Chapter 64 Varies from person to person
Since sending Sharma to Robben Island, it has been a long time since the Indian police have made trouble for Roque, on the one hand, because Sharma's fate gave the Indian police a wake-up call, and on the other hand, it is also because Dijean can get three or five pounds each time by going to the docks to do the game, which makes many Indian police officers envious and jealous, no hate, they don't dare.
For this reason, Roque had a good feeling about the Indian police during this time, and when the commando team expanded, Roque even let Henry choose two Indian policemen, expecting them to fight unreliable, and it was still okay to move things and do logistics.
If this continues, then it may be possible that Roque will be able to partially change his opinion of the Indian police in the future, but on the morning of his departure, Roque is completely hopeless about the Indian police officers.
According to the requirements of the expeditionary force command, Roque and his team were to set out by February 15, so that they could deliver as many supplies as possible to Dordrecht before the British offensive on the Eastern Front.
Henry had a heart and set off on February 14 in advance, anyway, most Chinese police officers have no lovers, and those who have lovers have broken up.
The night before his departure, Roque received the unbelievable news that one of the two sergeants of the commando team, Rahul, an Indian, had fallen out of his chair while taking a nap, and as a result, he had broken his arm and was unable to travel to Dordrecht.
"Broke your arm while sleeping? This reason is so fresh! "Roque was really eye-opening, it turned out that he could still operate like this.
"That damn coward, God knows how he broke his arm, he did it on purpose, maybe he broke it himself." Henry gritted his teeth, this kind of behavior is too bad.
But it seems normal to happen to Indians.
"What then? We now have one less sheriff. "Roque is a little depressed, and the lack of a sheriff will definitely affect the previous arrangement.
According to Henry and Roque's plan, Stanley and Rahul each led a detachment to guard the front and last two carriages of the train respectively, Roque and Henry led the largest detachment to defend the middle of the train, and Rahul was responsible for the position at the rear of the train, and now Rahul could not set off with the team because he broke his arm, so Roque and Henry were bound to assign one person to be responsible for the rear part of the train.
"It's okay, the chief gave me authorization, and Anton is now the acting sheriff." Henry has good news for Roque.
This is good news, it is a bonus, although there is no acting sergeant rank, but as long as Anton does not make a mistake and returns from Dordrecht, Anton's sheriff will be corrected.
"Rahul, that bastard, just let him go?" Roque didn't want to let Rahul go, just slack off on weekdays, but Rahul became a deserter when he saw that he was going to carry out a mission, and Roque hated this kind of person the most.
"Leave him alone? How is it possible, the director asked Rahul to go to Stellenbosch to recuperate, he never wanted to return to Cape Town in his life. Henry quacked and laughed, Stellenbosch was not much better than Robben Island.
To be precise, Stellenbosch is a prison like Roque Island, except that Robben Island is for prisoners, and Stellenbosch is for the families of those who have fled from the Boers.
Since the outbreak of the Anglo-Boer War, many Boers in the Cape fled to the Transvaal Republic and the Orange Free State to help the Boers and the British fight, and their families who remained in the Cape have become a factor of instability, but these families have not committed crimes, and the British cannot take tough measures against them, but they cannot let them go, so the British have concentrated all the families of those fleeing Boers to Stellenbosch for centralized management, which is almost a refugee camp, and a concentration camp is not the same concept.
"It's too cheap for him." Roque hates, what kind of punishment is this? I'm afraid it's about the same as a reward.
Maybe in the eyes of the British, guarding the camp is a chore, but Roque doesn't think so, don't forget that before the British colonized the Cape, those Boers were very rich, so the refugees in the camp and the prisoners on Robben Island are two different things, when the British gathered the families of those fleeing Boers to Stellenbosch, they did not confiscate their belongings, not to mention, the right to distribute materials was also controlled in the hands of the camp guards, so Rahul's life was not too comfortable, The caretaker of the camp is simply the emperor of the camp.
"Cheap? You don't know what's going on in the camps, and if you did, I'm afraid you wouldn't think so. "Henry knew more about the camp than Roque, and it was clear that it was not a good job in Henry's opinion.
Is this good?
It varies from person to person.
The railway station in the early morning was deserted, and the commando team was mainly composed of Chinese policemen, and the Chinese policemen had no family in Cape Town, so there were few people on the entire platform to see them off, and the police station did not arrange a military band or anything to see them off, and Auguste Russell did not show up at all, as if the commandos had been forgotten.
Roque doesn't feel anything, no one will send it, happy and quiet, Roque doesn't like the sadness of separation, and the omen is not good.
In fact, last night, Zach really wanted to set off with Roque, according to Zach's words, even if he couldn't help much, at least he could take care of Roque's life.
Roque didn't think so, what are you kidding, this is to carry out a mission, not to play in the mountains and rivers, maybe there will be a battle, do you have to bring a servant to the battlefield?
Roque didn't think he was noble enough to do that.
Soon Roque knew that he was wrong, it was not uncommon to bring a servant to the battlefield this year, Henry brought one, and he looked quite familiar with the figure, and when he walked into Roque, he found that it was Phyllis.
"Brother, we may have a fight on this trip, is it really okay to take Phyllis with you?" Roque was a little uneasy, there were no eyes on the battlefield, in case Phyllis had three long and two short, not to mention Henry, Roque would also be distressed.
Henry glared at Roque, then turned back to glare at Phyllis, muttering something that Roque didn't understand.
"Don't look down on people, I've been a member of the Boy Scouts." Phyllis was triumphant, as if the Crusaders were something terrible, more powerful than the Boer guerrillas.
"Locke, you may not believe it, Phyllis's gun is more accurate than you." Henry looked helpless, it seemed that after Roque left that night, something happened that Roque didn't know.
Roque almost laughed, Henry was afraid that he had some misunderstanding of his marksmanship, how accurate Roque's marksmanship was, Henry didn't know at all, their gamble had not been carried out until now.
"Get in the car, get in the car, all in the car." The soldiers on the platform waved the small red flag in their hands and began to throw people into the carriage.
Now the railway station is under military control, the police are only responsible for the security of the outside of the railway station, and all the regular soldiers on duty inside the railway station are on duty.
It was only then that Roque discovered that the soldiers on duty on the platform were wearing khaki uniforms, the same color as police uniforms, instead of the traditional bright red, and it seemed that the British were not stupid.