The swift compromise of the Dutch and the signing of the Batavia Treaty were also a relief to Arthur and the Australasian government.

Of course, this does not mean that Arthur is afraid of the Dutch government. The reason for the relief is that the Australasian army can also lose some fewer troops.

Although Australasia's population is about to exceed 10 million, many of them are migrants who have only arrived in the last two years.

It will take a long time for these immigrants to be educated and influenced before they can develop a strong sense of national identity and national pride in Australasia.

Therefore, every time Australasia is conscripted, there will be a more rigid requirement, that is, to live in Australasia for three years.

Of course, this is also only a requirement of the ordinary army. If it is Arthur's henchman, the requirement is to have lived in Australasia for at least five years.

Such a requirement can be very effective in screening soldiers who have a sense of identity with the country.

After all, Arthur is confident that, under the influence of Australasia's policies and propaganda, there are very few people who have lived in Australasia for five years without any sense of identity in the country.

After the treaty was signed, the occupation of these Dutch ceded territories became a top priority for the Australasian government.

Although most of the lands ceded by the Kingdom of the Netherlands were relatively small archipelagos, they also included the only Catholic state in the Dutch East Indies, the Kingdom of Rarantuka.

The country still has a certain military strength, and the Dutch did not interfere enough with the kingdom of Larantuca before, resulting in the country having a lot of autonomy and military rights.

For Arthur, this hidden danger must be removed. What's more, the forces behind the attack on Charles Wynne are the Kingdom of Larantuca, although it may not be the intention of the government of this country, but who made the mastermind the people of Larantuka?

On September 1, 1911, the Australasian government officially issued a proclamation announcing the expansion of Australian Timor to the entire island of Timor, and the formation of all newly acquired territories except Timor into a new state administrative region, the Crown Territory.

After this announcement was issued, the Ministry of Defense also officially began to operate.

The Ministry of National Defense mobilized the 1st and 2nd Divisions, a total of more than 30,000 troops, to occupy and temporarily militarize the newly acquired territory under the escort of the fleet.

One of the main targets of the army was the kingdom of La Lantuca, located on the island of Flores, which was the only country in the archipelago with military power.

Arthur didn't want other countries in the region he ruled, not to mention that the country was currently acting like an out-and-out two-and-five-boy.

The best outcome for the kingdom of Larantuca is to be annexed by Australasia and become part of the royal domain.

If the Larantuca resisted, Arthur wouldn't mind letting them experience what happened to the natives, even if they were descendants of the Portuguese and the natives.

Anyway, the Portuguese have fought, will Arthur still care about the descendants left by the Portuguese?

On 2 September, the 1st and 2nd Divisions began their operations in earnest, and they were to march together to the island of Flores, first to capture and occupy the kingdom of Larantuca, and then to the west and east of the island of Flores.

The First and Second Divisions were also very excited about such an action, after all, Australasia has a military merit system, and in addition to the money rewarded by military merit, it has accumulated a lot, and it can even get a knighthood.

Although the military merits required for the title are very large, it is said that a soldier who does not want to be a general is not a good soldier, and a soldier who does not want to become a nobleman through military merit is not a good soldier.

People still have to have dreams, what if they come true?

With this in mind, the Australasian army had a strong desire to fight, and was even completely fearless of death.

After all, the Australasian army's pension system is real, and if they die, their families may be better off.

This also makes most soldiers have no worries, after all, in addition to their own food, it is also the pursuit of most people to make their families live better.

On 3 September, after recuperation, the 1st and 2nd Divisions arrived in the city of Ruten, south of the island of Flores.

The defenses of the Kingdom of Larantuca were nothing but for the 1st and 2nd Divisions, and they did not even have the strength to resist the rule of the Dutch, let alone the Australasian people, who were stronger than the Dutch.

Thousands of the Larantuca army were like cattle and sheep to be slaughtered in front of the 1st and 2nd Divisions, that is, hundreds of thousands of rounds of ammunition were consumed.

Even because the fire suppression of the first and second divisions was too strong, the few musket units in the Kingdom of Larantuca could not use it at all, which also made the soldiers of Australasia shoot more freely, with plenty of time to aim, and the hit rate was even higher.

On the afternoon of September 3, the overwhelming Australasian army easily arrived at the capital of the kingdom of Rarantuca, a small city called Yingde.

The war has continued to this day, and it is actually the area of Flores Island that has slowed down the offensive of the Australasian army.

Although it is a small city for Australasia, it is also a large island with a length of 380 kilometers and a width of more than 70 kilometers, with a total area of more than 14,000 square kilometers.

For the capture of the capital of the kingdom of Larantuca, like the previous small city of Ruten, it was almost effortless.

Even before night fell, the Australasian army was already stationed in the capital of the Kingdom of Rarantuca, and was already beginning to maintain order in this small kingdom.

The way the army maintains order is very simple, that is, to adopt militarized management, distribute food in a unified manner, and shoot those who do not obey orders.

These Aborigines are not Australasian and will not be recognised by the Australasian Government.

It also represents the fact that, as long as it is not on the surface, the life and death of these natives are completely controlled by these soldiers.

Of course, before the militarized management, it was still necessary for the high-ranking and royal family of the Larantuca Kingdom to be eliminated directly.

Keeping them in the kingdom will affect the order of the kingdom of Larantuca, after all, who knows if there will be people who are loyal to the royal family.

As for the other natives of the city, the army did not fear their resistance in the slightest. In any case, if there is any resistance, it will be executed on the spot, and their army will not have any room for resistance, and some civilians will naturally be even less likely to affect the army.

After a day's rest on the island of Flores, on the morning of 4 September, the 1st and 2nd Divisions had left nearly 3,000 men to garrison the island.

The remaining armies set off separately, preparing to occupy a large number of islands and archipelagos in the west and east.

The 1st Division is responsible for Lombok, Sumbawa and Sumba in the west, and the 2nd Division is responsible for the Arlo, Southwest, Southeast, Kay and Aru Islands in the east.

On the whole, the western part of Flores Island is mostly large islands, while the eastern part of the island is an archipelago of small islands and spans a very large area.

In fact, not only this area, but the entire Dutch East Indies, there are countless islands, large and small, which also greatly affected the rule of the Dutch East Indies colonial government over this area.

In order to rule this region properly, in addition to having a strong army of hundreds of thousands, it is necessary to have a particularly strong navy.

But the fact is that the total number of soldiers in the Dutch East Indies colony, including all the indigenous divisions, was only a little over 100,000.

Although it seems that 100,000 people are a lot, most of them are indigenous divisions composed entirely of natives, and it is good to suppress the rebellion of those natives in peacetime, but on the battlefield with other powerful countries, they can only be used as cannon fodder.

In terms of navy, the naval strength of the Netherlands is also second-rate among many small and medium-sized countries in Europe. However, the naval strength of the Dutch East Indies is really not on the table.

At present, the largest warship of the Dutch East Indies is only a medium-sized warship of more than 6,000 tons, and on the basis of the absence of battleships, it is also doomed that the navy of the Dutch East Indies can only suppress internally, and cannot fight externally.

This is why the Netherlands were quick to admit to Australasia. After all, I know that the military strength of the Dutch East Indies will not last long, and even if I have a firm attitude, it will only be occupied by Australasia a little later.

Rather than take a hard line and wait for the Dutch East Indies to be fully occupied by Australasia, it is better to be resolute and strive to save more land and reduce the government's losses.

The complex geographical environment of the Dutch East Indies is actually destined to be inadequately managed by the people in charge of the land.

Take a certain country established in this land in later generations, because there are many islands in the country and the ethnic groups are complex, even in later generations, the contradictions and conflicts between the domestic ethnic groups are very frequent.

For Australasia, however, the newly acquired land, which is home to more than a million indigenous people, is useful.

It is very useful to use it as cannon fodder in future wars, to brush up its presence and role in wars, or to use it as free labor to support the construction of the country.

In any case, all kinds of construction require a lot of labor, and for the indigenous side, Australasia is really not refused.

Of course, Arthur was not worried about the impact that these natives would have on the order of Australasia in peacetime.

In Arthur's plan, these natives were not in Australasia's mind at all.

This also means that in addition to giving their lives for the development of Australasia, their only choice is to become cannon fodder and make Australia feel alive at the international level.

Anyway, Australasia will eventually participate in World War I in the future, and if you want to get enough say after World War I, you must make certain sacrifices and pay in the war.

It's better to let these natives pay than to let the Australasian people pay! Judging from the reproduction rate of these natives, the death of hundreds of thousands of Arthurs is not distressed at all.

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