Reborn as a police officer in South Africa

Never mind human rights and freedoms, France’s original purpose of introducing African Americans was to provide cheap labor. The places where African Americans are most concentrated are sweatshops and the Foreign Legion.

The African-American in front of Jack was obviously a foreign legionnaire. The backward weapons, poor equipment, and the docile mule all reflected his identity.

"Are you a foreign legionnaire?" Jack asked curiously.

"No, I am a Frenchman, a real Frenchman -" the other party emphasized, and then said a little embarrassedly: "-before I became a French national, I was a foreign legionnaire."

That's right, the French Foreign Legion is mainly composed of North and West Africans, Somalis, Indochinese, and even people from the Near East, with Africans accounting for about two-thirds.

Although the French government nominally regards France's overseas colonies as French territory, in fact it does not want to take responsibility for the second-class citizens living in the overseas colonies.

Even if those second-class citizens join French citizenship through the Foreign Legion, they will not be able to enjoy the rights that real French people should have. This is completely inconsistent with what the French government promised.

"Anyway, I want to thank you -" Jack opened the equipment bag, took out a pack of cigarettes and a bar of chocolate and handed them to the little black guy named Dolly.

Dolly was very happy and carefully stuffed the cigarette into his close-fitting pocket, holding the chocolate at a loss.

The poor guy had never eaten chocolate, and the French government would not distribute such a scarce commodity to the Foreign Legion.

Jack made a motion of putting it into his mouth.

Dolly understood and stuffed the chocolate into his mouth.

"Wait, wait -" Jack couldn't laugh or cry, he had to tear off the wrapping paper before eating.

What Jack didn't expect was that when Jack tore off the wrapping paper, Dolly looked obviously distressed. It is estimated that the chocolate's attraction to him is not as valuable as the colorful wrapping paper.

That's right. When Europeans arrived in Africa and America, didn't they exchange glass balls for gold and gems from the locals?

The smoke bombs were still effective, and soon more than a dozen soldiers from four companies gathered around Jack.

Jack has the highest military rank here, so he becomes the temporary commander.

"Our preset airdrop location is Wumang Town, and the assembly point is the church in the town. It seems that our pilot has lost his way. Not to mention the church, there is not even a ghost here." Only then did Jack have the mood to look around.

environment of.

Don't worry, Jack and the others must have deviated from the assembly point, and they're quite far away.

"Don't we have a guide?" Staff Sergeant Nelson couldn't help much.

"I asked just now. We are about ten kilometers away from Wumang Town." Jack was also helpless. In the era without GPS, airdrops were so unreliable.

Then let's go. Fortunately, Dolly has a mule, which can help carry spare machine gun barrels and bullets. Jack packed two large baggage, and everyone's load immediately became much easier.

While Jack was trying to hurry on, the landing craft of the Marines had already washed up on the beach.

The German resistance was very weak. The landing site of "Operation Dragoon" was 90 kilometers long. Within this range, except for Toulon, the German army only deployed six battalions.

This is really not a deliberate neglect by Johannes Blaskowitz, the German commander in charge of the defense of southern France. All of his most elite troops have been transferred to Normandy for reinforcements. Although there are still 300,000 remaining troops, they are large.

Most of them are old, weak, sick and disabled, and the mobile force is only the 11th Armored Division.

Army Group G under Blaskowitz was composed of German second-line troops and servants, including four Russian infantry battalions. Most of these soldiers came from Kievan Rus.

The 7th Marine Brigade is the vanguard of the entire army. Their mission is to land on the beach and establish a beachhead position.

When boarding the landing craft, many Marines were still praying, hoping that everything would go well.

It was indeed a smooth operation. The landing craft did not encounter any attacks when it arrived at the beach. The Germans did not have as many mines as expected. This is normal. It is impossible for the Germans to densely lay mines on any waters along the French coast. They can only compare

Important ports will have more mines.

The landing craft in Southern Africa are very powerful, and many landing crafts rushed directly onto the beach, so when the Marines on board landed on the beach, their clothes were not even wet.

This was really lucky, as the Germans had a defensive position nearby.

When the Marines approached the defensive position, the Free French flag suddenly flew out of the defensive position. It turned out that the guerrillas had taken control of this position. All nearly 30 German soldiers responsible for the defense were killed. Several of them died in a manner that was obviously tampered with.

Shot in the back.

This is also normal. In Italy, the German army would rather surrender to the Allies than fall into the hands of Italian guerrillas.

Although he became a prisoner of the Allied Forces and had to undergo labor reform, he was able to survive.

Those who fell into the hands of the guerrillas would most likely be hanged, and would be subjected to inhuman torture before death. The Germans tortured and killed prisoners in various ways, and they finally regretted it when it was their turn.

There is no use regretting at this time. Even if they become prisoners of the Allies, they will still be guarded by the guerrillas.

So there are those who have vengeance to seek revenge, and those who have injustice to repay injustice.

"God bless you, you are finally here. We have been looking forward to you day and night for four years." Josh, the leader of the guerrilla group, was very excited and cried and laughed while holding Adelaide from Durban.

"Fortunately, we didn't arrive too late. We delayed some time in North Africa, and it's all the fault of those damn British." Adelaide knew how to win the favor of the French.

"Yes, that's it. Britain is the worst country in the world, greedy, shameless, capricious, cunning and hypocritical -" Josh immediately became a confidant.

Let’s not talk about whether the UK is the worst country. The current situation in Germany is terrible.

This defensive position belongs to the right battery, but like Normandy, the artillery on the battery is actually camouflaged with cement telephone poles. The Germans also applied a layer of paint very carefully. From a distance, it looks dark like steel.

Same.

In addition, the equipment condition is also not good. This position defended by almost 30 German troops has only one machine gun, and it is an old-fashioned Maxim. There is also a shortage of rifles. Each soldier only has 60 rounds of spare bullets, and even a base number

None.

"Where should we fight next? We can serve as guides." Josh was so excited that he wished he could fight all the way to Paris.

"Don't worry, our mission is to establish a beachhead -" Adelaide looked at the surrounding environment, feeling disappointed: "-Now it seems that our mission has been completed."

The German defensive position was set up on a higher hill. Since the previous battle was not intense, many facilities on the position could still be used. All it took was to turn the muzzle of the machine gun.

Adelaide looked down on the German Maxim, and ordered the machine gunner to set up the universal machine gun. At this time, amphibious tanks also came ashore, and soon high-level dual-purpose machine guns and automatic grenade launchers were delivered.

Now I was completely reassured. Even if the German armored forces came to attack, Adelaide was confident that he could defend them.

Of course, machine guns and grenades are useless against German tanks, but the Allies have bombers, which are the most powerful weapons against tanks.

While Adelaide was setting up his defense, in the dining room of the battleship "Richelieu", Patch and Devers were toasting in celebration.

Operation "Dragoon" has just begun now, and it's far from time to celebrate, but Patch and Devers don't care. At least it's off to a good start, and it's worth celebrating.

"The German defense is like a balloon, it collapses at the first touch." Patch is very happy that the only American infantry division also participated in today's operation. They are making equally good progress and are consolidating the beachhead position.

He'll be damned if it doesn't go well.

There were only six battalions of defenders at the 90-kilometer-long landing site. The first wave of Allied attack troops alone numbered almost 80,000 people. A single spitting breath could drown the Germans alive.

So Devers then raised his glass to express his gratitude to Sir Wilson.

"Without the restraint of the coalition forces in Normandy, we would never have been able to go so smoothly, so we have to toast to Normandy." Devers kept looking at Wilson as he spoke.

Wilson was sullen and silent, holding the knife and fork tightly in one hand, as if he wanted to stab Devers to death with a fork.

"Drink less. We have to work hard next. It's far from the time to celebrate." Mike Tolan didn't drink. What he cares about most now is Toulon.

The battle at Toulon was ten times more intense than the battles at all other landing sites combined.

The commandos are still very powerful. Their sudden action protected Toulon's port facilities to the greatest extent. Of the more than 60 key locations where the Germans installed explosives, only three were detonated, and the others were destroyed by commandos and guerrillas.

Protect it.

The most painful fighting broke out at the naval ammunition depot.

The ammunition depot has very high requirements for defense. In an extremely strong building, the German army has nearly 500 troops in the ammunition depot. The commandos were afraid of causing a big explosion during the attack and did not dare to use heavy weapons.

You can surround yourself first and then talk about it.

The Germans were trapped in the ammunition depot and could not get out. If they attacked by force, they would have to pay a huge price. This really pushed the Germans into a panic. If the Germans detonated the ammunition in the ammunition depot, then everyone would die together.

Intelligence provided by the guerrillas showed that there were at least 150 tons of explosives in the naval ammunition depot. If these explosives were detonated, everyone would have to fly into the sky with the ammunition depot.

"Surrender, German brothers, we promise to give you treatment that matches your status after you surrender." Shen Ming focused on the heart and tried to get the Germans to take the initiative to lay down their weapons.

There was no response from the other party.

"If you insist on not surrendering, then the next attack may be French troops or guerrillas. You know what the result will be. A Senegalese army has received orders to kill you all.

"Shen Ming's coercion and inducement are only effective against Germany's second-line troops or servants.

If it were the elite German troops, they might not be able to do this.

In the last world war, Germany believed the British and French and surrendered.

Everyone knows what happened next.

Now the Germans will not be fooled, they would rather fight to the death.

"Come on, don't scare us with death, we will never be afraid!" There was finally a response from the other side.

"I know you are not afraid. You are all warriors and have fulfilled your responsibilities. Now is the time for you to think about yourself and your family. The war that belongs to you is over. Whether it ends with death or becoming a prisoner, I think

Thinking of your family, they are still waiting for you to come home, looking forward to it——" Shen Ming was worried. To use another adjective, rigorous would be stubborn.

"Sir, I found this in the German's office -" Two subordinates panted and brought over a gramophone.

Shen Ming's eyes lit up, music is a good thing.

"Is there a record? Preferably a German record -" Shen Ming also wanted to play the embattled man on all sides.

"Of course -" the soldier happily offered the treasure with a whole bag on his back.

Compared with the technology that the Germans are proud of, Germany's contribution to music is not significant at all. Many famous musicians, Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Schumann, etc. are all Germans.

"Let me see what's there - "Brandenburg Concerto", this one doesn't work, "Destiny" doesn't work either. Maybe the Germans will be more excited after listening to it. What is this? Mendelssohn's "Wedding March"

", this is good, let's play this -" Shen Ming's art appreciation ability is not bad, the key is that these world-famous songs are really amazing.

Then play "Wedding March".

There are two more famous "Wedding March", Mendelssohn's cheerful and passionate one, and the other solemn and solemn. From a stylistic point of view, the other one seems to be more suitable for the German character, but unfortunately there is no record.

As the music sounded, a magical scene happened. The whole city seemed to be quiet, and only the melodious music echoed over the port.

The effect was really good. Halfway through the song, a German soldier suddenly stood up behind a window of the ammunition depot building.

During this battle, as long as the Germans dared to show their heads, they would be accurately shot by Allied snipers.

At this time, the Allied precision shooters seemed to be immersed in the beautiful music and did not shoot.

Shen Ming stopped talking. Even if this move was useless, Shen Ming did not regret it. He regarded it as a baptism of souls for everyone.

Humanity in war is more valuable than in peacetime.

When directors in southern Africa make movies, they often use this method to reflect on the war.

Regardless of whether the effect is good or not, the peace-loving personality of southern Africans has been established.

When the song ended, the Germans did not walk out of the ammunition depot and surrender.

The German soldier who had just stood up on his own initiative retracted behind the window.

Shen Ming looked at his watch. It was two o'clock in the afternoon and he was a little hungry. He hadn't eaten anything since morning.

Boom - boom boom boom -

Continuous violent explosions suddenly came from the ammunition depot.

Shen Ming's heart was in his throat for a moment. Music couldn't change his will to die, and he had no humanity left.