Compared with Rock, Henry Stoudemire is a serious second-generation official and rich man. Rock comes from a grassroots background. Even if he is in a high position now, it is rare to see domineering behavior from Rock. Henry Stoudemire is different.
, Rock has the approval of Henry and Small, so he can get along with Henry Small. If it were anyone else, Henry and Small would probably not take it seriously. Colonial officials like Garfield Pullman,
If I want to see Xiao Si, I have to see if Xiao Si has time.
Of course, Garfield Pullman also knows about the problem of business environment, but Garfield Pullman has no way to solve it. Somaliland is not southern Africa. It is still a British colony and not a dominion. Garfield Pullman has limited rights in Somaliland.
The abilities are limited, and the strength is even more limited. Even if Garfield Pullman knows about some problems, Garfield Pullman doesn't know how to change them.
“Somaliland’s conditions are very poor to begin with. There have been constant wars in the past two decades. Even if the rebels are wiped out, it will be very difficult to win immigrants. Unless there is the support of large enterprises such as the South African Company and Rand Bank, Somaliland will never be able to survive.”
There is no day for peace." Garfield Pullman lamented that the issue of development will be discussed later. The most important issue now is to quell the rebellion.
"Take your time. The empire is very difficult now. It is 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 only barely maintain it.
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There was no talk all night. Early the next morning, Rock and Colonel George Jensen took an armored command vehicle to go for a walk outside the city. Colonel George Jensen had 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.
There is not even a single car in the entire Somaliland, let alone armored vehicles.
Although a little embarrassed, Colonel George Johnson was in good spirits. The more powerful Rock was, the faster he could wipe out the rebels. Colonel George Johnson did not doubt whether Rock could wipe out the rebels.
Under the leadership of Rock, the British Expeditionary Force defeated even the Germans, not to mention tens of thousands of rebels.
In the 21st century, Berbera still covers a large area and is the largest port in Somaliland.
In 1917, Berbera was only four or five square kilometers in area. There was only one main traffic road in the city, and the road condition was still very bad. There has been relatively little rain in Berbera recently, the weather is dry, and armored vehicles are driving to the area.
Outside the city, the sky was filled with dust, which looked like a sandstorm from a distance.
It is obvious that the economy of Somaliland is very bad. Even in the suburbs very close to Berbera, there are almost no traces of agricultural development. There are scattered trees and clumps of bushes everywhere, and there are rows of barren mountains in the distance.
Occasionally, wild donkeys or camels flashed across the grassland, and Somalis were herding sheep on the grassland. When they found that the convoy was coming, the shepherds hurriedly drove the sheep to avoid it, without much intention to watch the fun.
If this were in southern Africa, if southern Africans saw something they had never seen before, they would definitely come over to watch.
The armored vehicle drove less than ten kilometers, and Colonel George Johnson's expression became increasingly nervous.
"Lord, we can't go any further. Further ahead is the rebel-controlled area. The Somalis here may be the rebels' eyes and ears. They will report our itinerary to the rebels." Colonel George Johnson reminded.
Rock, I guess he has 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, with a dozen or so thatched houses, which were simply built with wood and thatch. It is estimated that if the wind is strong, it would be better.
Can be blown away directly.
Such thatched houses are also common in Basutoland and Swaziland in southern Africa. As long as the white people have not set foot in the place, Africans live a very primitive life without even a decent building.
, even the house where the tribal chief lives is a thatched house, which may be a little larger than the thatched house of ordinary people.
"It's hard to say. There is no obvious difference in appearance between rebels and herders. If you pick 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 a little careless, we will be attacked by Somalis." George Zhan
Colonel Mori touched a scar on his hand. He probably had a story behind this scar.
"If our people are attacked, what is usually done?" Rock didn't care about the scars on Colonel George Johnson's hands. The British government was very cruel to the colonial natives. After the Boer War, as long as a colonial official was attacked by a local
If someone attacks someone, everyone within ten miles of the attack point will be thrown into concentration camps.
This method was created by Kitchener. Although it sounds a bit cruel, it works very well.
"We are seriously short of manpower. Many soldiers collude with these Somalis. Weapons and ammunition in the army are often lost. Officers dare not corporally punish the soldiers, otherwise it will lead to mutiny in the army. 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 was of no use.
The key is that there are too few white people. If Somaliland had 100,000 - no, even if there were only 10,000 white people in Somaliland, then a force that was completely loyal to the colonial government could be established. In that case, the situation in Somaliland would be completely different.
London does not provide Somaliland with 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 Johnson and other soldiers cannot escape the blame.
Rock didn't take responsibility and knocked on the window to ask Angel to park. Rock had to wait for a while before he could get out of the car.
There was so much dust outside the car that the entire convoy was surrounded by dust, like an earth dragon.
After the dust cleared, Rock picked up the telescope and looked at the Somali village two kilometers away.
On the surface, it looked like a very ordinary small village. The vegetation around the village was severely damaged, and the large tracts of bare land were like scars on the earth. Through the telescope, Rock could clearly see two children having sex with several people.
The adults were saying something at the entrance of the village, and the child pointed at the location of Rock with his finger while talking. This should be the tip-off that Colonel George Johnson said.
Rock still noticed that those adults had weapons. If Rock saw it correctly, it was the Martini Henry that Rock had used.
Rock was still at Camp Huayong when he used this rifle.
Just as Rock was observing the adults, those adults also discovered the motorcade lined up here.
What Rock didn't expect was that one of the men actually raised his rifle and fired a shot at Rock.
Rock saw the muzzle first, and after a few seconds he heard the faint sound of gunfire. The bullet had already flown to nowhere.
The British have now eliminated the Martini Henry, and even the troops stationed in India have begun to replace the Lee Enfield. These Martini Henrys have been in service for too long, and the rifling has probably been smoothed out. If they are fired, they can indeed be fired.
, but even God cannot guarantee the accuracy.
Dare to shoot at an armored vehicle, it should be a serious provocation.
Without any orders from Rock, a large-caliber machine gun mounted on an armored vehicle started firing.
The shooting at this time should have been a warning, but the shooter might have been a little anxious, so the bullets he fired flew directly towards the village.
What I could see clearly through the telescope was that the bullets from the large-caliber heavy machine gun swept across, and the walls of two thatched houses in the village exploded almost at the same time. During the faint blood-filled period, the bullets ignited the roof when they passed through the thatched houses.
A thatched house immediately burst into flames. At this time, dozens of women and children poured out from other thatched houses carrying buckets to put out the fire. Several adults at the entrance of the village became a mess. They jumped into a low wall at the entrance of the village.
It looked like he was preparing to resist.
Such a low wall has no defense against bullets from large-caliber heavy machine guns. Once a shuttle sweeps over it, almost nothing will be left, and its power is about the same as that of artillery shells.
"My lord, since you are shooting, we must kill them all." Colonel George Johnson gritted his teeth.
"Why?" Rock really doesn't want to go on a killing spree. This kind of work should be done by the colonial servants. Rock's guards are afraid of getting their hands dirty if they do it.
"If they don't kill them all, then they will notify the rebels, and thousands of people will gather in a few days, and then they will launch an attack on Berbera." Colonel George Johnson was eager to try. It seemed that the colonial government and the
These Somalis are already on fire and there is no room for relaxation.
Rock nodded noncommittally and did not issue an attack order.
Roque really wanted to see the organizational capabilities of these Somalis. Even if these Somalis besieged Berbera, Roque would not be afraid. These armored vehicles were enough to protect the safety of Berbera.
Colonel George Johnson didn't know Roark's plan, and thought that Roark's hesitation would cause the Somalis to escape. After seeing Roark didn't move for a long time, he then made a suggestion: "If it doesn't work, I can return to Berbera to mobilize troops. If
We used heavy machine guns to supervise the battle, and those Somali soldiers did not dare to disobey orders."
"Don't be nervous, George, just let them find the rebels. I want to see how many they can find. It's best to call all the rebels. This will save us a lot of trouble." Rock didn't want to send out troops to use carpet tactics.
Search that way to find rebels. Although Somaliland is small, it covers hundreds of thousands of square kilometers. It is very easy to hide tens of thousands of people. If the rebels can take the initiative to come to your door, that would be great.
"Okay -" Colonel George Jensen was slightly disappointed, but he still trusted Rock and did not forget to make a sign of the cross quietly when he answered, probably to ask for God's blessing.
ps: Another month is about to pass, brothers, let’s see if there’s anything we’ve forgotten——
