Chapter 23: Original Sin

Henry would ask Roque about Roque's progress every day, and Roque would go to the temporary rest point three times a day in the morning, noon and evening to see if there was any news from the informant.

There was no news, and the informant only spread it for two days, and it was normal to have no news.

Roque couldn't hang himself from a tree, and after sorting out the information in the police department's information room for a long time, Roque circled a dozen Boers who might have known about it based on his previous Boer criminal records.

"These Boers all have criminal records, and some of them are probably no longer in Cape Town, or dead on Robben Island, but there are certainly people who are still alive, and I want to get them in and see if they know anything, but we need an excuse to alarm the real rioters." Roque wasn't sure if Zach would be able to find clues to the rioters, after all, they had been locked up on Robben Island for a long time, and even if they returned to the Boers, it would take time to find clues, and relatively speaking, these people were better informed, after all, they had been living in Cape Town.

"What excuse do you want, it's enough for them to be suspicious, and we don't need to take action, you wait, I'll go to the inspector." I have to say that Roque still doesn't understand how arrogant the British are in these years, and Henry has a lot of money, and he doesn't think it's a black pot at all.

Pushing back and forth, the work of offending people was assigned by Austin Pence to Sharma to be responsible, this is the end of no backstage, cuckold and black pot watching others shoot, and the cooking class of the artillery unit is not so miserable.

The guns were fired one after another at the training ground, and the commandos were hurrying to familiarize themselves with their weapons, not only pistols, but also rifles, and the difference between Lee Enfeld and Martini Henry was still very large, and now a drop of sweat would shed a drop of less blood in wartime.

"This gun is much better than the Martini Henry we used before, Martini Henry's recoil is too great, his body is a little weaker, he can't stand it after a dozen shots in a row, his shoulder can hurt for several days, the recoil of this gun is very small, the accuracy is high, the shooting speed is comparable to a pistol, and it is not so much smoke, the brothers have at least three or four hundred rounds of ammunition per person in the past two days, and the results are better than before." Anton was full of praise for Lee Enfield, whose performance was not half as good as the Martini Henry rifle, and was still used by some countries in the twenty-first century.

In the past, in the Huayong battalion, Huayong was known as a "sharpshooter", and the foundation must be there, but now the weapons are more advanced, the logistics are more powerful, and the results should be better.

Relatively speaking, the Indian police and the Boer police are much different, the Boer police are better, the Indian police don't seem to be very interested in weapons, the pistols have been issued for several days, Roque has not seen much Indian police at the training ground, Roque estimates that most Indian police officers don't know how to shoot, as for the maintenance of weapons or anything.

"The training work must be paid attention to, don't think that we don't have to go to the battlefield if we are policemen, in the next few years, the situation in Cape Town is very chaotic, I will go back to the inspector, try to see if I can get a few horses, and the brothers' riding skills must also be picked up." Roque thought far, compared with the Boers and Indians, the quality of the Chinese police can be called excellent, and Roque hopes that the Chinese police can attract the attention of the British with their strength.

Speaking of the riding skills of the Chinese policemen, this is also thanks to the British, in order to let Hua Yong serve in the Hua Yong camp with peace of mind, the British have formulated a lot of benefits, including allowing Hua Yong to lend the military horses in the barracks, so that they have two days a week to hunt rabbits on the dry fields for fun, and the polo field and football field in the barracks will also be open to Hua Yong in all seasons, as long as they want, Hua Yong has many opportunities to contact new things, Roque is a polo master.

"The police are still going to war?" Anton didn't expect to be so dangerous as a policeman.

"Not now, maybe in the future." Roque can't say too much, and if he says too much, he will leak the heavens.

Now that Cape Town is full of troops, of course, there is no need for Roque and them to go to war, but when the army is withdrawn, the Cape Colony will have to deal with the Boer guerrillas one after another, and then the police who maintain law and order will have to face the attacks of the guerrillas, and compared with the guerrillas, the attacks of these rioters are now only a child.

Yes, the guerrillas, the Second Boer War was the largest war of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, in which many important modern combat theories began to emerge or played an important role for the first time.

On the Boer side, the German General Staff sent military advisers to the Transvaal and Orange, and Switzerland, the Netherlands, France and other countries also sent military observers to South Africa.

Inspired by the rapid movement of troops by the British with the help of railways, which formed an overwhelming advantage over the Boers, the German General Staff deepened its trust in the doctrine of "total warfare".

Switzerland, on the other hand, has established its own unique national defense system based on the Boer military philosophy of "all people are soldiers".

At the same time, many new terms appeared, such as "guerrillas", "concentration camps", and "bunker tactics" and "scorched earth policies" implemented by Kitchener, then commander-in-chief of the British Expeditionary Force.

Yes, it is the one used by Japan in the war of aggression against China, and even the cruelty of the British is not much worse than that of the Japanese.

Most of the Chinese police are training seriously, only a few are absent-minded, Luo Yi is one of them, the number of bullet casings on the ground is proof, dozens of bullet casings have been piled up around the others, there are only a dozen around Luo Yi, Luo Yi sees it, but he doesn't say much, Luo Ke's behavior in the past few days has had too much impact on the Chinese police, and the Chinese police still need time to digest all this.

Before Roque became a Cape Town citizen, all Chinese police officers planned to fulfill their five-year contracts with the Cape Town Police Department, and then return to the Qing Dynasty with the money they earned.

As far as Roque knows, in just two days, seven or eight Chinese policemen have been naturalized in Cape Town, and they have decided to take root in Cape Town and not return to the Qing Dynasty.

The rest of the people are also hesitating, although the homeland is difficult to leave, but the benefits of naturalization in Cape Town are there, watching their companions get a salary of five pounds, and who is willing to take only 1.2 pounds a month.

With the urging of the inspector, Sharma finally had a rare and efficient time, and before the end of work at noon, he arrested two Boers, and Roque immediately began to interrogate the two Boers.

Yes, it is the interrogation, although the two Boers did not commit a crime, but according to the British, being born as a Boer is guilty in itself, and there is no need for a reason to arrest and torture or anything.