Chapter Seventy-Seven: Titles
Go to Dordrecht!
Roque's first instinct was that Henry was crazy.
Roque and Henry are now estimated to have been blacklisted by the Expeditionary Force Command, and they were almost killed by the Expeditionary Force Command in Dordrecht before, and now if Roque and Henry return to Dordrecht with Joubert's body, I don't know what the generals of the Expeditionary Force Command will be stimulated.
"Don't be stupid, we can't go back to the Expeditionary Force Headquarters, we're going to Kimberley, and then back to Cape Town." Roque didn't want to go to Dordrecht to find death, it was the right thing to go back to Cape Town, at least to go to Kimberley, killing Joubert was a top military feat, and Roque didn't want those guys on the Eastern Front to get any benefits.
What's more, what do you get by returning to Dordrecht?
Except for the jealousy of the generals of the military, nothing was gained.
"Yes, we're on a mission." Henry is not stupid either, Roque clicked, and Henry immediately woke up.
Then continue to the Kimberley.
Back on the road, the ranks of the commandos grew stronger, and in the battle that killed Joubert, the commandos captured more than 300 horses, which were used by Joubert and his guards, and are now trophies of the commandos.
In addition to the horses, the commandos captured 152 prisoners of war, and Henry originally wanted to bring the civilians with them, but Roque vetoed them.
Roque is most worried about the retaliation of the Boer coalition now, the commando team killed Joubert, it is impossible for the Boer coalition army not to react, if it were not for Henry's reluctance to take those prisoners, Roque did not even want the captives.
A single jouber is worth enough money.
Finally there were enough horses, one man and one left, and all the prisoners were loaded into the wagon, and the assault team advanced towards the Kimberley as fast as possible.
The city of Kimberley was founded in 1870, is a city with diamonds, the owner of the city is the former prime minister of the Cape Colony, Cecil Rhodes, after the outbreak of the second Boer War, Kimberley was once besieged by the Boer coalition army, half a month ago, the expeditionary force has just lifted the siege of the Boer coalition army to Kimberley.
For a new city, if there is no planning, then the entire urban part of the city has nothing to pay attention to, plus some time ago, the baptism of war, the Kimberley looks even more dilapidated, full of ruins, and burned ruins, sometimes there are even corpses on the side of the road that have not had time to be cleaned up, pedestrians and soldiers on the road are accustomed to this.
If they could, the expeditionary force did not want any Boer prisoners, although the expeditionary force command clearly stipulated that Boer prisoners who had surrendered should be treated preferentially, but in practice, very few Boer prisoners survived, so when the assault team arrived in Kimberley, more than two hundred captives were really eye-catching.
"You only have 100 prisoners on your roster, why 252 now?" The lieutenant in charge of receiving prisoners of war was quite polite, and his attitude was much better than that of the major in Dordrecht.
"On the way to the Kimberley, we eliminated another Boer guerrilla, and we brought with us prisoners and corpses, as well as captured rifles and horses." Henry was on his toes, and his next words were shocking: "We also killed Joubert, and his body was in the carriage behind."
Joubert?!
The lieutenant's head was raised so quickly that his glasses fell off the bridge of his nose.
"Are you sure it's Joubert?" The lieutenant was in a hurry, and when he got up from the chair, he accidentally knocked over the chair, but the lieutenant didn't care, leaning on the table and looking behind Henry.
"Yes, it's Joubert, the captives have confessed, they are Jouber's guards." Henry raised his eyebrows, what happened to the police?
The police can do what the regular army can't!
you off!
Because of the happy mood, Henry's voice was a little loud, and the surrounding soldiers also heard the name of "Joubert", as soon as Henry's words fell, the soldiers gathered around with a "boom", wanting to see the remains of the famous commander-in-chief of the Boer coalition army, and the commandos who were originally guarding the carriage were crowded out of the crowd.
As commander-in-chief of the Boer coalition forces, Joubert's name was heard from the sky, and the news was immediately reported to the headquarters of the expeditionary force, the commander-in-chief of the expeditionary forces, Lord Roberts, who had returned to Kimberley from the Orange front on the same day, and the chief of staff, Kitchener, had also rushed to Kimberley from Dordrecht, and Henry and Roque were housed in a mansion that had originally belonged to Cecil Rhodes, and the other commandos were also properly housed.
"It's so comfortable, Locke, I'm going to build a pool like this in the future." Henry soaks in a bath the size of a swimming pool and enjoys the services of two Boer girls, one of whom is applying shower gel to Henry's body, and the other is peeling grapes and feeding Henry.
"Heh, I also have a swimming pool at home in Cape Town, what's so rare?" There are also two Boer girls next to Roque, but Roque doesn't need their clothes, the two girls are fanning Roque, the water in this pool is really a bit hot, presumably a hot spring.
"Your swimming pool is outdoor, and people are indoor, how can you compare?" Henry exposes Roque's hypocritical face, well, the grapes are a little sour!
"It's also a swimming pool outside, and you can't even have a fish tank at home." Roque had to admit that Cecil Rhodes's house was the real mansion, and compared to the mansion of others, Roque's home was dwarfed by the boredom of the nouveau riche.
"You said what reward we can get this time, I think the queen will make me an earl!" Henry's biggest dream in this life is to surpass his father's title, so that Henry can return home.
Otherwise, Henry will be unlucky, because seducing the general's daughter and being kicked out of the army is an act that will bring shame to the whole family, and if Henry does not have some good results, then it can only be hoped that the family law of the Matilda family will not be too harsh.
"Dream, I guess there's only one baron." Roque didn't want to discuss this, Henry could still expect a knighthood, Roque didn't have to think about it, he could be an inspector, and Roque would be thankful.
In the British aristocracy, the baron was the lowest rank, and Henry's father's title was the baron, not to think that the baron was easy to obtain, and the governor of the Cape colony, Alfred Milner, annexed the Transvaal Republic and the Orange Free State during his tenure, and only received a baronial title.
"No way, that's Joubert, at least a viscount." Henry is unwilling to get only one baron, this may be the closest Henry has ever gotten to a knighthood in his life, if it is only a baron, how willing does Henry be.
It doesn't matter, whether it's a baron or a viscount, as long as Henry can get the title, then Roque has a thick enough thigh that he can walk sideways in Cape in the future.