Reborn South Africa as a police officer

Chapter 684 Experienced

When David started the pre-war preparation meeting, Huang Gang, a recruit in the Medan recruit training camp, was maintaining his weapons according to the instructor's requirements.

Huang Gang just got a brand new Lee Enfield the day before yesterday. This is a standard Lee Enfield produced by the Nyasaland Military Industry Group for export. The exported export type is also equipped with a magazine partition.

This kind of magazine partition has been abolished in southern Africa, but it is still used in the UK. This batch of rifles was originally intended to be sold to the Ottoman Empire. Under the strong request of the Ottoman Empire, the Nyasaland Military Industry Group also provided them. Load the magazine divider.

The reason why the Ottoman Empire required the use of magazine dividers was very simple. Like the British War Department, the Ottoman Empire also believed that ten-round magazines were too many, which would cause a lot of unnecessary consumption and put greater pressure on logistics. Therefore, a magazine divider should be used to turn the original ten-round magazine into a single-shot rifle.

The first lesson for all recruits to get their weapons is how to maintain them. The Medan army inherits the tradition of the southern African army, and they must take care of their weapons like their own eyes. To maintain the weapons, the instructors of the training camp will personally check the maintenance.

Perhaps it was because of the battle tomorrow, the recruits around Huang Gang were all silently arranging their equipment, and no one spoke.

After maintaining the rifle according to the instructor's requirements, Huang Gang put the rifle and the scabbard with the bayonet on his bed, and then began to arrange his clothes.

There are three sets of clothes and two pairs of shoes, two sets of training clothes, and one set of regular clothes. Both pairs of shoes are short boots that can cover the ankles.

According to the requirements of the instructors, when the troops go to war, they must bring two sets of training uniforms and shoes, and only keep one set of regular uniforms. Huang Gang plans to ask the instructors for leave later. If possible, Huang Gang wants to send this set of uniforms home. For my youngest brother.

Before joining the Medan army, Huang Gang was a worker in the Lingzhi plantation. There were grandma, parents, three younger brothers and two younger sisters at home.

Huang Gang and his two other younger brothers were drafted into the army, and only the youngest brother was at home.

After the uniforms were issued, Huang Gang only tried them once, and then he folded them neatly, originally planning to send them home.

"Stand at attention!" The squad leader's password came from the door, and no matter what the recruits were doing, they all put down their work and stood up.

Entering the tent was John the Instructor, accompanied by a recorder.

"We are leaving tomorrow. According to the usual practice, we have to leave a suicide note. A suicide note is a letter to our family members. Relax gentlemen. Leaving a suicide note does not mean that we are going to die. It is just so that you will not leave any regrets. If Unfortunately, we died in battle, rest assured, the pension will allow our family to bury us happily." John's words did not make the recruits relax, but the atmosphere became more dignified.

"Sir, if we die in battle, how much pension will our family get?" a recruit boldly asked.

"What's your current monthly salary?" John asked back.

"One pound." The recruits reacted quickly. They had just received their salary once.

Like all colonial governments in the world, in order to plunder the East Indies more conveniently, the Dutch colonial government used the Dutch guilders issued by the colonial government itself in the East Indies, which was different from the Dutch guilders used in the Netherlands, so the Medan troops paid salaries to use The more secure pound sterling.

"The pension is your salary for two years, so it is about 24 pounds." John sat down on the only chair in the tent. This pension should satisfy most people.

"24 pounds?"

"There are really that many?"

"I won't give it up—"

The recruits finally broke the silence, expressing their surprise at this number.

It's nothing surprising, human life is worth the price these days, not to mention 24 pounds, there are people who will take risks to kill and rob for a few pennies.

"There is no doubt that if one of you unfortunately dies in battle, his family will definitely get the money." John emphasized that pensions are very useful, not only comforting the families of soldiers who died in battle, but also Encouragement to other fighters, so impossible not to give.

Even the East Indian servants actually have a pension system, but the system may not be strictly enforced.

The Medan army certainly does not have this problem, unless Roque wants to give up East India.

"You don't have to worry, we won't go directly to the battlefield this time, but to experience the atmosphere of the battlefield in advance, that is, as the saying goes, see the blood—" John didn't know enough about the situation, when he said "see the blood" , Many recruits are a little embarrassed.

Don’t forget that it’s 1910, and it’s still in the East India where conflicts between tribes frequently occur. These recruits in the Medan army may be on the battlefield for the first time, but to say that they saw blood——

Many of them may have seen blood earlier than John.

People in this era are not flowers in a greenhouse, and even the nobles are not the legendary ones who don't work hard and don't know the grains. On the contrary, because many nobles received elite education since childhood, their abilities and vision must be extraordinary.

"—Maybe you can make a small fortune. Our most dangerous task is probably to clean up the battlefield. If you find something at that time, be sure to turn it in. It will be distributed uniformly after the war. And there are rewards for the size of the contribution, if you pick up something and don’t turn it in, be careful that some grumpy mercenary will shoot you.” There are still many things that John wants to remind, and the umbrella company has strict regulations in this regard.

Cleaning the battlefield is actually not easy. Anything can happen on the battlefield. It is not uncommon to pretend to be dead, but it is difficult to escape in the end.

After repairing the knife and gun, the corpse needs to be cleaned up. It takes a lot of psychological quality to remove the clothes from the blood-stained corpse, not to mention the operation of prying open the mouth to see if there are any gold teeth.

So in Umbrella Company, only African-American employees are qualified for this job. This is the conclusion reached after many practices. There will always be omissions in the battlefields cleaned by white mercenaries or Chinese mercenaries, and only African-American mercenaries have cleaned them. The battlefield is the cleanest.

"Sir, I want to ask for leave to go home." Huang Gang finally found a chance to ask for leave.

"Why go home?" John didn't directly refuse.

"I want to give my suit to my younger brother. If I die in battle, then I won't need it anymore." Huang Gang said this calmly, without much sadness.

People in this era are surprisingly good psychologically, and life and death are commonplace. Huang Gang should have had two older brothers and one older sister, but unfortunately they all died young.

"You can come back alive is the best gift you can give your brother. This is why we have to leave a suicide note every time before a war. We have to write down everything we want to say to our family, so that we can be free. Go to the battlefield with care, don’t be sad, bullets on the battlefield have eyes, the most cowardly and cowardly will die first, if someone escapes, then don’t let the enemy shoot, I will kill him first!” John should You're not polite when you're aggressive, and things like running away are very common, so the troops always emphasize it.

This is also impossible. Mercenaries have no faith. Professional soldiers in southern Africa can also say that they are fighting for the country and their families. The mercenaries fight for money. No, if you die, you die, and no one even collects the corpse.

Therefore, mercenaries can fight with the wind, but once they are unfavorable, few mercenaries can persist until the end.

Of course, so far, the Umbrella Corporation has not faced a situation that requires fighting to the last moment. Bandar is a battle that belongs to the Medan Army.

"You don't have to worry. I have left a pile of suicide notes. I am still alive and well. Don't worry about your personal belongings. Before you leave, sort out your personal belongings and hand them over to the administrator, and then leave an address. After the battle is over, go to the administrator to get it back, and the administrator will send the unclaimed items to the address." John showed his own experience and tried to dispel the doubts of the recruits.

"Okay gentlemen, now tell me what you want to say to your family, one by one—" The recorder appeared in due course, and the recruits immediately surrounded him.

"Huang, fight hard for your family. Even if you fight to the last moment, don't flinch, let alone run away. If you run away, you will be shot. And the family members don't have any benefits, no honor, no pension, and relatives won't receive any benefits." Take care, those deserters on the battlefield will eventually become a disgrace to the family." John called Huang Gang to stop, a little worried about Huang Gang's state.

"Please don't worry sir, I will never be a disgrace to the family." Huang Gang was firm. If he were white, the disgrace would be disgraceful, as long as he was alive.

Compared with white people, Chinese pay more attention to family honor. If you do something that insults your family, you will have no face to see your ancestors after you die.

On June [-], the mercenaries of the Umbrella Company and the Medan troops set off from Medan Port and Medan respectively, and headed towards Lake Toba.

And Lake Toba, which is 150 kilometers away, is already boiling. The Second East Indian Division burned, killed and looted all the way. It seems that they did not realize that Lake Toba is also a part of East India, and those people on the shore of Lake Toba are also East Indians.

It is also because there are too many things robbed along the way. The current team of the Second East India Division is very bloated. The troops with less than 1 people actually have more than 2000 carts, and every soldier is covered with all kinds of looted fabrics. , colorful and ugly out of the sky.

It doesn't matter if it looks good or not, when it comes time to fight, it might save a life.

However, these old experiences in the past may not be effective now.

(End of this chapter)