Not long ago, Ovillette's husband, Maurice Bohan Carter, lost his tongue after being drunk, and the scandal went viral.

So Roque can understand Winston's mood, no wonder Clementina Hozier didn't let Winston enter the door, the relationship between the British aristocracy is indeed a bit chaotic, and the reputation of the corrupt country is well deserved.

"General Ian Hamilton is still good—" Roark doesn't care about Winston's scandals, but more about Ian Hamilton's abilities.

Ian Hamilton also participated in the Second Boer War, in the first stage of the war, the troops led by Ian Hamilton suffered heavy losses, and Leddy Smith's British troops were commanded by Ian Hamilton, as a result, the British Expeditionary Force suffered heavy losses, which directly caused the commander-in-chief of the expeditionary force and the chief of the general staff at that time to be dismissed.

Later in the Second Boer War, after Kitchener's chief of staff, Roberts, returned to England, Ian Hamilton served as Kitchener's chief of staff, burying the two Boer-founded states with his own hands, washing away the shame of Leddy Smith.

During the Russo-Japanese War, Ian Hamilton served as head of the British Observer Mission.

Before the outbreak of the World War, Ian Hamilton was Commander-in-Chief of the British Army in the Mediterranean.

Note that it is not the Mediterranean Fleet, but the Mediterranean Army.

If you don't mention it here, it is estimated that many people do not know that Britain still has an army in the Mediterranean.

It is estimated that there are not many people either.

Anyway, judging from Ian Hamilton's move to buy a travel brochure, Ian Hamilton has a serious lack of understanding of the Dardanelles.

"What do you think?" Winston's eyes were bloodshot, his fingers holding cigars were yellowed, and his body smelled of alcohol except for cigarettes, and he deserved to be kept out of the door.

Roque stared wide-eyed, the generals of Southern Africa Roque knew very well, but the British generals Roque really didn't understand.

However, judging from the performance of British generals in the Second Boer War and after the outbreak of World War, Roque felt that it was good to laugh "hehe".

So Roque really laughed twice.

Miraculously, Winston actually heard that Roque was mocking, so Winston also said "hehe".

"Don't be terrified, if the Battle of the Dardanelles is lost, you know the consequences." How precious Roque's time is, whether he is in France to enjoy the praise of so many cowhide characters of the Anglo-French alliance, or whether he is unhappy with Ida and runs to London to fight with Winston like a fool.

"Locke, I know what you're trying to say, but now only you can help me, I hope you can command the land part of the Battle of the Dardanelles instead of Ian Hamilton, Ian is actually not bad, but he can't lead us to victory." The only thing Winston can rely on now is Roque, neither Ian Hamilton nor Sackville Carden.

Just as Roque knew the generals of Southern Africa, Winston knew the British generals, and Sackville Carden was a mouthful, not to be heard by him, but in fact he couldn't do it.

In order to open a second battlefield in the Dardanelles, Sackville Carden had previously made a big noise, claiming that as long as there were enough minesweepers, Constantinople could be captured within three days, and there was no need for ground troops to cooperate in the operation.

Roque, who is almost a "god", doesn't dare to brag about such a cowhide.

"I don't have time, and I still have to command the expeditionary force." Roque decisively refused.

"Locke, you know, I'm trying to win you the position of commander-in-chief of the expeditionary force, and you also know that you face a lot of resistance, unless you have an irrefutable record, although the attacking force involved in the Battle of the Dardanelles is not large, but it is an independent front, as long as you can lead this force to win the Battle of the Dardanelles, then it also means that you have the ability to lead the LinkedIn Expeditionary Force to win a greater victory." Winston is kind and seductive, I have to say that this guy is indeed very persuasive, Winston's words just fell, and the weeds in Roque's heart grew like crazy like being picked up by the spring breeze.

Indeed, as Winston said, even if the current Roque has commanded the troops to win the victory of Operation Victory Horn, even if he is a viscount of the British Empire, even if he receives ten more Victoria Crosses, but because of Roque's skin color and southern African background, Roque will never be able to become the supreme commander of the British Expeditionary Force.

But if the Battle of the Dardanelles is won—

Quite possibly!

Don't think the Victoria Cross is worth much, Ian Hamilton also has the Victoria Cross as a general.

Ian Hamilton's admiral had just been promoted after the outbreak of the World War, and Roque didn't know what Ian Hamilton had to do.

"Commanding the British Expeditionary Force does not require much personal ability, the main thing is to coordinate the coordination between the native troops and the colonial servant army, as well as the cooperation between the entire expeditionary force and the French army and the Belgian side, Frenzi is not bad, but it is not good enough, it is estimated that he will be dismissed soon, and a new candidate may be produced between Haig and Smith." Winston's political acumen is unparalleled, and the future is indeed Haig's becoming commander-in-chief of the expeditionary force.

In fact, the reason for Frenzi's poor performance has a lot to do with the Southern African Expeditionary Force's disobedience to command, and if Frenzi has the command of the Southern African Expeditionary Force, then Frenzi can definitely perform better.

After all, there are hundreds of thousands of cannon fodder troops, and with the heap of human lives, they can also pile up a few victories.

As the number of troops in the expeditionary force grows and the composition becomes more and more complex, the position of commander-in-chief of the expeditionary force will become more and more demanding.

For the Battle of the Dardanelles, Winston had now drawn the East India Servants, the Anzaz Army, the Home Army, the French Army, and some Indian divisions, including the Golkha Infantry, the situation was no less complicated than the French Expeditionary Force, and if Roque could coordinate the relationship between these forces, then George V and Kitchener would certainly not turn a blind eye.

As long as you can take LinkedIn to victory, skin color? Background?

Don't think the British are so pedantic, people are smart, there are still a lot of royal families in the 21st century, look at a few that can have the same influence as the British royal family.

"To win the Battle of the Dardanelles, I need more troops—" Roque earnestly demanded.

"I don't have troops to give you, Port Elizabeth still has a lot of troops to call on, your troops have captured Damascus, the danger of Egypt is lifted, can Egyptian troops also be drawn out?" Winston helps Roque figure it out.

"I need more logistics—" Roque stopped dwelling on the troop issue, squeezing Winston dry, and Winston couldn't conjure up more troops for Roque.

"Hahahaha--the entire Allied country's supplies are purchased from your southern Africa, or is it a special enterprise under your name, and now you come to me to ask for supplies-" Winston cried and laughed, and he still had to give the benefits that should be given after complaining, and people like Roque were useless to say that it was useless to break the sky if there was no benefit: "I'll give you the money, decide for yourself what you need-"

, speaking of which, if Roque refuses again, it is estimated that he will be struck by lightning when he goes out.

Pick it up, pick it up, anyway, the Belgian snow has closed the mountains in the recent period and can't do anything, neither can attack, and there is no need to worry about the German counteroffensive, Roque can just find time to go to the Dardanelles.

However, it was not easy to change the commander-in-chief of the Front, and Roque did not know how much work Winston had done, and he did not receive an order from the War Department until the end of February.

At this time, the snow in Belgium had not yet melted, and anyway, Roque's armored command vehicle was equipped with wireless telegraphy, which could remotely command European troops to fight, but it was impossible to find such an opportunity as "Operation Victory Horn".

It didn't matter much, before Roque left Belgium, he gathered all the generals and emphasized again that until Roque returned to Belgium, the Southern African Expeditionary Force was not allowed to participate in any kind of offensive, and in the stalemate anyway, Southern Africa should earn no less money.

Millions of troops, the consumption of people and horses is astronomical every day, and the enthusiasm of southern African farmers to grow potatoes is now very high, and the potatoes that used to be planted could only be sold to wineries to make vodka, but now they are directly exported to Britain and France and sent to the tables of civilians, and the money earned is several times greater.

Nonsense aside, so as not to be scolded, on March 5, Roque arrived in Cyprus to form the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force Command in Cyprus.

That's right, Roque is now commander-in-chief of the Mediterranean in the same position as Ian Hamilton held before the outbreak of the world war.

But unlike Ian Hamilton's bare-bones, Roque now had 150,000 troops under his command, including a British division and a French division.

Both were purely white troops, not colonial servant armies like sandwich biscuits, and although the troops were small in number, they were very symbolic.

Cyprus was formerly Ottoman territory, and in 1878 during the Tenth Russo-Turkish War, the Ottoman Empire leased Cyprus to Britain in order to gain British support.

The history of Cyprus is a condensed brief history of the European Middle Ages, during the Crusades, Cyprus changed hands several times, until the period of Ottoman control gradually stabilized, the island residents are mostly Ottomans, after the Ottoman Empire entered the war, the British built concentration camps on the island, the Ottomans were imprisoned for management, in addition to some Greeks, but the number is not large, the total number is less than 1,000.

Roque placed his headquarters in Nikonia, Cyprus, which was the last city in the world to be divided in the 21st century, and is now integrated, the whole city is not large, but there are many ancient buildings preserved, most of which are various temples and churches, and Roque's headquarters is in the largest church in Nikonia.

Roque's command staff, plus the guards, numbered more than 3,000 people, and a military camp was needed to settle down, but now that almost all the residents of Niconia were imprisoned in concentration camps, Roque could renovate the city with his own hands.