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 the main force from the Asia Minor Peninsula, and the garrisons that changed the garrison were all colonial servants.

In Asia Minor, there are still Ottoman troops who are still fighting, and they may not know that the Ottoman Empire has surrendered, or they are unwilling to continue to resist, or they may have organized a resistance army of their own accord.

Although these troops were small in size and few in number, their weapons were not advanced enough, and their logistical supplies were sufficient, their familiarity with the terrain and the sympathy and support of the locals caused a lot of trouble for the expeditionary force.

On the 10th of January, a patrol of the Sultanate of Najd was attacked by the Resistance forces, killing 60 people on the spot, more than 30 captured and tortured by the Resistance forces, and only a dozen escaped.

"The site of the attack was in the mountains fifty kilometers east of Ankara, when our patrol was resting, the resistance planted bombs on the side of the road, the patrol was taken by surprise, the Ottomans took all their weapons, stripped all their clothes and exposed the corpses to the wilderness, and insulted the corpses, and now the news has spread, and the impact is very bad." Ian Hamilton was indignant, not to mention snatching things and killing people, insulting corpses was too much.

Since soldiers have gone to the battlefield, they have the consciousness of dedication and sacrifice, and they can leave a pension and honor to their families when they die, so there is nothing to regret.

Insulting the corpse breaks through the bottom line, the vast majority of Najd soldiers have faith, if they die uncleanly, they cannot go to heaven after death, which is the greatest punishment for believers.

"This is normal, and the believers cannot be measured by common sense, in their opinion, this is the best punishment for the infidels-" Roque knows how cruel those people are, they are like mustaches, and can they preach the royal way with such people?

Humane destruction is the ultimate meaning.

"It's not the Middle Ages anymore, and we're not crusaders—" Ian Hamilton couldn't understand, it was already the 20th century, and he was like a barbarian who hadn't blossomed.

"All the same, send troops over and put everyone within a ten mile radius in a concentration camp, and let them know who is now the master of Asia Minor." Roque was decisive in his killing, and there was nothing to say to these people, how the British dealt with the Boers during the Second Boer War, Roque dealt with the Ottomans.

This is also a British tradition.

The troops sent to deal with the matter quickly set out, and considering the local situation, Roque drew a company from the 2nd Cavalry Division and a battalion from the troops of the Sultanate of Najd, and although the total strength was only more than 500 points, it was enough to deal with the poorly equipped guerrillas.

After sending troops, Roque was not idle, and 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 Command and spread it throughout the Asia Minor peninsula.

It's not that Roque is impatient, in the two river basins, Roque is very patient, forget about the Asia Minor Peninsula, anyway, the Asia Minor Peninsula will not belong to Southern Africa after the war, and will be divided by Britain, France, Russia, Italy and other countries, so Roque will not do his best to slowly grind and win people's hearts little by little.

Roque's patience in the two river basins was not prepared for the Ottomans, or that sentence, Roque did not need the Ottomans to develop the economy, Roque had human resources in his hands, so the management of the two river basins began with population migration.

In this era, it may only be that southern Africa will occupy an area and then move the indigenous people out on a large scale, and then bring in a large number of new immigrants to fill it, this way does not seem smart, and can even be described as stupid, other countries are trying to attract new immigrants, only southern Africa is trying to drive out the indigenous people.

In fact, there is not much trouble, the land in the two river valleys is more controlled by the big landlords and nobles and high-ranking monks, and these big landlords and nobles and high-ranking monks have fled to the interior of the Ottoman Empire in a hurry before the Southern Inner Coalition army has captured the two river valleys, so that most of the land is confiscated as ownerless land, and then sold to the mercenaries of the umbrella company or the white employees of the Adan company at a very fast and low price.

After the end of the war, there may be people who will return to the two river valleys and try to recover their land, not to mention whether they can return to the two river valleys smoothly at that time, even if they return to the two river valleys, the current owners of those lands will not give up the land they bought with their money.

Of course, in the process of this wealth transfer, there will definitely be some things that cannot be written, this is inevitable, it belongs to the part of the war, after the devastation of the war, the Ottomans in the two river valleys do not exist, and most of the existing Ottomans are poor people who were previously attached to the big landlords, nobles and high-ranking monks, and the land in the two river valleys never belonged to them, so they don't care who they work for, as long as they are fed and can live.

According to incomplete statistics, after the surrender of the Ottoman Empire, it brought more than 1.5 billion rand to the Mediterranean expeditionary force, of which at least one billion rand belonged to the Southern African Expeditionary Force, and the Southern African Expeditionary Force in Europe had a total of only 400,000 people, with an average of about 2,500 rand per person.

In Southern Africa last year, the average annual income of working adults just exceeded 100 rand.

This is called the cannon sounds, and the gold is ten thousand taels.

At the same time as the naturalization of the two river basins, the construction of the island of Cyprus has not stopped, and a new port has been built on the seaside in the direction of Beirut, and a railway will be built between the two ports to connect the two ports, and a road around the island is also planned.

There were now more than 20,000 Chinese laborers on the island, as well as more than 30,000 laborers of Indian origin, and nearly 50,000 Ottomans conscripted from Asia Minor, who were the main force in the construction of the island, and who had to work on the island for at least two years to complete all the tasks of the Roque plan.

At the same time as the construction of the island of Cyprus, the Battle of Verdun was underway, and on January 3, it began to snow again in Verdun, and the German offensive was forced to stop.

It snowed heavily for a week, and on the 12th of January, the day Roque returned to Cyprus, fighting resumed.

The Germans, who had already occupied Verdun, this time focused their attacks on the Coswoods.

Countless French officers and soldiers suffered under the powerful fire of the German army, after the outbreak of the world war, Emil Drion, a member of parliament who volunteered to serve as a lieutenant colonel, was killed in the battle, and the old general Haile was also tragically killed in the battle, Petain took over the position of General Haile, commanding the French troops to continue the battle.

The battle was brutal, the Germans continued with their firepower, the only French soldiers could use against the flamethrowers were rifles and grenades, and when the bullets ran out, the soldiers returned fire with rifle butts and stones, many of which were killed and wounded within half an hour of entering the battle, and the French troops lost 23,000 killed and another 20,000 missing in the first five days of the Battle of Verdun.

These missing people did not flee, but were directly hit by German large-caliber artillery, and their bones were gone, and in Douaumont, a French soldier's bunker was directly hit by large-caliber artillery, and at least 300 French soldiers were buried in the bunker, and when the French troops recaptured their positions, the entire forest on the surface was gone, and no one knew the specific location of the bunker, and the bunker became the permanent grave of the 300 soldiers.

The casualties of the attacking German troops were much smaller than those of the French, and the German vanguard on the entire front line were two divisions of the Fifth Army, which reported fewer than 2,000 casualties a week after the battle began.

This is abnormal, in general, the casualties of the attacking troops are much greater than the casualties of the defending troops, but this is not the case in France, before the outbreak of the battle, Germany was more prepared, the number of large-caliber guns was greater, the French troops only had 700 guns, but more than half were old guns with a slower rate of fire, not even 75 miss.

On January 15, Xia Fei finally sent large-caliber artillery to the front, and the command system of the French army had problems again.

At midnight on the 16th, a French unit was defeated by the Germans at Samonieu on the east bank of the Merz River, this force quickly collapsed, the whole formation was disrupted, and the scattered soldiers told everyone they met that Samonieux had fallen, and in fact Samonieux was still under the control of the French army, and one general heard that Samonieu had fallen, and immediately ordered his troops to attack Samonieux, and another general, knowing the news, ordered artillery to bombard Samonieux.

In the early hours of the morning, shells fired by French artillery fell on the heads of the defenders of Samonieux and the French attacking Samonieu, and both units suffered heavy casualties.

The Germans took advantage of the situation to attack, and at six o'clock in the morning, Samonieu really fell, nearly 6,000 French officers and soldiers were killed, and 13,000 were wounded.

After daybreak, the Germans continued their offensive and by noon had advanced the line 3.5 miles, a great improvement, and now only the fortified fortresses of Duvomont and Vaux remained between the Germans and Paris.

In order to send more troops to the front, Pétain organized 3,900 trucks and delivered 190,000 troops and 25,000 tons of various supplies to Duvermont in a week, ready for a decisive battle with the Germans in Duvomont.

On 20 January, Haig finally completed his preparations for the attack, launching the largest offensive ever led by the British Expeditionary Force against the Germans at Mons.

This time, Haig mobilized 25 divisions with a total strength of more than 400,000 troops, and Haig was spurred on by Roque's record.

(The name of the chapter in the previous chapter is wrong.,808 is typed into 818.,I'm contacting the editor.,I don't know if I can change it.,If you can't.,Brothers just come together to see it.,Anyway, the wrong chapter doesn't affect the reading experience——?? ）