Early morning on January 20, 1833, Sydney Cove.
For the white skins here, this morning is an unforgettable moment in their lives!
Because this morning doesn't start with a steaming cup of milk, but with the piercing air raid siren!
Most of the convicts still remaining in Sydney Cove are elderly or female convicts. Although according to the order of General Hugh Gough, every white Australian is obliged to take up arms and fight to the end to defend their penal colony and the interests of the British Empire, but there is always a sequence of mobilization.
According to the general's order, priority for mobilization is young and strong (no more than 60 years old, no missing arms or legs, or terminally ill) violent criminals such as robbers, murderers, arsonists, kidnappers, etc. These violent criminals often have a relatively high team spirit - they are all gang members! Being accustomed to working in groups, it is naturally easier to organize and participate in battles.
The second wave of criminals are relatively mild and civilized criminals under 60 years old, with acceptable physical conditions, such as fraudsters and thefts.
The third wave is the "second generation" men aged 15-60 who are in fair physical condition... Some male exiles married female exiles in Australia and had offspring, and some women The exiles were raped or raped by the crew members who escorted them during their exile and had offspring. For these female exiles, all kinds of sex are almost inevitable! Because the British government, which believed in the market, outsourced the business of escorting exiles to businessmen, but how could ordinary businessmen dare to do this? No matter how many pounds you have, you won’t dare! So slave traders and part-time pirates are generally responsible for such transactions...
Now that the first three waves of exiles have been mobilized, they are either on the battlefield, in hell, or stationed somewhere. Those men over 60 years old or under 15 years old who can take up arms, and all women over 15 years old who can take up arms, belong to the fourth wave. They will take up arms and go to war when the city or settlement where they live is attacked by the enemy. Among them, the elderly, women and children in Brisbane have gone to the battlefield or have been turned into corpses waiting to rot, while the elderly, women and children in other places are being trained to prepare to fight to defend the British Empire. .
Angelina from London is one of the female exiles undergoing training... She is only 16 years old this year. She is as young as a flower, but she is already an exile full of crimes. The horrific crime she committed was helping the Bank of England issue the pound! Born in Ireland, she went to London to work as a child laborer when she was 12 years old. Due to the economic crisis, she was starving and had no choice but to join an Irish "charitable organization" that helped the Bank of England issue pounds and was responsible for "bulk cargo." As a result, he was caught by Scotland Yard detectives within a few days of having enough to eat, and was sentenced to death by hanging by a British court known for its impartiality and independence. However, the gallows was not actually hung, but was put on a ship bound for Australia.
But to her surprise, Angelina, who had almost no way to support herself in London, the richest and most prosperous city in the British Empire, actually lived a life of eating beef and drinking milk until she vomited after arriving in Australia, a wild land. A happy life...and the vastness and richness of Australia far exceed the imagination of the people of her small island.
What’s even more unimaginable to her is that the British Empire, which has two giant colonies, Australia and Canada, can obviously transport enough food from the colonies to feed 20 million islanders, but why are there still so many hungry and cold people in Ireland and London? people? Why did those who ruled the British Empire fail to do so even though they could afford to feed everyone?
why is that?
Angelina, who had just finished her night shift and sent away a wealthy naval lieutenant commander from England, was lying on the bed counting pounds and thinking about this complex economic issue when the air raid siren sounded that changed the trajectory of her life. It's already ringing.
The piercing and annoying alarm sounded into Angelina's bedroom. She hurriedly got up from the bed, put on her clothes and pants hurriedly, and was about to heat up a pot of milk for herself, when an explosion that she would never forget came from came from outside.
She ignored the hot milk, just grabbed two pieces of bread and rushed out of her own big house (this was the result of her hard work every night). She stood in the yard full of weeds and looked at Jackson to the east. The plumes of smoke and fireballs rising from the harbor, a pretty and fresh face, were filled with an expression of indescribable horror... It was only at this moment that Angelina realized for the first time that she was very powerful. You may lose everything again, including your freedom and even your life!
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"Hahaha......"
Hearty laughter came from inside the large white tent. This was the laughter of General Hugh Gough, commander of the Australian Army, who was enjoying a sumptuous breakfast.
What made the Commander laugh heartily was the urgent telegram he had just received from Sydney - Sydney was being bombed! Moreover, dozens of square miles of Ming warships appeared outside Sydney Bay!
Obviously, the Ming army adopted the strategy of attacking the north and attacking the south... Their violent attack on the Brisbane area was actually a sheep move. The purpose was to attract the main force of the British army in Sydney to go north, and then use it to With their superior sea power, they quickly mobilized their fleets south to attack Sydney, which was empty of troops.
Sydney is now the absolute central region of Australia, while Brisbane is the second most important region after Sydney. Once Sydney and Brisbane are occupied, the Battle of Australia will only consist of guerrilla warfare and security warfare... Although the British army with a large number of horses can still persist in the vast Australian interior for a long time. But without external arms and reinforcements, the Australian British army will sooner or later be turned into a nomadic tribe!
So the British generals who were having breakfast with Hugh Gough all looked at their commander-in-chief with puzzled faces - what does this person mean? Crazy?
Seeing the confused look in his eyes, Hugh Gough finally stopped laughing, and then stroked his beard that he had grown for several years, with a sinister smile on his big white face: "Those generals in China like to use so-called strategies most. Show your extraordinary wisdom... I believe that you have read their art of war when you went to military academy!"
Chinese military art, including "Five Classics and Seven Books", "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "New Book of Jixiao" and "Selected Works of King Wuzhong", are all must-read books in Western military schools. Even Napoleon was familiar with them, and even Napoleon's Annotated Edition, Wellington's Annotated Edition and Clausewitz's Annotated Edition of "The Art of War".
Therefore, a group of British officers, including Hugh Gough, were very familiar with the tactics used by the Chinese.
Because of his familiarity, Hugh Gough did not go out in full force, but left as many as 9 divisions of nearly 100,000 garrison troops in the Sydney Fortress area - this still does not include the Naval Fortress Garrison and Sydney Militia. If counted, With them, Sydney's garrison could exceed 200,000!
And these are 200,000 people who are determined to fight to the end!
Because the Australian white-skinned people all know who they are... They are the evil people who exterminated the Southern Continent Kingdom of the Ming Dynasty, and they are all evil people and exiled criminals, so they will definitely kill them after the Ming Dynasty lands. All extinct!
Hugh Gough said: "Even if they have a fleet of 1,000 square miles, they must send infantry to land and occupy Sydney inch by inch... This is not a problem that can be solved in a week or two weeks, but Months of hard fighting. When their main force went south, there must have been only a small number of troops here in Brisbane. In fact, they did not take down the Brisbane Fortress for so long, and they were still setting up defenses on Table Top Mountain. It means they don't have enough troops...This is our chance!
Now, we must show our utmost determination to break through the Ming army's defense line on Tabletop Mountain, and quickly drive the Ming army in the direction of Brisbane across the Pacific Ocean! "
