aircraft. Only about 30 Australasian aircraft were destroyed and about 110 aircraft were damaged.

The island nation was miserable. Although the missile's hit rate was not high, it was still very deadly to the aircraft.

It was precisely because of the impact of the missile that more than half of the island nation's more than 400 aircraft crashed, and less than 200 aircraft escaped Hawaii.

Judging from the results of this attack, although Australasia was the attacked party, it was the island country that suffered the greater losses.

However, for Arthur's strategic purpose, the Australasia government exaggerated the island country's achievements and its own losses, making itself the victim from any angle.

At this time, the island country had no way to quibble. After all, the attack was initiated by them. It is impossible that Australasia could win the naval battle with fewer planes after being attacked?

Such a statement is the most unreasonable for other foreign media.

Since war has been declared on the island country, Arthur naturally does not need to be polite.

On June 18, the second day after declaring war on the island country, Arthur convened a meeting of the Ministry of Defense to discuss how to carry out large-scale operations against the island country.

Attending this meeting were the commanders of the three armed forces and senior generals, senior staff officers, officials of the Ministry of Defense, and a few important cabinet ministers.

Arthur expressed his disgust for the island country from the beginning, which also affected the entire country, making most people very disgusted with the island country.

At present, there is no peace advocate in Australasia for this war with the island country, and all are staunch advocates of war.

"Your Majesty, I think we should retaliate against this attack." Navy Commander-in-Chief Daniel took the lead and said firmly: "Based on the results of this attack, our navy is obviously stronger than the island country's navy.

And the island country lost 2 aircraft carriers and 1 strategic ship in this attack, and their naval strength will only be weaker.

As long as we gain absolute advantage on the sea, it is only a matter of time to defeat the island country."

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