The scariest August of all time is not over, and every month for the next four years will be the scariest month ever.

On August 31, a patrol of the 102nd Division captured four Africans trying to sabotage the Walvis Bay Railway near Windhoek, their tools not explosives, but shovels and hammers, presumably trying to cut the railway with shovels.

"It's a good thing it's more than ten miles from Windhoek, otherwise even the residents of Windhoek would have been imprisoned in concentration camps." Lieutenant Sean, the commander of the 1st Company of the 3rd Battalion of the Graleka Infantry Regiment, who graduated from the Army Academy last year, is a Nyasaland Chinese who immigrated to Port Edward with his family 10 years ago to be educated in Nyasaland.

"All Germans should be put in concentration camps, or thrown to Shark Island to fend for themselves, all Germans deserve to die!" The deputy company commander, Corton, was of French descent, and his home country was under a German invasion and hated the Germans to the core.

As time passed, the brutal side of the war finally became apparent, and although the fortress of the Sun was breached and Brussels had fallen, the Belgians did not give in, and resistance in the German-occupied areas continued one after another.

In order to suppress the Belgian revolt, the Germans adopted a repressive rule, and they used Maxim to massacre women and children, even the priests.

During the Franco-Prussian War, French priests persuaded people to join the partisan war, causing heavy casualties to the German army, and the Germans did not want to see a similar situation play out in Belgium.

In contrast to the brutal Germans, the attacks of southern Africa against South-West Africa and Tanganyika were very careful in this regard, and the German inhabitants of South-West Africa and Tanganyika would not have been violent against the German population as long as they did not take the initiative to attack the armies of southern Africa.

Of course, Britain was no better than Germany in this respect, and the concentration camps of the Second Boer War had reappeared in South-West Africa and Tanganyika, and whenever the armies of southern Africa were attacked, all the inhabitants within ten miles of the attack site were thrown into the camps, where they would not be slaughtered, but they would also need to work in exchange for food.

"Kirton, calm down." Sean doesn't hate Germans, and even because of the propaganda that the Nyasaland government has been promoting, Sean has a good impression of Germans, at least a little better than the Irish who get drunk every day.

After the outbreak of the world war, the Nyasaland government once again stated that the Germans in Nyasaland would not receive special treatment, and the Ministry of Defense also made adjustments to try not to send German officers and soldiers to fight in Europe, even if they were to be sent abroad, they were also sent to the Sinai Peninsula.

Before the outbreak of the World War, an infantry division of conscripts went to Egypt for duty, and two regiments of the Northern Rhodesia Division and the 1st Cavalry Division were reorganized.

"I'm sorry Sean, I shouldn't have said that, I'm going to lead the team to catch the farmer behind the scenes, and then escort them to Walvis Bay." Kirton's apology is a bit perfunctory, which is understandable, the so-called "peaceful coexistence" is only the most ideal state, after the outbreak of the world war, there have been many violent crimes against Germans in southern Africa, these cases will not be reported in the newspapers, and the news that appears in the newspapers are all love and love each other like a family.

"I guess you can't find anyone, the farmer should have run away." Sean believed that it was impossible for the farmer to stay on the farm and wait for death, and that the four Herero people who came to dig the railroad were all farm workers, and it was not known how they had escaped the German massacre of the Herero people in previous years.

It can also be seen from this point that the current Africans are really obedient, and if they are Africans in the 21st century, let them carry out such a mortal task, and it is estimated that few Africans will seriously carry it out.

As a result, these Herero people came to dig the railroad with shovels so honestly, which is indeed very suspicious of their IQ.

"What about these people?" The smile on Kirton's lips was a little creepy, and the gaze he looked at the four Herero people was full of cruelty.

"What to do, what to do." Sean will not be compassionate either, this is the case in wartime, crimes that do not deserve the death penalty in peacetime, will be severe during war, not to mention the crime of sabotaging railroads, which is worthy of the death penalty in peacetime.

"Understood!" Kirton sneered and beckoned several soldiers to form a firing squad, Sean didn't want to see those bloody scenes, turned his horse's head and walked in the direction of Windhoek.

Not far away, on the railway, a train was whizzing past at thirty miles per hour, and the windows were crowded with soldiers with curved brimmed hats, all of which were troops heading to Walvis Bay to fight in Europe by boat, and some soldiers greeted Sean loudly, and Sean waved to the train and shouted a few "Happy journeys".

Finally, there was a neat gunshot, and Sean's expression stiffened for a moment, but he immediately regained his composure.

In distant Pretoria, Roque also knew about the situation in South-West Africa and Tanganyika, but Roque had more important matters to attend to and did not have time to deal with what happened to the Germans in South-West Africa and Tanganyika.

According to the plan of the General Staff, in the first phase of support for Europe in southern Africa, Martin was the commander-in-chief of the Southern African Expeditionary Force, and on the eve of Martin's departure, Roque also had something to tell Martin.

"Don't be stupid when you get to Europe, remember your identity, you are the Deputy Minister of Defense of Southern Africa, the Commander-in-Chief of the Expeditionary Force, and now you are also a field marshal, with the same rank as Xia Fei and Frenzi, so you don't need to accept Xia Fei and Frenzi's moderation, everything must be based on preserving strength, if the momentum is not the right run, run away-" Roque said earnestly, Martin had just been promoted to field marshal, just to be on par with Xia Fei and Frenzi.

The current Anglo-French forces are still fighting on their own, and the bad thing to say is that they have their own ghosts, and the rout a few days ago fully proves the problems between the Anglo-French forces, Xia Fei is a famous "dull general", Frenzi has Kitchener's instructions, and if Martin can't figure out the situation, the armies in southern Africa supporting Europe will really become cannon fodder.

The key is still worthless cannon fodder.

"I will, I'll be the first to run when it's time to run—" Martin is now on the rise, having been granted a baronial title in Muscat when he was a full-time knighthood in London, but only one hundred and fifty square kilometres, and the gold content is evident from the previous one, and when Roque was made barony of Nyasaland, the fief was 200,000 square kilometres.

"Don't run so fast, I'll replenish you if the troops are lost, and I can't let Xia Fei and Frenzi catch the handle." This is what Roque is worried about, to brush up on the battle record, to make military achievements, and to preserve strength, this degree is not easy to grasp, don't look at the poor performance of the German army in Southwest Africa and Tanganyika, but in Europe, it is abnormal to dare to confront the German troops

Martin nodded silently, and Roque also knew that his request was a bit difficult, but he still had to say what he had to say.

"If there is any request, hurry up, if I can't do it, the Ministry of War." Roque is so demanding, he always has to give some benefits.

"Lord, can you give more troops-" Martin was in high spirits, and the expression on his face was also very pitiful, a dignified commander of an expeditionary force, with only one division under his command, it would make people laugh out of their teeth when they said it, and there were five divisions under Frenzi's command.

It is no wonder that both Germany and France despised the British Army, with Kaiser Wilhelm II distemptuously calling the British Army a "poor little army" and the British soldiers laughing at themselves as "old and pitiful".

"I have transferred one division each to you from Fort Glory and the Kingdom of Mozambique, and these two divisions will go with you to France." Roque has a lot of chips, and now Fort Glory and the Kingdom of Mozambique no longer hide their ties to southern Africa.

The troops of Fort Glory and the Kingdom of Mozambique, similar to the servant corps of the Southern African Army, were fighting in Tanganyika with the Northern Rhodesian Division and the 1st Cavalry Division.

The Kingdom of the Congo and the Republic of the Congo are also in the same position, although both of them are relatively young and do not have enough troops to mobilize, and it will take time for them to be fully mobilized.

"Then no problem!" Martin was satisfied, the army of the Kingdom of Mozambique was a little weak, and the quality of the Fort Glory troops was still good, after all, the Fort Glory troops were in a state of readiness all year round, and their imaginary enemy was the German troops.

What neither Roque nor Martin expected was that just after Martin set off for Walvis Bay, bad news came from France.

The 105th Division, which had successfully reached France, was sent into battle without having enough time to recuperate, and their enemy was the Fifth Army, which had just defeated Frenzi.

In the face of the fierce German offensive, the 105th Division was caught off guard and suffered heavy losses in its troops, and of the 121 officers and 3000 soldiers who participated in the battle, only 5 officers and 750 soldiers were withdrawn from the battlefield.

When the news reached southern Africa, both Roque and Ade were speechless.

"It's been more than two years since the 105th Division was established, right?" Ade did not know much about the formation process of the 105th Division, this was the scope of Roque's work, and Ade never interfered.

"Yes, but most of the current 105th Division are new recruits, most of the soldiers when they were first formed have been retired, and the troops are not equipped with artillery, so it is normal that they can't beat the Germans." Roque has long been mentally prepared, some time ago the Ministry of War sent a telegram every day asking Southern Africa to send troops to France as soon as possible, Roque has always disagreed, and Ade has also complained a lot.

Now Ade finally sees the gap between the regular army in southern Africa and Germany, but this doesn't mean anything, it is the African division sent to France to fight, which cannot represent the strength of the southern African army, if the 105th division is replaced by the northern Rhodesian division or the first cavalry division, then even if the German Fifth Army cannot be defeated because of the difference in strength, at least it can play a more beautiful battle loss ratio.

While the 105th Division suffered heavy casualties, the Fifth Army did not go much better, and the German losses were also more than 2,000 men.