Reborn South Africa as a police officer

Chapter 839 Role Positioning

If you don’t consider accuracy, Lee Enfield can’t use up ten bullets in one minute at all, and a skilled shooter can empty the magazine in 1 seconds. Of course, the hit rate in this case is quite touching.

Crazy output is necessary while ensuring accuracy, so there is the saying "crazy for 1 minute".

Ordinary soldiers use Lee Enfield, and the process of firing a shot and pulling the bolt takes a second or two. The movements of precision shooters are almost invisible. They all use Patton's way of placing their middle fingers On the trigger, the index finger and thumb control the bolt. When the middle finger pulls the trigger, the index finger and thumb are ready to complete the series of actions of extracting the shell, pushing the bullet and loading the gun.

Almost as soon as the gunshots rang out, George White was stunned. For a moment, George White doubted whether the Lee Enfield used by these precision shooters was the same gun as the Lee Enfield equipped by the British home army.

Lee Enfield, equipped by the British native army, is still using the magazine divider. It is obviously the most advanced magazine-style rifle in the world, and it is gorgeously used as a single-shot rifle.

Lee Enfield in Southern Africa has canceled the magazine partition from the very beginning, and the consumption of bullets is even more unlimited. Accurate shooters are all fed by bullets. No matter how good the talent is, it requires a lot of training to realize it. George. It's not that White doesn't understand this truth, but that he can't accept it ideologically.

Compared with ordinary soldiers, precision shooters need less preparation time. They only need a second or two to aim, and the hit rate is still very high. George White needs a telescope to see clearly the head target 100 meters away. These precision shooters are used to it.

It was said to be crazy for 1 minute, but it was useless at all. Even the longest-used precision shooter fired ten rounds in less than 50 seconds. The last precision shooter got up and started counting the results immediately. George White felt a little tired , Rock asked someone to move a chair for George White to rest.

"Seeing you young people, I really feel that I am old—" George White's tone was sobbing, not accepting the old, it is really time for their generation to call their last.

"The martyrs are full of ambition in their old age. The empire still needs your contribution, and we also need your escort." Rock must have said nicely at this time.

"Hahahaha, thank you, Lord, your words make me feel much better." George White wanted to hear these words the most. The so-called disobedience to the old is actually unwilling to be abandoned by the times.

The statistical results were quickly rescued. 46 accurate shooters had an average score of [-]. Rock was very satisfied with this result, but it was far beyond George White's imagination.

"This result is too surprising—"

"It would be unbelievable if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes—"

"These pinpoint shooters are qualified to go to the Army Academy as instructors—"

Other military observers talked about it, but there were also discordant voices amidst the good reviews.

"Since their shooting skills are so good, why should they be equipped with scopes? The scopes should be given to soldiers who are not very good at shooting."

Such idiotic remarks are probably due to sitting too much in the office, or a hangover.

"Actually, it's not just accurate shooters. Our ordinary soldiers also have a 100% to [-]% hit rate on a [-]-meter head target. This requires rigorous training day after day. They spend more than ten hours a day in training." , A lot of repetitive training is actually extremely boring, but they can persist, so they have the current results." Rock did not respond to the idiot's remarks, and southern African recruits have to receive a complete six-month training, even if they are The same is true for African soldiers, but compared with professional soldiers, the requirements for African soldiers are relatively lower.

The British mainland is much worse. Recruits only have three months of training time, and they have to spend a lot of time on formation training to ensure that the thin red line tactics can be implemented smoothly.

The army's emphasis on courage and discipline is right, but if the direction is wrong, it is useless even if Roque is the Minister of War.

"Ten hours!"

"every day?"

"My lord, how did you let them undergo such almost rigorous training?"

The observers had a lot of questions, and the answers to this were all in the "Army Manual" compiled by the Nyasaland Army Academy. Rock believed that the Ministry of War must have obtained relevant information, but it is estimated that no one had read it carefully.

Don't expect those officials to actively seek change before the thin red line tactics cause heavy losses.

In fact, in the final analysis, the thin red line tactics implemented by the British army are also determined by the personal qualities of British soldiers.

The size of the British army has always been small, and the maintenance of its international status mainly depends on the powerful and powerful Royal Navy, so Lu Jun is a grandma who does not love his uncle or uncle, and will only be recruited temporarily when needed, just like the second Boer As in wartime.

Temporarily recruited troops do not have time for complete military training, so the "thin red line" has become the most convenient and effective tactic.

The strength of the army in southern Africa is visible to the naked eye, but maintaining such a powerful army requires a huge amount of money, and the Ministry of War is powerless.

"There is no shortcut in troop training. It depends on strong will and perseverance. The Rhodesian Northern Division and the First Cavalry Division are professional soldiers. Many of them have received military training for more than ten years. The entire Humans are a sophisticated killing machine—" Seeing that it was almost noon, Rock invited the observers to the officer's mess.

"Then there are not many such soldiers in southern Africa—" George White finally realized the problem.

"How can there be too many? If there are more, the Ministry of Defense will go bankrupt." Rock said frankly that southern Africa is different from Europe in this regard, the national conditions are different, and the way to deal with it is also different.

Conscription is generally practiced in European countries. Taking France as an example, men enlist in the army at the age of 20, and then transfer to the reserve service after serving for three years. In this way, he will not be able to completely retire from active service until he is 11 years old.

The situation in the UK, Germany and France is similar. Generally, it is 45 years old to retire from active service.

That's why Britain, France and Germany have huge reserves, so that once war breaks out, Britain, France and Germany can expand their armies at the fastest speed.

Southern Africa implements a compulsory military service system, but the troops serving as conscripts are infrastructure troops, and the field troops are all professional soldiers. Although this can ensure the combat effectiveness of the troops, it is also not conducive to the rapid expansion of the army after the outbreak of war.

Given the national conditions in southern Africa, there is no need for large-scale military expansion, and it is not for global hegemony. It is only to maintain local advantages in southern Africa. The existing military scale is sufficient.

"This won't work. We need more troops, just tens of thousands of people, not enough to fit between teeth." George White was very dissatisfied. Britain, France and Germany are all expanding their armies crazily. Southern Africa has a relatively safe regional situation and is rich in natural resources. Resources, almost free labor, and now there are related technologies and population supplements from the Far East, it can be said that the time and place are favorable, but Southern Africa is still so conservative, which makes George White very disappointed.

"Our professional soldiers are indeed only tens of thousands, but at the same time we have millions of workers and millions of farmers. Once the war breaks out, we can also contribute to the empire. And believe me, when the time comes, the workers And farmers are more important than soldiers." Other things are easy to say, and Rock will not change his position on this issue.

"Without the bloody battles of soldiers, how can there be workers and factory owners?" George White didn't understand. Rock's thinking was dangerous to George White. Soldiers should work hard to win the right to speak. Rock's current approach , is to hand over the right to speak.

"Mine are professional soldiers, not all soldiers. Southern Africa has already prepared 10,000+ expeditionary troops. Isn't that enough?" Rock argues that in the Commonwealth as a whole, Rock's positioning for Southern Africa is Factories and farms, local financial services play a good role in the European continent, India's main role is to provide enough human resources, as for Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, they are inherently deficient and far away from Europe, and their importance is constantly decreasing .

"There is no need to argue about this issue, gentlemen. Look at how Indians reward us. We help them build a unified country, help them build railways and factories, and provide Indians with more jobs. But the situation in India It's still a mess." Clark Bell couldn't help but say something fair.

There is probably a consensus on this point in the Ministry of War. After Gandhi returned to India, India’s anti-colonial sentiment was brewing. Originally, the British wanted to use India as the British granary, but now it seems that once the war breaks out, India does not require the local China's support is not bad, and it is simply unreliable to count on the Indians.

On the contrary, Southern Africa is becoming more and more important with its growing industrial strength.

Originally, the British positioned southern Africa as the origin of raw materials, but with the efforts of colonial officials such as Rock, Henry, and Stoudemire, southern Africa provided more and more products for the local people, from the initial gold and iron ore to the current For aircraft and aircraft carriers, southern Africa is the country with the most potential.

This is clearly reflected on the dining table in the officer’s canteen. The chef prepared egg custard, whitebait, chicken, and ham for the observers. There were six big dishes, which made the observers very satisfied.

Even in London, such a sumptuous lunch is worth a fortune, and given that this is Egypt, it is even more so.

At this time, no one said that southern Africa was extravagant and wasteful.

(End of this chapter)