Reborn South Africa as a police officer

Chapter 366

The infantry and artillery coordination is still too advanced for the current Rhodesian Northern Division. This requires very high artillery. If the artillery skills are not good enough, if a shell hits one's own head, the infantry will fall. Well, the reason why Hutier was able to create the "Hutier Tactics" was also based on the precise methods of the German artillery firing.

At present, Nyasaland does not have the capital to practice infantry coordination. It does not mean that the shooters of Nyasaland are not good enough. The shooters of the 37mm Maxim rapid-fire guns of the Rhodesian Northern Division are still very good. In the words of the artillery instructor, The marksmen on the British Navy warships are also of this level.

The key is that the weapon is not good. The 37mm Maxim rapid-fire gun actually does not have much technical content. The original rapid-fire gun does not even have a scale. The gunner needs to adjust the accuracy by the impact of the shell. , Even if the divisions in northern Rhodesia practice infantry coordination, they will not be able to practice.

Of course, apart from infantry and artillery coordination, as long as other things can be practiced, the Rhodesian Northern Division has basically practiced to the extreme.

For example, in an attack, according to the provisions of the British Army's "Infantry Drill Code", at this time the officer should take the lead, and then the trumpeter and drummer will prepare, and the soldiers will line up and die generously singing military songs——

The Rhodesian Northern Division is definitely not so stupid. Although the only company involved in the attack is Company E, there are more than 100 people spread out for several hundred meters, and it is not a dense formation, but a loose three-three formation. The attack method can guarantee sufficient effect.

What I want to explain here is that the Rhodesian Northern Division is also organized in a three-three system. Starting from the most basic infantry squad, each squad has three combat teams, and each combat team has three people, each of which is led by the squad leader. , the remaining combat team is now led by a sergeant, and will definitely be the fire team in the future.

The organization above the squad is a platoon. A platoon is the basic three squads, plus a fire squad equipped with light and heavy machine guns. The total number of platoons is 40 people.

At the level of the company, a team responsible for logistics and medical treatment was added, plus the heavy weapons platoon directly under the company, the total number of people in the platoon was about 140.

The heavy weapons here include the 37mm Maxim rapid-fire gun and the Maxim heavy machine gun.

It needs to be emphasized that the organization of the training camp is different from that of the ordinary company. The ordinary company has only nine people in a class, while the teaching camp has 12 people in a class, and an additional combat team has been added.

The Rhodesian Northern Division's offensive was carried out in units of squads. When Company E started to attack, Company F and Company G had to be prepared. If Company E's attack was blocked, Company F would continue to attack. Therefore, the gradual investment is not a tactic of refueling, but to test the firepower configuration of the defender and carry out targeted strikes. , and the casualties will not be too heavy.

It sounds a bit cruel, right? In fact, war is like this. It is really similar to deduction of military chess.

Want to run away?

Simple, behind the attacking troops is the position of the law enforcement team. The machine guns of the law enforcement team can be used to attack the enemy or punish deserters. Is it to die generously and generously, to win an honor and pension for the family, or to bear the burden? To die in infamy, bringing humiliation and pain to the family, is actually just a thought.

The officers and soldiers of the Northern Division of Rhodesia were still trustworthy. After the order to attack was issued, they formed a loose formation and stood in a triangular position in groups of three, and began to attack the rebel positions.

Fortunately, the rebels were a little confused by the 37mm Maxim rapid-fire gun just now. The officers and soldiers of Company E advanced until they were 50 meters away from the rebel position, but the rebel position still did not organize effective resistance.

At this distance, according to the training requirements, grenades should be used to strike the rebel positions for the second time. Although there was no movement on the rebel positions, the officers and soldiers of Company E still threw the grenades in their hands as required.

After a burst of explosions, officers and men of Company E poured into the rebel positions with unbelievable ease.

"These rebels, hehe, they are really inferior to mercenaries-" Martin couldn't laugh or cry. Just this kind of thing can defeat the colonial troops of Natal and Cape. I really don't know the troops of Natal and Cape. What fineness.

Rock put down the binoculars in his hand and did not speak. The troops of this era are like this. Britain is known as the most powerful country in the world. In the Boer War, it was even beaten to disgrace by the Boer militia. How many troops can be counted on in Natal and Cape? Strong combat effectiveness?

Speaking of combat effectiveness, even in the First World War more than ten years later, the performance of the British army was still poor.

When the First World War broke out, in the Boer War and the Russo-Japanese War that had already occurred, Britain once participated in the war directly, and once sent a war observation team, but unfortunately, Britain did not learn from these two wars. What experience, after the outbreak of the First World War, the United Kingdom still used the queuing and shooting tactics in the face of German crossfire.

On the contrary, Germany and France have learned a lot of experience through the Boer War and the Russo-Japanese War. Germany realized the role of overall warfare from the Boer War, and realized the importance of crossfire from the command of that idiot Nogi Xidian. I learned to prepare more firepower before attacking. As a result, in the Battle of the Somme, the French army actually achieved more fruitful results than the British army.

Martin certainly didn't know what the British army was, but Roque knew that Britain and Germany did not border each other. If they did, Britain would have suffered worse than France in World War I.

"Report, Company E has successfully completed the mission, occupied the rebel positions, and killed the rebels—" the commander of Company E rushed back to report, his face broken and he didn't know what to say.

Many rebels must have been killed in the attack just now, but the results of this battle are hard to say. If you say that all of them were killed by the 37mm Maxim rapid-fire gun, E Company threw a grenade just now.

But if you want to say how many people were killed by E Company, I am afraid that the commander of E Company will also feel a little guilty.

"Let's go, move the position, and prepare to attack the second line of defense of the rebels—" It was Roque who rescued the commander of E Company, regardless of how many enemies E Company killed just now, the credit for conquering the rebel position is indispensable.

There is a saying about credit that is actually quite vivid: knowing that you will not die, and you will definitely not die if you get on it, third class.

Knowing that he would die, he was not afraid of death and went to it. In the end, he successfully completed the task and was not seriously injured. Second class.

Knowing that you will die, you get involved, and you end up dead or disabled, first class.

According to this standard, all the commanders and fighters of Company A will at least be second-class after this battle.

After all, when they set off to attack the rebel positions, they didn't know it would be so easy.

Of course, in Nyasaland, there are no such grades as first class and second class. Nyasaland follows the regulations of the British army. May be knighted.

This is actually unfair to ordinary commanders and fighters. After all, it is too difficult for ordinary soldiers to be knighted, and the UK does not have so many titles to distribute, so after the Zulu rebellion is quelled, Rock still has to design a military industry system.

Even if ordinary soldiers cannot be knighted, at least they must have corresponding honors and corresponding rewards, so as to create a virtuous circle and enable officers and soldiers to fight bravely.

Martin definitely didn't know what Rock was planning, and he slapped the commander of Company A: "It's really cheap for you!"

It's not a slap in the face, it's just a kind of "little devil" who is very intimate.

Just hit the helmet kind of lightly.

The steel helmet is one of the characteristics of the Nyasaland troops.

Before the Nyasaland troops were equipped with steel helmets, all troops in the world were not equipped with steel helmets.

The modern steel helmet was invented by General Adrian of France during the First World War. Legend has it that one day in the First World War, the German army suddenly launched a fierce attack on a position of the French army.

A soldier on duty in the kitchen was going to fight in the front line, but shrapnel, stones, and branches were falling on his head. He was afraid of being hit on the head, so in a panic, he picked up a frying pan and put it on his head.

After the battle, although he was wounded, his head was intact and he became the only survivor of the battle.

At that time, the French general Adrian went to the front line to comfort the wounded. Adrian knew the experience of this soldier, and then he came up with the idea of ​​"making steel helmets".

If Roque wants to "invent" the helmet, it will definitely not take such a big setback. With the Fawalt Steel Works, it is very simple for Roque to manufacture the helmet. Even Roque does not need to experiment, and directly uses the M1 that the US troops equipped in World War II. The style of the helmet was brought over and changed, and then it was installed in Nyasaland troops.

It's just the style, and it doesn't mean that the strength, material, and protective performance have reached the level of M1. However, with the advancement of technology at the Fawalt Steel Works, Rock believes that one day, the M1 helmet produced by Fawalt, no matter it is from In any respect, it is no less than the American M1 helmet.

In fact, the M1 helmet in the United States is not so mysterious. The M1 helmet in the United States uses Hadfield high manganese steel. The manganese content of this steel exceeds [-]%. It is an austenitic high manganese steel with high hardness. , good plasticity, generally used as tools, props, and key parts of those mining machinery.

Don't ask Rock how he knows this knowledge. Those who do foreign trade have to deal with all kinds of customers every day, and the complexity of the knowledge they understand is not much worse than that of a writer.

Rock only needs to tell the technicians of Fawalt Steel Plant these information, and then leave the rest to those technicians.

As for manganese—

Hehe, all the metals in the world are stored in South Africa.

(End of this chapter)