Chapter 96: The British Recruits (Part II)

Now that the British colonies are on fire on all sides, it is precisely when a large number of soldiers are needed, and now the training camp for new guests in London is also full of people. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info Because it is a servant army of the colony, it must always be managed by the British themselves to rest assured.

The Hindustan colony, which was originally the most reassuring one, once had less than 20,000 pure British soldiers, and millions of princely troops and three or four hundred million indigenous people bowed to their ears.

After Tom was captured in the boot camp, like all the strong men who were captured, he began to take a shower and change clothes to sign up for the group, and he ate salted fish and potatoes on the first night. Before going to sleep, Ah San's servants called in each room to wash their feet.

Seeing the three servants busy in the barracks, Tom immediately felt that the life of being served by others was really good.

It was only the next morning that this little emotion was replaced by the shouting and scolding of the officers, who, as in all Western recruit training, were taught the importance of discipline - the tactic of lining up to shoot requires more discipline on the part of soldiers and officers than on the skirmish front, and in many cases, both sides have to walk within thirty meters before they begin to line up to shoot, which requires great discipline to support the troops from breaking up, and this needs to be done little by little until they are completely removed from the lazy peasant atmosphere.

The British training method is a simple and crude carrot and stick tactic, and the officers and non-commissioned officers are strictly trained every day, and when it is time to eat, bathe, wash their feet, sleep and so on, there are three servants to serve.

This was also the idea that the British War Office came up with, to make every recruit understand the benefits of having a colony and what Britain would lose if it lost its colony, so that the recruits could willingly sacrifice themselves for the great cause of the British Empire.

After half a month, Tom's batch of recruits decreased their physical fitness and platoon training, and increased their training in shooting and bayonets.

In fact, the British Army has reflected many times that the standard rifles equipped by the British are now almost ineffective against the defense of the Qing army's iron cans and cuirassiers, even if they are fired at close range.

However, tests based on tin cans seized by the British showed that rifles were ineffective against such armor unless rifles with a caliber of more than one inch were used. But the problem is that a caliber of more than one inch is no longer a rifle, it can be renamed a small cannon, and the recoil is not something that a person's shoulder can withstand, and the shoulder blade of a rifle with a caliber of more than one inch may be shattered if a shot is fired.

The Qing army was equipped with a 20-millimeter caliber rifle that required a bracket to shoot, but it could not penetrate an iron can, and a rifled rifle without a 30-millimeter caliber could never penetrate.

Today's British are developing a 1.5-inch small-caliber rifled gun to deal with the iron cans commonly equipped by the Qing army, even if Song Haiping and Lin Haiyang know the news, they are not in a hurry, in line with the fact that only tanks can restrain tanks in later generations, what anti-tank guns, ******, anti-tank guns, cluster grenades, etc. are all auxiliary weapons, as long as the British cans cannot study the same effect. The Qing army can still make humanoid tanks for a while longer.

However, today's steam engines have not yet been miniaturized enough to fit on iron cars, even in the eyes of the average British, steam units weighing several tons should either be on ships or rails, or simply fixed to the ground. And nowadays the steam engine is very squeamish, not to mention walking on land, even walking on the rails on the ship and sometimes there are some breakdowns, whether on the train or on the steamer, you must bring a technician who can repair the steam engine at any time.

It was also a long process for the British to develop a new military standard weapon and reequip the entire army, and by the time Tom's team had completed a month's training and was sent to the South African colonies, the entire company of recruits had been equipped with three 1.5-inch small-caliber guns. Each gun needs three people to operate to use, and two people need to carry 1.5-inch shells, so in this way, in fact, the cost performance is not particularly high. The mobility is not bad, after all, it is a small-caliber gun, and two people can carry it and run.

The British spent so much effort just so that the pure infantry units would not be powerless to fight back in the face of the Qing army's iron cans.

When it was in South Africa, Tom learned why so many Britons had fled to the overseas colonies. Tom, for example, is a private, but there are five Asans to command, and each of these five Asans has two to five local African slaves to serve. If it weren't for the non-commissioned officers and officers above, Tom felt that this was simply the life of an aristocratic lord - in fact, the nobles in the army had much more than Tom could enjoy, and each nobleman was surrounded by a dozen to dozens of Ah San and several times the number of black slaves waiting for him.

As soon as Private Tom goes out, some of the Ah San help Tom with weapons, some help Tom with water, some help Tom with his luggage - even Tom shines his shoes and wipes his sweat with special black slaves. It can be said that if there was no war, it would be a paradise for the British.

Now that the war was far away from the British colony of South Africa, Tom and other soldiers had a lot of time to hunt and fish every day. It is not at all clear that today's British Army was originally sent with phone bills. This is the advantage of having a colony, which can compensate the state and the common people by enslaving and robbing the colonial wealth, enriching the treasury and alleviating social conflicts. As a direct attacker, the army has to enjoy the big head.

That's why the Prussians never forgot the land under the sun until they died. Without a land under the sun, the stronger Germany was, the more unstable Wilhelm II's throne became.

It can be said that among this batch of recruits, Tom and others are still relatively lucky, they can enjoy themselves in the rear, although there are not many opportunities to make a fortune, but it is always good to fight with the legendary Qing army troops who eat foreign flesh and drink foreign blood in the past - Zhuang Zhi is hungry for Hulu meat, and laughs and talks about thirsty Hun blood. Isn't this the description of eating human flesh and drinking human blood?

Of course, in fact, the Qing army didn't like the word Man Jianghong, after all, Yue Fei ate the meat of the ancestors of the Qing Dynasty and drank the blood of the ancestors of the Qing Dynasty.

Speaking of which, neither the Qing army nor the Japanese attacked the South African colony, and that was because the various local infectious diseases, especially falciparum malaria, were too frightening - the devil six had been fighting and establishing power in the northern region of Hindustan because of the hot and humid climate in the south of Hindustan and the ravages of malaria.

The Japanese Chamber of Commerce has always sold a special drug for malaria, but the price is not low, and the production is not large enough to equip the troops in large quantities. Like the various antibacterial and anti-inflammatory drugs sold by the Chamber of Commerce, it is still a money-absorbing weapon for the time being, and only the rich can afford to use life-saving drugs.

The Germans don't care about falciparum malaria, after all, the average life expectancy in Europe at this time is more than 30 years, but unfortunately, the Germans don't have such a good tooth to snatch the whole of Africa from the mouth of the British.

Although the Americans on the other side of the Atlantic are also hot-eyed, it is a pity that the last time the Americans invaded Canada by the rise of Napoleon's Europe, the British who had recovered from it burned down the White House, which brought great fear to the Americans. After all, with tens of thousands of kilometers of coastal defense, the Americans are almost defenseless. If the British were to be provoked and another warship bombarded New York, the American immigrants would lose more than half of their confidence in the United States.