Reborn South Africa as a police officer

Chapter 1085 God Bless

Compared with Rock, Henry Stoudemire is the serious second-generation rich second-generation official. Rock is from a grassroots background. Even if he is in a high position now, he rarely sees domineering from Rock. Henry Stoudemire is different. Rock has been approved by Henry and Stoudemire, so he can mingle with Henry Stoudemire, and replace it with other people. Most of Henry and Stoudemire will not take it seriously. Colonial officials like Garfield Pullman want to see Stoudemire depends on whether Stoudemire has time.

Of course, Garfield Pullman also knew about the business environment, but Garfield Pullman couldn’t solve it. Somaliland is not southern Africa. It is still a British colony and not a dominion. Garfield Pullman’s rights in Somaliland are limited. The ability is also limited, and the strength is even more limited. Even if Garfield Pullman knows about some problems, Garfield Pullman does not know how to change them.

"Somaliland's conditions are very bad. In the past 20 years, there have been almost constant wars. Even if the rebels are wiped out, it is very difficult to win immigrants. Unless there is support from large companies such as South African companies and Rand Bank, Somaliland will never have peace. Day." Garfield Pullman lamented that the issue of development or not will be discussed later, and the most important issue now is to quell the rebellion.

"Take your time. The empire is very difficult now. We are in an unprecedented difficult period. We must overcome the difficulties together." Rock is mentally prepared. The British Empire is now in decline, and Rock and Winston can barely maintain it now. .

There was nothing to say all night. Early the next morning, Rock and Colonel George Jensen took an armored command vehicle to go around the city. Colonel George Jensen originally assembled a guard force. After seeing a row of more than a dozen armored vehicles , Colonel George Jensen realized the gap between Somaliland and Southern Africa.

In the whole of Somaliland, not to mention armored vehicles, there is not even a single car.

Although it was a bit embarrassing, Colonel George Jensen was in high spirits. The stronger Roque possessed, the faster he would destroy the rebels. Colonel George Jensen never doubted whether Roque could destroy the rebels.

Under Rock's leadership, the British Expeditionary Force defeated even the German army, and it was no problem dealing with tens of thousands of rebels.

In the 21st century, Berbera still covers a large area and is the largest port in Somaliland.

At present in 1917, Berbera was only four or five square kilometers in size. There was only one main traffic road in the city, and the road conditions were still very bad. Recently, there was relatively little rain in Berbera, and the weather was dry. Armored vehicles were driving to Outside the city, the sky was full of dust, which looked like a sandstorm from a distance.

It can be clearly seen that the economy of Somaliland is very bad. Even in the suburbs very close to Berbera, there is almost no trace of agricultural development. There are scattered trees and bushes everywhere, and there are rows of barren hills in the distance. , Occasionally, wild donkeys or camels flashed across the grassland, and some Somalis were grazing sheep on the grassland. When they found the convoy coming, the shepherd hurriedly drove the sheep to avoid it, which didn't mean much to watch the excitement.

If this were changed to southern Africa, if the southern Africans saw something they hadn't seen before, they would definitely gather around to watch it.

The armored vehicle drove less than ten kilometers, and Colonel George Jensen's expression became more and more tense.

"Lord, we can't go any further. The rebel-controlled area is beyond. The Somalis here may be the eyes and ears of the rebels. They will report our itinerary to the rebels." Colonel George Jensen reminded Rock, probably suffered a lot.

"Is the village in front also occupied by the rebels?" Rock was not in a hurry. There was a Somali village not far away. There were a dozen scattered thatched houses, which were simply built with wood and thatch. Can be blown away directly.

Such thatched houses are also very common in Basutoland and Swaziland in southern Africa. As long as the whites have not set foot in the place, the Africans live a very primitive life, and there is not even a decent building. , even the houses where the tribal chiefs live are thatched houses, which may be a little bigger than the thatched houses of ordinary people.

"It's hard to say. There is no obvious difference in appearance between rebels and herdsmen. If you take up arms, you are a rebel. If you put down your arms, you are a herdsman. We usually don't deal with Somalis. If we are negligent, we will be attacked by Somalis." George Jan Colonel Mori stroked a scar on his hand, presumably there was a story behind this scar.

"If our people are attacked, how do we usually deal with it?" Rock didn't care about the scars on the hands of Colonel George Johnson. The British government treated the colonial aborigines very cruelly. If anyone attacked, everyone within ten miles of the attack would be thrown into concentration camps.

This method was also invented by Kitchener, and although it sounds a bit cruel, it works very well.

"Our manpower is seriously insufficient. Many soldiers are colluding with these Somalis. Weapons and ammunition in the army are often lost. The officers dare not physically punish the soldiers, otherwise it will lead to mutiny in the troops. We also want to recruit more soldiers, but No one can guarantee the loyalty of soldiers." Colonel George Johnson also thought of a way, but it didn't work.

The key point is that there are too few white people. If there are [-] white people in Somaliland—no, even if there are only [-] white people in Somaliland, then a force that is completely loyal to the colonial government can be established. In that case, the situation in Somaliland will be completely different.

London did not give Somaliland the latest weapons. This is probably part of the reason. Weapons and ammunition can be lost. Even if the situation in Somaliland is very bad, Colonel George Jensen and the soldiers are also to blame.

Rock didn't pursue responsibility, and knocked on the window to make Angel stop, and Rock had to wait a while before getting out of the car.

There was too much dust outside the car, and the entire convoy was surrounded by flying dust, like an earth dragon.

After the dust cleared, Rock picked up the binoculars and observed the Somali village two kilometers away.

On the surface, it looks like a very ordinary small village. The vegetation around the village has been severely damaged. The large expanse of fruity land is like a scar on the earth. Through the binoculars, Rock clearly saw that two children were fighting with several The adults were talking at the entrance of the village, and while the child was talking, he pointed his finger at the location of Rock. This should be the tip-off that Colonel George Jensen was talking about.

Rock still noticed that those adults had weapons. If Rock read correctly, it was the Martini Henry that Rock had used.

Rock was still in the Huayong camp when he used this rifle.

While Rock was observing those adults, those adults also noticed the convoy lined up here.

What Rock didn't expect was that one of them raised his rifle and fired a shot at Rock.

Rock saw the muzzle first, and heard the faint gunshot after a few seconds. The bullet flew to nowhere.

The UK has now eliminated Martini Henry, and even the troops stationed in India have begun to replace Lee Enfield. These Martini Henrys have been in service for too long, and the rifling may have been worn out long ago. It can indeed be fired. , but the accuracy is not even guaranteed by God.

Dare to shoot at the armored vehicle, it should be a serious provocation.

Without Rock's order, the large-caliber machine gun mounted on an armored vehicle started firing.

The shooting at this time should be a warning, but the shooter may be a little anxious, so the fired bullets flew directly towards the village.

It was very clear through the binoculars that the bullets from the large-caliber heavy machine guns swept across, and the walls of the two thatched houses in the village exploded almost at the same time. During the period when the bullets passed through the thatched houses, the roofs were ignited. Thatched, a house was on fire immediately, at this time dozens of women and children poured out from other thatched houses with buckets to put out the fire, several adults at the entrance of the village were in a mess, they jumped into a low wall at the entrance of the village, It seems that he is ready to resist.

Such a low wall has no defense against the bullets of large-caliber heavy machine guns, and there is basically no residue left when it is swept by a shuttle, and its power is similar to that of artillery shells.

"My lord, since you have shot, you must kill them all." Colonel George Jensen gritted his teeth.

"Why?" Rock really didn't want to kill. This kind of work should be done by the colonial servants. Rock's guards were afraid of getting their hands dirty.

"If you don't kill them all, then they will notify the rebels, and they will gather thousands of people in a few days, and then they will attack Berbera." Colonel George Johnson was eager to try, and it seemed that the colonial government and These Somalis are already in dire straits, and there is no room for relaxation.

Rock nodded noncommittal, and did not issue an attack order.

Rock really wanted to see the organizational capabilities of these Somalis. Even if these Somalis besieged Berbera, Rock was not afraid. These armored vehicles were enough to protect Berbera's safety.

Colonel George Jensen didn't know Roque's plan, and thought that Roque's hesitation would cause these Somalis to escape. Seeing that Roque hadn't moved for a long time, he went on to suggest: "It's really not possible, I can go back to Berbera to deploy troops. If We supervised the battle with heavy machine guns, and those Somali soldiers dared not disobey orders."

"Don't be nervous, George, let them find the rebels. I want to see how many they can find. It's best to call all the rebels here, so that we will save a lot of trouble." Rock didn't want to send troops to use a carpet Search for that method to find the rebels. Although Somaliland is not big, it has 10,000+ square kilometers. It is very easy to hide tens of thousands of people. It would be great if the rebels can take the initiative to send them to your door.

"Okay——" Colonel George Jensen was slightly disappointed, but he still trusted Roque, and he didn't forget to quietly gesture a cross when he answered, probably to ask for God's blessing.

ps: Another month is about to pass, brothers, see if there is anything you forgot——

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