As the stronghold of the British army on the Eastern Front, Dordrecht had become a military city, a small town filled with soldiers, in addition to the 6th and 10th Divisions from the mainland, a carbine infantry regiment from Australia, 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 take on some simple logistical tasks.

One can imagine how conspicuous a police force should be among the tens of thousands of regular troops, and besides, the majority of the members of this police force are Chinese.

Don't expect the quality of white people at this time to be high, Roque has long been mentally prepared for this, but when faced with the unscrupulous insults of those white-skinned pigs, Roque still feels angry.

"Officer, are you here to arrest those Boers?"

"I hope you've got enough handcuffs."

"The battlefield is not where you cops should be, go back to Cape Town and catch the thief."

These are relatively civilized, and the more disgusting ones are in the back.

"Damn it, how could Cape Town allow a yellow man to be a policeman!"

"You're going to be beaten up by the Boers!"

"Yellow-skinned monkey, go back to your mother's belly!"

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Not to mention Roque, even Henry couldn't listen to it, but Phyllis was more direct and unladylike to give each of those who spoke disrespectfully a middle finger, which attracted all kinds of unbearable foul language.

"Mr. Major, shouldn't these acts be stopped?" As a member of the commando team, Henry has long been impatient, and if it weren't for the presence of a higher-ranking officer, Henry would have retaliated with a tooth for a tooth.

"Captain Henry, none of them are educated, please forgive their rudeness." The major was unimpressed, feeling a little indulgent.

"Mr. Major, this is not an acceptable reason." Henry gritted his teeth and secretly wrote down the number and name of the major, and this account will be calculated later.

The Major turned a deaf ear and took the commandos outside the town to change carriages, which arrived at a British artillery position about half an hour later.

There were more than twenty guns in this artillery position, and the target of the artillery was a small hill opposite, although the hill was not high, but the mountain was steep, and this was the new task of the commandos: "Your new task, to capture that Boer position before sunset, I believe you can do it, look, you have defeated a Boer guerrilla force before, now, continue your good luck." ”

"Mr. Major, we are police officers and are not capable of taking on military tasks." Henry couldn't believe his eyes, and sent a police force to attack the Boer positions, which was clearly for the commandos to die.

It's hard to say whether they will die or not, but there are many corpses in khaki uniforms on the mountainside, which are left behind by the British troops who attacked before, and it seems that the battle has been going on for a long time.

Although there was still some time before the deadline for the offensive set by the commander of the expeditionary force, Lord Roberts, during this time the fighting between the British and the Boer coalition forces did not stop, and although it did not reach the campaign level, skirmishes continued to be fought.

Even skirmishes are not something that commandos can bear, and don't forget that commandos are policemen, not regular troops.

"In times of war, all armed forces in the Cape Colony are subject to the command of the Expeditionary Force Command, including you, the Cape Town police." The major had a tough attitude, and his hand was already on the handle of the gun at his waist, and it seemed that as long as Henry dared to disobey, the major would not mind forcing Henry to go to war with a gun.

"Mr. Major, we can carry out the order, but we need some information on how many Boers are defending on that hill, what kind of weapons they have, and how well is the training?" Roque did not let Henry continue to argue with the Major, this argument was meaningless, the Major clearly wanted the commandos to send him to death, and if Henry refused to carry out the order, Roque suspected that the Major would really use this as an excuse to shoot Henry.

Sounds incredible, doesn't it?

In fact, on the battlefield, there are many incredible things, the second Boer War, 1,072 officers and 20,870 soldiers were killed in Britain, among which there are many noble children, some of whom are much more noble than Henry.

When it comes to the casualty rate of the aristocracy in the war, many people may not believe that in the First World War, there were 6 million men of working age in Britain who participated in the war, and 12.5% of them were killed, and how many children of the nobility died in the same period?

The answer is a staggering fifty percent!

"There is no intelligence, and if there was intelligence, the war would have ended long ago." The Major's face softened a little, but his gaze remained cold: "You have half an hour to prepare. ”

For half an hour, Roque instructed the commandos to seize the time to rest, replenish food, and tidy up their equipment, only carry the materials related to the battle, and travel as light as possible.

"F***, this guy did it on purpose, he made us go to death." Henry and Roque bite their ears, hoping that Roque can have a better way.

"So what? If we all die in battle, then no one will know all this. Roque stuffed the bullet pouch in his chest with bullets and then took out the magazine divider in Lee Enfield's magazine.

The magazine divider is a very magical design, which is used to divide the magazine or magazine so that the bullets inside the magazine do not come up.

This design came from the fact that armies were concerned about the waste of bullets in soldiers, believing that bolt rifles using magazines or fixed magazines could fire too quickly, such as Roque's Lee Enfield, a skilled shooter who could fire 15 rounds per minute, and with magazine isolators, soldiers had to take out a new round from their magazines and reload them after they finished shooting the bullets in the chamber of their guns and could not get them from the magazine.

It can be said that with the addition of a magazine divider, Lee Enfield, who originally had a ten-round magazine design, became a single-shot rifle like Henry Martini.

Roque didn't like the device, he didn't like it at all, it didn't matter before, but now when it's time to fight hard, he has to be unreserved.

After throwing away the magazine partition, Roque thought for a moment and went to the major: "Mr. Major, we need some dummy bullets." ”

"Dummy bomb? No, no, no, we can't use dumm, that's what the Hague Convention says. The major was looking at his pocket watch, and he didn't even look up.

No?

Believe in your ghost!

Roque doesn't entangle, if you don't have it, you won't have it, originally Roque wanted to ask the major for some grenades, and it seems that there will definitely be no grenades.

Let's hope these artillery pieces are more reliable.