Infantry artillery coordination is still too advanced for the current northern Rhodesia division, which is very demanding for artillery, if the artillery technology is not good, in case the shells hit their own heads, then the infantry will be unlucky, the reason why Huthier was able to create the "Huthier tactic" is also based on the German artillery firing began to be based on the precision method.

At present, Nyasaland does not have the capital to practice infantry artillery coordination, not that the skills of Nyasaland shooters are not good, the shooters of the 37-mm Makqin rapid-fire guns of the Northern Rhodesia Division are still very good, in the words of the artillery instructors, the shooters on the warships of the British Navy are also at this level.

The key is that the weapon is not good, the 37 mm Makqin rapid-fire gun, in fact, does not have much technical content, the original rapid-fire gun does not even have a ruler, the gunner shoots, it is necessary to rely on the landing point of the shell to adjust the accuracy, in this case, even if the northern division of Rhodesia practices infantry artillery coordination, it cannot be practiced.

Of course, except for the coordination of infantry and artillery, as long as the others can be trained, the northern division of Rhodesia has basically been trained to the extreme.

For example, in the attack, according to the provisions of the British Army's "Infantry Drill Code", at this time, the officers should take the lead, and then the trumpeters and drummers prepare, and the soldiers line up in rows, singing military songs and dying generously -

The Northern Rhodesian Division is certainly not so stupid, although the troops involved in the attack are only one company, E Company, but more than 100 people are deployed for hundreds of meters, and it is not a dense formation, but a loose three-three formation, such an offensive method can ensure that there is enough effect.

It should be noted here that the establishment of the northern division of Rhodesia is also a three-three system, starting from the most basic infantry squad, each squad has three combat groups, each combat group has three people, respectively, the squad leader and squad deputy with one, and the remaining combat group is now led by the sergeant, and it will definitely be the fire team in the future.

The establishment above the squad level is a platoon, a platoon is the basic three squads, plus a fire squad equipped with light and heavy machine guns, and the total number of people in the platoon is forty.

At the level of the company, the squad responsible for logistics and medical care was added, and the heavy weapons platoon directly under the company was added, and the total number of people in the platoon was about 140.

Heavy weapons here include a 37mm Maxim rapid-fire gun, as well as a Maxim heavy machine gun.

It should be emphasized that the establishment of the training battalion is different from that of an ordinary company, which has only nine people per squad, and a training battalion has 12 people per squad, with the addition of an additional combat group.

When E Company began to attack, F Company and G Company had to be prepared, and if E Company's attack was blocked, then F Company would continue to attack, and the reason why it was gradually invested was not to add fuel to the tactics, but to test the defender's firepower configuration, to carry out targeted strikes, and at the same time to guard against the defender's heavy firepower attack.

It sounds a bit cruel, right, but in fact, war is like this, it's really like a military chess, no one can't help themselves, once the order is given, even if it is a mission that you know will die, you must resolutely carry it out.

Want to escape?

Simple, behind the attacking force is the position of the law enforcement team, and the machine guns of the law enforcement team can be used to hit the enemy, and can also be used to punish deserters.

The officers and men of the Northern Rhodesian Division were still trustworthy, and after the order to attack was given, they began to attack the rebel positions in a loose formation and in a triangular position in groups of three.

Fortunately, the rebels were a little stunned by the 37mm Maxim rapid-fire guns just now, and the officers and men of Company E advanced until they were 50 meters away from the rebel positions, but the rebel positions still did not organize effective resistance.

At this distance, according to the training requirements, grenades should be used to strike a second blow at the rebel positions, and although there was no movement on the rebel positions, the officers and men of Company E threw the grenades in their hands one after another, as requested.

After a burst of explosions, the officers and men of E Company poured into the rebel positions with unbelievable ease.

"These rebels, hehe, are really not as good as mercenaries-" Martin couldn't help but laugh, with this kind of goods, they could actually defeat the colonial forces of Natal and the Cape, I really don't know what kind of quality of the troops of Natal and Cape were.

Roque put down the telescope in his hand and didn't speak, this is how the troops of this era are, Britain is known as the most powerful country in the world, and it was still beaten to the ground by the Boer militia in the Boer War, how strong can you expect the troops of Natal and Cape to have?

Speaking of combat effectiveness, even in the First World War more than a dozen years later, the performance of the British army was still lame.

When the First World War occurred, in the Boer War and the Russo-Japanese War that had already taken place, Britain once directly participated in the war, and once sent a war observation mission, but unfortunately, Britain did not learn any experience from these two wars, after the outbreak of World War I, Britain faced the German crossfire, or used the tactic of lining up to shoot, and as a result, it handed over the answer sheet of 60,000 people a day in the Battle of the Somme.

On the contrary, Germany and France learned a lot of experience from the Boer War and the Russo-Japanese War, Germany realized the role of overall warfare from the Boer War, and realized the importance of cross-fire from the command of Nogi Noshinori fool, and France learned to make better firepower preparations before attacking, and as a result, in the Battle of the Somme, the French army actually achieved more results than the British army.

Martin certainly didn't know what the British army was, but Roque did know that Britain and Germany did not border, and if they did, Britain would definitely be worse off than France in the First World War.

"Report, E Company successfully completed the mission, occupied the rebel position, and killed the rebels—" The company commander of E Company hurried back to report, and he didn't know what to say with a broken face.

There must have been quite a few rebels killed in the attack just now, but the result is not easy to say, you have to say that all of them were killed by 37mm Makqin rapid-fire guns, and E Company also threw grenades just now.

But if you want to say how many people E Company killed, I'm afraid that the commander of E Company will also feel a little sorry.

"Let's go, shift our positions, and prepare to attack the second line of defense of the rebels-" It was Roque who relieved the siege of the commander of E Company, regardless of how many enemies E Company had killed just now, the credit for conquering the rebel positions was indispensable.

There is a saying about merit that is actually quite vivid: knowing that you will not die, you really will not die if you go up, third class.

Knowing that he would die, he was not afraid of dying, and as a result, he successfully completed the task, and he was not seriously injured, second class.

I knew that I would die, and I got on it, but I ended up dead or disabled, and so on.

If you follow this standard, all the commanders and fighters of Company A, after this battle, will at least be a second-class.

After all, when they set out to attack the rebel positions, they didn't know it would be so easy.

Of course, in Nyasaland, there are no first and second class ranks, Nyasaland follows the rules of the British army, and at most there is a medal at the end of the battle, unless it is a "meritorious master", it is possible to be knighted.

This is actually unfair to ordinary commanders and fighters, after all, it is too difficult for ordinary soldiers to be knighted, and Britain does not have so many titles to be feuded, so when the Zulu rebellion is quelled, Roque still has to design a military industrial system.

Even if ordinary soldiers cannot be knighted, at least they must have corresponding honors and corresponding rewards, so as to create a virtuous circle, and the officers and soldiers fight bravely.

Martin must not know what Roque is planning, and he slapped the commander of Company A: "It's really cheap for you!" ”

It's not a slap, it's just a very intimate kind of "little ghost".

Lightly hit the steel helmet kind.

The steel helmet is one of the characteristics of the Nyasaland troops.

Until the Nyasaland troops were equipped with steel helmets, all units in the world were not equipped with steel helmets.

The modern steel helmet was invented by General Adrian of France during World War I, and legend has it that one day in World War I, the German army suddenly launched a fierce attack on one of the French positions.

A soldier on duty in the kitchen was about to go to the front line to fight, but shrapnel, stones, and branches fell on his head, and he was afraid that his head would be injured, so in a panic, he picked up a wok and buckled it upside down on his head.

After the battle, although he was wounded, his head was intact, and he became the only survivor of this battle.

At that time, the French general Adrian went to the front line to comfort the wounded, Adrian knew the experience of this soldier, and then came up with the idea of "making steel helmets".

Roque wants to "invent" the steel helmet, it must not take so much trouble, with the Favart Iron and Steel Plant, Roque to make steel helmets is very simple, and even Roque does not need to experiment, directly take the M1 steel helmet style equipped by the US military in World War II and install it in the Nyasaland troops.

It's just the style, not to mention that the strength, material, and protective performance have reached the level of M1, but with the advancement of technology at Favalt Steel Plant, Roque believes that one day, the M1 steel helmet produced by Favart will be inferior to the M1 steel helmet of the United States in any way.

In fact, the M1 steel helmet in the United States is not much mysterious, the M1 steel helmet in the United States uses Hadfield high manganese steel, the manganese content of this steel is more than 10%, it is a high manganese steel with austenitic structure, high hardness, good plasticity, generally used as tools, props, and key parts of those mining machinery.

Don't ask Roque how he knows this knowledge, he has to deal with all kinds of customers every day when he does foreign trade, and the complexity of the knowledge he understands is not much worse than that of a writer.

Roque only needs to share this information with the technicians at the Favart steel plant, and then the technicians will take care of the rest.

As for manganese –

Oh, all the metals in the world are stored in South Africa.

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