Chapter 72 Oppose

Dar es Salaam.

February 11, 1915 in the Western calendar, Thursday. On the 28th day of the twelfth lunar month of the lunar calendar, morning.

The sky over the Indian Ocean before dawn is still shrouded in milky fog. On this foggy sea, the hazy figures of several warships can be faintly seen undulating slightly with the waves.

In the past few months, the port of Dar es Salaam, a coastal city that has just become the capital of Central East Africa, has fully demonstrated that as the important surname of the Chinese [***] team's forward base camp in the Indian Ocean, the dock here provides maintenance for warships sailing in the Persian Gulf and the Indian Ocean, and the farm is far away. The conscription provides food, and at the same time, it is also a healing place for the seriously injured of the expeditionary army.

It can be said that the city and this colony have shown an important surname as a colony.

Dar es Salaam has been expanding the port in the past few months. Thousands of sleepy and waking black workers on the construction site of the port are lazyly carrying tools and pushing stones around the construction site. Some people who are obviously supervisors or port officials loudly encourage or reprimand the lazy workers. Workers - The actual situation proves that their effect is equal to zero. Black people are lazy, and often only the leather whip will work for them. Therefore, when the reprimand did not work, the supervisors who were not used to the East African "working style" raised the leather whip in their hands with the permission of the dock officials. Minutes later, under the whip of the supervisors, the lazy black people finally picked up the tools in their hands and put them into the construction of the dock.

In the low bulge sound between the river valleys, a white motorboat of the customs drove away from the shore and leaned towards the warship in the morning fog in the distance. Where the motorboat passed, there were stripes on the sea. The lazy black workers are not even interested in looking at the motorboats. They are not the black people of the savage tribes who have not seen the world in movies and novels. They even believe in Christianity.

Not to mention such a small motorboat, a warship hundreds of times larger than it, they have also seen it here. They are not surprised by such a small boat at all. Only those old hats who have just come from the inland will be surprised by the ship.

Standing on a small motorboat, Zhao Defang Yiru, when she first arrived in es Salaam, looked at everything around her with curious eyes. Life was so wonderful. When he thought he would work at a certain customs, he unexpectedly became an official of the newly created Dar es Salaam customs - a colonizer. Local officials.

Colony officials, for other great powers in the world, this name is not strange, but for the Chinese, this is an extremely new term. China is learning how to manage colonies, and is also learning how to serve as colonial officials. Compared with the Pacific colonies, it has The former German East African colony with a population of one million is undoubtedly the best place to practice, and because of this, there are a large number of young administrative officials here, who will learn how to serve as colonial officials here.

"In the famous French, Macao and Hong Kong, which is of great strategic significance in the Turkish province of Baghdad, our brave expeditionary force decided the final blow to Turkey's crumbling house. The fiasco of Basra and Porto Fao, the standard is that Turks will have to withdraw from Baghdad,..."

Wang E, who was next to the small motorboat, said loudly with the newspaper.

"The victory of Fao Port is equivalent to the crumbling rule in the Turkish province of Baghdad, giving the last blow..."

When Wang E said this, several students around him smiled kindly. Since the expeditionary army landed on the Arabian Peninsula, on average, three days later, the newspaper will publish the last blow of the expeditionary force to Turkey's shaky rule, and every battle is "decided". Every battle is "The last blow."

The Turks should have collapsed countless times long ago, but they can still do magic. On the next battlefield, the expeditionary army once again gave them the "final blow to decide the surname", and then the invincible Chinese expeditionary force won the "final victory" of the "final blow" again.

In a word, the so-called good news is just that.

"The eternal decision is to be victorious!"

Laughter gushed out of their mouths, and when the laughter fell, Wang E said.

"Whether he decides his surname or the last blow, anyway, our casualties are not much. Since the beginning of the war, a total of 10,000 casualties, compared with Europeans, are not worth mentioning at all..."

Before he finished his words, he was interrupted by Zhao Defang.

"That's because they are facing the Turks, and how many troops have we have invested there, and how many troops have there in Turkey, you see..."

Zhao Defang's hand pointed to the entrance of the port of Dar es Salaam. There was a white cruise ship parked in the berth area at the entrance. The side of the cruise ship was painted with a large red cross. It was a medical ship from the Arabian Peninsula. Dar es Salaam, as the location of the first-class medical station of the expeditionary force, sent troops from the expeditionary force. After the Arabian Peninsula, the wounded transferred from the front line were constantly treated here.

"According to the registration of the customs office, this is the third time that the New Oriental sent the wounded to Dar es Salaam. How many wounded can be transported three times? Among other things, just look at the requisitioned theaters and schools, and you will know whether the casualties are big or small. I'm afraid only God knows!"

Although Zhao Defang did not know the situation on the front line and how many of the wounded were sent to es Salaam for treatment, he still knew that the medical ship "New Oriental" had come three times because of his work, and there were two other naval medical ships that passed through Daresza. Ram, although they are not soldiers, they still know the minimum common sense that the lightly injured will certainly not be sent back to es Salaam for treatment. Those who can be sent here must be seriously injured. How many wounded have been transported by the five ships? And the corresponding is how many wounded are there on the front line? I'm afraid it's not as simple as 10,000 casualties.

"Yes, you haven't seen that the gymnasiums in Dar es Salaam have been requisitioned as field hospitals, and the political axe institutions are working together to make room for the wounded. There are too many wounded. There are so many wounded sent here. I really don't know how many casualties there are on the front line!"

When mentioning the casualties on the front line, the expression of several people became serious at the same time. Finally, Wang E said without complaining.

"I really don't know why they buried the real situation on the front line!"

"That's not simple. I'm afraid that there will be too many casualties. At that time, someone in Congress will take the opportunity to oppose this "unpret name" war!"

(to be continued)