Reborn South Africa as a police officer

Chapter 986 Sacrifice

The medal system in southern Africa is unlimited. Theoretically, a contribution medal can be awarded as long as one is injured, and one can be obtained for each injury.

Like medals, after the officers and soldiers return to southern Africa, the bonuses they can get can also be accumulated. Theoretically, a soldier who has mixed in the front line for four years and gets more than a dozen medals, large and small, will wait until the end of the war. You can retire directly, and the monthly bonus is higher than the salary.

Of course, if you walk too much at night, you will always encounter ghosts. If you expect this person to make a fortune, you might as well buy lottery tickets. At least buying lottery tickets is not life-threatening. Medals are based on fate. A piece of shrapnel, if the direction is off by even a centimeter, the bonus will become a pension.

Even without the help of Fox, a bipod light machine gun still made Huang Hai play well. A general-purpose machine gun with a firing rate of 600 and a 75-round magazine can be fired in more than seven seconds if the trigger is held. It is definitely not possible to shoot so fast. In order to cool the barrel quickly, it is recommended that the rate of fire of the general-purpose machine gun should not exceed 1 rounds per minute. In this regard, the Maxim with a water-cooled design performs better, but the Maxim is inconvenient to use. Cooling water needs to be added once for each ammunition belt, and it is too heavy to be moved, so the Southern African Expeditionary Force uses an air-cooled general-purpose machine gun.

At this time, there is no need to aim at all. Huang Hai also put the recommended rate of fire behind his head. He just held the trigger and kept shooting. After the three magazines were emptied, the barrel of the gun was already a little red, and Huang Hai had no time to wear gloves. , Remove the latch and raise your hand to grab the red barrel and draw it out.

呲——

The water vapor rose immediately, and with the smell of BBQ, Huang Hai didn't even frown. When he threw away the red-hot gun barrel, a little bit of flesh was taken away from his palm, and he got another contribution medal.

A skilled machine gunner, changing the barrel and changing the magazine, can control the speed within ten seconds. In an emergency, Huang Hai's performance definitely broke the record, but Huang Hai has no time to be proud. In just a few seconds, the German army has already After rushing to within 30 meters, you can hear the hoarse howling of the German army in your ears.

Fortunately, there are still comrades-in-arms in the Yellow Sea. If you look down on the entire defense line from the air, you will find that the entire defense line has become a fire dragon. The bullet chains composed of countless tracer bullets are flying in the dark night, constantly devouring the lives of the German soldiers. Two months ago Verdun, and the scene that happened on the Somme a month ago, in a small village that cannot be found on the map of Abele, is staged again.

The difference is that this time the unlucky one was replaced by a German.

When the front-line officers and soldiers were in a fierce battle, Rock was woken up by Angie whose eyes were bloodshot. In the French Army Command, this scene was absolutely impossible. Xiafei’s adjutant would never dare to wake Xiafei when she was sleeping. flying.

In fact, Rock can't do anything now, and it's useless for An Qi to wake him up. Even if Rock sends the reserve team up now, it will take six hours to arrive at the battlefield.

The Second Cavalry Division was really strong. The German army sent at least three divisions to participate in the counterattack that night. Although the Second Cavalry Division made a great sacrifice, the position was not lost.

Counting the results after dawn, at least [-] German corpses fell in front of the bunker in the Yellow Sea.

That night, Huang Hai emptied 20 ammunition boxes in a row.

After dawn, the 19th Division took over from the [-]nd Cavalry Division and continued to attack with the armored forces.

The German army lost the courage to fight against the expeditionary force, and retreated to Ypres, which had been battered into ruins, to continue to resist. This was the third battle between the expeditionary force and the German army in Ypres.

Having experienced the conquest of the Ottoman Empire, urban street fighting is no stranger to the expeditionary force. Grenades and flamethrowers are still the most powerful weapons in street fighting.

With tanks, the expeditionary army has a greater advantage in urban street fighting. The advantage of the "light cavalry" at this time of 2.5 meters width is undoubtedly revealed. Taking the tank as the base point, the expeditionary army is patiently advancing gradually, and every house will have fierce battles. In combat, the German army obviously had no experience in this aspect, and was retreating steadily under the rapid actions of the expeditionary force.

The current urban street fighting of the Expeditionary Army is not carried out on the streets at all. There are no soldiers on the streets at all. The soldiers use the houses on both sides of the street and the walls of the backyard to walk through. If there are no doors, they use explosives to directly blow the walls. At this time, whoever is fighting? Regardless of the so-called conventions that do not harm civilians, the goal of both parties involved in the war is to do everything possible to kill the enemy.

There are almost no civilians in Ypres now. The three tug-of-war between the expeditionary force and the German army has completely destroyed the city, and the entire city has been turned into a pile of ruins.

What Rock did not expect was that the rapid action of the expeditionary force in Belgium brought about a series of chain reactions.

First up is Verdun.

Hindenburg and Ludendorff, who had just taken office, would not sit back and watch the German defenses being breached. The day after the expeditionary force launched an offensive in Belgium, Ludendorff transferred six divisions from Verdun to strengthen the German defenses in Belgium. .

In addition to the four divisions that Falkenhayn had previously transferred, the number of troops in Verdun was reduced by about 17, which was seriously insufficient. The German army began to be on the defensive in Verdun.

Nivelle and Manking, who had been ambitious to launch a new offensive, did not miss this opportunity. Before the arrival of the German reinforcements, Nivelle and Mangin bypassed Petain and launched a series of attacks. The class attacked the German army, and 650 cannons shelled for four full days, some of which had a larger caliber than the German Beretta.

Fort Duvemont was severely damaged in the previous battle, and the German army had not had time to reinforce the fortress. Under the full attack of Nivelle's superior force, the German army retreated voluntarily and gave up Fort Duvemont.

Nivelle was greatly encouraged and ordered the French army to launch a larger offensive. The French media also began to advocate Nivelle, the new French "hero". The land captured by the German army through the Battle of Verdun in four months was The French army took back all of them within one day, regardless of whether the German army voluntarily gave up these lands, they were all touted as Nivelle's credit.

Nivelle's performance was so "excellent", and Manjing was not to be outdone. On the same day that the German army abandoned Fort Duvemont, Manjing commanded the troops to attack on the east bank of the Meuse River. The command style of the "butcher" is still so "Tu", he was like a shepherd holding a whip to drive the French soldiers to launch a group charge to the German positions. This is what Falkenhayn has always wanted to see, and the French army continued to bleed until France could not persist in withdrawing from the war.

It's a pity that Falkenhayn has now been demoted to Romania, and the commanders of the German army have been replaced by Hindenburg and Ludendorff. Hindenburg and Ludendorff oppose all of Falkenhayn's decisions, both good and bad. The German army is beginning to have After a planned retreat, after three days of fierce fighting, which added 4.5 casualties to the French army, the German army once again voluntarily withdrew from its position.

Recovering all the lost land on the east bank of the Meuse River has become another highlight of Nivelle's credit book. Four months ago, the French "hero" Pétain had been forgotten by the French who loved the new and hated the old, and Nivelle became the French Everyone firmly believes that Nivelle has the key to victory over the German army, and no one has noticed that the German army is still occupying French territory on the west bank of the Meuse River.

In far away Italy, the Seventh Battle of the Isonzo River broke out as scheduled. There was nothing to describe, clumsy command, timid and cowardly soldiers, and poor logistical support like mess. The battle lasted only four days. The six Isonzo battles lasted a bit longer.

That's it.

Further north in Galicia, after Hindenburg served as the commander-in-chief of the army, Kondra, the chief of staff of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, finally received the long-awaited German reinforcements. The Austro-Hungarian Empire has actually lost the ability to fight independently and needs the help of the German army , in order to withstand the crazy attack of Brusinov, commander-in-chief of the Russian Southeast Military Region.

When the German army entered the Austro-Hungarian Empire and assisted the Austro-Hungarian troops to defend their positions, the pressure on the Russian army suddenly increased. In order to strengthen the attack on the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Nicholas II sent his Royal Guard to Galicia.

The Royal Guard is composed of elite cavalry divisions and infantry divisions, with a total strength of 14, which is the last trump card in the hands of Nicholas II.

However, the commander of the Royal Guard, a member of the royal family of the Romanov family, the cousin of Nicholas II, and the Grand Duke were very dissatisfied with Brusinov's arrangement. He believed that the Royal Guard did not need to use a flank attack and ordered the soldiers to pass Waist-deep water attacked the German positions.

The German army attacked halfway, and the Royal Guard suffered heavy casualties.

Although Brusinov was heartbroken, he was helpless. After three offensives with no progress, the Royal Guard suffered 5.5 casualties, the offensive was forced to stop, and the last trump card in the hands of Nicholas II was defeated.

Looking back to Flanders, after a week of fierce fighting, the expeditionary force finally occupied Ypres. The German army suffered 3.5 casualties for Ypres. 11.5 German troops raised their hands and surrendered.

The expeditionary force had only 2.5 casualties, most of which occurred in the urban street fighting in Ypres. The reason why such a disparate battlefield exchange ratio can be achieved is due to the role of tanks.

After Rock sent the battle report to Winston, Winston held a cabinet meeting and sent an order worth 2.2 million pounds to the Nyasaland Military Industrial Group the next day, including 2500 tanks.

This is normal. Although the other space-time tanks did not show such a huge effect, Haig also hoped to get a thousand tanks after witnessing the power of the tanks.

Germany and France also started to study tanks after the Battle of the Somme. By the end of the World War, the French army had equipped nearly 3500 tanks, so 2500 were not many.

What worries Rock is that during the capture of Ypres, the weather has become capricious. Sometimes the sun shines brightly in the morning and it rains heavily in the afternoon. The use of tanks is greatly restricted.

After the rain cleared, just as Rock had worried, a huge trench appeared in front of the German positions.

The [-] German troops in Ypres used their lives to buy time for the German army to deal with the armored forces.

(Sorry for the lateness. When I coded this chapter, I still had a needle in my hand. I used my mobile phone to code it in the hospital. I can’t guarantee if there will be one at noon today—it should be in the evening——)

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