The income of Umbrella Company mercenaries is still very generous. The salary plus overseas allowance and combat allowance are easily comparable to the British middle class. Coupled with the energy of Umbrella Company, they own a thousand-acre farm in Bechuanaland and
Not difficult.
This kind of scale is often several thousand acres, which sounds like a fantasy in Huanggang. Lexus is already one of the richest people in Medan, with a plantation area of more than 4,000 acres. In fact, it is not as good as an umbrella company.
Ordinary mercenaries.
"If you are an ordinary immigrant, the land allocated by the state capital will definitely not be so much, but there are still one or two hundred acres, which is more than enough to support a family." Hicks did not lie. This opportunity is rare now, and Bechuanaland's policy is still
I don’t know how long it can be implemented. It depends on the rate of immigration increase. When the population of Bechuanaland reaches a certain level, this benefit will definitely be cancelled.
"I, I want to go back and discuss it with my family." Huang Gang was indeed tempted, but not yet ready to take action immediately.
The main issue is credibility. Southern Africa has just begun to immigrate from the Qing Dynasty, and the Chinese in the Qing Dynasty are also full of doubts and hesitations. Some people even received the ocean mail from their relatives and thought it was a carefully arranged scam. They simply did not believe that there was such a pie in the sky.
good thing.
In recent years, more and more ships have traveled between the Qing Dynasty and southern Africa, and more and more Chinese have traveled to and from the Qing Dynasty, which will make more Chinese people believe that these benefits are real.
Unfortunately, the Qing Dynasty has noticed the crazy immigration from southern Africa in recent years, and it has become increasingly difficult to immigrate through regular channels, so southern Africa has tried to immigrate from Southeast Asia.
"Then you have to hurry up. Recently, many people have applied to immigrate to southern Africa. Almost every boat leaves Medan Port every other day. If the benefits are cancelled, don't say I lied to you." Hick
Si can only say this to this extent. The opportunity is there, it depends on whether you can seize it or not.
Before Huang Gang could speak, a sharp whistle suddenly sounded from the nearby position.
The Second East India Division finally launched another attack. It had been more than an hour since the last attack.
The troops participating in the attack were about seven to eight hundred people in a battalion. Forced by the officers, these soldiers formed a twisted formation and were launching a group charge towards the mercenary position.
Unlike the group charge of the British army, if the British army initiates a group charge, then the officers at the front of the team should be.
The officers of the Second East India Division obviously did not have the courage. Even the white officers did not participate in the attack at all, but stayed at the starting position to command the only Maxim unit to supervise the battle.
Those who participated in the attack were really unlucky. If they moved forward, they would be attacked by mercenary fire. If they retreated, they would be killed by their own guns. Many people's expressions were desperate and crazy.
"Steady, steady, steady -" Hicks reminded loudly. The general-purpose machine gun beside him had been replaced with a tripod. In fact, the offensive troops of the Second East India Division were now within bullet range.
In order to maximize the damage effect, Hicks must still move the Second East India Division closer to attack. If he fires now, the enemy may still escape. Originally, the mercenaries wanted to capture prisoners, but they watched along the way.
After experiencing so many tragedies, David decided not to leave a single prisoner but to destroy the entire Second East India Division as a warning to others.
Don't forget that most of the people killed were of Chinese or Chinese origin. There may also be Baba Nyonyas in the Second East India Division, but these people do not deserve to be forgiven.
Five hundred meters away, the first squadron and the two nearby squadrons maintained a tacit understanding of their positions and no shots were fired.
Three hundred meters away, Hicks was still able to calm down. Officers from nearby positions were already shouting "Get ready-"
Two hundred meters away, some soldiers of the Second East India Division could no longer hold back and raised their guns to aim at the mercenary positions. More than twenty light and heavy machine guns on the three squadron positions opened fire at the same time.
Hicks didn't know what a meat grinder was, but for a moment, the front of the position was really filled with bright colors and flesh and blood flying everywhere.
What was shining brightly was the tracer bullet marking the ballistic trajectory, and what was flying everywhere was the Second East India Division, which was charging as a group.
From Hicks' perspective, the attacking soldiers of the Second East India Division were mowed down row after row like wheat. Large gaps instantly appeared in the original dense formation. Some of the surviving soldiers were
He was stunned for two seconds, then turned around and ran away in panic.
It's a pity that no matter how fast two legs run, they can't outrun bullets that exceed the speed of sound. The machine gunners of the Umbrella Company are all skilled workers who have undergone rigorous training and are fed with bullets. Under the guidance of tracer bullets, the fastest soldiers can also
Before they had gone a hundred meters, in about thirty seconds, all the troops of a battalion were wiped out.
There was no time for the law enforcement team of the Second East India Division to take action.
"How are you, boy? Did you get any results?" Hicks asked Huang Gang after the gunfire subsided.
"It seems there is. I seem to have hit one, but it seems -" Huang Gang's face turned red. Hicks had not fired a single shot just now, but Huang Gang had emptied a five-round magazine.
It's not that Hicks is lazy, but that Hicks trusts those strictly trained machine gunners. Even in the British Army, these machine gunners are worthy of the title of "elite" and are qualified to embroider logos on their sleeves.
Huang Gang is simply passionate, and this usually happens to new recruits.
"We only need to shoot when the enemy comes within 100 meters. As long as the machine gunner is not killed, our biggest role is to prepare to throw grenades. If the enemy comes within 50 meters of the position, then we have to throw grenades, then mount the bayonet and prepare.
Fight hand-to-hand with the enemy." Hicks did not hesitate to impart experience. The faster recruits like Huang Gang grew up, the easier it would be for Hicks and others.
"I know - do you need us to clean up the battlefield?" Huang Gang was eager to give it a try.
Those soldiers who were killed were actually money. The mercenaries may not look down on the little oil and water on the soldiers of the Second East India Division, but for the soldiers of the Medan Army, they still have something to do, even if they are tattered and stained with blood.
The clothes are still wearable after being washed and mended. They are children from poor families and are not so particular.
"It's not possible now. If you leave the position now, you will become a target - and those are not all corpses. Someone must be pretending to be dead. When you clean the battlefield, you should pay attention to replenishing your wounds and guns, and don't move the corpses casually. Maybe someone
There is a grenade under the body." Hicks said this, but he was actually overly worried. Only the southern African army in the world uses grenades on a large scale. Using grenades to make various booby traps is the specialty of mercenaries.
In various confrontation training live-fire exercises in Southern Africa, booby traps caused many troops to suffer a lot. Later, the Ministry of Defense of Southern Africa simply compiled a tutorial on how to make booby traps, which is now the Nyasaland Army Academy.
teaching materials.
"Will the people on the other side collect the corpses?" Huang Gang stretched his neck to take a look, his eyes were really hot.
"Be careful -" Hicks warned, and then called a precision shooter to signal: "Can you see the white officer?"
Hicks was pointing to the fact that under a big tree about 700 meters away, a white officer of the Second East India Division was looking at Hicks with a telescope.
"Okay-" The precision shooter first looked through the telescope and then adjusted the sight.
Seven hundred meters is actually a bit far for a precision shooter, but it is trivial for a sniper. After all, the rifle used by the sniper is equipped with a quadruple scope produced by Nyasaland.
"Hold your breath, aim patiently, and you'll kill with one hit—" Hicks rambled on, but the precision shooter didn't say anything and pulled the trigger ten seconds later.
It is indeed a one-hit kill!
"Beautiful! Pay attention and take the initiative to shoot when you see someone. We won't take any prisoners this time." Hicks was satisfied. This is the value of precision shooters.
What Hicks didn't know was that the man killed by a precision shooter just now was Major General Derek Rowland, commander of the 2nd East India Division.
Even if he knew, Hicks wouldn't care. On the battlefield, swords and guns are blind. Once you come to the battlefield, you must be prepared to die at any time.
At 11 o'clock in the morning, the "Albatross" bomber departing from the Medan Port Airport finally arrived at Xianda.
It was very troublesome to dispatch aircraft in this era because there were no radios or electronic maps, so pilots could only rely on experience to find combat targets.
However, experience is useless in unfamiliar areas, so at this time, guidance from ground targets is needed. Usually, fires are used on the ground to indicate the direction and target.
That's why the "Albatross" has not arrived until now.
The first batch consisted of three "Albatross". The "Albatross" bombers that could originally carry 400 kilograms of torpedoes were now replaced with 50 kilogram bombs. The torpedoes were limited to the pylons under the wings. One "Albatross" could only carry six bombs.
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Six bombs are enough. Xianda is a village with only a thousand people, and now nearly 10,000 troops are squeezed into it. The intensity can be imagined. Fifteen 50-kilogram bombs are enough to blow Xianda upside down.
The army of this era did not have the habit of digging air-raid shelters, nor did it have anti-aircraft weapons. However, in Tripolitania, Italian ground troops used rifles to successfully shoot down a "Strong Wind" fighter jet purchased by the Ottoman Empire from Nyasaland. It is said that the pilot was killed
He was shot dead, and then the plane crashed. This was also the first plane in the world to be shot down by ground troops.
The Italian army is not yet the laughingstock of the whole of Europe. It still has combat effectiveness, at least better than the Second East India Division.
So when the three "Albatross" flew in a zigzag formation over Xianda, many soldiers of the Second East India Division were watching the fun below, and even the officers and soldiers in those rooms were attracted out.
When the three "Albatross" dropped their bombs, a miracle finally happened. The mercenaries on the ground and the soldiers of the Second East India Division were actually cheering. The mercenaries were celebrating their victory. The soldiers of the Second East India Division were cheering.
