Strictly speaking, this is not the first time that aircraft have bombed ground forces, in Tripolitania, North Africa, the Italian Air Force has successfully bombed the Ottoman ground forces using "Gadowind" fighter jets, but it has not attracted attention because of the insufficient bomb load and the effect is not obvious.

Compared with the "strong wind", the "Albatross" is a special type of bombing aircraft, with a larger bomb load and more accurate throwing, and eighteen 50-kilogram bombs are thrown into a small town with an area of less than one kilometer, and the whole town is immediately in flames.

Before the bombing began, the mercenaries were still cheering.

When the town turned into a sea of fire, the mercenaries fell silent.

In the face of absolute superiority weapons, personal combat effectiveness is really not important, the mercenaries are well equipped, the quality of individual soldiers is strong, it is not a problem to bully the East Indian servant army, and even compete with the regular troops of the German army, but if it is faced with this situation, how many people can survive?

It can be said that for a moment, many mercenaries are planning to retire, anyway, it is good to return to southern Africa to be a farmer, there is really no need to stay under the umbrella and die.

Middleton was one of them, probably awakened by the sound of a violent explosion, Middleton came to Hicks sleepily, and looked at Xianda, who had turned into a sea of fire, and was dumbfounded: "This, this, this-"

I don't know how to express my feelings.

"It's good that we don't need to fight planes!" Hicks was also shocked, but not as superfluous as Middleton's thoughts.

"Is the Lord on his way to a delivery plane?" Middleton realized a serious problem.

"It's all fighters that are sold, not this kind of bomber, even if we sell them in the future, do you think the Lord will let us risk being bombed?" Hicks is not worried, the pension of the umbrella company is also very expensive, mercenaries are used to bully people to pick up leaks, not to attack tough battles, and the high-level of the umbrella is very accurate in positioning mercenaries.

Otherwise, the Umbrella Company would not have rejected the Italian and Ottoman Empire's request to hire the Umbrella to fight the war.

Because of the many conflicts in Nyasaland, South-West Africa, and Tanganyika, the umbrella company is also famous all over the world.

When the Italians and the Ottoman Empire bought planes in Nyasaland, they wanted to hire mercenaries from the umbrella company to fight the war, and the prices offered were quite high.

It's a pity that this request was also rejected by Roque, and after the conflict in Southwest Africa, Roque's positioning of the umbrella company gradually became clear, after all, the umbrella is a commercial enterprise, so the umbrella will not involve the war between the major powers, to avoid becoming a victim of the dumping between the big powers, it is okay to bully a country like the Netherlands, and for traditional powers like Britain, France and Germany, the umbrella still has to maintain respect, so that the umbrella can live longer.

Middleton's mind was in turmoil, and Hicks didn't listen to what Middleton said at this point.

"Don't worry, because of the East Indias, the Lord will never sell the plane to the Dutch, and even if he does, then there must be a way to counteract, and the Umbrella Company will participate in the war." Hicks wasn't really sure, but he had to convince himself.

As he spoke, three more "albatrosses" roared towards him, dropped eighteen more bombs on Xianda, who had become a sea of fire, and then headed away.

"It's a bit of a waste—" Hicks was still in the mood, he certainly didn't know that once the bombers were gone, they had to keep the bombs running out before they could fly back to avoid danger when they landed.

So fighting a war is really expensive.

Even if a bomb costs one or two hundred rands, six planes are several thousand times larger, and they really can't afford to play high-tech without any economic strength.

Unlike the pessimistic Middleton and the optimistic Hicks, the mood of the recruit Huang Gang is turned upside down.

A month ago, Huang Gang was an ordinary worker on a Medan plantation, and his daily work was rubber tapping, oil extraction, or sugar cane harvesting, if there were no accidents, Huang Gang, like his father, found a girl from a Chinese family at the right age to set up a family and continue to work the same, or he had no choice but to find a girl from a Javanese family and gradually became a Baba Nyonya.

Now Huang Gang has more options, whether he can continue to serve in the Medan Army, or he can train hard to join the umbrella to become a well-paid mercenary, and he is more likely to migrate to southern Africa to become a farmer.

Either option is more promising than the job of a plantation worker.

If Huang Gang was still suspicious of various rumors in southern Africa before, now these suspicions have disappeared without a trace.

Southern Africa has a strong economy, and even an ordinary mercenary is a wealthy man in the East Indies.

Southern Africa had a strong military force, and the Dutch, who had ruled the East Indies for hundreds of years, were vulnerable to southern African mercenaries.

It is said that these seemingly omnipotent mercenaries are not the most powerful troops in southern Africa, and Huang Gang racked his brains and could not imagine how powerful the most powerful troops in southern Africa could be.

With Huang Gang's limited imagination, he can only think that it is about the same as those immortals in mythology.

One thing is certain, the people of southern Africa will not be afraid of foreign invasion, they will not suffer humiliation, even if they work on a farm in southern Africa, the work content is similar to that of the East Indian plantations, and they should be happier at work.

An hour later, lunch opened a new door for Huanggang.

Because they were with mercenaries, Huang Gang's class also enjoyed the treatment of mercenaries from the umbrella company, and each person got two boxes of canned food, one meat, one vegetarian, as well as a piece of bread and an apple, as well as coffee heating on the fire next to them.

When he got the can, Huang Gang didn't know how to open it.

The mercenaries around them were not polite, they used their bayonets to pry open the cans directly, and then there was a large wail.

"Damn luncheon meat again—"

"Mine is braised pork, who wants to exchange a can of soybeans with me?"

"It's not bad, mine is a whitebait-"

The mercenary who got the canned whitebait was immediately surrounded, and Huang Gang didn't even know what the whitebait was.

"Eat?" Hicks is still soybeans, and both cans are soybeans, which is a perk as a captain.

"I don't want to eat it, I want to take it back to my sister, she hasn't seen it yet." Huang Gang was ready to be hungry, so he carefully put the canned food in his pocket, the two younger sisters happened to be one for each person, but they would definitely eat separately.

Hicks didn't persuade him again, and of course he didn't ask the cook to get two more boxes for Huang Gang, the logistics supply is all rationed, now take two more boxes for Huang Gang, maybe there will be a mercenary hungry tomorrow, don't look at these guys now picking and choosing, if you really want to give no one, these guys can make a fuss.

But Hicks didn't turn a blind eye, as soon as the second box of canned soybeans was opened, Hicks handed it to Huang Gang: "I'm full, you can take this box-"

Since it is opened, it must be eaten, otherwise the sultry heat of the rainforest will become rancid in minutes.

"Sir, thank you—" Huang Gang was about to excuse himself, but more canned food was handed over immediately.

"Eat this, or I'll beat you to death!"

"Boy, it's cheaper for you, this is braised pork, look at this finger-thick fat, eat slowly-"

"I haven't opened this yet, how about changing your apple?"

The guy who changed the apple was immediately ridiculed by a group of people.

If you are a person with a strong self-esteem, you will probably feel humiliated.

But Huang Gang didn't feel this way, this group of guys who seemed to be five big and three rough were really delicate, otherwise they would not have survived on the battlefield until now, they were in order to keep Huang Gang from being too embarrassed, so they would use these seemingly tough ways to force Huang Gang to accept.

Like Huang Gang, the guides from the Medan unit had a large pile of canned food in their hands, most of which had been opened but not eaten at all, or had only eaten a little bit, and some had not even been opened at all.

It's really not a charity to look at these mercenaries, many of them really hate these beautifully packaged foods from the bottom of their hearts.

In the East Indies, even such a tin box was reluctant to throw away.

Now Huang Gang finally believes that in southern Africa, even an ordinary mercenary is a rich man, because in the East Indies, even rich people are not so generous.

When Huang Gang was working at Lingzhi Plantation, he had seen the children of Lingzhi's family eat this kind of expensive canned food, even if it was Lingzhi's family, they were only willing to open one or two meals at each meal, and they were placed on the table as a formal dish, and the box had to be carefully put away after eating.

so as not to litter around like these big-spending mercenaries.

The coffee after the meal once again refreshed Huanggang's cognition, East India is actually an important producer of coffee, Banda Aceh, the northernmost part of Sumatra Island, produces the best coffee in East India, and the farm where Huanggang worked in the past actually produced coffee, but Huanggang has never drunk it, only secretly tasted the taste of coffee beans.

Without crushed coffee beans, it really doesn't taste very good.

The coffee distributed by Umbrella is an instant coffee made by crushing coffee beans, adding milk powder and sucrose, and the taste of this coffee is definitely much better than eating raw coffee beans.

The key is that the mercenaries are unlimited, the large bag of coffee is poured directly into a large bucket filled with boiling water and stirred, whoever wants to drink it can directly take the cup and fill it, and some people even drink coffee directly with steel helmets, the appearance of eating is ugly, but the amount is full.

Huanggang didn't have a special coffee cup, so he casually took a box of canned soybeans and washed it to fill it.

The rich fragrance is mixed with the silkiness of milk, and there is a hint of the bean flavor of canned soybeans.

Eating sweets is easy to make people happy.

(End of chapter)