Compared with the success of the German army on the eastern front, Lawrence Elsey, the commander-in-chief of the 35th Division of the German army on the western front, was on the verge of tears.
The 35th Division initially took a train to reinforce Dodoma, but thirty kilometers after the train left Usumbula, the railway was destroyed by the troops of Fort Glory. Lawrence Elsey had to order the accompanying servant army to start repairing the railway.
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In the 21st century, with the assistance of various large-scale engineering equipment, building railways seems to be very simple.
However, at the beginning of the 20th century, in Tanganyika, which lacked construction machinery and engineering personnel, could not even produce its own rails, and was constantly harassed by the Fort Glory troops, repairing the railway was not easy. It was simply an impossible task.
With the guidance of professional guerrilla warfare experts, the African gangsters in the Honor Fort troops were like cheating, and they fully demonstrated the arrogance and arrogance in the bones of Africans.
Under normal circumstances, to destroy a railway, just blow up the rails.
The African gangsters are not like this. Of course they sometimes bury explosives directly, but more often they do tricks on the roadbed. The railways in some areas seem to be fine, and there are no problems when the workers inspect them, but as long as the train drives up
, the roadbed will collapse soon, and the end of the high-speed train will be particularly miserable.
This is actually not the suggestion given by the volunteers. Considering the future of Tanganyika, the volunteers actually suggested to the Fort Glory troops that they should directly destroy the railway and not engage in these invisible tricks and directly blow up the railway track.
Even if the rails are damaged, it would be better to dismantle the rails to prevent them from being moved away. This is because by direct destruction, the railway can be repaired in the future. If it is done now, even if the Germans withdraw in the future, the railway will not be able to continue to be used.
The gangsters didn't care. In their words, the railway was a tool used by the Germans to colonize Tanganyika. Now that the Tanganyika people are opposed to German colonization, they should abandon any of the things the Germans imposed on them.
thing.
The result was this. The railway, perhaps the only valuable thing Germany brought to Tanganyika, was destroyed by the gangsters.
In fact, after the railway was destroyed, Lawrence Elsey ordered the troops to advance along the gravel road. Repairing the railway took a long time. Lawrence Elsey could not be in a hurry, but Dodoma did not have enough time to wait.
The condition of the roads was also very serious. For a whole week, the 35th Division advanced no more than 100 kilometers. On the most serious day, the advance distance was less than 10 kilometers.
In Lawrence Elsey’s view, the Fort Glory troops can definitely be associated with all negative words such as sinister, obscene, despicable, shameless, etc. The Tanganyika German troops who left the railway and took to the road still had to face all kinds of
There are endless attacks.
From the most primitive and simple traps to all kinds of unpredictable landmines, the 35th Division has suffered a lot in the past week and has collected hundreds of different types of landmines.
It is true that Africans have unleashed their natural instincts and cannot control their thinking at all. Guerrilla warfare experts introduced the general structure of landmines to the gangsters, and then the gangsters used all kinds of freedom to express themselves. The landmines they created were definitely not what normal landmines should look like.
There are all kinds of strange things.
And the key point is that in the eyes of white Europeans, the Tanganyikan Africans all look similar, so the Tanganyikan servant army that was just formed during this period unknowingly included many Africans who sympathized with the Fort Glory troops.
, even the rebels of Fort Glory who hide their identities.
On June 22, Lawrence Elsey himself was almost injured by a landmine. Later, Lawrence Elsey learned that there were members of the Honorfort rebels in the servant army responsible for clearing mines. As a result, the troops in front were responsible for clearing mines.
The rebel members of Fort Glory behind them buried the mine again, and it exploded when Lawrence Elsey's car passed by the mine.
Lawrence Elsey would like to thank the Lord for the safety protection of his car. If it had been any other car, Lawrence Elsey would have been killed or injured.
When Erich von Falkenhayn went to find Roark, the 35th Division was still nearly 500 kilometers away from Dodoma in a straight line. According to the current speed, it would take at least 30 troops to reach Dodoma.
Two months.
Two months!
If you take a boat, you can go around half of the world.
So when Erich von Falkenhayn came to find Rock, he was also desperate.
"Locke, you Nyasaland are playing with fire. You have opened the door to hell and released a group of demons. Tanganyika now is the future Nyasaland, and even the entire southern Africa. Those who are playing with fire
I will burn myself, I hope you will have enough ways to deal with it then." Erich von Falkenhayn almost didn't curse directly.
"Haha, General Falkenhayn, you don't need to worry about this issue. Now you are still worried about Tanganyika. How are you going to deal with the situation in Tanganyika?" Rock is not worried about this issue. The essence of guerrilla warfare lies in the masses.
Without broad mass support, the guerrillas could not persist. Africans did not get any support at all in Nyasaland, which was dominated by Chinese. They also accounted for the same in Natal, which was dominated by Africans.
Not cheap, the previous Natal rebellion had proven that the Northern Rhodesian Division was fully capable of dealing with any form of rebel force.
That was still the dissatisfied Northern Rhodesian Division. Now the Northern Rhodesian Division is fully equipped with 18,000 men. Even if all the Africans in southern Africa join the rebels, the Northern Rhodesian Division can easily handle it.
Not even the 1st Cavalry Division needs to be drafted.
Erich von Falkenhayn has no solution to the current Tanganyika situation. If he could, the situation in Tanganyika would not have collapsed to the current level, and Erich von Falkenhayn would not have to do anything about it.
Came to Ulysses low-key.
So Erich von Falkenhayn's answer to Rock was a long silence.
Rock could tell from the changes in Erich von Falkenhayn's expression that Erich von Falkenhayn's inner struggle was complicated.
"If I mean if, if Tanganyika can give Glory Castle a relatively sufficient living space, can Glory Castle still recognize Tanganyika's management?" Erich von Falkenhayn finally raised this question.
The problem is, I just don’t know whether it was the intention of Erich von Falkenhayn himself or the intention of the German General Staff.
I guess it's both.
Tanganyika now looks like a bottomless pit. It is not impossible for Germany to destroy the Gloryburg rebels. The key question is, if the German government increases investment and continues to send more troops to Tanganyika, will the costs and benefits be achieved?
Proportional.
If Tanganyika is the Transvaal filled with gold, then I believe that the German General Staff will stabilize the situation in Tanganyika even if it suspends the arms race.
It's a pity that Tanganyika is not the case. Now Tanganyika itself still needs subsidies from Germany to maintain colonial rule, and it cannot repay Germany at all. In this case, how determined the German General Staff is is indeed a question.
Issues that need to be measured.
As for Erich von Falkenhayn himself, the experience of Tanganyika left Erich von Falkenhayn with absolutely unpleasant memories, which would even make him a soldier.
The stain on his career has seriously affected Erich von Falkenhayn's future, so Erich von Falkenhayn now wants to end the war in Tanganyika and leave Tanganyika in a relatively dignified way.
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As for what Tanganyika will become in the future, that is not a question that Erich von Falkenhayn will consider at all.
"Of course you can admit it, but whether you accept it or not is another matter." Rock refused to let go. He would never lower the requirements of the Fort Glory troops just because Erich von Falkenhayn took the initiative to come to the door.
Even if it is lowered, it is not Rock's turn to be the good man. Mumu is in Ulysses. If Erich von Falkenhayn really wants to solve the Tanganyika problem, he can talk to Mumu.
Talk.
The reason why Erich von Falkenhayn came to find Rock instead of going directly to Mumu was that the white people had always despised Africans. Although Rock was not a white man, Rock was a military hero of the British Empire.
A nobleman must be qualified to communicate with Erich von Falkenhayn on an equal footing.
"In fact, I have always believed that European competition should not extend to Africa. The situation in Tanganyika, Southwest Africa, and Southern Africa is similar. They are essentially colonies of European countries. We should join forces to
Let's turn Africa into the next Europe, instead of tearing each other apart like now." Erich von Falkenhayn probably felt a bit self-defeating and decadent, so he simply made it clear.
"It was you who demolished us first. If it weren't for the assistance you gave to the Boers during the Boer War, there would not be the chaos in Tanganyika today." Rock also responded directly. Everyone knows the specific situation. Germany
The first day of junior high school is the fifteenth day of junior high school in the UK.
It's just that the British survived, and that's why we have what is now southern Africa.
If the Germans cannot hold on, Tanganyika will become Zanzibar.
"The Boer War was a war between white people and white people. It is two different things from Tanganyika and cannot be confused with each other." Erich von Falkenhayn did not deny the role played by Germany during the Boer War. This situation was very common in Europe.
It is also very common in countries, and there are now many volunteers from Europe and all over the world in Tanganyika.
"It's the same thing. Ask the Boers. They don't admit that they are Africans." Roque is really not lying. The "Africans" group was first proposed by the Boers, but it was promoted by Ade.
All people in southern Africa are included in the category of "Afrikaners".
This is actually a deliberate confusion of concepts. The Boers want to build a multi-ethnic political group, and the same goes for Ade.
