Roque 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 its main troops from the Asia Minor Peninsula. All the garrison troops who were replaced were colonial servants.
In the Asia Minor peninsula, there are still Ottoman troops persisting in fighting. They may not know that the Ottoman Empire has surrendered, or they are unwilling to continue to resist, or they may be a resistance army organized by the local people.
Although these troops were small in size, had insufficiently advanced weapons, and sufficient logistical supplies, they were familiar with the terrain and had the sympathy and support of the locals, which still caused a lot of trouble for the expeditionary force.
On January 10, a patrol unit stationed in the Najd Sultanate was attacked by the resistance forces. Sixty people were killed on the spot. More than 30 people were captured and then tortured and killed by the resistance forces. Only a dozen people managed to escape with their lives.
"The attack took place in a mountainous area fifty kilometers east of Ankara. Our patrol was resting at the time. The resistance planted bombs on the roadside. The patrol was caught off guard. The Ottomans took away all the weapons and stripped off all their clothes.
He just exposed the corpse in the wilderness and insulted the corpse. Now that the news has spread, the impact is very bad." Ian Hamilton was filled with indignation. Let alone robbing and killing people, insulting the corpse was too much.
Since soldiers go to the battlefield, they have the consciousness of dedication and sacrifice, and they can leave pensions and honors to their families when they die, so there is nothing to regret.
Insulting the corpse crosses the bottom line. The vast majority of Najd soldiers have faith. If they die uncleanly, they will not be able to go to heaven after death. This is the biggest punishment for believers.
"This is normal. You can't use common sense to measure those believers. In their view, this is the best punishment for heretics -" Roque knew how cruel those people were. He was as good as Mustache. To deal with such people
Can anyone teach them the royal way of education?
Humane destruction is the ultimate secret.
"This is no longer the Middle Ages, and we are not the Crusaders -" Ian Hamilton really couldn't understand that it was already the 20th century, and he still looked like barbarians who had not yet blossomed.
"It's all the same. Send troops there and put everyone within a ten-mile radius into concentration camps. You have to let them know who is the master of the Asia Minor Peninsula now." Rock killed decisively and had nothing to say to these people. Britain
Just as people dealt with the Boers during the Second Boer War, Rock dealt with the Ottomans.
This can also be regarded as a British military tradition.
The troops sent to deal with the 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. Although the total strength was not much,
It's just over 500 points, but it's enough to deal with poorly equipped soldiers.
After dispatching the troops, Rock was not idle. He sent people to sort out the scorched earth policy implemented by Kitchener during the Second Boer War, and then stamped it with the seal of the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force Headquarters 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.
Little by little, slowly grind to win people's hearts.
Roque's patience in the Mesopotamia is not for the Ottomans. Again, 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.
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In this era, perhaps only southern Africa will move away the indigenous people on a large scale after occupying an area, and then move in a large number of new immigrants to fill it. This method does not seem smart, and can even be described as stupid. Other countries are doing this.
Efforts are being made to attract new immigrants, while only southern Africa is trying to drive away the indigenous people.
In fact, there is not much trouble. The land in the two river basins is more controlled by the big landowners, nobles and high-ranking monks. These big landowners, nobles and high-ranking monks were already in a hurry before the Nannei Allied Forces captured the two river basins.
Fleeing to the interior of the Ottoman Empire, most of the land was confiscated as ownerless land, and then sold to the mercenaries of the Umbrella Company at a very fast speed and at a low price, or to the white employees of the Adan Company.
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After the war, some people may return to the Mesopotamia and try to take back their land. Not to mention whether they can successfully return to the Mesopotamia by then, even if they return to the Mesopotamia, the current owners of the land will not take it back.
I want to give away the land I bought with my own money.
Of course, in this process of wealth transfer, there will definitely be some things that cannot be written about. This is inevitable and is part of the war. After the devastation of the war, not even one out of ten Ottomans in the Mesopotamia River Basin is left. Now
Some of the Ottomans were mostly poor people who were previously dependent on big landowners, nobles and high-ranking monks. The land in the Mesopotamia and Mesopotamia never belonged to them. They didn't care who they worked for, as long as they had enough food to survive.
Incomplete statistics show that after the Ottoman Empire surrendered, it brought more than 1.5 billion rand of 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 only had a total of 400,000 people, with an average of
It's about R2,500 per head.
Last year in southern Africa, the average annual income of working adults just exceeded one hundred rand.
This is called gold worth ten thousand taels when the cannon goes off.
While the two river basins were naturalized, the construction of Cyprus Island has not stopped. A new port has been built on the seaside facing Beirut. A railway will be built between the two ports to connect the two ports. A ring road is also planned.
Once the road is built, the remote mountainous areas in the south will no longer be remote.
There are now more than 20,000 Chinese workers on the island, as well as more than 30,000 Indian workers, and nearly 50,000 Ottomans recruited from the Asia Minor Peninsula. These 100,000 people are the main force in building the island of Cyprus. They must at least work on the island of Cyprus.
It will take two years of work to complete all the tasks of Rock's plan.
While construction was going on on the island of Cyprus, the Battle of Verdun was in progress. On January 3, it started to snow again in Verdun, and the German offensive was forced to stop. The French army passed the initial difficult stage and quickly mobilized troops through the railway to block the attack.
Hold the gap in the defense line, and by the time the German army launches its offensive again, the French army's defense line has stabilized.
It snowed heavily for a whole week, and on January 12, the day Roque returned to Cyprus, fighting broke out again.
The German army, which had already occupied Verdun, focused its attack on the Cowes Wood this time.
Countless French officers and soldiers suffered under the powerful German artillery fire. After the outbreak of the world war, Congressman Emile De Lyon, who volunteered to join the army as a lieutenant colonel, died in the battle. The old general Haier also died in the battle. Pétain succeeded General Haier.
Duty, command the French troops to continue fighting.
The battle was very brutal. The German army continued to advance with strong firepower. The only weapons the French soldiers could use to fight the flamethrowers were rifles and grenades. After the bullets were gone, the soldiers fought back with rifle butts and stones. Many troops
All casualties were exhausted within half an hour of entering the battle. In the first five days of the Battle of Verdun, the French army suffered 23,000 casualties and another 20,000 missing.
These missing persons did not escape, but were directly hit by German large-caliber artillery. In Douaumont, a French soldier's bunker was directly hit by large-caliber artillery. At least 300 French soldiers were buried there.
In the bunker, when the French troops regained their position, the entire forest on the surface had disappeared. No one knew the specific location of the bunker, and the 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 German forward troops were the two divisions of the Fifth Army. The casualties reported by these two divisions one week after the battle broke out
There are less than two thousand people.
This is abnormal. Generally speaking, the casualties of the attacking troops are much greater than the casualties of the defensive troops. However, this is not the case in France. Before the battle broke out, Germany was more fully prepared and had more large-caliber artillery. The French army only had
There are 700 artillery pieces, but more than half are old-fashioned artillery pieces with a slow rate of fire, not even as good as Miss 75.
On January 15, Joffre finally sent large-caliber artillery to the front line, and there was another problem with the French army's command system.
At midnight on the 16th, a French army was defeated by the Germans in Samonie on the east bank of the Meuse River. The army quickly collapsed and the entire organization was disrupted. The soldiers who fled told everyone they met,
Sammonie fell. In fact, Sammonie was still under the control of the French army. After a general heard about the fall of Sammonie, he immediately ordered his troops to attack Sammonie. After another general learned the news, he ordered
Artillery bombarded Samonia.
In the early morning, the shells fired by the French artillery fell on the heads of the Samonie defenders and the French troops attacking Samonie. Both troops suffered heavy casualties.
The German army took advantage of the situation to attack, and at six o'clock in the morning, Samonie really fell. Nearly 6,000 French officers and soldiers died, and 13,000 were injured.
After daybreak, the German army continued to attack, and by noon they had advanced the front 3.5 miles. This was a huge progress. Now between the German army and Paris, only the strong fortresses of Duvermont and Vaux were left.
In order to send more troops to the front line, Pétain organized 3,900 trucks and transported 190,000 troops and 25,000 tons of various supplies to Duvermont within a week, preparing for a decisive battle with the Germans in Duvermont.
On January 20, Haig finally completed preparations for the attack and launched the largest offensive led by the British Expeditionary Force to date against the Germans in Mons.
Haig mobilized 25 divisions this time, with a total strength of more than 400,000. Stimulated by Rock's performance, Haig made a desperate move.
(The chapter name of the previous chapter was wrong, 808 was typed as 818. I am contacting the editor, and I don’t know if it can be changed. If not, brothers will try to read it. Anyway, the wrong chapter will not affect the experience——