The medal system in Southern Africa is unlimited. In theory, you can get medals such as contribution medals as long as you are injured, and you can get one for each injury.
Just like medals, the bonuses that officers and soldiers can receive after returning to southern Africa can also be accumulated. Theoretically, if a soldier works on the front line for four years and gets more than a dozen medals of various sizes, then when the war is over,
You can retire directly, and the monthly bonus will be higher than your salary.
Of course, if you walk too much at night, you will always encounter ghosts. If you expect to get rich, you might as well buy lottery tickets. At least buying lottery tickets is not life-threatening. Medals depend on fate. The one that brushes against Huang Hai's cheek
A piece of shrapnel, if the direction is even one centimeter wrong, the bonus will become a pension.
Even without the help of Fox, a bipod light machine gun still gave Huang Hai troubles. A general-purpose machine gun with a fire rate of 600 and a 75-round magazine. If the trigger is held tight, it can be fired in more than seven seconds. In actual combat,
It certainly can't shoot so fast. In order to cool down the barrel quickly, it is recommended that the general machine gun's rate of fire should not exceed sixty rounds per minute. In this regard, the water-cooled Maxim performs better, but the Maxim is inconvenient to use. Every three shots
Each ammunition belt requires cooling water once, and the weight is too heavy to move easily, so the Southern African Expeditionary Force uses air-cooled general-purpose machine guns.
At this time, there was no need to aim at all. Huang Hai also ran the recommended rate of fire to the back of his head. He just held the trigger and fired. After emptying three cartridges, the barrel of the gun was already slightly red. Huang Hai had no time to put on gloves.
, remove the latch, raise your hand, grab the red barrel, and pull it out.
呲——
The steam immediately rose, accompanied by the smell of bbq. Huang Hai didn't even frown. When he threw away the red-hot barrel, a little of the skin and flesh on his palm was taken away, and he received another contribution medal.
A skilled machine gunner could change the barrel and magazine within ten seconds. In an emergency, Huang Hai's performance definitely broke the record. However, Huang Hai had no time to be proud. In just a few seconds, the German army had already
Rushing within thirty meters, you can hear the hoarse howling of the German troops.
Fortunately, there are still comrades 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 turned into a fire dragon. Chains 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 happened again in Abel, a small village that can't be found on the map.
The difference is that this time it was the Germans who were unlucky.
When the frontline officers and soldiers were engaged in a fierce battle, Roque was woken up by An Qi, whose eyes were bloodshot. This scene would never happen in the French headquarters. Xia Fei's adjutant would never dare to wake Xia Fei while he was sleeping.
Flying.
In fact, Rock can't do anything now, and it's useless for An Qi to wake Rock up. Even if Rock sends the reserve team now, it will take six hours to reach the battlefield.
The Second Cavalry Division was indeed powerful. The Germans sent at least three divisions to participate in the counterattack that night. Although the Second Cavalry Division paid heavy sacrifices, its position was not lost.
After daybreak, the results of the battle were tallied up, and at least 600 German corpses fell in front of the bunker in the Yellow Sea.
That night, Huang Hai emptied 20 ammunition boxes in a row.
After daybreak, the 19th Division took over from the 2nd Cavalry Division and continued the attack with the armored forces.
The German army lost the courage to fight in the field with the expeditionary force, and retreated to Ypres, which had been reduced to ruins, and continued to resist. This was already 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 the presence of tanks, the expeditionary force has greater advantages in urban street fighting. At this time, the advantage of the "light cavalry" in the width of 2.5 meters is undoubtedly revealed. Using the tank as the base point, the expeditionary force advances patiently and gradually, and fierce battles will occur in every house.
In the battle, the German army was obviously inexperienced in this aspect, and was retreating steadily due to the rapid actions of the expeditionary force.
The Expeditionary Force's current urban street battles are not conducted 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 backyard walls to pass through. If there are no doors, they use explosives to directly blow open the walls. At this time, who is the warring party?
Regardless of the so-called conventions that do not harm civilians, the goal of both parties involved in the war is to use every possible means and use every possible means to kill the enemy.
There are almost no civilians in Ypres now. Three tug-of-wars between the expeditionary force and the German army have completely destroyed the city, and the entire city has turned into a pile of ruins.
What Rock didn't expect was that the expeditionary force's rapid action 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 defense line be breached. The day after the expeditionary force launched its offensive in Belgium, Ludendorff transferred six divisions from Verdun to strengthen the German defense in Belgium.
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Including the four divisions previously transferred by Falkenhayn, the number of troops in Verdun was reduced by about 170,000, which was a serious shortage of troops. The German army began to be on the defensive in Verdun.
Nivelle and Mangin, who had been ambitious to launch a new offensive, did not miss this opportunity. Before the German reinforcements arrived, Nivelle and Mangin bypassed Pétain and launched a series of attacks. Nivelle first launched a series of attacks at Fort Duvalmont.
The class launched an attack on the German army. 650 artillery pieces carried out bombardment for four days, some of which had a caliber larger than the German Berettas.
The Duvalmont Fortress was severely damaged in the previous battle. Before the Germans had time to reinforce the fort, under the full attack of Nivel's superior force, the Germans retreated and gave up the Duvalmont Fortress.
Nivelle was greatly encouraged and ordered the French army to launch a larger offensive. The French media also began to promote Nivelle, the new French "hero". The land that the German army took four months to capture through the Battle of Verdun was
The French army recovered all of it within one day. Regardless of whether the German army had voluntarily given up these lands, they were all touted as Nievelle's contribution.
Nievelle's performance was so "excellent" that Manking was not to be outdone. On the same day that the German army abandoned the Duvamont Fortress, Manking commanded the troops to launch an attack on the east bank of the Meuse River. The "butcher" command style was still so
"Slaughter", he held a whip like a shepherd and drove the French soldiers to launch a group charge towards the German positions. This was what Falkenhayn had always wanted to see, and the French army continued to bleed until France could no longer insist on withdrawing from the war.
It is a pity that Falkenhayn has been demoted to Romania, and the commanders of the German army have been replaced by Hindenburg and Ludendorff. Hindenburg and Ludendorff opposed all Falkenhayn's decisions, both good and bad. The German army is beginning to have some success.
After a planned retreat, after three days of fierce fighting and inflicting 45,000 casualties on the French army, the Germans once again took the initiative to withdraw from their positions.
Recovering all the lost land on the east bank of the Meuse River has become another highlight in Nivelle's credit book. Four months ago, the "hero" Pétain of France had been forgotten by the French who liked the new and disliked the old. Nivelle became a Frenchman.
Everyone firmly believed that Nivelle held the key to defeat the German army. No one noticed that the German army still occupied French territory on the west bank of the Meuse River.
In distant Italy, the Seventh Battle of the Isonzo River broke out as scheduled. There was nothing to describe. Clumsy command, cowardly soldiers participating in the battle, and poor and messy logistics support. The battle only lasted four days, longer than the first battle.
The Sixth Battle of Isonzo lasted a little longer.
That's all.
Further north in Galicia, after Hindenburg served as the commander-in-chief of the army, the Austro-Hungarian Empire Chief of Staff Kondela finally received the long-awaited German reinforcements. The Austro-Hungarian Empire had actually lost the ability to fight independently and needed the help of the German army.
, in order to withstand the crazy attack of Brusinov, the commander-in-chief of the Russian Southeast Military Region.
When the German army entered the Austro-Hungarian Empire and could only assist the Austro-Hungarian troops in defense, the pressure on the Russian army suddenly increased. In order to strengthen the attack on the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Nicholas II sent his royal guards to Galicia.
The Royal Guard is composed of elite cavalry divisions and infantry divisions, with a total strength of 140,000 people. It is the last trump card in the hands of Nicholas II.
However, the commander of the Royal Guard, a member of the Romanov family and a cousin of Nicholas II, the Grand Duke, was 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 flow through
Waist-deep water attacked the German positions.
The Germans attacked halfway across the river, and the Royal Guards suffered heavy casualties.
Although Brusinov was heartbroken, he was helpless. After three offensives that made no progress, the Royal Guard suffered 55,000 casualties. The attack was forced to stop, and Nicholas II's last trump card was defeated.
Looking back to Flanders, after a week of fierce fighting, the expeditionary force finally occupied Ypres. The German army suffered 35,000 casualties because of Ypres. Since the expeditionary force launched its attack, the German army has suffered a total of about 115,000 casualties, and another
65,000 German troops surrendered.
The expeditionary force suffered only 25,000 casualties. Most of the casualties occurred in the urban street fighting of Ypres. The reason why such a disparity in battlefield exchange ratio was achieved was due to the role of tanks.
After Roque sent the battle report to Winston, Winston held a cabinet meeting and sent an order with a total price of 220 million pounds to Nyasaland Military Industrial Group the next day, including 2,500 tanks.
This is normal. Although the other space-time tank 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 researching tanks after the Battle of the Somme. By the end of the World War, the French army had equipped nearly 3,500 tanks, so 2,500 was really not many.
What worried Roark was that during the capture of Ypres, the weather became erratic. Sometimes the sun would shine brightly in the morning and then it would rain heavily in the afternoon. The use of tanks was greatly restricted.
After the rain cleared and the sky cleared, just as Rock had feared, a huge trench appeared in front of the German position.
The 35,000 German troops in Ypres used their lives to buy the Germans time to deal with the armored forces.
(Sorry for being late. When I coded this chapter, I still had needles stuck in my hands. I coded with my mobile phone in the hospital. I can’t guarantee whether it will be available at noon today - it should be available in the evening -)
