"Damn, watch out for enemy attacks!" Governor Alexander shouted, and without looking back, he ran towards the fortifications not far away.

These flying guys are no joke, the bombs they throw can also kill people, and they are no less powerful than small and medium-caliber artillery, because they are in the air, they can hit enemies that ground artillery can't hit.

Rumble!

Perhaps it was Governor Alexander's will to survive that moved God, and in short, a bomb exploded next to Governor Alexander, taking the beloved Governor Alexander of the natives of the Dutch East Indies to God.

"Mr. Governor!"

Governor Alexander's guards and heralds were in disarray, but they rushed to the fortifications faster.

Governor Alexander, who had been hit at close range by a bomb, had no hope of surviving, and could not even put together a complete body.

Under such circumstances, it is impossible for his guards and soldiers to pay for their lives for a pile of minced meat, and the safety of their lives has become more important than anything else.

Of course, it was the diplomat Ambassador Renault who rushed the fastest. After Governor Alexander shouted the enemy attack, Ambassador Reynolds reacted quickly, followed Governor Alexander more than ten meters behind, and ran towards the fortifications.

After the bomb exploded a few meters in front of Governor Alexandria, Ambassador Reynolds was not too affected by the fact that he was nearly 20 meters away, but his hearing was temporarily affected.

It did not prevent Ambassador Renault from rushing towards the fortifications, like a hungry wolf who had not eaten for several days, and quickly rushed to the place where there was good food.

Whew~Whew!

After finally storming the fortifications, Ambassador Renault and some of the soldiers breathed a sigh of relief and began to gasp for breath.

Escaping from the clutches of death was not a great feeling, and the pounding of their hearts told them that they really were separated from death.

If Danfan slowed down by a few seconds, or by a few seconds faster, and caught up with Governor Alexander in front of him, they were likely to follow Governor Alexander to God.

Everyone in the fortification looked at each other, and then they thought of a serious question, that is, who should command the more than 100,000 troops?

Viceroy Alexander was not only the colonial governor of the Dutch East Indies, but also the colonial commander-in-chief of the Dutch East Indies.

With the blessing of his dual status, Governor Alexander had extraordinary rights, and there was no one vying for power in the Dutch East Indies.

The colonial military under Governor Alexandria consisted of one Dutch division and six colonial divisions.

Although the Dutch division was larger in rank than the colonial division, the power gap between the several division commanders was not too great, and all were directly subordinate to Governor Alexander.

At present, the more difficult problem is that the governor of Alexander did not have an adjutant, and the viceroy was a purely political figure, and was not proficient in military affairs.

The selection of an interim commander in the military has become a problem, and it is difficult to find a successor in the military who can convince the people and is more suitable for his status and status.

At this time, the personal guards and soldiers of Governor Alexander looked at Ambassador Renault.

Ambassador Reynaud was a former Dutch diplomatic ambassador to Australasia, with the rank of Commander-in-Chief of the colony in full force.

What's more, Ambassador Reynolds studied at a military academy in the Netherlands and served in the Dutch East Indies Colony Army, although the total length of service was less than two years.

All things considered, Ambassador Renault's status and status are more suitable, and he also has enough prestige in the military to command the army on an ad hoc basis.

Of course, whether Ambassador Reynaud can become the provisional commander-in-chief of the Dutch East Indies Colony depends on the opinion of the Dutch government.

Several signal corps, on the orders of Ambassador Reynolds, began to send telegrams to the Netherlands, explaining that Governor Alexander had been killed in the bombardment of Australasian planes, and requesting the Dutch government to appoint a new commander-in-chief of the colonial army, or provisional commander-in-chief, to command the army.

It is expected that the Dutch government will receive this telegram the next day, and it will probably be two or three days before receiving the reply from the Dutch government.

Because of the urgency of the war, the General Staff of the Colonial Army elected Ambassador Reynaud as Interim Commander-in-Chief to serve as Interim Commander-in-Chief of the Dutch East Indies Colony and to direct the army in battle, pending instructions from the Dutch Government.

Ambassador Reynolds' first order as Interim Commander-in-Chief ordered the troops of the three colonial divisions totaling more than 50,000 men on the first line of defense to defend with all their might, at all costs, and not to allow the Australasian army to advance a single step.

In the eyes of Ambassador Renault, these indigenous soldiers could be given up at any time. Trading their sacrifice for the stability of the first line of defense was a very cost-effective for the Dutch and Dutch East Indies.

Ambassador Reynolds' second order was for the colonial government to temporarily recruit at least 100,000 natives to join the defense of Batavia.

Although the number of Australasian troops does not seem to be too large, the current Dutch army is no match for the Australasian army in terms of firepower and equipment alone. The army needs more soldiers, even if they are just cannon fodder, to play the role that cannon fodder should be.

The air raid lasted only half an hour, but it took a heavy toll on the Dutch army.

The abrupt end of the previous bombardment made the Dutch army mistakenly think that Australasia was running out of shells, so many Dutch soldiers stepped out of the fortifications and into the trenches.

These bombers and fighters hovered in the sky and inflicted heavy casualties on the Dutch army, killing hundreds of Dutch soldiers and wounding thousands of them in this round of bombardment alone.

After the bombing, the Australasian army approached the first line of defense again and launched a formal attack.

Division Commander Silvio was convinced that the Dutch soldiers were physically and mentally exhausted after a long period of bombardment, and that they needed some time to relieve.

And this time period is also the best opportunity to attack. The corpses of the Dutch and the wailing wounded soldiers would have dealt a heavy blow to the hearts and minds of all Dutch troops.

In such a situation, even the regular Dutch army will have a certain psychological impact, not to mention the formation of an indigenous army with these simple trainings.

Even if the Dutch native army would not be broken up and lose its combat effectiveness, it would be greatly demoralized, and even the possibility of desertion at any time.

In such a situation, as long as the Dutch lose the war, I am afraid that the first to hold out are the native armies.

As long as there were no native armies, the Dutch army would no longer have a numerical advantage, and it would only be a matter of time before it was encircled and annihilated.

Sure enough, when Australasia launched a new offensive, it was obvious that the resistance of the indigenous army had become smaller.

These natives were greedy for life and afraid of death, and they would not willingly give their lives for the Dutch.

After a slight resistance to the Australasian army, some of the indigenous troops threw down their equipment and fled in all directions on both sides of the battlefield.

Although most of them were killed by the Dutch Warlords or wiped out by the Australasian army, a significant number of the natives managed to escape the battlefield, setting an example for the remaining natives.

"Don't give any more to these Dutchmen, they're all about to die! Returning to our own tribe, we just want to live our lives. ”

I don't know who shouted, and the indigenous army of the Netherlands instantly rioted.

To make matters worse, the three divisions of the first line of defense were all native, and the Dutch soldiers and commanders were pitifully few, and at this time they could no longer control these natives.

The Dutch army in the rear also had only a Dutch division and a small number of reserve troops, and under the premise that Ambassador Renault and the staff had not yet come out of the fortifications, they could not control the already very bad situation at the front.

In this way, these Dutch native soldiers did the same, and eventually it turned into a large rout.

The Overseer, which numbered only 1,000 people, could not control the collective collapse of tens of thousands of people, and the commander of the Overseer could only report the news to the rear staff and stabilize the situation on the front as much as possible.

But at this time, the indigenous forces were no longer controllable by the small Warlords. Unless the Dutch forces in the rear were able to react quickly and suppress these native armies with firepower, forcing them to return to their positions.

Otherwise, no army would be able to save the natives from scattering if it was a little longer.

The news of the Overseer team was transmitted to the General Staff, and the General Staff Department sent the news back to the Overseer, and the process took about ten minutes.

More than ten minutes is enough to do many things, such as completely breaking up tens of thousands of troops, and even many people have already fled outside the battlefield.

Hearing the news that the indigenous troops on the front line had broken up, Ambassador Renault's heart was broken at this time.

While becoming the new interim commander-in-chief of the colonies may seem like good news, the problem is that the war seems to have been lost as the natives are scattered.

As soon as he became interim commander-in-chief, he had to face the defeat of the war, and Ambassador Reynaud realized that he was forced to become a scapegoat.

Anyway, Governor Alexander has been dead for a hundred years, and it seems that the only person who can take the blame for the front-line battlefield is him who has just become the new commander-in-chief of the colony.

Knowing everything, Ambassador Reynolds smashed the staff and finally had to accept his present tragic fate, and gave his own order to resist stubbornly, leaving the Dutch division to hold the second line of defense and delay the Australasian attack as long as possible.

For the colony forces of the three divisions on the front, and the first line of defense on a much larger scale, Ambassador Renault had no hope at this time.

Without the resistance of the indigenous army, the temporary dispatch of the Dutch division to the first line of defense would result in the loss of the protection of the defensive line, leaving the Dutch division facing the encirclement and flanking attack of the Australasian army.

It is better to let the remaining Dutch division and some reserve troops hold the second line of defense, and the remaining army has a total of 20,000 men, as long as it can resist for a few days, the rear can organize more indigenous troops from Batavia and defend the whole of Batavia with human lives.

In any case, Batavia has millions of natives, and even if 10,000 people are killed or injured a day, these millions of aborigines are enough to slaughter Australasian people for more than a year.

Ambassador Renaud was not convinced that the Australasian people would dare to slaughter so many indigenous people in order to conquer all of Batavia.

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