The pilot who led the team to Britain to participate in the war was Colonel Ethan, the three pilots who went to France to fly over the English Channel, Lin Chengzhi is now the chief instructor of the flight academy, Xu Xiu is the ace pilot of the 1st Air Force Division in Tanganyika, and Ethan is the captain of the 1st Air Force Division.

The establishment of the air force in southern Africa is not the same as that of European countries, in fact, the establishment of all countries is different now, and the Luftwaffe units use airships, so it doesn't matter whether they are established or not; The French Air Force uses a similar establishment to Southern Africa, with a two-seater squadron consisting of six aircraft and a single-seater squadron consisting of 10 aircraft; The basic tactical unit of the British Air Forces is the squadron, each squadron consists of 3 squads, each squad is composed of 4 aircraft, and above the squadron are wings and brigades.

The formation of the air force in southern Africa is more complex, because the tasks to be undertaken are different, and the aircraft in southern Africa can be divided into reconnaissance aircraft for aerial reconnaissance, fighters for air supremacy, ground attack aircraft for support on the front line, and bomber units for strategic bombing in the rear of the enemy.

In addition to this, the Navy had naval torpedo machines and bombers for assaulting enemy ships.

As far as the fighter force alone is concerned, the fighter planes in southern Africa are based on a squad of six aircraft, this is because the tactic now used by the Southern African Air Force is the "big circle formation", the formation of aircraft is not on the same plane, forming a defensive formation at the same time, it can obtain a more advantageous attack position by circling and climbing, this tactic has a famous name in another time and space called the "Lafberbury Great Circle", which was popular until the middle of the twentieth century.

Of course, in Britain, the pilots of southern Africa do not need to use the "Laverbury Circle" tactic, and the current air forces of various countries do not yet have the awareness of tactics, and they do not even have the concept of air force confrontation, and the pilots of southern Africa only need to use the most basic two-plane formation to easily deal with the Zeppelin.

In addition to the pilots, Kitchener wanted Southern Africa to send more doctors to the British.

"The situation in France is very bad, in the first month of the war, France lost 260,000 people, of which 75,000 were killed, if there are more doctors, more people will survive, if the current situation continues, then it is uncertain whether France can survive until the end of the year." Roque summoned Abu from Xuanji City, where Abu had the opportunity to serve as the federal government's Minister of Health, but Abu did not agree, he was unwilling to leave the University of Nyasaland and not be a minister.

Before the outbreak of the World War, France had 760,000 troops.

Within a month of the outbreak of the World War, France mobilized 1.8 million people to join the army, and Britain was embarrassed by its ability to mobilize, but considering the war damage in August, the more than 2 million people did not last long.

Normally, a troop losing one-tenth of its weight is on the verge of collapse, and the examples of those bloody battles in which even cooks and hygienists took up arms and went to war are remembered by history because they are too few and too miserable.

Germany mobilized a total of 11 million people to fight during the World War, accounting for 16.95% of the total population of Germany, and at least 3.5 million soldiers remained in Germany until the time of Germany's surrender.

"With 650 students in the medical school, plus 800 faculty, it is possible to send 130 people to France." The medical school that Abu said is the University of Nyasaland Faculty of Medicine, which does not include the Johannesburg Faculty of Medicine.

"Why not 800?" Roque wasn't as conservative as Abu.

"The number of 800 includes freshmen who have just entered the school, they are not real doctors yet, these 130 people will graduate next year, they are actually going to intern this year, and they are not real doctors." Abu thought he had gone too far, but he didn't expect Roque's bottom line to be lower.

"Wouldn't it be better to send them all to France and teach them on-site in the hospital?" Regardless of whether Roque is a freshman or not, the University of Nyasaland has to subsidize students every year, and it is not often that new students are sent to France as doctors, and the French government has to bear the cost.

"They don't have the qualifications to practice medicine yet—" Abu was dumbfounded, but it seemed feasible to think about it.

"So what? France needs more doctors, wounded soldiers can only wail and die in hospitals, medical students, even if their grades are poor, and how can there be more teaching examples than France today? "Roque has a headache, Abu is there, but it's too rigid to know how to be flexible.

To put it simply, medical students practice stitching is a basic operation, and this is a step-by-step process, first sewing pork, then sewing mice, and slowly starting to sew people.

In today's France, wounded soldiers are everywhere and there is no effective treatment at all, and those cold figures in the history books are reflected in reality as one tragedy after another, and the soldiers who are wailing in pain will care that the doctor who stitches up their wounds is a novice? Do you care if the wound is not sutured perfectly?

Not at all, for soldiers, scars are the military medals of soldiers, as long as they can survive, let alone being treated as pork seams and shit shells.

"Alright then, I'll get ready when I get back." Abu is not completely inflexible, the level of field medicine in southern Africa is through the Russo-Japanese War and the Italian-Turkish War to improve rapidly, the war can make those novice students mature as quickly as possible, not only the University of Nyasaland School of Medicine, Roque is also ready to send all the students of the Johannesburg School of Medicine to France, not a single one.

"Doctors who go to France to support can enjoy the treatment of officers, in addition to the basic salary every month, there are war allowances and overseas allowances, go to France to work for three or four years, and after the money they earn comes back, they can buy a farm, and the rest of the money is enough to buy a house in Los Angeles, and by the way, they can complete their studies and become a qualified doctor, what better option is there than this?" Roque has a resolute attitude, doctors are a respected profession at all times, soldiers in the field are cannon fodder, doctors are not, even if they are captured, the enemy will eat and drink well.

It's not just France that lacks doctors, but Germany as well.

On 8 September, 2,400 teachers and students from the University of Nyasaland Medical School and the Johannesburg Medical School went to France en masse to participate in the war, and they went to France in Walvis Bay on the hospital ships "George" and "Victoria" produced in southern Africa, and six 10,000-ton ships loaded with various supplies.

This was the first time that Britain used battle cruisers to escort fleets in southern Africa.

The fleet was escorted by the battlecruiser Indomitable by two light cruisers of southern African origin, as well as four destroyers of the Walvis Bay Fleet.

If either the George or the Victoria were sunk by a German submarine, Roque would have gone mad.

Also on September 8, the Southern African Expeditionary Force, which had arrived in Paris, finally entered combat form.

From the Battle of the Marne onwards on 5 September, the battle was fierce, depending on whether the Germans could break through the French defenders on the right flank, or who could defeat their opponents between the German First Army and the French Sixth Army.

In the previous battle, the Germans were progressing well, and Colonel Robert Nivelle of the Sixth Army saved the French army, he ordered his troops to drag the artillery to the front line to fight the attacking German troops with bayonets, and behind the French troops in Paris burst out with great courage and repelled the Germans with stubborn will.

On the 8th, the battle became more and more intense, and the First Army could not completely defeat the Sixth Army, Crook finally realized that the distance between the First Army and the Second Army was too far, and the flank of the First Army was unprotected, so he sent General Grom to lead an army to try to fill the gap between the First and Second Armies.

The defenders of this blank space were three divisions of Southern Africa.

After Martin arrived in Paris, he adjusted the defense of his troops, with the 201st and 301st being responsible for the frontal defense, and the 105th Division as a reserve, with a total strength of 42,000 men.

Grom's army consisted of two divisions plus an artillery brigade with a total strength of nearly 40,000 men.

As commander-in-chief of the Southern African Expeditionary Force, Martin lived in a castle in Paris, next door to the commander-in-chief of the British Expeditionary Force, Franzi.

"France wants us to launch an attack on the flank of the First Army, to contain the strength of the First Army, to relieve the pressure on the Sixth Army, your troops must be ready, and orders may be given at any time." Frenzi looked down not only on the French generals, but also on Martin, the marshal of southern Africa.

During the Second Boer War, Frenzi was already a major general in the British Expeditionary Force, and during the war he was promoted to lieutenant general, while Martin was a commando member of the Cape Town Police Department.

It was a good thing that Martin did not come to France in the uniform of a marshal, otherwise Frenzi's attitude would have been even worse.

"Marshal, my troops lack enough artillery, and an attack on the flank of the First Army will cost them a lot until they are supported by enough artillery." Martin agreed to attack, but needed artillery support, and when Kitchener returned home he organized more troops to reinforce the expeditionary force, which now had twelve divisions under Frenzi.

Not counting the three divisions led by Martin.

"All the troops suffered heavy losses, the Sixth Army lost 21,000 men yesterday, they also lacked artillery support, but had to continue to fight the Germans." Frenzi is not patient, he is under a lot of pressure right now, Kitchener has given Kitchener the maximum trust in Kitchener, and Kitchener needs to repay Kitchener with a result.

What is speechless is that while Frenzi was the commander-in-chief of the expeditionary force, his sister organized anti-war demonstrations in London, and the British were so split.

"An artillery brigade!" Martin was unmoved, and his marshal was not appointed by the British War Department, but by order of the Southern African War Department, although he nominally accepted the leadership of Frenzi, but Frenzi could not bypass Martin and give orders directly to the expeditionary force in southern Africa.