"Especially, our army has not participated in any war since World War II!" Major Will said embarrassingly: "Of course, we have also participated in the Korean War, but we are participating in this war.
Not many, not many people can come back alive!”
This is true. The British troops sent to the battlefield of the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea were only a few regiments in total, and there were heavy casualties and injuries under the impact of the volunteer army.
"What's more, this war is thirty years away!" Major Will frowned and said, "The experienced veterans are old. In fact, only one percent of our troops have combat experience.
And it is mainly concentrated in the navy, the air force, and even these guys with combat experience are such as retired and re-serving mechanics, or as orderly soldiers and communication soldiers on the battlefield back then. So this war is for us.
A great challenge, we urgently need soldiers like the battalion commander who have rich combat experience to give us advice!”
I nodded, and I don't think Major Will has said anything, that is, Britain can't afford to lose this battle.
You should know that Britain is indeed declining now, but as the saying goes, a lean camel is bigger than a horse. Back then, Britain had its own colonial maritime overlords all over the world, and the British were relatively arrogant.
In the heart, or in the hearts of all British people, it is difficult to accept the transformation from the "Empire of the Sun" to an ordinary small country. Now even the unknown Argentina has bullied them. If this battle is
What will happen if you lose this battle, and if you lose the whole country?
It is very likely that the British people will be extremely disappointed with the government, and it may even cause a series of problems such as political or social unrest.
Of course, this problem also exists for Argentina.
From the perspective of Argentina, the reason why his president did not hesitate to offend Britain to "recover the Island of Horse" was to give the political turmoil in the country a goal and to stimulate the national sentiment of the people.
The purpose of reunitement.
In other words, if Argentina loses this battle, it will not only fail to achieve its original goal, but will also make it worse.
So a war is inevitable, and both sides have to fight to the last moment.
After thinking about it, I replied: "We will do our best. But I can't guarantee that I can play any role in this war. After all, the wars I have experienced are all land wars, and the environment and climate are different from those of the Cambodian Islands!
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"Of course!" Major Will nodded: "In fact, we also hope that the battalion commander can give us advice after our army landed on the Cavalier Island. Before that, it should be a duel between the sea and the air, so we still have some time.
train!"
As he said that, Major Will handed me a document and said, "This is the information you need. The lieutenant will take you to get the necessary clothing and equipment later. I'm sorry you have to wear our army's uniforms and use our army.
I hope you don’t mind the standard equipment!”
"Of course not!" I replied.
I understand this too. First of all, we cannot bring our own equipment. Secondly, our advisory group is likely to have to bring the British soldiers trained to the battlefield at that time... If the clothing and equipment were with other British people at that time,
If the army is different, it is very likely that it will be accidentally injured and the bullets cannot be recharged.
"By the way!" Finally Major Will said: "Col. Smith is my friend. When he recommended him to me, he praised you as a genius in guerrilla warfare. So I believe you will not let me down!"
I smiled bitterly: "It is obvious that there are not many British people who think so in this army!"
Major Will spread his hands helplessly and admitted this.
This couldn't be easier. If the British army generally attached great importance to the land war in the Cabernet Island, they wouldn't have sent only one major to receive me.
It is obvious that the British military's attitude towards our Chinese advisory group is "it would rather trust the existence than trust the absence". As Major Will said before, because the British army cannot afford to lose this battle, they must
Make every detail as fully prepared. At the same time, the danger that Major Will mentioned does exist, that is, if the land battle on the Horse Island becomes a protracted guerrilla war, then Britain will be dragged for a few months
It collapsed.
So the British army's senior management casually threw this matter to a major for the responsibility out of the mentality of "preparing for any incidents". At this moment, the British army's senior management was afraid that they were busy formulating combat plans and gave our consulting group the
Forgot.
After walking out of Major Will's office, he called the soldiers to go to the temporary warehouse of the cruise ship to get equipment.
Although the soldiers were very dissatisfied with the military uniforms, although the British military uniforms were much warmer and more powerful than the casual cotton jackets we bought casually in China... These cotton jackets were brought by us when we bought them in China.
The main reason is that I know that the weather is cold in Argentina, and it is still very hot in China at this time, while in Argentina, it is dozens of degrees below zero.
When I first told the soldiers, they didn't believe it. Scar even joked with me, "Battery Commander, you see, we are still hot in summer, can it snow in Argentina? This is the snow in June
What a grievance that is!"
But I don’t care about that much, everyone has a set of cotton coats and trousers before talking about it.
Of course, we don't need to bring too much clothing, because I believe that although the British Empire had fallen by this time, it would still be affordable to provide us with a few clothes.
Then when they arrived in Argentina, they didn't speak even when they flew to Chile, and they all obediently changed the cotton coats in their bags.
Xiao Shitou said while changing it: Our battalion commander is knowledgeable, and this June snow is really not fake!
However, even so, the soldiers were still squeamish when they changed into the British military's warm and velvet uniform. Needless to say, the reason is, naturally they have a hurdle that they cannot overcome and want to draw a clear line with imperialism.
Yes! Later, I even asked me to give orders before they could change into this "imperialist" military uniform.
This is something Xu Jianping showed for no reason. Although he is a Chinese, he grew up in the UK, so of course he could not understand the mentality of these soldiers.
However, Lin Xia was very straightforward at this point. After getting a military uniform, she went to the cabin to change her clothes. However, this caused Zhao Jingping's rolling eyes again.
Then Xu Jianping assigned each of us a set of standard equipment for the British Army, rifles, pistols, magazines, engineer shovels, etc.
The necessities on the battlefield are almost the same. After all, they are all things that soldiers fight and survive on the battlefield, so the soldiers are also familiar with them.
When I got the rifle that Xu Jianping gave me, I waved to Liang Lianbing and said to Xu Jianping: "Switch to two sniper rifles!"
"Um!" Xu Jianping couldn't help but be stunned when he heard this. Perhaps in his mind, the rustic Chinese team like us would not have snipers at all, so he never thought about giving us a sniper gun at the beginning.
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But obviously he was wrong.
The two sniper rifles were quickly sent to us, to be precise, two gun boxes... When I opened the gun box, I couldn't help but sigh at the exquisite workmanship of the sniper rifle.
The gun box is neatly placed with neatly and orderly necessities such as sniper rifles, scopes, telescopes, etc., and even the sniper rifle and scope are engraved with the serial numbers of the scope and sniper rifle. It is obvious that this is done to prevent it from happening.
When several sniper rifles were disassembled and mixed up with other sniper rifles because they were like scopes.
We have never considered this before... Most of the ones we use are captured SVDs, which is good to have a scope. Where can we care about whether it has a matching package?
From this point, we can also see the fine workmanship of this sniper rifle, but I assembled the sniper rifle and placed it in front of me and glanced... The magnification of the scope is only 3 times, you must know that the svd we used
There are four times the magnification. In terms of the shape of the gun body, it does not have the advanced feeling of modern sniper rifles.
Later I learned that this sniper rifle is the British l42a1 sniper rifle, while other soldiers are holding the l1a1 automatic rifle. Although these rifles are indeed more advanced than my country's previous equipment of 56 and 56 rushing, It is obviously not as good as the combination of Su-style SVD and AK47.
So I realized that this is very likely because the British have not fought wars in the past few decades, and the stagnation of economic development has led to problems similar to those in our country in weapon development...
If the equipment cannot keep up with the times, you must fight a war and expose the problems before you can make up your mind to update the weapons.
All the soldiers under my command are masters of gun play, so after holding these guns in my hands and playing with them, soon there was some confusion and surprise in my eyes.
At this time, Xu Jianping was still introducing us with a sense of superiority: "This is the British Army's standard rifle l1a1, with an effective range of 600m. It is the l42a1 sniper rifle specially used for snipers, and its range can reach
One thousand meters..."
"Tsk!" Before Xu Jianping finished speaking, Liang Lianbing complained: "What a broken thing, the magnification rate is only three times, and if the range is far, there is a bird for a bird!"
"That's it!" Xiao Shitou was also very dissatisfied with the automatic rifle in his hand. He shook the magazine in his hand and said, "The bullet capacity is only 20 rounds. If you fight AK47, wouldn't you be seeking death?"
"And this stock!" Scar smiled bitterly at the nylon stock of l1a1: "If you smash it on the enemy's head, the enemy's head will break first if it is not broken!"
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The soldiers' words made Xu Jianping, who was proud just now, speechless... He originally thought that the equipment used by soldiers from the backward country of China must be more backward than their British Empire! Unexpectedly, those who were really backward would be more backward.