"—It was raining, and it was Locke who spotted the sentry who was smoking, and I wanted to attack directly, but Locke told me that we were going to fight a beautiful battle of annihilation—" Henry was foaming at the bar, surrounded by a large number of senior officers, Major General Marcy Meredith, senior staff officer of the Expeditionary Force Command, and the oldest colonel was named Marcos Lloyd, the commander of the Royal Canadian Regiment, and they all had a prominent maple leaf logo on their hats, and the lowest-ranking officer present was also a major, It is estimated that this is the bar with the highest density of officers in the Kimberley.

"To the Queen!"

"To Henry!"

"To Locke!"

The atmosphere of the officers was high, and the officers would raise their glasses to celebrate every wonderful moment, Henry and Roque also had free champagne, and Major General Marcy was treated.

"-Speaking of fighting, Locke was definitely a good hand, he used explosives packs to drive the Boers from the house into the wilderness, to the heavy machine-gun position I commanded, what I had to do was to direct the heavy machine-gun to kill them, but I didn't expect to kill Joubert together-" Henry was righteous enough not to take the credit for himself, and Locke got more and more "respect for Locke."

"It's interesting, you used a dynamite pack." Major General Marcy was perceptive and grasped the key points.

"Yes, explosives packs, we don't have artillery, and we don't even have dummy shells when we arrive in Dordrecht—" Henry cried when he should have cried poor.

"Shhh Major General Marcy's pretentious appearance caused everyone to laugh.

The British are like this, on the surface, they are very skilled in playing double standards.

"I mean the Boers' dummies, we've captured quite a few—" Henry's eyes widened and the officers burst into laughter again.

"It's unbelievable that it was a group of policemen who killed Joubert, and you all deserve a medal." Major General Marcy has a high emotional intelligence, otherwise he would not be in a high position.

High emotional intelligence is a common trait of big people, and it doesn't have to be noble to be able to be in a high position, such as Alfred Milner, who is not even a baron now, but that does not prevent Alfred Milner from serving as Governor of the Cape Colony.

"Locke, are you really from the Qing Kingdom?" Unlike Major General Marcy, Marcos Lloyd was more interested in Roque.

"Yes, Mr. Colonel, I served in the Huayong Battalion before, came to Cape at the end of last year, and now I am naturalized." Roque doesn't shy away from his origins.

"Oh, then you are no longer from the Qing Dynasty, you are a Cape and a citizen of the British Empire." Marcos did not discriminate against Roque's origins, or rather, Marcos disguised it better.

At present, the Cape colony has not yet obtained autonomous status, so strictly speaking, the Cape people are British, and it is only after the Cape colony is autonomous that the Cape gradually distances itself from the British.

"Oh, I know the Huayong Battalion, a force made up of Qing people."

"It turns out that I used to serve in the Huayong Battalion, that's right."

"Is Huayong Camp so powerful?"

The officers talked a lot, and some people didn't understand the background of the Huayong Battalion, and soon some people popularized science, and everyone looked at Luo Ke's eyes again, and they were relieved after suddenly realizing it.

"Qing people and Chinese are two different things." Luo Ke really couldn't bear it, it was absolutely wrong to confuse the Qing people with the Chinese, although the Qing ruled the Chinese, but the Qing State definitely could not represent the Chinese: "The Chinese have a history of 5,000 years of civilization, and the Qing State has only a history of more than 200 years, before the Qing Dynasty, the Ming Empire was the last country established by the Chinese, if you gentlemen know anything about the Far East, then you should have heard of the most powerful fleet in the world at that time." ”

In fact, Roque is a bit extreme, saying that these are meaningless, and it does not change the impression of the Chinese in the hearts of these British officers, in the minds of these British officers, Roque is no longer the same concept as other Chinese, just like Marcos said, Roque is now a British citizen.

"Calm down Sheriff, no one denies the history of the Chinese, but that's just history, right?" Major General Marcy spoke sharply, and one sentence left Roque speechless.

Yes, no matter how glorious the history is, it is only history.

Even if the Ming Empire had the most powerful fleet in the world at that time, it had disappeared into the long river of history, and the current Chinese were a nation conquered by aliens, no matter how strong Roque's national pride was, it could not change this reality after all.

"Yes, that's just history, but I firmly believe that the Chinese will definitely rise again." Roque knew that Major General Marcy was right, but Roque couldn't accept it, thirty years in Hexi, thirty years in Hedong, we'll see.

No, at the age of Major General Marcy, it is estimated that Major General Marcy will not see the day when the Chinese will rise again.

"Yes, in you I see hope." Major General Marcy does not deny the possibility of this, which is already the most euphemistic statement, and if it were not for the fact that the commandos killed Joubert, Major General Marcy would not have listened to Roque's nonsense.

"Gentlemen, let us raise our glasses to the victory and pay tribute to the great British Empire." Rear Admiral Marcy also did not give Roque a chance to speak, and proposed to raise a glass together to celebrate.

All the Britons present responded with a bang, and Roque also raised his glass, well, a little astringent.

On the way back to the residence after saying goodbye to the officers, Henry enthusiastically shared the harvest with Roque: "All the captives have bounties, and the ones we killed also have them, Joubert is the most valuable, we got a total of 20,000 pounds, plus the previous 5,000, we now have 25,000 pounds, God, this is really a lot of money, I have not seen how spectacular it is to pile up 25,000 pounds together!" ”

"Where's your title? Didn't you? "Roque doesn't care how much money he has, he can still earn money later, and the most important thing now is the knighthood, which is the talisman of Henry and Roque.

"Of course there is, but not now, after the war is over, the expeditionary force command will report it uniformly, and our names will definitely appear in the list of reports at that time, pay attention to us, not me, you know? It's also possible that your name is on it, and you're now a Cape and also eligible for a knighthood. Henry endured it until now to tell Roque the good news.

"Me? Is it possible for me to be knighted too? Roque was surprised, this was a good thing that he had never thought of before.

"Of course it's possible, do you think I'm lying to you?" Henry laughed, thinking that Roque was happy and stupid.

It is indeed possible that the Second Boer War was of great significance to the British, in this war, the British not only transferred troops from their homeland, but also from Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India and Ceylon.