This is the efficiency of Egypt, probably the colonial officials in charge of building the camp did not expect the southern African army to come so quickly, under normal circumstances, from the dispatch to the arrival of troops in Egypt, it is normal to complete this series of procedures within six months.

Mallory is also angry, complaining can be made, returning to Alexandria is disobeying military orders, and no one can afford this responsibility.

"Wait a minute, I'll ask Richard, maybe we haven't arrived at El Alamein yet, there must be some misunderstanding here." Franklin didn't know the situation either, and Richard was the person in charge here.

It turned out to be a big surprise, this is indeed El Alamein, but Richard is not here, but at his residence in Alexandria, and it is said that Richard only visited El Alamein once after the start of construction, and never came again.

Mallory and Dalton finally got a first-hand look at the efficiency of Egypt's administration, which would have been jailed if it had happened in southern Africa.

"We can't help it, the difficulties are beyond imagination, the funds are seriously insufficient, our workers do not have enough food, and the number of workers is also seriously insufficient, the weather has been hot lately, only the morning and evening can be constructed, and the working hours cannot exceed four hours a day, otherwise someone will suffer from heat stroke——" The temporary person in charge poured bitter water, and at this time it was almost evening, and the sparse hundred and ten workers finally came out of the stone house in twos and threes under the scolding of the supervisors, they were ragged, yellow-skinned, and severely malnourished at first glance, Some people are crumbling and feel like a gust of wind can blow them away, so it's no wonder that such workers can be efficient.

"I'm sorry, I didn't know it would be like this, I'll report to Mr. Colonel and the person in charge here will definitely be punished." Franklin was also frustrated that Egypt was not southern Africa, and people here were accustomed to such efficiency.

"After we are held accountable, the question now is where do we live? You can't let my soldiers sleep in the wilderness, that will seriously affect the combat effectiveness of the troops. "No matter how Dalton deals with the person in charge, the key is how to solve the current problem.

"Let the workers vacate the room and let them live outside." Franklin had no choice but to sacrifice his workers.

The worker's rooms were the stone rooms, which were low and low, and had no windows, and which appeared to be low on the surface, but were in fact quite spacious when entered.

The crux of the problem is that the sanitary condition inside the room is very bad, there is no basic living furniture, there is not even a marching bed, those workers have no awareness of hygiene at all, some even defecate in the room, the bad situation is outrageous, Dalton casually found a house to look at the situation, and then immediately covered his nose and came out, preferring to live in the wilderness than live in such a house.

"Cheng, let the soldiers set up tents in the open space outside, the houses here are not inhabited at all!" Dalton gave up communicating with Franklin, and after all, he had to be self-reliant.

"You can let the workers hitch—" Franklin wanted to help.

Dalton looked at the numb eyes and expressions of the workers around him, and then looked at the clothes and dark skin on their bodies that could no longer distinguish the color, he didn't want them to help at all, he felt that they could exhaust themselves by smashing a nail, and there would be no sense of accomplishment in squeezing such people, and the tents they touched were estimated that the soldiers would not live.

According to the epidemic prevention standards required by the Ministry of Defense of Southern Africa, such a sanitary situation must be completely isolated, and the miners in southern Africa have to take a shower before eating even after the end of the day's work, and it is estimated that they have not bathed for a long time.

"Let's go ourselves, get all these people to the beach, wash ourselves first, and then clean all the rooms, and all the work must be done before dawn tomorrow." Dalton has a serious face, if he dares to drag on again, Dalton will kill someone.

"It can't be before dawn tomorrow—" Franklin was not optimistic, and he saw the Egyptian workers as hopeless.

"Hehe, nothing is impossible, there is no word 'impossible' in our southern African dictionary." Dalton was resolute and did not have much hope for these overseers, so he turned around and found a sergeant major to come over and let the sergeant major take charge of the execution.

Sergeant majors can only be held by senior soldiers who have served for a long time, have excellent personal qualities, and have super individual combat effectiveness, but do not have the qualifications to become officers, and the sergeant majors in the Southern African Army have at least ten years of service, and their salaries are similar to those of officers at the rank of second lieutenant.

Dealing with this kind of thing, the sergeant major is also familiar with the road, and randomly called a platoon of soldiers, and led the interpreter to drive the surrounding workers to take a bath like chasing ducks.

Don't care if you can bathe in the sea, there is not so much attention at this time, and a few soldiers also brought clippers for haircuts, obviously preparing to thoroughly clean these workers.

By the time the workers went to take a bath, the soldiers were already busy.

At this time, you can see the role of the profession, hundreds of soldiers work together, building a camp is actually very simple, as long as the nails are smashed deep enough, the tent will not run away as soon as the wind blows, the armored car plays a huge role, after the lights are turned on, it is as bright as day, more than a dozen oil drums are supported in the middle of the tent, and the bonfire is lit immediately after the firewood is poured with gasoline, which plays a role in lighting, and the cooking class also begins to work.

The main job is to boil the water, and dinner will be done later.

"Cheng, find some of our clothes and send them to Wolfe, change them for those workers later, and then bring them some canned food, let them work when they are full, wear Lao Tzu's clothes, eat Lao Tzu's things, and if they don't work hard for Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu will kill people." Dalton is murderous, still very thoughtful, will want to take it first, this thinking is very southern African.

Franklin looked at the busy Dalton and Mallory without speaking, and while Dalton led the people to set up a makeshift camp, Mallory was busy arranging defensive positions.

It is easy to arrange a defensive position in the desert, and the sand bag is built up and the machine gun is the position, and the top is reinforced with a steel plate, and the steel plate must be covered with a layer of sandbag, and such a simple fortification is difficult to destroy unless it is directly hit by a large-caliber shell.

The sand dunes not far from the camp should also be equipped with fixed sentry posts and sniper points, the role of light machine guns is huge, two shooters in a group, carrying guns, carrying blankets and backpacks and disappearing into the dark, these sentries are equivalent to the ancient night does not collect, let it out and don't care about that kind at all, they have received strict wilderness survival training, and they are also very familiar with desert areas.

There are also deserts in Southern Africa, although not in North Africa, but they can also be used for training.

Franklin casually found a fortification and looked at it, on the surface it looks like a large fortification, but in fact the internal space is very small, only a shooting hole in the front, the fortification can only accommodate two people, a shooter and a sub-shooter, two shooters are busy assembling heavy machine guns, although the light conditions are not good, but their movements are very skillful, and the assembly is successfully completed after a while, and then the two shooters enter the combat state, looking at Franklin's gaze is quite unkind.

I guess I don't like the feeling of being observed.

Franklin looked around, there were at least ten similar fortifications, which were not in a line, and the opening of the shooting hole was not in a fixed direction, although Franklin did not know that it was to form a crossfire, Franklin was still clever not to ask.

To Franklin's surprise, in less than an hour, a fully functioning makeshift camp was built, and the workers who had gone to the shower had not even returned, an efficiency that almost terrified Franklin, who was accustomed to a slower pace of life.

Such an army, it is said that there are still 100,000 people in southern Africa-

"Mr. Franklin, the Captain invites you to dinner." Dalton's orderly came over to inform Franklin that eating together was a good opportunity to bond up.

On the way to Dalton's tent, Franklin kept an eye out for the dinner of the officers and soldiers of Lower Southern Africa.

It can be seen that the treatment of the southern African army is very good, even for a hasty dinner, each soldier has an average of two cans, one is beans, the other is unknown meat, I don't know how it tastes, it still smells good.

It probably didn't taste very good, because when the cooks handed out the cans, many soldiers complained, and some soldiers would rather have two canned vegetables than canned meat.

"Don't be so picky, we're in Egypt, not in Nyasaland, we like to eat or not, now that's all there is - " The cooks were very angry, the boxes were full of cans, the tin buckets were filled with hot coffee, and many soldiers filled the kettles they carried with them with them.

Southern Africa is indeed rich, the quantity of canned food is limited, and the coffee is enough, as much as you want!

Coffee isn't cheap, but it seems that coffee-rich East India and Southern Africa have a very good relationship, which makes Franklin think about it, and then lose it.

As officers, Dalton and Mallory had a richer dinner, and the staple food was certainly canned, but there was also ham and bacon, which was still rare in the desert.

In fact, canned food is already rare.

"Sit down, Mr. Franklin, I'm sorry our dinner is a little shabby, but if you have the chance, you can go to Nyasaland, and then I'll treat you to a real feast, a mysterious delicacy from the Far East, and I'm sure you'll be impressed." Dalton smiled heartily, combined with the impression Dalton gave Franklin along the way, Franklin suddenly had a not very good feeling.

Nothing to be courteous, either a traitor or a thief.