Rise of Australia

Chapter 298 Occupying the Kingdom of Larantuka (Ask for a monthly ticket!)
Arthur and the Australasian government were also relieved by the Dutch's swift compromise and the signing of the Batavia Treaty.

Of course, this does not mean that Arthur will be afraid of the Dutch government.The reason for the relief is that the Australasian army can also lose less troops.

Although the population of Australasia has already exceeded 1000 million, many of them are immigrants who have only arrived in the past two years.

These immigrants also need to go through a long period of education and influence before they can have a strong sense of national identity and national pride in Australasia.

Therefore, every time Australasia conscripts, there will be a relatively rigid requirement, that is, to have lived in Australasia for three years.

Of course, this is only the requirement of ordinary troops.If it is Arthur's confidant army guard division, the requirement is to have lived in Australasia for at least five years.

Such requirements can be very effective in screening soldiers who have a sense of identity with the country.

After all, Arthur is confident that under the influence of various policies and propaganda in Australasia, very few people have no sense of identity with this country after living in Australasia for five years.

After the signing of the treaty, the occupation of these territories ceded by the Netherlands has become the current top priority of the Australasian government.

Although most of these lands ceded by the Kingdom of the Netherlands are relatively small archipelagos, they also include the only Catholic country in the Dutch East Indies, the Kingdom of Rarantuka.

This country still has a certain military strength, and the Dutch have not interfered enough in the Kingdom of Rarantuka before, which has led to this country having considerable autonomy and military power.

For Arthur, this hidden danger must be removed.What's more, the Ralantuka Kingdom was the force behind the attack on Charles Wenn. Although it might not be the intention of the government of this country, who made the planner a Rarantuka?

On September 1911, 9, the Australasian government officially issued an announcement announcing the expansion of Australian Timor to the entire Timor Island and the formation of all newly acquired territories except Timor Island as a new state High-level administrative area, that is, royal territory.

After this announcement was issued to the public, the Ministry of National Defense also officially started operations.

The Ministry of National Defense mobilized the first and second divisions, a total of more than 3 troops, to occupy and temporarily militarize the newly acquired territory under the escort of the fleet.

Among them, the important target of the army is the Kingdom of Larantuka on Flores Island, which is also the only country with military power in all the archipelago.

Arthur didn't want other countries to exist in the area he ruled, not to mention that the current state of this country was an out-and-out kid.

The best outcome for the kingdom of Rarantuka is to be annexed by Australasia and become part of the royal territory.

If the Rarantuka people resisted, then Arthur didn't mind letting them experience the fate of the aborigines, even if they were descendants of the Portuguese and the local aborigines.

Anyway, the Portuguese fought, would Arthur still care about the offspring left by the Portuguese?

On September 9, the first division and the second division officially started operations. They will go to Flores Island together, first capture and occupy the Kingdom of Rarantuka, and then use Flores Island as the dividing line to go to areas to the west and east.

The first division and the second division are also very excited about this kind of action. After all, Australasia has a military merit system. In addition to the money rewarded by military merit, if you accumulate more, you can even get a title.

Although the military merit required for a title is huge, as the saying goes, a soldier who does not want to be a general is not a good soldier, and a soldier who does not want to become a nobleman through military merit is not a good soldier either.

People still have dreams, what if they come true?

Under such thinking, the Australasian army has a strong desire to fight, and is even completely fearless.

After all, the pension system of the Australasian army really exists. If they die, their families may live better.

This also makes most soldiers have no worries. After all, in addition to their own food, making their families live better is also the pursuit of most people.

On September 9, after recuperating, the 3st and [-]nd Divisions arrived at Luteng, a city in the south of Flores.

The defensive power of the Kingdom of Rarantuka is useless to the first and second divisions. They don't even have the strength to resist the rule of the Dutch, let alone the Australasians who are stronger than the Dutch.

Thousands of Larantuka troops are like cattle and sheep being slaughtered in front of the first and second divisions, which is something that consumes hundreds of thousands of bullets.

Even because the fire suppression of the first division and the second division was too strong, the few musket troops in the Kingdom of Larantuka could not be used at all, which also made the soldiers of Australasia shoot more freely and have enough Time can be aimed at, but the hit rate is even higher.

On the afternoon of September 9, the overwhelming Australasian army easily arrived at the capital of the Kingdom of Rarantuka, a small city named Yingde.

The war has continued until now, and it is actually the area of ​​Flores that slows down the attack speed of the Australasian army.

Although this is a small city for Australasia, it is after all a large island with a length of 380 kilometers and a width of more than 70 kilometers, with a total area of ​​more than 14000 square kilometers.

The capture of the capital of the Kingdom of Rarantuka, like the previous small city of Luteng, took almost no effort.

Even before night fell, the Australasian army had already stationed in the capital of the Kingdom of Rarantuka, and had begun to maintain order in the small kingdom.

The way the army maintains order is very simple, that is to adopt militarized management, distribute food uniformly, and shoot those who do not obey orders directly.

Anyway, these aborigines are not Australasians, and they will not be recognized by the Australasian government.

This also represents the fact that as long as it is not on the surface, the life and death of these aborigines are completely controlled by these soldiers.

Of course, before militarized management, it is still necessary to directly eliminate the high-level officials and the royal family of the Kingdom of Rarantuka.

Keeping them here will affect the order of the Rarantuka Kingdom. After all, who knows if there will be people who are loyal to the royal family.

As for the other indigenous residents in the city, the army did not worry about their resistance at all.Anyway, if there is any resistance, it will be executed on the spot. Their army has no room for resistance, and some civilians are naturally even less likely to affect the army.

After a day's rest on Flores Island, on the morning of September 9, the First Division and the Second Division left a total of nearly 4 troops to garrison the island.

The remaining armies set out separately, preparing to occupy a large number of islands and archipelagos in the west and east.

The [-]st Division was in charge of Lombok, Sumbawa and Sumba in the west, and the [-]nd Division was in charge of the Alor Islands, Southwest Islands, Southeast Islands, Kay Islands and Aru Islands in the east.

On the whole, most of the western areas of Flores are relatively large islands, while the eastern areas are all archipelagos composed of small islands with a very large span.

In fact, not only in this area, but also in the entire Dutch East Indies, there are countless large and small islands, which also greatly affected the rule of the Dutch East Indies colonial government over this area.

To properly rule this area, in addition to having a powerful army of hundreds of thousands, you must also have a particularly powerful navy.

But the fact is that the Dutch East Indies colony includes all the native divisions, and the total number of soldiers is only a little over 10.

Although it seems that there are a lot of 10 people, most of them are native divisions composed entirely of natives. It is okay to suppress the rebellion of those natives at ordinary times, but they can only be used as cannon fodder on the battlefield with other powerful countries.

In terms of navy, the naval strength of the Netherlands is also considered second-rate among many small and medium-sized European countries.However, the naval strength of the Dutch East Indies is really not on the table.

The largest warship in the Dutch East Indies at present is only a medium-sized warship of more than 6000 tons. On the basis of not having a battleship, it is also doomed that the navy of the Dutch East Indies can only suppress internally and cannot fight externally.

This is why the Netherlands quickly admitted to Australasia.After all, I know my own affairs, and the military power of the Dutch East Indies can't last long. Even if the attitude is firmer, it will only be occupied by Australasia later.

Instead of taking a tough attitude and waiting for the precious land of the Dutch East Indies to be fully occupied by Australasia, it is better to give up and strive to save more land and reduce the loss of the government.

The complex geographical environment of the land of the Dutch East Indies actually meant that the controllers of this land could not manage the land well.

Take a certain country established on this land in later generations as an example. Because there are many islands and ethnic groups in the country, even in later generations, conflicts and conflicts among ethnic groups in the country are very frequent.

For Australasia, however, the newly acquired lands, with an Aboriginal population of more than a million, were useful.

Whether it is used as cannon fodder in future wars, brushing off its presence and role in wars, or as free labor, it is very useful to support various constructions of the country.

Anyway, various constructions require a lot of labor. For the aborigines, Australasia really does not refuse anyone.

Of course, Arthur is not worried that these aborigines will affect the order of Australasia in peacetime in the future.

In Arthur's plan, these aborigines were not considered in Australasia at all.

This also means that in their end, apart from giving their lives for the development of Australasia, the only choice is to become cannon fodder, allowing Australia to feel a sense of presence at the international level.

Anyway, Australasia will eventually participate in the future World War I. If you want to gain enough voice after World War I, you must make certain sacrifices and sacrifices in the war.

It's better to let these natives pay than let the Australasians pay!Judging from the reproduction speed of these natives, Arthur didn't feel bad about dying hundreds of thousands.

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