Compared with the hard horses and hard bridges of the German army on the Eastern Front, Lawrence Elsie, the commander of the 35th Division of the German Army on the Western Front, wanted to cry without tears.

The 35th Division was also initially reinforced by train to Dodoma, but thirty kilometers after the train left Usunbula, the railway was destroyed by the troops of Fort Glory, and Lawrence Elsie had to order his accompanying servants to begin repairing the railway.

In the 21st century, with the assistance of various large-scale engineering equipment, it seems that the construction of railways is very simple.

But at the beginning of the twentieth century, in Tanganyika, where there was a shortage of construction machinery, a shortage of engineers, the inability to produce its own railroad tracks, and the constant harassment of the troops of Fort Glory, repairing the railroad was an impossible task.

With the guidance of professional guerrilla warfare experts, those African blacks of the Fort Glory troops are simply like hanging up, showing the arrogance in the bones of Africans to the fullest.

Under normal circumstances, if you destroy the railway, you can just blow up the rails.

African blacks are not like this, of course, they sometimes plant explosives directly, but more often they do things on the roadbed, some sections of the railway seem to have no problems, and there is no problem when the workers inspect them, but as long as the train goes up, the roadbed will collapse immediately, and the end of the high-speed train is particularly miserable.

This is actually not the advice given by the volunteers, considering the future of Tanganyika, the volunteers actually suggested to the Fort Glory troops that it is better to directly destroy the railway, not to engage in these invisible small actions, to directly blow up the rails, or even to unload the rails to resist leaving, because with direct destruction, the railway can be repaired in the future, and if it is done now, even if the Germans withdraw in the future, the railway will not be able to continue to be used.

But the little blacks didn't care, in their words, the railroad was a tool used by the Germans to colonize Tanganyika, and the Tanganyika people were now against German colonization, so they should abandon anything that the Germans imposed on him.

As a result, the railroad was perhaps the only thing of value that Germany had brought to Tanganyika, and it was destroyed by the hands of the little blacks.

In fact, after the destruction of the railway, Lawrence Elsie ordered the troops to advance along the gravel road, and the repair of the railway was protracted, Lawrence Elsie could not be in a hurry, but Dodoma did not have enough time to wait.

The situation on the roads was also serious, and for a whole week the 35th Division advanced no more than a hundred kilometers, and on the worst day, the distance was less than ten kilometers.

In Lawrence Elsie's view, the Fort Glory troops can definitely be associated with all the negative words sinister, indecent, despicable, shameless, etc., and the Tanganyikadian army, which left the railroad and took to the road, still had to face all kinds of attacks.

From the most primitive and rudimentary traps to the unguardable and strange mines, the 35th Division has endured enough hardships in the past week, and has collected hundreds of kinds of mines of all kinds.

Guerrilla warfare experts introduced the general structure of the mines to the little blacks, and then the little blacks played freely, and the mines produced were definitely not what normal mines should look like, and there were all kinds of strange and varied.

And the key is that in the eyes of white Europeans, Tanganyika Africans also look similar, so the Tanganyika servant army, which has just been formed during this time, has unwittingly mixed with many Africans who sympathize with the Fort Glory troops, and even the Fort Glory rebels who hide their identities.

On June 22nd, Lawrence Elsie himself was almost injured by a mine, and later learned that there were members of the Fort Glory rebels in the servant army unit in charge of demining, and as a result, the troops in front were responsible for demining, and the members of the Fort Glory rebels in the back buried the mine again, and it exploded when Lawrence Elsie's special car passed by the mine.

Lawrence Elsie would like to thank the Lord for the safety of his car, and if it were a different car, Laurence Elsie would have been killed or injured.

When Erich von Falkingham went to Roque, the 35th Division was still nearly 500 kilometers away from Dodoma in a straight line, and at the current rate, it would take at least two months for the 35th Division to reach Dodoma.

Two months!

If you take a boat, you can go around most of the world.

So when Erich von Falkingham came to Roque, he was also desperate.

"Locke, you Nyasaland are playing with fire, you have opened the gates of hell, and what you have released is a group of demons, the current Tanganyika, that is, the future Nyasaland, and even the whole of southern Africa, those who play with fire will burn themselves, I hope you will have enough ways to deal with it when the time comes." Erich von Falkingham almost didn't scold directly.

"Hehe, General Falkingham, you don't need to worry about this question, now you are still worried about Tanganyika, how are you going to deal with the situation in Tanganyika?" Roque is not worried about this problem, the essence of guerrilla warfare lies in the basis of mass work, without broad mass support, the guerrillas simply cannot hold out, Africans in Nyasaland, which is predominantly Chinese, do not get any support at all, and in Natal, which is predominantly African, it is also impossible to take advantage, and the previous Natal rebellion has proved that the Northern Rhodesian Division is fully capable of dealing with any form of rebel army.

That was still the Northern Rhodesian Division, which was now fully equipped with 18,000 men, and even if all Africans in Southern Africa joined the rebels, the Northern Rhodesian Division could easily deal with it.

Even the 1st Cavalry Division did not need to be requisitioned.

Erich von Falkingham has nothing to do with the current Tanganyika, and if he had, the situation in Tanganyika would not have collapsed to the extent it has now, and Erich von Falkingham would not have had to come to Ulysses in a low-key manner.

So Erich von Falkingham's answer to Roque was a long silence.

Roque was able to see from the change in Erich von Falkingham's expression that Erich von Falkingham's inner struggle was complex.

"If—I mean, if Tanganyika can give Fort Glory a relatively adequate space to live, can Fort Glory still recognize the administration of Tanganyika?" Erich von Falkingham finally raised the question, but it is not known whether it was Erich von Falkingham himself or the German General Staff.

Probably both.

The key question is whether the cost is proportional to the gain if the German government increases investment and continues to increase troops in Tanganyika.

If Tanganyika is the Transvaal full of gold, then it is believed that the German General Staff will stabilize the situation in Tanganyika even if it suspends the arms race.

It's a pity that Tanganyika is not, and the current Tanganyika itself still needs subsidies from Germany to maintain colonial rule, and it is impossible to feed back to Germany itself.

As for Erich von Falkingham himself, the experience of Tanganyika, the memories left by Erich von Falkingham are absolutely unpleasant, and will even become a stain on Erich von Falkingham's military career, seriously affecting the future of Erich von Falkingham, so Erich von Falkingham is now very eager to end the war in Tanganyika and leave Tanganyika in a relatively decent way.

As for what will become of Tanganyika after that, that is not at all a question that Erich von Falkingham will consider.

"Of course you can admit it, but whether you accept it or not is another matter." Roque did not let go, and would definitely not lower the requirements of the troops of Fort Glory just because Erich von Falkingham took the initiative to come to the door.

Even if it is lowered, it will not be Roque's turn to be this good person, Mumu is in Ulysses, and if Erich von Falkingham really wants to solve the problem of Tanganyika, he can go to Mumu to talk.

The reason why Erich von Falkingham came to Roque, instead of going directly to Mumu, is rooted in the white people's contempt for Africans, although Roque is not white, but Roque is a military nobleman of the British Empire, and he is definitely qualified to communicate with Erich von Falkingham on an equal footing.

"In fact, I have always believed that European competition should not continue to Africa, Tanganyika, Southwest Africa, and Southern Africa are all in a similar situation, which are essentially colonies of European countries, and we should join hands to turn Africa into the next Europe, rather than tearing each other down like now." Erich von Falkingham estimated that he was a bit self-defeating and decadent, so he simply picked it out and said it directly.

"It was you who dismantled our platform first, and if it weren't for the aid you gave to the Boers during the Boer War, there would be no chaos in Tanganyika today." Roque also responded directly, everyone knows exactly what the situation is, there is the first day of the German junior high school, and there is the fifteenth year of the United Kingdom.

It's just that the British survived at the beginning, so there is now southern Africa.

If the Germans can't hold on, Tanganyika will become Zanzibar.

"The Boer War was a war between whites and whites, and Tanganyika were two different things and could not be confused." Erich von Falkingham did not deny Germany's role during the Boer War, which was also common in European countries, and there are now many volunteers from Europe and around the world in Tanganyika.

"It's one thing, if you ask the Boers, they don't recognize themselves as Africans." Roque is not lying, the group of "Africans" was first proposed by the Boers, but it was carried forward by Ade, and everyone in southern Africa was classified as "African".

This is also a deliberate confusion of concepts, as the Boers want to create a multi-ethnic political group, and so does Ade.

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