Reborn South Africa as a police officer

Chapter 966

Rock never made any promises to the Ottomans in Asia Minor.

Although the Ottoman Empire surrendered, it was not until half a month later that Roque gradually withdrew the main force from the Asia Minor peninsula, and all the garrison troops who changed defense were colonial servants.

In the current Asia Minor peninsula, there are still Ottoman troops fighting. They may not know that the Ottoman Empire has surrendered, or they are unwilling to continue to resist, or they are spontaneously organized by the local resistance.

Although these troops are small in size, their weapons are not advanced enough, and their logistics supplies are sufficient, they are familiar with the terrain and have the sympathy and support of the locals, which still caused a lot of trouble for the expeditionary force.

On January 60, a patrol unit stationed in the Najd Sultanate was attacked by the resistance army. 30 people were killed on the spot, and more than [-] people were captured and killed by the resistance army. Only a dozen people escaped by chance.

"The attack took place in a mountainous area [-] kilometers east of Ankara. At that time, our patrol team was resting. The resistance army planted bombs on the side of the road. The patrol team was caught off guard. The Ottomans took away all the weapons and all the clothes. The corpse was exposed in the wilderness, and the corpse was insulted, and now the news has spread, and the impact is very bad." Ian Hamilton was filled with righteous indignation, let alone robbing and killing, insulting the corpse is too much.

Since a soldier has gone to the battlefield, he has the awareness of dedication and sacrifice, and he can leave pensions and honors to his family when he dies, so there is nothing to regret.

Insulting the corpse broke the bottom line. The vast majority of Naizhi soldiers have faith. If they die uncleanly, they will not be able to go to heaven after death. This is the greatest punishment for believers.

"It's normal, and you can't use common sense to judge those believers. In their view, this is the best punishment for heretics—" Rock knew how cruel those people were, and he could compete with Mustache. Can people teach them the kingly way?

The destruction of humanity is the ultimate mystery.

"It's not the Middle Ages anymore, and we're not Crusaders—" Ian Hamilton really couldn't understand, it's already the 20th century, and he still looks like a barbarian who hasn't bloomed.

"It's all the same. Send troops over there and put everyone within a ten-mile radius into concentration camps. Let them know who is the master of the Asia Minor Peninsula now." Rock was decisive and had nothing to say to these people. What Rok did to the Ottomans did to the Boers during the Second Boer War.

This is also a British military tradition.

The troops sent to deal with this matter set off quickly. Considering the local situation, Roque transferred a company from the Second Cavalry Division and a battalion from the Najd Sultanate's troops. It's just over 500 points, but it's enough to deal with poorly equipped rangers.

After dispatching the troops, Rock was not idle. He sent someone to sort out Kitchener's scorched-earth policy during the Second Boer War, and then stamped it with the great seal of the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force Command and spread it throughout the Asia Minor peninsula.

It's not that Roque is impatient. In the Mesopotamia, Roque is very patient. Forget about the Asia Minor Peninsula. Anyway, the Asia Minor Peninsula does not belong to southern Africa after the war and will be divided up by Britain, France, Russia, Italy and other countries, so Roque will not do his best. Gradually grind and gather people's hearts.

Roque’s patience in the Mesopotamia was not for the Ottomans. In other words, Roque does not need the Ottomans to develop the economy. Roque has human resources in his hands, so the management of the Mesopotamia starts with population migration. of.

In this era, perhaps only southern Africa will remove the aborigines on a large scale after occupying an area, and then move a large number of new immigrants to fill them. This method does not seem smart, and it can even be described as stupid. Other countries are In trying to attract new immigrants, only southern Africa is trying to drive out natives.

In fact, it is not too much trouble. The land in the Mesopotamia is more controlled by the big landlords, nobles and high-ranking monks, and these big landlords, aristocrats and high-ranking monks were already in a hurry before the Southern Allied Forces captured the Mesopotamia. Fleeing to the interior of the Ottoman Empire, so that most of the land was confiscated as unowned land, and then sold to mercenaries of the Umbrella Company at a very fast speed and at a low price, or white employees of the Adan Company .

After the war is over, some people may return to the Mesopotamia and try to take back their land. Let alone whether they can return to the Mesopotamia smoothly, even if they return to the Mesopotamia, the current owners of those lands will not take back their land. The land he bought with his own money was given up to him.

Of course, in the process of wealth transfer, there will definitely be some things that cannot be written about. This is inevitable, and it is part of the war. Some Ottomans were mostly poor people who were attached to the big landlords, nobles and high-ranking monks before. The land in the Mesopotamia never belonged to them, so they didn't care who they worked for, as long as they had enough food to survive.

According to incomplete statistics, after the surrender of the Ottoman Empire, it brought more than 15 billion rand wealth to the Mediterranean expeditionary force, of which at least one billion rand belonged to the southern African expeditionary force. The southern African expeditionary force in Europe had a total of only 40 people. To each head, it is about 2500 rand.

In southern Africa last year, the average annual income of working adults just exceeded one hundred rand.

This is called golden ten thousand taels when the cannon is fired.

At the same time as the naturalization of the Mesopotamia, the construction of the island of Cyprus has not stopped. Facing the sea in the direction of Beirut, a new port has been built, and a railway will be built between the two ports to connect the two ports. The road around the island is also planned. Among them, once the road is built, the remote mountainous areas in the south will not be remote.

Now there are more than 3 Chinese laborers on the island, and there are more than 10 Indian laborers, and nearly [-] Ottomans recruited from the Asia Minor Peninsula. These [-] people are the main force in the construction of Cyprus Island. It takes two years of work to complete all the tasks planned by Rock.

At the same time that construction was being carried out on Cyprus Island, the Battle of Verdun was in progress. On January [-]rd, Verdun began to snow again, and the German offensive was forced to stop. The French army passed the initial difficult stage and quickly mobilized troops to block the Staying at the gap in the defense line, when the German army re-launched the offensive, the defense line of the French troops had stabilized.

It snowed heavily for a whole week, and on January 12th, the day Rock returned to Cyprus, the fighting broke out again.

The German army, which had already occupied Verdun, focused its attack on Cosswood this time.

Numerous French officers and soldiers suffered under the powerful artillery fire of the German army. After the outbreak of World War II, Congressman Emile Dryon, who volunteered to join the army as a lieutenant colonel, died in battle. The old general Haier also died in the battle. Petain succeeded General Haier. Duty, to command the French troops to continue fighting.

The battle was very brutal. The German army continued to advance with powerful firepower. The French soldiers could only use rifles and grenades to fight the flamethrowers. After the bullets ran out, the soldiers returned fire with butts and stones. Many troops The casualties were exhausted within half an hour of entering the battle. The French army lost 2.3 people in the civil war in the first five days of the Battle of Verdun, and another 2 people were missing.

These missing persons did not escape, but were directly hit by the German large-caliber artillery. In Douaumont, a French soldier's bunker was directly hit by the large-caliber artillery. At least 300 French soldiers were buried. In the bunker, when the French army regained their position, the entire forest on the surface had disappeared. No one knew the exact location of the bunker, and that bunker became the permanent grave of these 300 soldiers.

Compared with the casualties of the French army, the casualties of the attacking German troops were much smaller. On the entire front, the forward troops of the German army were the two divisions of the Fifth Army. The casualties reported by these two divisions a week after the outbreak of the battle There are also less than 2000 people.

This is not normal. Generally speaking, the casualties of the attacking troops are much greater than those of the defending troops, but this is not the case in France. Before the outbreak of the battle, Germany was more fully prepared and had more large-caliber artillery. There are 700 artillery pieces, but more than half of them are old-fashioned artillery with a slower rate of fire, not even as good as Miss 75.

On January NO.15, Xiafei finally sent the large-caliber artillery to the front line, and the command system of the French army had problems again.

NO.16 At midnight, a French army was defeated by the Germans at Samonia on the east bank of the Meuse River. The army quickly collapsed and the entire establishment was disrupted. The fleeing soldiers told everyone they met Samonia fell, but in fact Samonia was still under the control of the French army. After one general heard that Samonia had fallen, he immediately ordered his troops to attack Samonia. After another general learned of the news, he ordered Artillery bombarded Samoniere.

In the early morning, the shells fired by the French artillery fell on the defenders of Samonie and the French army attacking Samonie, and both troops suffered heavy casualties.

The German army took advantage of the situation to attack. At 3000:[-] in the morning, Samonieux really fell. Nearly [-] French officers and soldiers died, and [-] were injured.

After daybreak, the German army continued to attack, and by noon the front line had advanced 3.5 miles. This was a huge improvement. Now, between the German army and Paris, only the strong fortresses of Douvermont and Vaux remained.

In order to send more troops to the front line, Petain organized 3900 trucks and transported 19 troops and 2.5 tons of various materials to Duvemont within a week, preparing for a decisive battle with the German army in Duvemont.

On January 20th, Haig finally completed the preparations for the attack and launched the largest offensive led by the British Expeditionary Force to the German army in Mons so far.

Haig mobilized 25 divisions this time, with a total strength of more than 40 troops. Stimulated by Rock's record, Haig put all his eggs in one bet.

(The chapter name of the previous chapter was wrong, 808 was typed as 818, and I am contacting the editor, and I don’t know if it can be changed. If not, brothers will just watch it together. Anyway, the wrong chapter will not affect the reading experience— —)

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