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In 520, the cavalry unit commanded by Major General Franke in Erland▊|In 520, the cavalry unit commanded by Major General Franke in Erland▊|In 520, the cavalry unit commanded by Major General Franke in Erland▊|In 520, the cavalry unit commanded by Major General Franke in Erland▊|In 520, the cavalry unit commanded by Major General Franke in Erland▊|In 520, the cavalry unit commanded by Major General Franke in Erland▊The Johannesburg militia and the German-Holland Volunteer Cavalry unit were killed and 0 were captured. The good luck of the British army ended here after the war. On May 30, the four thousand British troops of Lady Smith launched a counterattack on the Bundesliga under the command of Lieutenant General George White, and encountered the main force of the Bundesliga commanded by Jubert in Nicholson Gorge. The British army was defeated and lost 1,272 people. The remaining troops retreated to Lady Smith and were immediately surrounded.

Because Lady Smith had a tight defense, Jubert failed to siege the city several times, so he sent scouts to the heart of the British army and went to the Estecourt line to where reconnaissance could be used to defend. The remaining main forces camped around Lady Smith, waiting for the arrival of the British overseas corps.

Zhao Shizhen did not like this situation. From his perspective, the Boer soldiers had good combat effectiveness, but were poorly organized. Their leaders did not understand military affairs and could not defeat the city. The long-term siege was only suitable for bullying the weak with the strong. The British would not tolerate this situation for a long time. Zhao Shizhen negotiated with Zhubert several times, but Zhubert ignored it. On the contrary, he asked Zhao Shizhen to be alerted on the periphery of Estecoth, which was actually equivalent to exiling Zhao Shizhen.

Zhao Shizhen cursed this old monster in his heart and took 2,000 horses to block the area east of Estecourt, where the British kept sending the resources needed for the fortress, and almost every day several armored trains passed by. The Boers did not damage these tracks. The reason was that these were the wealth of the Boers themselves in the future and could not be damaged. With this idea, every time the Boers attacked the train, they would lose their troops and generals, and no train was intercepted.

Zhao Shizhen did not agree with this kind of house-like fighting method. Since he was responsible for intercepting the train, no train could pass the blockade line. After seeing the cargo inside the train, Zhao Shizhen had a further understanding of the national strength of the UK. Even drinking water was transported hundreds of miles away, including chocolates produced in London, England, Chinese local tea, and American chandeliers.

All of this reached its peak after ambushing an armored vehicle. No force was used. Another British armored vehicle was intercepted and the door was opened. A young British man with a slender figure and red hair walked out. Dozens of people came out behind him. The train that could carry 800 people only carried these dozens of people. Zhao Shizhen was really not used to this.

Winston Churchill, a figure who shined in later history, was just a reporter at this time. Although he was still holding a gun, Zhao Shizhen still released him. The reason was very simple, the reporter did not even open the security for the gun.

Another Bundesliga army was commanded by General Delare, known as the "Lion of the West Transvaals", a descendant of another French Huguenot. On 511, he entered the British Betsenalan and cut off the trunk line of the Western Cape Railway, thus blocking the connection between the Cape region and Rhodesia. Delare divided the troops into two routes, one under General Cronzhi, surrounded Maphutine, and the other under Louis Vader, surrounded Kimberley, the diamond city. Sisi, who is also the boss of the Debiers company,

Er Rhodes took the last train before the siege to Kimberley, preparing to share the fate with his diamond mine. He also brought many guns, ammunition and cannons, allowing Kimberley's British troops to repel Louis Vader's attempts to siege Louis Vader. Maverkin was as solid as the command of the famous Colonel Robert Baden-Powell. The unsuccessful war caused Jubert to lose confidence. Louis Vader was abolished and Zhao Shizhen was appointed as the commander of the country's military.

The third Bulgarian army crossed the Orange River south. It absorbed a small group of Boer armed forces from the Cape colonies and operated in the northeastern Cape region. It threatened the East-West Cape Railway Line. The British army had to closely defend the Orange River Railway Bridge and beware of the attempts of Boer people to bomb the bridge. The most important railway hub station and military material distribution center on the Western Cape Railway Line were also harassed by Boer people. In order to protect the normal passage of the East-West Cape Railway, the British had to install 120 meters of naval artillery on the train, and slowly advance under its cover, restoring the railway in small sections. The Boer people's wishful thinking was not successful. Rather than saying that the Boers had restrained the British army, the British army had to restrain the Boers.

After the defeat in the first battle, the British Army quickly sent reinforcements to South Africa. What Zhao Shizhen was worried about finally appeared. The British were concentrated, and the Boer army was still scattered everywhere. However, Zhao Shizhen's opinion was ignored by Jubert. Jubert was still alive in the last Boer War, and it seemed that he did not realize that twenty years had passed in the last war, and the New World War was completely different. Although Zhao Shizhen did not believe in God, he could only pray to God at this time: "Let the miracle happen!"

Perhaps God heard Zhao Shizhen's prayer. At the end of the 5th, the commander-in-chief of the British reinforcements (South African Expeditionary Force) and the 20,000 British troops led by General Redvers Buller, who had suppressed the local uprising in Ireland, finally arrived in Cape Town. Starting from mid-November, the British troops commanded by Buller launched a counterattack on the Bundesliga on the three fronts of the east, middle and west: Lieutenant General Mayhew lifted Kimberley on the western front, Lieutenant General Franky attacked Orange Free State on the middle front, and General Buller led his main force to clear the siege of Lady Smith on the eastern front. However, his approach of dividing troops into three groups made a big mistake.

At the beginning of the 6th, Lieutenant General Mayheine commanded more than 9,000 men from the First Royal Infantry Division set out from the Cape Colony and marched towards Kimberley City. On the 68th, he met more than 1,000 Orange cavalry units led by General Princelow in Enslin. The cavalry of the Orange Militia launched an attack on the two Northampton regiments on the right wing of Mayheine, and after a harassment, he fled. Mayheine ordered a pursuit. On the 610th, the First Royal Infantry Division arrived in the small town of Maggsfontein, about 20 miles south of Kimberley. In front of them were continuous hills, and the British did not know if there would be any guy lying behind.

To be careful, Mayhew ordered his subordinate Scottish Highland Guards to take the lead and line up in a column. The teams behind him formed a dense formation to follow to prevent the soldiers from falling behind. In the distance, on the horizon behind the mountains, the British army could see a little bit of a faint light jumping up and down in the drizzle and thick fog.

The searchlights of the large-caliber mine of the Lidbeers Diamond Mine were sending a signal to the reinforcements. The searchlights of the British army pierced the night light and searched the wilderness in front, but nothing could be seen except the dark hills. In fact, behind the hills were General Cronzhi's Bour field troops. They braved the rain and hid quietly behind the large rocks washed by sunlight and rain, lying in carefully constructed trenches, waiting for the British army to approach. The scouts sent by Mayheine did not find them.

Zhao Shizhen stood in a hidden command post, and people kept reporting the situation and passing the instructions out. The battle was about to happen. At this time, Zhao Shizhen suddenly remembered what Zhao Gang said to him before leaving:

"Major Zhao Shizhen, what do you think is the most important thing for warriors?"

"brave."

"Wrong, it's the order to be executed without fail."

Zhao Shizhen nodded and wrote down the answer. Zhao Gang looked at Zhao Shizhen and asked again

"What is the most important thing for an officer?"

"It is the ability to make decisions, be able to make decisions in a short time, and to implement them unswervingly."

Zhao Gang nodded and asked another question

"What is the reason for an army's collapse?"

Zhao Shizhen thought about it

"The casualties are too large."

Zhao Gang shook his head.

“Insufficient fighting will.”

Zhao Gang still shook his head.

Zhao Shizhen thought for a while and shook her head. These were too profound for him.

Zhao Gang said: "When an army can't harm another army with all its strength, no matter how many people he has, he will collapse. No matter how heavy a hundred sheep is, it is not the opponent of a lion, because of this."

Zhao Shizhen raised her head and looked at the British in a big Red Army uniform through the telescope. Through the original camera, Zhao Shizhen had an illusion that these British people had turned into sheep.

In the night fog, the Boers' horse riding rifles suddenly appeared on the unprepared front of the British army, on both sides and behind them. The point shot of the Mauser rifles broke the silence of the marching ground. Because they were lined up in dense formations, a bullet from the Boers can often shoot through two or three people in the British army. The Scottish Highland Guards, who were leading the battle, were in disgrace. After the Buers' horse riding rifles launched a surprise attack, they retreated to their own positions and lured the British into the ambush site. The British howitzers and naval artillery counterattacked the Boers' positions, but the shells fell into the soft trenches. The lethality was not great. The Boers' trenches were also lined with barbed wire to prevent the British from jumping into the trenches to engage in hand-to-hand combat.

Seeing the British army falling down, but the losses were not great, the Booleans were in high spirits. The British army had to face the bullets that were not fired, but the opponent seemed to exist only in the air, and could only comfort the depressed morale with the sound of cannons.

In the artillery position, the Boer artillery had already locked the British vanguard, but without Zhao Shizhen's order, these artillery soldiers just stood quietly. In their minds, Zhao Shizhen was their god. As dawn was about to come, Zhao Shizhen finally decided to give the British a last blow.

At 5:30 in the morning, the Boer cannons, which had been silent during the battle, were put into battle, and the shells fell on the gravel area where the British army was located. The shells and stone debris caused greater casualties. Seeing that the entire army would be destroyed if they did not retreat, they would be in danger of being wiped out. General Mayhew ordered the entire army to retreat. In this battle, the British army suffered a crushing defeat, with 1,968 casualties.

While Mayhew was defeated in the Western Front, the second British army, the Third Royal Infantry Division, commanded by Lieutenant General Gatak, also launched an offensive on the center. The team was originally scheduled to be commanded by Franke (who has been promoted to Lieutenant General), who had defeated the Boers since the war, but according to the arrangement of Prime Minister Salisbury, Franke had followed General Bulle to the front line of Ladysmith. The team tried to attack the southern gate of Orange Free State in 610. Bloemfontein-East

Stormberg, the hub of the London Railway, then entered the territory of the Free State of Orange. However, it was attacked by the Bundesliga. The Battle of Magsfontein was repeated again: the Boers' cannons and shooters dug bunkers and trenches on the Stormberg Mountain. They were condescending and launched a massacre of the neatly arranged royal infantry. Gartak's attack was also defeated, and 696 people were captured and missing. The gateway from Orange to the military city of Dealte opened, causing the Cape colony to fall into danger.

Under this situation, the main force led by General Boole himself seemed to have become the only team with hope of victory. In the clubs, restaurants, and trains of the British Isles, the main theme of the British conversation and greetings was "our small setbacks in South Africa", and the accompaniment was "When General Boole's troops arrived there..." The whole of Britain was waiting and watching the victory on the Natal front.

In order to rescue George White, who had been besieged for two months, Bourle launched an attack on the Boutiques at the small station southwest of Ladyssmith on June 15, in an attempt to force the crossing of the Tugela River to the Ladyssmith. The Tugela River flows from west to northeast, with a wide river surface and a deep riverbed. Most areas cannot be wading through except for the two shallows at the bend. The Bours have destroyed all the pontoon bridges and railway bridges on the river. The only road bridge that can be used is on the west side of the town of Colences. The south bank of the Tugela River is flat and open, and there is also a small piece of gentle flat land on the other side of the river. There are rolling hills on the north, east and west sides of the flat ground.

The Boer troops involved in the Battle of Colenso include militia from eight regions including Johannesburg, Heidelberg, Krugersdorp, Freihead, Utrecht, and other militia, as well as the white police forces in Johannesburg and Swaziland, totaling 3500. There is also a 120-meter Krupp howitzer, 1 75-meter Krupp field gun, 2 75-meter rapid-fire guns, and 1 37-mm Maxim rapid-fire gun. The positions of the Bundesliga army unfold from west to east along the Tugela River. Originally, the commander-in-chief of the Bundesliga army was in charge of command here, but at 530, his mount unfortunately tripped, and Jubert, who was already 68 years old, was injured and had to return to his replacement Jubert. The young Zhao Shizhen was directly awarded the rank of major general, which was somewhat of a sense of promotion after death.
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