From a certain perspective, the war that took place on the southern continent after the British Royal Navy lost the Great Battle of the Pacific was a war between advanced industrial civilization and backward steppe civilization!
Among them, the one that represents advanced industrial civilization is of course the Great Ming Dynasty that landed on the Southern Continent!
The fleet of dozens of square miles, the armored warships that climbed onto the beach after becoming "masters", and hundreds of wheeled armored vehicles spit out from the "bloody mouth" of the "ironclad warship masters" certainly represent advanced industrial civilization.
Just the vehicles, artillery, guns, ammunition, medicines, modular docks, engineering equipment used to build bridges and roads, and even used The field rations used to feed the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty who were busy working overtime were not something that a country with a low degree of industrialization could easily provide, let alone a fleet of dozens of square miles.
It is no exaggeration to say that without the support of the world's largest, most complete and most advanced industrial system, the Ming army would never have thought of firing a single bullet or cannonball on the beach of Brisbane!
On the other hand, the British army of 7 regiments and 21 divisions that set off from the Sydney Grand Fortress area on January 8, 1833 was actually a de-industrialized "prairie army"... Although the current coalition The Kingdom is still the second industrialized country in the world and still has a complete industrial system that is completely self-sufficient.
But after the Royal Navy's defeat in the Pacific, shipping between the United Kingdom and the Australian Dominion could no longer be maintained. And Britain has not invested in establishing any industry in Australia... Not to mention Australia's industry can't compare with that of the United Kingdom, it can't even compare with the industry of Dajin, which is stuck in Central Asia.
Daikin was able to produce rifles and rifle bullets in 1826. After the railway track (not railway) was connected, progress was even faster. By the end of 1832, Daikin was able to produce machine guns, small and medium-caliber mountain field guns, Train locomotives, ordinary construction steel and rails, steam engines and locomotives, and even the artillery system purchased from the Ming Dynasty can be used to assemble wooden-shell steam gunboats. Six years after its establishment, the Daikin Navy finally has its first ship that can A surface ship sailing at sea!
And the Australian Dominion cannot make any of the above... Australia now does not even have an industrial chain that can produce muskets and gunpowder. In fact, without externally imported iron tools, Australia now cannot even make a machete. come out!
As for what Australia can produce now? Mainly livestock products, including cattle, sheep, and horses, can be produced in large quantities! Of course, it can also produce wool, cowhide, milk, butter, cheese, etc. This industrial structure is actually similar to the Junggar, Horqin, and Heshuote Mongolian tribes that are dependent on the Great Jin Kingdom.
If the Ming Dynasty's blockade of Australia had continued, in another ten or twenty years, Australia's white-skinned people might really turn into grassland nomads.
In fact, today's Australia has nothing to do with industrial countries. It is just a grassland khanate... Well, most of Australia's coasts are highlands, which block water vapor, so there are large areas of grassland a little further inland. .
Hugh Gough, who was standing on the shore of Sydney Bay, watching groups of Australian regiment cavalry, mounted infantry, and mounted artillery passing by on horses and waving sabers or carbines, heading towards the mountains of the Great Dividing Range, also felt at this time This question arose - is this still the army of the British Empire? Why does it look so much like Emperor Daoguang's Golden Soldier?
While he was thinking about strange questions, the sound of rapid horse hooves interrupted his thoughts. A signal soldier came, bringing him a telegram he had just received.
Brigadier General Clinton, Hugh Gough's chief of staff, quickly took the envelope containing the telegram, opened it, took out the telegram newspaper inside and read it. After reading it, he frowned and said to Hugh Gough: "Admiral, Brisbane Emergency call from the fortress...The Ming Navy carried out the third landing operation, targeting Bribie Island, Moreton Island, and North Stradbroke Island."
These three islands are not small, forming a ring outside Brisbane Port and enclosing a bay.
Hugh Gough said calmly: "It seems they want to completely take over Brisbane Port!"
Brigadier General Clinton said: "The Ming army that landed had a lot of heavy equipment... Unlike us, they can ride horses and gallop across the Australian grasslands. Even if they don't have bullets and cannonballs, they can still use sabers and spears." Combat. They rely on a large number of artillery and vehicles, which puts a lot of pressure on logistics. So they must capture Brisbane Port, otherwise the Ming army that landed will not be able to survive relying on beachhead supplies."
Hugh Goff's brows furrowed even more tightly, "Brigadier General, your words make me feel like we are backward barbarians, while they... are the conquerors with advanced technology and civilization!"
When Brigadier General Clinton heard this, he was stunned and speechless - "If you fall behind, you will be beaten" has always been an unquestionable truth in the 19th century and many centuries before that, and the British still I especially believe this.
Not to mention old colonists like General Hugh Gough and Brigadier General Clinton, even Victoria, the "Snow White", was a complete social Darwinist...otherwise she would not have been in history. Opposed to relief for the starving people in Ireland.
With the financial resources of the British Empire at that time, it was simply not a problem to feed the millions of Irish people who had no potatoes to eat! Moreover, the queen who "ruled without governing" had greater power than the later British monarchs. If she were not convinced of the social Darwinism that "the poor deserve to starve to death" and "the backward should be beaten", she insisted on asking the parliament to spend money to save people, which would also be It can be done. Even if it couldn't be done, the Parliament wouldn't launch a revolution because their queen was too kind, right? If he really did this, he would look too devilish.
But not only was Victoria unwilling to help the victims, she even did not allow the Ottoman Sultan, who was flattering her, to donate money to buy wheat for the Irish... She was like a she-devil!
But Hugh Gough and Clinton, who had believed all their lives that "the poor deserve to starve to death" and "the backward deserve to be beaten" suddenly found that they seemed to be the characters who deserved to starve to death and be beaten... This felt really bad!
"Admiral, what I mean is..." Brigadier General Clinton quickly explained, "I mean that although they are advanced, they rely too much on logistics and are not suitable for fighting on the vast grasslands of Australia. And we Like Genghis Khan's Mongol army, they can use a large number of horses to maneuver on the Australian grasslands. As long as we lure them away from the coastline and lead them into the grasslands and deserts west of the Great Dividing Range, we can compete with the Mongol Empire's army It’s the same as attacking the enemy.”
Hugh Gough took a breath. Brigadier General Clinton's theory was correct. Australia has a lot of grasslands and deserts, and it looked similar to the territory of the Mongols. Therefore, the "Australian Khanate" with a large number of horses does have an advantage. But the question is...how did the Mongols fight? And...who was this Mongol Empire defeated by in history? It seems to be Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty!
Can this industrialized army imitate the Mongols and defeat the Ming Dynasty... be feasible?
