Chapter 943: The Wesley Plan

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Although it is currently November, Luzon is still as scorching hot as summer.

Before dark, Zhao Xu returned to Manila.

By this time, Zhou Yi had already arranged his accommodation.

It was precisely Ferrero's private seaside villa in Luzon.

For the next period of time, he would be staying here.

……

At the same time.

While the Marine Corps was capturing Manila, the Western Lands had steamships constantly monitoring every move of the Great Song Navy.

After Manila was captured, these steamships immediately returned to Malacca and then headed to Calcutta to report the intelligence back to Wesley.

"They actually took Manila in just one day?" Wesley's expression was unsightly.

He had originally thought that the Folangji army in Manila could at least drag the Great Song army down in Luzon for a month.

The Folangji officers, meanwhile, looked dejected and angry.

This anger was naturally directed at Great Song, while the dejection was because they, the Folangji, had lost Luzon.

Without a doubt, their Folangji trade would suffer a heavy blow.

"Although the Folangji army is not a strong force in the Western Lands, the fact that the Great Song army could defeat them so easily is enough to show that the Great Song army truly has some ability; it cannot be underestimated," Bolt said after a moment of silence.

After a pause, he continued: "Next, the Great Song army will inevitably linger in Luzon for a period of time to establish their own rule. During this time, we must transport more muskets and Artillery to Australia to try our best to drag them down to the east of Malacca for as long as possible."

Wesley nodded.

After Luzon, the Great Song army would certainly want to devour the Western Lands' colonies east of Malacca one by one to establish supply points.

Ultimately, they would aim for Malacca.

Under the current circumstances where the Western Lands navy cannot gain an advantage in naval warfare, they only want to do everything possible to delay their time attacking Malacca, waiting for the Western Lands to send a fleet to support them again.

Because only by defeating the Great Song Navy at sea can they reverse the unfavorable situation.

"I hope those prisoners in Australia can exert their final residual heat for the Empire," Wesley's expression was cold.

He and Bolt were executing a plan.

In addition to transporting muskets and Artillery to Australia.

Every time their ships returned, they would be loaded with young and strong prisoners from Australia.

After these young and strong prisoners arrived in Calcutta, they would be organized into a unique prisoner army and undergo training.

The reason he and Bolt suddenly came up with this idea was very simple.

Because he realized that they could not provide enough muskets and Artillery to the 500,000 prisoners and their descendants living in Australia within a short period of time.

And the Great Song army could launch an attack at any time.

Once the Great Song army controlled Australia, the population on the land of Australia would be wasted.

Since that was the case, it would be better to use the Western Fleet to transport the strongest people to Tianzhu, train them safely, and provide them with muskets.

In this way, they could even double the number of the Western Lands Army in Tianzhu.

After all, those who could commit serious crimes and be exiled to Australia were mostly young and strong males, who were also the main British population of Australia.

When fighting, they would be excellent sources of troops.

As for the rest of the people, they were powerless to help.

They could only rely on themselves to resist the Great Song army.

"Rest assured, Oliver, that prisoner leader, is more ferocious than a lion on the Grassland; they will make the Great Song army suffer," Bolt was very confident.

Even if they transported back the strongest people, this was only one-fifth of Australia's population.

The remaining four-fifths were still a force not to be underestimated.

Although these prisoners lived in this desolate place.

But the blood of the British flowed in their bodies.

Facing the Song People, they would definitely pick up weapons to resist and defend the glory of Britain.

At that time, whether it was a seven-year-old child or a sixty-year-old elder, they would all become soldiers on the battlefield.

Hearing this, Wesley nodded.

He looked toward Luzon and sneered, "Yan Wang of Great Song, you are indeed very strong, but the powerful nations of the Xitu Dalu have all eventually fallen at the feet of our Britain, and you will be no exception. Let you be proud for a while and enjoy this time; in the future, what you will face will be cruel darkness."

Just as Ma Fu'er said, this strategic retreat was merely pulling back a fist.

Ultimately, this fist was meant to be thrown out.

During this time, he had been meticulously preparing his hunting plan.

Although the south of Great Song currently appeared calm.

But the Dayan Wang would never imagine that he, an Army General, was creating an extremely powerful storm.

This storm would cause Great Song to be doomed eternally.

He did not believe that an indigenous Dongtu country could withstand the joint strangulation of the Northern Di and their Western Lands world.

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Manila.

The days after the war suddenly became leisurely.

In order not to be bored, Zhao Xu busied himself every day with Zhou Yi reconstructing the governance system of Luzon, occasionally discussing matters of conquering Australia.

At the same time, good news kept coming from Cebu and Mian Island.

Under the joint encirclement and suppression of the navy and the Marine Corps, the participating Folangji troops were eliminated one by one.

Cebu and Mian Island would soon be incorporated under the jurisdiction of the Protectorate.

Half a month later, the fleet dispatched by the Commerce Department arrived.

To his surprise, the first batch of Merchant Ships to arrive were all commercial transport Steamships manufactured by civilian Shipyards.

Arriving at the same time was someone who caught him off guard.

It was Qu Sheng; clearly, he could not wait to see the Rubber.