Hearing Emperor William's words, the Duke of Wellington and Sir Hardy also breathed a sigh of relief in their hearts. Because they both knew that Kaiser Wilhelm's decision was actually wise...... Although the probability of success of this wise decision is very limited.

But for the current Australian battlefield, it is the last chance to turn the tables, and it is also the last big gamble of the British Empire...... And it's a must-have gamble!

Because Australia is actually an isolated island, the indigenous population has basically become extinct, and the white population is only a few hundred thousand, and it is simply impossible to support an industrial system that can be maintained independently. So Hugh. Gough's Australian Legion could only rely on imported munitions to sustain the war, and once the sea was cut off, Australia's 30 divisions would have to rely on depletion of stockpiles. Although there is a lot of inventory, there is no way to upgrade equipment without industry.

So even if Hugh. Goff and other high-ranking officials of the Australian Legion realized the power of the "ironclad chariot soldiers", and they were helpless...... With almost zero industry in Australia, let alone the production of "ironclad cars", it is impossible to even produce light rapid-fire cannons and armor-piercing shells that can destroy ironclad cars. At most, light anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns used in field air defense are used to fight combat vehicles. But the question is...... There are still hundreds of planes in the Ming army that will drop bombs down!

Just that kind of artillery, hitting planes and tanks, it is definitely not enough, and it will become more and more insufficient.

On the other hand, on the Ming side, the world's number one industrial country, airplanes and automobiles were all invented by others! According to reliable information, on the side of Daming, the production of aircraft and automobiles has long been realized by assembly line mass production. Most of those ironclad chariots are new weapons developed by the automobile industry of the Ming Dynasty, and this time it should be a trial...... In the future, we will definitely improve and expand production!

If the decisive battle in Australia drags on for another year and a half, Hugh. Goff's cavalry will also face upgraded ironclad chariots, and there will be more of them, and the British army will have no chance of winning at that time.

As for the siege of the Great Fortress of Sydney...... It's nothing more than sitting in the city of sorrow and waiting for failure.

Although the terrain around Sydney is more precipitous, facing the sea and backing the mountains, it is generally a large valley sitting by the sea. But as long as the Ming army seized Brisbane and brought all the heavy artillery and planes ashore, the little danger around Sydney and the hastily constructed fortifications of the British army would not last long anyway.

Moreover, now that the main force of the British Royal Navy has withdrawn from the Pacific Ocean, only a small number of armored cruisers and second- and third-class cruisers are left to break up the relationship, which does not pose any threat to the Ming Navy with strong escort capabilities.

Therefore, the Ming army will continue to increase troops to Australia in the future, launching landings all over the Australian coastline. Even if the British could hold Sydney for more than 12 months, how long would a lonely city of Sydney last when the rest of Australia's coast was planted by the Ming army?

But even though they knew that Australia would be difficult to hold on, the Duke of Wellington and Sir Hardy did not dare to pull the British Empire off the table without losing all their chips...... Because if you throw in the towel, you will lose Australia, and the stakes for Australia seem too big!

This is an entire continent, dozens of times larger than the British mainland!

Who in British politics would dare to take responsibility for ceding Australia?

Whoever bears this responsibility will have to leave a stench for 10,000 years! Who is a traitor to the country!

Therefore, the Duke of Wellington and Sir Hardy could only watch as Emperor William, the faint king, exported Australia...... It's not that the Duke of Wellington doesn't work hard, or that the British Parliament is too stupid, everything is the fault of the dumb king!

With this "Indian monarch" who broke the British monarchy's convention of "unification but not rule", he was responsible for losing Australia, and then other people's affairs would be easier to handle......

Of course, if Hugh. If Gough can win, then everyone will be happy.

Although this is unlikely, who can be willing not to gamble?

......

"Admiral, His Majesty's telegram has arrived!"

At the headquarters of the British Australian Army in Sydney, a call from London shattered the gloomy atmosphere. A group of senior officers who were sitting there in a daze all turned their heads to look at the staff officers holding a copy of the telegram in their hands, including Hugh Brown, the supreme commander of the British forces in Australia. Admiral Goff.

"What? What did you say? "Hugh. Admiral Gough seemed to be a little deaf and did not hear the staff officer's words clearly.

"Admiral, I have received a telegram from Kaiser Wilhelm!"

"Only...... The Emperor's telegram? "Hugh. Gough asked again.

"Yes, only the Emperor's telegram."

Stop. Admiral Gough's brow had been twisted into a ball - Britain had the War Department (formerly the War Department, headed by the Duke of Wellington) and the Imperial General Staff (formerly the Army General Staff), and the orders to the Australian Legion were naturally given by the War Department and the Imperial General Staff.

But since the beginning of the Australian campaign, the War Department and the Imperial General Staff seem to have evaporated from the world! All orders are given directly from St. James's Palace......

Although Kaiser Wilhelm was very fond of "micro-exercises" when he was in India, his combat orders were still issued through the General Staff of the Indian Empire, and he never bypassed the General Staff to directly command the troops at the front.

But now that Britain has a well-established system, how can it begin to directly command the Australian war?

What about the British Parliament? What about the Cabinet led by the Duke of Wellington? Didn't anyone tell the emperor that he couldn't do this? Rather, they all deliberately shrank back...... I really didn't expect it, it turns out that the Duke of Wellington is also a big traitor who refuses to be responsible!

Thinking of this, Hugh felt that he was probably the last loyal general of the British Empire. Admiral Gough stretched out his hand, took the telegram from the staff officer's hand, read it carefully, and then said to the generals and staff officers in the headquarters with a solemn face: "Gentlemen, the Royal Navy is no longer able to provide support to Australia at present.

Now the fate of the British Empire has fallen on the shoulders of us, the generals of the army!

His Majesty the Emperor thinks we can't be trapped in the lonely city of Sydney...... He ordered us to immediately lead the main force of the Australian Legion into an attack, and we must have a decisive battle before the Ming army conquers the Brisbane fortress and takes full control of the Brisbane port!

Now the fate of the empire depends on us...... The emperor needs the best of each of us. ”

Admiral Gough paused, looked around the headquarters with burning eyes, and said, "I know it's difficult, but there is no way back for all of us!" Given the current situation, time is not on our side. So we have to strike right away and give it our all! I commanded ......"

......

On the more than ten kilometres of coastline of Brisbane's four "convict beaches", a huge army assembly site and material dumping site have emerged. The officers and men of the navy and the army of the Ming Dynasty have also rarely shown the spirit of working overtime, and the officers and men of the navy and the landed army have been busy for more than 24 hours, and everyone has been supported by a kind of conquest, no, the spirit of excitement that can only be found when liberating a continent, and they are carrying out super-heavy physical labor.

The officers and men on the sea were busy transferring personnel, materials, and vehicles. And the officers and soldiers who had already landed were not idle for a moment, and some of them were busy assembling improvised docks on the beach of robbers - and Hugh. Gough and they thought differently, the Ming army never pinned its success or failure on whether it could capture the Brisbane docks. In fact, they had a lot of dock components that could be assembled quickly, and they were dragged tens of thousands of miles away...... In a matter of days, they could build a dock on Brisbane's beach that could handle hundreds of thousands of tons of supplies.

At the same time, construction of a convenient road to the Brisbane Fortress is in full swing - once the road is completed, the heavy artillery brought up through the docks can be hauled under the Brisbane Fortress by truck!

And after the capture of Brisbane, these heavy guns will also be transported to Sydney....