Chapter 62: Scolding You to Death
In fact, the word "Huayong" is not very popular, it sounds similar to the return to the hometown group, and it also has a bit of a meaning of scattered soldiers.
In fact, this is not the case, the British in order to form Hua Yong, the annual allocation of military spending as high as 30,000 pounds, Hua Yong enjoy the Far East first-class salary and benefits, ability naturally does not need to be doubted, as far as Roque's understanding of the Hua Yong battalion, even according to the standards of the British home army, Hua Yong's shooting performance can generally be called excellent.
It should be noted here that the British Army has always emphasized archery, and during the Korean War, the Volunteers knew that "if you are not afraid of the Americans' artillery, you are afraid of the British guns." It can be seen that the British army's marksmanship is good.
The British troops who emphasized archery were beaten to shame by the Boers on the front line, not because the British troops were not good at archery, but because the tactics of the British troops were not good, the "linear tactics" were the tactics of lining up and shooting, emphasizing discipline and courage, the troops were not allowed to shoot in battle without advancing to the extent that they were close enough to the enemy, and the Boers were good at small-scale guerrilla warfare, and they did not fight head-on with the British at all, and the British lobster soldiers had not yet approached the front line of the Boer guerrillas, and the Boer guerrillas had already dispersed, Broken into pieces, the British troops did not even get the opportunity to shoot at all, how could this be won?
This can also explain why when the British troops fought against the Boers in the past, they often fought a single battle, and the British troops suffered hundreds or thousands of casualties, and the Boers suffered single digits of casualties.
It's not that our army doesn't work hard, but the enemy army is too cunning.
To put it mildly, the Boer guerrillas fought the British regular army, like hunters beating stupid roe deer, one hit at a time, but the Boer guerrillas met Roque -
Okay, Roque didn't graduate from a military academy, but Roque liked to mix iron and oversized, and he was better at guerrilla warfare than the Boers in the 19th century.
"Anton, from now on, forget everything that the British officers in the Huayong battalion taught you, we are not a regular army now, we are police, so we can't use the tactics of the regular army." Roque found the perfect reason to convince Anton, although this reason is a bit lame, but it is like this when dealing with an honest person like Anton.
To be honest, sometimes, when Roque was communicating with Anton, he really wanted to yell: There is an honest man here, everyone come and bully him!
"Hey, leaving the Huayong Battalion, don't even let us use tactics?" Anton is really so simple, whatever Roque says, Anton believes.
If you don't believe it, Anton's English has not yet reached the level of being able to communicate with the British without barriers, and in the entire Huayong Battalion, only Roque has the closest relationship with the British, and can deliver words in front of Henry, so to a certain extent, Roque's words are what the British mean.
"We are not allowed to wear clothes, no, even if we have to go to the front line, we have to wear police uniforms." Roque was very satisfied with this, the uniforms issued by the Cape Town Police Department in the summer were khaki, although they were not very good-looking, but compared to those fiery lobster soldiers, Roque was immediately relieved.
Whether in the forest or in the grassland, red is the most conspicuous color, and it is certainly inferior to khaki in terms of camouflage effect, don't underestimate this little camouflage effect, if it really doesn't matter, the British will not abandon that dress later.
"What then?" Anton was at a loss, in the Huayong battalion, the Huayong were also trained to be shot in line, and now that they had lost their familiar tactics, Anton was very uncomfortable and couldn't figure out how to deal with those damn Boer guerrillas.
"Don't let it be better, come on, let's do an experiment." Roque wants to prove that the generals in the expeditionary force headquarters are big fools.
With the same number of commandos and the same equipment, Roque arranged for a team of men to use linear tactics to form an offensive formation according to the tradition of the Huayong Battalion.
The other team set up defensive positions with the help of cover such as flower beds, trees, corners, and windows next to the training ground.
As soon as Roque blew the whistle representing the beginning of the exercise, Anton and all the commandos were dumbfounded.
"W-how?" Anton's eyes widened wider than the brass bell, and the commandos looked at each other, and suddenly burst into laughter.
Yes, there is no way to fight, not to mention how good the shooting skills of the defending commandos are, just the two Makqin heavy machine guns set up by Roque in the defensive position can wipe out all the attacking team members in a short time.
Roque's black-hearted guy also set up the Makqin heavy machine guns at both ends of the defensive position, which seriously violated the tactical regulations stipulated by the officers at the beginning, and did not concentrate on the use of heavy firepower, but Anton tried several angles and found that it was impossible for him to break through the blockade of the two Makqin heavy machine guns, dodge one, and must be within the shooting range of the other.
The British - the British are wrong?!
This discovery shocked Anton even more than Anton after he learned that Roque became a naturalized Cape Town.
"Silly, huh? Come on, grandpas are waiting for you! ”
"The head has been ordered, why don't you attack yet? Disobeying the order is punishable by death. ”
"Come on, let you go ten meters first, if I shoot first, I will be your son."
The defending commandos did not know how fierce Anton's psychological struggle was, and they began to provoke the hesitant attackers.
"Your sister, there is a kind of you coming out!"
"How is this attacking? This is to die. ”
"Grandpa decided to scold you right here."
The attacking players are not stupid, although everyone has no bullets in their guns, but this is going to rush forward, and it is obvious that they will be sent to death.
"Come and come, the attacker and the defender switch, and they all feel the feeling of crossfire below." Roque arranged for rotation so that everyone could face this crossfire head-on, so that they could understand how wrong the British officers had been in the past.
Offensive and defensive dislocation, the defenders who were still happy to Taotao to provoke just now were immediately dumbfounded, and the original offensive players who stayed comfortably behind the bunker were in a good mood, come on, who laughed at Lao Tzu just now is a coward, now you give me a brave one for me to see.
The attacking players were not stupid, they also decided to scold each other to death, so the training ground was very lively.
"Locke, this is crossfire?" Anton really has potential, already aware of the role of crossfire.
While there was a lot of joy on the training ground, in the police chief's office, which Roque and Anton didn't notice, August Russell stood at the window, watching everything that happened on the training ground, and if anyone could notice, they would find that August Russell's expression was very complicated.