Past opponents in East Africa, with the exception of the students of the "Heixingen Military Academy" who participated in the Franco-Prussian War, basically did not encounter the tactic of lining up to kill.

The Portuguese did have this ability, but in the last East Portuguese War, Portugal was eager to break two soldiers with one soldier, and the colonies had too few troops, and the black servant army did not have such ability.

The tactic of lining up to kill is not something that can be played by any army, first of all, the army must be highly coordinated, and secondly, it must have extraordinary courage.

Neither of these points was possessed by the hastily organized black servant army of the Portuguese, but the Ndebele people had used the tactic of "half-finished" queue to kill during the previous war between East Africa and the Kingdom of Ndebele.

Although the Ndebele people have become history, it is undeniable that their organizational skills are still relatively strong, and it is a pity that the Ndebele people were exposed to muskets for too short a time, otherwise they should be able to reproduce the tactics of queuing and killing.

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In the face of this "novel" tactic, which the East African Defense Forces had basically not seen, some soldiers of the 9th Brigade were indeed at a loss, especially those recruits who had emigrated from the Far Eastern Empire, and they were very incomprehensible.

"Why are these 'British' lined up so neatly, are they ready to be sent to death directly?"

"Stupid, that's not the British, it's the Indians of the British colonies, you see their black skin, it's a little whiter than the black skin of East Africa, and those white-skinned commanders are the British."

"As for why they lined up neatly, it's because you don't know much, this tactic is actually very common in Europe, if you participated in foreign wars in the Far Eastern Empire, maybe you also have the opportunity to see the British and French use this tactic, but that was a few decades ago, depending on your age, you must not have experienced it."

The last time Britain and France jointly invaded the Far Eastern Empire was in 1856, when even East Africa did not exist, and it was more than 30 years ago, so except for a few immigrants to East Africa in the early days, the immigrants in the Far Eastern Empire had never seen it at all.

"In that case, why hasn't the Wehrmacht used this tactic, isn't this the dominant European tactic?"

"The Wehrmacht has also used it before, but at that time it was not called the Wehrmacht, but the colonial army, we also have a colonial history, and later after the establishment of the kingdom, plus the upgrade of firearms, this tactic was eliminated, as for the British, they have never been good at the army, like Germany and France, I am afraid that they will also eliminate line tactics, but we generally call this tactic a queue to kill tactic, so you say that this tactic is sent to death is no problem."

The official name for the line-and-kill tactic is "line-up infantry tactics", but even Germans like the term "line-and-kill tactics" because in the eyes of traditional German civilians war is meant to be death.

If it had not been for the army reform carried out by Prussia, Prussia would probably still have the largest deserter army in Europe, and it would have been difficult to achieve the great achievement of unifying the small German region.

After all, using this tactic, either the enemy falls or he falls, it is more like a "redemption", whoever redeems his chess pieces first, loses the war first, those officers do not take human life seriously, and ordinary soldiers are very sorry for their lives.

Therefore, the tactic of queuing to kill is the biggest "heart" test for the low-level soldiers, and many soldiers are originally forcibly conscripted, so it is naturally easier to be defeated with one blow.

The Indian soldiers in front of them looked very good, but they didn't know how successful they learned from the British lobster soldiers, you must know that "lobster soldiers" are just ridiculous words, and the courage of the British army in the face of battle is still commendable, otherwise the British would not have been able to lay down such a large territory.

At this time, the Indian soldiers were actually even stranger than the East Africans, in their eyes, the enemies of Britain were also "Europeans", but why was there such a big difference from the British?

Some soldiers in East Africa do not understand, and there are veterans and knowledgeable soldiers to solve their doubts, but Indian soldiers do not have such opportunities, after all, it is impossible to ask white officers! I'm afraid that if I don't get an answer, I will be beaten, as long as I honestly obey the orders of the white man.

Just like now, this kind of queuing and killing tactics, which the British old men told them to do, line up in a neat queue, and then shoot at the enemy, this tactic has been trained in India for a long time, so the Indian troops behaved decently.

Rost was satisfied with the performance of the Indian soldiers and said: "It seems that we have wrongly blamed the Indians before, and the Tugeira River is indeed hindering the army's attack, or is it more suitable for our battle on land." ”

"Yes, division commander, when we were in India, the training of these Indians was very strict, completely according to the standards of our army, like the Tuguela River, it was just an accident."

On the front line of the Tuguela River, there is a reason for the existence of the Tuguela River, and there is naturally no way to use the tactic of queuing up to kill, after all, it is impossible to stand in the water and "line up", but when it comes to land, the British army can finally use the ancestral secret recipe.

"Attack!" Confidence was greatly increased, and Rost ordered.

The strength of the East Africans has been figured out, whether it is a brigade or not, even if it adds reinforcements, it is impossible to have more troops than their own troops, after all, this time the British army, the Portuguese army and the Transvaals attacked from multiple fronts, and the East Africans will definitely not be able to draw too many troops to support the East African army in front of them.

Even if there were surplus troops in East Africa, it would be too late, as Rost knew after the British crossed the river, after all, it was impossible for East Africa to easily give up the advantageous terrain of the Tuguela River if there were surplus troops.

To the majestic music of the military band, the Indian troops marched with sonorous and powerful steps towards the "rudimentary" positions in East Africa.

And by this time, the machine gunners in East Africa had long been ready.

Because of the "lateness" of the British army, the 9th East African Brigade was successfully assembled, so the number of machine guns was also fully replenished, and the 9th Brigade had a total of 63 machine guns.

The late arrival of the British troops was a "mistaken" mistake in East Africa, and the estimated speed of the British march in East Africa was measured according to the speed of the East African march, which led to the Ninth Brigade estimating the arrival of the British army "four hours earlier".

In fact, so far, the British army has not been assembled, like the heavy artillery units are far on the other side of the Tuguela River, and those big guys are not easy to move, especially the makeshift pontoon bridge on the Tuguela River is simply not able to withstand it.

So only the British army carried only light artillery, and the number was not much, and the firepower of the British at this time was actually far inferior to that of East Africa.

And the light artillery of East Africa has long been hidden in the so-called "high ground", and at the same time Arridot has concentrated the machine guns of the whole brigade, ready to verify the power of the machine guns.

"Fire!" With Arridotus ordered.

The East African machine gunners began firing on the British Indian unit array in a line.

The bullets flew like rain to the British troops, and soon a large stream of white water vapor evaporated from the impact of the exhaust port in front of the Maxim machine gun, which was the water-cooled structure to cool the gun body.

And the Indians on the opposite side are like corn stalks under the harvester, falling in pieces, and panic quickly spreads among the Indians, but the machine guns of East Africa are like "devils", constantly harvesting their lives.

The first large-scale combat of the Maxim machine gun in the previous life was actually used by the British in 1893 against the Ndebele people, who exterminated more than 15 million natives at the cost of only four deaths, while the British army only had five Maxim machine guns at that time.

The British, who are now fighting with the East Africans, are also armed with machine guns, but they are still Gatling machine guns, and even if the original history is true, the British did not equip the first Maxim machine guns until October 1888.

So this time, the British army has actually lagged behind East Africa in machine gun weapons, and this is still the situation of the British Army, and the servant army like the Indians may not even be equipped with the "temporarily backward" Gatling machine guns.

(End of chapter)