Kronstad is about 170 kilometers from Johannesburg, and it is surrounded by high-quality farms, which Roque will certainly not let go, so the farms around Kronstad used to belong to Roque.

Now, of course, the farms in Kronstad have changed owners, and like Johannesburg, the owners here are all Chinese.

The surname of the farmer who was killed was Lee, so there was a very oriental name - Liszt.

The murder was a family of eight farmers, including the farmer Liszt and his wife, as well as Liszt's two younger brothers, a younger brother and a younger sister of Liszt's wife, and Liszt's two children who had already enrolled in school, because they were studying at Ziwei Public School at the time of the crime, survived, but two younger children who had not yet had time to enter school were killed at the same time.

The scene was terrible, Liszt himself was attacked near the stables in the farm, with more than a dozen knife wounds on his body, Liszt's two younger brothers heard Liszt's call for help and rushed to help, they were also hacked to death with knives, Liszt's wife's younger brother was cut down in the corridor when he went back to the room to get a gun, the woman and children died in the house, Liszt's wife and sister still have traces of being insulted.

Johannesburg now has a laboratory unit, and there is no need for Roque to personally inspect the scene, and by the time Roque arrived, the police had already secured the scene and called the nearby farmers to understand the situation.

"The afternoon before yesterday I also saw Lao Li ploughing the land, Lao Li is very diligent, their brothers can open 50 acres of wasteland a day, Lao Li's farm has more than 1,000 acres, and now more than half of it has been opened, Lao Li's daughter-in-law is a very diligent person, every day at home with children, but also planting vegetables next to home, cooking and letting the sister send food to Lao Li, Lao Li They are busy in the field every day, eating are in the ground, and I don't know who is so ruthless-" The nearby farmers were scolding, and Luo Ke noticed, They all had guns on them.

"You have to have a gun, you can't do it without a gun, I just bought this gun, it cost a few pounds, Lao Li also has a gun, but unfortunately Lao Li is too picky, reluctant to use bullets, I haven't seen Lao Li use a gun-" There are farmers who beat their chests, in fact, there are Chinese farmers nearby, if Lao Li can shoot a warning, Chinese farmers will come to help.

It's a pity that the incident happened suddenly, and Lao Li and his family didn't have time to shoot at all, so they were hacked to death.

"Lao Li opens 50 acres of wasteland a day? How to open? Pulling a horse? "The police officer who is taking the transcript is very sensitive.

"That's for sure, you don't need to pull the horse, I'm tired of a few old Brother Li, and I can't open three or five acres a day." The farmer was convincing, and then he noticed the empty stable: "Lao Li's family has five horses, they must have been robbed by bandits, go to find horses, find horses, find bandits." ”

There is no need for the farmer to remind him, Gaode's people have already led the police dogs over.

"Let's let, let's let, let the police dog smell it." Many farmers don't know how powerful the police dog is, and they are watching it around the stable.

The bloodhound is actually very ugly, with a big nose, long ears, deep eye sockets, full of folds on the face and head, the average height of adult male dogs is 66 cm, the police dogs are oversized, and the two bloodhounds are more than 70 cm, an absolute large dog.

Unlike ordinary dogs, the police dogs of the Johannesburg Police Department also have their own "uniforms", in fact, the so-called "uniforms" are the chest belts with the words "police" written on them, don't underestimate this chest belt, the dog without the chest strap is a dog, and the dog with the chest strap is a police dog, and the power of the uniform is so extraordinary.

Can be a police dog, bloodhound of course has something extraordinary, two trainers led the police dog to the stable for a circle, and then the police dog went out to spread his legs and galloped to the south.

Just south of Kronstad is Orange!

"Keep up!" Roque chased after him when he got on the horse.

"Yes!" More than 100 commandos and detectives have been put on board, and the Johannesburg Police Department is now also wealthy, and many of the horses are thoroughbreds.

The bloodhounds go all the way south.

Entering Orange, it obviously feels much more desolate than Johannesburg, and the wasteland near here is actually a high-quality farm if you take care of it carefully, but it's a pity that the Boers don't give it, Roque they enter Orange for more than ten kilometers, and you can't see a farm, and occasionally you can see sporadic Boers building houses, but there is obviously a shortage of manpower.

This is the consequence of not being organized.

The goal of the bloodhound is still very clear, Gao De used to be a hunter, and he is also good at tracking, and soon after entering Orange, Gao De found some obvious traces, so the target became more and more obvious.

After 70 kilometers into Orange, the bloodhounds took Roque and his party to a small town called Wilkham, and the tracking had been a whole night and it was getting dark.

Because of the war, Wilkham was also significantly damaged.

However, unlike Ziwei Town, which has been rebuilt better than before, although Wilkham is also obviously rebuilding, but because there is no planning and no unified organization, this reconstruction is extremely slow.

When Roque arrived in Wilkham, he could still see the ruins of the burned houses, many Boers still living in tents, and the whole town was in a mess, full of garbage and dust, even worse than the slums.

"Reed, go back and get people - Martin, Yaya, fence this town, and no one will be allowed to enter or leave until the murderer is found." Roark was murderous, and both bloodhounds were barking at Wilkham's horse market, and needless to say, the stolen lean must be here.

The expeditionary force came to the Cape and brought with them hundreds of thousands of military horses, at least half of which were horses.

When the expeditionary force withdrew, those excellent military horse expeditionary forces would definitely have to be taken away, and there was no need to take these horses away, so they were all digested locally in the Transvaal and Orange.

The farms around Johannesburg had at least 100,000 horses, and there were many horses left over from the expeditionary force in Orange, but unfortunately most of the Boers in Orange had no money, so these horses had not yet had time to digest.

"Yes!" Reed and Yaya and Martin split up, and the police's actions soon alarmed the Boers of Wilkham.

"Hey, who are you?" A sheriff wearing a sheriff's badge and wearing civilian clothes came to Roque's initiative.

"Hello, Sergeant, I'm Johannesburg Police Chief Locke, there was a vicious *** case in Kronstad, and I suspect that the murderer is hiding in Wilkham, so Sheriff, I need your help." Roque's current police rank is superintendent, in fact, there is no need to be so polite, he can order the sheriff to help in the form of an order.

However, Roque will not do that, after all, Wilkham is located in Orange, and Roque is the superintendent of the Transvaal, so if the sheriff in front of him does not cooperate, it seems to be reasonable, and it is not yet time to overpower people.

"Sir Locke, it's a pleasure to meet you, I'm Sheriff Bobby Bennett of Wilkham, and it's a great honor to work with you to solve this case." Bobby Bennett is very good, and Roque's current reputation is indeed very powerful.

To say that in the past two years, the most famous policeman in the four colonies of Cape must be Roque, and the idol of many policemen is Roque, whether they like Roque or not, all policemen hope to become nobles with military merits.

Knighted –

But there are tangible benefits.

It was not until after World War II that the aura of the nobility gradually disappeared, and the nobles of this period at this time were still one person who ascended to heaven, and after Roque became a nobleman, no one talked about Roque's identity, Kevin, Henry Alsop and others hid far away when they saw Roque, which is the best example.

"Thank you, Bobby, could you please tell us a little bit about Wilkham?" Roque barely managed to squeeze out a smile, after catching the murderer, Roque would definitely break him, or them, into pieces.

"Yes, Sir Lock, there are about 2,000 people in Wilkham, most of them came to Wilkham after the signing of the Peace Agreement, many of them are former guerrillas, they are not willing to be lonely, and they make trouble—the Governor has sent a lot of cows and horses to Wilkham at a low price in order to support Wilkham's farm, but unfortunately these guerrillas do not seem to be interested in cows and horses, they are more concerned about how much compensation and relief money they can get, and no one wants to run the farm, Cows and horses were bought by the farmers of the Transvaal—"Bobby Bennett was a Boer, a Boer who had been assimilated by the British, and it seems that Bobby Bennett did not have much sympathy for the Boers in Wilkham."

Of course, this is also because Wilkham's Boers do not deserve sympathy, and if Wilkham's Boers recognize the reality and try to save themselves, not waiting or relying on them, I believe that Bobby Bennett should not introduce Wilkham in this tone.

Roque has seen a lot of such people, and there are still some Boers in Johannesburg who are still relying on it, and they seem to think that the Johannesburg city government will eventually compromise.

Unfortunately, there is a consensus in Johannesburg that the disillusioned Boers will eventually be swept away by Johannesburg after spending their last penny.

If the Boers are unruly, the police station is not vegetarian, the new prison is empty, and the prison guards are busy catching rats, they will welcome these special guests.

"Two days ago in Kronstad, a farmer's whole family was killed, eight people were hacked to death, the farm's belongings and livestock were looted, the related losses are being counted, and now it has been confirmed that at least five horses were stolen, we tracked all the way and found that those horses were taken to Wilkham, so I would like you to investigate the whereabouts of those horses, is there a problem?" Roque still respects Bobby Bennett, and Wilkham is Bobby Bennett's turf anyway.

"It's too much, Sir Locke, please give me a moment, and I'll investigate at once." Bobby Bennett does not hesitate, the police are deeply disgusted by this kind of evil *** case.

Roque certainly won't let Bobby Bennett go alone, the situation at the scene shows that at least five people were involved in the murder and robbery, although no one fired at the scene, but that doesn't mean that the criminals didn't have guns, they may have been afraid of alarming nearby farmers, so they didn't shoot, and the guns Liszt bought were also robbed, and the nearby farmers confirmed that Lister had at least one Webley revolver and an M1873 Winchester lever rifle that used deer hunting rounds.

It's a pity that when they were attacked, these two guns became ornaments.

Walking into Wilkham, it seems that the situation is even worse, the town is full of pungent smell of horse manure, human and livestock manure can be seen everywhere on the roadside and in the corners of houses, even not far from the door of the tent, I really don't know how the Boers here endure it, in Ziwei Town and Johannesburg, if anyone dares to defecate in the street, he will be fined at least five shillings, plus a week's compulsory labor.

If there is no money to pay, then it is okay to use caning instead.

The whip used for execution is the kind of barbed whip used in the Cape Town Police Department, and a single whip can kill people for half a life and make them remember it for a lifetime.

Horse Market is located on the west side of Wilkham Town, and more than a dozen police officers including Bobby Bennett and Rock went directly to Horse Market.

Seeing the managers of the horse market, Bobby Bennett almost effortlessly knew who had given the horse to the horse market in the past few days.

It was a man named Albert Simpson, who had sold five pull-back horses to the Horse Market two days earlier.

If Albert Simpson was a criminal, he had almost just returned to Wilkham and couldn't wait to sell the horse to the horse market.

He is worthy of being a descendant of the Dutch, and his heart is big enough!

"Albert Simpson has three brothers, they all live in the northernmost part of the town, Albert Simpson has participated in the Boer coalition army before, and just returned to Wilkham some time ago, but that guy doesn't look like a man who is short of money, the people in the town say that the guy made a fortune on the battlefield and has always been generous." Bobby Bennett knows Albert Simpson well.

"Bobby, you lead the way, Martin, get ready to arrest—" Roque also pulled out his pistol to check for bullets, and the atmosphere suddenly became tense.

"Wait, Sir Locke, I'll see if I can get Albert Simpson here." Bobby Bennett didn't want to make such a big fuss, and if the case was really Albert Simpson's doing, then they would definitely fight to the end.

Roque and his group of more than 100 people came to Wilkham with such fanfare, and it was impossible not to alarm the townspeople, so Roque ordered Yaya and Martin to surround the town first, just to prevent the criminals from escaping when they saw the bad situation.

"Okay, stay safe." Roque didn't want Bobby Bennett to take the risk, but if he made a big arrest, it would likely cause casualties among the commandos.

These guerrillas who returned from the front line were all ruthless, and the bullets they used were all modified dummy bullets, and once a commando was injured, it was likely to cause irreparable losses.

"I guess Albert Simpson is no longer in town, and I don't seem to have seen him in the past two days." Bobby Bennett was not optimistic and hurried away.

Bobby Bennett's fears soon became a reality, and just two days earlier, after Albert Simpson had sold the horse to the horse market, the three brothers had left Wilkham together, and no one knew where they had gone.