Chapter 298: Occupation of the Kingdom of Larantuka (Monthly Ticket Requested!)

The Dutch's quick compromise and the signing of the Treaty of Batavia made Arthur and the Australasian government feel relieved.

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 less troops.

Although the population of Australasian has exceeded 10 million, many of them are immigrants who have arrived in the past two years.

These immigrants still need a long period of education and influence to make them have a strong sense of national identity and national pride in Australasian.

Therefore, every time Australasian recruits soldiers, there will be a more rigid requirement, that is, living in Australasian for three years.

Of course, this is only the requirement of ordinary troops. If it is Arthur's confidant army guards division, the requirement is to live in Australasian for at least five years.

Such requirements can effectively screen soldiers who have a sense of identity with the country.

After all, Arthur is confident that under the influence of Australasian policies and propaganda, few people have no sense of identity with the country after living in Australasian for five years.

After the signing of the treaty, occupying these territories ceded by the Netherlands has become the current top priority of the Australasian government.

Although most of the lands ceded by the Kingdom of the Netherlands are small archipelagos, they also include the Kingdom of Larantuka, the only Catholic country in the Dutch East Indies.

This country still has a certain military strength, and the Dutch did not interfere enough in the Kingdom of Larantuka before, resulting in the country having considerable autonomy and military power.

For Arthur, this hidden danger must be removed. What's more, the Larantuka Kingdom is the force behind the attack on Charles Vane. Although it may not be the intention of the government of this country, who made the planner a Larantuka?

On September 1, 1911, the Australasian government officially issued an announcement to the outside world, announcing that Australian Timor would expand to the entire Timor Island, and that all newly acquired territories except Timor Island would be organized into a new state-level administrative region, namely the Royal Territory.

After this announcement was issued to the outside world, the Ministry of National Defense officially began to act.

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

Among them, the important target of the army is the Kingdom of Larantuka on Flores Island, which is also the only country in all the archipelagoes with military power.

Arthur does not want other countries to exist in the area he rules, not to mention that this country currently behaves like a real traitor.

The best outcome for the Kingdom of Larantuka is to be annexed by Australasia and become part of the royal territory.

If the Larantuka people resist, then Arthur does not mind letting them experience the fate of the indigenous people, even if they are descendants of the Portuguese and local indigenous people.

Anyway, the Portuguese have been beaten, so will Arthur still care about the descendants left by the Portuguese?

On September 2, the First and Second Divisions officially began their operations. They will go to Flores Island together, first capture and occupy the Kingdom of Larantuka, and then use Flores Island as the dividing line to go to the areas to the west and east respectively.

The First and Second Divisions were also very excited about such an action. After all, Australasia has a military merit system. In addition to the money rewarded by military merit, if you accumulate more, you can even get a title.

Although the military merit required for the title is very huge, as the saying goes, 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 noble through military merit is not a good soldier.

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

With this idea, the Australasian army has a strong desire to fight, and is even completely fearless of death.

After all, the pension system of the Australasian army is real. If they die, their families may live better.

This also makes most soldiers worry-free. After all, in addition to their own food, making their families live better is also the pursuit of most people.

On September 3, after recuperating, the First and Second Divisions arrived at Ruteng, a city in the south of Flores Island.

The defense of the Larantuka Kingdom was useless to the First and Second Divisions. They had no power to resist the rule of the Dutch, let alone the Australasians who were more powerful than the Dutch.

Thousands of Larantuka troops were like cattle and sheep to be slaughtered in front of the First and Second Divisions, which was just a matter of hundreds of thousands of bullets.

Even because the firepower suppression of the First and Second Divisions was too strong, the few musket troops of the Larantuka Kingdom could not be used at all, which made the Australasian soldiers shoot more freely, with plenty of time to aim, and the hit rate was even higher.

On the afternoon of September 3, the Australasian army, which was unstoppable, easily arrived at the capital of the Larantuka Kingdom, a small city called Yingde.

The war has continued to this day, and what has delayed the offensive speed of the Australasian army is actually the area of ​​Flores Island.

Although this is a small city in Australasia, it is 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.

The capture of the capital of the Kingdom of Larantuka was as easy as the previous small city of Ruten.

Even before night fell, the Australasian army had already stationed in the capital of the Kingdom of Larantuka and had begun to maintain order in this small kingdom.

The way the army maintained order was very simple, that is, to adopt militarized management, uniformly distribute food, and directly shoot those who disobeyed orders.

Anyway, these indigenous people are not Australasians, and they will not be recognized by the Australasian government.

This also represents a fact that as long as it is not put on the surface, the life and death of these indigenous people are completely controlled by these soldiers.

Of course, before militarized management, it is still necessary to directly eliminate the high-level officials and royal family of the Kingdom of Larantuka.

Keeping them will affect the order of the Kingdom of Larantuka. After all, who knows if there will be people who are loyal to the royal family.

As for other indigenous residents in the city, the army is not worried about their resistance at all. Anyway, any resistance will be executed on the spot. Their army has no room for resistance, and some civilians are naturally less likely to affect the army.

After a day of rest on Flores, on the morning of September 4, the First and Second Divisions left a total of nearly 3,000 troops to garrison on this island.

The remaining troops set out separately to prepare to occupy a large number of islands and archipelagos in the west and east.

The First Division is responsible for Lombok, Sumbawa and Sumba in the west, and the Second Division is responsible for the Alor Islands, Southwest Islands, Southeast Islands, Kai Islands and Aru Islands in the east.

Overall, most of the areas in the west of Flores are islands with relatively large areas, while the areas in the east are all archipelagos composed of small islands, and the span is very large.

In fact, not only this area, but also the entire Dutch East Indies, there are countless islands of all sizes, which has greatly affected the Dutch East Indies colonial government's rule over this area.

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

But the fact is that the Dutch East Indies colony, including all the native divisions, has a total of only a little over 100,000 soldiers.

Although 100,000 people seem to be a lot, most of them are native divisions composed entirely of indigenous people. They are usually good at suppressing the rebellion of those indigenous people, but they can only be used as cannon fodder on the battlefields with other powerful countries.

In terms of the navy, the Dutch navy is second-rate among many small and medium-sized countries in Europe. But the naval strength of the Dutch East Indies is really not up to par.

The largest warship in the Dutch East Indies is only a medium-sized battleship of more than 6,000 tons. On the basis of the lack of battleships, the navy of the Dutch East Indies is destined to only suppress internally and cannot fight externally.

This is also why the Netherlands quickly admitted defeat to Australasia. After all, they know their own affairs. The military strength of the Dutch East Indies can't hold out for long. Even if they are firmer, they will only be occupied by Australasia later.

Instead of being tough and waiting for the precious land of the Dutch East Indies to be fully occupied by Australasia, it is better to admit defeat decisively and strive to save more land and reduce the government's losses.

The complex geographical environment of the Dutch East Indies actually meant that the controller of this land could not manage it well.

Take a country established on this land in the future, for example. Because there are many islands and complex ethnic groups, even in the future, domestic ethnic conflicts and contradictions are very frequent.

However, for Australasia, the newly acquired land with a population of more than one million indigenous people is very useful.

Whether it is used as cannon fodder in future wars to increase the sense of presence and role in the war, or as free labor to support the country's various constructions, it is very useful.

Anyway, various constructions require a large number of laborers, and Australasia really accepts all comers in terms of indigenous people.

Of course, Arthur is not worried that these indigenous people will affect the order of Australasia in the future peacetime.

In Arthur's plan, these indigenous people are not considered by Australasia at all.

This also means that in addition to sacrificing their lives for the development of Australasia, their only choice is to become cannon fodder and let Australia increase its presence at the international level.

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

Let these indigenous people pay, it is better than letting the Australasians pay! According to the reproduction rate of these indigenous people, Arthur doesn't feel bad at all if hundreds of thousands of people die.

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