The reason why cannon fodder is cannon fodder is because of Chen Ben's low price.

Strictly speaking, the 1st Cavalry Division and the Northern Rhodesia Division are actually servant armies, but the equipment of the 1st Cavalry Division and the Northern Rhodesian Division is not inferior to that of the British regular army, and even has a slight advantage in heavy weaponry.

The Tanganyika Servant Army is not good, not only in terms of equipment, but also in terms of logistics, treatment, welfare, and even the recipes for admission, there is a big gap compared with the local regular army, so don't expect the Tanganyika Servant Army to have strong combat effectiveness, they can line up in a neat formation and launch an attack on the position of the Lion Regiment.

Of course, with the way the Tanganykhadian Army operated, an attack of this magnitude did not pose any threat to the Lions, and within an hour and a half of the battle, Alvar Butler launched four attacks and threw in nearly 5,000 troops, but it did not have the slightest effect.

It can't be said that it didn't work at all, at least Alvar Butler was fully aware that with conventional means, even if the 36th Division was to go out, it probably wouldn't have achieved better results.

"General, we must stop the attack now, wait until nightfall, and see if there is a chance, maybe we can take advantage of the night to bypass the positions of the rebels at Fort Glory, the telegram we have just received, the defenders of Dodoma have put in the last reserves, the regimental commander Aaron has been killed, the chief of staff Scott is seriously wounded and unconscious, if we can't get to Dodoma in time, then maybe tomorrow, the 89th Infantry Regiment will be annihilated." The chief of staff of the 36th Division, Jackson Dick, did not want to sacrifice any more senselessly, from the beginning of the battle to the present, the firepower of the Lion Regiment's position has not weakened in the slightest, and the four attacks are the closest to victory, and the attacking troops have already charged to less than fifty meters from the forward position of the Lion Regiment, but then they are repulsed by the front-line officers and soldiers of the Lion Regiment using grenades.

"Jack, don't care about the casualties of the servant army, and don't care about the 89th Infantry Regiment, take a closer look at the position of the Lion Regiment, don't you think the Lion Regiment is effective in terms of firepower?" Alvar Butler didn't care about the casualties of the servants, and if he could gain something from this operation, then even if the 89th Infantry Regiment was completely destroyed, it would be worth the total annihilation.

"That's right, the position of the Lions is very clever, their machine guns are not directly in front of the position, but the firing holes are opened on the side of the position, so that we cannot directly attack the machine gunners, while their machine gunners can unscrupulously strafe the attacking line, so we have suffered heavy casualties, not only because we have no artillery support, purely tactically, we are far behind the Fort Glory rebels." Jackson Dick, as chief of staff, certainly knew how to think.

If you do not consider the current southern Africa, of all the countries of the world, the German staff system is the most mature.

However, the biggest problem of the German General Staff is also the rigidity of the system, limited by conditions, most of the German staff officers have no front-line combat experience, so most of the understanding of war comes from the teaching materials of military academies, this situation seems to be irrelevant in peacetime, but in wartime, it will seriously affect the judgment of staff officers, and then affect the command of military commanders.

Jackson Dick is the same, this is actually the first war that Jackson Dick has participated in, but the Lion Regiment gave Jackson Dick a great shock, if the guess within the Tanganykhad Army is correct, it is indeed the Nyasaland people who support the Fort Glory troops behind the scenes, then the Lions have performed so well, how strong should the Nyasaland troops be?

This question cannot be thought deeply, and if you think deeply, you are not loyal enough to the empire.

"Keep attacking!" Alvar Butler also needs to know more about the Lions.

"General, I'm afraid we can't do it, the 6th Tanganyika Division has been completely disabled, and there are no more than 1,000 troops that can continue to participate in the attack, and if we force the 6th Division to attack, then maybe it will cause a mutiny among the soldiers-" Jackson Dick couldn't help it.

In fact, most of the casualties of the 6th Division were not caused by the Lion Regiment, but by the military justice team of the 36th Division.

If it was the German troops who attacked, then perhaps Alvar Butler would still have mercy, and Alvar Butler would certainly not feel sorry for the colonial servants, as he said, if necessary, Alvar Butler could even give up the 89th Infantry Regiment, which was composed entirely of German Bayern, let alone the colonial servants.

"I know that the Sixth Division has suffered heavy casualties, but they have not yet completed their mission, so tell Gascoll that even if the Sixth Division is completely destroyed, it will cause as much attrition as possible to the rebels at Fort Glory." Alvar Butler is not a joke to insist on going his own way, and it is no joke that the value of life cannot be reflected at all, and only by attacking can the value of the colonial servant army be fully reflected.

Gascoll was the commander of the Sixth Division, and the Colonial Servant Army was like that, even if most of the soldiers were indigenous Africans, the officers had to be white.

"Well—as you wish—" Jackson Dick left the command, ready to give the order.

Just as he walked out of the headquarters, Jackson Dick heard the whistling shells.

"Concealment—" Someone immediately alerted near the headquarters, and Jackson Dick was immediately protected by the guards.

In just a few seconds, about a dozen shells exploded near the headquarters, and several soldiers hiding in the same foxhole were unlucky, and one shell hit the foxhole directly, killing all the soldiers.

Jackson Dick's first reaction in his heart was that the firepower of the Lion Regiment was too strong to be able to compete with the 36th Division, you must know that even if it was a German regular army, a division was equipped with only a dozen artillery pieces, so to mobilize more than a dozen artillery pieces to carry out a saturation attack on an area, the German regular army rarely used this method.

"Jack, are you okay?" As soon as Jackson Dick stormed the headquarters, the disgraced Alvar Butler took the initiative to greet him, and it seemed that Alvar Butler was unharmed.

Jackson Dick was finally relieved, Alvar Butler's military rank was major general, although the general would inevitably die in battle, but if a German general died in Tanganyika, it would definitely be a great blow to the morale of the Tanganyika army.

"I'm okay, Alva, we have to make a decision now, the strength of the firepower of the Fort Glory troops is beyond our imagination, and we can't be beaten passively." Jackson Dick talked for a long time, and there was no specific plan.

"What the hell are you trying to say?" Alvar Butler was not too surprised, it was normal for the Fort Glory troops to have Nyasaland support, and it was normal for them to have strong firepower, but firepower was not the only factor that determined victory or defeat, and Alvar Butler was never superstitious about this.

"What I want to say is that we should retreat to Ping'an Harbor now, I don't know what you think, but I don't think that the current 36th Division has no hope of breaking through the positions of the Fort Glory troops at all-" Jackson Dick didn't even pay attention, he now mentioned the "Fort Glory Rebels", and he had subconsciously replaced it with "Fort Glory Troops".

This can also be regarded as recognition and respect for the troops of Fort Glory.

"Jack, we have a reason why we can't back down." Alvar Butler did not agree to retreat.

"Alva, Dodoma is not Berlin." Jackson Dick didn't think that Dodoma was very important, if Berlin was besieged, then Jackson Dick tried his best to advance to Berlin, but it was obvious that it was a trap now, if the battle continued, then the 36th Division would have to be invested, and in this way, the consequences would probably be unacceptable to the 36th Division and even the German General Staff.

The name of the "world's first army" is really deadly, which sounds very good, but if Germany loses Tanganyika, then the 36th Division will become a sinner for Germany.

Jackson Dick could now imagine what kind of verbal criticism the 36th Division would face if it were to lose.

"Jack, we're not Tanganyika's servants either." Alvar Butler's worries are similar to those of Jackson Dick.

About half an hour later, the Germans attacked the Lion Regiment position again, and this time Alvar Butler finally used a regiment of the 36th Division, but the result was still bad.

Thanks to the wireless telegraphy that Tanganyika had finally begun to equip, Erich von Falkingham learned about the battle at Dodoma that evening.

The essence of encirclement and reinforcement is not to be quick with soldiers, but to hit superior forces and inflict heavy casualties on the enemy.

Therefore, after the Fort Glory troops captured more than half of the horses and surrounded the 89th Infantry Regiment at the railway station, they basically stopped the attack.

At this time, in fact, there were less than 100 German soldiers in the encirclement who could still hold on to the battle, and although the troops of Fort Glory had also paid huge casualties in order to capture Duoduoma, they could really complete the task with a charge against the troops of less than 100 people.

But this result was absolutely unacceptable to Erich von Falkingham, and if the 89th Infantry Regiment was really annihilated, it would not be long before Erich von Falkingham left Tanganyika.

Therefore, Erich von Falkingham temporarily suspended the negotiations with Mumu and took the initiative to visit Roque at Roque's residence, hoping that Roque could mediate.

"Of course you can, but General Falkingham, you also know what the Fort Glory troops want, if we don't meet the requirements of the Fort Glory troops, then everything we do now is useless." Roque was very stable at this time, what about the future chief of the German General Staff, the situation is stronger than people, and when it is time to bow down, you must bow your head.