Roque agreed that the War Office would put the base in Nyasaland, of course, not only for the benefit of human resources, but also for the War Office, as the only intelligence department in Britain at present, the head of the secret service may be poor, and the department itself is still very rich, so the budget for the first phase of the base is more than 50,000 pounds, which is almost the same as the original budget of Little Rock and Little Rock Port.

It was only then that Roque learned how Britain's £220 million in the Boer War was spent.

When Roque first started building Little Rock, as long as it was a material that could be solved on the spot, all of them were solved on the spot, and it didn't cost anything if it could.

The War Office had a lot of money, and everything that was needed to build the base, including the basic materials, had to be purchased from the British mainland.

Roque was furious when he learned the news, because in Roque's vision, these things should have been purchased from Nyasaland natively.

As a result, Xiao Si explained to Roque, and Roque suddenly realized.

These basic materials will certainly be purchased locally in Nyasaland, but through a company in London, so that the price of buying these basic materials is similar to that of buying them directly from the UK.

Prices in Nyasaland will certainly not catch up with London, so there will be a huge price difference for these basic materials.

Some of these spreads were to be returned to certain heads of the War Office.

In exchange, the War Office wouldn't have paid attention to the specific origin of these building materials, so—

Everything seemed perfect, the material dealers were making a lot of money, the war office was given a perfect base, the British government was able to continue the "Two Cs" plan, and the local economy of Nyasaland was developed.

Everyone was satisfied.

"So, what we used to be worth only £1,000 can now be sold for £4,500." Roque was simply surprised, he didn't expect that there was already such a mature gray trading chain in this year.

"Hehe, what do you think, it's just the beginning, and when the renovation is done, you need more money, don't look at 50,000 pounds, but it will definitely not be enough at that time, this money will be enough to build the base." Xiao Si is used to seeing it, capitalist countries are just and honest?

Coax the ghost to go!

"So, we can't wait for the War Office." Roque was a little depressed, in other words, on weekdays, Roque would be happy to dig into the foot of the capitalist wall, but now, the Yao people in Portuguese East Africa really can't wait.

When the Zulu scouts were not joined, the Yao people drove the Portuguese out of northern Portuguese East Africa for a time.

After the Zulu scouts joined, the Yao people really strengthened their wings, and after burning Tete, the Yao people turned their attention to Marupa, an important city in northern Portuguese East Africa.

The city of Marupa is located inland, and there is no river such as the Zambezi River nearby, so the Portuguese could not evacuate all the whites of Marupa as smoothly as they did with the Tete whites.

In early August, after the Yao had besieged Marupa for a month, Lorenzo Marguis organized a force of 3,000 men from Pemba to Marupa in an attempt to evacuate the whites from Marupa.

Three thousand people, in the history of the Yao people's rebellion against the Portuguese in the past, was already a large army, because the Yao people were not skilled in mastering hot weapons, and the troops of three thousand people could generally confront the 30,000 Yao people head-on and not fall behind.

The "general" here refers to the previous battle in which the Portuguese suppressed the Yao.

But now, the Portuguese did not know what kind of force they were facing, so a force of this size, in the eyes of the Portuguese, was basically foolproof and could go sideways in Portuguese East Africa.

Reality gave the Portuguese a slap in the face, and shortly after the unit left Pemba, it was harassed along the way by a small group of Yao troops, who were uncharacteristically no longer facing the Portuguese head-on, but used the terrain to harass and attack the Portuguese.

The Boers did this in the latter part of the Boer War, and now the Zulu scouts are familiar with their old skills, so the Portuguese are out of luck.

After leaving Pemba, there was a possibility of a mine being buried under every big tree, and a bullet could be fired from behind every stone, and the Yao people did not care about the results of the battle at all, and more than a dozen guerrillas fired directly at a distance of fifty or sixty meters from the Portuguese, and after the battle, whether they hit the Portuguese or not, they quickly disappeared into the dense forest.

The Portuguese also organized a counterattack at first, but a force of about fifty men was surrounded by Yao guerrillas less than 500 meters from the main force.

The large Portuguese forces could hear the heavy gunfire and even the wails of the encircled troops for help, but because their view was blocked, they could not provide effective support in time.

By the time the large force finally arrived, the force of fifty men had suffered all casualties, some of them were killed directly, others were hacked to death with knives, and all of them had their hands cut off, just as the Portuguese had done to the Yao people before.

That night, there was a serious disagreement among the officers of this unit, some of whom believed that it was no longer possible to carry out an effective rescue of the whites in Marupa under the circumstances, and it was uncertain whether the unit would even reach Marupa.

Another part of the officers believed that the Portuguese in Marupa were in dire need of rescue, and that the Portuguese could not abandon their compatriots at any time and under no circumstances.

After a comprehensive assessment, the Force Commander decided to continue his advance towards Marupa.

If you don't advance, you can't do it, many members of this force are from Marupa, Maropa still has their relatives, and if the Portuguese abandon Marupa now, then the troops are even in danger of mutiny.

Then move on, the Portuguese also advanced in the war, they were cautious in their counterattacks, and even if they were attacked by the Yao guerrillas, they would not send troops to pursue them.

As a result, the pace of advance was very slow, 300 kilometers from Pemba to Marupa, and it took the army half a month to reach Marupa, and the average distance advanced per day was only about 20 kilometers.

In fact, the speed was not so fast, because the unit was attacked by the guerrillas only 100 kilometers after leaving Pemba.

In any case, the reinforcements finally arrived in Marupa after much hardship.

The troops that arrived in Marupa ended up with only 2,500 men left, and one in six soldiers were killed or missing on the way.

In the dense forests of Portuguese East Africa, disappearance usually means death.

In the city of Marupa, there are only about 2,500 people left, and most of them are old, weak, sick and disabled, and if you want to return to Pemba smoothly at this time, you actually need more reinforcements.

But Marupa has no reinforcements, after the Yao people besieged Marupa, they cut off all Marupa's external telegraph lines, although wireless telegraphy has been invented ten years ago, but Marupa has no wireless telegraphy, so to return to Pemba, can only rely on Marupa's existing troops.

The breakout began in the early hours of August 11, with 2,500 soldiers and more than 1,000 civilians taking up arms, escorting 280 ox carts loaded with 1,500 women and children to Pemba.

This time, the Yao people finally returned to their original way of fighting, and the Portuguese were hard and steel.

From Marupa to Pemba, the Yao people established four lines of defense, each of which was garrisoned by the Yao people, and the Portuguese had to pay a heavy price for every step forward.

By the time the second line of defense had been breached, the Portuguese had already suffered more than half of the casualties, and the women in the ox carts were forced to take up arms and charge the Yao positions.

After another half a month, the surviving Portuguese finally arrived in Pemba, and by this time, all the survivors combined were less than 1,000 people.

When the news broke, not only Portuguese East Africa, but the whole of Africa was shaken, with more than 4,000 casualties at one time, which was rare in the process of European colonization of Africa, except for this time, only the British had a similar tragedy when they conquered the Zulus.

The Boer War was a war between whites and whites, and if only whites fought against Africans, in the Zulu War of 1879, the British Expeditionary Force lost a thousand men in the Battle of Isandrwana, which was the heaviest battle for whites in the conquest of Africa.

Now this "honor" has finally been given to the Portuguese.

"We are making good progress in Portuguese East Africa, the Portuguese have been driven to the coastal areas by the Yao, and now the Portuguese do not even dare to leave the stronghold by 100 meters, our operation has been a great success, if the speed of the war office is not fast enough, I think they probably will not be able to catch up with this wave." Roque knew the power of guerrilla warfare, but he didn't expect it to be so powerful.

Compared with the guerrilla warfare of the Boers, the guerrilla warfare of the Yao people fully proves the importance of logistics.

When the Boers carried out guerrilla warfare, they were already desperate, lacking food, clothing, medical care, and even ammunition, so the power of the Boers' guerrilla warfare was limited.

The Yao people have the dual support of the South African company and Nyasaland, and the logistics are much better than the Boers, although the arsenal in Nyasaland has not yet been put into production, but Cecil Rhodes used to hoard a large number of military supplies in Rhodesia, which are now given to the Yao people, and strongly support the Yao people's fighting.

The addition of Zulu scouts brought more advanced combat concepts to the Yao people, the previous Yao people, and the Portuguese battles were all frontal hard steel, fighting to the death without retreating, sometimes even attacking the Portuguese heavily defended forts head-on, so the Yao people suffered heavy casualties, and have not been able to completely drive the Portuguese out of Portuguese East Africa.

Now that the Yao people have the theoretical guidance of guerrilla warfare and the words and deeds of the Zulu scouts, the Portuguese have fallen into great luck, and the Yao people in Portuguese East Africa are more than 100 times that of the Portuguese.

The successive conquests of Tet and Marupa have fully demonstrated the power of guerrilla warfare.

"The Portuguese are in a hurry, they urgently need a South African company to intervene in mediation, what do you think?" Xiao Si listened to Roque's words, and since hearing about the tragic situation of the Portuguese, Xiao Si now wanted to hang on Roque's lap.

"Me? Of course, I sat and watched - "Roque does not pity the Portuguese, the Portuguese have been colonized in Portuguese East Africa for nearly 500 years, and millions of Africans have been slaughtered, who will pity them?"

The cycle of heaven, retribution is unpleasant, and the whites of Portuguese East Africa deserve it!

"Locke-" Xiao Si was devastated, both white and colonial, seeing the defeat of the Portuguese in Portuguese East Africa, Xiao Si was indeed related.

"Cecil, this is war, the war will not end until one side completely surrenders, think about it, did the Portuguese help us when we were in trouble?" Roque's heart is as strong as iron, the Portuguese need the South African company to mediate, and the South African company must come forward?

Don't do it, during the Boer War, the Portuguese accepted the government-in-exile of the Transvaal Republic, and Paul Krugel was able to travel from Lourenço Marques to Europe for help, and this account is not yet settled!

That's why the War Office put its base in Nyasaland, and the Portuguese themselves planted the cause and are now going to swallow the fruit.

"I'm not a good leader after all." Xiao Si shook his head and smiled bitterly, he couldn't be so ruthless as Roque.

"You are, it's just that you haven't found your place yet, it's the war that makes you feel uncomfortable, and your position should be in the office." Roque picked up the good words and said that everyone has their own shining point, and sometimes they don't shine because they don't find the light source.

Frank also knew that the War Office had fallen behind in Portuguese East Africa, so although the base on Likoma had only just begun, Frank couldn't wait to get to work.

From late August to early September, more war office staff, as well as a group of graduates who had just left the university, came to Nyasaland, certainly not to build Nyasaland, but to start working in Nyasaland, targeting Portuguese East Africa, Tanganyika, the Congo Free State, and Africa as a whole.

"It's too much of a luxury to train college graduates as agents." Roque couldn't help but shake his head and sigh when he learned the news, and he didn't know what these college graduates thought, wouldn't it be good to find a job and live happily? If you have to be an agent, 007 is not as chic as in the movie.

Roque had forgotten that although there was a movie now, the story of 007 had not yet been moved to the screen.

"Sir, we need a temporary office space until the base is built." Frank came to Roque to coordinate, and he should be ready to be blackmailed by Roque.

"Yes, but you'll need to help me train some people." Roque's request this time was simple.

For the War Office, as long as it does not cost money, it is very simple to do what can be done with administrative force.

"What kind of men are you going to train?" Frank did not resist, one sheep was driven, and two sheep were also herded.

"Find out what else you can train, agents, of course." Roque also has a need for agents.

"Okay, let's send someone over—" Frank took care of the bag, probably a little cautious of his own, but obviously didn't expect what kind of people Roque would send over.