Compared with Roque, Henry Xiaosi is a serious official of the second generation and the rich second generation, Roque is from the grassroots, even if he is in a high position now, he rarely sees domineering people from Roque, Henry Xiaosi is different, Roque has been recognized by Henry and Xiaosi, so he can mingle with Henry Xiaosi, and replace it with others, Henry and Xiaosi will most not take it seriously, colonial officials like Garfield Pullman, want to see Xiaosi to see whether Xiaosi has time.

Of course, Garfield Pullman also knows about the business environment, but Garfield Pullman can't solve it, Somaliland is not southern Africa, and it is still a British colony and not a Dominion, and Garfield Pullman has limited rights in Somaliland, and his ability is also limited, and his strength is even more limited, and even if Garfield Pullman knows, Garfield Pullman does not know how to change some problems.

"Somaliland is already in very bad conditions, the last 20 years have been almost all about war, even if the rebels are exterminated, it is very difficult to win immigrants, unless there is the support of big companies such as South African companies and the RAND Bank, Somaliland will never have peace." Garfield Pullman lamented that the question of development or not development will come later, and that the main problem now is to quell the rebellion.

"Take your time, the empire is tough right now, it's going to be a difficult time like never before, and we're going to get through it together." Roque is mentally prepared that the British Empire is now in decline, and Roque and Winston can only barely survive now.

After a night of silence, the next morning, Roque and Colonel George Jensen went around the city in an armored command vehicle, and Colonel George Jensen had assembled a guard unit, and only after seeing a platoon of a dozen armored vehicles did Colonel George Jensen realize the gap between Somaliland and southern Africa.

The whole of Somaliland, not to mention armored vehicles, does not even have a single car.

Although it was a bit embarrassing, Colonel George Jensen was in good spirits, the stronger Roque had, the faster he could destroy the rebels, and Colonel George Jensen did not doubt that Roque could destroy the rebels.

Under Roque's leadership, the British Expeditionary Force defeated even the German army, and it was not a problem to deal with tens of thousands of rebels.

In the 21st century, Berbera is still quite large, and it is the largest port in Somaliland.

At the moment in 1917, Berbera was only four or five square kilometers in circumference, there was only one main road in the city, and the road conditions were still very bad.

It is obvious that the economy of Somaliland is very bad, even in the suburbs of Berbera, there are almost no traces of agricultural development, there are scattered trees and bushes everywhere, barren mountains in the distance, occasionally wild donkeys or camels flash over the grassland, there are Somalis herding sheep on the grassland, and when the convoy is found, the shepherds hurriedly drive the sheep to hide, and there is not much to see the excitement.

If this is in southern Africa, if southern Africans see something they have never seen before, they will definitely come around and watch the excitement.

The armored car drove less than ten kilometers, and the expression of Colonel George Jensen became more and more nervous.

"Lord, we can't go any further, further on there is the rebel-held area, and the Somalis here may be the eyes and ears of the rebels, and they will report our itinerary to the rebels." Colonel George Jensen reminded Roque that he had probably suffered a lot of losses.

"Is that village in front of you also occupied by the rebels?" Roque is not in a hurry, there is a Somali village not far away, and there are more than a dozen thatched houses, which are simply built with wood and thatch, and it is estimated that the wind can blow them away directly.

Such thatched houses are also common in Basutoland and Eswatini in southern Africa, as long as white people have not set foot in places, Africans live a fairly primitive life, not even a decent building, even the house where the tribal chief lives is a thatched house, and compared with the thatched house of ordinary people, it may be a little larger.

"It's hard to say, there is no obvious difference between the rebels and the herders, if you take up arms, you are rebels, and if you lay down your arms, you are herders, and we usually don't deal with Somalis, and if we are careless, we will be attacked by Somalis." Colonel George Jensen stroked a scar on his hand, presumably with a story behind it.

"If our people are attacked, what is usually done?" Roque didn't care about the scars on Colonel George Jensen's hands, the British government was very cruel to the natives of the colonies, and after the Boer War, whenever a colonial official was attacked by the locals, everyone within ten miles of the point of attack would be thrown into a concentration camp.

This method was created by Kitchener, and although it sounds a bit cruel, it works well.

"We are seriously understaffed, many soldiers are in collusion with these Somalis, weapons and ammunition are often lost in the troops, officers do not dare to physically punish soldiers, otherwise it will lead to a mutiny, we also want to recruit more soldiers, but no one can guarantee the loyalty of soldiers." Colonel George Jensen had thought of a solution, but it didn't work.

The point is that there are too few whites, and if Somaliland had 100,000 — no, even if Somaliland had only 10,000 whites — and could have built a force that was completely loyal to the colonial government, then the situation in Somaliland would have been completely different.

London does not give Somaliland the latest weapons, which is probably partly the reason, weapons and ammunition can be lost, even if the situation in Somaliland is bad, Colonel George Janssen and other soldiers are to blame.

Roque does not hold accountable and knocks on the window to ask Angel to stop, and Roque has to wait a while before he can get out of the car.

There was so much dust outside the car that the entire convoy was surrounded by dust, like a dragon of dirt.

When the dust cleared, Roque picked up his telescope and looked at the Somali village two kilometers away.

On the surface, it is a small village that looks very ordinary, the vegetation around the village is very badly damaged, and the large expanses of fruity land are like scars on the earth, Roque can clearly see through the telescope that two children are talking to a few adults at the entrance of the village, and the children are talking while pointing their fingers to Roque's location, which should be the ventilation message that Colonel George Jensen said.

Still, Roque noticed that the adults had weapons, and if Roque was not mistaken, it was Martini Henry, whom Roque once used.

When Roque used this rifle, he was still in the Huayong Battalion.

As Roque observed the adults, they spotted the convoy lined up here.

What Roque didn't expect was that one of them actually raised his rifle and fired a shot at Roque's side.

Roque saw the muzzle first, and only after a few seconds did he hear the faint sound of gunfire, and the bullet had long since lost sight of where it had gone.

Britain has now eliminated Martini Henry, and even the troops stationed in India have begun to replace Lee Enfield, these Martini Henry have served for too long, and the rifling is estimated to have been smoothed out long ago, and the firing can indeed be fired, but even God dare not guarantee the accuracy.

Daring to shoot at an armored vehicle should be a serious provocation.

Without Roque's order, a vehicle-mounted large-caliber machine gun on an armored car began to fire.

The shot at this time should be warning, but the shooter may be in a bit of a hurry, so the bullet flies straight towards the village.

The binoculars saw very clearly, the bullets of the large-caliber heavy machine guns swept by, and the walls of the two thatched houses in the village exploded almost at the same time, faintly about the blood color of the period, the bullets ignited the thatch on the roof when they passed through the thatched houses, and one house immediately burst into flames, at this time, dozens of women and children carrying buckets of water poured out from other thatched houses to extinguish the fire, and several adults at the entrance of the village were in a mess, and they jumped into a low wall at the entrance of the village, apparently preparing to resist.

Such a low wall is defenseless against the bullets of large-caliber heavy machine guns, and there is basically no scum left in a shuttle, and the power is about the same as that of artillery shells.

"Sir, since you have fired, you have to kill them all." Colonel George Jensen gritted his teeth.

"Why?" Roque really didn't want to go on a killing spree, this kind of work should be done by the colonial servants, and Roque's guards were afraid of getting their hands dirty if they did it.

"If they don't kill them all, then they will inform the rebels, and in a few days they will be able to gather thousands of men, and then they will attack Berbera." Colonel George Jensen was eager to take the plunge, and it seemed that the colonial government and the Somalis were on the same page, and there was no room for relaxation.

Roque nodded noncommittally and did not give the order to attack.

Roque really wanted to see the organizational ability of these Somalis, even if these Somalis besieged Berbera Roke, these armored vehicles were enough to protect Berbera's security.

Colonel George Jensen did not know Roque's intentions, and thought that Roque's hesitation would cause the Somalis to flee, but seeing that Roque had not moved for a long time, he continued to suggest: "No, I can return to Berbera to transfer troops, and if we use heavy machine guns to supervise the battle, those Somali soldiers will not dare to disobey the order." ”

"Don't stress George, just let them go to the rebels, I'd like to see how many they can find, it's better to call all the rebels over, so we'll have a lot less trouble." Roque didn't want to send troops to find the rebels in a carpet search, although Somaliland is not large, there are more than 100,000 square kilometers, and it is very easy to hide tens of thousands of people, and it would be better if the rebels could take the initiative to send them to the door.

"Well—" Colonel George Jensen was a little disappointed, but he still trusted Roque, and did not forget to quietly gesture a cross as he answered, presumably to ask God to bless him.

ps: Another month is almost over, brothers to see if there is something forgotten -

(End of chapter)