Calculated or not, the ambush of elite troops against the guerrillas was a one-sided massacre, as has been fully demonstrated in numerous conflicts in southern Africa and the surrounding region.

When cleaning up the battlefield after the war, many corpses were killed by a bullet in the head, Hicks and Middleton did not distinguish the winner, as officers, their shooting was excellent, and in this battle they only killed one enemy, and there was no chance to fire a second shot.

"The opponent is too weak!" Hicks sighed, looked at the captured loot and couldn't help but shake his head: "How poor! ”

It is indeed poor, the weapons seized are all old weapons that have been used for many years and are almost obsolete, some rifles have been smoothed out, and other things are pitiful, in Hicks's eyes the tattered ones have no value, only some gold ornaments are estimated to be worth a little money, but look at the poor women in the carriage, Hicks really doesn't want it.

It is indeed pitiful, they have just lost their families and relatives, they have been humiliated, and they will definitely be lonely in the future.

"Send them to Medan." Hicks couldn't settle these women, so he simply handed over the job to Li Wan or Ling Zhi.

"Shall we move on? The main force of the 2nd Division was in Xianda, and they were not ordered to attack the port of Medan, but to deploy defenses north of Lake Toba. Middleton finally got a confession.

"Then why are they here?" Hicks was curious.

"Why else—" Middleton glanced at the woman in the carriage with a helpless expression.

This reflects the importance of discipline, when the Umbrella Company operates abroad, it is sometimes as excessive as the Second East India Division, but the mercenaries of the Umbrella Company are absolutely obedient to orders, and occasionally venting is also on the premise of completing the task, and this kind of cart before the horse will never occur.

The 2nd East Indian Division is a typical colonial servant army, poorly equipped, poorly trained, and poorly disciplined, and it is okay to scare and scare the unarmed natives of the colonies, but it is indeed incomparable with well-equipped and well-trained mercenaries, and it is not worthy of carrying shoes.

Now that the position of the 2nd East Indian Division has been found, Hicks is not in a hurry, seeing that it is getting late, he simply orders the troops to rest on the spot and wait for the arrival of the main force.

Don't worry about the 2nd East India Division escaping, they came all the way and looted so many things, and now they can't run away if they want to.

Later, when more mercenaries and Medan troops arrived, David listened to Hicks' report and ordered his troops to set out overnight to surround Xianda, so as not to have too many nights.

Hicks' troops were still the first to set out, and they had to bypass Xianda to cut off the retreat of the 2nd East India Division, which was a difficult task.

However, Hicks himself did not have the consciousness of the arduous task, and the battle with the Second East Indian Division was not as difficult for Hicks and his troops as it was for the night march, and he was not familiar with the terrain near the first arrival of Hicks, fortunately there was a guide, at least there was no need to worry about getting lost.

"Xianda is a small town, with a scale of more than 1,000 people, it can't accommodate nearly 10,000 troops at all, can you take a shortcut? There are still many rivers near here. "Before leaving, Hicks asked for the advice of the guide.

"There is a big snake in the river, it is very dangerous, it is still walking, I know that there is a small path that can be bypassed, but I don't know if I will encounter the enemy." The large snake in the guide's mouth is presumably a python, which is also common in the East India.

Pythons and poisonous snakes, the same is a huge threat to the tropical rainforest, poisonous snakes rely on venom to hurt people, pythons are completely eaten alive, not to mention humans, larger wild animals can not escape the hunt of pythons, although this thing is huge, but there is no sound in moving in the rainforest, it is difficult to prevent.

"Then walk, all the first squadron has it, let's go." Hicks is not stubborn, and people on land can still help when attacked by pythons, and if they are dragged away in the water, they can only watch.

"Departure, departure, encirclement of Xianda overnight, priority is given to building positions for defense, no attack is allowed without an order, and the air force is notified to prepare to bomb Xianda." David is also urging the troops to set off, finish the battle early, and call it a day early, a second division of the East Indies, in fact, is not worth such a big fight.

Mercenaries have always been the most labor-saving way to fight.

In the past, if faced with such a situation, without the help of aircraft, the mercenaries could only take the initiative to attack.

Now there is no need to take risks, after the encirclement of Xianda, send planes to bomb, coupled with the mortars equipped by the mercenaries, if the 2nd East India Division does not want to wait for death, it can only break through, and the mercenaries are just waiting for the rabbit.

With the intensity of the mercenary firepower, it is estimated that the 2nd East India Division will not be able to break through the encirclement, and it will be enough to send Medan troops to contain the prisoners at that time.

Sending planes to bomb is also Roque's request, although the "Albatross" bomber is very powerful on paper, but it is not known how much it can play in actual combat, and the staff sent to Italy and the Ottoman Empire can only collect air combat data, and bomber data is not.

Nyasaland did not sell "albatrosses" to Italy and the Ottoman Empire at all.

After a night of nothing, the mercenaries successfully completed the siege of Xianda, which made David feel unbelievable.

After all, Hicks and the others had just launched an attack on the troops of the Second East India Division the night before, and one unit did not return home at night, and it did not attract the attention of the top brass of the Second East India Division, and they deserved to be completely annihilated.

At six o'clock in the morning, the 2nd East Indian Division finally found itself surrounded by mercenaries, and the battle began.

After returning to the north side of Xianda overnight and building a defensive position overnight, Hicks, who had just rested for less than two hours, was awakened by the sound of a violent explosion.

"Great, now you're on duty, I'll go sleep first-" Middleton, who had stayed up all night, was exhausted and didn't care too much about the battle that was taking place.

There is nothing to care about, the outcome of the battle has been doomed from the beginning, if the 2nd East India Division can escape alive, then the mercenaries will probably have no face.

"Good work, good dreams." Hicks shook off the blanket and picked up his rifle without forgetting to take a can of soybeans from his backpack.

Canned food is breakfast, and if you're in a war zone, you don't have to worry about it, so don't expect someone to fry it for you.

"How's it going?" Hicks jumped into the trench, not paying attention to who was beside him.

"About half an hour ago, the enemy launched an attack, which has been repulsed by us." An unfamiliar voice replied.

Hicks, who was eating canned food, looked up and saw a young Medan soldier in the army.

"What's your name?"

"Huang Gang."

"Why are you here?" After Hicks asked, he found that Huang Gang did not understand: "I mean, don't you not participate in the battle?" ”

Huang Gang is the guide of the first squadron, and it is said that he should not participate in the battle, at most he helps to carry bullets and grenades or something.

"Mr. Middleton wants us to feel it in advance, and besides, it's not too dangerous." Huang Gang replied seriously, and did not have the consciousness of life and death.

It's really not that dangerous, don't think of the battle with the colonial servant army as the kind of meat grinder during the world war, whether it is the intensity or the scale are two different things, the East Indian servant army is not strong in the will to fight, there is no consciousness of fighting to the death at all, when the attack is launched, the machine gun is fired and runs faster than a rabbit, and the officers can't stop it.

"Are there any grades?" Hicks asked casually.

"I was a little nervous just now, I don't know if there is." Huang Gang's answer is standard.

Hicks nodded noncommittally, this is how recruits become veterans step by step.

After finishing the soybeans in two bites, then drinking the soup in one gulp, and then picking up the kettle and drinking the water to rinse his mouth, Hicks put on his steel helmet and poked his head out carefully.

There is not a single ghost!

Take a telescope and take a closer look, but there is still no ghost.

Hicks shook his head, unsure whether he was glad or disappointed, and took out a pack of cigarettes politely.

Huang Gang shook his head and stopped, according to the regulations, you can't smoke in the trenches, but for veterans, this rule doesn't exist.

Boom!

Despite the damp rainforest, the lighters produced by Itno are still very good.

Huang Gang's gaze at the lighter was a little hot.

Hicks ignored it and slipped the lighter back into his pocket.

"Come on, if you behave well, you have the opportunity to become a mercenary of the umbrella company, and then your family can go to southern Africa, and you also have a chance to have such a lighter." Hicks encouraged that lighters, while not expensive, were not cheap, and that married men like Middleton were probably reluctant to buy them.

Middleton didn't even smoke cigarettes, and the cigarettes distributed by the company were bought by Hicks at a low price.

"Is going to Southern Africa really allocating land?" Huang Gang was skeptical, and estimated that he had listened to the propaganda about the migration policy in southern Africa during this time.

Immigration was common in this era, but it was rare for the Chinese to go overseas in the form of labor, such as the construction workers who built the Pacific Railroad in the United States, or the miners in the gold mines of Johannesburg.

Before these laborers went overseas, the labor service company also said that they were at the mercy of others, and after they arrived at the place, they could only be at the mercy of others, and in another time and space, the Chinese laborers in southern Africa were only repatriated, which was considered lucky, and those laborers in the United States were really miserable, and their status and situation were similar to those of Africans in southern Africa now.

Therefore, Huang Gang does not believe in the propaganda of southern Africa, and he gives money and land, and does not collect land rent or taxes, and grows as much grain as he owns, and no one robs how many cattle and sheep he raises, which sounds unrealistic, when will white people become good people?

"Lord Nyasaland is also Chinese like you, you should have noticed that many of the mercenaries of our umbrella company are Chinese, do you think that the mercenaries of our umbrella company are poor like those of the Second East India Division? Bobby, how big are you on Bechuana's farm? Hicks casually called a mercenary to come and say something.

"A thousand acres, what's the problem?" Bobby was also chatting with the Medan soldiers beside him.

A thousand acres, six thousand acres, placed in the East Indies is the standard rich man, in the umbrella is just an ordinary mercenary!

This impact is still a bit big for Huang Gang.