The medal system in Southern Africa is unlimited, and theoretically speaking, the Contribution Medal is awarded for every wounded, one for each injury.

Theoretically, a soldier who has been on the front line for four years and gets more than a dozen medals, large and small, can retire directly after the war is over, and the monthly bonus is higher than the salary.

Of course, if you want to make a fortune, it is better to buy lottery tickets, at least there is no danger to your life when you buy lottery tickets, medals are a matter of fate, the shrapnel that rubbed against the cheeks of the Yellow Sea, if the direction is even one centimeter, the bonus will become a pension.

Even without the help of Fox, a bipod light machine gun still makes the Yellow Sea play with flowers, a general-purpose machine gun with a 600 launch rate, a 75-round cartridge box that holds the trigger and does not let go, it can be shot in more than seven seconds, and it will definitely not be able to fight so fast in actual combat, in order to make the barrel cool quickly, the rate of fire of the general-purpose machine gun is recommended to be no more than 60 rounds a minute, and the water-cooled design of Makqin performs better in this regard, but Makqin is inconvenient to use, and every three bullet chains must be added with cooling water, and the weight is too heavy to move, That's why the Southern African Expeditionary Force used air-cooled general-purpose machine guns.

At this time, there was no need to aim at all, Huang Hai also ran the recommended rate of fire to the back of his head, pulled the trigger and didn't let go and swept it directly, after the three magazines were empty, the barrel was already a little red, Huang Hai didn't have time to put on gloves at all, moved the bolt and raised his hand to grab the red barrel and pulled it out.

Whew——

The water vapor immediately rose, accompanied by the smell of BBQ, Huang Hai's brows did not wrinkle, and when he threw away the red-hot barrel, the skin and flesh of his palms were taken away a little, and he received another medal of contribution.

The machine gunner with skilled movements, changing the barrel and changing the magazine, the speed can be controlled within ten seconds, and at the critical moment, Huang Hai's play definitely broke the record, but Huang Hai didn't have time to be proud, just a few seconds, the German army had rushed to within thirty meters, and the hoarse howl of the German army could be heard in his ears.

Fortunately, there are still comrades in the Yellow Sea, if you look at the entire defense line from the air, you will find that the entire defense line has become a fire dragon, and the chain of countless tracer bullets is flying in the dark night, constantly devouring the lives of the German army, Verdun two months ago, and the scene that happened on the Somme a month ago is repeated in the small village of Abel, which cannot be found on the map.

The difference is that this time the unlucky ones were replaced by the Germans.

When the front-line officers and soldiers were caught in a fierce battle, Roque was woken up by Angel who had bloodshot eyes, in the French army headquarters, this scene was absolutely impossible, and Xia Fei's adjutant would never dare to wake Xia Fei while Xia Fei was sleeping.

In fact, Roque can't do anything now, and it's useless for Angel to wake Roque up, even if Roque sends the reserves now, it will take six hours to arrive at the battlefield.

The 2nd Cavalry Division was indeed strong, the Germans sent at least three divisions to participate in the counteroffensive that night, and although the 2nd Cavalry Division paid heavy sacrifices, the position was not lost.

After daybreak, at least 600 German corpses fell in front of the bunkers in the Yellow Sea.

That night, the Yellow Sea emptied 20 boxes in a row.

After daybreak, the 19th Division took over from the 2nd Cavalry Division and continued the offensive with the armored forces.

The Germans lost the courage to fight in the field with the expeditionary force and retreated to Ypres, which had been reduced to ruins, and continued to resist stubbornly, which was already the third time that the expeditionary force and the German army fought in Ypres.

Having experienced the conquest of the Ottoman Empire, urban street fighting was no stranger to the expeditionary force, with grenades and flamethrowers still being the most powerful weapons in street fighting.

With tanks, the advantage of the expeditionary force in urban street battles is greater, the advantage of the "light cavalry" at this time 2.5 meters wide is undoubtedly revealed, with the tank as the base point, the expeditionary force is very patient and gradually advances, and fierce battles will occur in every house, the German army is obviously inexperienced in this regard, and is losing and retreating under the rapid action of the expeditionary force.

At present, the expeditionary force does not carry out urban street battles on the streets at all, there are no soldiers on the streets at all, and the soldiers use the houses on both sides of the streets and the walls in the backyards to pass through, and if there is no door, they use explosives to directly blow up the walls.

Now there are almost no civilians in Ypres, and the three tug-of-war battles between the expeditionary force and the German army have completely destroyed the city, and the entire city has been turned into a pile of ruins.

What Roque did not expect was that the rapid movement of the expeditionary force in Belgium brought about a series of chain reactions.

First of all, Verdun.

Hindenburg and Ludendorff, who had just taken office, would not sit idly by and watch the German defenses be breached, and the day after the expeditionary force launched an offensive in Belgium, Ludendorff transferred six divisions from Verdun to strengthen the German defenses in Belgium.

Together with the four divisions that Falkingham had previously transferred, Verdun's strength was reduced by about 170,000 men, and the strength was seriously insufficient, and the German army began to be on the defensive at Verdun.

Nivelle and Mantin, who had always been ambitious to instigate a new offensive, did not miss this opportunity, and before the arrival of German reinforcements, Nivelle and Manin launched a series of attacks around Petain, and Nivelle first attacked the Germans at Fort Duvomont, and 650 artillery pieces were shelled for four days, some of which were larger than the German Beretta.

The fortress of Duvomont was badly damaged in the previous battle, and the Germans did not have time to strengthen the fort, and under the full attack of Nivelle's superior forces, the Germans took the initiative to retreat and surrender the fortress of Duvomont.

Encouraged by this, Nivelle ordered the French to launch a larger offensive, and the French media began to trumpet Niveller, the new French "hero", and the land captured by the Germans in four months through the Battle of Verdun was recovered by the French army in one day, regardless of whether the land was abandoned by the Germans on their own initiative, and was touted as Niveller's credit.

On the same day that the Germans abandoned the fortress of Duvomont, Manking commanded the troops to launch an attack on the east bank of the Merz River, and the command style of the "butcher" was still so "slaughtering", he carried a whip like a shepherd to drive the French soldiers to launch a group charge against the German positions, which was what Falkingham always wanted to see, so that the French army continued to bleed until France could not hold on to the exit from the war.

It's a pity that now Falkingham has been relegated to Romania, and the commanders of the German army have been replaced by Hindenburg and Ludendorff, Hindenburg and Ludendorff oppose all of Falkingham's decisions, both good and bad, the Germans are beginning to retreat in a planned way, and after three days of fierce fighting, adding 45,000 casualties to the French army, the Germans once again took the initiative to withdraw from their positions.

Four months ago, the French "hero" Petain had been forgotten by the French, who had become the new favorite of the French, all of whom firmly believed that Nivelle had the key to victory over the Germans, and no one noticed that the Germans still occupied French territory on the west bank of the Merz River.

In distant Italy, the Seventh Battle of Isonzo broke out as scheduled, there was nothing to describe, clumsy command, cowardly soldiers, poor logistics, and the battle lasted only four days, a little longer than the Sixth Battle of Isonzo.

That's all.

Further north in Galicia, after Hindenburg served as commander-in-chief, Austro-Hungarian Chief of Staff Kondra finally received the long-awaited German reinforcements, Austria-Hungary had actually lost the ability to fight independently, and needed the help of the German army to withstand the frantic attack of Brusinov, the commander-in-chief of the Russian Southeastern Military District.

When the German army entered Austria-Hungary to assist the Austro-Crarian troops in the defense, the pressure on the Russian army increased suddenly, and Nicholas II sent his own royal guard to Galicia in order to strengthen the attack on Austria-Hungary.

The Royal Guard, composed of elite cavalry and infantry divisions with a total strength of 140,000 men, was the last trump card in the hands of Nicholas II.

But the commander of the Royal Guard, a member of the royal family of the Romanov family, a cousin of Nicholas II, the Grand Duke, was very dissatisfied with Brusinov's arrangement, believing that the Royal Guard did not need to use a flank attack, ordered the soldiers to wade waist-deep water to attack the German positions.

The Germans attacked halfway, and the Royal Guard suffered heavy casualties.

Brusinov was heartbroken but helpless, and after three unsuccessful offensives, the Royal Guard suffered 55,000 casualties, the offensive was halted, and the last trump card in the hands of Nicholas II was broken.

Looking back at Flanders, after a week of fierce fighting, the expeditionary force finally occupied Ypres, the German army for Ypres casualties 35,000 people, since the expeditionary force launched the attack to the present, the German army has suffered a total of about 115,000 casualties, and another 65,000 German troops raised their hands to surrender.

The Expeditionary Force suffered only 25,000 casualties, most of which occurred in urban street battles in Ypres, and the reason why such a disparity in battlefield exchange ratio was played by tanks.

After Roque sent the report to Winston, Winston convened a cabinet meeting and the next day sent an order to the Nyasaland Military-Industrial Group for a total of 220 million pounds, including 2,500 tanks.

This is normal, although the tanks of the other time and space did not show such a huge effect, but Haig, after witnessing the power of the tank, also wanted to get a thousand tanks.

Germany and France also began to study tanks after the Battle of the Somme, and by the end of the world war, the French army was equipped with nearly 3,500 tanks, so 2,500 is really not much.

Roque worries that during the capture of Ypres, the weather became erratic, sometimes with the sun shining in the morning and pouring rain in the afternoon, and the use of tanks was greatly limited.

After the rain had cleared, just as Roque had feared, a huge trench appeared in front of the German position.

The 35,000 German troops in Ypres bought the Germans time to deal with the Panzers with their lives.

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