Chapter 950 Oliver

"Your Highness, we found the fleet of the Western Turks in the southern waters. They were sailing towards Yaga."

Just as Zhao Xu settled on Timor Island, a steamship arrived from the south and brought the intelligence they had discovered.

In order to grasp the situation in the Australian waters, Zhou Yi sent eight steamships to investigate the nearby waters.

"Their warships are also full of young and strong Western Turks." The general continued.

Zhou Yi frowned when he heard this.

Before, because the supply point had not been established, the coal loaded on the steamship could not sail too far.

So, their investigation range did not extend to the southern Australian waters.

The Marines conquered Timor Island, which had only hundreds of Sterdam defenders, and seized the supply point here.

Their supply ship transported coal and food from Luzon to here.

The steamship expanded its investigation range, but unexpectedly got this intelligence.

"During this period, the Western Turks may have been evacuating the British on the Australian continent." Zhou Yi said to Zhao Xu.

Zhao Xu thought deeply for a moment, and suddenly sneered, "No, this is not an evacuation, they are just replenishing the troops. The people living here are all British prisoners. Do you think the coalition forces care about their lives? Besides, the reconnaissance ship said that there are only young and strong people on the warship, which can prove this."

"So that's the case." Zhou Yi understood, "But in this case, it will be easier to take over the Australian continent."

"Not necessarily, they will not come to Australia empty-handed, and they will definitely give British prisoners in Australia muskets and artillery to prevent us from taking over here." Zhao Xu's eyes narrowed.

After a pause, he said: "Instruct the generals and soldiers not to have any mercy when they land this time, and treat them as Beidi soldiers. They are no less cruel than Beidi, not to mention that they are all heinous prisoners and their descendants."

"Yes, Your Highness." Zhou Yi responded.

Zhou Yi left, and Zhao Xu looked towards the Australian continent.

For him, the difficulty of conquering the Australian continent this time is only slightly greater than conquering Luzon.

The only trouble is that they need to spend more time at sea.

As for the places where landing operations are needed, there are actually only four.

These are the four colonies established by Britain along the coast.

One is the Hedland Territory, just south of Timor Island, located in Western Australia.

The colony in Eastern Australia is the Queensland Territory, which is the direction of Gong Ying's attack.

The remaining two are in the east and west corners of the southern Australian continent.

One is called the New South Wales Territory, and the other is the Adeland Territory.

Among the four colonies, the Hedland Territory has the smallest population, only about 80,000 people.

The New South Wales Territory has the largest population, about 250,000 people.

Because of this, he decided to take the Hedland Territory and the Queensland Territory first, and finally join forces to attack New South Wales and the adjacent Adeland Territory of New South Wales.

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At the same time.

In the New South Wales Territory, a British steamship slowly docked at the port.

A British soldier got off the steamer, handed the collected intelligence to the officer at the port, and then left.

After glancing at the documents, the officer's face changed slightly, and he immediately walked into the city to pass the news to Governor Oliver.

Because Britain has many colonies overseas.

So the number of governors sent by Britain every year is also very large.

These governors have great power in the colonies, and they also control the military and administrative power.

However, even for governors, the level is different.

For example, Bolt is higher than Oliver in level.

In some matters, Oliver needs to follow Bolt's orders.

"Governor Oliver, the steamship of the Dasong Navy once approached the Adelan Territory. I'm afraid that the attack from Dasong is not far away." The officer reported to Oliver.

He is Oliver's most trusted officer, named Joseph, with the rank of colonel.

"Finally here, I'm impatient to wait." The blond man lying on the leather jacket opposite the officer raised his mouth, pulling the scar on his face, making the whole person look very cold.

Blowing out a big smoke ring, he said casually, "Bolt, this woman, was scared to the point of peeing her pants by the Dasong people. This time, I want to show her what a real man is."

"The whole of Britain knows that you, the Governor, are a real man, but the Dasong people don't seem to be so easy to deal with. After all, they not only defeated Maful, but also defeated the Portuguese in Manila." Joseph reminded him implicitly. He knew the Governor's irritable temper and didn't dare to advise him directly.

"This can only prove their incompetence. They have lost the face of the British Empire." Oliver was furious, "Let me tell them how to treat these damned Eastern natives."

After saying that, he picked up a human head ornament on the table and threw it hard on the ground.

With a "pop", the human head ornament shattered under Joseph's feet, and part of it fell on his leather boots.

Joseph shook it with disgust.

This is not just a decoration. In fact, this skull ornament is made from the head of an Australian Aboriginal girl.

Ten years ago, when he was still a colonel in New South Wales, Oliver led his army to encircle and suppress the indigenous tribes in the north of the colony.

When he was slaughtering the indigenous people, the indigenous girl rushed out and bit off one of his fingers.

He cut off the girl's head and made it into a decoration.

It was Oliver's ferocity that made the people and prisoners in the four Australian colonies fear him like a devil.

Of course, this is why these desperate people are so honest under Oliver's jurisdiction.

"Go tell everyone, no matter men, women, old or young, as long as they can hold a weapon, they must participate in this war. I want to stop the victory of the Dasong army in Australia and prove to our Queen that I am more suitable to be the Governor of Tianzhu than Bolt." Oliver continued to shout.

"Yes." Joseph turned and left.

During this period, they received a total of 30,000 muzzle-loading rifles and 36 field guns.

Among them, 10,000 were sent to the other three colonies, leaving most of the firearms in New South Wales.

But even so, most people still have no weapons.

But it doesn't matter anymore. They are already in this war, and everyone has to fight for Britain.

"Jon and the others should have received the letter. I hope these three guys won't let me down, otherwise I will definitely crush their heads." Joseph just arrived at the door, and Oliver muttered again.

Joseph paused. Jon and the other two were his three captains.

They were stationed in the other three colonies.

If everything went well, the Dasong army's attack on the Australian continent would start from their colonies.

If the three of them could defeat King Yan and even severely damage the Dasong army, then this victory would be inevitable.