Reborn South Africa as a police officer

Chapter 954 Cold

Mu Xiu Yu Lin Feng will destroy it, behind this sentence represents a helpless reality.

In southern Africa, Roque could do whatever he wanted without any scruples, but when he came to Europe to join the British and French coalition forces, Roque faced significantly more difficulties. The pressure came not only from the enemy, but also from the many contradictions within the Allies.

Roque is also really helpless. The British Army lacks the right to speak within the Anglo-French Allied Forces, and the Southern African Expeditionary Force also lacks the right to speak within the British Army. This has nothing to do with the performance of the troops on the battlefield. reaction.

The current strength of southern Africa does not match its international status. As the overseas territory of the United Kingdom, the strength shown by southern Africa is astonishing. Its importance to the United Kingdom is constantly rising. This is a good thing, but at the same time there are hidden dangers .

For the United Kingdom, the more important southern Africa is, the stricter the British control over southern Africa will be. Before the outbreak of the World War, Roque also hoped that Southern Africa could achieve diplomatic independence after the war through its performance in the World War. Independent status including power, now it seems that this possibility is becoming more and more remote as southern Africa performs better.

Rock is not in a hurry. When communicating with Phyllis, Rock also made it very clear that the reason why Britain is arrogant now is that Britain still has the qualifications to be arrogant. By the end of next year, I believe Britain should accept the reality.

While Rock was reuniting with his family in Cyprus, a supply force was struggling in the snowstorm of the Anatolian plateau.

The Anatolian Plateau covers an area of ​​more than 50 square kilometers, most of which are located in the Ottoman Empire. The offensive of the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force had to stop, which had a lot to do with the severe weather in the Asia Minor Peninsula this winter.

Since the beginning of winter, the Asia Minor peninsula has experienced heavy snowfall. The snow around Ankara is one meter deep, and in some areas the snow is more than two meters thick. Under such circumstances, it is very difficult for the troops to deliver supplies, let alone attack. The Expeditionary Force Command has tried everything The method of guaranteeing the logistics supply of the troops used almost all methods including airdrops from transport planes. However, under bad weather conditions, transport planes could not take off, and the supply of troops in some remote mountainous areas still had to be carried out in the most primitive way.

Unlike southern Africa, which has been building roads for a long time, the traffic conditions in the Ottoman Empire are very bad. The roads have been in disrepair for a long time, and some sections of the roads have been severely damaged. Cars cannot be used in the inland plateau. The most commonly used means of transportation has become a donkey. Sometimes even relying on the shoulders and hands of the officers and soldiers of the supply troops, the non-combat losses of the troops were very serious. Many officers and soldiers suffered from frostbite, and some even had to amputate their limbs.

"To speed up, we have to reach Kersehir before dark. How far is it from Kersehir?" The commander of the supply force was Captain Yoo Jin of the 19th Division. Instead of an officer's windbreaker, he was wearing a sheepskin jacket with better thermal performance, and instead of a standard steel helmet, he was wearing a newly issued sheep shearling cap. Even so, his eyebrows and eyelashes turned into white ice sculptures .

There are 150 people in the company led by Captain Liu Zhen. The civilian men who delivered the supplies were recruited from Ankara. There are a total of 650 people, all of whom are Ottomans. The supplies they transported were ammunition and food, all of which were the most urgently needed supplies for the frontline troops.

"There are still five kilometers, and it is very difficult to reach before dark—" Li Cha, the deputy company commander, just turned 21 this year and graduated from Nyasaland Army Academy last year.

In bad weather, every step forward is very difficult for the troops. The snow on the ground is more than half a meter deep, and there is a vast expanse of whiteness in the line of sight. Sometimes you have to use your hands to help you pull your feet out of the snow pit.

In order to open a path through the heavy snow, Liu Zhen gathered the only dozen or so donkeys in front of him to clear the path, wading out a path through the heavy snow. All the supplies transported by the troops were carried by people, and each adult could only carry two boxes. Two hundred boxes of bullets cannot meet the consumption of a medium-intensity battle.

Liu Zhen looked up at the sky still covered with snowflakes, it was so gray that even the clouds could not be seen, and then he looked down at the compass whose needle was spinning wildly, feeling so desperate that he almost collapsed.

Five kilometers, for southern African soldiers, is a routine armed training, which used to be run once a day, but now it seems like an insurmountable moat.

"No matter how difficult it is, if you can't reach Kersehir before dark—" Liu Zhen's expression was ugly, the weather was too bad, and the troops could not spend the night in the wild, otherwise there would be frostbite or even death at night. It's not without precedent.

What's more, there are more than 600 Ottomans in the team who are ready to move. These people seem to be as honest as docile sheep now, and once they find an opportunity, they will turn into beasts that devour people.

"Speed ​​up and move on!" Li Cha also knew that the situation was not good, and urged the troops to speed up.

But the speed is really not fast. Unlike the well-protected expeditionary army officers and soldiers, some Ottomans don’t even have cotton-padded clothes, and they are still wearing summer single clothes. An Ottoman fell to the ground without stepping on his feet, and the yellow-orange-orange bullets immediately It was scattered all over the place, and two soldiers came to help clean it up. There is no point in getting angry at this time, and the task can only be completed if we work together.

An Ottoman took advantage of the soldier's inattention, dropped the box on his shoulder and ran away. He didn't think about how fast he could run even if he ran desperately in this environment, and how fast he could pass the bullet.

No one told him to stop, and without Liu Zhen and Li Cha's orders, a soldier took off the rifle on his shoulder, loaded it with a cold expression, aimed directly at the trigger and pulled the trigger.

Bah!

In the snow-covered environment, the sound of the gunshots could not be heard very far, but the slightly dull sound of the gunshots still kept everyone silent.

It was too cold, and the soldiers didn't make the right shot. The Ottoman ran a dozen steps, and the sound of howling and screaming when he fell to the ground was clearly heard.

No one went to help him, and no one repaired the gun. In this weather, if he does not receive timely treatment, he will die within 10 minutes at most.

"Keep going!"

"Move, move, don't wait for me to kick your ass—"

"Anyone who dares to escape will be shot on the spot!"

Almost all the soldiers were urging the civilians to move on, and regardless of whether these Ottomans could understand English, the meaning should still be understandable.

When the team started again, the speed was obviously much faster.

There was a problem after not going far. There was a river in front of the team. The Ottoman troops blew up the bridge when they retreated, and it has not been repaired yet.

"Send someone down to see if the river has frozen—" Liu Zhen's words were as cold as the surrounding environment.

Unlike ordinary rivers, some rivers in the Anatolian Plateau are saltwater rivers. Lake Van, the largest lake on the Anatolian Plateau, is a saltwater lake. Salty water does not mean that it will not freeze in winter, but compared with fresh water The freezing point is lower, so Liu Zhen is not sure whether the water in this river has frozen.

Immediately, several soldiers dragged the two Ottomans down and ordered them to go down to the river to see if the water was frozen.

The language barrier was really a big problem. The two Ottomans didn't know what the soldiers asked them to do. They thought the soldiers were going to shoot them to vent their anger, so they cried bitterly and begged the soldiers to let them go.

"It's just that no one can understand English?" Liu Zhen was really devastated. The translator equipped by the army suddenly fell ill before departure, and now the problem is concentrated.

"Sir, I can—" A civilian man timidly raised his hand.

"Great, come here, tell them, let them go down to see if the river is not frozen—" Liu Zhen finally squeezed out a smile on his face, and took out a pack of cigarettes and threw it to the trembling civilian husband.

The result was neither good nor bad. The river was indeed frozen, but no one was sure how thick the ice was or how deep the river was. For a river more than 20 meters wide, it doesn’t matter whether it’s deep or not. If you fall in, you will freeze to death.

"Advance in batches—" Liu Zhen gritted his teeth, it doesn't matter whether he can reach Kersehir before dark now, Liu Zhen is competing with himself, and must complete the task no matter what.

It took half an hour, and the team finally crossed the river smoothly. It was already [-] pm at this time, and it was already dark at [-] pm in winter, but under the snow environment, even at [-] pm, it was still visible.

If you can see it or not, you have to keep going. After another two hours, Liu Zhen finally heard the cheers coming from the front of the team.

Kersehir is not yet a city, but a relatively large town, and there are not many people in the town. The 19th Division has a battalion here. Battalion Commander Paul warmly welcomes Liu Jin and the others.

"You don't know how dangerous the situation is. We have eaten up all the food for the residents of Krsehir. If there is no more supplies, we will starve to death. Yesterday I ordered my horse to be killed. It would be better if you came a day earlier ——" Paul felt sad, unless the situation was desperate, soldiers would never kill horses.

It is very strange that the more people who ignore life and death, the more persistent they will be in certain things. Perhaps it is because they are used to life and death that they cherish the partners around them more.

"The division knows that your situation is very difficult. It originally sent a transport plane to drop supplies, but the weather was so bad that the transport plane could not be dispatched, so it sent us here." Liu Zhen is really sorry, Paul's eyes are bloodshot Scary, a large piece of shocking frostbite on the left cheek, the face is unhealthy flushed, the crack in the hand can almost see the bones.

Paul is still the battalion commander, and he is already in such a miserable situation. You can imagine what the officers and soldiers of the army are like.

It will take a few days for the supplies to come later, it is estimated that Paul and the others have the desire to eat people.

This is not a metaphor but a fact.

(There are easter eggs in the author's words, brothers who can't see it, do you feel itchy in your heart——)

　In the previous chapter, a brother used the price of eggs to calculate the purchasing power of the British pound at that time. In fact, it was not so troublesome. At that time, one pound could be exchanged for 7.322 grams of gold. The price of gold yesterday was 387. So one pound at that time was roughly equivalent to the current More than 800——

　　

　

(End of this chapter)