The harmony of the meal was incomparable, and Roque did not take credit for himself, praising Winston and Quakichener, praising the Ministry of War and praising the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in short, everyone had a share in the interests, and even George V was not left behind.

Jokes aside, without the wise leadership of George V, the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force would not have been able to win so quickly.

Haig returned to London that evening, and the difference in importance can be seen here, Cyprus is farther away from London than France, but Roque came back earlier, and Haig inadvertently lost points.

The second day of the joint meeting began, focusing on whether the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force needed to be canceled after the surrender of the Ottoman Empire.

Haig insisted that after the surrender of the Ottoman Empire, it was unnecessary for the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force to maintain the size of another 300,000 men, and insisted that a part of the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force should be transferred to supplement the Western Front.

Roque definitely disagreed, although the Ottoman Empire has surrendered, but the Asia Minor Peninsula needs more garrisons, the Ottoman Empire has not completely surrendered, in the mountains of the Anatolian Plateau, there are still Ottoman troops insisting on fighting, they do not know the news that the Ottoman Empire has surrendered, Roque expects that the entire Asia Minor Peninsula needs at least 250,000 defenders.

These 250,000 were exactly the total number of troops after removing the British and French troops, and Roque agreed to transfer the British and French troops to supplement the Western Front, but did not agree to transfer other troops.

"The Mediterranean Expeditionary Force is a unit of the British Empire, not someone's private army, so it is not up to someone to decide whether or not to transfer troops and which troops to draw." Haig has lost his mind, he has won the competition with Frenzi, but he is far behind Roque, and his jealousy eats at Haig's heart like a poisonous snake.

In addition to Kitchener and Winston, the meeting was attended by Admiral William Robertson, Chief of Staff of the Royal Army, Arthur Balfour, former Prime Minister Arthur Balfour, who succeeded Winston as Secretary of the Navy, John Jellico, Commander of the Home Fleet, and the Duke of Bateford, Special Representative of George V.

"General Haig, the Western Front is important, but so is the Asia Minor, and we must consolidate the fruits of our victory and firmly occupy the Asia Minor Peninsula, and as for the Western Front, we should rely more on the French troops than on our British Expeditionary Force." Winston has long looked at Haig as unpleasant, this man is arrogant, obstinate, self-righteous and has no sense of responsibility, once he loses the battle, he will throw the blame like crazy, a complete villain.

Winston's attitude is also very clear, after the outbreak of the world war, the casualties of the British expeditionary force have been heavy, and now there are more than one million casualties, which is not in line with the British national policy, Britain has never suffered such a big loss, the government and the opposition are full of complaints, Haig can not care, but politicians can not care, if the casualties continue to increase, then it will definitely affect next year's general election.

"The French were cowardly, weak and incompetent, and simply could not win the victory over Germany." Haig inherited Frenzi's contempt for the French generals, which was unreasonable, and it is fair to say that the world war has been going on until now, and France has definitely paid a greater price than Britain, and if it were not for France's sworn resistance, the English Channel would have been the front line by now.

"You're right, but did the expeditionary force achieve a decent victory under your leadership? Whether it's Mons or the Marne, or Ypres and Ruth, the battle report is always full of casualties, and the troops are fighting bloodily, but the place where the battle is taking place is getting closer and closer to Paris, and you are consuming our living force, but you haven't been able to make the progress you deserve-" Roque directly uncovered the scars, replaced by the previous Roque, and more or less saved some face for Haig, forget it now, Roque conquered the Ottoman Empire, and is qualified to evaluate anyone.

"You can't blame me for not making progress at the front, you think the Germans were as weak and incompetent as the Ottomans? You're just picking up a bargain, shut up honestly now, I'm the commander-in-chief of the expeditionary force on the Western Front. Haig slapped the table and shouted at Roque, in the past, Hague would not have said it so bluntly, but now it is different, Roque already has the strength to threaten Hag.

"Bullshit! It's not that I haven't fought with the Germans, Operation Victory Horn is under my command, have you ever won a victory similar to Operation Victory Horn, if not, shut up, you are a special waste, you will only stain your military medals with the blood of soldiers, I will never hand over any troops to you again, even if you are defeated in France, I am confident that the Germans will be blocked from the homeland! Roque scolded, and the long-accumulated resentment erupted.

Indeed, before the outbreak of the war, Roque was planning to use the war to improve the status of southern Africa and reduce the threat of Africans within southern Africa.

But Roque has a principle, even if it is a planned threat reduction, it should be done in Roque's way, not in the case of Hagrid and Xia Fei, who are careless of human life.

It is important to make clear the fact that the world war has been going on until now, and Roque's perception of Africans is also changing.

In another time and space, the information that Roque received from the Western media was all about how stupid Africans are, how backward Africa is, how muddy the little blacks can't get on the wall, and how inferior the nature of Africans is.

Coming to this time and space, Roque found that Africans are really not as unbearable as the Western media in another time and space, at least the Africans in southern Africa are honest, capable, hard-working, and never mention any conditions, the Belgians are so tyrannical in the Congo Free State, Africans can endure it, so Roque's view of Africans is also changing.

When it comes to scum, there are a lot of scum in all races, especially whites, colonial whites are not all scum, at least six out of ten are scum, or take southern Africa as an example, the proportion of white crimes is significantly higher than that of Africans in the crime cases counted by the Ministry of Justice.

Of course, learning more about Africans does not mean that Roque will accept Africans, and Roque is unwilling to accept Africans, including Yaya.

Yaya still has a white maid in the house, if this is known to the outside world, I am afraid it will be a new round of verbal criticism.

But if you think that there are still white people working in the red light district in Cape Town, you can understand why there are white people who are willing to follow Yaya, or that sentence, there are hundreds of people, not every white person is clean, for money, for the so-called survival, or for vanity, there are so many people who are willing to follow Yaya, don't think they are all good girls, there are people who are willing to fall everywhere, and it is impossible for Roque to save everyone.

"You're the shit, you're a stinky pig—" Haig was furious, apparently unnoticed by Roque's crooked building, turning over and over "You're a stinky pig", "You're a stupid dog", and there were no new tricks.

"Shut up, shut up for me, and see what you have become, one is the commander-in-chief of the expeditionary force, the other is the conqueror of Constantinople, can't you be a gentleman—" Kitchener slammed the table, Winston glared at Haig, General William Robertson shook his head and smiled wryly, and Marshal John Jericot was dumbfounded.

The Duke of Bertford did not speak the whole time, he held his chin and watched with interest in the audience, his eyes roaming back and forth between Roque and Haig.

When Kitchener was angry, Roque didn't speak, and his contemptuous eyes were still provoking Haig, and Haig couldn't bear it: "You shut up too, he scolded me first, damn it, didn't you hear it?" ”

It didn't seem to be a question of who scolded who first, and before Roque could react, Winston burst out laughing, and he was slapping his feet and stomping his feet, and his tears almost burst out of his eyes.

"Douglas, if you are so presumptuous again, I will remove you from the post of commander-in-chief of the expeditionary force." Kitchener's patience with Haig has reached its limit, the expeditionary force is not performing well, and Kitchener is also jointly and severally responsible, God knows how much black pot Kitchener carried for Frenzi and Haig.

Before the outbreak of the world war, Kitchener was a god of war for the British Army, and on the army's recruitment advertisement, Haig was almost on a par with George V, calling on British young people to join the army and fight for justice and glory.

Now that the world war was not over, Kitchener's prestige was declining sharply, and first the Ministry of Munitions was established, which took away the right to distribute war-related materials from Kitchener.

Immediately after the establishment of the General Staff, Kitchener lost the right to plan the campaign, and had to report to the Cabinet every month to explain the War Department's summary of the work of the previous month and the work arrangements for the next month.

Now that the Ottoman Empire has surrendered, Kitchener's prestige has finally bottomed out, but at this time Haig is still constantly creating problems, first attacking for no reason, resulting in heavy casualties among the Southern African Expeditionary Force, and then chasing and beating the two generals in southern Africa, causing Britain to lose face in front of its ally France, and now Haig is challenging Kitchener's authority head-on, and Kitchener is on the verge of breaking out.

Look at how well Roque behaved, when Kitchener spoke, Roque didn't say a word, and nodded again and again when he listened, which clearly meant that it was in Roque's heart.

"Well, of course you can do that, and then you can appoint someone as the commander-in-chief of the expeditionary force and see if he can lead the expeditionary force to defeat Germany and win." Haig's eyes were blood-red and panting, he was also under a lot of pressure these days, after the surrender of the Ottoman Empire, the generals on the Western Front were under pressure, and Xia Fei was even more stressed.

Kitchener sneered, and before he could speak, Kitchener's secretary suddenly hurriedly pushed the door in.

"Gentlemen, the Germans have attacked, with at least ninety divisions participating, and the whole front is in a hurry!"

The Battle of Verdun finally began, on the first day of 1915.

(It was a little late, but I didn't release my brothers' pigeons!) ）

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