Chapter 550: I want to make a big vote!

General Delarry, the "Lion of the West Transvaal", expressed great confusion at the hunting advisors that the Great Song people had asked him for, and although he had a hand in providing military support to the Great Song people who were trapped in the steppe, as far as he knew, the authorities of the Transvaal Republic did their best to provide food supplies to the Great Song people.

"Are you sure they just need some young men who can hunt?" Delarry asked his lieutenant.

"Yes, Your Excellency, I have confirmed with them the information on the telegram, and they have indeed asked us to send a team of no less than twenty veteran young hunter advisers." The adjutant said.

"Hmph, it seems that the two Great Song people who died in the last battle were not the sons of some noble councilors, and the battle situation has only improved slightly, and those noble gentlemen are thinking about hunting and having fun!" General Delarry made such a judgment.

In line with the idea that even if people die, they must continue to contribute, and Tempoz unceremoniously named the two members of the "Arjun" crew who hung up the sons of noble councilors.

Lieutenant Colonel Madison had seen in the war report that the British troops who had previously counterattacked the airfield had hit the tanks of the Great Song people with naval mortars, but he was skeptical that his own luck was so against the sky, and the Great Song people claimed that the shell had killed the only two sons of the elderly speaker of the House of Lords of the Great Song Dynasty.

It's just that Lieutenant Colonel Madison didn't know how to question this statement of the Great Song people when he negotiated with the Great Song people, after all, during the First Sino-Japanese War between the Japanese and Qing Dynasty, their crown princes also drove tanks to the front line, and it is possible that their naval mortars accidentally hugged the sons of two parliamentarians, and it is possible that Huannyima!

The British nobles had a tradition of hunting their own and putting their game into taxidermy at home to show off their prowess, and it was clear that General Delarry attributed Lü Xiangyang's request for additional hunting advisers to the above reasons.

If Political Commissar Lu knew that Drarey's thoughts would definitely be scolded, if the rough hunting skills of his subordinates were a little more reliable, he would definitely not ask the Boers for experienced hunters, after all, hunters are comparable to special forces in such a combat environment, who the hell will send you twenty at once? Twenty is just a room for bargaining!

As for the promise made by President Kruger of the Transvaal Republic to guarantee the food supply of the Great Song people, Lu Xiangyang could only scoff at it. He knew the outcome of the Second Boer War in the history of the original plane, and to be precise, he knew that in the end of this war, the British relied on blockade and food to force the Boers to sign a peace agreement.

In the third phase of the Second Boer War, at first the British did not have much to deal with the mobile and flexible guerrilla tactics of the Boers, even if they brought in a large number of reinforcements from Australia and New Zealand, but these people were not enough to be scattered into the South African savannah.

When General Roberts, commander-in-chief of the South African Expeditionary Force, returned home to take over as commander-in-chief of the British forces, his successor, Lord Kitchener, resorted to a series of extremely vicious but effective measures against the Boer guerrillas.

When you delve deeper into Kitchener's methods, you will find that the Führer and his madmen during World War II, as well as the notorious Okamura Ninji in China, were nothing more than pickers.

The scorched earth policy, the bunker policy, and the concentration camp system are the three magic weapons of Kitchener against the Boer guerrillas, and the British are not as gentlemanly as they say, in addition to selling their teammates, they have too much black history that cannot be washed away.

In the history of time and space, the British army erected as many as 6,000 kilometers of barbed wire in the area where the Boer guerrillas operated, and these barbed wire fences divided the Boer Republic into several appeasement zones, and the British army would carry out partition sweeps in these areas.

Wooden bunkers were set up every 1 to 2 kilometers in the appeasement zone, all of which were garrisoned by soldiers, and anyone who approached the bunker would be shot. By the end of the war, the British had set up more than 8,000 such bunkers in South Africa.

What do you think? These measures must sound familiar to you, right? Well, that's what the public enemy in the eyes of the Chinese people - Okamura Ninji did in North China, and this dog day is just a copy of the set of things that the British guy Kitchener played in South Africa at the end of 1900!

After Kitchener took over the South African Expeditionary Force, he also reversed the leniency of his predecessor, General Roberts, towards prisoners of war, and burned down all farms and houses within 10 miles of Boer farmers who were found to be helping the guerrillas in these pacification areas. In addition, guerrilla members who surrendered and were captured, as well as adult male citizens who had participated in guerrillas, were exiled to prisoner of war camps in distant India, Ceylon and Bermuda. In the Cape and Natal colonies, British citizens of Dutch descent who responded to the call to "take up arms" were sentenced to death if captured.

In order to completely eliminate the basis of the guerrillas' activities, Kitchener ordered more than 130,000 Boer women, children, and the elderly, as well as more than 80,000 black servants, to be taken from the burned farms, transported together in open-top wagons or ox carts, and imprisoned in concentration camps established by the British.

This time you look familiar again, right? Well, it turns out that the concentration camp run by the Führer and his gang of lunatics is not original!

First established in September 1900 as a house for the families of Boer soldiers whose homes had burned down, General Roberts was transformed into a concentration camp for all Boer civilians in 1901. There are more than 50 concentration camps in South Africa, located along the railway lines of the Cape, the Transvaal, Orange and Natal, as well as the suburbs of major cities such as Johannesburg, Bloemfontein and Durban.

A strict and harsh rationing system was imposed in the camps, with three-quarters pounds of cornmeal, rice, or potatoes per person per day, one ounce of coffee, two ounces of sugar, half an ounce of salt, and one pound of meat per week (women and children with relatives in the guerrillas did not receive meat). Babies and children under the age of six receive a quarter quart of milk per day.

The situation was worse in the black concentration camps, but they could be assisted by black relatives and friends, and they could also be released after pledging allegiance to the British. The camp was surrounded by barbed wire, and anyone who tried to escape was shot. The concentration camps were extremely densely populated, with a shortage of tents, blankets, clothing, and medicine, plague, malnutrition, and high mortality rates, which had climbed to 40.1 percent in October 1901 for white people in the Orange area.

Where does Lu Xiangyang, who has this hand of data, dare to expect the Boers to supply him with food, the British are crazy and not much more reckless than the Germans and Japanese in World War II, and if you want to mix in South Africa, you have to rely on yourself!

In fact, before boarding the C-17, Political Commissar Lu had the idea of self-reliance in South Africa, and this "Global Overlord" carried a lot of vegetables and fruit seeds exchanged from the shopping system in addition to ammunition supplies.

It's just that Lu Xiangyang underestimated the drought and water shortage mentioned in the report, and the current well at the airport is very difficult to supply these modern people's domestic water in the rainy season, and it is impossible to have spare energy to ensure agricultural irrigation, even if it is only to grow some vegetables and fruits, it is very difficult.

"Lao Tian, let's find a way to make a big deal in the green paint area in these days, and make up our granary as much as possible." Lu Xiangyang had just finished talking to Zhao Yi on the phone, and he frowned and said with Tian Buzi.

"What's wrong, things have changed?" Tianbuz asked.

"Well, something big has happened, and now we can't care about the impact, so we can only go into battle shirtless, in short, let's do it first!" Lu Xiangyang said.