The Military Observer Mission is not only to visit the arsenal, but also to observe the training of the troops.

The training of the army in southern Africa is also well-known, and the intelligence department set up by the Ministry of War in Nyasaland has long reported to the Ministry of War on the training of troops in southern Africa, and Britain has not paid enough attention to the army, and in the past two years, because of the arms race, Britain has gradually improved the status of the army, and has begun to pay attention to the training of the troops.

On the training ground in the barracks, two companies left behind were training, namely D Company and F Company of the Third Regiment of the First Cavalry Division.

To George White's surprise, there are quite a few technical arms in the Southern African Army, which refer to soldiers with certain special skills, such as machine gun shooting, field ambulance, driving maintenance, and so on.

For each skill, the uniform will be embroidered with a corresponding icon, the British army icon is on the sleeve, the Southern African army icon is on the chest, but the style of the icon is different, the triangle represents the tripod for the machine gun shooter, the red cross represents the field ambulance, and the icon for driving maintenance is a cross with a circle on the outside, representing the steering wheel.

George White was surprised to find that almost every soldier had a red cross on his chest, indicating that almost every soldier had the ability to provide field care, a popularity that was unacceptable to George White at a time when medical resources were so scarce.

"Field ambulance is not a general practitioner, for different injured parts, as long as you know how to tie a tourniquet and know how to bandage it simply, you can firmly fix the wounded in but add it to show that you can be regarded as knowing how to fight ambulance, and further treatment of wounds and surgery is the doctor's job." Roque explained in detail that now not only does the Johannesburg Medical School have a field care specialty, but Xuanwu City has also established a military medical university specializing in training military doctors, and in two years, there will be a leap in the medical level of southern Africa.

"So what's the point of such a field memorial—" George White was disappointed, he thought that it would be horrible for all of these soldiers to be field doctors.

"If the wounded soldiers on the battlefield can get timely ambulance, then the mortality rate can be reduced by more than 70 percent, and the value of veterans does not need to be emphasized, the savings are not only pensions, in order to allow more soldiers to learn battlefield ambulance, as long as they master the basic field ambulance technology, then they can get an extra salary of five shillings per month." Roque also does everything, five shillings a month doesn't sound like much, but six pounds a year, which is still very attractive.

The British soldiers earned about fifty pounds a year, and the soldiers stationed in the colonies were paid more, but it did not reach the level of one hundred pounds.

The average salary of a military soldier in southern Africa in peacetime is 100 pounds, and there will be a war allowance in the event of a war, and an overseas allowance if a war is carried out, and the salary level is still very good overall.

"No wonder the War Department gives you five million a year, and you can only maintain such a small number of troops." George White was simply heartbroken, five million, which is three dreadnoughts-

Phew, let's give it to Southern Africa, at least it's for the Army.

"We have just formed several infantry divisions composed entirely of African soldiers, and the cost of these units is still relatively low, and the army can be appropriately expanded." Roque can't just take money and not do things, and the Ministry of War is not a Kaizi, and if you spend money, you have to see results, otherwise you will stop supporting southern Africa at any time.

Nominally, this money is still an interest-free loan, and as for whether to repay it in the future, it depends on the performance of southern Africa, and if the performance of southern Africa is good enough, then it is not impossible to forgive these interest-free loans.

Britain used to give more than 20 million in interest-free loans and financial aid to southern Africa every year, but this year, with the UK's financial problems, all other aid has been stopped, except for the 5 million targeted for the Ministry of Defense.

This made all the newspapers, including the Times, angry, because while reducing aid to southern Africa, Britain was increasing aid to France, so now some people in the government are being called "British traitors", and southern Africa, even if it is self-governing, is always part of the British Empire.

"How many?" George White cared.

"Eight, fifteen thousand men in each division." Roque spared no expense, and these soldiers were also paid, but each soldier was only a little more than a pound a month.

In other words, the cost of a professional soldier is about ten times that of an African soldier.

"It's also such a unit?" George White's eyes lit up, if they were all such high-quality soldiers, it would indeed make a big difference.

"How is it possible, if that happens, the federal government will go bankrupt—" Roque's words made George White's mood like a roller coaster, and great joy was immediately followed by great sorrow, and the elderly really couldn't afford such a toss.

Finally, Roque is still more considerate of the elderly: "Although they are not as good as these professional soldiers, they are definitely more effective than the Indian troops." ”

Roque is still sure of this.

"The Indian troops are scum, and the empire should not waste time and money on the Indian troops at all." George White gritted his teeth, and wondered if his miserable defeat in the Second Boer War had anything to do with the Indian troops.

"Even if the Indian troops can't fight, it's still okay to be in charge of logistics-" Roque also has no confidence in the Indian troops, but the big war is imminent, and all the forces that can be united must be united, no matter how lazy the Indians are, whips and sticks can always make them diligent.

"You mean, let our children charge into battle and keep the Indians safe?" George White asked a sharp question, this question is really difficult to answer, let the Indians go to war, the Indians can't win, don't let them go, that's not in the interests of Britain -

It's nerve-wracking!

Fortunately, there is no need for Roque to bother his brains, this is a problem for the generals of the War Department to consider.

"Kid, bring me your gun and show me." George White finally notices the sniper rifle used by a sniper.

No, it should be called an accurate shooter now.

In Southern Africa, the pattern of a precision shooter is a sight.

The soldier did not obey immediately, but looked at Roque first, and after seeing Roque nod, he reluctantly handed the rifle to George White with both hands.

George White had obviously seen rifles with scopes, so he took aim and handed them to the soldiers, casually asking about the standards for accurate marksmen in southern Africa.

"Without the use of a scope, nine out of ten shots at a 100-meter head target." Roque is demanding, ordinary soldiers are shooting chest targets at a distance of 100 meters, and the requirements for accurate shooters are of course higher.

Then Roque noticed George White's sluggish expression.

Roque then remembered that the British army was still shooting with thin red line guns in recent years, so the concept of a head target was too advanced for George White, just like letting today's pilots understand over-the-horizon air combat.

Not in one dimension at all.

"Kid, can you do it?" George White didn't doubt Roque's words, Roque was not going to brag about this kind of thing, but it was really unbelievable, in fact, there were accurate shooters in the British army, but they didn't pay much attention to accurate shooters, and there was no special training in this area.

"Of course, all of us can do it." The words of the precision shooter are not accurate, he means that all precision shooters can do it, and ordinary soldiers certainly cannot.

"Locke, I think you should arrange a show." George White sees is believing.

Roque didn't care, he always had to prove to the War Department that five million a year was worth it, that the precision shooters had to devote a lot of time to training every day, and that live ammunition was available every day, and Roque had confidence in them.

Since it was to "perform", then Roque drew out some more people, and as a result, the two companies had a total of more than forty accurate shooters, which was really amazing.

"There was a problem with military spending last year, a part of the army was cut in southern Africa, ordinary soldiers were directly retired, and these technical arms were retained and supplemented into the northern division of Rhodesia and the first cavalry division, so the number of precision shooters was relatively large." Roque still explained, lest George White's mentality be unbalanced.

In fact, now it's not just George White, all the military observers are already on the verge of an imbalance in their mentality, a division of the British army may only have a dozen precision shooters, and when it comes to southern Africa, there are more than 20 companies in any company, and now even if Roque wants to cancel the "show", the military observers will not agree, they want to make sure with their own eyes that Roque has not wasted the precious funds of the War Department.

"Take off the scope, ten rounds of ammunition per person, a 100-meter head target, and enter the combat position-" With the order of Captain Broad of D Company, more than forty precision shooters entered the combat position.

George White picked a random precision shooter and stood by his side to make sure the results didn't cheat.

The other military observers did the same, and they observed in great detail, especially the preparation of the precision shooters, which made them feel very novel.

"This is to better use the power of Lee Enfield, the German Mauser rifle is a five-round magazine, our Lee Enfield is ten, so we have to give full play to this advantage and fire more bullets in the shortest possible time, and they have a standard for these precision shooters called 'crazy minute', which refers to the exhaustion of all ten rounds in one minute." Roque volunteered to explain that George White and the other military observers immediately saw what a "crazy minute" was.