Five Hundred and Ninety-Fourth Landing Battle
Let's turn the clock back to July 15, 1938. On a quiet and rambunctious morning, several children from civilian families on the northwest coast of Australia were playing on the beach. They were used to chasing the waves and playing, full of laughter The entire beach was covered, and the abandoned trenches and forts became a good place for them to play.
Suddenly, an unsettling sound came from far away from the sea level, and a thin black line that made people feel uneasy appeared there. Several children looked at the distance like a dark cloud, put down the small sand shovels and wooden blocks in their hands, and ran quickly towards their home.
At 8:30 in the morning, this thin line has turned into a fleet that cannot be seen at a glance on the sea. The bows of the huge battleships in the fleet are decorated with golden chrysanthemum patterns, and the tall masts are decorated with red patterns. The flag of the sun on a white background is fluttering in the wind. The huge combined fleet of the Empire of Japan escorted the landing fleet of the Japanese Army and finally appeared near Australia.
"Boom!" the artillery of the Japanese navy sent out their greetings, and the first shell fell on the poor already empty beach. The power of the shell falling into the sand was greatly reduced, only a piece of yellow sand was thrown up, accompanied by thick black smoke.
After about half an hour of artillery preparations, the soldiers of the Japanese Army started an amphibious landing operation. The huge and terrifying transportation efficiency of the navy was fully demonstrated here again. Thousands of civilian ships and military transport ships moved batch after batch A group of soldiers sent to strange shores.
The Japanese naval soldiers unloaded from the battleship, began to transfer to landing craft and small boats, and advanced towards the Australian beach densely. The waves swayed the battleship. The soldiers shouted slogans and approached their target little by little.
"Long live His Majesty the Emperor!" A Japanese military officer shouted hoarsely, suppressing the feeling of vomiting that was about to come out of his mouth. While pulling out the command saber from his waist, he glared at his subordinates fiercely.
"Long live His Majesty the Emperor!" All the Japanese soldiers raised their hands high. Although the long-distance sea voyage had made these soldiers a little white, even though they had been staggered by seasickness and the shaking of the waves, they still used what they could The loudest voice that came out shouted this slogan.
With the shouts from the small boats one after another, the coastline was close enough, and one after another the Japanese army jumped into the sea from the small boats, regardless of the possibility of drowning in the sea due to heavy equipment.
They have been drifting on the sea for too long, longing for the taste of land, and their hometown is too small. Like hermit crabs, they want to find a spacious new home for their growth.
"Come on!" A Japanese military officer with his feet in the sea staggered towards the land he was about to conquer, and behind him, the Japanese soldiers carrying the Japanese flag were also staggering. Farther away, faster people have already climbed up the nearby reefs,
Waving the Japanese military flag shows his bravery.
"Major Matsumoto, the left wing has not been counterattacked by the opponent. It seems that they have abandoned the trenches and fortifications." A Japanese officer wearing a major general's uniform held his command knife in one hand while looking at the theater held by his assistant in the sea breeze map. As the commander who accompanied the first wave of Daredevil troops to the beach, he had his own persistence and pride.
"General Ogawa, the landing went very smoothly, and the other party showed no sign of counterattack. It seems that the Japanese Empire has defeated the group of Yankees, and they have given up on Australia." The major named Matsumoto pointed triumphantly at a village in the distance. : "In a few minutes, we will be able to occupy there."
"The navy is as timid as a mouse. They think that we are making enemies everywhere by declaring war on Germany. Although they fought well in the naval battle against the United States, we still need our army to come forward to win the war, right?" General Ogawa pressed Holding the command knife, he led his entourage and guards to the shore through the sea.
And on the coast that has been controlled by the Japanese army over there, groups of Japanese soldiers are gathering. They line up neatly, and then roll their names, and then march towards distant villages in groups. The plane passed by at low altitude, very menacing.
On the Japanese naval battleship in the distance, a captain was reporting the progress of the landing to Yamamoto Fifty-Six: "The opponent's resistance is minimal, except for the three army soldiers who eventually drowned because they left the ship early, the rest of the troops have almost no loss."
Another officer ran over, handed the message to Yamamoto, and then asked, "Mr. Kurita will call to ask if the shelling will continue."
"Tell him, stop the bombardment. The other party didn't even have a decent counterattack. Why are we fighting so lively here? Shame on the navy?" Yamamoto Fifty-Six said angrily: "Next time, after the army calls for reinforcements, start shelling again! "
"Hi!" The officer was scolded inexplicably, so he had to lower his head and stand at attention, and replied loudly.
Unlike the forced landings on islands such as the Philippines and Malaysia, this time the first troops of the Imperial Japanese Army landed in Australia encountered almost no resistance. The trouble is that the shoes are filled with sand.
The 19th Division of the Japanese Army, the first batch to land on the beach, originally prepared some equipment for storming, but these weapons were quickly thrown on the beach. The soldiers gathered together to chat easily, and some even wore shirts. He took off, shirtless, and warmly welcomed the officers and soldiers of the 13th Division who landed later.
"Welcome to Australia! We have already occupied this place!" A Japanese soldier with a rifle on his back and the two curtains behind his helmet swinging back and forth in the wind smiled and said to his companions: "Americans are cowards. We don’t even have the courage to fight a battle, and we have already won this war!”
His words drew cheers, and many Japanese soldiers gathered together, raised their arms and smirked at the field photographers. The Japanese prepared a lot of things for this huge landing operation, such as being trapped in the A Type 89 tank that can't move on the beach.
"Hurry up and let the engineers land! Hurry up! If the tide rises, it will all be over! Let them get out the tanks that are stuck in the sea mud and sand! Quickly!" A tank officer of a Japanese Type 89 medium tank got out of his tank, Jumped off the tall chariot, ran a long way to find the infantry unit in the same unit that was responsible for covering them.
Like the Italian tanks, because of unqualified welding technology and backward design concepts, Japanese tanks are covered with dense rivet structures. This structure has been proven to greatly affect the structural strength. The rivets collapsed and flew causing secondary damage. However, because the Japanese army was overwhelmed by the navy in terms of production quotas, it could only use this backward tank that was actually outdated.
A group of Japanese soldiers swaggered into the village and began their usual sweeping process, robbing and intruding from house to house, instantly making this quiet Australian fishing village a mess. The unscrupulous Japanese soldiers showed no restraint, and drove away the local white women with a smirk, forgetting that they were no longer in the land of Southeast Asia.
"Boom!" A gunshot woke everyone up. A tall and burly man in Australia shot and killed a Japanese soldier who rushed into the house with a shotgun. Then the peaceful landing operation, like a tourist, evolved within a few minutes. It became a massacre in hell mode.
No one thought that it was not the Australian army that fought back, but the local unarmed civilians-although it is an exaggeration to say that these people are unarmed, they do have no equipment advantage compared with the Japanese landing forces. But the ending of the battle was surprising. The Japanese soldiers who were accustomed to oppressing civilians in the occupied area were driven out of the village by the Australians who fought back violently. Six Japanese soldiers were killed, and one was stabbed in the stomach. Calling for a doctor to help.
When Matsumoto, the front-line commander of the landing force, heard the news, he left his tanks stuck on the beach and immediately organized a force of 200 people to attack the village again. Paid the price in blood. More than 130 civilians were killed, only a few children fled in cars under the escort of several men.
However, the good days of Japanese soldiers ended with the expansion of the scale of landing operations. In fact, many Australians chose to stay on their own and guard their hometown. Many of the recruits did not leave with the Americans, but formed their own defense forces. These defense forces have as many as three divisions, but they think that the territory of Australia is too large for these troops to guard the long coastline.
After consolidating the defensive positions on the landing beach, some reconnaissance units of the Japanese army encountered these Australian troops on the way to the hinterland of Australia. The two sides fought fiercely around several important roads.
Those Australian soldiers who were beaten by the German Wehrmacht in North Africa and could only squat in the trenches waiting to be captured were extremely brave this time when facing the Japanese Army. They did not retreat until they were attacked by Japanese aircraft, and the Japanese soldiers finally controlled The landing point was captured and all nearby villages were captured.
But when the Japanese were ready to advance into Australia at full speed, they found that what lay in front of them was not the enemy's army, but an endless desert. Yes, the desert—it was a terrain they had never seen before.
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