The Rise Of Australasia

Chapter 257: Chapter 236: Battle Results (Extra 1)

Although only more than 3,000 soldiers were successfully collected, the Portuguese geral had no choice at this point.

Seeing that the Australasian army at the frontline had begun to charge out, and there were still many Australasians suring them and chasing them down.

Under such circumstances, not fleeing earlier and continuing to collect the remnants of the defeated soldiers was just waiting for death, the clever Portuguese commanders chose the most reasonable method, which was to break through with the gathered troops.

Most of the soldiers collected by the Portuguese geral were Portuguese, but there were also about a quarter of them who were native soldiers.

Portuguese gerals are not stupid, breaking out is bound to be difficult, so letting these native soldiers explore the roads and break through is the best way.

After casually choosing a direction near the coastline, the Portuguese geral led his defeated soldiers toward the coast to break out.

Ev before the circlemt and suppression began, Brigadier Geral Fritz had specifically noted the possible emy retreat routes.

The coastline is the most likely target for the Portuguese army to retreat, after all, the inland areas are British India, and the British do not have such a good relationship with the Portuguese there.

For this reason, there are the most circlemt forces along the coastline, and they have also successfully be assigned two heavy machine guns and many hand grades.

The Portuguese geral thought he had found a way to survive, but instead, it turned out to be the largest military feat in the eyes of the Australasian soldiers.

After more than t minutes of fierce battle, the group of defeated soldiers collected by the Portuguese geral suffered heavy casualties, and the remaining people could no longer stand it, hastily dropping their weapons and shouting their surrder.

Unfortunately, the Australasian soldiers couldn't understand Portuguese, ev if these Portuguese soldiers looked like they were going to surrder. Still, they carried out the orders giv by their commanders and tried not to leave any survivors.

On the other hand, the frontline soldiers personally commanded by Brigadier Geral Fritz had already rushed out and chased down the collapsing Portuguese army.

Allowing these defeated soldiers to escape is not a good thing; these defeated soldiers can also cause casualties to the Australasian army in secret.

Ev if they dare not attack the Australasian army, they are still an uncontrollable force.

The previous defse battle caused the Portuguese army to lose at least 8,000 m, of which 70% were native soldiers.

Minus the more than 3,000 defeated soldiers collected by the Portuguese gerals, there are still 8,000 to 9,000 defeated soldiers on the front lines who are scattered a, and they are also the primary targets of Brigadier Geral Fritz's pursuit.

Fortunately, the airships in the sky can also provide firepower support, and they can also detect the specific escape direction of the defeated soldiers.

Through the areas bombed by the airships in the sky, Brigadier Geral Fritz can easily know the whereabouts of the defeated soldiers and th lead the soldiers to circle and suppress them.

The war continued from the afternoon until the eving, and finally, the sound of gunfire and battle gradually subsided.

Seeing that the night was getting darker and darker, Brigadier Geral Fritz decisively ordered the troops to retreat and wait until the next morning to search again.

The long war made the soldiers very tired, and Brigadier Geral Fritz didn't say anything. In addition to letting more than ,000 soldiers from the second line of defse be on guard and patrolling, the other soldiers could count the number of people, casualties, and ammunition consumption according to the organization and th rest on their own.

Although Brigadier Geral Fritz returned to his command room, he did not rest but patitly waited for the casualties to be counted by the troops.

Half an hour later, the various units gradually counted their casualties and reported them to Fritz's headquarters.

This battle of attack and defse should be the largest casualty in the history of Australasia since its founding, but also the largest harvest.

First, the Australasian side, with nearly ,000 troops had more than 700 casualties. Among them were more than 0 deaths, more than 00 seriously injured, and the rest were lightly wounded.

There is a Portuguese fleet stationed offshore, and it is impossible to sd these wounded back to the country by transport ship for medical treatmt.

Fortunately, Brigadier Geral Fritz still had three airships, and it was no problem to accommodate the nearly 400 moderately and severely injured people.

The rescue of the seriously injured was very urgt, and Brig-Geral Fritz ordered the airship soldiers to carry all the wounded on the airships and immediately set sail to sd the wounded back to the country for medical treatmt.

By the time the airship returns, it can also bring some supplies and convey orders from home.

As for the remaining more than 00 lightly wounded, most of them were only affected by the shrapnel of artillery fire and bullet grazes and did not lose much combat power. Simple bandaging would suffice.

Compared to personnel losses, the ammunition consumption in this war was not that significant, at least compared to the battle on Portuguese Timor gs, the ammunition consumption was not significant.

After all, for most of the time gaged in battle, the Australasian army was in a state of being beat, so naturally, ammunition consumption would not be significant.

The good thing was that a large amount of weaponry, ammunition, grain, and medical supplies were stockpiled in advance on the Portuguese Indian coast, and the casualties in today's war were not significant. At least looking at the supplies now stockpiled, a few more such battles could be fought.

Although it is unclear about the specific casualties of the Portuguese, most of the Portuguese troops today have be killed, and the remaining Portuguese soldiers do not ev account for one-tth of the total number of troops.

The defeated Portuguese soldiers can no longer pose a threat to Australasia. It only takes one more cleanup operation, and they won't have any resistance.

Now, for Brigadier Geral Fritz, the real trouble is the Portuguese fleet off the coast.

Ev though the Portuguese navy couldn't rank among world powers, it was still more pott than the currt Australasian navy.

If these Portuguese navies do not leave, the ports of Portuguese India would not be able to resume traffic, and the only way for Brig-Geral Fritz to obtain logistics would be through airships.

However, some defeated Portuguese soldiers should still be able to return to the coast. Once they have relayed the results of the complete defeat and collapse of their army, the Portuguese fleet should not linger off the coast of Portuguese India for long.

With that in mind, Geral Fritz st a telegram to the home front, detailing the tire process and course of the war and seeking Arthur's next command.

After waiting for a while and not receiving a telegram from the home front, Brigadier Geral Fritz chose to rest for a while, as there would be more heavy work the next day.

Wh Arthur received the telegram, it was already the next morning.

It's not that the telegram was delivered so slowly; in fact, the telegram from Brigadier Geral Fritz was received in the middle of the night.

However, after all, the telegram was good news, and it was not that urgt, so Minister Kt decided not to disturb Arthur's sleep and chose to report the situation early the next morning.