707 Pick and Pick
For many British, these overseas dominions were still colonies of the British Empire, even though Southern Africa was already self-governing, like Canada and Australia.
This is not discrimination against southern Africa, but discrimination against all overseas colonies, even if the commander of the first cavalry division, Zhu Fu, is white, and the first cavalry division is replaced with Canadian or Australian troops, the result will not change anything, in the hearts of many British, only those who can't get along in the local area will go to the overseas colonies, which is why many colonial officials are arrogant in front of the colonial natives, although in essence, they are officials who work in the colonies, It also belongs to the category of not being able to mix in the homeland, otherwise he would not be sent to work in the colonies.
The indigenous people here refer not only to Africans, but also to white and Chinese who have immigrated to southern Africa.
In the eyes of southern Africans, Britain during the world war was in an unprecedented period of weakness, and at this time, southern Africa gave the British mainland due feedback, and the British mainland should also give proper feedback to southern Africa, improve the status of southern Africa in the British Commonwealth, and give southern Africa more autonomy.
However, in the eyes of most British, it was a natural duty and obligation for the colonies to give back to their mother country, and that southern Africa should not demand anything other than the British government's initiative.
This is also what the commander of the garrison of the Zanzibar archipelago, Sisi Licok, meant.
"The Ministry of War didn't let you attack Tanganyika at all, your target is Southwest Africa, it's enough to do your own work, don't stretch out your hands for things outside the scope of your work!" Ceci Liccock was furious, and the telegram given to him by the War Department was in the drawer of his desk.
"Do you mean that even if Tanganyika attacks Nyasaland, we can only be beaten passively, and we cannot launch a counteroffensive?" Zhu Fu looked even more angry, and he didn't know that he thought Tanganyika had already hit Los Angeles.
"When did Tanganyika attack Nyasaland?" Cecy Liccock couldn't believe it, he could even say such a thing, and the Zhu Fu in Secy's eyes was simply hateful.
"Last night the Tanganyika Marine Police attacked the Nyasaland Marine Police boat." Zhu Fu was triumphant, and the Weissman had become a trophy in southern Africa, and the human and material evidence was irrefutable.
"You have dozens of divisions in southern Africa, nearly half a million troops, and only two poor divisions in Tanganyika are still under formation, and there are less than 30,000 people in the full battle, are you crazy or von Letof Fowlbeck crazy, do you think anyone will believe your words?" Sisi didn't believe it at all, and it was clear that this was the excuse.
"We're not crazy, it's this era that is crazy, so Colonel, let your men leave, we're going to land immediately, according to the war mobilization order issued by the king, now this port is being requisitioned by our Southern African Ministry of Defense." Zhu Fucai doesn't care whether Secy believes it or not, the reason why the excuse is an excuse is that he was not ready to convince people.
Once it enters a state of war, the military can requisition ports, ships, supplies, and everything else related to the war as long as it is needed.
Not even British property, the British War Department could be requisitioned.
"Your Southern African Ministry of Defence is not the British War Department, and you don't have that right." Sisi is firmly opposed, and if the southern African army lands in the Zanzibar archipelago, then Sisi, the commander of the garrison, is also derelict in his duties.
Zhu Fu didn't have time to fight a lawsuit with Secy, time is life, and the fighter plane is fleeting, so Zhu Fu will only say "Fake squid" to Secy, and then order the troops to land.
"Without my permission, if you dare to land, it will be an invasion!" Sisi was furious.
"Then you will order the troops to shoot!" Zhu Fu was not afraid of the escalation of the conflict, nor did he believe that Sisi would dare to let the troops shoot.
If Sisi dares to order the troops to shoot, then Zhu Fu will dare to bloody the Zanzibar archipelago.
"What the hell you bastards!" Ceci scolded, and at this time he could see the poverty of English swearing words, and he turned over and over the cow dung bastard, and he didn't know where the cow dung was the bastard.
Scolding and scolding, when the 1st Cavalry Division landed, the defending troops really didn't dare to shoot, ordinary soldiers didn't care what it meant for the 1st Cavalry Division to land in the Zanzibar Islands, they could buy a pack of cigarettes, and they watched the excitement with a rifle on their backs with a smile, and if they threw a lighter over, they came to help, and they didn't care that their commanders were almost angry and cried.
There is indeed a lot of excitement to see, the first cavalry division wants to use the Zanzibar archipelago as an advance base, so there are a lot of supplies to go ashore, when Zhu Fu and Sisi scolded each other, the cruisers and destroyers of the Southern African Navy were cruising outside the port, and the huge 10,000-ton cargo ship had already begun to unload in the port.
Considering that most of the terminals at this time lack port construction machinery, the freighters in southern Africa are their own cranes, and the materials are also transferred by containers, and the containers at this time are not as big as the containers in Roque's memory, otherwise the trucks can't pull them, and the traditional way is that a 10,000-ton giant ship needs hundreds of dock workers to work for a week to send all the materials ashore, and now only a few people are needed, and they can be unloaded in one day and one night.
The alligator armoured vehicles in southern Africa are different from the ones used by the British during the Boer War, with a length of seven meters, a width of three meters, and a height of 2.5 meters.
Such a huge body, but the weight is only seven tons, the armor of the whole car is not balanced, the front armor is up to 20 mm thick, and it is also sloping, can defend against a hundred meters of Makqin heavy machine gun fire, the side and rear armor is only ten millimeters, can defend against a hundred meters of 7.62 mm rifle shooting, all the design is optimized for the power of German standard weapons, placed on the battlefield when used as a tank may be allowed, placed in sensitive areas for defense effect is still very good.
After all, artillery is still high-tech in this era, ordinary people can't play it, and it is very difficult to train artillery, and only in Africa, and southern Africa, can it be able to train artillery on a large scale, not in Tanganyika and South-West Africa, not to mention other West Africa, Sudan, and North Africa.
"I don't understand, why do you want to expropriate Zanzibar? Wouldn't it be okay to attack Dar es Salaam directly? Dar es Salaam is also an undefended city now, and the German troops have retreated to the hinterland, and that soft bastard of Schney does not dare to resist at all, and it is difficult for Forbeck to deal with, but this is not a problem for you. After all, Sisi still didn't dare to tear his face, and he still had to sit with Zhu Fu to drink tea when he was tired of scolding, although Sisi hated the army in southern Africa, but the coffee in southern Africa was still very good.
Dar es Salaam is the location of the official residence of Governor Schnee in Tanganyika, Schney is indeed weaker, but not to the extent of a soft egg, the situation is stronger than people, and Sisi sits in Schnee's position, and in the face of the all-out attack of southern Africa, he may surrender directly, and he has no fight at all.
Dar es Salaam is in the coastal area of Tanganyika, less than 50 kilometers away from Zanzibar Island in a straight line, the cruiser in southern Africa has a main gun caliber of 203, which can directly bombard Dar es Salaam, which is what Britain did to the Sultanate of Zanzibar, and a few guns went down to directly bomb the palace of the king of the Sultanate of Zanzibar, from the outbreak of the war to the end of the war lasted only half an hour, and the Sultanate of Zanzibar was declared extinct, creating a miracle in the history of human warfare.
The Sultanate of Zanzibar has only a few islands and no strategic depth at all, and the current Tanganyika has nearly a million square kilometers, and it must be chewed slowly if it wants to be completely annexed.
"Try this, the wine from Cape Oak, the same way Champagne is made, our Southern African Champagne!" Zhu Fu doesn't talk to Sisi about the war, the Zanzibar archipelago has a pleasant scenery, and talking about these things in such a beautiful place is simply burning the qin and cooking the crane.
In another time and space, Zanzibar is a famous tourist area, blue sky and white clouds, clear water and sandy beaches, tall coconut trees, primitive thatched houses, different lifestyles, well-prepared exotic food, everything you want is available in Zanzibar Islands, working here is almost like a vacation, it is simply a benefit.
Sisi's headquarters is next to the palace of the former king of the Sultanate of Zanzibar, and now the king's palace has become a ruined wall, Britain has no intention of repairing it, and does not care whether these ruins will become evidence of colonial aggression in the future, Sisi's headquarters is a three-story white marble building, and the towering bell tower in the middle is the traditional British classicist style.
That's why Zhu Fu didn't tell Sisi why the First Division wanted to requisition Zanzibar.
"The taste is not bad, but it doesn't feel enough, and it lacks the romantic style of France-" The appearance of the suit is really annoying, and drinking wine is romantic, and it is indeed a bit of a wave.
"Zhu, Tanganyika also has our British property, you have to pay attention to protecting it." Sisi still has requirements for Zhu Fu, estimating that the "British property" he said also includes a part of himself.
It is not surprising that after the German occupation of Tanganyika, the colonial government declared that all the land in Tanganyika belonged to Kaiser Wilhelm II, and then began to sell the land for money.
The Germans who had just been reunified not long ago were really not thick, so the food was a little ugly, and the first plantations built in Tanganyika covered an area of more than 300 square kilometers.
Look at the momentum of the people, the new immigrants are hundreds of square kilometers at every turn, and how can they be embarrassed by the dozens of acres of southern Africa.