People who are used to being poor, and suddenly make a small fortune, will inevitably not be at a loss, and Lala is now in this mentality.

Referring to the casualty ratio of the Yao and Portuguese battles in the past, the Yao people eliminated 4,000 Portuguese with less than 5,000 casualties this time, which is indeed very brilliant.

Frank also refers to the results of the previous battles between whites and Africans, so he comes to the conclusion that it is "not bad".

Roque obviously doesn't think so, and even Roque feels that it is precisely because of the mentality of Lala and scum that the current battle result has been caused.

If Roque had been in command, the Portuguese might not have been able to reach the second line of defense at all, and even the Portuguese who had supported him would not have been able to reach Marupa, which was the real power of guerrilla warfare.

Now Lala is this attitude of being a little rich and peaceful, Frank is also getting by, Roque is indeed very dissatisfied, did not achieve the tactical goal, it is not an unforgivable mistake to completely eliminate the Portuguese in Marupa, the key is Lala's attitude, or it is very dangerous.

"Yes, I know that's wrong." Lala realized her mistake in time and looked remorseful.

Luo Ke suddenly realized that something was wrong, and it was not right to blindly blame, after all, it was not the Chinese who died, and there was no need to find fault with Lala, but more to encourage, so Luo Ke gave Xiao Si a look.

Xiao Si was blessed at this time, and immediately came out to ease the atmosphere: "Anyway, this is also a rare victory, when you go back, go to Victor, I will prepare wine and cigars for you, bring them back to the scum, tell him to make persistent efforts, strive to clear the coastal strongholds as soon as possible, and then I will support you to rebuild the kingdom of Mweni Matapa." ”

This is one singing white face, the other singing red face, Lala has to look at Roque's face, and when he sees Roque nodding gently, Lala is overjoyed.

Frank watched the interaction between Roque, Xiao Si and Lala, and the expression on his face was very melancholy for a while.

It is estimated that it is necessary to reassess the influence of Roque on the Yao people.

Frank didn't expect that Lala was not from the Yao tribe at all, but a police officer from Johannesburg.

There is a compilation!

"We must clear the Portuguese strongholds on the northern coast as soon as possible, but it will not be easy, the Portuguese have a navy and can get supplies through the port, unless we have a way to block the Portuguese port, it will be difficult to clear the strongholds on the coast." Lara has been fighting on the front line, maturing very quickly, and becoming more and more assertive about the war.

"Don't be anxious in this regard, the coastal strongholds cannot be cleared by your strength, what you have to do now is to gradually clear the Portuguese strongholds north of the Zambezi River and in the interior, so that the Portuguese have no foothold in the interior, force the Portuguese to the negotiating table, and then you can force the Portuguese to take the initiative to give up the coastal strongholds." Roque is not in a hurry, the Portuguese still have chips, but as time goes on, the Portuguese will have fewer and fewer chips in their hands.

After the Yao had cleared all the Portuguese strongholds in the inland area north of the Zambezi River, it was almost time for the South African company to intervene in the war, and then Xiao Si and the Yao would be able to force the Portuguese to give up the vast territory including the Zambezi River Valley.

If the Portuguese did not agree, the Yao could cross the Zambezi River and attack the southern part of Portuguese East Africa, where Lorenço Marques was located, and they could incite the Ngoni and Zhaonai to respond, at which point it would be questionable whether the Portuguese would be able to keep Lorenço Marques.

Roque believes the Portuguese should have made a wise choice.

"It is best to force the Portuguese to give up on their own initiative, the forts built by the Portuguese along the coast are very strong, and there are batteries to defend them, and if they were to attack head-on, the casualties would definitely be heavy." If she could, Lara didn't want to use crowd tactics either.

The always rough Africans actually know the tactics?

Both Frank and Smalls were a little surprised.

As he waited for dinner, Frank tentatively asked, "Can you find some clever Africans to train?" ”

Roque almost forgot that Frank had a task of examining how minorities could be used more effectively.

"Of course you can, but it's a bit difficult for you to get these Africans to learn how to be agents, and it's more realistic to find some veteran officers to teach them how to fight." Roque does not recommend training Africans to be agents, not because Africans are not suitable, but because the general rejection of Africans by the whole society will lead to Africans having no access to high society at all, and therefore unable to obtain important information.

Relatively speaking, it is more realistic to train Africans as combatants, even from Roque's point of view, Africans are basically fine except for being loose, undisciplined, and prone to blood.

In terms of physical condition alone, the physical condition of Africans is actually very good, don't look at most Africans are very thin, in fact, they have a lot of stamina, because the body is thin and very flexible, which is actually very advantageous in guerrilla warfare.

As for discipline and casualness, to put it mildly, Africans themselves don't care about their lives, and Roque doesn't care about anything either.

"If you teach them, it is estimated that the result will be more troublesome." Frank also has his own considerations.

"Then do you say that agents are more difficult to deal with, or are the troops more difficult to deal with?" Roque was more thoughtful.

Frank thought about it carefully and had to admit that what Roque said made more sense.

Compared with the army, it is indeed that agents are more difficult to deal with, and as long as the agents do not make a move and keep lurking, it will be difficult to be exposed.

The army is much easier to deal with, no matter how powerful the Yao people in Portuguese East Africa are, the weapons and ammunition used are all provided by Nyasaland, as long as Nyasaland cuts off the supply to the Yao people, even if the Yao people have a million army, they will completely collapse in ten months.

Therefore, Roque, like the Portuguese, will never allow the Yao people to have military production capacity.

For the same reason, Roque had to buy the machine from the Royal Light Weapons Factory through Ade, and if Roque came forward to buy it, he would definitely not be able to buy it, at least it would not be so smooth.

"Retired officers are easy to do, you have as many as you want, let the Yao people send some people over to try it first, and we can also train some agents to stuff the Yao people-" Frank, as the head of the agent, is also a bad stomach.

"Uh-huh, it's really necessary." Roque also has no bottom line in this regard.

The two hit it off, and Roque immediately asked Lala to go back and select some people with better English skills, combat experience, and more smart brains to send to Nyasaland.

In this regard, Nyasaland actually has a need.

Of course, what Nyasaland needed was not a line-up tactic, but other techniques outside of the tactical system, such as artillery, and Roque could not do anything about this.

Artillery is actually a highly specialized branch of the army, and the artillery in Europe before the 20 th century was called a "scientist unit," which shows the high technical content of artillery.

At present, among the army units in the world, the strongest artillery units should be Germany and France, and the British army is the scum, and even the Boers cannot defeat it, which shows how weak the British army is.

However, the army is weak, it does not mean that the technology is also weak, what Roque needs is British technology, as for the quality of the troops, as long as the weapons are not backward, who are the Chinese afraid of!

Unfortunately, Roque did not have time to wait for the establishment of the "military school", and at the end of September, Roque left Nyasaland to return to Johannesburg.

The rainy season in Johannesburg runs from October to February.

Last year's rainy season saw almost no rain in Johannesburg, resulting in a severe drought in the Johannesburg region this year.

This year, the situation is much better, since October, the rain has continued to fall for half a month, and the mood of Johannesburg officials and farmers has slowly begun to change from happy to worried.

This year's rain is so heavy that it seems to make up for all the rain that didn't fall last year, and if this continues, Johannesburg will face flooding.

Thanks to the construction of water conservancy in Johannesburg the year before, Johannesburg is not flooded now.

In comparison, Orange is more miserable, last year, Orange was eating, taking, waiting, and demanding, and there was no awareness of building water conservancy.

As a result, this year's rain was endless, several rivers in Orange had burst, and two-thirds of Bloemfontein's urban area was flooded, and the Boers finally had something to do, and they had to fight the rain every day.

"Our Johannesburg is not bad, when the city was rebuilt last year, the first thing to rebuild was the sewer, but this year's rain is heavy, but it has no impact on Johannesburg, but the rain has a great impact on the farms around Johannesburg, the city government is considering increasing the allocation to the farm, how about it, do you want me to help you fight for it?" Owen knew that Roque valued the farmers around Johannesburg, and the city government decided to do so, which also meant to show favor to Roque.

After all, Roque is now the "Lord of Nyasaland", one of the two existing barons in Johannesburg, and the relationship between Roque and the Matilda family is so close, no matter how the money is spent, it always has to be spent, and it can win people's hearts while spending money, so why not!

"Don't be funny, you are the leader of the Liberal Party, the farmers in Johannesburg are all hardcore members of the Liberal Party, and it is your task to seek benefits for the party members, how did it become a fight for me?" Roque will not give favors for free, and he raised Owen in this position just to fight for these hidden benefits, and the position of party leader is really given for nothing?

If Roque is given the choice, there are more people who are more suitable to be party leaders than Owen, and a large part of the reason why Owen was chosen is because of the relationship between Owen and Philip, and now the time has come for this relationship to come into play, and the city government is considering giving farm subsidies, and most of them have Owen's relationship.

"Hmph, I don't know now that this is a pit." Owen regretted not being at the beginning.

"Don't want to do it? If you don't want to do it, you will be your secretary in the city hall, and there are many people who want to do it. As long as Owen is in the position of leader of the Liberal Party, then once the Transvaal de facto democratic representative system, as long as Philip is willing, the Liberal Party can elevate Philip to the position of prime minister.

At that time, the governor of the Transvaal was still Ade, and Philip was the prime minister, and the position of the Transvaal British was solid.

Of course, this must be based on the premise that all Chinese farmers in Johannesburg are strongly supportive of the Liberal Party.

"Don't talk about that, Locke, when are you going to propose to my father?" Owen abruptly changed the subject.

Propose!

Roque seems to have forgotten that Phyllis came to Cape Town because she had escaped from marriage, and in this case, Phyllis had almost reached the age of engagement two years ago.

Now two years have passed, and Phyllis is not engaged, and if it were placed in London, Phyllis could be included in the ranks of older leftover women.

Roque is duty-bound.

"Tomorrow, tomorrow I'll go!" Roque is full of confidence, Roque was not confident before, and now there is no such problem, now Roque is Baron Nyasaland, on an equal footing with Baron Matilda and Baron Favart, in the whole of Southern Africa, there is no more suitable candidate than Roque for Phyllis.

This sentence is also true, and in the whole of Southern Africa, there is no more suitable candidate for Roque than Phyllis.

"Great, I'm going to inform Henry." Owen was ecstatic, and God knows how much pressure Owen felt during this time.

When Ida was in Cape Town, Owen didn't know that Phyllis had Ida as a strong competitor.

Now Ida is in Johannesburg, not only taking over the operation of the Rock Gold Mine, but also in charge of the Rand Bank and the Crocodile Bay Reservoir, and for a time, all Johannesburgers know the "famous" Mrs. Capet.

Owen had certainly met Ada, too, at a dinner party held by the city government.

Although Owen is hostile to Ada because of Phyllis, Owen has to admit that Ada is the kind of woman who can't be hated.

At the dinner held by the city government, Ida is good at dancing with long sleeves, and treats anyone like a spring breeze, although Ida is "famous", but no one dares to offend Ada, not only because everyone knows the relationship between Roque and Ada, Ida has a dual aristocratic background in England and France, and no one can force Ida to do anything unless Ida herself is willing.

There were also pretentious guys at the banquet, trying to attract Ada's attention, but Ida was obviously not interested in this kind of person, Ada's attention was on Mayor Philip Matilda, and Phyllis, who didn't have much presence, but no one dared to ignore it, even Owen and Ada didn't want to deal with it, the kind of proportionality that makes people feel like a spring breeze on the surface, but actually rejects people, in fact, Owen is also very good at it.

Some do-gooders might be tempted to see the kind of Mars vs. Earth confrontation when Ada and Phyllis meet.

Actually, no, Phyllis and Ada acted as if they didn't know Roque, and had a cordial exchange about Ziwei Girls' School, and finally, Phyllis invited Ada to visit Ziwei Girls' School at the right time, and Ida said on the spot that she would donate 20,000 pounds to Ziwei Girls' School.

The money was paid by Ida out of her own pocket.