Rise of Australia

Chapter 394
The large-scale production of penicillin is an urgent research, and it is conservatively estimated that it will take one to two years to realize it.

Of course, if Fleming's luck is not very good, the production time of penicillin may also be delayed until after World War I.

Either way, the discovery of penicillin was a boon for Arthur and Australasia.

Penicillin, a magic drug during the war, can be controlled in advance and can bring a lot of benefits to Arthur and Australasia.

Not only can it reduce the casualties of Australasia in the war, but it can also be used to exchange for more benefits, such as land, technology, talents and so on.

Just imagine, if Australasia suddenly came up with strategic medical supplies such as penicillin at a time when the European war was raging, both the Allies and the Allies would rush to ask for it, because whoever has it would be at a disadvantage.

The real reason for the large losses and casualties at present is that some seriously injured soldiers still have the risk of wound infection even after treatment.

In this era without antibiotics, wound infection is fatal, and it is more cruel than direct death in battle.

Many soldiers did not die from the enemy's guns, but from wound infections and lack of timely treatment.

If there is enough penicillin, no matter which side, it can guarantee that the wounded soldiers can be re-entered into the war after receiving sufficient treatment.

Not only will this save thousands of soldiers and families, but it will also save a country that is in decline because of the massive number of soldiers injured.

The task of purifying and mass-producing penicillin was handed over to Fleming, and Arthur asked the Kent steward to pay Fleming's research laboratory 300 million Australian dollars.

Among them, 150 million Australian dollars is used for research to accelerate the purification and mass production of penicillin.

The remaining 150 million Australian dollars is used as a reward for Fleming and all his assistants, as well as all the researchers and workers in the laboratory.

Fleming will get the largest share of 50 Australian dollars, and all scientific researchers will also receive an award of more than 5 Australian dollars per capita.

As for the most basic workers, their rewards are divided into hundreds and thousands of Australian dollars according to their contributions.

Arthur still kept his promise, and promised to transport reinforcements to Europe before April. Now that the National Day has not yet arrived, a large number of soldiers have been selected from all the indigenous areas.

Of course, the selection of the natives should not be too fooled.Therefore, Arthur decided to train at least 40 native troops at one time.After sending reinforcements, there will be 20 remaining, who will continue to stay in Australasia for training.

For the selection of indigenous soldiers, their physique should not be too poor, at least they can persist in the two-week recruit training.

Yes, the recruit training for indigenous soldiers is only two weeks, and one week is used to learn military regulations and discipline, and understand how to become an obedient and good soldier.

The rest of the week is spent practicing marksmanship, at least to ensure that every indigenous soldier can use firearms proficiently, whether they can hit is another matter.

Thanks to the short training time, the second round of Australasian Expeditionary Force is expected to finish training at the end of January and early February, and all of them will arrive in France before the end of March.

In order to collect these 40 rifles, Arthur worked hard.It is arrogant to equip these aboriginal soldiers with new rifles. Therefore, Arthur deliberately eliminated all the rifles of the current Australasian army, and transferred these rifles that had been in service for a while to those aboriginal soldiers, so as to equip the regular army with new rifles. rifle.

Even, in order to allow indigenous soldiers to adapt to the lack of logistical supplies in the European battlefield in advance, Arthur Australasia stockpiled a large number of old firearms, even rifles decades ago, all equipped with the indigenous army.

Anyway, after training, these troops will arrive on the European battlefield to fight, and their logistics will also be provided by Britain and France, and Australasia only needs to transport supplies.

After barely gathering equipment for these aboriginal troops, the time soon came to January 1915, 1, the National Day of Australasia.

As one of the most important festivals in the country, the country is in a state of carnival during the seven days of Australasian National Day.

This war had little impact on Australasia, but it still worried many people.

To eliminate the worries of some people, Arthur deliberately decided to hold another military parade after many years.

This time the military parade was relatively brief, but all Australasian armed forces participated.The guards, regular army, dreadnoughts, super dreadnoughts and airships all appeared, demonstrating the impressive military power of Australasia to the outside world and the public.

Of course, Australasia's real trump card aircraft, tanks, etc. will not be unveiled in the military parade.

Australasia will not disclose its weapon system until they are well known in the war.

But in any case, such a large-scale military parade has indeed made many people gradually let go of their doubts.

Judging from the special geographical location of Australasia and the military strength currently displayed, leaving aside the struggle for hegemony, there is no problem at all in a peaceful area.

Even if the navy of Australasia were stronger, there would be no problem in dominating the southern hemisphere.

With such military strength, there is naturally no problem in protecting one's own country and people.

In addition, my life has not been disturbed too much by the war. Therefore, after the military parade is over, it can be clearly seen that many Australasian people are no longer troubled by the war, but enjoy themselves with peace of mind. life.

During the National Day holiday, according to the usual practice, this allowed the royal consortium to purchase a lot of supplies and distribute them to the public free of charge.

Meat, food, milk, medical supplies, etc., a large amount of resources have been distributed to the people, and the smiles on the faces of the Australasian people can be seen.

After the National Day holiday, when all the recruited indigenous troops were still training, the European battlefield, to be precise, the Eastern European battlefield, also fought several relatively large-scale battles.

The biggest difference between this war and history is that Russia did not launch a large-scale offensive at the beginning of the war, and most of the major wars between Russia and the Allies were concentrated on the border with the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

In order to divert the attention of the Germans, France paid a huge price and allowed the Russians to organize an offensive in East Prussia.

However, the scale of this offensive was not large, and the Russian army was quickly repelled by the German army due to poor equipment and poor training, causing heavy casualties.

With all three of his allies participating in the war, Russia, which performed the worst, naturally made Nicholas II dissatisfied.

As a monarch who thought he was ambitious, Nicholas II believed that this war was an opportunity for Russia to expand, and it was also an opportunity for the Tsarist Russian Empire to recover.

However, hundreds of thousands of Russian troops were blocked by less than [-] German troops on the East Prussian border. This made Nicholas II unacceptable, and he also abolished the commanders of several army groups.

In order to regain face, Russia decided to organize a regular, large-scale offensive to restore the dignity of the European steamroller, and at the same time demonstrate Russia's strength again.

You must know that if Russia exposed too many disadvantages in this war, then in terms of the distribution of benefits after the war, even if Russia suffered a lot of casualties, it is unlikely to be respected by Britain and France.

If a country is not strong, no matter how tragic its casualties in the war are, it is doomed not to get what it deserves.

Although the Russian army had more than 100 million troops before the war broke out, the total number of Russian troops has not exceeded 200 million since the implementation of the Russian mobilization order.

Of course, one of the main reasons for this is that Russia suffered relatively tragic casualties.If the number of Russian casualties is counted, the total number of Russian troops involved in the war is already nearly 250 million.

In order to avenge the shame, through careful preparations, under the order of Nicholas II, the Russian commander-in-chief Grand Duke Nicholas reorganized up to 80 combat troops, planning to re-launch the offensive against East Prussia.

Speaking of the Grand Duke with the same name as Nicholas II, there are some stories that have to be told between the Grand Duke Nicholas and Nicholas II.

According to relevant Russian regulations, the commander-in-chief of the Russian army during the war should actually be Tsar Nicholas II.

But because Nicholas II himself lacked military experience, the command was transferred to Grand Duke Nicholas with the support of many generals.

Grand Duke Nicholas, whose full name is Nikolai Nikolaevich Romanov Nicholas, is the uncle of Nicholas II according to his seniority.

Although he is a member of the royal family and has a close blood relationship.Because the two have the same name, in order to distinguish them, people generally refer to the two Nicholas as Tall Nicholas and Short Nicholas.

Nicholas II, who is relatively short in height, is naturally called Short Nicholas.

This made Nicholas II very uncomfortable, and even his own uncle expressed dissatisfaction with the house and Udi.

Of course, there is another big reason.

Grand Duke Nicholas was born in the Military Academy of Engineers and the Imperial Military Staff Academy, and served as an officer in the Russo-Turkish War. He set an example and enjoyed high prestige and status in the army.

Such a high-ranking grand duke with royal blood naturally aroused the suspicion of Nicholas II.

Before the outbreak of the war, Grand Duke Nicholas was even excluded from the decision-making circle of the General Staff and only served as the commander of the St. Petersburg Military District.

Although under the admiration of the officers, Grand Duke Nicholas became the commander-in-chief of the Russian army logically, but Nicholas II also weakened the command of Grand Duke Nicholas in multiple ways, such as not being able to change the personnel appointments and system, so that his confidants can monitor Grand Duke Nicholas at the staff department at all times.

Although doing so did limit the rights of the Grand Duke Nicholas, Nicholas II was relieved.

But Nicholas II, who was narrow-minded, did not see the harm of doing so, and it would even affect the strategic mobilization of the entire Russian army.

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