As for the distribution of war trophies, the Ministry of Defense of Southern Africa and the umbrella company have relevant regulations, in principle, the capture of soldiers on the battlefield belongs to individuals, but in order to take care of the interests of all commanders and fighters participating in the war, the spoils of war must be handed over in a unified manner, and then distributed uniformly after the war, and the front-line officers and soldiers will receive more money.

In any case, the officers and men of these two armoured groups were going to make a fortune, and a few hundred Arabian horses could be worth more than a million pounds, and even if too many would cause the price to fall, each Arabian horse would be equivalent to a fairly large farm.

As for the size of the farm, it depends on the location of the farm, which may be only a few hundred acres in the Transvaal, Nyasaland, and tens of thousands in South West Africa and Tanganyika.

Martin didn't care about the small profit of the battlefield capture, Martin's goal was Basra, Zubayr was only ten kilometers away from Basra, which was a step on the gas pedal for an alligator armored car, but Basra had more than 150,000 Ottoman garrisons, and Martin had to mobilize more troops to surround Basra and try to capture more prisoners.

Don't have to wait until after the war, after occupying Basra, Martin will transform Basra, completely erase all traces of the Ottoman Empire in Basra, and turn Basra into the property of the Adan Company, which may cause huge financial expenditures, but will get a brand new Basra, which will minimize future disputes, so everything is worth it.

"The army of Damascus is marching on Egypt, and both Colonel McMahon and London have sent telegrams asking us to send more troops to Egypt for assistance." Li De had not slept since the British declared war on the Ottoman Empire, his eyes were bloodshot, but his spirit was extremely high.

"Does the Lord have a telegram?" Martin didn't care about Colonel McMahon, he didn't care about London, Roque was Martin's top boss.

"No—"

"Then don't worry about it, let's take Basra first, and then attack Damascus, and if Cairo has already been captured by the Ottomans by then, then we can fight back." Martin's absolute priority is southern Africa, the Suez Canal is of great significance to the UK, the troops and supplies of Australia and India must pass through the Suez Canal to reach the UK as quickly as possible, for southern Africa, it does not matter who controls the Suez Canal, the troops and supplies of southern Africa are transported directly to Europe through Walvis Bay.

"Basra's army is retreating, they're going to run—" Don hurriedly reported, the Ottoman troops were really unfought, and the war had just begun.

In fact, it was not that the Ottoman troops were left unfought, but that the Russian Empire was launching an attack on Constantinople, and Enver Pasha did not expect that the war would break out before the Russian Empire first declared war.

A long time ago, the Russian Empire coveted Constantinople, only by controlling Constantinople can it control the Dardanelles, and only by controlling the Dardanelles will the Black Sea become the internal lake of Russia, so at the first moment of the declaration of war, the Eighth Army of the Russian Empire launched an attack on Constantinople under the leadership of Alexei Brusinov.

The Eighth Army was probably the only living force in the Russian Empire right now.

After the outbreak of the World War, the Russian Empire suffered heavy losses in East Prussia, the Second Army was completely destroyed in the Battle of Tannanberg, and the First Army was completely defeated in the Battle of Lake Masuria, and the current commander-in-chief of the Russian Empire is Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolayevich, the cousin of Nicholas II, and his opponent is the commander-in-chief of the German Eighth Army, Hindenburg, and Hindenburg's chief of staff, Ludendorff.

After the Battle of Lake Masuria, the Russian Empire had lost 520,000 people, and 160,000 soldiers were captured by the Germans.

In order to deal with the Eighth Army of the Russian Empire, the Ottomans had to draw troops from Basra and Damascus to strengthen the defense of Constantinople, and the attack on Egypt continued, but the offensive force was only one brigade, and the commander of this brigade was the Germans, although it did not actually capture the Suez Canal, but it still scared the British into a cold sweat.

While Martin ignored Constantinople and the Suez Canal and mobilized six divisions to besiege Basra, Martin ordered the 206th Division, stationed in Ahvaz, to make a detour to the rear of Basra in an attempt to encircle Basra.

The 206th Division moved very quickly, and within 24 hours of receiving the order, it completed the outflanking of Basra, but still did not run as fast as the Ottoman army, and on October 31, after a symbolic battle, the 50,000 Ottoman troops surrounded in Basra surrendered to Martin.

Martin then ordered his troops to continue their offensive on Damascus, where the attacking troops finally met stubborn resistance from the Ottoman defenders, and at this time, the fighting for Ypres finally stopped, known as the First Battle of Ypres.

The First Battle of Ypres was a defeat for both sides, but the Allies and the Central Powers unanimously promoted the First Battle of Ypres as their own victory.

The Allies claimed that they had held Ypres and the coastal seaports, contained the German offensive, and recovered some of the lost territory; The Germans, on the other hand, believed that they had prevented the Entente offensive and held the fruits of the first phase of the war.

Both of these claims are plausible, the Allies did regain lost territory, but only five square miles, while the Belgian territory occupied by Germany was 20,000 square miles.

The Germans did withstand the Anglo-French counteroffensive, but the Schlieffen plan had completely failed, and Falkingham needed to develop a larger plan.

In the First Battle of Ypres, the German army suffered 100,000 casualties, and the Anglo-French army suffered about 130,000 casualties, but in the British newspapers, the German casualties reached 300,000.

In the British newspapers, Germany had lost 500,000 men in the Battle of the Marne, plus 300,000 in the Battle of Ypres, and the 790,000 standing troops of Germany before the outbreak of the war had all died, and the current German army should be all new soldiers.

This is certainly not the case, the Germans did suffer heavy losses in the Battle of the Marne, but not as many as half a million, and after the New Year, the wounded veterans will return to the troops, and the newly drafted soldiers will gradually mature, so the scale of the campaign will be greater than now.

The British Expeditionary Force faced a huge crisis, with the Expeditionary Force from home, plus troops mobilized from southern Africa, Canada, and India, the British Expeditionary Force had more than 300,000 troops in France.

However, in the Battle of the Marne and the Battle of Ypres, the British Expeditionary Force had already lost nearly half of its troops, and after the Battle of Ypres, the British abandoned the traditional system of voluntary military service and began to use compulsory military service to replenish their troops.

Another huge crisis is the serious shortage of shells.

This problem is not unique to Britain, and it should be said that all the troops participating in the war have a serious shortage of shells.

The scale of the world war was beyond anyone's imagination, before the outbreak of the world war, Britain thought that the stored shells would last for six months, the French thought that the stored shells were enough for three months, and the Russian Empire had prepared a thousand shells for each artillery, and it seemed to be well prepared.

After the outbreak of the world war, the French shells were all exhausted after the Battle of the Marne, after the Archduke Nicholas became the commander-in-chief of the Russian Empire, the consumption of shells per month was increased to 2.5 million rounds, and soon after it was raised to 3.5 million rounds, the poor little British army could not consume many shells, but to provide more shells for the Russian Empire and France, France was better, after all, it had strong industrial strength, and its own problems were solved, The Russian Empire had to turn to Britain for help.

"£25 million a month, whose idea is that?" Roque is not angry, anyway, there is no need for southern Africa to pay, the British money, no one cares how they want to spend it.

In order to alleviate the crisis of the Russian Empire, the British government gave the Russian Empire a special loan of 25 million pounds a month to help the Russian Empire tide over the difficulties.

Of course, these loans are also conditional, such as the fact that they can only purchase goods in the UK, and there are high interest rates, and the British government is not a philanthropist, so it is not soft when it is time to make money.

"Who else could it be, damn Chancellor of the Exchequer!" Winston has a fierce face, 25 million pounds, all to the Royal Navy, is ten dreadnoughts, or ten per month, of course, dreadnoughts will not generate interest.

"I have to warn you that giving money to the Russian Empire is like losing money, be careful of losing all your money-" Roque knew the future of the Russian Empire, but he couldn't say too clearly, just like those loan sharks, you covet high interest rates, and others plan your principal.

"So what can we do, we need the Russian Empire to contain the forces of Germany and Austria-Hungary, even if more of the Russian Empire's shells are captured by Germany rather than fired at German positions." Winston is also very helpless, the French shell consumption is really consumed on the battlefield, and the Russian Empire is-

It's really hard to put it in words, the Russian Empire was the captain of the German transport brigade.

"How many orders can I get in Southern Africa?" Roque salivated, this is 25 million a month, London hopes that southern Africa can send more troops to France to participate in the war, and only 15 million are given to the Russian Empire, and the British government is really generous to the Russian Empire.

"You can try, Gregory is in London." Winston's expression was complicated.

"Who is Gregory?" Roque did not know Gregory, and there were many people who called this name in Russia, just as it was common for William in England.

"Grigory Efimovich Rasputin—" Winston read his full name, with a look of disgust on his face, as if he had been insulted by the name.

Oh oh oh, who did Roque think it was, if Winston had just said Rasputin, Roque would have heard of this.

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