Reborn South Africa as a police officer

Chapter 69 Hague Convention

As the base camp of the British Army on the Eastern Front, Dordrecht has become a military city. A small town is full of soldiers. In addition to the sixth and tenth divisions from the mainland, there are also soldiers from Australia. Carbine infantry regiment, and a cavalry detachment from India.

By the way, there is also a servant division formed by the Cape Colonial Government, but they are not trusted and can only undertake some simple logistical tasks.

One can imagine how conspicuous a police force should be among the tens of thousands of regular troops. Moreover, most of the members of this police force are Chinese.

Don't expect the quality of the white people at this time to be so high. Rock was already mentally prepared for this, but when faced with the unscrupulous insults of those white-skinned pigs, Rock still felt furious.

"Officer, are you here to arrest those Boers?"

"I hope you have prepared enough handcuffs."

"The battlefield is not where your police should come. Go back to Cape Town and catch thieves."

These are relatively civilized, and the more disgusting ones will come later.

"Damn it, how could Cape Town allow yellow people to be police officers!"

"You'll get the shit out of the Boers!"

"Yellow Monkey, go back to your mother's belly!"

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Not to mention Roque, even Henry couldn't listen to it, but Phyllis was more direct, very unladylike, giving each of those who spoke rudely a middle finger, which attracted all kinds of unsavory swear words.

"Mr. Major, shouldn't these behaviors be stopped?" As a member of the commando, Henry couldn't bear it any longer. If there were no higher-ranking officers around, Henry would have retaliated with an eye.

"Captain Henry, none of them have received education, please forgive their rudeness." The major didn't take it seriously, feeling a little indulgent.

"Mr. Major, this is not an acceptable reason." Henry gritted his teeth, and secretly wrote down the major's number and name, and the account will be settled later.

The major turned a deaf ear and took the commandos outside the town to change into a carriage. About half an hour later, the carriage arrived at a British artillery position.

There are more than [-] cannons in this artillery position. The target of the artillery is a hill that is not too high on the opposite side. Although the hill is not high, it is steep. This is the new mission of the commando: "Your new mission, at sunset Captured that Boer position before, I believe you can do it, see, you have defeated a Boer partisan group before, now, continue your good luck."

"Mr. Major, we are the police, and we don't have the ability to undertake military tasks." Henry couldn't believe his eyes. He sent a police force to attack the Boers' positions, which was obviously for the commandos to die.

It's hard to say whether they are dead or not, but there are many corpses in khaki uniforms on the mountainside, which are left by the British troops who attacked before. It seems that the battle has lasted for a long time.

Although there is still some time before the offensive deadline determined by the commander of the expeditionary force, Lord Roberts, the fighting between the British army and the Boer coalition forces has not stopped during this period. Although it has not reached the battle level, small-scale battles have been going on.

Even small-scale battles cannot be undertaken by commandos. Don't forget that commandos are the police, not the regular army.

"During the war, all armed forces in the Cape Colony must obey the command of the Expeditionary Force Command, including you policemen in Cape Town." The major had a tough attitude, with his hand on the handle of his gun at his waist. It seemed that as long as Henry dared to disobey , The major doesn’t mind taking a gun and forcing Henry to go to the battlefield.

"Mr. Major, we can execute the order, but we need some information, such as how many Boers are defending on that mountain, what kind of weapons they have, and how is the training?" Rock refused to let Henry continue to argue with the major, This kind of dispute is meaningless. The major clearly wants the commandos to die. If Henry refuses to carry out the order, Rock suspects that the major will really use this as an excuse to shoot Henry.

Sounds incredible, right?

In fact, there were many incredible things on the battlefield. During the Second Boer War, 1072 British officers and 20870 soldiers were killed. Among them were many noble children, some of whom were much more noble than Henry.

When it comes to the casualty rate of the nobles in the war, many people may not believe it. In the First World War, there were 600 million men of school age in Britain who participated in the war, and 12.00% of them died in battle. How many noble children died in the same period?

The answer is an astonishing 50.00%!

"There is no intelligence. If there was intelligence, the war would have ended long ago." The major's face softened a little, but his gaze remained cold: "You have half an hour to prepare."

For half an hour, Rock told the commandos to take the time to rest, replenish food, and organize their equipment. They only carried battle-related materials with them, and packed as lightly as possible.

"F***, this guy did it on purpose. He told us to die." Henry and Rock whispered, hoping that Rock could have a better way.

"So what? If we all die in battle, then no one will know about it." Rock filled the bullet pouch on his chest with bullets, and then took out the magazine partition in Lee Enfield's magazine Weapons, this battle cannot be held back, and we must go all out.

The magazine partition is a very magical design, which is used to partition the magazine or magazine, and prevent the bullets in the magazine from coming up.

This design comes from the hidden worries of the armies of various countries about the waste of bullets for soldiers. They think that the rate of fire of bolt-action rifles using magazines or fixed magazines is too fast. It can fire 15 rounds of ammunition. With the magazine isolator, after the soldiers finish firing the bullets in the gun chamber, they cannot get replenished from the magazine, so they have to take out a new round of bullets from the ammunition bag on their bodies to reload. .

It can be said that there is an extra magazine partition, and Lee Enfield, which originally had a ten-round magazine design, has become a single-shot rifle like Henry Martini.

Rock didn't like this device, not at all. It didn't matter before, but now when it's time to go all out, he has to hold nothing back.

After throwing away the magazine divider, Rock thought about it and went to the major again: "Mr. Major, we need some dum ammo."

"Dum? No, no, we can't use dum. It's stipulated in the Hague Convention." The major didn't even look up from his pocket watch.

No?

Believe your ghost!

Rock didn't bother, so he didn't have it. Originally, Rock wanted to ask the major for some grenades, but it seemed that there would definitely not be any grenades.

I hope these artillery are more reliable.

(End of this chapter)