Reborn South Africa as a police officer

Chapter 993 Smile

After the dinner, Rock returned to his temporary residence in Paris by car.

It’s Christmas again, but there is no festive atmosphere on the street, perhaps because the banquet ends a bit late, there are almost no pedestrians on the street, there are not many lights on both sides of the street, and few street lights on both sides of the road are on , In the thick smog, the dim lights are as eerie as will-o'-the-wisps.

When it comes to winter, London is dubbed "the capital of fog", and Paris is actually not much better. Every winter, a lot of firewood is consumed for heating, and the whole city is shrouded in thick smoke, which makes it difficult for southern Africans. Bear.

Unlike the cold winter in Europe, the winter in southern Africa is not too cold. Only Cape Town, the southernmost tip, gets snow in winter, and the amount of snow is not large. , So from this point of view, southern Africa really has a pleasant climate, and compared with Europe, it is simply a paradise.

Rock's temporary residence is in the suburbs. When the convoy left the city, a thick tree appeared in the middle of the road for some reason.

An Qi, who was sitting in the co-pilot, pulled out her gun silently, and watched the guards in the front car get out of the car and move the trees away cursing. No accident happened.

Rock didn't speak, but An Qi explained: "The law and order in Paris is very chaotic now, and theft and robbery happen frequently. On the road we're walking now, there was a robbery a few days ago."

Rock could understand that the damage of the war became more and more obvious in the third year of the World War. A severe famine broke out in India, and Britain and France were not much better. The soldiers on the front line would not be affected, and the civilian situation in the rear was very bad Oops.

For old imperialist countries such as Britain and France, in previous Christmases, delicacies from mountains and seas were not mentioned on the table of ordinary families, at least turkey bacon was indispensable.

The situation this year is quite tense. French newspapers even started to teach housewives how to make potatoes taste like chicken in the newspapers a few days ago. It seems a bit funny, and the problems reflected are shocking.

Back at the command headquarters, Rock was concerned about what the Logistics Department had prepared for the expeditionary soldiers during the Christmas period.

"Beef and potatoes, fresh fruit, unlimited alcohol and tobacco, as well as fish and chicken legs, coffee is still enough—" Sidney Milner is confident that the life of the British government is much better than that of the French government, after all There are colonies all over the world to loot.

After Rock became the commander-in-chief of the British Expeditionary Force, Sidney Milner's status has also risen. He is now the head of the logistics department of the British Expeditionary Force. This position does not need to be consulted with the British War Department, and Rock can appoint it himself.

Of course, the UK also has to pay to buy supplies from southern Africa, and the price is still in accordance with the market. At most, for the sake of the suzerain country, the price will be a little lower than other countries.

Even so, the British government can't bear it. With more and more troops on the front line, the British government has borrowed more and more loans from the Rand Bank. In this year alone, the British government has borrowed more than [-] million pounds from the Rand Bank. The total loan exceeds one billion. These loans are not directly given money, but are used for local purchases. This is one of the conditions for the Rand Bank to be so generous.

So why can Rock be the commander-in-chief of the British Expeditionary Force?

This has a lot to do with Rock's outstanding performance as the commander-in-chief of the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, but that's not all. The factors of companies such as Rand Bank and Nyasaland Military Industry Group are also very important. At least now no one doubts that Rock Loyalty to the British Empire.

Once the British Empire loses this war, these Rand Bank loans will be wiped out.

Therefore, in order to recover the loan smoothly, Rock will also do his best for the British Empire.

"What's the situation with the French government?" Of course, Rock is also concerned about the logistics of the French army. Britain, France and Russia are the three major customers in southern Africa, and all orders are fulfilled immediately.

The difference is that Britain and France can not only borrow from the Rand Bank, but also owe money when they don’t have enough money to buy supplies. The Russian Empire must trade in cash, and there are no loans.

The "debt" here also has interest. In business, there is no shortage of big money.

"The situation is a bit bad. The logistics of the main force of the French army is not bad. The colonial servants—" Sidney Milner curled his lips, obviously unable to explain.

This is also normal. The logistics supply within the British Expeditionary Force is also focused. The British troops and troops from southern Africa are at the top of the supply chain, followed by the Anzac, Canadian Expeditionary Force, Indian Army, and then It's the colonial servants, and the colonial laborers.

The situation in France is also divided into levels. The troops in France must have everything they need, while the logistics supply of the colonial servants is much worse. As far as Rock knows, bread is good, and meat is occasionally available. Don’t even think about fresh fruit. Think, flavored cigarettes and alcohol are unlimited.

Regardless of the logistics of the French army, Rock turned around and called Paul Coker over, ordering the troops to use the winter truce to build fortifications and prepare for next year's battle.

After a winter, more German soldiers will walk out of the training camp, and the German troops will also find a way to deal with tanks. After a short period of glory, the use of tanks next year will be greatly restricted. If there are no accidents on the Western Front, There will be another costly trench warfare.

Rock needs to be ready now, more tanks, more planes, more shells and grenades, now 200 British troops arrive in France every month, these are all troops from the British mainland, by next year In the middle of the year, the total number of British expeditionary forces will exceed [-] million. By then, regardless of whether the Americans will join or not, Rock will have the strength to fight the Germans.

While Rock was recuperating, the Second Cavalry Division in distant Antwerp was also recuperating.

In fact, it is not considered rest and recuperation. Sporadic firefights happen every day, but the Second Cavalry Division and the German troops on the opposite side have a tacit understanding not to organize large-scale battles. Try to make the soldiers feel some festive atmosphere. Brilliantly, hundreds of people die every day from precision shooter guns, the German army has slightly more casualties, and the British Expeditionary Force has fewer.

It was not the officers and soldiers of the Second Cavalry Division who died on the British Expeditionary Force, but the Indian 28th Division, which assisted the Second Cavalry Division in combat.

Like the German army, the British Expeditionary Force's line of defense is also composed of several lines. The first line of defense is defended by cannon fodder, the real elite are on the second line of defense, and the third line of defense is artillery, reserves, and cavalry The position of the second division is on the second line of defense.

On the Antwerp side, the distance between the first line of defense and the second line of defense is 1.5 kilometers. If the German army launches an attack, such a long distance is enough for the second cavalry division to prepare for battle.

Every morning, the precision shooters of the Second Cavalry Division take an off-road vehicle to the first line of defense to find prey, and return collectively at 65 pm. The precision shooters call this kind of operation "going to work". The entire Second Cavalry Division has [-] Accurate marksmen were awarded the Hero Medal.

The standard for obtaining the Hero Medal is to kill [-] enemy troops.

Unlike the British Expeditionary Force, where at least half of the army was colonial servants, the German troops were all composed of white Germans, so one of the biggest benefits of sniper warfare was to completely break the fear and inferiority of the southern Africans towards white Europeans. A white man was shot dead by himself, and the racial concept that white people took hundreds of years to establish in the world also collapsed, especially for the Chinese in southern Africa, this is very important.

Qin Ling is the best accurate shooter of the Second Cavalry Division. The number of German soldiers killed by him has reached 265. This is not the most in the Second Cavalry Division. The one with the most has returned to Nyasaland to serve as a sniper instructor. More than [-] German officers and soldiers were killed, and they were recognized as the "Grim Reaper" by the Second Cavalry Division.

Qin Ling set off on time at six o'clock every morning. A seven-member team was dedicated to serve Qin Ling. Qin Ling didn't live in the barracks of the army, but lived in a young woman's house in Antwerp. This situation is very common in the second cavalry division. If people are killed and are not infected with some indescribable virus, the top leaders of the expeditionary force will not care about this kind of thing.

They are all young people in their 20s, the age when hormone secretion is the most vigorous. It is impossible to lock them all in the barracks. If you don’t make mistakes in this area, you will make mistakes in other areas. I have not known the taste of meat for two years, so the management of the expeditionary force in this area is gradually relaxing.

Of course, one point must be emphasized, no matter under any circumstances, ensuring health is the premise, and if you contract some indescribable disease, you will be thrown to Shark Island, which is unreasonable.

Before and after Christmas, Qin Ling also had to take a break and stopped going to the front line to work. The various benefits that the expeditionary force gave to Qin Ling were also sent to his "girlfriend" by Qin Ling. The Second Cavalry Division has always been very generous in this regard. , Qinling received double copies of all kinds of materials. In addition to the standard supplies of the expeditionary force, there were also various condolences from southern Africa. There were so many things that Qinling had to use a car to deliver the things to "Girlfriend" home.

"Thank you, William. Would you like to come in and sit for a while? I got a bottle of wine from Oak Town." Qin Ling was very happy today. Very tight.

This does not mean that the quality of the wine in Oak Town is good, and the quality of French wine is also good, but the wine in Oak Town is the most popular among the expeditionary forces, especially those senior generals who only drink wine from Oak Town.

Right at Qin Ling's feet, there were piles of things, big and small. Behind Qin Ling stood a graceful blonde woman, who was smiling politely at William.

(Brothers may not believe it, I thought about the name Qinling for half an hour, so I was a little late——)

(End of this chapter)