Chapter 25: I'm going to be promoted again
How to settle the prisoners became the biggest problem to face after the war, and until this problem was resolved, the whole country did not even dare to wave troops into the city. The armored battalion had more than 300 people, plus the cavalry battalion was less than 1,000, and more than 1,000 Australian 17 brigades were captured in the barracks.
Zhong Yi did not hesitate to praise the armored battalion for achieving such an amazing result in such a short period of time. You must know that this is a battalion fighting a brigade, and more than 300 people fighting more than 2,000 people, although there is a generational gap in weapons and tactics. (The Australian Army has four battalions of an infantry brigade, no regimental establishment, and more than 500 people per battalion, while the Red Guard Force continues to use the 33 establishment of the People's Liberation Army, with more than 300 people per battalion, and all combatants, excluding logistics supply troops.) )
He also said that the slow response of the Australian army in the battle was due to the fact that Hebal had drunk the brigade commander Hans on the first day, so that the 17th Brigade did not have time to build an effective defensive line and an organized retreat. ”
Zhong Yi and Hans had a pleasant conversation, Mr. Brigadier General did not have an aristocratic status, he was the son of a small farmer, but he was admitted to the Royal Army Academy Sandhurst in the United Kingdom, where most of the students were the children of nobles, and insisted on returning to Australia after graduation. Hans did not have the idea of white supremacy of the aristocratic class, but agreed with Zhong Yi's idea of building a pluralistic Australia, so he agreed to continue to let him restrain the prisoners of the 17th Brigade and accept Zhong Yi's command, but Hans put forward two conditions, the first is that the soldiers of the 17th Brigade will never point their guns at their white compatriots in Australia; The second condition was more unexpected than Zhong Yi, that is, he asked for a one-on-one duel with Baron Hebar. For the betrayal of his old friend, Mr. Brigadier General has always been angry.
Comrade Commander readily agreed to the first condition, but expressed no support, no opposition, and no encouragement for the demand for a duel, and also made up a lot of reasons to persuade him to make money and wealth through harmony, and Hans said that the issue could be put on hold for the time being, but it would never be finished. Later, Zhong Yi ordered the cavalry battalion to enter the mining area, declared the mining area under military control, confiscated the guns, and cracked down on all illegal private armies of the mine owners.
The armored battalion stayed in the barracks of the original 17th Brigade of the Australian Army to recuperate, and at the same time sent Red Police instructors to assist Hans in reorganizing the 17th Brigade. So the Kalgoorlie-Boulder area was quiet again, and although there was no rumbling cannon, after the end of the gold rush at the end of the last century, the small city born of gold mines once again faced a large-scale exodus, and the mine owners and white laborers fled from Kalgoorlie City, because the owners of the barracks outside the city were replaced by yellow men in strange military uniforms, and even the white cavalry on duty in the mines wore such strange clothes.
Soon, Kalgoorlie was almost an empty city, but the armored battalion remained inactive, seemingly acquiescing to the whites' escape.
But just a few days later, Donnas, the white proprietor of the Hanna Inn on Hanna Street in Kalgoorlie, noticed that many natives had entered Kalgoorlie under the protection of infantry fighting vehicles. Shortly after the race riots had subsided, Donus and the few innkeepers who had stayed behind under the lure of his high salary were all trembling with terror when they saw so many natives again. They were not very afraid of the yellow soldiers, who had entered Kalgoorlie several times in the previous days, and had traded civilly, exchanging gold for the goods they needed. They were afraid of the natives, and in that riot, countless natives who were making a living in the city were beaten to death by the whites, and when the army came, they also wiped out the surrounding natives and drove them away from their homes. If the yellow soldiers came to occupy it, then the natives must have come back for revenge.
But it turned out that Donnas's worries were unfounded, and the Red Police soldiers only placed the natives in a room where no one was there, and also asked the white people who stayed behind to confirm whether the owner of the room had fled, as long as it was a house where people still lived, whether it was the Red Police soldiers or the natives, Autumn did not commit any crimes. Donus had a pleasant conversation with an officer, who, according to the officer, was waiting for an order from their supreme commander, and of course the most likely, the order was: the private property of Kalgoorlie was protected, but the property of those who fled Kalgoorlie would be confiscated and transferred to those who needed it more.
Donus understood that this was an army that preached the equality of all races, and under their rule, the natives became human again, and the whites were no longer superior! It's not hard to accept, and in fact, not every white person adheres to white supremacy, and as long as he can do business, Donnas is not averse to making money from people of all colors.
Yes, Donus understood very correctly, Zhong Yi "invited" the natives back from the desert under such a banner, of course, this "please" must be marked with a ninja sign, because the elders of these tribes are still "guests" in the barracks. It's not that Zhong Yi's policies to the natives are bad, on the contrary, the aborigines' requirements are really not high, there is a space to live, just stay away from the whites who hurt them, and they don't even have the luxury of turning back into human beings. They were afraid of the so-called civilized world, including the Red Alert soldiers who "invited" them back to the city with tanks and armored vehicles.
The Red Police soldiers had no patience to stay in the indigenous tribes for a long time to preach racial equality, so in order to complete the task assigned by the commander, they had to "invite" the natives back, and let time slowly soothe the natives' fears!
In the original plan, Zhong Yi wanted to gather some elders of the indigenous tribes to have a good talk, but the problem is that Zhong Yi has no time at all. The troops are out on the march, and the commanders who stay in the Red Police base are even busier, for no other reason than to promote the mission!
Just as the troops arrived on the other side of the Magresv Mountains and had just established a logistics base, Zhong Yi received a notification from the female anchor: the task of promoting to the rank of lieutenant colonel was activated
Tasks for promotion to the rank of lieutenant colonel:
Mission duration: 15 days
Opening Condition: The Red Guard unit actively attacks enemy targets outside of its control
Objective: Capture a city or a valid resource area with 1,000,000 funds available for the base.
Rewards for mission success: Commander promoted to lieutenant colonel, unit expansion into regimental units, activation of field hospital buildings, activation of sub-base vehicle icons
Mission Failure Penalty: Banned from promotion for one year
The mission countdown now begins