After daybreak, Linde finally caught up with the main force of the 105th Division.
Ford Lu and Hausman really didn't expect that the 105th Division's second battle would start with such a dramatic effect.
"So, you went in a circle to catch up with our baggage troops, and almost launched an attack. Tell me, what do you think?" Ford Lew couldn't accept such a stupid behavior by his men. Fortunately, the soldiers in the baggage troops were also Africans.
, otherwise the 105th Division will make a bigger joke.
"We thought it was the German army's baggage troops, so——" Linde was dejected, he did not want to pass the responsibility to Frank.
"Okay, it's normal for some accidents to occur. At least we didn't make a bigger mistake. Lieutenant Colonel Linde, lead your troops to continue to advance to the predetermined position. We can't make any more mistakes from now on." Hausman comforted the staff officer with gentle words.
It's still very effective.
"Yes, Chief of Staff, I will never make any mistakes again." Linde cheered up and made up for his mistakes.
Ford Lu and Hausman were relatively speechless. After a while, Ford Lu gritted his teeth: "No one can tell anyone about this matter. It's so embarrassing -"
If Hausmann doesn't speak, he can't hide it, and the blame will definitely be placed firmly on the 105th Division. Although the main responsibility lies with the guide assigned by the French Army Command to the 105th Division, the French media won't care.
For this, they will only laugh at an army of colonial servants in southern Africa who are nothing but idiots from top to bottom.
Linde indeed lived up to the trust of Ford Lew and Haussmann. At noon, Linde sent someone to deliver a code book, which was seized from a German staff officer.
"Could it be a trap?" Ford Lu's first reaction was actually this.
"We'll know after we verify it." Hausmann sent someone to the division's communications company and quickly concluded that the codebook was correct.
"Send someone to the headquarters immediately. This kid is quite lucky." Ford Lu laughed loudly. Foolish people are lucky, and Linde can be regarded as a lucky general of the 105th Division.
When the code book was delivered to the expeditionary force headquarters, Kitchener was celebrating with Joffre. Just now, Britain, France, and Russia signed a resolution to formally establish the Entente relationship and form the Allied Allied Forces. All three countries promised that no one would be alone.
Sign a peace agreement with Germany.
"The second batch of expeditionary forces from London is about to arrive in France. Two divisions from southern Africa have boarded the train and will arrive in Paris four hours later. The third batch of reinforcements will arrive in Le Havre ten days later. Our strength is continuing
The strength of the German army is constantly weakening, so we can definitely win the final victory. We must strengthen our confidence and give each other enough trust. Victory will definitely belong to us." Kitchener will return to London in the afternoon, and he cannot stay long.
It is Kitchener's responsibility to stay in Paris and organize, coordinate and ensure logistics.
"Our troops are also moving towards the front line, but we face many difficulties. The troops lack enough weapons and ammunition. We need doctors and nurses to treat the wounded, and we need more effective drugs. There are hundreds of thousands of troops in southern Africa. Why are we here now?
Only three divisions arrived in France?" Joffre had many demands. When facing the French generals, he might not say a word for a day, but when facing Kitchener, Joffre almost talked non-stop.
"Southern Africa also has its own troubles. Now that South Africa is at war, the territory also needs troops to maintain stability. Southern Africa has done its best. We have to give Southern Africa some time." No matter how hard Roque is squeezed by Kitchener in London,
In front of outsiders, Kitchener still affirmed the contribution of southern Africa.
Unlike the French North African colonies that have not yet been affected by the war, Southern Africa has entered a state of war with Tanganyika in Southwest Africa. Although the German troops in Southwest Africa have surrendered, the German troops in Tanganyika are still resisting. Even so, Niassa
Lan still maintains a fairly strong production capacity, which makes Kitchener very satisfied.
At least compared to India, Australia, and Canada, which have not yet made any move, Southern Africa’s response is very satisfactory to Kitchener. Except for Southern Africa, the British overseas consulates will not be able to provide military support to the British mainland this year.
, an engineering force sent by India has arrived in the UK, but India's understanding of the engineering force may be biased. It is not an army at all, but a group of coolies, and even the coolies are not qualified. The soldiers have been malnourished for a long time and are emaciated.
You need to recuperate your body first before you can take on the task.
If Kitchener had not served as Commander-in-Chief in India, Kitchener would have doubted India's purpose of sending troops.
"Southern Africa has a developed industrial base, farms with amazing yields, and large-scale medical schools. They can make greater contributions." Xiafei hopes to obtain medical resources from Southern Africa. Southern Africa's battlefield medical system has already
It is quite mature, Britain and France have just noticed this problem.
"I will send a telegram to Lord Nyasaland, believing that Lord Nyasaland will send more doctors to France as quickly as possible." Kitchener sometimes wonders that without southern Africa for comparison, Kitchener would
Naomi believed that Britain and France did well during the arms race, but compared with southern Africa——
Kitchener didn't want to admit that there was a gap between the preparations of Britain and France and southern Africa, but it was true. Kitchener had hardly paid attention to southern Africa before. Looking back now, many decisions in southern Africa were very forward-looking, starting from the Boer War.
After the war ended, Southern Africa made almost no mistakes, and many decisions that seemed unnecessary at first seem extremely important today.
"If possible, Lord Nyasaland should be allowed to come to France to see the situation on the front line in person, so that Lord Nyasaland will pay enough attention to this world war." Xiafei believes that it is precisely because he has no personal experience.
, that’s why Southern Africa’s actions are so slow. According to Southern Africa’s strength, Southern Africa should have a faster response.
While Kitchina and Joffre were planning the medical resources in Southern Africa, a field hospital on the outskirts of Paris, a field hospital equipped by the Ministry of National Defense of Southern Africa for the 105th Division, was going all out.
Under normal circumstances, an African unit like the 105th Division is not qualified to be equipped with a field hospital. Although the medical resources in Southern Africa are very strong compared to Europe, the medical strength in Southern Africa is still very weak.
Before the 105th Division set off, in order to allow the 105th Division to play a greater role, Roque personally issued an order to equip the 105th Division with an additional field hospital of fifteen doctors and fifty nurses.
From the time the 105th Division arrived in France, the field hospital began to work. After the Battle of the Marne River began, the load of the field hospital reached its peak. All the doctors and nurses were so busy that they did not even have time to eat. The open space outside the operating room was densely packed with stretchers.
There are wounded people everywhere who are crying in pain and needing treatment. These wounded people are within the treatable range, and more wounded people have no chance to be sent to field hospitals.
"Sir, don't send more wounded people here. As you can see, our doctors and nurses are extremely exhausted. Some of them have been working 24 hours a day. They are not machines and need better rest before they can get back to work." The hospital.
Nicholas, the administrative head of the hospital, found Joseph, the representative of the French military command stationed in the field hospital, hoping to give the doctors and nurses some breathing time.
"Nicholas, hold on a little longer. I know the doctors and nurses need to rest, but look at the current situation. Every second on the front line, officers and soldiers are killed, and more officers and soldiers are injured. We have to give up rescuing the seriously injured and let it go.
They are wailing and waiting to die. The wounded here can all be saved. Just give them some simple treatment, and you may be able to save a life. Please, they all have families, children, and lovers. Please, please,
Don't give up on them -" Joseph begged, knowing that the doctors and nurses were tired, but he couldn't give such an order, he couldn't do it.
"Please, help me——"
"Oh, God--"
"If you don't care about me, then just give me a shot -" Wounded soldiers kept wailing for help. No matter how brave they were on the battlefield, they were now on the verge of collapse.
"Joseph, we only have fifteen doctors, but there are thousands of wounded here. Even if everyone does not rest 24 hours a day, it will take a week to treat all the wounded. Even if more wounded soldiers are sent here, they will not be able to do it."
We can only wait here to die - "What Nicholas said is true. Many wounded soldiers have died of excessive bleeding due to lack of timely treatment. Next to the field hospital is a huge morgue with thousands of corpses parked.
Because there were not enough coffins, the bodies could only be simply wrapped in white cloth and stacked together for burial.
Just outside the gate of the field hospital, there is no end in sight of the stretchers waiting to take the wounded into the hospital. Each stretcher is a wounded soldier in urgent need of rescue. If they cannot be treated in the shortest time, then they will
Most people in the world will not be able to see the sun tomorrow.
At this moment, several trucks with Southern African military license plates drove over. After the doors opened, all those who got out were doctors and nurses in uniform. It could be seen that they were all shocked by the situation in front of them, but they were briefly surprised.
After that, we immediately started working to check the condition of the wounded.
"Gentlemen, it's great that you can come, thank you very much -" Joseph and Nicholas came forward to greet them, and there were obviously tears in Joseph's eyes.
"Hello, I'm Price from the Ministry of Defense of Southern Africa. Can you tell me about the situation here?" Price glanced at the wounded soldiers on the ground and called to the doctors and nurses who had just got off the car to start working: "No
Introduced, prepare the operating room, gentlemen, move quickly, grade all the wounded——"
Class, this can be regarded as a British tradition.