Reborn South Africa as a police officer

Chapter 323 Crowd

It’s not that Ethan Barrett doesn’t understand the importance of speed, but the mercenaries came to the Congo Free State to make a fortune, so the speed of the troops really couldn’t be raised. Kinshasa is 1500 kilometers away from Ulysses. There are still canals available, but the mercenaries have walked for a full month. If it were replaced by the Rhodesian Northern Division and the Nyasaland Militia, they would have to accept military discipline from top to bottom.

Not only that, because too many things were robbed along the way, when the mercenaries arrived in Ulysses, the number had increased from the initial 3000 to more than 7000 now, and the extra 4000 were helpers. Congolese mercenaries transporting belongings.

However, Martin and Isiah Ulysses did not know this news, so Martin still attached great importance to this mercenary.

"There are more than 7000 troops, seven times more than ours, so it is very necessary for us to bring back all the surrounding troops and notify Lala's troops to move closer to us." Isiah Ulysses was a little worried, Ulysses's current army is less than 1000 people. Although these 1000 people are elites, they are still powerless to fight or even destroy seven times as many enemies.

At least that's how it seemed to Isiah Ulysses.

In the Congo Free State, there are 300 Rhodesian northern division teaching camps and 800 Nyasaland militias. Not all of these people are in Ulysses, and some soldiers are in Moliro in the south of Lake Tanganyika, where the same There is a port being built.

Lala's troops are in Lubumbashi, 600 kilometers away. This distance is too far. Even if Lala is notified now to move closer to Ulysses, I am afraid that Lala's troops will not be able to reach Ulysses before the mercenaries arrive. arrived before.

"Hehe, there are only 7000 people. Don't worry, don't worry. It's a little difficult for us to eat the enemy in one bite. Let's eat slowly and take a few more bites." Martin is not worried. In Portuguese East Africa, Yao The clansmen have also experienced the current situation. At that time, the results of the Yao clan's battle did not satisfy Rock. Now Martin wants to set a model for Isiah Ulysses to see.

During the civil war in Portuguese East Africa, the Portuguese set out from Pemba to rescue Mapupa, which was surrounded by the Yao people. However, they were harassed and attacked by the Yao people along the way, and they finally arrived in Mapupa with heavy casualties.

When the Portuguese broke through the siege, the Yao people set up heavy defenses along the way. As a result, the besieged Portuguese broke out with strong fighting power in a desperate situation, and successfully broke through and returned to Pemba.

The current situation is similar to the situation in Portuguese East Africa at that time, but the enemies faced by the mercenaries are different from those faced by the Portuguese at that time. Martin still has the confidence to defeat the Belgians. As for whether they can be wiped out, it depends on the Belgians Whether people cooperate, and a certain amount of luck.

After a simple tactical briefing, groups of soldiers from the Northern Rhodesian Division and fighters from the Nyasaland militia left Ulysses, and harassed and attacked the Belgians along the way, just like the Yao people at the beginning.

Different from the Yao people back then, the Nyasaland people had better equipment, soldiers were trained to a higher level, and the enemies they faced were different.

Mercenaries sound like a bluffing name, but they are actually a group of mobs.

At the beginning, the Portuguese were trying to rescue their besieged compatriots, so they were able to overcome difficulties and insist on advancing to Mapupa.

The current mercenaries are lured by money. Their only purpose in coming to the Congo Free State is for money. Once the battle situation is unfavorable, don’t expect the mercenaries to fight to the end. It’s good if they don’t collapse.

Ethan Barrett actually knew about the situation of the mercenaries, but Ethan Barrett was powerless to change the reality. If the mercenaries were forced to throw away the looted property and go into battle lightly, the mercenaries might immediately mutiny. San Barrett couldn't take it.

But if you go to Ulysses like this, I am afraid that you will not be able to win the victory. Not to mention the loss of troops, the property robbed along the way will also become the spoils of the Nyasaland people. This is also something that Ethan Barrett absolutely cannot accepted.

So before approaching Ulysses, Ethan Barrett still had to mobilize, and the battle was imminent, so it was not good to continue to be so loose.

"Let's put our money in someone else's safekeeping? It's impossible, I don't trust them, God knows if they will sneak away with our money while we are fighting in the front line!" heard Ethan Ba Leiter's proposal, the Belgian Robert Norris immediately objected.

Ethan Barrett's suggestion is to centralize the custody of the looted property by some people, and others to go into battle lightly, and wait until the troops participating in the war after the war to get back their property.

This leads to a problem. If a mercenary is killed in battle, his private property becomes ownerless, so the job of keeping property is still very tempting.

"Look at these people, even if they sleep, they will sleep on the things they have robbed, and asking them to give their money to others for safekeeping is more uncomfortable than killing them." British Charles Gray Gorey spoke sarcastically. This group of mercenaries was indeed a rabble. Not long after leaving Kinshasa, Charles Gregory had a premonition that the situation was not good.

Mercenaries have no borders, so the British may also join the mercenaries formed by the Belgians to attack British troops.

This kind of thing is normal. When you leave Europe, everyone is just an ordinary person running for a living. The concept of country is not as deeply rooted in the hearts of the people as it will be decades later.

Charles Gregory was right, the mercenaries are resting in a village right now.

The young and middle-aged people in the village were all driven into the plantation by the Belgians. Only some old, weak, sick and disabled remained in the village. After the mercenaries came to the village, they drove everyone out of the house. Even so, the house was still not enough In the next few minutes, many people were lying on the ground in the village.

The environment is so harsh, it is inevitable that the mercenaries who have not been assigned to the house will curse, and the mercenaries are not very good-tempered, and fighting is inevitable, so the village is very chaotic, and the crowd is like a crowd. as lively as the city.

In order to prevent the slaves from escaping, a huge bonfire was lit around the village, which could be seen more than a dozen miles away. This made Charles Gregory feel even more uneasy. Such a big momentum had to be hidden from the Nyasalandians. It's impossible, but the Nyasaland people are not responding now, which is not normal.

"The Nyasaland people are rebuilding Kalemie, where the supplies are piled up like mountains, and wealth is everywhere. It is said that there are women in the Nyasaland army. Almost all the Nyasaland medical soldiers are women, and there are Chinese. There are also Boers, don’t you have any ideas?” Ethan Barrett coveted Kalemie, in Ethan Barrett’s view, Kalemie not only represents wealth, but also glory, and the conqueror do whatever they want.

"The Nyasarans are still quite rich—"

"Kill all the Nyasarans, and everything in Kalemie will be ours—"

"I feel like I can't wait—"

When it comes to money and women, the officers immediately became enthusiastic. They came all the way from Europe to the Congo Free State, not for the peace of all mankind.

"Before then, let's think about how to defeat the Nyasarans—" Charles Gregory couldn't help reminding, no matter how nice it is now, it's useless.

Charles Gregory's voice fell away, and there was a sudden burst of heavy machine gun fire not far away. Charles Gregory could hear it clearly. It was the sound of the Maxim heavy machine gun.

"Enemy attack!"

"Ready to fight!"

"Lights out, lights out—"

The officers were in a mess, and someone kicked over the table, and the oil lamp on the table fell to pieces on the ground, and the table burst into flames.

No one paid attention to the oil lamp, Charles Gregory kicked open the door, stooped to a big tree and observed cautiously.

There was more than one heavy machine gun. Less than 100 meters away from the village, there were at least three heavy machine guns roaring. The bonfires around the village guided them, but there was darkness outside the bonfire, and the situation was very bad.

"Counterattack, counterattack, Robert, Charles, organize your team and prepare to counterattack!" Charles Gregory could hear Ethan Barrett roaring, but the effect was not obvious.

At a distance of less than 100 meters, the power of the heavy machine gun is still great. The few houses in the village are all wooden structures, which are quickly ignited by bullets and turned into flaming torches, which blinded the mercenaries. hide away.

Troops in this era generally have not received night combat training. When the two armies confront each other, they line up first, then advance towards each other, and finally line up their guns to shoot.

Charles Gregory had never experienced such a sneak attack on Nyasaland before.

And Nyasaland's heavy machine gun shooters are definitely trained, even in the dark, their shooting skills are not bad, and people around Charles Gregory keep falling down.

To Charles Gregory's surprise, Nyasaland's heavy machine gun shooters actually used burst fire instead of long shots, which was clearly a skill only elite machine gunners possessed.

The three heavy machine guns roared for a full 10 minutes. Charles Gregory speculated that each heavy machine gun emptied at least five magazines, and then the gunfire stopped and the attack ended.

From beginning to end, the mercenaries did not launch an effective counterattack.

After the attack, Charles Gregory was surprised to find that in such a short period of time, the three heavy machine guns caused at least 400 casualties to the mercenaries, more than half were killed on the spot, and the other half were probably injured. How long ago, the mercenaries did not bring doctors and nurses with them when they set off, so injuries were basically equivalent to death.

As for the slaves that the mercenaries plundered along the way, they have all fled in the chaos, and even took away a lot of property that the mercenaries robbed along the way. Now the mercenaries have enough reasons to attack Ulysses. Otherwise, they will get nothing.

(End of this chapter)