The Dutch have always been Australia's biggest imaginary enemy, if nothing else, because this guy is currently the most powerful overlord at sea, and although after him, the British are about to take his place, but their power in Southeast Asia is the most powerful. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Whether it is the Ming Dynasty or the route of immigration, Australia must pass through their territory, and the most they face along the way are the Dutch, who have a strong fleet and land forces in this area, and even the Spaniards have been suppressed by them.

If such an adversary does not defeat them in the event of a war, it is conceivable what the final result will be, not to mention that they already know the specific location of Australia, according to the intelligence of the Department of Homeland Security, the Dutch have not stopped exploring Australia.

Even after the last espionage incident, the other party did not mean to retreat, they started to explore along the coastline, and it was impossible to enter Australia from Chang'an Town, so they figured out that since Australia is so big, it must be possible to enter from other places.

With such a long coastline, there will always be weak points in defense, and they don't believe that every corner of Australia will be so tightly defended. Of course, this is unlikely, but they still have to dig into the deep secrets of Australia, which is the Dutch.

On the one hand, they adopted a cooperative attitude towards Australia, and on the other hand, they did not stop exploring Australia, which was much worse than the Spaniards, at least the Spaniards were not sending new spies, which proved that the other side was much more sincere than the Dutch.

War between the Netherlands and Australia was sooner or later, but it was not known when it would break out, and the National Security Council's committee had studied it and agreed that a war would inevitably break out between the two sides, and that the first possible point would be in the colonies located overseas from Australia.

Among them, Malacca and Luzon were the first to be attacked, these two places are closer to Batavia, and they are also important supply bases and transit points for Australian warships and ships, as long as they are occupied, it is equivalent to cutting off Hong Kong's connection with the mainland.

At the same time, it cut off the main route for Australia's exports to Daming, and more than half of the Australians' goods were exported to Daming, and the other half were transshipped to Europe through the Dutch.

This time, the Navy Command proposed to form a Southeast Asian fleet from the old sites of the captured ships, and this was also discussed by the National Security Council, because after all, such a major matter would certainly not be approved without the consent of the National Security Council.

The formation of the fleet on the spot belongs to the expansion of the army, and Wang Tiezhu still does not have this right personally, and he is very worried about the expansion of the army in the first place, and if he does not go through the procedure, he can imagine what the result will be.

It is difficult to say that he is being targeted and sued him, after all, more than 500 people are not monolithic.

The reason why the Southeast Asian Fleet was established was just to add an excuse for the later expansion, as we all know that there were a series of military deployments in the later period, and the positions of these two overseas territories were quite important, in addition to being important transit points, they were also forward bases for defending against the Dutch.

It is impossible for the Dutch not to see this, but they can't say that they have suffered from eating coptis chinensis, Malacca was given to the Australians, and the Portuguese later gave up here, which caused Australia to have a considerable colony in this area.

Such a large territory must be a danger for the Netherlands, and they must take certain precautions, how to prevent it, is to understand the real situation inside Australia, so they did not give up this idea.

In addition to understanding the internal situation, they also have an idea to steal the information of the Australians to build ships, only by stealing their information, it is possible to build their own ships and completely get rid of the Australians, but their ideas were discovered by Australia, and in the end there is no way to compensate a sum of money.

If they had a choice, the Dutch would certainly not have ceded territory again, especially since Australia began to deploy troops here.

This time, the Australians did not directly deploy warships to garrison them, but they deployed those captured ships here.

The Australians were given twenty-three boats, large and small, which were said to be used to fortify the region and prevent pirates from harassing the coast.

The Dutch don't believe this statement at all, after this joint operation, there will be people who dare to risk such a big risk to pay tribute to the Australian territory, this pirate is looking for death, saying that this time the clearance has almost wiped out the pirates.

How many pirates can there be, and even if there are, they are a bunch of pirates who are not in the climate, so it's an excuse for the Australians, and they're just using it.

It is certain that their real idea is to strengthen the defense of this area, and since they already hold such a large area in their hands, they will definitely not give it up easily, so they don't need to think about it to know that their idea is to strengthen the defense of this generation.

Just using these ships for defense doesn't seem to work, and for the Netherlands, it's useless to fight with those ships, and they know very well, some fishing boats, and the big two can have any combat effectiveness.

However, Lin Youde said that these ships want to be transformed into a small gunboat, and this kind of gunboat for coastal defense is the most effective, but this ship must not be equipped with a gun, and it is okay to install a machine gun or something, and after transforming the power system, it can also be used as a landing ship.

This proposal was agreed by Wang Tiehammer, after all, for the navy, it is good to be able to have steam-powered ships now, and those primitive ships that rely on manpower and wind power for navigation are not suitable for the Australian Navy at all.

It is not expensive to renovate such a batch of small gunboats, and the budget may be enough for 50,000 yuan, of course, the most important thing is that the funds are tight now, and the money cannot be used in one place, if it is used more, there will be less in other aspects, so this money still has to save a little money.

The Dutch certainly didn't know what Australia was thinking about this, and if they saw that the converted gunboats were not weak at all, they would have regretted their decision very much.

However, a gunboat has a disadvantage that it is not suitable for long-distance navigation and combat, and can only be suitable for offshore operations, after all, its tonnage is too small, and the fuel on board cannot be stored much, but it is still very practical as the main ship of coastal defense, and many weak navies in later generations use gunboats at most.

The advantage of gunboats in the near sea is very obvious, of course, if you want to change to a large-tonnage battleship in the future, you can also do it, after all, there is an excuse to replace it. (To be continued.) )