Kerry had no way to deal with the Songo Fortress, because the entire Songo Fortress was like a turtle shell, and the East African Army was like a shrunken turtle, and the two sides were deadlocked here.

This made Kerry, who had only fought rich battles in the French army before, very angry, how could he have suffered such anger, but he resented the Portuguese in Mozambique even more, a colony is a colony, and it cannot be put on the table.

The fledgling Kerry finally understood why colonial countries and regions were so vulnerable to Westerners, not only because of equipment, but also about people and systems.

The Portuguese have become like this, and they can still firmly control such a large area of land, one can imagine how unbearable the original indigenous regime in the area is.

However, the performance of the East African Army is indeed very impressive, especially the level of fortifications and armaments, which is also a colony, but it is not much higher than that of Portugal in front of me.

So Kerry muttered in his heart: This colony is also divided into three, six, nine and so on, the United States, which has become independent and developing rapidly, should belong to the first gear, after all, the world power with a proper size and economy, India should belong to the second gear, without India, the British will not be able to suppress France, and Brazil also belongs to this level, Portugal, which has not lost Brazil, is no longer a strong country in the eyes of Kerry, Australia and Canada, including France's own Algeria, should belong to the third gear, and East Africa should also belong to this grade, As for the dead colony, Cape Town should be barely counted, but Cape Town has East African suppression above it, so it can't play its full strength.

Kerry's division criterion is very interesting, because the United States, Brazil and East Africa are already independent countries, so in Kerry's eyes, all regions except Europe are equated with colonies, which is the arrogance of old Europe.

Of course, if Ernst knew Kerry's thoughts, he would quite agree, although the three countries have become independent, they are not actually independent economically, and they are still dependent on the old Europe to live, and only the United States and East Africa can watch their own development of the three countries, but once they are expelled from the old Europe, the development will be very unsatisfactory.

After two days of ineffective attacks, Kerry was very depressed, but Rhodes watched the play from the sidelines.

Kerry: "Captain, I'm afraid I can't break through the Songo stronghold on my own, what do you have a good idea?" ”

Rod: "This? Aren't we going to fight! If you ask me, it must be enough to let these keep rushing, we and the Germans have been consuming, anyway, the are not distressed if they lose. ”

Kerry was speechless: "If our troops are ten times that of the opposite side, it's almost the same, and although the black people are cheap, they can't be wasted at will, you must know that it is not easy for us to train these black people with all our heart, it is easy to send them when we come up, and it will be difficult to replenish them later, and we don't have so much time to train another group of black people out." ”

The feeling that the black soldiers he had worked so hard to train were cannon fodder in the eyes of the Portuguese made Kerry a little discouraged.

Although there is no problem in saying this, in Kerry's opinion, the blacks who have been trained in France are also high-level cannon fodder, and they cannot be compared with those who have not been trained.

Rhodes didn't care: "Anyway, we just have enough reasons, it is difficult to take the Songgo fortress without heavy weapons, who knew that East Africa would build a turtle shell in such a barren land, without heavy weapons, it can only be filled with human lives, blacks are originally inferior races, they can't learn the skills of European soldiers, and the Germans on the opposite side have a lot of whites after all, so it is understandable that the war has been dragged on to this point, and it is understandable that we can't get a record." ”

Rod's rhetoric is obviously trying to mess up, but if you think about it carefully, Rod, a Portuguese, seems to have never been rotten since the outbreak of the war.

Kerry asked curiously: "Captain Rhodes, you are a Portuguese, and this Mozambique is also a colony of the Portuguese, if this war is lost, you lose Mozambique, aren't you sad?" ”

Rod looked at Kerry, who had always looked down on him, and suddenly asked honestly, he waved his hand and said, "What does that have to do with me?" I used to be a small security officer in Maputo, and I usually did this police work, and I was suddenly promoted to an officer, naturally not like Mr. Kerry, you are a professional soldier, and besides, being a soldier in Portugal is just a profession for me, since it is a profession, it can be replaced, Mozambique is lost, and it is a big deal to go elsewhere to continue to find a job, I used to be a local shoemaker, and I can't starve to death if I have skills, and I have worked hard in Mozambique over the years, and I actually didn't earn much compared to being a shoemaker before, It was just fooled to Mozambique before. ”

Rhodes: "You should be a landlord in Mozambique!" Your land was all snatched from the hands of the blacks, and even if you can't be a big landlord, you should always be able to mix with a small landlord. ”

Rod: "What's the use of that?" As I said before, I have been a shoemaker for generations, and I would never have farmed, and besides, can Mozambique compare to Europe? Where is the food sold? And I don't have the capital, and I don't have the technology, and I can't develop the land. ”

A lot of land in Europe is developed mature soil, and most of Mozambique's soil is raw, and the harvest in the first two years is good based on the fertility of the land that has been formed naturally for thousands of years, but it is not good to develop new land, but it is not easy to develop new land.

And Mozambique has a characteristic, that is, it has a long history, almost the earliest African colonies, so most of the land in Mozambique is owned, especially after East Africa cut off Mozambique's expansion road, the new immigrants to Mozambique in recent years have no chance to drink soup.

Kerry: "I heard that the wages in the colonies are relatively high, so you won't be so miserable, right?" ”

Rhodes: "It's not what you say, it's not what you say, but what the top brass of the colony say, although our income is higher, but it's not much higher than the European factory, and you don't spend money?" Prices here are much more expensive than in Europe, and earning money in the colonies is a matter of life. ”

Although Rod's salary is three melons and two dates, but the salary of hundreds of thousands of Rods is very considerable, and this money is also a major expense of the Mozambican colonial government, so it is to make money in the colony, but some people think of ways to empty Rod's wallet.

Of course, people like Rhodes are not all people who eat and wait for death, but there are many people who are similar to Rhodes, especially sailors, who are the most willing to spend money, the economic prosperity of Dar es Salaam and Mombasa open areas depends on the consumption of merchant ships and sailors in the past, and if the money is not spent, there may really be nowhere to spend, the sea is a dangerous place after all, and the sailors have a broader vision and more knowledge, so they are more open-minded, and money is still a good thing to spend.

After listening to Rod's personal experience, Kerry suddenly felt less annoying about the Portuguese who had cheated his way.

Kerry: "You're right, anyway, we have enough reasons to shift the blame, then don't do useless work, we slowly and East Africa consumption." ”

Rhodes was very relieved that there was a young man who was led on the right path by himself, and what was good about fighting and killing.

So Portugal and East Africa opened garbage time in Songo, and the two sides tacitly agreed to fire two shots, and they really fired two shots to listen to the sound, and then the Portuguese saw that East Africa was really sitting, that is, they shrank in Songo Fortress, and simply didn't even fire a gun, so they stared at each other with big eyes and played a sit-down battle.

However, the East African Army did not learn from the Portuguese to put it badly, but it was holding back the fire in its heart, and if it hadn't been for the commander's suppression, it would have rushed out to exterminate the opposite side a long time ago.

(End of chapter)