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Rydern's purpose caught Count Roberts a little off guard, and he felt embarrassed, even annoyed, that according to his psychological expectations, the main force in the west should have been wiped out by the East Africans.

After all, from the very beginning, Count Roberts believed that East Africa would first eliminate the main British army in the west, and then continue to move east to besiege Shaokui.

This is not unfounded, because from the beginning, Count Roberts believed that East Africa had a large number of troops, but it was not too clear how many there were, and the intelligence of the East African country was too difficult to obtain, and the lack of intelligence was also an important reason for the repeated defeats of the British army.

Moreover, the main force in the west has been out of contact with the general headquarters of Shaokui for a long time, which is also an important basis for Count Roberts to believe that the main force in the west was wiped out by East Africa.

In fact, the main force of the coalition army in the west was besieged by East Africa, and there were cavalry units patrolling the periphery in East Africa to prevent the main force of the British army in the west from escaping eastward.

Seeing that Count Roberts was a little embarrassed, Rydne said: "Your Excellency Earl does not need to feel guilty, because your troops in the west, although they have not been completely wiped out by our army, they have also been trapped by our army with the same strength, and as long as our troops in Shaokui advance westward, it will be easy to eliminate them, and we don't even need to do it, and it will not be long before they will be forced to surrender because of insufficient supplies, we just want to end this war as soon as possible." ”

Originally, with the westward advance of East Africa, the Western Military Region of the coalition army lost its city and fell into the ground, and a large number of material supplies could not be brought to São Jorge due to time problems, and the passage to obtain supplies in the east was cut off by East Africa, so in the end it was still impossible to escape from the palm of East Africa.

After listening to Ledern's words, Earl Roberts said helplessly: "Well, Your Excellency's reason has convinced me, but I want to know if there are any other places besides the west where our army is strong?" ”

Although unlikely, Count Roberts sincerely hoped that there would be more staunch "patriotic" troops like the main forces of the Western Coalition.

Ledren said regretfully: "No, your western troops were not annihilated by our army at the first time only for special reasons, because they were too numerous and their combat effectiveness was still strong, and the importance of São Jorge was far less than that of Shaokui and Maputo in the rear, so I just left enough troops to trap them." ”

After a pause, Rydern continued: "As for the coalition forces in other directions, to put it mildly, they are not too much of a threat to East Africa, so they are either completely annihilated or surrender on their own initiative. ”

I knew it was the result! Count Roberts thought so in his heart that the main force of the coalition army in the west was Roberts' painstaking effort, and the west was the main offensive direction formulated by Count Roberts from the beginning, so Count Roberts deployed a large number of troops and elite troops of the coalition army in the west.

At the same time, the Western Coalition Army has been fighting with the Western Military Region on the border with Mozambique in the provinces of Matabele and Hexingen in East Africa since the beginning of the war.

It was also the Allied force that Ledren hated the most, which initially put great pressure on the eastern defensive line in East Africa, and later switched to defense with the support of rear troops.

So the person who knows the Western Coalition best in East Africa happens to be Ledern, the top military commander of the Western Military Region in East Africa.

The other directions, especially the Northern Coalition Army, were completely secondary to the Coalition Army, and from the outset the aim was to delay the East African offensive from the north, and it turned out to be the same, when the two cavalry divisions of the Eastern Military District and the Northern Military Region appeared on the banks of the Limpopo River north of the city of Shokui, it meant that the northern forces of the Coalition Army were lost.

The southern army of the coalition army was slightly better, and was able to evacuate to the colonies of Maputo or Natal at first, and was second only to the main force of the western coalition army, and its strength was almost the same as that of the Shaokui garrison, so many fled to Cape Town in the later part of the war to avoid the front.

As for running in the direction of Maputo, it has long been solved by the East African Defense Forces together with the city of Maputo.

After completely losing faith in the war, Count Roberts said to Rydren in despair: "I can write a letter to ask the western army to surrender to your army, but you must also ensure their safety, and it is best to provide sufficient food and medicine. ”

During this time in South Africa, Roberts was very uncomfortable, and the disease was one of the biggest problems, of course, the British army was not too panicked to deal with malaria.

In particular, Britons like Count Roberts, who had been in India for a long time, were all too familiar with malaria, which was the main reason why Britain focused on transferring troops from India to the South African battlefield.

Of course, the value of Africa is obviously not comparable with India, although it is a malaria-stricken area, but India is a place that has been developed for thousands of years and has given birth to ancient Indian civilization, and it is really difficult to attract the attention of other countries before the African continent except for the Gold Coast.

Regarding Count Roberts's appeal, Ledren agreed: "This is natural, we in East Africa still value the lives of your soldiers, and naturally we will not let them die on the battlefield in vain." ”

At present, every British army in Mozambique is an important hostage of East Africa's future "blackmail" of the British government, so East Africa attaches great importance to the safety of British troops.

Although the cost is much higher, East Africa can still afford it, but Ledne also stressed: "Of course, you better also ask for help from home, after all, we can't guarantee that East African drugs will work." ”

East Africa is certainly not a casual wrongdoer, although the production of quinine is not small, but basically can only meet the domestic demand in East Africa, after all, East Africa did not consider the possibility of capturing a large number of coalition soldiers at the beginning, as for other drugs, the effect is far less than quinine, but it is cheaper and more productive.

In fact, malaria within the coalition forces is not too serious, and the coalition soldiers who have been able to stay in Africa until now may have already resisted.

Therefore, some drugs that can improve immunity in traditional Chinese medicine can solve most of the problems of the British army, the most important thing is hygiene and environment, and there is no need to correct this in East Africa, anyway, the prisoner of war camp has strict rules and regulations, which can help the allied prisoners quit bad diseases.

Of course, these conditions were almost exclusively for the British and some Portuguese prisoners, like the Indians, the Portuguese mixed race, and the blacks certainly did not have this treatment, otherwise the cost of East Africa would have been too great.

The British and Portuguese governments will not pay for these "wastes", so for the disposal of these people, East Africa mainly treats them with the treatment of native blacks, which is simply no human rights.

For Ledern's little ninety-nine, Earl Roberts doesn't care, he only needs to be responsible for the safety of his own people, that's enough, and even the abuse of British soldiers is not a problem, as long as he can return to his homeland alive, he can also be "at ease".

As for the Indian troops brought over this time, to be honest, he is not distressed when all of them are dead, of course, he must not ignore some Indians,

(End of chapter)