After dawn, Linde finally caught up with the main force of the 105th Division.

Ford Lew and Hausman really didn't expect that the second time of the 105th Division would start with such a dramatic effect.

"So, you went around in circles to catch up with our baggage troops, and almost attacked, tell me, what do you think?" Ford Lew couldn't accept such a stupid act from his men, but luckily the soldiers of the baggage unit were also Africans, otherwise the 105th Division would have made an even bigger joke.

"We thought it was the German baggage troops, so—" Lind hung his head, not wanting to put the blame on Frank.

"Okay, it's normal to have some accidents, at least we didn't make any bigger mistakes, Lieutenant Colonel Linde, lead your troops to continue to advance to the intended position, and then we can't make any more mistakes." Haussmann soothed gently, and the chief of staff was still very useful.

"Yes, Chief of Staff, I will definitely not make any more mistakes." Linde brace himself and make up for it.

Ford Lew and Hausman were relatively speechless, and Ford Lew gritted his teeth in the middle of the sound: "No one can say anything about this, it's so embarrassing-"

Haussmann doesn't speak, he can't hide it, and this black cauldron will definitely be firmly tied to the head of the 105th Division, although the main responsibility lies with the guide assigned by the French command to the 105th Division, but the French media will not care about this, they will only laugh at a colonial servant army in southern Africa that is a sand sculpture from top to bottom.

Linde did not live up to the trust of Ford Lew and Haussmann, and at noon Lind sent a codebook that had been seized from a German staff officer.

"Could it be a trap?" Ford Lew's first reaction was this.

"Verify it and you'll know." Haussmann sent someone to the division's communications company, and soon concluded that the codebook was correct.

"Send someone to the command immediately, this kid is quite lucky." Ford Luhaha laughed, stupid people have stupid blessings, and Linde can be regarded as a lucky general of the 105th Division.

When the codebook was delivered to the headquarters of the expeditionary force, Kitchener was celebrating with Xia Fei, and just now, Britain, France, and Russia signed a resolution to formally establish Entente relations and form an Allied Coalition, and all three countries promised that neither side would sign a peace agreement with Germany alone.

"The second expeditionary force from London is about to arrive in France, the two divisions from southern Africa have boarded the train and will arrive in Paris in four hours, the third reinforcement will arrive in Le Havre in ten days, our strength is growing, and the strength of the German army is weakening, so we can definitely win the final victory, we must strengthen our confidence, give each other enough trust, victory will definitely be ours." Kitchener was returning to London in the afternoon, and he could not stay in Paris for a long time, so it was Kitchener's duty to organize and coordinate the logistics.

"Our army is also moving to the front, but we are facing many difficulties, the troops lack enough weapons and ammunition, we need doctors and nurses to treat the wounded, we need more effective medicines, there are hundreds of thousands of troops in southern Africa, why have only three divisions arrived in France so far?" Xia Fei is very demanding, he may not say a word for a day when facing the French general, but when facing Kitchener, Xia Fei almost talks endlessly.

"Southern Africa also has its own troubles, now that southern Africa is already at war, it also needs troops to maintain stability within its borders, and southern Africa has done its best, and we want to give southern Africa some time." No matter how much Kitchener squeezes Roque in London, in front of outsiders, Kitchener still affirms the contribution of southern Africa.

Unlike the French colonies in North Africa, which had not yet been affected by the war, southern Africa had entered a state of war with South-West Africa and Tanganyika, and although the German army in South-West Africa had surrendered, the German army in Tanganyika was still resisting.

At least compared with India, Australia, and Canada, which have not yet made any moves, the reaction of southern Africa is very satisfactory to Kitchener, except for southern Africa, this year, Britain's other overseas territories are not capable of providing military support to the British mainland, and an engineering unit sent by India has arrived in Britain, but India's understanding of the engineering troops may be biased, it is not a force at all, but a group of coolies, and even the coolies are not qualified, and the soldiers are malnourished and skinny for a long time. You need to recuperate your body before you can take on the task.

Had it not been for Kitchener's tenure as commander-in-chief in India, Kitchener would have doubted India's purpose in sending troops.

"Southern Africa has a well-developed industrial base, with amazing farms, and a huge medical school, where they can make a bigger contribution." Xia Fei hopes to have access to medical resources in southern Africa, where the field medical system is quite mature, and Britain and France are just noticing the problem.

"I will send a telegram to Lord Nyasaland, believing that Lord Nyasaland will send more doctors to France as soon as possible." Kitchener is also sometimes strange that, if there were no comparison with southern Africa, Kitchener would have thought that Britain and France did very well during the arms race, but compared to southern Africa-

Kitchener did not want to admit that there was a gap between the preparations of Britain and France and that of southern Africa, but it is true, Kitchener had paid little attention to southern Africa before, and now that many of the decisions made in southern Africa were very forward-looking, since the end of the Boer War, southern Africa has hardly made any mistakes, and many decisions that seemed unnecessary at first are extremely important today.

"If you can, Lord Nyasaland should come to France to see for himself the situation on the front line, so that Lord Nyasaland will pay enough attention to this world war." Xia Fei believes that it is precisely because of the lack of personal experience that Southern Africa's action is so slow, and according to the strength of Southern Africa, Southern Africa should have a faster response.

While Kitchener and Xiafei were planning medical resources in southern Africa, a field hospital on the outskirts of Paris, equipped by the Ministry of Defense of Southern Africa for the 105th Division, was in full swing.

Under normal circumstances, an African force like the 105th Division is not qualified to be equipped with field hospitals, and although the medical resources in southern Africa are relatively strong compared to Europe, the medical strength in southern Africa is still very weak.

Before the departure of the 105th Division, in order to let the 105th Division play a greater role, Roque personally ordered the 105th Division to be equipped with an additional field hospital with fifteen doctors and fifty nurses.

From the arrival of the 105th Division in France, the field hospital began to work, after the Battle of the Marne, the load of the field hospital was at its peak, all the doctors and nurses were so busy that they didn't even have time to eat, the open space outside the operating room was densely packed with stretchers, and everywhere there were wounded who were crying out in pain and needed to be treated, these wounded were all within the scope of treatment, and more wounded had no chance to be sent to the field hospital.

"Sir, don't send more wounded over, you can also see that our doctors and nurses are exhausted to the extreme, some of them have been working 24 hours straight, they are not machines and need better rest to put into work." Nicholas, the head of the hospital's administration, approached Joseph, the representative of the French command in the field hospital, hoping to give the doctors and nurses some respite.

"Nicholas, hold on a little longer, I know that the doctors and nurses need to rest, but if you look at the current situation, there are officers and soldiers killed every second on the front line, and there are more wounded officers and soldiers, we have to give up rescuing the seriously wounded, let them wail and wait for death, the wounded here can be saved, just need some simple treatment on them, it may be possible to save a life, please, they all have families, they all have children, they have lovers, please, don't give up on them-" Joseph pleaded, He knew 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—" There were constantly wounded soldiers wailing for help, no matter how brave they were on the battlefield, now they were on the verge of collapse.

"Joseph, we only have fifteen doctors, but there are thousands of wounded here, even if everyone does not rest for 24 hours, it will take a week to treat all these wounded, even if more wounded soldiers are sent over, they can only wait here to die-" Nicholas said the truth, there have been many wounded soldiers who have died of excessive bleeding due to poor treatment, and next to the field hospital is a huge morgue, there are thousands of corpses parked, because there are not enough coffins, The corpses could only be simply wrapped in a white cloth and stacked on top of each other for a unified burial.

Right outside the field hospital, there is no end in sight to the stretchers waiting to take the wounded to the hospital, each stretcher is a wounded soldier in desperate need of rescue, and if they are not treated in the shortest possible time, then most of them will not see the sun of tomorrow.

At this moment, several trucks with Southern African military plates drove up, and when the doors opened, all the doctors and nurses in uniform came down, and it could be seen that they were all shocked by the situation in front of them, but after a brief moment of surprise, they immediately began to work to check on the wounded.

"Gentlemen, it's great that you're here, thank you very much—" Joseph and Nicholas greeted him, tears evident in Joseph's eyes.

"Hello, I'm Price from the Southern African Ministry of Defense, can you tell us about your situation here-" Price glanced at the wounded soldiers all over the ground, and beckoned the doctors and nurses who had just gotten out of the car to get to work: "No need to introduce it, prepare the operating room, gentlemen, move fast, grade all the wounded-"

Rank, this is also a British tradition.

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