I believe that most of the British troops were not asleep that night, at least that was the case with the British troops I saw on the Sheffield. The chapter is updated the fastest
This is actually easy to understand. You must know that Britain had not fought a war for decades, and most of the British troops on the ships were young people in their twenties... The military service system of the British army
You can join the army after studying for eleven years. If you start studying at the age of seven, you will join the army at the age of eighteen. Now you are around twenty when you join the war.
In other words, these British soldiers have never been exposed to a real war since they were born. So after officially launching the attack on the Falklands today, they will of course be so nervous and excited that they cannot sleep.
Of course, part of the reason was that Brigadier General Clapp was worried that the Argentine Air Force would make a sneak attack, so he asked the British army to be ready for battle at any time.
However, I feel that Brigadier General Clapp's order is unwise... The reason is very simple. For an overly excited state like the British army, we should find a way to relax them instead of making them more nervous. What's more, the British army is still in an overly excited state.
With an advanced radar system and Chile providing real-time intelligence to the British fleet, the Argentinian aircraft would have been discovered even before it got close to the fleet.
But these had nothing to do with me. I said hello to Brigadier General Clapp and then Lin Xia and I went back to our cabins to sleep.
Only when I got back to the cabin did I realize that it was too boring... There was only a small bed and a set of tables and chairs in a palm-sized place. But I knew that I should be content. A warship can be compared to the "Queen Elizabeth II"
It's different. The Queen Elizabeth II is a luxury cruise ship, and it was originally designed to carry passengers.
But warships are used for fighting. It is conceivable that warships will definitely try to save some space to arrange more weapons, equipment or store supplies, fuel, etc. Of course, it can give soldiers or officers sleeping space.
It's very limited. It is said that British soldiers still share a cabin with several people. The fact that I can arrange such a cabin is considered special.
However, even so, I am still bored. There is no TV here and there is no radio. But even if there is a TV and radio, I can't watch it. The only channels I can receive are Argentine radio stations. I can still speak English a little.
You don't know anything about Spanish.
But even if I know some English, I'm not good enough to read magazines and newspapers easily. So a few magazines covered with English letters on the table are useless to me.
There seems to be only one thing I can do now, and that's sleep.
But I didn’t sleep well, because I knew from my history... The warship Sheffield I was on would be sunk by Argentina’s Exocet missiles. What if I was hit while sleeping?
, then he would have died unjustly.
But I also know that the probability is very small. On the one hand, it is because it is not yet time for Argentina to dispatch Exocet missiles. On the other hand, the Sheffield did not sink immediately after being hit, but drifted and burned for six months.
The diva sank in tow.
Therefore, the vast majority of the British troops on the Sheffield had enough time to escape from the warship, and the only casualties were twenty deaths and more than twenty serious injuries caused by missile hits.
Just when I was lying on the bed bored and thinking, there was a knock on the door outside the cabin.
I originally thought it was Lin Xia, because she was the only person I knew on this ship besides Clapp. Clapp was busy dealing with a possible sneak attack by Argentina at the time, so naturally he had no time to come see me.
But when I opened the hatch, I realized that I was wrong... Standing at the door was Clapp's blond secretary Ada.
"Hi! Can I buy you a drink?"
"What?" I pretended not to understand what Ada said. In fact, even if my English was poor, I could still understand the word "wine".
Then I turned my attention to Lin Xia's cabin door opposite, wondering if I should let Lin Xia translate.
"No, no, no." Ada quickly dragged me out: "Don't call your translator, I don't want her to ruin the atmosphere..."
He said while laughing and dragging me along the aisle.
I couldn't help but secretly laugh when I heard this. It was obvious that Ada had been deceived. She really thought that I didn't understand English at all, so she spoke so boldly.
But then again, foreign women seem to be more generous in this regard, just like Li Li, not to mention that this is still during combat... You must know that people's mentality will change greatly during combat.
, especially for those who are going to the battlefield for the first time.
The reason is very simple, that is, under the threat of death, everyone knows that it is time to enjoy themselves in time, otherwise there is no telling when there will be no chance again!
But to be honest, I don't care about this. Who would refuse an invitation from an exotic beauty like this?
Soon we came to a bar.
In fact, I just learned that there are bars on the British warships... This would be unimaginable in our army. What if we miss something because of drinking during the war?!
But in a way, it's not a bad thing if it can be controlled, because soldiers need to relieve stress here.
Sure enough, just as I imagined, there were quite a few British soldiers who came to spend the night in this bar. This may also be said to be a British habit.
Ada quickly found a table in the corner and sat down. Only then did I have time to take a closer look at the bar... It was not a big space, but it had just the right light and soft music, plus a few
The male and female soldiers danced slowly in the middle, which really created a romantic atmosphere.
"You know?" Ada said while pouring me a drink: "I have never seen a general trust someone so much. Obviously you are the first and you did it on the first day. But I believe
You do have that charm, and the reason is that your ideas are so perfect that I even doubt that you know the whole war. It’s really hard to imagine...how you did it..."
Ada said a lot of "bah bah bah", and it was me who suffered the most at this time, because I could understand some of the meaning of Ada's words, but I couldn't understand it because Ada spoke faster.
He understands every sentence, but on the other hand he has to pretend that he understands nothing.
But the strange thing is that this did not seem to affect Ada's enthusiasm for talking to me at all. Sometimes Ada even talked more and more enthusiastically: "You know? What I am happiest about is seeing the general confirm that he was deceived by the Argentines.
Such an expression, this old man is usually stubborn and stubborn. I didn’t expect that he would stumble over this matter..."
At this time, the song just ended, and Ada pulled me to the dance floor: "Come on, let's dance!"
"Hey, Ada!" At this moment, a British officer appeared next to him. Judging from his military uniform, he should be a major. He walked up to us with a half-drunk bottle of wine, raised his head at me and said
: "What? You have a new boyfriend? You didn't even tell me, and he's still from Asia?!"
"Baker!" Ada replied nervously: "This is not the place to talk!"
"Why not?" The lieutenant colonel named Baker took another step towards me. The smell of alcohol on his body made me frown.
"Hey!" Baker looked at my military uniform with a provocative expression, and then said with some disdain: "Answer me, Captain, how can you, an Army soldier, be on a Navy warship?"
Only then did I remember that the military uniform I was wearing was still the captain's uniform of the Army... This was mainly for the convenience of Major Will's command, but I never took this military rank seriously. In fact, even those trained heroes
The soldiers didn't see it that way either.
"He doesn't understand English!" Ada quickly explained: "He is Chinese."
"Chinese?" Hearing this, Baker became even more furious: "You left me because of this Chinese dog..."
Baker's words were silent, because the next second I pushed his head down on the table and casually took out the dagger from his waist and inserted it in front of his eyes. The sharp blade was even close to Baker's.
The eyelashes were so frightening that Baker didn't even dare to say a word.
But Baker obviously didn't come alone. Seeing this situation, several more soldiers quickly surrounded him, and one of them even broke a wine bottle to make a weapon.
I just smiled, and before they were ready, I charged back, struggling with my hands and knees. Within a few minutes, the morale of those British soldiers was reduced to falling to the ground and groaning.
If a fight really breaks out, I may not be a match for these British soldiers. After all, this is close combat and I don’t have a gun in my hand. There is a saying that two fists are difficult to defeat with four hands. I, the commander of the combined battalion, am afraid
It can't withstand the siege of a few people.
But the problem is that these British soldiers never expected that I would counterattack in front of so many of them... So I accidentally took the opportunity.
And I only need this little time... Our special agent company's training includes fighting on the battlefield. What is important on the battlefield is speed, accuracy, and ruthlessness. The purpose is to make the opponent lose the ability to resist in the blink of an eye.
This was all taught by Li Zuolong, and of course I, the battalion commander, was no exception. Otherwise, being knocked down by the Japanese on the battlefield one day would have made people laugh out loud. So when Baker raised his head,
He was shocked to find that his companions were lying on the ground moaning.
Baker's expression changed, and he quickly shouted to the military police through gritted teeth.
This military policeman must have been the soldier who maintained order in the army... According to Baker's thinking, I think he thought that calling the military police would definitely take me away. After all, I was a "lower criminal".
In fact, I thought that was the case, but what surprised me was that when the military police came in, they first saluted me.
Later I found out that one of these military policemen happened to know me and knew that I was the Chinese who was directly commanded by Clapp. (To be continued...)