The rebels withdrew before dawn, and the corpses did not have time to be cleaned up, so they were exposed in the wilderness.

After daybreak, the reinforcements sent by Berbera and the troops led by Angel converged, and of the two cavalrymen who asked for reinforcements, only one managed to return to Berbera, and the other was missing, probably dead, but the body was not found.

The rebel attack also sounded the alarm bell for Don Juan, and the second cavalry division moved more cautiously, and the rebels could no longer find an opportunity to take advantage of.

According to Roque's plan, the colonial government built forts along the coastline, gradually overloading the rebels' living space.

On 11 October, the air force reconnaissance plane discovered the rebels' base camp, and the bombers immediately bombed the rebels' base camp, and the rebels suffered heavy casualties and were forced to retreat to Italian Somalia, and the rebellion in British Somalia finally ended.

Also on October 11, when Roque finally returned to Pretoria, Ade and Philip held a welcoming ceremony for Roque, which was attended by about 150,000 people, and the 1st Cavalry Division and the Northern Rhodesian Division held a grand parade in King's Square in Pretoria as representatives of the Southern African Expeditionary Force.

That night, Ade held a dinner at the Palace of Justice to celebrate the victory in the world war.

It should be noted that this was the first official dinner held in southern Africa since the outbreak of the world war, when the expeditionary force was fighting bloodily in France, the officials of southern Africa did not spend a lot of time, they did a good job of providing logistical supplies for the entire Entente, without the support of southern Africa, the world war would not have ended so early.

"-When I went to the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, the situation was simply terrible, the morale of the troops was low, there was a lack of weapons and ammunition, less than 100,000 troops came from Australia, New Zealand, India, France, Italy, and the mainland, the Expeditionary Force Command did not even have a staff office, Mr. Gray asked for an island from Greece as the headquarters of the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, I refused without even thinking about it, that island was too close to the Dardanelles, I wanted to be further back, so Cyprus was chosen——" Roque inevitably had to introduce his experience in France, and both Ade and Philip listened to it with relish, they both knew these things, but they certainly did not tell them as vividly as Roque himself.

The dinner party was for family members, and Phyllis was not with those noble ladies, so she sat next to Roque, looking at Roque with adoring and proud eyes, and did not want to be separated from Roque for a moment.

"-Unexpectedly, at the beginning of the operation, the Anzac made a mistake, they actually landed in the wrong place, a full 1.5 kilometers away from the original landing point, the troops were suppressed on the beachhead, heavy casualties, the Ottoman army condescended, like a whack-a-mole to press the Anzac on the beachhead and beat it violently - the commander of the Ottoman troops at that time was Kimar, he had been very good in battle, I ordered the troops to capture him at all costs, but they did not succeed——" There were also regrets in the World War at Roque, but the results were good, the Allies won the victory, defeated the evil alliance, and Southern Africa was financially compensated except for South-West Africa and Tanganyika, although it was difficult for Germany to repay.

"The most dangerous must be the second Battle of the Marne, when the Germans were only sixty kilometers from Paris, Ferdinand went to me, hoping that I would attack the German army to contain the German army, George did that, but I wanted to annihilate the German army on the Marne, this is the best opportunity to end the world war in advance, miss this opportunity, the world war may drag on for more than a year, we have reached the limit, at that time the anti-war sentiment of the troops was very serious, many troops caused mutiny, fortunately the commander-in-chief of the French army was Pétain, He was always able to turn the tide. Roque was quite respectful of being decided, and the Vichy government was not Petain's fault, and if Petain had not come forward at that time, France would have suffered more serious losses.

"Speaking of troops, Locke, what's next for you?" During the World War, nearly 2.3 million people were conscripted into the army in southern Africa, and in addition to the troops killed in battle, nearly 200,000 remained in France, and they were about to participate in the Entente's intervention in the new Russian government.

The 200,000 troops were all Africans, and after the end of the World War, there were nearly 600,000 troops in southern Africa, including the Southern African Expeditionary Force returning from Europe

What Ade asked was how Roque would arrange these 600,000 people, southern Africa would definitely be disarmed after the world war, Ade didn't know how many troops Roque was going to keep, and on this issue, Ade was not ready to interfere with Roque, and left it all to Roque to arrange.

"I intend to keep only the first, second, and third cavalry divisions, as well as the northern Rhodesian division, of which the second cavalry division is stationed in Port Elizabeth, and the third cavalry division is stationed in Cyprus and Marlborough, in addition to these four forces, the navy will form at least two fleets, stationed in Port Edward and Walvis Bay Harbor, and I am also ready to form marines and air forces, and there will be a certain number of paratroopers in the air force, and the standing army in southern Africa may be maintained at about 200,000 men in the future, Plus a reserve of about half a million people, which would exist in the form of the National Guard, who could join active duty at any time if needed. "Roque does have a plan, but it still needs to be gradually improved by the staff department.

"200,000 people, will it be too many?" Ade has doubts, the troops formed by Roque have always been known for their good salaries, and the average soldier needs about two hundred rand a year, so that 200,000 people is 40 million a year, and this is just raising soldiers, not counting equipment and logistics costs, and if you add one piece, it may be doubled on the basis of 40 million.

"Lord, the current army is different from the previous army, in the past we only had to gather people and give them a gun each, and we could send them to the battlefield - now it is not like that, in the middle and late stages of the world war, the importance of technical arms is becoming more and more obvious, artillery, pilots, tankmen are becoming more and more important, even ordinary infantry, the requirements for precision shooters and machine gunners are getting higher and higher, and these technical arms need long-term training in peacetime to ensure the state, It is difficult to build up a fighting force in a short period of time if you are called up on a temporary basis - not to mention, the environment around us is not stable now, and I received an order from Winston to put down the rebellion in Somalia before returning to southern Africa - there may be more and more similar things in the future, and we must be prepared. "Roque doesn't think 200,000 people are too much, and the situation in Dragon's Blood Town has given Roque a new idea, maybe Roque can try more ways to reduce the financial burden on the federal government.

In fact, Roque has not finished speaking, if according to Roque's vision, Southern Africa only needs to form two fleets to safeguard the interests of Southern Africa.

In fact, this is not the case, although Port Edward and Walvis Bay are important, Port Elizabeth is equally important, and even Cyprus and Southern Africa need to form a fleet to protect the interests of Southern Africa around the Mediterranean, these things cannot be missed, as the territory of Southern Africa continues to expand, Southern Africa also needs stronger strength to safeguard the interests of Southern Africa.

"According to this plan, it may be fine in three or five years, but in a long time—" Philip also doubted, during the world war, Southern Africa turned around with trade with Europe, and its financial situation was greatly eased, from a former debtor country to a current creditor country.

Within three to five years, southern Africa, with the accumulation accumulated during the world war, could barely meet the needs of maintaining 200,000 troops, and after three or five years, southern Africa's finances would gradually dry up, and if there was no new financial growth point, then southern Africa's finances would be dragged down by the army.

In a word, maintaining the size of the force is important, but if the federal government's finances are dragged down in order to maintain the size of the force, it will also be worth the loss.

"Judging from the current economic situation, it is not that serious—" Ida will always be a good helper for Roque, and as the finance minister of Southern Africa, Ida also has a say in front of Ade and Philip, although Philip does not like Ida.

Dislike is a certainty, although Roque and Ida are not clearly related, but in fact everyone in southern Africa knows what is going on between Roque and Ada.

Especially after Arthur was named a baron of Cyprus, this bit of gossip in Roque's family has simply become the most enthusiastic conversation among southern Africans after dinner, in southern Africa, in fact, this relationship is not accepted by people, but on Roque, everything is so natural, and he likes to see it-

The only thing I didn't like was probably Philip, and even Henry and Owen didn't care about it.

"After the end of the world war, our military trade has indeed fallen to a freezing point, and it is estimated that it will not recover within ten years, this point I have communicated with Sam, the general manager of Nyasaland Heavy Industries, and the arsenals in Nyasaland are also trying to split the factories and machines and sell them to the outside world, leaving only the necessary production equipment - although there is no profit from the military industry, but Europe has begun to rebuild after the world war, so this is a new business opportunity. Mr. Rhodes and Mr. Christian of Christian discussed this matter, and the final conclusion was that we should actively participate, from capital to technology to raw materials, we have everything, so this is a new profit growth point - "Ida is full of confidence, although the world war is over, but the economic development of southern Africa will not stagnate, and there will be new profit growth points."

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