Reborn South Africa as a police officer

Chapter 2187 Yesterday I Forgot

France's lack of attention to the foreign legion is not only reflected in weapons and equipment, but also in training.

Probably worried about the management and colonial stability problems that may be caused by training the colonial troops into elite troops, the soldiers of the French Foreign Legion, regardless of whether they have received military-related training before joining the Foreign Legion, only need to receive six After a week of training, you can perform the task.

What if six weeks of basic training hadn't been done in Southern Africa?

Not to mention elite.

It takes a lot of money and energy to train an ordinary person into a qualified soldier. We all know that excellent shooters are fed by bullets, but how many countries are willing to use countless bullets to train a large number of excellent shooters?

According to southern African standards, except for a very small number of veterans in the French Foreign Legion, most of them are unqualified.

Even veterans who are qualified in military technology will have a greatly reduced ability to execute and discipline, and they also need to receive re-education.

"No, no, Patton, there is no need to train them into an elite unit like the Southern African National Defense Force. They only need to become qualified soldiers who can undertake basic combat tasks—"

De Gaulle did not demand much from the Foreign Legion.

After all, for Free France, even the elite foreign legionnaires are just exquisite cannon fodder——

"If this is the only way, then we don't need strict training for soldiers, but officers need it more." Patton has experience, and that's what the Southern African Union troops do.

Of course, the Union forces have much higher requirements for soldiers than the French Foreign Legion.

The officers of the French Foreign Legion, like the Southern African Union Force, are also French.

"There is no need for officers, all our officers are graduates from Saint-Cyr Military Academy—" De Gaulle is proud, Saint-Cyr Military Academy is one of the four famous schools.

In another time and space, the world's four famous schools are West Point Military Academy in the United States, Sandhurst Royal Military Academy in the United Kingdom, Frunze in Russia, and Saint-Cyr in France.

In this time and space, Russia is still excluded from the mainstream society. Frunze is unknown to outsiders, and Nyasaland Army Academy has replaced Frunze as one of the "Four Famous Universities".

There is also a chain of contempt within the "Big Four".

As we all know, the UK has always been dominated by the navy, and the Dartmouth Royal Naval Academy trains naval personnel.

So obviously, the Sandhurst Royal Military Academy that Roque had attended was obviously just making up the numbers.

Saint-Cyr, which de Gaulle was proud of, trained officers who could not even beat the Germans, so where is the success of Saint-Cyr?

Is it just a long history?

As for West Point——

Sorry, the United States is also a country dominated by the navy, and the army also makes up the numbers.

Therefore, within the Big Four, the only one that truly possesses "big" strength is the Nyasaland Army Academy.

Patton did not want to strike de Gaulle's pride.

Since officers don't need training, and soldiers don't need training, let's continue to rot like this.

Anyway, Patton didn't care about the thousands of soldiers of the Foreign Legion.

What Patton and de Gaulle didn't expect was that Rommel's North African Army hadn't come yet, and the Allied forces were in trouble.

As mentioned earlier, there is a tradition of mutiny in the Foreign Legion.

There are many reasons for the mutiny, such as the unequal treatment between the foreign legion and the French native troops, or the officers of the foreign legion domineering, and the soldiers can't bear it, or the frequency of performing missions is too intensive, or the difficulty of the mission is too high , the troops suffered heavy casualties——

Anyway, just wait and wait, there are all kinds of outrageous reasons.

The reason for this mutiny is simple.

After the Third Army arrived in Algiers, there were more than 66 troops stationed in Algiers. Next to the Third Regiment of the Foreign Legion was the [-]th Division of the Southern African Union.

The 66th Division is a force formed mainly by Brazilians.

Brazil is a member of the Southern African Union. After Southern Africa declared war on Germany, Brazil also declared war on Germany, officially joining the World War.

Brazil, which has just experienced a civil war, has an army of more than 30 soldiers. Most of them have received instructors from the Umbrella Company. They are trained strictly according to mercenary standards, and their combat effectiveness is guaranteed.

After participating in the war, Brazil sent a total of 9 divisions, and four divisions in the Third Army came from Brazil.

Like other Union troops, the soldiers of the 66th Division were mainly Africans, and the officers were all Southern Africans or white Brazilians.

Southern African military officers have very strict requirements for troops.

Brazil has just experienced a civil war, and the officers have not yet fallen, and they still maintain strict discipline. Therefore, after the 66th Division arrived in Algiers, although there was no combat mission, the officers still organized daily training according to wartime standards to maintain the combat effectiveness of the troops.

There are many kinds of training for the alliance troops, such as emergency gathering at night, long-distance training, physical training, etc., they are not idle every day.

The third regiment is stationed next to the 66th division.

Seeing that the training of the 66th Division was in full swing, the officers of the third regiment became concerned.

By the way, who wouldn't want to have a troop whose combat power is so powerful that it explodes——

So one day, Louison Langman, the head of the third regiment, imitated the 66th division and came to an emergency assembly at night.

For the troops, it is very important to assemble urgently at night. After all, when the enemy attacks, they will not be notified in advance, nor will they look at the calendar to choose the date. Experienced commanders are very good at night attacks——

Thinking crookedly, he went to face the wall.

Louison Langman is not good at it.

After all, the Foreign Legion had never been trained in this area before.

Emergency assembly at night is not easy.

The army had very strict requirements for camping. After nightfall, the lights were blacked out, and no one was allowed to move around at will. Any disturbance in the camp could lead to a mutiny in the camp, which caused countless tragedies.

The Foreign Legion had never conducted an emergency assembly at night, and Louison Langman naturally had no experience in this area. He only saw that the emergency assembly at night by the 66th Division was very simple and necessary, so he imitated the 66th Division himself. The teacher makes one.

Louison Langman was not stupid. Before the training started, he specially summoned the officers to explain and remind them of the precautions.

In order to prevent accidents, Louison Langman even ordered the officers to confiscate all the soldiers' bullets, and if there were guns without bullets, even if there was chaos, the damage would be extremely limited.

Louison Langman overlooked one thing.

The management of the French Foreign Legion was very chaotic.

The soldiers of the Foreign Legion are mercenaries, and the mercenaries of the Umbrella Company know that they can make a little money by stealing sheep while performing tasks, and the soldiers of the French Foreign Legion are the same.

This happens only during missions, that is, during combat.

There are no tasks to perform in peacetime, and naturally there is no chance to make a fortune——

It cannot be said in this way that big fortunes cannot be made, but small fortunes are still possible.

For example, bullets, soldiers of the Foreign Legion have a lot of private transactions.

This is easy to understand.

After all, after a battle is fought, the soldiers themselves have the final say on how many bullets to consume.

The French government was stingy with the foreign legion in terms of weapons and equipment, but the supply of bullets was open, so various private transactions came into being.

It should be explained here that the garrison of the French Foreign Legion is different from the garrison of the southern African troops.

Southern African troops are stationed in the field, and soldiers are not allowed to act privately. If there is no suitable reason, soldiers can't even walk out of the gate.

Not even being able to go out, naturally there will be a lot less troubles, and there will be no strange groups around the camp.

The French Foreign Legion is different.

As long as the foreign legion camps, no matter in the city or in the wilderness, there will always be some strange creatures around the camp of the foreign legion, such as young women engaged in special industries——

Another example is the merchants engaged in various transactions——

For these merchants, bullets are hard currency and can be spent as money.

In the Foreign Legion, officers were well paid and didn't need to trade bullets for things.

For Louison Langman's order, the officers were not strict enough. They only confiscated the soldiers' bullet boxes, not even the bullets in the magazines, which laid the groundwork for the emergency assembly at night.

At 1 o'clock in the morning on January 26, Louison Langman and several officers of the third regiment blew the whistle together. The scene was quite ceremonial, and the French were very good at this.

What happened next, no one expected.

Here is another explanation. In France during World War II, when the army launched an attack, it did not blow the charge, but whistle.

Soldiers of the Foreign Legion have a conditioned reflex to the whistle.

So when the whistle blew, a soldier who was sleeping soundly pulled the cartridge, loaded it, and pulled the trigger.

Firearms at night are a taboo for the military.

Before the training began, Louison Langman had ordered the officers to confiscate all the soldiers' bullets. In theory, the soldiers of the third regiment had no bullets.

So when the gunshots sounded, Louison Langman and all the officers were stunned.

Don't forget that it is still wartime and the Germans may attack at any time.

So since there are gunshots, what does it mean?
So an ordinary emergency assembly at night was turned into a farce by the French.

As mentioned above, the garrison of the third regiment is next to the garrison of the 66th division.

Suddenly there was gunfire from the third regiment, and the duty officer of the 66th division naturally wanted to call to ask.

The duty officer of the third regiment did not expect such an oolong to happen.

When the gunshots rang out, the officer on duty of the third regiment also called to inquire, so the call never got through.

The southern African army has a communication company at the regiment level.

A regiment-level unit of the Foreign Legion, not to mention a communication company, even has only one telephone.

Under normal circumstances, even if the phone fails, the 66th Division will not be dispatched.

The crux of the problem is that after the first gunshot, the soldiers of the third regiment probably thought they were under attack, and then another gunshot rang out continuously, and the situation was completely out of control.

The 66th Division has not yet been dispatched at this time, even if the third regiment fights badly, as long as it does not take the initiative to ask for help, the 66th Division will not be dispatched.

At this time, another unexpected situation happened.

After the gunshots rang out, some soldiers of the third regiment who didn't know the situation thought they were being attacked by the German army, so they voluntarily left the camp and fled to the garrison of the 66th division.

Although the 66th Division was not dispatched, it was ready to guard against possible combat situations.

So when the soldiers of the third regiment appeared, the security forces of the 66th Division did not hesitate to shoot.

Among the coalition forces, the equipment of the Brazilian army is better than that of the two Congolese troops. After all, it is a force that has fought side by side with the Southern African National Defense Forces.

The 66th Division attaches great importance to defense work, and 20mm high-level and flat-purpose machine guns are arranged around the camp.

The bullets of the 20mm machine gun are as thick as carrots, which can easily penetrate the armor of most modern tanks.

If it hits a person, it can directly tear the person into pieces.

So when the machine guns of the 66th Division opened fire, the [-]rd Regiment suffered heavy losses.

According to statistics after dawn, only two machine guns fired, and only one magazine was fired each.

It was these two magazines that caused 25 deaths and 9 injuries to the third regiment.

The nine injured people either had their arms or legs broken, and they were all broken into pieces that couldn't be reattached at all.

It is obvious that an "ordinary" emergency gathering at night was turned into a farce, but it still caused such a large number of casualties, and it must be held accountable.

Who?
Louison Langman was not responsible. Before the training started, he had done all kinds of preparations as much as possible, and even collected all the bullets. What accidents could it cause?

The other officers of the third regiment are also not responsible. They have done all kinds of preparations as much as possible according to the order of Louison Langman. Although the preparations are not perfect, it is also caused by their inexperience. It's ok.

Then the only ones who are responsible are the soldiers who secretly hide the bullets.

After learning about the specific situation, Louison Langman ordered that all the bullets secretly hidden by the soldiers of the third regiment be confiscated.

It was this order that triggered the mutiny of the third regiment.

A military mutiny is not a strike by workers, nor a strike by students, but a serious violent incident like a riot.

After de Gaulle knew the reason for the mutiny, he was completely disappointed with the Foreign Legion, and asked Patton to solve the mutiny of the Third Regiment in the way of southern Africa.

The Southern African way!

Patton and all the officers of the Third Army were dumbfounded.

Southern African troops never mutinied.

Neither Patton nor the other southern African officers had experience in dealing with mutinies.

The French are very experienced, but de Gaulle dropped the pick——

Then do it the way southern Africa does.

During World War I, there were many mutinies in the French army, each of which was resolved peacefully by experienced French generals.

That's why the Foreign Legion has the habit of mutiny.

The Federal Government of Southern Africa can compromise.

Southern African militaries never compromised.

Therefore, the 66th Division directly surrounded the 66rd Regiment and asked the soldiers of the 66rd Regiment to put down their weapons and surrender to the [-]th Division, otherwise the [-]th Division would launch an attack.

Such as the title: I forgot yesterday, and I am still in the Internet cafe today. I hope it will return to normal tomorrow, but these two days are all [-]-word chapters. A certain fish is still working hard——

(End of this chapter)