Reborn South Africa as a police officer

Chapter 862 Mechanization

The patriotic education in the UK that always shouts long live is still too rough in Roque's view. Soldiers on the front line do not have enough food and clothing to keep warm, and their families in the rear are precarious. Shouting "long live" in my heart, I also think of MMP.

The patriotic education in southern Africa is subtle. It costs almost nothing to mobilize soldiers to remember bitterness and sweetness, but the effect is very good. Soldiers like Green, even if Schalke Beagle said that he was breaking the sky, Green would not go with him.

Even those Boer soldiers didn't think that Orange's economy would develop rapidly by replacing the federal government management with Boer officials.

Under the management of Bull officials, the gap between Orange State and other states is really getting bigger and bigger, which is also evident in the equipment of the soldiers.

In principle, the weapons and equipment used by the southern African army are all provided by the Ministry of National Defense. Whether it is a professional soldier or an African division, the basic weapons equipped are all Lee Enfield, and there is no difference.

However, in terms of self-defense weapons, soldiers have a relatively large degree of freedom of choice. In principle, soldiers are not equipped with short-range pistols, but if soldiers buy them themselves, the army will also supply bullets, but only [-]mm.

In this way, the "Cowboy" 11.43mm large-caliber revolver is ruled out. Many soldiers choose M1911, Ruger, or small-caliber revolvers. Equipped with a saber dagger, it is truly armed to the teeth.

For example, Green, as a second-class soldier, he is not qualified to be equipped with a pistol, but Green bought a Luger pistol at his own expense, a Gurkha machete produced by Fawalt Steel Company, plus the Lee En Field and the engineer shovel, Green's equipment is worth more than one hundred rand.

Not only that, Green also has a men's watch made by Eternal. The price of this watch is also more than one hundred rand. It is said that Green's brother brought Green back from the Sinai Peninsula.

Fighting is a great way to make money.

As a soldier, Sergeant Victor has served longer than Green, his rank is higher than Green's, and his salary is higher than Green's. However, Victor's equipment does not have any self-purchased equipment other than the standard equipment issued by the army. The situation is very common in southern African troops. Soldiers from the Transvaal and Rhodesia and Nyasaland usually have better economic conditions. Soldiers from Orange, Bechuanaland, Natal It's worse.

There were very few soldiers from Basutoland and Swaziland in the conscript units, where there were very few whites and almost no Chinese, and African soldiers served in the African Division.

On August [-]th, the situation in Europe continued to deteriorate, and the Kingdom of Serbia declared war on Germany.

On August [-]th, the French army launched an attack on Alsace.

After the fall of the Holy Roman Empire, France captured Alsace through the 30-year war. However, Alsace has a close relationship with Germany because of its proximity to Germany. Most of the residents there speak German, and its traditions are more similar to Germany.

After the Franco-Prussian War, Alsace and Lorraine were ceded to Germany. Since then, Alsace has become the eternal pain in the hearts of the French.

Like Germany's "Schlieffen Plan", France also has a similar war plan, but unlike Germany's detour to Belgium to attack France, France launched an attack directly on Germany, with Alsace bearing the brunt.

In the face of the strong French attack, the German chief of staff, Mao Qi, had to adjust his troops. Originally, because Germany wanted to fight on two fronts, the army was divided into two parts and assigned to the eastern and western fronts. Now the western front is divided into the southern and northern fronts. In order to strengthen the defense of the northern front, Xiao Maoqi transferred the troops that were originally assigned to the southern front to prepare for the attack. This will seriously affect the offensive of the southern front in the next few weeks, causing the German army to be unable to complete the attack within the scheduled time. Completed the siege of Paris, making it impossible to successfully achieve the war goal of the first phase of the "Schlieffen Plan".

On August [-], the War Department called South Africa again, requesting that South Africa launch an attack on Southwest Africa as soon as possible.

Therefore, Ade summoned Rock again, hoping that Rock would stop the fishing plan and implement the order of the Ministry of War.

"This is an arrest warrant for Henry." Ade was straightforward. Sidney Milner put a folder in front of Rock. Inside was a large stack of arrest warrants, all of which were Ade's signature.

Rock opened it, and the object of the first arrest warrant was Schalke Beagle, charged with "treason", which means that if Schalke Beagle was arrested, Schalke Beagle If Beagle resisted, the arresting policemen could directly kill Schalke Beagle.

Flipping through a few pages, there are more and more familiar names, Biles, Kemp, Orange-born Congressman Chris Bessemer, Bloemfontein Mayor Kerry Pepys, " Matthew Hodge, editor-in-chief of The National, Alva Hamlet, a shipping businessman in the Cape, and Jesse Sweet, a lumber merchant from Orange. 35 people are among them.

"Don't carry out your fishing plan anymore. There are enough fish caught now. Catch all the people on the list and deal a fatal blow to Southwest Africa. Don't give the Germans a chance to resist." Ade didn't want to see the south Africa is in war. Although some people are full of complaints, they are not treasonous. As long as this bottom line is not violated, Adelaide can tolerate it.

Edmund Gaunt, who has repeatedly confronted the members of the three northern states in Congress, volunteered to donate fifteen hundred pounds to the Ministry of Defense when the Protestant Church raised funds for the Ministry of Defense the day before yesterday. Fighting for more benefits for the Cape, or more power for Southern Africa, hoping for greater autonomy in Southern Africa, isn't inherently bad.

It was Schalke Beagle who really touched the bottom line of Adelaide who would rather cooperate with Germany for their own interests.

"These people are not enough, and some need to be added." The list in Rock's hands far exceeds the list in Ade's hands.

"Scroll down—" Ade's face was full of displeasure.

Rock continued to scroll down, and the arrest warrant in the lower half of the folder only had Ade's signature, and the column for the subject was blank.

This also means that as long as Rock thinks it is necessary, he can directly fill in the name, and Ade will take responsibility.

This trust was too great, and Rock suddenly felt that the folder in his hand was much heavier.

Back at the Ministry of Defense, Roque ordered the 105th Division on standby at Walvis Bay to immediately board a ship and go to Europe for reinforcements.

Although the German army is attacking Walvis Bay, the German army lacks artillery. The 103rd Division has little defensive pressure and even has spare power to counterattack. The 101st Division in Kulai and the 102nd Division in Ganwa are divided into north and south to attack Windhoek. , can effectively relieve the pressure of Walvis Bay.

Just when Rock gave the order to attack Southwest Africa, the Rhodesian Northern Division and the First Cavalry Division, which had been deployed on the border of Tanganyika, launched an attack on Tanganyika at the same time.

The Rhodesian Northern Division's offensive target was Usumbula, located at the northernmost tip of the North Sea.

Usumbula is only 15 kilometers away from the border. Von Letoff Forbeck, who succeeded Falkenhayn as the commander-in-chief of the Tanganyika German Army, was an efficient and pragmatic person. At the same time Africans were recruited to form two divisions of colonial troops, both of which were not in Usumbra, and von Letoff Forbeck was very smart to abandon the defense of Usumbra, although here was von Le Tove Forbeck's headquarters is located, but it is too close to the border and there is no danger to defend it, so it cannot be defended at all.

At 10:30 am on the [-]th, the Rhodesian Northern Division entered Tanganyika without encountering any resistance along the way. At [-]:[-], Gao Ao, the head of the Edward Commando Regiment, entered Usumbula in an alligator armored vehicle.

"This Nima is the largest city in Tanganyika! It's too dilapidated and too small. It's even worse than a district of our Xuanwu City. What have the Germans been doing all these years?" Gao Ao was really angry. The shock absorption system is quite good. I can't feel any bumps at all on the Nyasaland road, but it feels very obvious in Usumbula.

"Tanganyika has a total of only 30 people. Usumbura used to be the largest city in Tanganyika, but it is no longer." Chief of Staff Rex is not surprised. In Africa, southern Africa is definitely thriving. Other regions Nothing compares to southern Africa.

This point can only be felt more clearly after leaving southern Africa. In southern Africa, you will not feel how fast the development of southern Africa is at all. Southern Africans have become accustomed to everything in southern Africa.

"30 years, 30 people, 120 a year, so it's really a waste to hand over such a good place as Tanganyika to the Germans, and we can only take over." Gao Ao is full of ambition. The Rifle Regiment, some time ago the Ministry of Defense reorganized the Edward Rifle Regiment into a mechanized infantry regiment, equipped with a tank battalion composed of forty "Ranger" tanks, plus the original [-] trucks, the Edward Rifle Regiment officially changed its name to Edward Assault regiment.

Edward's Commando was probably the world's first mechanized infantry regiment.

"It can't be calculated like this. Germany doesn't have such sufficient human resources as ours." Rex is more pragmatic. Germany now has a total of 6500 million people. The local development of industrial agriculture has a high demand for human resources, so there is no excess population to immigrate to colonies. , which is completely different from the situation in southern Africa.

The consequences of insufficient human resources are still very serious. It is reflected in the fact that Usumbura, the first city established by Germany in Tanganyika, is estimated to have not changed much compared with 30 years ago. There are no familiar landscape trees. There is no bustling commercial area, and even the road surface is not smooth enough, which makes both Gao Ao and Rex have a headache.

The mechanized troops are still too advanced for this era. The Edward Assault Regiment is just trying, and there is only the Edward Assault Regiment in southern Africa.

　During this period of time, the computer has been having problems. I just reinstalled one a few days ago. As a result, there was a problem when transferring the data, and I lost the most important outline and timeline——

　　I'm trying to restore it these days. The previous hard drive has been formatted, so I don't know if it can be restored, so if the number and life that appear in the future are inconsistent, please forgive me, just treat the fish head as intermittent amnesia.

　　

　

(End of this chapter)