Chapter 503: Defensive Emptiness
The garrison fleet of Christmas Island and Malacca's overseas territory was basically transferred to Hong Kong to participate in the rescue operation in Yangzhou and Jiading, and the tragedy that occurred in these two places in history once made many emperors beat their chests and feet, shouting that if they crossed back, they would not let such a thing happen.
There are no emperors and men in the crowd, only angry youth, but they know what to do and what not to do, to save these people who should have died according to the tragedy of history, they just did their own responsibility, if those people don't leave, they can't tie each other up with a rope and take them away.
After no less than dozens of transportations, the total number of people finally transported reached more than 80,000 people, and including the total number of people who fled south on their own, the number of people rescued by Australia should theoretically exceed 600,000.
Such a large-scale number of people to save is also considered the largest in history, and the operation of crossing the crowd is also a successful operation.
However, the dozen or so warships sent out had not yet returned to the garrison for various reasons, which made the Dutch, who had been on the move, begin to have an idea, Malacca was empty, and the Dutch took the opportunity to friction at the junction with Australia.
I don't know if Brown has a problem with his brain, after coming to power, there have been major changes in his policy towards Australia, and the degree of invitation to Australia has been lowered to the lowest point, and he often clamours in some public places to let Australians rough this territory.
There is only one king in this part of Southeast Asia, and that king is the Netherlands, how domineering and unreasonable, but he only dares to say it in public at some Dutch gatherings, if it is put elsewhere, he will never dare to say so, don't say it, he knows what it means to say this, it means that the rift between him and Australia is getting bigger and bigger. Both sides want to fix all the unprecedented difficulties that will take place.
The military friction on the border is just a trivial matter, this guy actually sent five warships from Batavia to Malaysia, the meaning is obvious, he wants to show off his military might here, if the Australians are really like it, they should have a good attitude.
Forehead. Australians have a correct attitude, which sounds a little wrong, because this guy has always been looking for trouble, nothing to do, of course, there is also Australia to encroach on a lot of Dutch territory.
originally thought that the relationship between this guy and Australia would get better and better, but what I didn't expect was that this guy actually became the other extreme, changing the previous goodwill, which is said to be mainly caused by Blackwater and Australia's continuous expansion in Malacca. The Australians have expanded so much in this area that they have seriously threatened Dutch supremacy in the region.
If this happens during his tenure, Brown will be punished, so it is understandable that he has no good attitude towards Australia, after all, this guy wants to do something better than his predecessor.
To say that this friction is actually not big, there were no casualties on both sides, Brown knows the severity, once the Australians have casualties, it will be a big deal. They will never rest on their laurels, and the Netherlands are no match for the Australians at the moment. The main thing is that the steamship is still in the hands of others.
These were crucial things, and no one wanted to abandon them, and the Netherlands had to rely on steamships to ensure supremacy.
Brown has sent spies to infiltrate the Australian shipyard on several occasions, but the effect is too small to obviously have any effect, and the Australians' defenses are too tight. There are simply no vulnerabilities to look for.
The main reason for the friction is to see how much the Australians react, but now it is almost certain that the Australians take the friction very seriously, and it can even be said that there is some fuss, and the Netherlands is required to thoroughly investigate the ins and outs of this matter. That's right, it's to sell it back and forth.
If it is not investigated, Australia will reserve further rights, Australia is obviously making a big fuss, and wants to use this incident to expand its influence again, Brown regrets that he did this, but regret is useless, the other party seems to believe that this time the Dutch have a ghost behind it, in fact, it is also true.
The only thing that can be done now is to increase the number of garrison forces in Malacca, as long as there are equal naval ships, the Australians do not dare to do anything easily, but everything is changing, and Brown still vaguely remembers that the Australians' bombardment of Batavia was no joke.
The Australian warship is still stranded in Hong Kong, it is said that they are observing the situation, they have recruited a lot of people from the Ming Dynasty to open up the wasteland and cultivate the land, this is not known how many batches, the Australians are preparing to reclaim all the wasteland in Malacca to grow food, it is simply too hateful.
That's it, but the Australians are still expanding their army, and the total number of troops in this area is about to surpass that of the Netherlands.
In order to deal with the old Australians, Brown has repeatedly proposed to expand the number of troops and warships in the Far East, but the domestic bigwigs have not responded, perhaps in their opinion, it is not a wise move to offend the Australians at this time, at least so.
There were still some times when the Australian warships returned, and Brown felt that this was an opportunity to take the opportunity to garrison the Dutch warships in Malacca, and it turned out that he succeeded, and the Australians were also in a default state for this matter, and did not send warships from the mainland to deter.
It seemed that everything was going according to plan, and Brown was very happy, and once all was over, it was too late for the Australians to think of any remedy.
It's just that he overestimates the ability of Australians to act, and Australia's military deployment has a set of emergency plan measures, which can directly save most of the formalities under special circumstances.
At the same time as he mobilized the warships to be stationed in Malacca, the two warships left behind on Christmas Island were ordered to sail to Malacca at full speed to garrison, although the distance was a little far, but Australia received the news relatively early, as long as it could travel day and night, it should not be a problem to enter Malacca.
When Brown was about to see off the officers who entered Malacca, two white warships on the sea floated in front of them like this, like a cloud, and they didn't take a trace away when they left, and the warships that could be bumming white didn't need to think about it to know that they were Australians, Brown was so angry that he couldn't speak, and he didn't even say the speech he had thought of, and directly sent the officers to the stage to rush to Malacca. (To be continued.) )