Large-scale production of penicillin is an urgent study, conservatively estimated to take one to two years to achieve.

Of course, if Fleming's luck had not been good, the production of penicillin could have been delayed until after World War I.

But either way, the discovery of penicillin was a good thing for Arthur and Australasia.

Penicillin, a miracle drug in wartime, can be controlled in advance, and can bring a lot of benefits to Arthur and Australasia.

Not only can Australasia reduce the casualties in the war, but it can also be exchanged for more benefits, such as land, technology, talent, etc.

Just imagine, if Australasia suddenly came up with penicillin, a strategic medical substance, at the moment when the war in Europe was raging, both the Entente and the Central Powers would rush to ask for it, because whoever did not have it would be at a disadvantage.

At present, the real reason for the relatively large casualties is actually that some soldiers who are more seriously injured still have the risk of wound infection even after treatment.

And in this era when there are no antibiotics, wound infections are fatal and more brutal than direct combat deaths.

Many fighters did not die at the guns of the enemy, but from infected wounds, as well as from not receiving timely treatment.

If there is enough penicillin, no matter which side you have, you can ensure that the wounded soldiers can be re-engaged in the war after receiving adequate treatment.

This will save not only thousands of soldiers and families, but also countries that are in decline because of the large number of soldiers injured.

The task of purifying and mass-producing penicillin was given to Fleming, and Arthur had the Kent butler pay $3 million to Fleming's laboratory.

Of this amount, $1.5 million was used to conduct research to accelerate the purification and mass production of penicillin.

The remaining $1.5 million is a reward for Fleming and all his assistants, as well as all the researchers and workers in the laboratory.

Fleming will receive the largest share of $500,000, while all researchers will also receive more than $50,000 per person.

For the most basic workers, their rewards range from a few hundred to a few thousand dollars based on their contributions.

Arthur kept his promise and promised to send reinforcements to Europe by April, and now that the national holiday had not yet arrived, a large number of soldiers had been selected in all indigenous areas.

Of course, the selection of indigenous people should not be too foolish. Therefore, Arthur decided to train at least 400,000 indigenous troops at once. After sending reinforcements, there will be 200,000 left, and they will continue to stay in Australasia for training.

For the selection of indigenous soldiers, their overall character should not be too bad, and they can at least last two weeks of recruit training.

Yes, the recruit training of the indigenous soldiers is only two weeks, and one week is spent learning military discipline and understanding what it takes to be a good obedient soldier.

The remaining week is spent practicing marksmanship, at least to ensure that every indigenous soldier is proficient in the use of firearms, and whether or not they can hit is another matter.

Thanks to the short training period, the second Australasian expeditionary force is expected to finish training in late January and early February, and all of them will arrive in France by the end of March.

In order to gather these 400,000 rifles, Arthur has put a lot of effort into it. It was a bit of a predain to equip all of these Aboriginal soldiers with new rifles, so Arthur deliberately eliminated the rifles of all the current Australasian armies and transferred these rifles that had been in service for some time to the Aboriginal soldiers to equip the regular army with new rifles.

Even, in order to allow the indigenous soldiers to adapt to the lack of logistical supplies in the European battlefield in advance, Arthur Australasia's large number of old firearms, even rifles from decades ago, were all equipped with the indigenous army.

In any case, these troops will be trained to fight in Europe, and their logistics will be provided by Britain and France, and Australasia will only need to transport supplies.

After barely equipping the Aboriginal troops, it was quickly time to reach January 10, 1915, Australasia's National Day.

One of the country's most important festivals, the Australasian National Day is a seven-day celebration that plunges the whole country into a state of revelry.

The impact of the war on Australasia was modest, but it still worried many people.

To dispel the worries of some people, Arthur deliberately decided to hold another military parade after many years.

The parade was brief, but all Australasian naval, land and air forces participated. The Guards, Conventional Army, Dreadnoughts and Super Dreadnoughts, as well as airships, were all unveiled to demonstrate Australasia's military power to the outside world and the public.

Of course, Australasia's real undercard aircraft, tanks, etc., will not be shown to the public at the parade.

It was not until they were known in the war that Australasia would reveal its weapons system.

But in any case, such a large-scale military parade did make many people gradually let go of their doubts.

Judging from Australasia's special geographical location and the military strength it has displayed so far, the struggle for hegemony is not a problem for the time being.

Even Australasia's navy, if a little stronger, would have no problem dominating the southern hemisphere.

With such military strength, there is naturally no problem in protecting one's country and people.

In addition, their lives have not been disturbed much by the war, so after the end of this military parade, it can be clearly seen that many Australasian people are no longer troubled by this war, but enjoy their lives with peace of mind.

During the National Day holiday, as is customary, this allowed the royal consortium to purchase a lot of supplies and distribute them to the people for free.

Meat, food, milk, medical supplies, etc., a large amount of resources were distributed to the people, and you can see the smiles on the faces of the people of Australasia.

After the National Day holiday, while all the recruited indigenous troops were still training, the European theater, to be precise, the Eastern European theater, also fought several relatively large-scale battles.

The biggest difference between this war and history is that Russia did not launch a large-scale offensive at the beginning of the war, and most of the major wars between Russia and the Central Powers were concentrated on the border with Austria-Hungary.

Previously, in order to divert the attention of the Germans, France paid a huge price for the Russians to organize an offensive in East Prussia.

But the scale of the offensive was not large, and the Russian army was quickly repelled by the German army due to disorganized equipment and poor training, and suffered heavy casualties.

With all three of his allies in the war, Russia, which performed the worst, naturally did not satisfy Nicholas II.

As a self-proclaimed monarch, Nicholas II saw the war as an opportunity for Russian expansion and a chance for the Russian empire to regain its strength.

But hundreds of thousands of Russian troops were blocked on the East Prussian border by less than 100,000 German troops, which was simply unacceptable to Nicholas II, and several army groups were dismissed.

In order to save face, Russia decided to organize a regular, large-scale offensive to restore the dignity of the European steamrollers, and at the same time to reassert Russia's strength.

You must know that if Russia exposes too many shortcomings in this war, then in the distribution of benefits after the war, even if Russia has suffered heavy casualties, it is unlikely to be respected by Britain and France.

If a country is not strong, no matter how heavy its casualties in the war are, it is doomed to not receive the rewards it deserves.

Although the Russian army had more than 1 million before the outbreak of the war, the total number of Russian troops has not exceeded 2 million until the implementation of the Russian mobilization order.

Of course, one of the main reasons for this is that the Russian casualties are relatively heavy. If you count the number of Russian casualties, in fact, the total number of Russian troops committed to the war is almost 2.5 million.

In order to achieve shame, through careful preparations, under the orders of Nicholas II, the Russian commander-in-chief, Grand Duke Nicholas, reorganized up to 800,000 combat troops and planned to relaunch the offensive against the East Prussian region.

Speaking of the Grand Duke with the same name as Nicholas II, there are some stories that have to be told between Grand Duke Nicholas and Nicholas II.

According to the relevant regulations of Russia, the commander-in-chief of the Russian army during the war should actually be Tsar Nicholas II.

However, because Nicholas II himself lacked military experience, the command was transferred to Grand Duke Nicholas with the support of many generals.

Grand Duke Nicholas's full name was Nikolai Nikolayevich Romanov Nikolaas, and he was the uncle of Nicholas II by generation.

Although he is a member of the royal family, and he is closely related by blood. Because the two have the same name, in order to distinguish them, people generally refer to the two Nikolai as High Nikolai and Short Nikolai.

And Nicholas II, who was relatively short, was naturally called Nicholas the Dwarf.

This made Nicholas II very uncomfortable, and even his uncle, who hated the house and Udi, expressed his dissatisfaction.

Of course, there is another reason.

Grand Duke Nikolai was born at the Military Academy of Engineers and the Imperial Military Staff Academy, and served as an officer in the Russian-Turkish war, leading by example and enjoying high prestige and status in the army.

Such a high-ranking and powerful Grand Duke with royal blood naturally aroused the suspicion of Nicholas II.

Before the outbreak of the war, Grand Duke Nikolai was even excluded from the decision-making circle of the General Staff and served only as the commander of the St. Petersburg Military District.

Although Grand Duke Nicholas became the commander-in-chief of the Russian army under the admiration of the officers, Nicholas II also weakened the command of Grand Duke Nicholas in multiple ways, such as not changing the personnel appointments and system of the General Staff, so that his henchmen could monitor Grand Duke Nicholas at all times in the General Staff.

Although this did limit the rights of Grand Duke Nicholas, Nicholas II was reassured.

But the narrow-minded Nicholas II did not see the harm of doing so, and even affected the mobilization of the entire Russian army at the strategic level.

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