Australian Storm 1876

   Chapter 635

   five days later

  Wollongong City

What I saw before my eyes was a ruined wall, the burnt black roof beams were filled with green smoke, the ruined streets were full of blood, and the air was filled with the smell of gunpowder after the war. Look at the strong smell of blood. It's the smell of war.

After three days and three nights of city offensive and defensive battles, this important town more than 80 kilometers north of Sydney was finally taken. As many as 27,000 white defenders were killed or wounded or captured, and the entire city was destroyed seven or eighty-eight. Only less than 30% of the buildings remain intact, with bullet marks all over the walls.

If it weren’t for the amazingly large-scale Consby Plateau battle, Wollongong’s offensive and defensive war would be a classic. At least the fighting will of the white diehards to resist to the death is amazing. Urban street fighting can be summed up in the word “tragedy”. , The repeated competition is quite fierce.

The soldiers of the   Mobile Corps suppressed the border, pressed the white captives with heavy machine guns to clear the way, launched a lane-by-lane battle, and finally won the final victory after a bitter battle.

  In view of the serious damage of the A Corps, it needs a longer time to repair and supply.

  The Army Staff Headquarters handed over the task of attacking Wollongong, Newcastle and other important towns along the way to the mobile corps that had been on standby. The mobile corps drove 15,000 white captives to attack for three days and three nights, and finally annihilated most of the defenders in the city.

  There is no need to go into the details one by one, but the blood and blood of the Wollongong offensive and defensive battle is an indisputable fact.

  Inventory after the war;

  Under the cover of superior artillery, the 15,000 white captives lost more than 8,300 people, the mobile corps lost more than 660 Chinese troops, and the total loss was more than 9,000. So after the war, the mobile corps, who turned into anger, carried out a **** liquidation of the white defenders in the city.

  Every white soldier with life in his hands was suppressed, and all officers were suppressed, and would rather kill mistakes than let go. This important town stubbornly held by the whites was completely bloodbathed.

  Final statistics;

The mobile corps incorporated nearly 10,000 white captives, mixed with more than 6,000 white captives who survived the siege, and formed a group of 2,000 people. A total of 8 volunteers were formed to prepare for the next attack on Newcastle. The main cannon fodder was once again thrown into the battlefield.

All soldiers in the Volunteer Regiment still use the single Martini-Henry MKⅠ rifle originally equipped by the Southern Federal Army, but the new white captives have no bullets in their guns, and the white captives who have participated in the **** battle of the city have each gun. It can fire up to 5 bullets, which can be used to deter new captives on the one hand, and on the other hand it is more trusted.

  The white captive soldiers who participated in the **** battle of the siege were all stained with the blood of their companions, and they could never look back.

  After regaining Wollongong, the total number of white captives in the hands of the mobile corps rose instead of falling, reaching a scale of 16,000, which gave them full confidence in the next step to capture Newcastle.

After the end of the tragic Wollongong city offensive and defensive war, the Mobile Corps sent a small force to sweep the coastal and inland towns and villages, and carried out a dragnet screening of white farmers and white cowboy families who actively participated in the southern rebel military operations. Once verified, they will be screened. The house was ransacked, and the wife and children were detained in a concentrated manner awaiting severe treatment.

  At the same time, weapons were collected in the area, the country was cleaned up, and the exposed white extremists were severely cracked down...

   Taking advantage of the turbulent period of war and the lack of information, it could not have been a better time to conduct a thorough liquidation of the southern white extremists.

  The will from the top has been thoroughly implemented. This is also part of the overall plan for cleaning the house. It cannot be said, and it cannot be said deeply...

  As one of the two main forces in the war, the B Corps, regardless of these trivial matters, rushed south along the railway line and arrived in Canberra a week later.

  The sporadic battles that occurred along the way did not affect the main force of the B Corps' southward process. All the remaining white gangsters were wiped out in general, and there was no way to stop the Corps' southward process.

  Canberra Town This is an open valley in the foothills of the Kosciuszko Mountain in Australia, and the flowing Branglo River passes through this place. The scenery is beautiful and the natural conditions are superior.

  It was discovered in 1820. Since then, there have been immigrants to build pastures. By 1840, it developed into a small town with a population of about 780.

  After 1887, because of the location of the southern extension of the coastal railway passing through this place, a large number of Chinese railway workers poured in, so it further prospered and quickly developed into a railway town with a population of more than 6,000.

  The town of Canberra is the southernmost end of the southern extension of the coastal railway. The railway project was built until this point. By the beginning of 1890, construction had to be suspended due to the sharp deterioration of the relationship between the north and the south.

Due to the imminent war, a large number of Chinese residents in the town evacuated the area. The railway workers and the railway cavalry division guarding the area totaled about 2,200 people. They maintained this area as the southernmost stronghold of the Ocean Kingdom. After the fierce battle with the Victoria Corps advancing north, they were defeated. Most of the officers and soldiers were killed, and the remaining few officers and soldiers fled into the Kosciuszko Mountains to fight guerrillas.

  After the fall of Canberra, the Chinese Resistance Army in the mountains experienced several times of encirclement and suppression by the Southern Federal Army, and persisted hard for more than a month. In the end, there were less than 200 Chinese officers and soldiers left, which was a heavy loss.

  As the army regained the town of Canberra, the Canberra garrison who had fought guerrillas in the mountains returned to their homeland. The leader was Major Shi Fusheng, who was born at the Young Eagle School, and the former head of the 3rd Regiment of the Railway Cavalry Division.

  This is a middle-level military officer who has a deep hatred of southern white extremists. After escaping from the disaster of his life, he is responsible for presiding over the anti-counterfeiting operations in the surrounding area of ​​Canberra Town.

   can totally imagine;

  Even if he digs three feet into the ground, Major Shi Fusheng will not let one hand be stained with Chinese blood, and white extremists will escape severe punishment.

After the contradictions between the north and the south were completely intensified, thousands of families were destroyed and their wives were scattered in the violent social turmoil. Among them, there were Chinese families and white families. All of them were inevitably involved in the turbulent historical tide. This is undoubtedly a social scene. tragedy.

The small town of Canberra is 238 kilometers from Sydney to the north and 507 kilometers from Melbourne to the south. From here, continue to the south for more than 100 kilometers and you will reach the border of Victoria. From Sydney to Melbourne, it is almost one-third of the journey here. Distance.

  Continuing from the small town of Canberra to the south, there are large forests. Many streams originating from the Great Dividing Range are distributed in the meantime. There are endless fertile pastures, fertile land and pleasant climate.

It stretches for hundreds of kilometers to the south and has countless large and small white pastures. The land is highly developed. It has historically been a place where white colonists have been concentrated. The conservative forces are quite rampant. It is also an important source of troops for Victoria and New South Wales. one.

The Evanston Cavalry Division, which has a scale of tens of thousands of people, originated from this area. Livingston is a traditional farming and animal husbandry town. The surrounding white ranchers are densely populated, especially Irish and Scottish whites. Of English white descent.

In the sequence of the Southern Federal Army, there are at least nine white militia divisions from this area, with a number of 100,000 soldiers at every turn. It can be said that every white farmer and rancher can not escape to support the rebellion. The military’s suspicion definitely belongs to the hardest-hit area.

The history of development here can be traced back more than 100 years. On January 18, 1788, the "First Fleet" that first arrived in Australia sailed into Australia’s Botany Bay. Among the more than 1,500 crew, there were 736 prisoners. Eighteen days later, On February 6, 1788, Captain Philip led 211 prisoners and 60 crew members to the area south.

  Many people ended up staying in the area to thrive, and they were the first colonists here.

  Today

Continue south from Canberra to Melbourne. The straight line distance is 507 kilometers and the depth of the land is more than 250,000 square kilometers. There are more than one million white colonists and a total of hundreds of thousands of Chinese immigrants ( After severe persecution), it accounts for more than 70% of the white population in Southern State. It is a traditional concentration area for white colonists with dense population and rampant reactionary forces.

Only the two important cities of Melbourne and Ballarat, an important gold mining area, have a total population of more than 600,000. If you add the nearby towns, the white population living in the towns exceeds 700,000, and the population density is quite high. Factors of rich gold resources also lead to a higher standard of living, and a higher degree of hostility to the foreign population (especially Chinese immigrants).

The traditional metropolis of New South Wales, Sydney, has a total population of only 250,000. Ballarat, an important gold mining area, has more than 60,000 miners. There are more than 170 large and small gold mines in the entire city. The total population is as high as 170,000 people, and there are no more than hundreds of large and small pubs. There are more than 3,300 Nanyang sisters who have come from Fusang to earn money for skin and meat. This has not yet included other South Pacific island countries engaged in skin and meat business. Of women, we can see the prosperity of related industries.

  Victoria is the smallest state in Australia and the smallest continental state in Australia. It has a total land area of ​​about 224,700 square kilometers, which is almost the same as that of the British Isles, but it is the richest and most developed autonomous state.

  The northeast part is a mountainous area with towering peaks and ridges. The altitude is mostly between 1,000 meters and 2,000 meters. The southeast part is covered with vast forests, with numerous caves and lakes, and the scenery is magnificent. In the west, there are vast hills and grasslands, known as the "Garden State". This is Australia’s traditional economic state, and Australia’s most densely populated, colonized, and most developed state of agriculture and animal husbandry (if you don’t talk about it) In Queensland)

  The Great Divide, which is more than 300 kilometers wide, enters from the northeast, gradually narrows and decreases to the west, and finally ends at the Grampian Mountains, forming a central highland that spans the entire territory.

  The highest Mount Bogong is 1986 meters above sea level. To the north of the Central Highlands is the southern bank of the Murray River, including the Mali or Eucalyptus thicket area in the west, the Weimera River area and the northern area.

  South of the highlands is the southern plain, in which small areas of highlands such as the Otway Mountains and South Gippsland rise on the coast. The coastline is 1,800 kilometers long.

Port Phillip Bay is the largest bay in the state and the southern coast of Australia. The Murray River flows 1,870 kilometers along the state boundary. It is the most conspicuous boundary river between New South Wales and Victoria. It is the longest inland river in Australia and the largest seasonality. river.

The important northern agricultural and pastoral areas of Victoria are irrigated along the river and its south bank tributaries. There are criss-cross streams and abundant water sources. The Weimera River flows into the Hindemarsh Lake, and the Glenelg River flows into the Bass Strait. There is a magnificent scenery wherever you go, which makes you want to linger.

  Victoria is located in a temperate zone, with hot summers and cool winters, and moderate rainfall. In the cold season at the end of the current Little Glacier, the climate is relatively cold, and there is often snow covering the land.

Overall

Regardless of the climatic conditions or the richness of resources, this place can get rid of the eighteen streets of the British Isles. It is an uncompromisingly chosen place. Victoria alone can make the whole state with its rich gold resources. The people live a wealthy life that is not inferior to Europe.

As for the abundant coal mines, timber, water conservancy, and various mineral resources, there is no idle time to develop. It can be said that it is one of the representative areas that rely on resources to feed on the inhumanity. As long as you dig something out, you can easily Ranked among the richest countries in the world.

  Think about it...

  In such a wealthy area, it is also a traditionally concentrated area of ​​white colonists. It is possible to live a prosperous and peaceful life only by digging up some resources. Of course, it is unwilling to get involved with outsiders.

  Of course, the outsiders here refer to overseas Chinese, especially in the country where the Chinese in northern Queensland is in power. Southern whites are very crowded out. This is due to the extreme propaganda of Victoria on the one hand, and the narrow regional psychology of local whites on the other hand.

  To be fair and just, the **** decides the head.

  If Lieutenant General Morufeng is southern whites, he might be able to understand the unimaginable resistance of these southern whites. Unfortunately, everything is assumed after all. The powerful B Corps army is not here to do good deeds, but comes as a conqueror.

Lieutenant General Mo Rufeng only brought a stick but no carrots. After a short day of rest in Canberra, he dispatched the main trump card Red First Division to clear the way. The army of more than 80,000 troops followed up and began to wipe out all dissidents along the way. .

  How to judge is very simple;

  Everyone who dared to hold a gun when the army passed by, and whose mouth was not clean, and with unruly eyes, were all targeted for suppression. From the light to the coolie camp, the other was directly shot to death, and the home was lost.

Military conquest is so arrogant and unreasonable. Lieutenant General Mo Rufeng is not here to be a good old man. The conquering army passes through here and sifts it like an iron comb. Then the mobile corps takes over the security along the way, and then sifts it like an iron comb. Again.

  Finally, the Special Operations Team of the Political Service Office stationed in the cities and towns, and they still have to screen again with iron and blood. For those whites who dare to stand out against the rule of the northern government, they will cut the leek for a few stubbles to ensure the harmony and stability of the conquered area and long-term stability.

  The ensuing large-scale immigration is self-evident. The long-lasting and severe punishments are all the meaning of the topic. Supplemented by cultural education, religion, and many administrative methods, naturalization and integration of the white ethnic group should be a means that can be imagined.

  For Lieutenant General Mo Rufeng, he has no spare time to do the time-consuming psychological counseling and naturalization work.

  The army passed;

   Raise all the rebellious ones, kill them.

   Those who are hostile to the northern regime, kill them.

   Kill those who are contaminated with blood debts of Chinese immigrants.

  Inciting national sentiment opponents, kill.

  Force confronted by force or who intends to confront forcefully, kill.

  ……

  As for whether there are people who killed or killed by mistake, this question is really difficult to answer. The military will never admit it anyway. During the war, it was not so particular. After decades, it was a mess.

  (End of this chapter)