From a certain point of view, the war that took place on the southern continent after the British Royal Navy lost the Battle of the Pacific Ocean was a war of advanced industrial civilization vs backward steppe civilization!

Among them, the representative of advanced industrial civilization is, of course, the Great Tomorrow Dynasty that landed on the southern continent!

The fleet of tens of square miles, the ironclad ships that climbed onto the beachhead after "becoming fine", and the hundreds of wheeled armored vehicles spit out of the "bloody mouth" of the "ironclad ships" certainly represent the advanced industrial civilization.

Just the vehicles, artillery, guns, ammunition, medicines, combined docks, and engineering equipment used to build bridges and roads that the Ming army sent to the beachhead within 24 hours after landing on the "convict beach...... Even the field rations used to feed the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty who were busy working overtime were not something that a country with a low degree of industrialization could easily take out, let alone those dozens of square miles of fleet.

It is no exaggeration to say that without the support of the world's largest, most complete and most advanced industrial system, the Ming army would not have thought of firing a bullet or a shell on the beach of Brisbane!

On the other hand, the British army, which was drawn from the Sydney fortress area on January 8, 1833, with 7 regiments and 21 divisions, was actually a deindustrialized "Prairie Army...... Although the United Kingdom is still the second most industrialized country in the world, it still has a complete and self-sufficient industrial system.

But after the defeat of the British Royal Navy in the Pacific, sea transport between the United Kingdom and the Dominion of Australia was no longer sustainable. Britain has not invested in any industry in Australia...... Not to mention that Australia's industry is not comparable to that of the United Kingdom, and even the industry of the big gold country that is stuffed in Central Asia.

By the end of 1832, Daikin was able to produce machine guns, small and medium-caliber mountain cannons, train locomotives, ordinary construction steel and rails, steam engines and locomotives, and even wooden-hulled steam gunboats using artillery systems purchased from the Ming Dynasty - the Daikin Navy finally had the first surface ship that could sail at sea after six years of its establishment!

And none of the above can be made by the Australian Dominion...... Now Australia does not even have an industrial chain that can produce smoothbore guns and gunpowder, in fact, without imported iron tools, Australia now cannot even make machetes!

As for what Australia can produce now? It is mainly animal husbandry products, and cattle, sheep, and horses can be produced in large quantities! Of course, wool, cowhide, milk, butter, cheese can also be produced...... In fact, this industrial structure is similar to that of the Dzungar, Korqin, and Heshute Mongolian tribes that are dependent on the Dajin Kingdom.

If the blockade of Australia by the Ming Dynasty continues, in another decade or two, Australia's white skin may really become the appearance of grassland nomads.

In fact, the current Australia is not at all on the side of the industrial countries, she is a steppe khanate...... Well, most of Australia's coasts are highland, blocking water vapor, so a little inland is a large area of grassland.

And immediately on the shore of Sydney Bay, watching a group of cavalry, cavalry infantry, and cavalry artillery of the Australian Legion on horseback, wielding sabers or carbines, pass in front of him, and head towards the mountains of the Great Dividing Range. Gough, at this time also raised such a question - is this still the army of the British Empire? Why do you look so much like Emperor Daoguang's golden soldiers?

While he was thinking about the strange question, he was interrupted by the sound of horses' hooves. It was a signal soldier who brought him a telegram he had just received.

Stop. Brigadier General Clinton, Goff's chief of staff, hurriedly took the envelope containing the telegram, opened it, took out the telegram inside, read it, and frowned at Hugh after reading it. Goff said: "Admiral, the emergency power of the Brisbane fortress...... The Ming Navy carried out the third landing operation, targeting Bribe Island, Morton Island, and North Stradbroke Island. ”

All three islands are not small, forming a ring outside Brisbane Harbour that encircles a bay.

Stop. Goff said quietly: "It seems that they want to completely take the port of Brisbane!" ”

Brigadier General Clinton said: "The Ming army that landed was heavily equipped...... They are not like us, who can ride horses across the Australian grasslands, and fight with sabers and spears even without bullets and shells. They relied on a large number of artillery pieces and vehicles, which put a lot of pressure on logistics. Therefore, they must take the port of Brisbane, otherwise relying on beachhead supplies, the landing Ming army will not be able to sustain it. ”

Stop. Gough's brow furrowed even tighter, "Brigadier General, your words make me feel as if we are backward barbarians, and they ...... It is the conqueror with advanced technology and civilization! ”

When Brigadier General Clinton heard this, he was stunned and speechless—"if you are backward, you will be beaten" has always been a undoubted truth in the 19th century and for many centuries before that, and the British especially believed in it.

Don't say Hugh. Old colonists like Admiral Gough and Brigadier Clinton are like, and even Victoria, the "Snow White," is a social Darwinist through and through...... Otherwise, she would not have objected to the relief of the hungry people in Ireland in history.

With the financial resources of the British Empire at that time, it was not a problem to feed the millions of Irish who had no potatoes to eat! Moreover, the queen of "rule without rule" had more power than the later British monarchs, and if it were not for the social Darwinism that "the poor deserve to starve to death" and "backwardness should be beaten", she insisted that Parliament pay for the salvation of people. Even if it can't be done, the parliament won't start a revolution because their queen is too kind, right? If you really want to do that, it will look too much like the devil.

But not only was Victoria unwilling to help the victims herself, but she was not even allowed to donate money to the Irish to buy wheat for the Irish...... Escape from a female devil!

But Hugh, who believed all his life that "the poor should starve to death" and "the backward should be beaten". Gough and Clinton suddenly find it as if they were the characters who should be starved and beaten...... It feels so bad!

"I mean......, Admiral," Brigadier General Clinton hastened to explain, "I mean that although they are advanced, they are too logistically dependent to fight in the vast grasslands of Australia." Like Genghis Khan's Mongol army, we can maneuver through the Australian steppes with a large number of horses. All we have to do is divert them from the shoreline, and lead them into the steppes and deserts west of the Great Dividing Range, and we will be able to strike at the enemy as much as the Mongol armies. ”

Stop. Gough took a breath, Brigadier Clinton's theory was correct, Australia has many grasslands and deserts, and it looks similar to the territory of the Mongols. So the "Australian Khanate", which had a large number of horses, really had an advantage. But the question is...... How did the Mongols fight? And also...... Who defeated this Mongol empire in history? It seems to be Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty!

This learned from the Mongols to fight the industrialized army of the Ming Dynasty...... Will it work?