Reborn South Africa as a police officer

Chapter 252 Disappearing out of thin air

Kronstad is about 170 kilometers away from Johannesburg, surrounded by high-quality farms, Rock certainly will not let go of these high-quality farms, so the farms around Kronstad used to belong to Rock.

Now, of course, the farms in Kronstad have changed owners. Like Johannesburg, the farmers here are all Chinese.

The murdered farmer's surname was Li, so he had a very oriental name - Liszt.

The eight members of the farmer's family were killed, including the farmer Liszt and his wife, as well as Liszt's two younger brothers, a younger brother and a younger sister of Liszt's wife, and Liszt's two children who had already entered school. She survived the accident while studying at Bigwig Public School, but two younger children who had not yet had time to enter school were killed at the same time.

The scene was horrible. Liszt himself was attacked near the horse shed on the farm, with more than a dozen stab wounds on his body. Liszt’s two younger brothers heard Liszt’s call for help and rushed to help, but were also hacked to death. Liszt’s wife’s When the younger brother went back to the room to get the gun, he was hacked to the corridor, the women and children died in the house, and Liszt's wife and sister still had signs of being insulted.

There is an inspection department in Johannesburg now, and there is no need for Roque to inspect the scene himself. When Roque arrived, the police had already secured the scene and asked nearby farmers to understand the situation.

"I saw Lao Li plowing the land the afternoon before yesterday. Lao Li was very diligent. His brothers could cultivate 50 acres of wasteland a day. Lao Li's farm has more than 1000 acres, and now more than half of it has been cultivated. Lao Li's wife is very happy. A diligent person who takes care of the children at home every day, grows vegetables next to the house, and asks his sister to deliver the meals to Lao Li and the others after cooking. Lao Li and the others are busy in the fields every day, and they eat on the ground. Who knows who is so cruel--" The nearby farmers were yelling, and Rock noticed that they were all carrying guns.

"You have to have a gun. You can't do without a gun. I just bought this gun. It cost a few pounds. Lao Li also has a gun. Unfortunately, Lao Li is too picky and reluctant to use bullets. I have never seen Lao Li use a gun—— "A farmer beat his chest. In fact, there are Chinese farmers nearby. If Lao Li can shoot the police, the Chinese farmers will come to help.

It's a pity that the incident happened so suddenly that Lao Li and his family were hacked to death before they had time to shoot.

"Lao Li opened up 50 acres of wasteland a day? How? To draw a horse?" The policeman who was taking notes was very sensitive.

"That's for sure. I don't need to draw a horse. I'm exhausted, and I can't open three or five acres in a day." , must have been snatched by the bandits, look for the horse, if you find the horse, you will find the bandits."

There is no need for the farmer to remind, Gao De's people have already brought the police dogs over.

"Let Rang, Rang Rang, let the police dogs smell it." Many farmers don't know how powerful the police dogs are, and they gather around the stables to watch.

Bloodhounds are actually very ugly, with big noses, long ears, sunken eye sockets, and creases all over their faces. The average height of adult male dogs is 66 cm. Police dogs are all oversized, and both bloodhounds are over 70 cm. Definitely a big dog.

Unlike ordinary dogs, the police dogs of the Johannesburg Police Department also have their own "uniform". In fact, the so-called "uniform" is a chest strap with the word "police" written on it. Don't underestimate this chest strap. A dog without a chest strap is a dog. A dog with a chest strap is a police dog, and the power of the uniform is so extraordinary.

To be a police dog, bloodhounds are of course superior. Two trainers led the police dogs around the barn, and then the police dogs ran away to the south.

Just south of Kronstad is Orange!

"Follow!" Rock chased after him on his horse.

"Yes!" More than a hundred commandos and detectives who were waiting in full force got on their horses one after another. The Johannesburg Police Department is also rich and powerful now, and many horses are thoroughbreds.

The Bloodhounds kept heading south.

Entering Orange, it obviously feels more desolate than Johannesburg. In fact, if the nearby wasteland is carefully taken care of, it is also a high-quality farm. It is a pity that the Boers are not strong enough. Rock and the others entered Orange for more than ten kilometers. There are no farms to be seen, and occasionally sporadic Boers can be seen building houses, but there is obviously a shortage of manpower.

This is the consequence of being unorganized.

The goal of the Bloodhound is still very clear. Gothe used to be a hunter and was also good at tracking. Not long after entering Orange, Gothe found some obvious traces, so the goal became more obvious.

In Orange, there are also many small towns spontaneously formed by Boers. After entering Orange for 70 kilometers, the Bloodhound brought Rock and his party to a small town called Wilcom. At this time, the tracking has passed All night long, the sky was bright.

Because of the war, Wilcom was also significantly damaged.

However, unlike Big Via Town, which has been rebuilt even better than before, Wilkham is obviously rebuilding, but because there is no planning and no unified organization, this reconstruction is extremely slow.

When Rock arrived in Wilkham, Wilkham could still see the ruins of burned houses. Many Boers were still living in tents. The whole town was in a mess, full of garbage and dust, and it was not even as good as a slum. .

"Reed, go back and call people—Martin, Yaya, surround this town, and no one is allowed to enter or leave until the murderer is found." Rock was murderous, and the two bloodhounds were all facing Wilcom The horse market screamed wildly, needless to say, the draft horse that was snatched must be here.

The expeditionary force came to Cape and brought hundreds of thousands of military horses, at least half of which were draft horses.

When the expeditionary army withdrew, those excellent military horses and expeditionary troops would definitely take them away. There was no need to take these draft horses away, so they were digested locally in the Transvaal and Orange.

The farms around Johannesburg have digested at least [-] draft horses, and there are also many draft horses left over from the expeditionary force in Orange. Unfortunately, most of the Boers in Orange have no money, so these draft horses have not had time to digest.

"Yes!" Reed, Yaya, and Martin took orders to act separately, and the actions of the policemen soon alarmed the Boers in Wilkham.

"Hey, who are you?" A sheriff wearing a sheriff's badge and casual clothes came to Roque.

"Hello, Sheriff, I am Locke, Johannesburg Police Chief. There has been a crime in Kronstad. I suspect that the murderer is hiding in Wilcombe, so Sheriff, I need your help." Rock's current police rank is superintendent. In fact, there is no need to be so polite. He can order the sheriff to help by ordering.

But Rock won't do that. After all, Wilcom is located in Orange, and Rock is the superintendent of the Transvaal, so if the sheriff in front of him doesn't cooperate, it seems reasonable. When pressing people.

"Sir Locke, it's a pleasure to meet you. I'm Bobby Bennett, Sheriff of Wilcomb. It's a great honor to solve this case with you." Ke's current name is indeed powerful.

To say that in the past two years, the most famous policeman in the four colonies of the Cape must have been Rock, and the idol of many policemen is Rock. Whether they like Rock or not, all the police hope to rely on Military exploits become nobles.

was knighted--

But there are real benefits.

The halo of nobility will gradually disappear after World War II. The nobles in this period are still able to ascend to heaven alone. After Roque became a nobleman, no one will use Roque's status to talk about things anymore. Kevin, Henry The people from Alsop hid away when they saw Roque. This is the best example.

"Thank you, Bobby. Could you please introduce Wilkham's situation." Rock managed to force a smile. After catching the murderer, Rock would definitely chop him, or them, into pieces.

"Okay, Sir Locke, there are about 2000 people in Wilcombe, most of them came to Wilcombe after the signing of the "Peace Agreement", many of them were former guerrillas, they were unwilling to be lonely, and caused trouble—— In order to support Wilcom's farm, the governor sent Wilcom a lot of cows and draft horses at a low price. Unfortunately, these guerrillas seemed not interested in cows and draft horses, and they cared more about how much they could get. Compensation and relief money, no one wants to run a farm, cows and draft horses are bought by farmers in the Transvaal a lot—” Bobby Bennett is a Boer, a Boer who has been assimilated by the British , Judging from Bobby Bennett's words, it seems that he doesn't have much sympathy for the Boers in Wilcombe.

Of course, this is also because the Boers in Wilkham are not worthy of sympathy. If the Boers in Wilkham recognize the reality, work hard to save themselves, and don't wait or rely on them, I believe Bobby Bennett should not use this The tone introduces Wilcom.

Rock has seen a lot of people like this. There are still some Boers in Johannesburg who are reluctant to leave. They seem to think that the Johannesburg city government will eventually compromise.

Regrettably, Johannesburg has reached a consensus that those Boers with illusions will eventually be swept out of Johannesburg after spending their last penny.

If those Boers were unruly, the police station was not a vegetarian, the new prison was empty, and the guards were too busy catching mice, they would certainly welcome these special guests.

"Two days ago in Kronstad, a farmer's family was killed. Eight people were hacked to death. The property and livestock on the farm were looted. The related losses are being counted. Now it has been confirmed that there are at least five horses. Snatched, we tracked all the way and found that those horses were taken to Wilcombe, so I would like you to investigate the whereabouts of those horses, is there a problem?" Rock still respects Bobby Bennett, anyway , Wilcom is Bobby Bennett territory.

"It's too much, Sir Locke, please give me some time, I'll investigate right away." Bobby Bennett didn't hesitate. The police hate this kind of vicious crime.

Of course, Rock would not let Bobby Bennett go alone. The situation at the scene showed that at least five people were involved in the murder and robbery. Although no one shot at the scene, that didn't mean the criminal didn't have a gun. They may have been afraid of disturbing the nearby farmers, so they did not shoot, and the guns purchased by Lister were also taken away. The nearby farmers confirmed that Lister had at least one Webley revolver, and a deer hunting gun. M1873 Winchester lever-action rifle.

It's a pity that when they were attacked, these two guns became decorations.

Walking into Wilcombe, the situation seems to be even worse. The town is filled with the pungent smell of horse manure. Human and livestock manure can be seen everywhere on the roadside and in the corner of the house, even not far from the tent door. I really don’t know. How do the Boers here endure? In Bigwig and Johannesburg, if anyone dares to defecate in the street, he will be fined at least five shillings and an additional week of compulsory labor.

If there is no money to pay, whipping can be used instead.

The whip used for execution is the barbed whip of the Cape Town Police Department. One whip can kill half of a person and remember them for a lifetime.

The horse market is located on the west side of Wilcombe Town, Bobby Bennett, Roque and more than a dozen police officers went directly to the horse market.

Seeing the managers of the horse market, Bobby Bennett knew who gave the horses to the horse market these days with little effort.

It was a man named Albert Simpson, who had sold five harness horses to the horse dealer two days ago.

Calculating the time, if Albert Simpson was a criminal, then he almost just returned to Wilcombe, and he couldn't wait to sell the horse to the horse market.

As expected of the descendants of the Dutch, the heart is big enough!

"Albert Simpson has three brothers, and they all live in the northernmost part of the town. Albert Simpson had joined the Boer coalition army before and just returned to Wilcombe some time ago, but that guy doesn't seem like someone short of money. Well, people in the town say that guy made a fortune on the battlefield and has always been generous." Bobby Bennett knew Albert Simpson's situation well.

"Bobby, you lead the way, Martin, prepare to arrest—" Rock also took out his pistol to check the bullets, and the atmosphere suddenly became tense.

"Wait, Sir Locke, I'll see if I can call Albert Simpson over first." Bobby Bennett didn't want to make such a fuss, if the case was really done by Albert Simpson, then they must Will resist to the end.

Rock and his group of more than a hundred people came to Wilcom with such a big fanfare, and it was impossible not to alarm the townspeople, so Rock ordered Yaya and Martin to surround the town first, just to prevent the criminals from escaping when they saw the situation was bad.

"Okay, pay attention to safety." Rock actually didn't want Bobby Bennett to take risks, but if the arrest was carried out with great fanfare, it would probably cause casualties to the commandos.

These guerrillas who came back from the front line are all ruthless. The bullets they use are modified dum bullets. Once a commando is injured, it is likely to cause irreparable losses.

"I guess Albert Simpson is no longer in town, and I don't seem to have seen him in the past two days." Bobby Bennett was not optimistic and left in a hurry.

Bobby Bennett's fears quickly became reality as the three brothers left Wilcombe together just two days before Albert Simpson sold the horse to the horse market without anyone knowing where did they go.

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