As the base camp of the British Army on the Eastern Front, Dordrecht has become a military city. The small town is filled with soldiers. In addition to the Sixth and Tenth Divisions from the mainland, there are also soldiers from Australia.
Carbine infantry regiment, and a cavalry detachment from India.
By the way, there is also a servant division formed by the Cape Colonial Government, but they are not trusted and can only undertake some simple logistical tasks.
It is conceivable that among the tens of thousands of regular troops, a police force must be very conspicuous. Moreover, most of the members of this police force are Chinese.
Don't expect the quality of white people at this time to be very high. Rock had already been mentally prepared for this, but when faced with the unscrupulous insults of those white-skinned pigs, Rock still felt angry.
"Officer, are you here to arrest those Boers?"
"I hope you have enough handcuffs."
"The battlefield is not the place for you police officers. Go back to Cape Town and catch the thieves."
These are relatively civilized, but the more disgusting ones are at the back.
"Damn it, how come Cape Town allows yellow people to be police officers!"
"You will be beaten to the pulp by the Boers!"
"Yellow-skinned monkey, go back to your mother's belly!"
Not to mention Roark, even Henry couldn't stand it. Phyllis, on the other hand, was more direct and unladylike, giving those who made rude remarks a middle finger, which led to all kinds of unpleasant and filthy words.
"Mr. Major, shouldn't these behaviors be stopped?" As a member of the commando team, Henry could no longer hold himself back. If there were not higher-ranking officers around, Henry would have retaliate in kind.
"Captain Henry, they are all uneducated, please forgive their rudeness." The major didn't take it seriously and felt a little indulgent.
"Mr. Major, this is not an acceptable reason." Henry gritted his teeth and secretly wrote down the major's number and name, and he would settle the account later.
The major turned a deaf ear and took the commando outside the town to change into a carriage. About half an hour later, the carriage arrived at a British artillery position.
There are more than twenty artillery pieces in this artillery position. The target of the artillery attack is a not too high hill on the opposite side. Although the mountain is not high, it is steep. This is the new mission of the commando: "Your new mission, at sunset
I believe you can do it when you captured the Boer position before. Look, you have defeated a Boer guerrilla force before. Now, continue your good luck."
"Mr. Major, we are the police and are not capable of undertaking military tasks." Henry couldn't believe his eyes. He asked a police force to attack the Boer position. This was obviously asking the commandos to die.
It's hard to say whether they are dead or not, but there are many corpses wearing khaki uniforms on the mountainside, which were left by the British troops who attacked before. It seems that the battle has been going on for a long time.
Although there is still some time before the attack deadline determined by Lord Roberts, the commander of the expeditionary force, the fighting between the British army and the Boer coalition did not stop during this period. Although it did not reach the battle level, small-scale battles continued.
Even a small-scale battle is not something the commandos can undertake. Don't forget that the commandos are police, not regular troops.
"During the war, all armed forces in the Cape Colony must obey the command of the Expeditionary Force Command, including you Cape Town policemen." The major had a tough attitude, with his hand already on the handle of the gun at his waist. It seemed that as long as Henry dared to disobey
, the major didn't mind forcing Henry to go to the battlefield with a gun.
"Mr. Major, we can execute the order, but we need some information, such as how many Boers are defending that mountain, what kind of weapons they have, and what their training is like?" Rock did not let Henry continue to argue with the major.
This argument is meaningless. The major clearly wants the commando to die. If Henry refuses to carry out the order, Rock suspects that the major will really use this as an excuse to shoot Henry.
Sounds incredible, right?
In fact, there were many unbelievable things on the battlefield. In the Second Boer War, 1,072 British officers and 20,870 soldiers were killed in action. Among them were many nobles, some of whom were much more noble than Henry.
Speaking of the casualty rate of nobles in wars, many people may not believe it. In World War I, six million British men of working age participated in the war, and 12.5% were killed. During the same period, the number of noble children who died in battle was
how many?
The answer is a staggering fifty percent!
"There is no intelligence. If there was intelligence, the war would have ended long ago." The major's face softened a little, but his eyes were still cold: "You have half an hour to prepare."
For half an hour, Rock ordered the commandos to seize the time to rest, replenish food, and sort out their equipment. They only carried combat-related supplies with them and went into battle as lightly as possible.
"F***, this guy did it on purpose. He wanted us to die." Henry and Rock bit their ears, hoping that Rock would have a better way.
"So what? If we are all killed in the battle, then no one will know all this." Rock filled the bullet bag on his chest with bullets, and then took out the magazine partition from Lee Enfield's magazine.
Weapons, we cannot hold back in this battle, we must go all out.
The magazine partition is a very magical design, used to isolate the magazine or magazine to prevent the bullets in the magazine from coming up.
This design comes from the concerns of the armies of various countries about soldiers wasting bullets. They believe that bolt-action rifles that use magazines or fixed magazines fire too fast. For example, Lee Enfield, a skilled shooter equipped by Rock and others, shoots per minute.
It can fire 15 rounds of bullets. With the magazine isolator, soldiers cannot get refills from the magazine after firing the bullets in the chamber, so they have to take out a new bullet from the magazine bag on their body to load it.
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It can be said that with the addition of a magazine divider, the Lee Enfield, which originally had a ten-round magazine design, became a single-shot rifle like the Henry Martini.
Rock doesn't like this device, not at all. It didn't matter before, but now when it's time to fight, he has no reservations.
After throwing away the magazine divider, Rock thought for a while and went to the major: "Mr. Major, we need some dum bombs."
"Dum bombs? No, no, no, we can't use dum bombs. This is clearly stipulated in the Hague Convention." The major was looking at his pocket watch without even raising his head.
No?
I believed your ghost!
If Rock doesn't bother, then there won't be any. Rock originally wanted to ask the major for some grenades, but it seems like there won't be any grenades.
