Although the lobbying for Jack failed, Timothy was in no hurry to return to Path, and Timothy wanted to stay in Port Hedland for a few more days to see how many hole cards Jack had in his hand. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

In all fairness, the topography of Port Hedland is still good.

The terrain of Hedland Harbor is long and narrow, divided into two parts, the outer harbor is a huge harbor, about 30 square kilometers of water, the entrance to the harbor is narrow, the narrowest point is only less than two kilometers, it is really a good place that is easy to defend and difficult to attack.

The inner harbor of Port Hedland is located on the north shore of a narrow harbor, which is narrow, but in relation to the vastness of the outer harbor, in fact the inner harbor of Port Hedland has four piers, three of which are more than 16 meters deep and can dock battleships or aircraft carriers.

Of course, there are no such behemoths as battleships and aircraft carriers in the current Port Hedland, and there are only three gunboats in the entire Port Hedland, with a combined tonnage of less than 1,000 tons, and there is no ability to go to sea to fight at all, almost the same as none.

Compared to the weak naval strength, it is a powerful army.

If Jack mobilizes all the military forces in his hands, he can probably gather more than 50,000 troops in a short period of time, these troops have undergone basic military training, and there are about 12,000 of them, that is, the strength of a division, which is the standing army of Port Hedland, which is also the confidence of Jack to dare to confront the city government of Paz head-on.

From the next day, Timothy finally met the legendary Port Hedland National Guard.

It must be said that this is a force with strong combat effectiveness.

What Timothy saw was probably a battalion, about a thousand men, this unit was equipped with a full set of British equipment, and their rifles were the most commonly used Enfield in the Commonwealth troops, but they were the latest models, the kind that the Australian National Guard did not yet equip; The machine gun is the Lewis machine gun, which became famous in World War I, and there are also a considerable number of French 75mm infantry guns.

Although no tanks were found to have been used in the World War, the fact that the troops in Port Hedland had such equipment was already bitter to Timothy's mouth.

When Timothy saw the troops, it looked like they had just made a long march, and the soldiers looked a little disgraced, but they were in an unexpectedly good state of mind.

Before entering the city of Port Hedland, the army cleaned up its appearance, and the invincible fierceness was immediately on the rise, which surprised Timothy even more.

"It seems that this is not a temporary unit, and the Anzac team just returned from the European theater of war." Timothy couldn't resist asking Jack a question.

When the Anzac returned from the European theater two years ago, Timothy was already a councillor for the city of Perth, and when Timothy was involved in welcoming the expeditionary force back, he was really impressed by what it was like to see the army that had actually been on the battlefield.

"Of course not, these are troops hired from Annam, their predecessor was the French Foreign Legion, and they also participated in the world war." Jack didn't hide it and confessed directly to Timothy.

During the World War, France conscripted about six divisions of the Foreign Legion in Annam, and after the World War, all of these troops returned to Annam, leaving only one division of Bastian, the then governor of French Indochina, and all the rest were disbanded.

A large part of the dismissed troops went to Lanfang, and these people in Hedland Harbor now actually came to Hedland Harbor from Lanfang.

"The Annanites - the French Foreign Legion - how is this possible?" Timothy really didn't want to believe it.

Timothy had read the war reports during the World War, and knew about both the French Foreign Legion and the Anzac of the British Commonwealth, and in order to boost morale, the British media reported more to the Anzac, and the Anzac was also better than the French Foreign Legion.

But if you look at the results, the performance of the Anzac is actually not as good as that of the French Foreign Legion.

What's more, since the Anzac returned to Australia, they have all been demobilized and have never conducted military training again, and the unit in front of them seems to have never relaxed, so it seems that it is really a superior judgment.

"Anything is possible! I still have 50,000 people in such a force, and 10,000 of them are Lanfang people, pure Lanfang people, can you imagine? Lan Fang actually dismissed their Foreign Legion, and I didn't even have to make much effort to successfully recruit a division of Lan Fang people, this is a real Foreign Legion, and it has stronger combat effectiveness than the Annan people! "Jack is still adding fuel to the fire.

"Lan Fang -- if they dare to intervene in this matter, the Australian government will protest, and Britain will not sit idly by." Timothy did not show weakness and pinned his hopes on the intervention of the suzerain.

"Whatever they want, it would be better if Australia had a war with Lanfang now, in that case, maybe I don't need to waste a single shot, and I can never pay any damn taxes again." Jack behaved very casually, and there was no taboo when it came to Lan Fang, which made Timothy even more unclear about the truth and did not dare to make judgments.

The entire urban area of Port Hedland is divided into two parts, one part is the port area composed of various simple houses, and the other part is a well-planned and well-equipped residential area. Jack really invested a lot of money in Port Hedland, the whole residential area is not only wide roads, living facilities, and even street lights that are rare in this era have been installed, if you look at urban construction, Port Hedland does not have to be Pasbad, not even worse than any city in this era.

It was the afternoon, the inhabitants had not yet realized that war was coming, they had just had lunch, some were resting at home, some were walking in the streets, and more were working in a hurry, and the whole city seemed busy and orderly, and full of life.

"Look at all this, if a war breaks out, it could all be ruined, is that what you want?" Timothy hasn't given up yet.

"Of course I don't want a war, every inch of the street here is my heart, I know basically everyone here, and I certainly don't want it to be ruined. But just because we don't want war doesn't mean we're afraid of it, and if those in Paz impose war on us, we'll give them back the same pain, and that's all fair. "Jack has no fear, war, it's not new, it can be said that since the birth of mankind, war has never stopped.

As he spoke, the unit had already entered the port area.

Under the command of the officer, that unit began to set up defensive positions in the outer harbor of Port Hedland, and it was only at this time that Timothy discovered that there was actually an artillery position in the outer harbor of Port Hedland, which simply shocked Timothy inexplicably.

"It seems that you have been prepared for a long time." Timothy sighed as he looked at the troops who had entered the battery for the handover.

"I said a long time ago, I can't sit back, Port Hedland is indeed a good place, and the Pilbara mining area does have endless wealth, no matter who you want, you can take it all, first prove that you have the ability, if you don't have the ability and want to swallow it forcibly, be careful that you will put it on your teeth." Jack is not without malice.

Port Hedland is more than 1,800 kilometres from Perth by sea, and by land - it is not possible at all.

There is no road connection between Port Hedland and Pass, and it is estimated that it will not be possible to travel from Port Hedland to Port Hedland by land from Pass.

With such a long distance, it is not very difficult for Port Hedland to defend itself.

Thinking about the distance between Port Hedland and Pass, Jack still revealed more information to Timothy: "It seems that you need to send a telegram to Mr. Speaker, if you want to attack Port Hedland, then ask him to move quickly, I am currently contacting France and Lanfang to buy submarines and planes, and when these equipment arrive at Port Hedland, then I am afraid that it will not be Mr. Speaker to attack Port Hedland, but whether I want to attack Pass." ”

To tell the truth, French submarines are not the most famous in the world, and from a practical point of view, French submarines are inferior to German ones, but because Germany is now not allowed to have a military industry, French submarines are also a good choice.

And Lan Fang's plane is undoubtedly the best in the world, whether it is a fighter or a bomber, Lan Fang has the best plane in the world, if Jack has submarines and planes, and he doesn't even need to have too many, then the outcome of the war will undoubtedly be more on the side of Port Hedland.

"The French and Lanfang people will not buy you, that would be tantamount to declaring war on the British." Timothy's face turned blue suddenly, and he no longer had the pretense of calmness just now.

Arms sales, which is an extremely sensitive issue all over the world, especially large weapons such as airplanes or submarines, if the French and Lanfang people sell these things to Jack, it is really difficult to say what the consequences will be.

"Forget it, where do you think the weapons used by my troops come from? These are weapons that have just been eliminated from the British Empire and the army, and the British can sell these things to me without any taboo, so why can't the French and Lanfangs? Jack laughed.

That's a bad deal!

After the end of the world war, all countries were faced with the problem of surplus military industry, and in order to maintain a certain military industrial strength, the British, French and even Americans knew that the weapons produced were no longer marketable, but they still had to maintain a minimum level of production.

Workers operate machines like soldiers practice shooting, they will be born without touching their hands for three days, and they may become strangers if they don't touch them for a year, so in order to ensure that they can resume production at any time when needed, even if those weapons can only rust after production, they must continue to produce.

Under this premise, it really doesn't matter who the more and more weapons are being sold, as long as they can be sold, even the British themselves do this, so don't blame the French and Lanfang people for not being moral.

After listening to Jack's words, Timothy really cried, if the war between Path and Port Hedland turned into a competition between who had more money and who could buy more advanced weapons to equip the troops, then there was no need to compare, and the winner could be determined now.

Path, whose finances are already in trouble, is definitely not as good as Port Hedland, which can be sold for money by digging up a stone!

(To be continued.) )