"No, there are too many of these Japanese devils..."

Inside the fort, the machine gunner kept shouting at his comrades in the fort while striking the trigger and shooting at the Japanese soldiers rushing towards the fort. And while he was shouting, at least five more Japanese soldiers died under his gun.

"Damn..."

A guy who looked like an officer walked over and looked outside.

"There are as many of these little devils as ants..."

As he said, although several machine gunners in the fort continued to strafe with machine guns, the Japanese soldiers outside still rushed towards this place, and everyone looked like they were not afraid of death.

"Sir, what are we going to do now?"

After reloading the ammunition, the loader turned to the officer.

Gritting his teeth, just as the officer was about to say something, an explosion suddenly came, and then the entire fortress shook a few times.

"Damn, could it be that the Japanese warship drove in!"

Hearing the explosion, the officer's first reaction was this. However, at this time, his adjutant held his hat on the side and said calmly.

"No, if it was a battleship, our fortress would have been blown up a long time ago, and the caliber of other ships' guns would not be so small, this should be ......... It should be a mortar ...

After a pause, the adjutant continued.

"It should be a mortar of 120mm caliber ..."

It is indeed a 120mm caliber mortar, otherwise if it was a large-caliber naval gun of a battleship, I am afraid that this fortress would have been lifted off long ago.

Even so, this was not good news, especially as the Japanese soldiers were getting closer and closer.

"It's..."

I looked outside again. After making sure that the Japanese soldiers outside were getting closer and closer, and that it was impossible to keep them from approaching the fortifications, the officer shouted at the soldiers inside the fort.

"All weapons and ready to fight!!"

"Yes!!"

The soldiers inside the fortress replied loudly, holding the equipment that had been placed aside one by one.

And while the soldiers were there preparing. The officer asked the signal soldier from the side.

"Is there really no way to send reinforcements from the command side?"

"I'm sorry, sir..."

The communications soldier smiled bitterly.

"Just now the command called back, so the Japanese offensive on the city is very tight, and now it has entered the edge of the city, and the command is really unable to draw troops to support us..."

The officer didn't say anything. He just nodded, and didn't seem surprised by the result.

"So, it's really up to us..."

With that, the officer drew his pistol as well.

"Follow me for a while!!"

As he spoke, the machine guns of the machine gunners had to stop because the barrels were overheated, and taking advantage of this opportunity, the Japanese soldiers outside hurriedly accelerated and rushed towards here. In a short time, several Japanese soldiers rushed to the vicinity of the fort and shoved the detonators they carried with them through the muzzles of their machine guns.

"it!"

Looking at the detonator that was stuffed in, the machine gunner was also dumbfounded, but the one on the side picked up the detonator from the ground and quickly stuffed the detonator out.

"Bang!"

The detonator exploded outside. Fortunately, by this time the Heavy and the rest of the men were already lying down, so no one was injured in the fort.

"Let's go, rush out with me!!"

Knowing that the Japanese outside would have at least a hundred ways to kill themselves if they continued to stay here, the officer brandished his pistol and said to his subordinates.

At this time, the Japanese outside also seemed to be stunned by the detonator that was stuffed back, so no new detonators were stuffed in during this period. It was also taking advantage of this opportunity that the officer took the lead and rushed out from the inside with his subordinates. …,

As soon as the door was opened, the officer had already seen a Japanese soldier who was about to rush in.

Fortunately, the officers were prepared. So the first time I saw the Japanese soldiers, I had already pulled the trigger.

Because the pistol used by the officer was an improved version of the M1911 pistol purchased from China by Australia, the 11.43mm caliber of the pistol had already taken away the names of the Japanese soldiers in just an instant, so he did not even have the slightest chance to fight back.

"What a good gun..."

Looking at the dead Japanese soldiers, the officer exclaimed.

He also used the M1911 pistol, the American version. Although the power is about the same, the American version is not as good as the one he has now.

"Sir. Now is not the time to sigh. ”

Seeing that the officer seemed to be still there lamenting the power of the pistol, a soldier behind him gently nudged him.

"Oh, oh, you're right!!"

The officer seemed to reflect as well, nodded and continued to lead the people outside.

Luckily for them, the Japanese soldiers outside did not continue to walk out like the one who had been killed, after hearing the gunshots and screams coming from inside, but prepared to throw a few grenades inside.

And when the officers rushed out, it was when the Japanese soldiers outside were about to throw grenades inside.

"Fire !!"

Just when the Japanese soldiers outside were still a little shocked by the sudden appearance of the officer's party, the officer ordered loudly, in fact, there was no need for him to say, the subordinates behind him had already opened fire.

After a short exchange of fire, more than a dozen Japanese soldiers outside all lay down, but the officers and their entourage also hung up 5 and wounded 3.

"Let's go, keep walking!"

Glancing at the corpses of the Japanese soldiers lying on the ground, the officer said to his subordinates.

Seeing that the first line of defense guarding the fort had been breached, they could only retreat towards the second line of defense.

Of course, the entire defense line is not just one fortification, if there is only one fortification, I am afraid that the fort has already been captured by the Japanese, and the Japanese warships outside have already sailed into the harbor and used the large-caliber naval guns they are equipped with to directly bombard the city.

It's just that the situation of other fortifications is actually similar to theirs, or worse than theirs. At least when the Japanese soldiers stuffed a detonator or something into the muzzle of a machine gun. They also put the detonator back in, but what about the other fortifications...

The other fortifications are not as lucky as theirs...

Of course, it is not that there is no success in breaking through, but in terms of casualties...

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"The first line of defense has fallen..."

Looking at the first line of defense that has been gradually occupied by Japanese soldiers wearing khaki uniforms. The commander on the turret sighed.

"Now it's up to us..."

Behind him, the adjutant nodded.

"Indeed, we are on our own now..."

"If we could turn the muzzle of the gun inward, the first line of defense wouldn't have fallen so easily..."

Looking at the first line of defense that had already been captured, after looking at the huge 240mm cannon behind him. The general slammed his fist hard against the wall.

"Those damn politicians, all day long know to guard against this, guard against that, and now the Japanese are coming, but because of their relationship, we can't use weapons to defend against the Japanese!"

"There's no way around it..."

With that, the adjutant also glanced at the huge 240mm cannon ...

As the most important city in Australia. Sydney's defense work is still in place, at least the fortifications of Sydney Harbour are full of batteries full of large-caliber shore defense guns.

Merely...

For security reasons, the shore defense guns on the batteries defending Sydney could not turn their muzzles in the direction of the city. And this is also due to some kind of security concern. …,

Unlike later generations, mutinies and the like were common in this era.

For example, in 1910, there was a revolution in Portugal that overthrew the monarchy, King Manuel II fled abroad, and Portugal established the First Republic.

And unfortunately. It was in the midst of the revolution that the Brazilians handed over the ordered battleship "São Paulo" from the hands of the British Vickers company.

When the São Paulo visited Portugal on her way home, the Brazilian sailors witnessed a mutiny in the Portuguese Navy. The officers were shot, the city was shelled, and the king fled in a hurry. For the first time, the sailors realized what a formidable weapon they had in their hands―――――― the firepower of the "São Paulo" was greater than that of the entire Portuguese Navy.

Then, shortly after its return to Brazil, the "São Paulo" and the "Minas Gerais" staged a mutiny during the inauguration of the new president, and the captain of the latter was killed. The sailors demanded better food and housing, the abolition of corporal punishment and the pardon of mutineers. Before the government could respond, the two ships shelled government offices and barracks in Rio de Janeiro.

Since they were all novices, the shells killed many civilians. After two days of standoff, the government accepted the sailors' terms. The incident was calmed down.

Of course, the mutiny did not dampen the Brazilian government's enthusiasm for continuing to expand its navy, and the new Minister of the Navy, de Alencar, announced that he would buy a third battleship. Both the Cabinet and the Parliament wanted the battleship to have a larger displacement and greater firepower. Not only more than the battleships ordered by Argentina and Chile, but also the newest battleships of the British, German, and American navies. De Alanca's personal design was to equip 12 14-inch guns, 14 6-inch and 14 4-inch secondary guns, with a displacement of 31,600 tons. Brazilian Admiral Guedes even asked for 12 16-inch guns, 6 9.4-inch and 14 6-inch secondary guns, which were only available to other naval powers more than a decade later, with a total projectile mass of 40,000 pounds in a volley from the side guns, compared to 9,000 pounds for the newest American battleships at the time.

By the way, the predecessor of this ship was the relict of the multi-turret god cult "Agincourt" ...

Of course, the final "Agincourt" certainly did not look like this ...

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Although the above incident is just an example, it also shows that in the early 20th century, the world was not very stable, mutinies, coups and other things happened from time to time, and no one dared to be sure that their country was absolutely safe.

It is precisely for this reason that the forts in the ports of several important cities such as Sydney are all designed to be external and not internal, after all, if there is any special event on a certain day, it will be used to deal with the artillery of the foreign enemy. I'm afraid I'm going to turn around and deal with my own people.

Of course, the navy also has opinions about such things, but since the batteries themselves are used to deal with foreign enemies, in the end the matter will not be resolved.

And after a few decades, due to Australia's natural geographical advantages. Coupled with the close relationship with the United Kingdom, although Australia has always had a good relationship with its neighbor New Zealand, Australia has never been threatened―――――― cough, New Zealand or something, it is obviously not Australia's opponent.

Because over the past few decades. Australia had never been threatened by an external threat, even at the height of the First World War, so it was only natural that the matter was delayed.

And by the time World War II began, when the threat of the Japanese came, it was already too late ...

Regret not being at the beginning...

Although the fortifications of the fortifications were repaired quite well by the Australians, they were not supported by artillery fire. So after holding out for a while, soon the first line of defense was breached. …,

The Australian troops, as the defensive side, were simply unable to seize the first line of defense with the Japanese due to their inferiority in strength, so in this situation. The Australians watched as the Japanese captured the first line of defense.

And after taking the first line of defense, the Japanese did not stop.

After all, if you want the navy to provide support to the siege force as soon as possible, it is not enough to take a defensive line, you must also take the forts.

If the fort could not be taken, it would be useless to take the entire defensive line around the fort, because the muzzles of the shore defense guns, which could pose a threat to the navy, were still aimed outside the port.

That's why we've just taken the first line of defense. The Japanese army did not even rest a little and began to devote themselves to the offensive of the second line of defense―――――― at this time it happened that many remnants of the first line of defense were retreating, which caused a little confusion in the second line of defense, and it was obviously the best time to take advantage of this opportunity to attack. If you wait, when this bit of chaos is gone, the price may be greater...

Compared to the first line of defense, the second line of defense is significantly weaker.

Therefore, the resistance of the Australians in the second line of defense is not very tenacious, especially when many of the routs have retreated to the second line of defense, bringing some chaos.

But thanks to a lot of automatic weapons. The second line of defense still held out for some time under the onslaught of the Japanese army, so when they captured the second line of defense. It's already afternoon...

Afternoon...

Although one person will go through countless afternoons, it is obviously impossible for the Japanese army to take the battery before dark. And taking the fort after dark, although taking the fort can allow the navy to provide fire support to the besieging troops in the port unscrupulously, but after dark, the besieging troops will not continue to attack the city.

No way...

First of all, there are not many cities in the world that can be called a city that never sleeps, at least Sydney is definitely not a city that never sleeps.

Secondly, and most importantly, the city of Sydney has been almost destroyed by them, especially the supply of electrical circuits, and without lights, it would be a nightmare to fight in a dark city full of enemy troops...

And although China and Germany are now equipped with night vision devices, and even China has equipped a small number of night vision devices to some of the main forces―――――― although the performance of these earliest night vision devices is not very good, but at least it can be used, and the visible side in the battle is always more advantageous than the invisible side, although this is not much cheap, but it can also decide a lot of things in the battle.

It's just that although China's national defense forces have been equipped with a certain number of night vision devices, it is obvious that Yan Guang has no interest in selling this advanced equipment to the Japanese, so now the Japanese have been fighting with the naked eye.

Unaided eye...

Ahem, I'm afraid it won't work well in this case...

Although taking the fort now may not allow the navy to catch up with today's battle, it is better to take it early than later. And tomorrow morning, I'm afraid that the siege troops will attack again, and if you want to take the fort before then, I'm afraid it will take some time, so it's better to take it now, and then spend the night on the fort until tomorrow...

"Offensive !!"

An officer-like guy waved his command knife, and the things behind him, although he had just taken two lines, still howled and rushed towards the battery.

Looking at these howling Japanese soldiers rushing up, the adjutant on the battery said to the general.

"General, let's withdraw first!" "Yes! Checkmate!!! ”

Several officers next to him also persuaded one after another.

Although the two lines of defense on the periphery are now lost, they are a port after all, although the outside is surrounded by the Japanese, but thanks to the fort, the Japanese warships do not dare to get too close to the port, that is to say, there is still a little gap between the two, so if the general and others leave by motorboat at this time, it is estimated that the Japanese will not be able to catch up with them.

In addition, the Japanese encirclement of Sydney was also very limited, at least the Japanese troops were not enough to surround Sydney, a city with a population of more than one million, so it was not small that the general fled into Sydney after escaping from the predicament.

However, hearing the words of the adjutant and the others, the general shook his head.

"Escape, if this place falls, where can you escape if you run away again..."

The final reason is that although there are some motorboats near the fort, there are not many of them, so of course it is no problem for them to run away, but the soldiers below are...

Seeing that the general didn't plan to escape, the adjutant was also anxious.

"General!"

But before the adjutant could finish speaking, an officer on the side had already stepped forward to knock the general unconscious.

"I'm sorry, I don't want to go to the Japanese prisoner of war camp yet, General..."

Although this guy's actions were undoubtedly an offense, the others chose to ignore them for their own safety, so these people soon left the battery with the unconscious general.

And soon after, the battery also fell into the hands of the Japanese.