The Bizarre Indians

Following Aristotle's order, all officers and soldiers of the Ninth Brigade, already somewhat exhausted, began a new round of blocking operations against the British Army.

Compared to their nervousness toward the British Army before the war began, the East African Army had now settled into a numb realization: "The British are nothing special."

After all, the title of "World's Number One Power" was intimidating, but only when they truly fought could they feel the gap between reputation and reality. The enemy had two arms and two legs as well—mere flesh and blood, not invulnerable heavenly soldiers descending to earth, fearless of blades and bullets.

Of course, the rank-and-file East African soldiers did not literally think that way. It was merely an exaggerated expression. At present, the soldiers of the Ninth Brigade mainly consisted of two groups: experienced veterans and recruits who had joined after the expansion of the army.

The recruits were further divided into two groups. One consisted of people who had immigrated to East Africa in recent years, and this group was the greatest source of instability within the East African Ninth Brigade.

These immigrants mainly came from the German territories and the Far East, so their attitudes toward war varied greatly. Some even retained all kinds of old-fashioned military thinking, though they got along well with many East African veterans.

The other recruits were those who had received compulsory education in East Africa or Germany. After all, many immigrants from the Austro-Hungarian Empire were Slavs, where compulsory education was not especially widespread, so many who came from Germany had not necessarily received compulsory education.

As for recruits who had received East African compulsory education, they had obviously never received barracks education, and their impression of the military was somewhat skewed. Still, East Africa's years of disciplinary education