"Right side...... Second floor...... Window...... Enemy machine gun fire points...... Bazooka Squad...... Attack...... Assault rifle...... Cover...... Listen to my command to attack ......"

In a half-collapsed Baroque building, a veteran sergeant major, wearing a New United Kingdom Navy 1946 steel helmet, a 1940 blue-and-green patch camouflage combat uniform, and a 1945 bulletproof vest, leaned against a crumbling wall and, after some observation, conveyed tactical instructions to his subordinates with tactical gestures.

In accordance with the new United Kingdom's 1948 re-established Marine Corps Formation Order, a front-line combat squad was staffed with two non-commissioned officers and 14 enlisted men, and was armed with STG-45 assault rifles, MG-43 general-purpose machine guns, Hubert III semi-automatic sniper rifles, Type 1944 50mm bazookas, and a number of Type 1939 grenade launchers, which were sufficient to crush half a platoon of Italian troops in terms of firepower. However, in a city like Venice, where the complex environment greatly limits the use of conventional weapons and team tactics, the lessons of the first day of street fighting have taught the coalition officers and men that the strategy of winning by skill is not as effective as simple and crude methods.

The elite marines quickly found shooting cover, and when the sergeant major gave the order to attack, 8 assault rifles and 1 MG-43 all opened fire, and the dense bullets poured out, and the windows where the Italian machine gun crews were hiding suddenly flew debris. Taking advantage of this opportunity, a Marine shoulders a bazooka and aims at the opposite window through the gap in the collapsed wall, and the ammunition man quickly fills the rocket into the bazooka, confirms the wire connection, and strikes the shooter's helmet with his fist to signal that the shooting preparations are complete.

The shooter had already taken aim at the target, and without hesitation, he pulled the trigger for the rocket launcher and quickly dodged away. It was too late, and the violent explosion set off a powerful wave, mixed with broken bricks and rubble, scattered and splashed in all directions. When the smoke cleared, I saw that the opposite window had been "widened" into a gap larger than the doorway, and the parts of the guns and limbs were scattered everywhere, which made people feel uncomfortable......

The most common pattern in Venice, there is a narrow waterway between the two buildings, which are less than ten meters apart. For defensive reasons, the Italians had already blown up the stone bridge across the waterway. Armed swimming was no problem for marines who were familiar with the nature of the water, and the real obstacle was the Italian soldiers stationed in the surrounding buildings, who were able to easily kill the attackers who tried to swim across the waterway.

In the previous day's fighting, the coalition forces had already suffered. Senior Sergeant Major Stephen Maguire, a veteran of the 1st Marine Brigade of the New United Kingdom, lost three men in such a combat operation, and the sad scene was deeply engraved in the mind of this veteran bird who had been on an expedition to the Philippines, and he stayed up all night thinking about it in order to find a way to defeat the enemy.

After removing the enemy machine-gun fire points in front of him, Maguire once again deployed to his soldiers with a tactical gesture: "Smoke grenades...... Four ...... Cover the waterways...... Lure the enemy into firing...... Be sure to kill ......"

After giving the order, Maguire fetched a large block of wall tiles from the rubble and motioned for his men to throw smoke bombs at both sides of the waterway. In a few moments, thick smoke obscured the waterway between the two buildings. Maguire threw the wall tiles into the water with a pop of water, sounding like someone had jumped into the waterway.

The Italian soldiers guarding the surrounding buildings were sure to hit the plan, firing from windows and vents into the waterways hidden by smoke screens. For a moment, the roars of the Leviri machine guns, the Breda submachine guns, and the Carcano rifles were heard incessantly.

Maguire gasped, and then quickly gave clear instructions to his machine gun team and bazooka team: machine guns, suppress the Italian fire on the top floor of the building to the north; Bazookas and grenades were used to destroy the Italian firing points on the second and third floors of the north building and the top floor.

The German-made MG-43 equipped by the new United Kings ** team has much better actual combat performance than the Liveli machine gun used by the nerds, and a few short shots in a row quieted the Italian machine gun crew in the northern building. Immediately afterwards, individual bazookas and grenades spoke, the former being an infantry weapon specially developed to deal with combat vehicles, and the destructive power of lightly armored targets and concrete fortifications was unquestionable; The latter is a 1939 type 40 mm gun grenade launcher specially developed for positional warfare and street fighting, which is a grenade launcher at the front end of the barrel, which can be used with Hubert-III semi-automatic rifles and STG-45 assault rifles, firing super-caliber ammunition, which can effectively attack point targets within 150m and surface targets within 300m, the power of armor-piercing anti-personnel shells is similar to that of 50mm mortar shells, and armor-piercing shells can penetrate 50 mm thick homogeneous armor at a distance of 100 meters, which is not a problem for dealing with general fortifications. Moreover, the design of the captive is adopted, which can be used to launch the grenade with live ammunition, which reduces the operation link of the traditional grenade loading and empty-pack ammunition to avoid delaying the fighter.

After four or five minutes of heavy attack, Maguire's soldiers used up most of their ammunition, leaving the Italian defenders in the building to the north completely silent. At this point, the threat of crossing this waterway was basically eliminated, but Maguire still did not dare to take it lightly, he gestured to his subordinates to throw four more smoke bombs, and the whole staff covered the three soldiers with the best water ability to swim across the river, and then beckoned the Austrian infantry behind him to come forward to support.

After a while, smoke dispersed and enveloped the narrow waterway. Maguire repeated his old trick, throwing heavy objects into the water to test the Italian firepower, this time only the sound of scattered rifles responded, and in the blink of an eye, he was suppressed by the attacker's machine guns and assault rifles.

The opportunity was not to be missed, and the three marines quickly entered the water. One of them carried a rope on their backs, and the other carried assault rifles, and it took less than a minute for them to climb to the opposite shore and enter the opposite building. After that, two men were on guard, one of them fastening the rope to the ground floor, while the other end of the rope was fixed to the high point of the building on this side.

At this point, the smoke had not completely dissipated, and Maguire took the lead, using a simple buckle zipline to reach the opposite building. As soon as most of the combat squad arrived, they began to clean the upper two floors, set up fire support points, cover the Austrian infantry to erect pontoon bridges, and advance the battle line to the west......

With the progress of the Singapore-Austria-Italy War, the New Austrian coalition forces have won victories on all fronts, thanks to the brave fighting of the allied officers and men on the battlefield, thanks to the wise decisions of the coalition command, and even more thanks to the unremitting efforts of the two affairs, diplomatic and transportation departments - the new United Kingdom's soldiers, equipment, and materials can be quickly and continuously transported to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, making up for the weakness of the Austro-Hungarian army at the technical and tactical level, and the victory at the diplomatic level is crucial!

After the outbreak of war, the Italians naturally tried to prevent the new United Kingdom from transporting troops and supplies through the European continent, and if they succeeded, the new United Kingdom would have to use ultra-long-range bombers to establish a transport route with Austria-Hungary, which was inefficient and expensive to be practical. In fact, before the Italians could do anything, that is, before the war officially broke out, the new United Kingdom and the Austro-Hungarian authorities had negotiated several feasible wartime transport routes, and the heads of government and important diplomats of the two countries quickly went to Berlin, Paris, and Vilnius to carry out the attack.

In order to circumvent the restrictions of the Neutrality Act and avoid being criticized for dominating the affairs of the League of Nations, the German government acquiesced to the New Union Monarch's fleet to Austria-Hungary via German Poland and continued to use Bavaria's airport facilities to mobilize air forces. In view of this statement by the German royal family, Wilhelm Karl I, a former member of the German royal family who ruled Lithuania, readily accepted the terms offered by the new United Kingdom and Austria-Hungary to use the ports and railways in the territory for a fee.

In this way, the eastern strategic transport route connecting Austria-Hungary from the new United Kingdom to the port of Riga, Lithuania, by sea, using the railway line between Lithuania and German Poland, was completed.

Shortly after the outbreak of the war, the new United Kingdom also made great progress in its diplomatic work with France. Dissatisfied with the fact that the Italian navy dominated the Mediterranean Sea and threatened the southern seas of France, the French decided to work with the coalition to weaken Italy and strengthen themselves by the way. After receiving a low-cost promise from the new United Kingdom to transfer a number of advanced weapons technologies, the French government agreed to the conditional use of its own railway lines, and after obtaining the consent of the Bavarian royal family to use the domestic railways, the coalition forces were able to open a strategic western transport line from northeastern France to Bavaria and then to Austria, thus sharing the pressure and hidden dangers of single-line transportation.

The 1st Marine Brigade, with the Irish as the absolute main force, arrived in Austria-Hungary via Lithuania and German Poland, first stationed in the port of Trieste, and then participated in the capture of St. Dona as the left flank vanguard of the allied attack force, and cooperated with the Austro-Hungarian army to the city of Venice.

The 2nd Marine Brigade, which consisted of three-quarters Irish and one-quarter Welsh, transited through French and German Bavaria, a route half that was half the length of the 1st Marine Brigade, was also assembled in Trieste and incorporated into the general reserve for the Battle of the "Chains of the Piave......

In peacetime, the new United Kingdom Navy has 28,500 marines, and these elite amphibious elites belong to the 1st to 12th Marine Regiments, of which the 1st to 4th Regiments are fully manned, and the 1st and 2nd Marine Brigades are organized into the 22nd Marine Brigade, and the 5th to 12th Regiments are the backbone regiments, which are the first priority expansion units in wartime. After the declaration of war on Italy, the new United Kingdom government did not hesitate to announce the war and a complete and efficient mobilization system, and the 3rd and 4th Marine Brigades were formed in the second week after the outbreak of the war.

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