Reborn South Africa as a police officer

Chapter 74 Smoke

Early the next morning, the surviving commandos received new orders to send the captured prisoners to a concentration camp in Kimberley before returning to Cape Town.

"Damn war, I don't want to come back anymore. What I miss most now is the big man's simple and honest face. Give me a comfortable bed. I can sleep for two full days." Henry lay in the carriage and wailed, Luo Ke and Phyllis were relatively silent, feeling that Henry was not yet mature as a child.

"From here to Kimberley, if you take a shortcut, you have to pass through the Orange Free State. The road is not safe. The Boer guerrillas may attack us at any time. We have to be ready at any time." Rock is loading bullets into the bullet bag , Winston is still somewhat useful, at least Rock and the others have obtained enough dum bombs.

"Can't we use other methods?" Phyllis is a military novice, thinking of Tianma Xingkong, but it is useless.

"It's difficult to take a detour. There is no train between Dordrecht and Kimberley. It may take a month or two to take a detour." Rock had no choice. The war horse became a receipt, which was useless. Fortunately, Because of the counterattack of the expeditionary force, the Boer coalition forces are on the defensive as a whole. As long as they are careful, there will be no major problems.

Phyllis's mouth bulged, but she didn't say anything. In front of Rock, Phyllis is now paying attention to her image.

"Hey, brothers, there is good news—" Winston hurried over and handed Rock a check with a scary number on it: "The guerrillas and Boer coalition forces you wiped out all have rewards. The cheapest Boer coalition is worth ten pounds per person, and the guerrillas are twenty pounds. I helped you get a round number. When you return to Cape Town, remember to buy me a drink."

In order to defeat the Boers as soon as possible, the expeditionary army headquarters tried every means, and offering a reward was just one of them.

However, the British were a bit stingy and offered too few rewards. There were only 44 Boers in total. If the Expeditionary Force Command raised the reward to 100 pounds for each Boer, the war would have ended long ago.

Throughout the Second Boer War, the British government paid 2.2 million pounds, so even if the British offered 100 pounds for each Boer, the British only needed to pay 4400 million pounds to drive the Boers to extinction, but the British did not do that. Even the current rewards are only paid out in a small area, and the British will not even admit this kind of thing. It is impossible for the dignified British Empire to use such despicable means to win the war.

The figure on the check was 5000 pounds, which was a bit much compared to the guerrillas and members of the Boer coalition forces killed by the commando.

Rock can understand that this should also include the hush money. The expeditionary army command certainly doesn't want the police like Rock to steal the limelight from the regular army. Spending money to buy peace is a good choice.

"Suddenly I like this place again. This is the hunting ground for the strong." Henry's eyes lit up when he looked at the check. £5000 is a huge amount of money in this era, but if all the commandos divided it up, it wouldn't be much.

Of course, it is impossible to share equally. According to the rules of the Cape Town Police Department, it is about half of the police officers and half of the police officers. The police officers who died in battle do not participate in the sharing. pay.

This calculation is actually quite a lot, after all, it is two pensions.

Before departure, the sky began to drizzle, and the commandos wore raincoats, huddled in the open carriage to keep warm, and cursed the damn weather.

The speed of the carriage was very slow, less than ten kilometers per hour. In such weather, there was no need to worry about the attacks of the Boer guerrillas. After all, the Boer guerrillas were not iron men, and they had to rest on cloudy and rainy days.

"Damn it, damn it——" Henry bent over, shielding himself from the drizzle, trying to light a cigar, but because the matches were damp, Henry wasted a whole box of matches and failed to light the cigar.

"Try this." Rock handed Henry the lighter Ada gave him.

"What is this?" Henry was like a country bumpkin who had never seen the world.

Rock lit the lighter casually, and Henry's eyes were brighter than the flame of the lighter: "It's amazing, what is this?"

"As you can see, lighter." Rock's mood is not very good, like the sky with drizzle.

"Where did you get it?" Henry asked for the lighter, treating it like a treasure, and accidentally found the words on the bottom of the lighter: "For Rock——Ada! What a couple of dogs, I smell the sour smell of love! "

Your sister, you are sour, you are stinky!

When Rock looked up, he saw Phyllis's shining eyes, and he snatched the lighter back.

The carriage suddenly stopped slowly, and Rock raised his head against the rain and looked around, but there was nothing.

"The road ahead has been washed away by the flood, and we can't move on. Head, we may have to find a place to camp." Anton trotted over with his rifle in hand, stepping on the rain.

"Can't it be repaired?" Rock was speechless, where to camp in the wilderness?

"There is no way to fix it. We have to take a detour. If we can't find a place to camp after dark, we can only stay in the carriage." Anton wiped the rainwater from his face, looked up at the sky, and then wiped his face again. Bundle.

The rain is getting heavier.

"Get out of the car, get out of the car, and find a place to camp." Rock was helpless. It was impossible to stay in the carriage. There was not even a shed in the carriage. If this continues, he must catch a cold. Don't underestimate the cold in 1900. , A little carelessness can kill someone.

"Lock, what should we do?" Henry jumped down awkwardly, the cigar on his mouth was already wet by the rain, and Henry was still reluctant to throw it away.

"I don't know." Rock didn't know where to go, this place was already in the Orange Free State, and it was the first time for Rock to come.

"The guide told me that there is a town not far from this direction." Anton gave an answer, because the commando was going through the Orange Free State, so when leaving Dordrecht, the commando Boer guides are hired.

Then go, no matter how simple the house is, it can keep out the wind and rain, it is better than camping in the open air.

Rock underestimated how far "not far away" was. It wasn't until the sun went down that Rock and the others finally saw a town.

This town is not big, there are more than a dozen sparsely populated families, and it is too tiring to drive on a rainy day. When he saw the town, Rock didn't even have the strength to cheer. He just wanted to find a warm room to stay for a while.

Just when Rock and the others were about to arrive in the town, Rock suddenly noticed something was wrong.

Just under a big tree outside the town, Rock found two red dots that flickered on and off.

This is someone smoking, it's raining so much, and it's night, who would smoke here?

　It is even more impossible to add more, and it is impossible to add more in this life. For a Buddhist salted fish, it can only maintain its life like this by acting coquettishly and cute twice a day——

　　

　

(End of this chapter)