Chapter 1296 International Volunteers (3rd update, please subscribe)
In war, politicians provide ammunition, the rich provide food, and the poor provide children! When the war is over, the politicians take back the remaining ammunition, the rich grow more food, and the poor can only look for the children's graves.
On the way leaving the Republic of South Africa, these words involuntarily emerged in Ma Rulong's mind. Where did these somewhat nonsensical words come from?
Ma Rulong was not sure, but he felt that this statement was not entirely correct. At least in his opinion, in this war, it was not the South African politicians who provided the ammunition, but the empire.
The Boers who fought for the freedom of South Africa had no idea that they were strategic tools of the empire. They seemed to be fighting for South Africa, but what was the reality?
Ma Rulong was sitting in the car, looking at the vast land. Suddenly, an inexplicable sadness surged in his heart.
Although he knew nothing about the future of the war, he could foresee the future of these Boers. They would die... many of them would die. This was their fate.
Why did they die?
For whom the bell tolls?
The car was running on the vast and wild land of South Africa. Gazing at the land outside the window, Ma Rulong had complicated feelings. He was not sad for the future of the Boers, but for this land.
Even for this world, it seemed that everything was proving to him a fact - this is a world where the strong prey on the weak. In this world, all the weak are not only meat in the mouths of the strong, but also tools of the strong.
Tool man...
In fact, for the weak, sometimes, being able to become a tool of the strong is not a bad thing, because at least they are valuable, which allows them to make their own voices when they become food in the mouths of the strong, instead of being like meat on a board without any room for resistance.
In this world, the fate of the weak has long been determined, but with the help of the strong, they are able to resist another strong person.
Of course, sometimes, even if the world is a world of the jungle, there are still some noble people who sympathize with the weak, or are hostile to the British. When the Boers fought for their country, volunteers from all over Europe rushed to help the Boer Republic. Those volunteers believed that Britain's actions in South Africa were an act of aggression and violation of the sovereignty of an independent country. The Boers' struggle against British aggression aroused the sympathy of the majority of European people. After the outbreak of the war, newspapers called on those who wanted to sign up as volunteers and go to South Africa to help the Boers defend their independence.
To everyone's surprise, the largest number of these volunteers from Europe were not the Irish who were hostile to the British, but the Russians, or the Romans.
Before the war broke out, hundreds of Romans traveled thousands of miles to South Africa, most of whom were imperial nobles.
"Gentlemen, I don't need to waste too many words. We came here to fight the British. Many of our grandfathers, fathers, and even brothers died in Crimea, at the hands of the British. Now is the time to pay the price..."
As the commander of the Roman Volunteer Corps, Fyodor Guchkov looked at the nearly two hundred subordinates of different ages in front of him. If they were in Rome, they could command hundreds of thousands of troops - most of them were of noble birth, and now they all came to South Africa as volunteers. They came here not so much to fight for the Boers as to fight the British.
Hatred!
The Russians always hold grudges. They will never forget the bitter experience their fathers had in Crimea. They certainly will not forget how the British stood on the side of Turkey and tried again and again to stop their war against Turkey and prevent them from restoring the glory of the Roman Empire.
Even if it was Fyodor Guchkov himself, he was also the brother of Alexander Guchkov, a noble politician of the Roman Empire... they were both nobles.
Although Fyodor was very young, he was the first Roman to arrive in South Africa, so he naturally became the captain.
"Haha, Fyodor, now is the time for us to make the British pay with blood. I heard that the British are planning a counterattack. They have transferred tens of thousands of people from India. If we win, the whole of Constantinople will sing about our victory..."
No matter they were old or young, when the deputy captain Massimov finished speaking, they were all full of desire for all that. While they were cheering "Ura", not far away, Sun Ziyi was silently checking his weapons, and his comrades were mostly the same. Unlike the Roman volunteers with as many as two hundred people, the Ming volunteers had only a hundred people. However, Sun Ziyi's identity was not simple either. He was the eldest son of Xing'an Hou Sun Hu, a general of the Imperial Army. He came here with a simple purpose, which was to... fight the British.
"Captain, look at those Russians..."
Li Guoen looked at the Russian and said softly.
"I checked their identities. Among them, there are 193 noble children, and the identities of the other two are unknown. However, according to other people, they may be from the Roman royal family, the descendants of one or two archdukes, almost like princes."
Li Guoen is the staff officer of the Imperial Volunteer Team, but in fact he is an agent of the Imperial Investigation Bureau. He came here to collect intelligence from all aspects.
"So it seems that within Rome, hostility towards the British is prevalent among the upper classes?"
Putting the rifle aside, Sun Ziyi said.
"If that's the case, it's definitely good news."
"That's for sure, even though the Roman Empire did not directly intervene in this war. But as we all know, a large number of Russian volunteers participated in the Anglo-Boer War, and their number was the largest. I heard that in Constantinople, people leave there by ship every day and enter the imperial colonies to become volunteers. The hatred between Rome and Britain is huge..."
"Um……"
Sun Ziyi said, squinting his eyes and looking at the young backbone of the future Roman Empire.
"Hatred will not necessarily fade away with time. Few Romans will forget Crimea, or the blood their fathers shed there. They will always need to pay back the debt owed by the British..."
Debts owed must always be repaid, no matter when.
Why are people so interested in killing eagles and eating their meat? To put it bluntly, it is because people are full of hatred towards Britain. After all, no matter what era, being the boss will always attract hatred.
The hatred in the past made some people hostile to Britain, which is why there were volunteers from all over the world in Boer. There may be internationalist fighters among them, but the largest number of them are those who harbor hatred for Britain, such as the Russians, who have a deep hatred for Britain...
(End of this chapter)
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