After a full three-week voyage, the soldiers of the Union Army were finally able to see New Zealand's unique coastline, and their ships were so long that everyone wanted to stand on the flat land at once.

At this moment, the coast of New Zealand is undergoing a baptism of artillery fire - three days before the arrival of the landing fleet, the battleships and cruisers in the coalition fleet began to bombard the Japanese fortifications on the shore, and the Japanese fleet stationed in Oceania knew that its strength was not good, and it adopted the same strategy as the Mukai Yaichi fleet in the Hawaiian Islands, that is, hiding in a dark corner during the day and coming out at night to engage in a sneak attack or something, the number of submarines deployed by the Japanese in Oceania was not large, there were less than 20 in total, but they were extremely active, But run into the German Vice Admiral. The Allied fleet commanded by Wilhelm Zuxiong was considered unlucky, although the composition of this Allied fleet was complex, and most of the ships used were German, British, Australian, and New Zealand flags, and a large group of destroyers flying German, British, Australian, and New Zealand flags drove around the sea all day long, and once they spotted Japanese submarines, they swarmed and beat them.

Under such circumstances, the landing fleet of the coalition forces arrived safely in the waters of New Zealand, and the officers and men of the first attack echelon were quickly transferred from large ships to landing ships, and with the arrival of another dawn, the vigorous battle for the liberation of Oceania began.

"Listen, everyone, the fleet has swept away most of the Japanese guarding the beachhead for us, after disembarking, we must quickly move inland through the beach, our first task is to capture the town behind the beach, the air force reconnaissance cannot determine how many Japanese are hiding there, but it doesn't matter, we will drive them out like rats!"

On the landing ship, which was rapidly heading to the beachhead, Second Lieutenant Morey gave his last mobilization speech before the war, 51 of whom were New Zealanders, who were the most eager to take part in the battle when they were on board, and the most nervous at this time; Three British soldiers and four Australian soldiers had previously fought and were in a better position than the New Zealanders.

They were also the first to react to Moredy's dialect; The two German soldiers were the outliers of the multinational force no matter how they looked, they didn't have a smile on their faces, but they didn't see any nervousness, they just sat in the corner with their Mauser sniper rifles and smoked silently, occasionally whispering a few words, and as far as Morey knew, these two guys had fought even more battles than the rest of the ship combined.

All in all, leading this group of soldiers with little combat experience to conduct a landing operation was not the most desirable thing for Morey, but the situation did not allow him and the top brass of the Alliance army to choose. After a long period of training and many landing exercises, the soldiers were not completely at a loss, not to mention that the weapons in their hands were no worse than the enemy they were about to face!

Morey craned his neck to take a look ahead, but the complicated situation over the landing ship quickly discouraged his adventurous attempt - his own destroyer was using naval guns to clear the obstacles and fortifications set up by the Japanese on the beach, and the machine guns on the landing ship continued to strafe forward as if to increase the momentum, although the defenders on the beach were completely suppressed by the attackers, but every moment there were machine gun bullets from a certain position on the beach, as the landing ship got closer and closer to the beach, The sound of bullets hitting the steel plates became more and more intense, but fortunately, the Japanese did not seem to have much artillery at their disposal. There were very few artillery shells that fell in the convoy of landing ships.

"Ready to land. The beach is just 500 yards ahead! ”

The naval officer in charge of operating the landing ship shouted at Morey and his soldiers, who half-turned and nodded at the officer who gave him a thumbs up. He immediately ordered his soldiers: "Last half a minute, boys, take up your weapons!" ”

There was a small commotion on the landing ship, and in this small space, the soldiers struggled to remove their rifles from their backs and hold them in their hands, most of them wore British flat-brimmed steel helmets on their heads, and carried British rucksacks, and their personal equipment was very similar to that of the German Army, but most of them were cheap bargains.

When the landing ship came to a sudden halt as if it had encountered a great obstacle, even Morey chuckled in his heart. He, of course, understood that this was due to the fact that the bottom of the landing ship touched the beach, and also understood that the real battle began from now on.

"The last 1 Miao! Get ready to strike! ”

Regardless of whether anyone really counted down to 1 slim, but after 5 and sand, the steel pedal at the front of the landing ship fell forward suddenly, and the battlefield finally appeared in front of everyone's eyes, and the distance was so close that the soldiers standing in the front row of the landing ship were stunned for a moment.

"Attack!" Morey shouted loudly at the right time, the landing ship was still nearly 20 meters away from the beach, and there were already many soldiers who had disembarked from the landing ship wading in the knee-deep water. The sea water is not the kind of blue and blue, but a dark green very turbid, because it is high tide, there are some waves on the sea, but the undulation is not big in the place near the beach, the Japanese army has obviously carried out some defensive deployments before, at this time some residual wooden stakes and barbed wire between the wooden piles can be seen in the sea water near the beach, I don't know whether it is a miserliness of steel or a lack of experience in beach defense, the Japanese army did not set up steel tripods and other obstacles that are difficult to destroy by artillery fire, which did bring a lot of convenience to the landing force of the coalition army.

As the Allied landing force waded towards the beach, the Japanese defensive firepower suddenly became intensive, and their firepower was mainly concentrated on the side of the breakwater less than 300 meters from the beach, which had already been bombarded by the battleships and cruisers of the Allied fleet, but this was not enough to completely destroy the Japanese defenses, and at least hundreds of Japanese soldiers escaped the German shelling and bombardment in the bunkers and tunnels behind the breakwater. When the Allied soldiers stormed the beach, they came out of their holes like rats, and soon, the sound of Taisho 11 light machine guns (crooked handles, equipped with the Japanese Army from 1922) and Meiji 38 rifles (Type 38, equipped with the Japanese Army from 1905) filled the Japanese positions around the breakwater, and the Japanese fired very accurately at medium distances, although the destroyers of the Allied Army continued to suppress the shelling around the breakwater. But there were still quite a few Confederate soldiers who fell on the way to the beach.

"Don't stay! Run forward! ”

Morey was in a hurry, and when the last of his soldiers disembarked from the landing ship, there were already five or six people in front of him who had been knocked down by the Japanese bullets, and although they were not so timid as to retreat back to the landing ship, the soldiers' pace slowed down significantly. Morey knew that such a situation would be very fatal.

His soldiers could not stay any longer in the shallows, which were barely sheltered.

Morey's shout finally woke up the somewhat dazed soldiers, and under his leadership, the soldiers quickened their pace and quickly passed the shoal and officially set foot on New Zealand soil.

"The first and second squads alternately cover the advance with the third and fourth squads, and the machine gun squad fire support!"

The reinforced platoon commanded by Morey consisted of four infantry squads and one machine-gun squad, with a full strength of 05 men, but the long voyage kept several of its soldiers on board due to illness, except for a few that had just been lost on the shoals. Morey still had more than 50 soldiers in his hands, and around them, soldiers from other units were still pouring onto the beach and heading in the direction of the breakwater. - "Forward! Although it has been more than ten years since the use of this 116 mm caliber revolver, the huge recoil still makes Morey's hands a little numb, the possibility of these two bullets directly killing the opponent is very small, the momentum is not bad, when the soldiers of the machine gun squad quickly set up the two Firebird light machine guns produced by the Royal British Arsenal and began to shoot, the soldiers began to advance towards the breakwater.

As an officer who prides himself on leading the way, Morey walked with the attacking soldiers. Due to the lack of sufficient amphibious tanks and armored vehicles. On this beach, the landing force of the Union Army had to fight the enemy's bullets with soldiers.

While the heavily armed soldiers were advancing in skirmishers and at moderate speed towards the enemy position, all Morey could do was continue with his soldiers. But he noticed that the two German soldiers in the group were somewhat "disconnected" from the larger group, crouching down every few seconds to aim and shoot, then trotting to catch up with most of them and reload the next bullet into the chamber of the gun, and they continued to do this cycle at the beginning of the attack.

In the current situation, Morey had no way of knowing what their record was, and he had never seen this tactic of placing snipers in attack queues during his time in the British Imperial Army, and he had not participated in any landing operation at all—in a world where the rapid defeat of the British Navy had made a large-scale landing campaign that would have taken place in the Dardanelles unnegotiable, and at the same time saved the lives of 250,000 British and French soldiers and a considerable number of Turkish soldiers.

Acting on the superiority in numbers and firepower, the first wave of the coalition landing force soon approached the breakwater occupied by the Japanese. Hundreds of Union soldiers fell, but this was only a small part of the entire landing force, and seeing that the advance of the attacking force was only one step away from the breakwater, suddenly a dozen black things flew out from behind the breakwater in a parabola at a large angle and plunged headlong into the column of Union troops a hundred meters away, and before the officers could shout "lie down", a large number of soldiers were blown down by these things the size of grenades. After only a dozen seconds, another batch of "black bombs" was thrown, and judging from the arc and distance, it was by no means possible for manpower.

"Mortars of the Japanese army?" This is the first year that most coalition officers and soldiers have popped out of their heads.

"Forward. Keep moving! The officers shouted loudly for the soldiers to continue their advance towards the breakwater, but the third batch of Japanese bombs followed, and the advance of the Union soldiers slowed down significantly, and many soldiers even lay on the ground and refused to get up.

Just when the officers were a little at a loss, a convoy of carrier-based planes flew in the direction of the escort fleet in time, because the combat operation to land in New Zealand was carried out on several beaches at the same time, the air force of the coalition fleet was somewhat overwhelmed, but they came at the right time this time, and the bombing and strafing killed not many Japanese, but greatly boosted the morale of the soldiers, and the attacking line was once again accelerated, and the vanguard soon advanced to the foot of the breakwater.

At this moment, a number of grenades flew out from behind the breakwater, and as soon as the explosion ended, forty or fifty Japanese soldiers with bayonets rushed down from the breakwater, which was somewhat unexpected by the Union soldiers, but the huge disparity in numbers made hand-to-hand combat quickly form into a group fight, and less than an hour after the landing operation was launched, the Union army successfully gained a foothold on the beachhead. - After a short rest, Morey and his soldiers advanced to the town behind the beach as planned, at this time, a dozen German amphibious tanks finally climbed onto the beach, but time did not allow Morey to wait longer, and with them advanced to the town, there were several reinforced platoons of similar size, and it seemed that their casualties on the beachhead were not large.

There was a not very straight gravel road from the beach to the town, which was open to large cars, but Morey did not walk on it at the risk of stepping on mines, but advanced through the fields four or five hundred meters away from that road, and in autumn New Zealand was full of gold, and many grains would enter the harvest season, but if the Union troops did not come, most of this grain would fall into the hands of the Japanese occupation forces, and the New Zealand residents would still live a hard life without food.

The town was only two miles from the beach, and the surrounding open fields didn't seem to have any good hiding places, but under the influence of careful thinking, it took Morey and his soldiers half an hour to reach the outside of the town, and the whole town was dead silent, and the atmosphere gave a very eerie feeling, it was a seaside town with less than 10,000 inhabitants, and the tallest building in the town was a domed clock tower with a plaster flag hanging from the top.

The hundreds of Coalition soldiers who were at the vanguard quickly looked around the town, but found nothing out of the ordinary.

Worried, Morey sent a squad of soldiers into the town from the west, and the streets were so quiet that the sound of leather boots on the stone pavement could be heard clearly. The soldiers also held their guns in both hands and their fingers were on the trigger, and the muzzles of the guns were pointed at any possible enemy, but as time passed, nothing happened.

Under the cover of his companions, a soldier cautiously knocked on the door of a house on the side of the road, and the knock seemed to be heard from the street to the end of the alley. After knocking several times in a row, there was finally movement inside, the door opened, and a pale face appeared in front of the soldiers, and after a moment of nervousness, the soldiers lowered their guns. One of the soldiers asked, in a lower volume and at a slow pace:

"Hello, we are Union soldiers, we are New Zealanders, and what about the Japanese soldiers here?"

Although it was a gray-haired old man who opened the door, she didn't seem to have bad ears, and she stared at the soldier outside the door for a long time, and suddenly hugged the soldier who was talking and cried.

"We've finally got you here!"

The cry woke up the whole town, and the doors and windows opened, and at first they only poked their heads out, and gradually the people went out of their houses one by one, and after they were sure that these were the liberators, they began to cry out loud.

"Japanese soldiers...... The Japanese soldiers looted the entire town a week ago, and not a single grain was left for us! They...... They also poisoned the well! If you don't come again, how will we live! ”

"Bastard! Beast! Pigs and dogs are not as good! The New Zealand soldiers cursed angrily at the Japanese soldiers, who had already withdrawn to Australia except for one unit guarding the beach.

At this time, even Morey, who was a Britishman, was full of anger in his chest, and looked at the soldiers in his ranks, and even the two German soldiers clenched their weapons in their hands.