The rotten hierarchy of the British army is evident from the promotion system of officers.

Before 1870, British officers had to spend money on promotion, not only in terms of personnel, but also on uniforms, and they had to pay a certain amount of money to their superiors on a regular basis to ensure that they would not be replaced by others.

In 1870, Britain began military reform in an attempt to create an officer corps that met the requirements of modern warfare.

This reform was not successful enough, and the outbreak of the Second Boer War in 1899 proved that although the military reform had been carried out for thirty years, the British Expeditionary Force, which had an overwhelming superiority in forces, could not defeat the Boer guerrillas formed by farmers.

The British troops in 1913 were relatively good, at least compared to the Second Boer War, and the marksmanship of the British troops was now more accurate, because after the Second Boer War, the British increased the training of soldiers in this area.

However, the officer corps is still a big problem, Frenzi is doing a good job, he is indeed protecting his poor little army, but he is losing the trust of the Anglo-French army, Haig is a possible successor to Frenzi, but Haig is a bigger disaster compared to Frenzi.

Born into a wealthy family in the Scottish border region that had been in the whisky business for generations, Haig was able to attend Oxford University with the support of his family, but after three years of fighting, Haig's grades were seriously unsatisfactory and he could not even get a diploma, so Haig had to go to the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, hoping to find a new opportunity.

What is unthinkable is that Haig, who has been studying at Oxford University for three years, did not even pass the entrance exam when he took the entrance exam for the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst.

Compared with Oxford, the admission requirements of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst are very low, and many noble children who do not have family inheritance rights and cannot get into Oxbridge will choose to enter the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst to gild, and then go to the army to find opportunities, which was the case with Winston at the beginning.

However, even at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, which has very low requirements for students, Haig's grades are not up to standard, and it is impossible to imagine how bad his grades are.

Fortunately, Haig had a brother-in-law who was the honorary guardian of the Prince of Wales' yacht, and Haig's sister asked the Duke of Cambridge to come forward and lower the admission requirements for the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst, so Haig was able to get into the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst.

During the Second Boer War, Haig, who had already entered the army, gradually attracted the attention of Kitchener, but this was not because Haig performed well in the war, in fact, Haig performed badly during the Second Boer War, but because of Haig's disdain for women, it attracted the attention of Kitchener, who was unmarried all his life.

During his stay in southern Africa, Haig once lent Frenzi 2,000 pounds to help him settle his entanglement with a woman, thus winning Frenzi's friendship again.

After the Boer War, Haig became Edward VII's military attaché and married the queen's maid, Dorothy Vivien, and Haig's path to prosperity became smoother.

Haig was the first non-royal in history to have a wedding in the Chapel of Buckingham Palace.

After the outbreak of the world war, the god of fate still favored Haig, and the commander of the First Army, who came to France earlier than Haig, was James Grierson at the beginning, this is a talented man, who once completely defeated the troops commanded by Haig in last year's military exercises, resulting in the exercise had to be stopped early, but unfortunately the god of fate did not favor Grierson, Grierson died of a heart attack just after setting foot on French soil, and then Smith Doring became the commander of the First Army, That's when Haig had the opportunity to climb up.

The only good news is that the British army also has a trusted Secretary of War, Kitchener, who is now the undisputed core of the British army and a symbol of Britain like the British king.

Upon his return to London, Kitchener sent a telegram to Roque in the hope that southern Africa would provide more support to France.

"The army, the doctors, the medicines, the shells, the alcohol, the canned food, the rations of the individual soldiers, the cars, the planes, and even the cotton clothes, does Your Excellency the Minister regard our southern Africa as a treasure trove for Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves?" Roque originally wanted to say Doraemon's belly pocket, but unfortunately Ade couldn't understand it.

"It's not that you don't give money, what are you afraid of?" Ade didn't know that the world was hard and the human heart was sinister.

hmm——

Roque didn't want to scold, although Roque had good enough reasons.

"The French want to be beautiful, take a loan from the RAND Bank, and then use the loan to buy supplies, isn't this an empty glove white wolf? No, we're going to raise prices, and we're going to have France mortgage them with colonial revenues - "Xiao Si This is the standard white thinking, a charcoal in the snow?"

It's just wishful thinking, giving charcoal in the snow is not a virtue for white people, and it is not morality that can make white people surrender, but cannons and iron blood.

Robbery while the fire is a white tradition.

However, there are not many things that France can mortgage, in the last purchase, France has mortgaged the income of Madagascar to the RAND Bank, and then it can only reach North Africa and the French East Indies, these two places are unlikely, and unlike Madagascar, which France has not completely conquered, North Africa and the French East Indies are still relatively stable.

After the outbreak of the world war, both North Africa and the French East Indies sent reinforcements to France, even if Madagascar counted, the reinforcements did not need to be thought about, and the Malagasy people in the Central Highlands did not take the opportunity to make trouble, even if God blessed.

"The Bank of Rhodesia can lend money to France." Roque gave Xiao Si an idea, wanting to see how ruthless Xiao Si was.

The executive director of the RAND Bank is Ida, although Ida has now become a Southern African citizen, but Ida is French after all, and the incense still has to be recited, so Ida's original conditions are not excessive.

"If you don't borrow, France can't even keep Paris, the government has already moved to Bordeaux, and I won't be surprised if France surrenders tomorrow, who will I go to ask for money then?" Xiao Si did not know the course of the world war, and it seemed that France was indeed very dangerous, and Paris would fall at any time.

"Rest assured, the Germans will not be able to take Paris." Roque still knows relatively well that the luck of the French has not yet run out, and it will be a few decades before the Germans will get their wish.

"Really?" Even if it was Roque's words, Xiao Si would be suspicious, but Xiao Si immediately changed his words and did not give Roque a chance to laugh: "Then borrow, but the interest should be a little higher, and I need more benefits, I have to think about it." ”

The two shameless guys were about to take advantage of the fire to rob their allies, and Ade looked at him coldly, not participating or objecting, and looked at Roque and Xiao Si with a look full of contempt.

Roque and Xiao Si were unimpressed, at least Ade did not object, which shows that in Ade's mind, the interests of southern Africa have exceeded the interests of Europe, which is a good thing.

It is true that the French have no other choice, and unlike Europe, which is struggling with difficulties, southern Africa is also at war, but the war has had little effect on southern Africa itself.

Although Roque was reluctant, a large number of concentration camps were erected in South-West Africa and Tanganyika, and in Southern Africa the inhabitants of South-West Africa and Tanganyika were screened, and the Germans were imprisoned in concentration camps, the Allies were spared, and all other nationalities were repatriated, or sent to other overseas territories in Britain.

This screening is not strictly carried out, and even standard Germans, who say they are French or British, do not look closely into southern Africa.

To renounce one's nationality is to separate oneself from Germany, which is a welcome case in southern Africa, which did not fall into chaos as many predicted after the outbreak of the world war, and the Germans in southern Africa did not show much sympathy and help to Germany, at least at a time when both the British and the French were donating to their homeland.

On the contrary, many Germans donated money to England and France.

It was only then that Roque understood the classic line in "Let the Bullets Fly", the people are really who wins and helps whom, not who occupies the moral height to help whom, although Europe is still undecided, at least in southern Africa, Germany's defeat is decided.

"The 201st and 301st Divisions have arrived in France, the 101st, 102nd, 103rd, 104th, and 106th Divisions have also boarded ships from Walvis Bay to prepare for France, the 11th, 12th, and 13th Divisions have gone to Port Edward to prepare for the Sinai Peninsula, and the newly formed ten divisions are expected to be released by the end of the year to give us fifteen million to build more troops, Your Excellency the Minister hopes that we can mobilize the Northern Rhodesian Division and the 1st Cavalry Division to France to participate in the war, and the French government will be responsible for all expenses, Including the weapons now equipped with the Northern Rhodesian Division and the 1st Cavalry Division, the French government paid for them all. "The good news from Dodd's side is one after another, and the French government has been forced into a corner and will not let go of a single straw.

The 201st Division was drawn from Fort Glory and the 301st Division was drawn from the Kingdom of Mozambique, both of which were mainly African.

The 11th, 12th and 13th divisions were engineering units composed of conscripts, and have now been converted into garrisons stationed in Nyasaland, Rhodesia, and Transvaal, respectively.

These three states are the three most stable states in southern Africa, even if there are no troops, these three states will not have problems, and some discordant accidents can be handled by the National Guard and the police, so they are the first to be drawn out and go to the Sinai Peninsula to reinforce Egypt and the Sultanate of Najd respectively.

Unlike Europe, which was already at war, the Sinai Peninsula was eerily calm, and the Ottoman Empire, which had been very active before the war, had not yet entered the war, but continued to increase its troops to Damascus and Basra, which had four divisions before and now increased to seven, and Damascus had eleven divisions.

It is clear that Basra's troops are for Port Elizabeth, and the troops in Damascus are for Egypt, and the Ottomans are not ready to enter the war now, and once the mobilization is completed, with the forces of Port Elizabeth and Egypt, it will probably not be able to withstand the Ottoman attack.