Let's turn the clock back to July 15, 1938, a quiet and casual morning, a few children from civilian families on the northwest coast of Australia were playing on the beach, they were used to chasing the waves and laughing, and the trenches and forts that had long been abandoned became good places for them to play.

Suddenly, an unsettling sound came from far away from the sea level, and a thin black line appeared that made people feel uneasy. A few children looked into the distance like a dark cloud, put down the small sand shovels and wooden blocks in their hands, and ran quickly in the direction of their homes.

At 8:30 a.m., this thin line had become a fleet, with golden chrysanthemum patterns on the bow of the huge warships, and on the high mast, the sun flag with red stripes and white background was fluttering in the wind. The massive Combined Fleet of the Empire of Japan, escorting the Japanese Army's landing fleet, finally appeared near Australia.

"Boom!" the artillery of the Japanese Navy greeted them, and the first shells fell on the poor already empty beach. The power of the shell falling in the sand was reduced considerably, and only a patch of yellow sand was raised, accompanied by black smoke.

After about half an hour of artillery preparation, the soldiers of the Japanese Army began the amphibious landing operation, and the huge and terrifying transportation efficiency of the Navy was once again fully demonstrated here, and thousands of civilian ships and military transport ships sent batch after batch of soldiers to the unfamiliar coast.

The Japanese sailors unloaded from the battleship, began to change to landing craft and boats, and advanced densely towards the beaches of Australia, the waves swaying the battleship, and the soldiers shouted slogans, little by little, approaching their targets.

"Long live His Majesty the Emperor!" a Japanese officer roared hoarsely, holding back the vomit that was about to come out of his mouth. He drew the command knife from his waist and glared at his men with a fierce look.

"Long live His Majesty the Emperor!" all the Japanese soldiers raised their hands in the air, and although the long voyage on the sea had turned them a little white, and although they had been staggered by seasickness and the shaking of the waves, they still shouted this slogan with the loudest voice they could draw.

With the shouts of the boats, the coastline was close enough, and one after another the Japanese Army jumped from small boats into the water, not caring for the possibility of drowning in the water because of the heavy equipment.

They have been adrift at sea for too long, longing for the taste of land, and their hometown is so small, like hermit crabs, they want to find a spacious new home for their growth.

"Rush!" a Japanese soldier 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 also ran staggeringly. Farther away, faster men climbed the nearby reefs, waving Japanese flags to show their bravery.

"Matsumoto Shaosa, the left flank was not returned fire from the other side, it seems that they abandoned the trenches and fortifications. A Japanese officer in a major general's uniform pressed his command knife in one hand while flipping through the sea breeze at the theater map held by his assistant. As the commander who accompanied the first wave of decisive troops to the beach, he had his own persistence and pride.

"General Ogawa, the landing went very smoothly, the other side showed no signs of counterattacking, it seems that the Great Japanese Empire has defeated that group of Yankees, and they have abandoned Australia. Shaozo, whose name is Matsumoto, triumphantly pointed to a village in the distance: "In a few minutes, we will be able to occupy it." ”

"The navy is as timid as a mouse, and thinks that our declaration of war on Germany is to make enemies everywhere, and although they fought well in the naval war against the United States, they still need our army to come forward in the end to win the war, right?" General Ogawa pressed his command knife and walked with his retinue and guards to the shore.

On the coast, which had been controlled by the Japanese army, groups of Japanese soldiers were gathering, they lined up in order, and then called names, and then marched towards the distant villages in groups, and above their heads, planes from the naval aviation flew at low altitudes, and there was a very imposing smell.

On a Japanese Navy battleship in the distance, an Osaku was reporting to Isoroku Yamamoto on the progress of the landing: "The resistance of the other side was minimal, and except for the three army soldiers who eventually drowned because of their early departure, the rest of the troops suffered almost no losses. ”

Another officer ran over, handed the message to Yamamoto, and asked, "Major General Kurita will call and ask if the shelling will continue." ”

"Sue him, stop the shelling, the other side doesn't even have a decent return fire, why are we fighting so lively? Shame on the navy?" Yamamoto Fifty-six said indignantly: "Next time, after the army calls for reinforcements, start shelling again!"

"Hey!" the officer was scolded inexplicably, so he had to bow his head and answer loudly.

Unlike the forced landings on the islands of Filipino and Malaysia, this time the first units of the Imperial Japanese Army landed in Australia met with little resistance, and they landed on the beach with ease, and the only trouble the soldiers encountered was that their shoes were filled with sand.

The 19th Division of the Japanese Army, which was the first to land on the beach, had prepared some equipment for the assault, but these weapons were quickly thrown on the beach, and the soldiers gathered together to chat easily, and some even took off their shirts and warmly welcomed the officers and soldiers of the 13th Division who landed later.

"Welcome to Australia! This place has been occupied by us!" a Japanese soldier with a rifle on his back and two curtains waving back and forth in the wind behind his steel helmet said to his companion with a smile: "The Americans are cowards, they don't even have the courage to fight, we have won this war!"

His words drew a cheer, and many Japanese soldiers gathered together, smirking at the war photographer with their arms raised, and the Japanese had prepared a lot of things for this huge landing operation, such as a Type 89 tank that was stuck on the beach at this moment and could not move.

"Hurry up and let the sappers land! Hurry up! If the tide rises, it'll be all over! Let them get out of the tanks stuck in the cement and sand! Quick!" a tank officer of a Japanese Type 89 medium tank got out of his tank, jumped out of the tall tank, and ran a long way to find the infantry unit in the same unit that was covering them.

Like the Italian tank, because of the unqualified welding technology and the backwardness of the design concept, the Japanese tank was covered with dense rivet structure, which has been proven to affect the strength of the structure very much, and will cause secondary damage due to the collapse of the rivet due to being hit by a shell. However, the Japanese Army was overwhelmed by the Navy in terms of production quotas, so it could only continue to use this backward tank, which was in fact outdated.

A squad of Japanese soldiers swaggered into the village and began their usual sweeping process, looting and invading from house to house, instantly turning this peaceful Australian fishing village into a dog. The unscrupulous Japanese soldiers had no intention of restraining themselves at all, smiling evilly and driving away the local white women, forgetting for a moment that they were no longer in the land of Southeast Asia.

A gunshot woke everyone up, and a tall, burly man in Australia killed a Japanese soldier who rushed into the house with a shotgun, and the peaceful and touristy landing turned into a hellish massacre in a matter of minutes.

No one could have imagined that it was not the Australian army that would counterattack, but the unarmed civilian population, who was unarmed and an exaggeration, but who did not have an advantage in equipment compared to the Japanese landing force. But the outcome of the battle was a big surprise, for a time the Japanese soldiers who were accustomed to oppressing the civilians in the occupied area were driven out of the village by the Australians who fought back, 6 Japanese soldiers were killed, and one was beaten through the stomach and screamed screaming for the doctor to help.

When Matsumoto, the front-line commander of the landing force, heard the news, he abandoned his tanks stuck in the sand, and immediately organized a force of 200 men to attack the village again, and the locals immediately paid the price of blood for their impulsiveness. More than 130 civilians were killed, and only a few children, escorted by a few men, fled in cars.

However, the good days of the Japanese soldiers ended with the increase in the scale of the landing operation. In fact, many Australians have chosen to stay on their own and defend their homeland. Many of the recruits did not leave with the departure of the Americans, but instead organized their own defense units. These defense forces numbered as many as three divisions, but they thought that the territory of Inner Australia was too large for them to hold the long coastline.

After consolidating their defensive positions on the beach, some of the Japanese reconnaissance units encountered the remaining Australian forces on their way into the Australian hinterland, and the two sides fought fiercely over several important roads.

The Australian soldiers who had left the Wehrmacht in North Africa crouching in the trenches waiting to be captured were brave in the face of the Japanese Army, and they did not retreat until they were attacked by Japanese planes, and the Japanese soldiers finally took control of the landing site and captured all the nearby villages.

But when the Japanese were ready to advance into the interior of Australia, they found that they were not facing the enemy's army, but a desert with no end in sight. Yes, the desert — it was a terrain they'd never seen before —

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