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Chapter 288 The Birth of the Alliance Military Group(1/2)

While the first division of the non-spread army achieved victory, the tenth division naturally did not.

The 10th Division was originally blocking the Boer reinforcements from Lestenburg, but when the 10th Division commander Major General Liu Fei came to the rescue, the 6,000 Boer troops were not even unified in their uniforms, the idea of ​​blocking was dispelled.

This is obviously an army composed of ordinary people in the Boer Farm, with a number of only 6,000. Liu Fei's 10th Division is a reorganized division. Excluding the division's logistics soldiers, there are nearly 10,000. Faced with such a Boer army, as long as they defeat their will, they can win, or even overwhelm them by number.

However, if you rush across them all at once, it is inevitable to run around. The problem is that the outfits of these Boer soldiers are the same as those of the common people. Once they are scattered to the homes of the people around them, it will be difficult to deal with.

If you are shot, it is a taboo for military strategists.

For this reason, Major General Liu Fei Ling left only one company in the blocking mission. When the Boer army attacked, he harshly slaughtered them and retreated immediately.

Because every time the Boers saw the Chinese army, the Chinese army refused to fight and took the initiative to retreat. Therefore, the Boers were still unprepared for this time and believed that the Chinese army had run away again, so General Boers ordered the whole line to pursue.

Then he fell into the siege of the 10th Division. The best way to deal with these people was to beat them hard and then surrender.

Sure enough, the Boers were surrounded and were beaten back several times of breaking through. Seeing that the number of Chinese troops was twice theirs, the Boers, who had simple limbs and minds, surrendered with their guns.

When Major General Liu saw the Boers surrender, he thought that the British were like that half a year ago, and when he could not beat the Boers, he surrendered. So he shook his head and said, "The foreigners are all afraid of death. If they can't beat them, they surrender, and they have no backbone at all!"

After taking the prisoners of war to Mafiken, the 10th Division continued to advance.

On March 26th, the Bundesliga Field Army: Commander Ruber blocked the attack of the 10th Division of the Chinese Army at Willow Farm in the western suburbs of Krugsdorp. The Boers are fighting with high will. Because their commander-in-chief is watching them behind their backs! At the same time, because this is the northwest gateway of Transvadu. In order to prevent the Chinese army from attacking the Du, the Boers are very tenacious in resisting.

On March 29, two artillery regiments of the Chinese army and local government arrived at the major general to analyze the situation of the enemy and us. They ordered the third regiment to attack the Dori Mountain High in the northwest corner of Liushu Farm. After more than three hours of repeated battles, the third regiment finally built fortifications on the high ground. The heavy machine gun company's position was built quickly and suppressed the Buer army's crazy counterattack.

Then the Major General ordered the artillery regiment to mount twelve Type 96 infantry artillery to the high ground and drifted from a high place to the Buer defenders in the mainland of Willow Farm.

After more than an hour of shelling the Boer Army's positions, there were many bullet marks and heavy casualties. However, the Boer Army's will to resist was not defeated.

Accident!

Perhaps it was the summoning of the God of Death that was irresistible. The directional device on the No. 6 gun position on the high ground was loosened due to the long-term shelling, and the muzzle was slowly raised several degrees.

Bang!

When the shell striker was activated, the barrel rose sharply so that the shell was deviated from the predetermined trajectory after being released from the bore.

boom!

The shell happened to explode not far from the commander-in-chief of the Boer Field Army. The sudden explosion shocked Rubeer, who sat down and fell again and was seriously injured. This was the second time he fell off his horse after the outbreak of the war, and it was still the same place. It was a joke.

Because the medical supplies of Boer's military did not keep up with Shangrubeer for several days and nights, he was overdrawn in his physical strength and energy, and his high fever did not subside. The next day, he announced that Ruer died with the military doctor. According to his last wish, Louis Bota, who was good at guerrilla warfare, succeeded as commander-in-chief of the Boer's field troops.

Rubeer's death greatly hit the morale of the Boer officers and soldiers in the resistance, and the defenses became loose.

In the early morning of April 1st, just as April Fools' Day approached, the 2nd Regiment of the 10th Division successfully made a surprise attack and broke through the outer defense line of Liushu Farm.

The newly appointed commander-in-chief of Louis Bota Field Army was not good at defensive warfare and had no countermeasures against the fierce offensive of the Chinese army. So he ordered the 30,000 Buer army in Krugsdorp to retreat to the nearby mountainous areas, and began his guerrilla warfare career that lasted more than three years.

The 10th Division then captured Krugsdorp and opened the gate of the Transvaal Republic again.

Transvaal President Kruger, who received the news, was shocked again, afraid that the Chinese army would enter again and sweep the door, so he ordered the Boer army around him to move closer.

On April 5, 50,000 Burr troops entered Johannesburg, constructed fortifications to prepare to resist the Chinese army's offensive, and posed as a decisive battle.

However, the First Army did not take advantage of the opportunity to attack Transvador, but stopped moving forward and stood on standby. Because the commander of the Expeditionary Army, Lieutenant General Luo Haichuan, suddenly received exciting news that the Free State of Orange transported a large amount of treasury gold to the new Dukronstad, which was very close to the First Army, with only a river of Fal in the middle.

Cats eat fish, dogs eat meat, Ultraman fights small monsters.

Since the First Army last plundered Transvador Pretoria, the First Army, which has enjoyed the sweetness, will certainly not let go of this big fish that fled.

However, this time, because the Boers took the initiative to retreat, this batch of gold was also known to the British. The First Army could not have taken over this batch of gold as last time.

In late April, a large number of British reinforcements drove to South Africa. Along with them were a Navy medical ship from Honolulu and a large number of anti-infective drugs - aspirin. This was a drug approved by Luzon Pharmaceuticals. In order to make money as soon as possible, it was sold to the British 6th Army.

The arrival of this batch of drugs quickly solved a large number of patients from the British South African army. Except for some serious patients who were arranged to be transported to Honolulu medical ship for treatment, the rest basically recovered their combat effectiveness.

Lord Roberts, the commander-in-chief of the British colonial army, personally sent a telegram to the 6th British Army, and took the initiative to demand medals to all the medical staff of the allies' medical teams to achieve their great contribution to the British army because they saved the lives of tens of thousands of British soldiers. At the same time, the first army's achievements on the Western Front and Northern Fronts once again gained the favor of the British people, especially the favor of the British side. After this incident, the British side reassessed the value of this Honolulu ally. The status in their hearts has risen again, and the military headquarters requires the British government to comprehensively strengthen cooperation with the Honolulu government.

Alliance relations.

On the 19th, British Foreign Secretary Kimberley and Honolulu Foreign Minister Liang Cheng signed the London Treaty in London. The Treaty on Alliance between Britain and Honolulu was expanded to comprehensive cooperation in the political and economic fields based on the military treaty signed by Britain and Honolulu in 1895.

European and American countries have reported on the signing of the treaty, believing that it was the beginning of the comprehensive cooperation between Britain and Honolulu. Since then, a new military group called the "Alliance Organization" has appeared around the world. As with the current allies and allies, allied countries, all over the world, were slightly shocked.

Zhang Yunfei did not expect that he was regarded as a great help to the UK just to make more money from the war. It seems that the British still attach great importance to the lives of their own people, which is also an inevitable phenomenon after the country reaches its peak.

Today's world pattern has gradually changed greatly because of Zhang Yunfei's participation. 9. Because of Zhang Yunfei, the policy of continuing to swell the swelling and sucking the arrogance has not been caused by the European continent's 17 instigation of 9.

Because Britain had strong conflicts of interest with Russia in India, Central Asia, Afghanistan and the Far East, and had conflicts of interests in Southeast Asia, Africa and France's colonies, Britain could not and had no reason to reach an understanding with the Allies.

On the contrary, the country had no conflict with the German Empire, Austro-Hungarian Empire, and Italy on the colonial issue. In order to get a piece of the pie in Europe, Britain tried to establish relations with Germany in the month, stopped the naval arms race, and expressed its desire to join the Allies.

However, German Emperor Witz II obviously did not take the goodwill of Britain seriously. Just one week after the British expressed their kindness, the German cabinet officially passed the plan for the second phase of the expansion of the sea plan, and the newly revised Naval Act to formally establish the German Empire's High Sea Fleet.

Germany's High Seas Fleet Plan has intentions to target Britain, but that is just the ultimate goal of the German Navy. At present, the main task of the German Navy is not to confront the British Navy, but to target Russia's Baltic Fleet and Black Sea Fleet. However, the arrogant maniac of Germany, William II, advocated that the High Seas Fleet wanted to pass the British Royal Navy, but in fact he also wanted to divert the public's attention, especially the Russian Navy. However, his choice to use the British Navy to divert attention was obviously not a wise choice.

Since Bismarck became prime minister, Germany has achieved great success in economic strength and military strength. In the 19th century, the first year of the 5th, ranking first in Europe, and the speed of 17 guachlor does not exceed 9. The world's number one power? br/>

Naturally, Britain could not go to seek the country in a slump. Therefore, the rejection of William II of Germany caused the last door between the deer to be closed and then walked together, perhaps only the mythological era can solve this problem?

The British were hitting walls everywhere, so they naturally had to look for his accomplices. Naturally, Zhang Yunfei once again entered the sight of the British. Zhang Yunfei was the best choice for the British, regardless of strength or geographical environment.

In terms of strength, he has already caught up with the second-rate European power, and his navy has entered the ranks of European power. In terms of geographical location, Zhang Yunfei has been struggling in Asia, but how can he also struggling in Europe? Moreover, fighting against Russia in the north and France in the south are the best choices for Britain.

Therefore, it is not surprising that a more stable alliance relationship with Zhang Yunfei came into being!

However, what impact will the emergence of the alliance have on the world pattern? Zhang Yunfei doesn’t know, the British don’t know, and people from all over the world don’t know, but it’s certain that with the continuous competition between the three major military groups, the interests of the new and old capitalisms are re-dividing the future an unprecedented world war is already brewing.

However, those are things that will happen in the future. Today, the British-Chinese coalition forces in South Africa are planning to divide a huge cake?

After adjustment of troops, Roberts had eight reorganized infantry divisions in the direction of the main attack, the colonial divisions (College Division).*Tumen?Soldier Division.

The British army did not gain any benefits in Orangetown Bloemfontein, but instead caused the British army to suffer a plague, which annoyed the arrogant British army.

Lord Roberts, commander-in-chief of the British Army, decided to re-engage the spring offensive in early May.

On May 12, Roberts' army launched a general attack on the Bull defenders of Maquard. The British army, with a powerful artillery force, seemed a little lazy and seemed very afraid of the Bull's fortress machine gun positions.

They ran two steps and found a place to lie down and block it, then shouted that the enemy's firepower was fierce and demanded the artillery support.

As a result, the British artillery troops worked hard. They originally thought that using the 96 infantry cannons made in Honolulu saved a lot of effort. Now it seems that these artillery soldiers kept carrying shells and could not supply the cannons to fire. They kept cursing the Pearl Harbor Arsenal in their hearts. Why did they make artillery fire?

"preparation!"

"Open fire!"

"Removal shell!"

"When you move quickly, I'll kick your ****!" The officer patrolled the artillery positions from time to time. In his eyes, these 96 infantry cannons are really good things, and the gunship speed is much faster than before. He doesn't care how tired the soldiers are?

"Get on shells!"

...

"Go back and move the shells quickly! Be careful that I will shoot you out as shells!" The cannon leader turned around and shouted when he saw that the ammunition box was empty again.

The cannon has become a cannon, but the cannonballs are not as long as they are, so the artillery soldiers can move them by themselves, right?

A series of actions were repeated by the artillery soldiers, and hot shells were filled with smoke everywhere around the artillery position.

The British artillery soldiers continued to shell the Makudel Boer position but did not feel sorry for the shells. However, the British Logistics Minister behind looked at the boxes of reduced ammunition boxes and smiled bitterly. It seemed that he had to report to the 6th Army again for ammunition.

In the past few months since the use of Honolulu's standard weapons and equipment, the British army has won consecutive victories, and the casualties have been significantly reduced, but the ammunition and medicine consumed is more than ten times that of the previous one. The British 6th Army has begun to embrace it.

The army was wasting taxpayers' money. It strongly demanded that the British army save these things at present are imported from Honolulu, and that guy Zhang Yunfei only recognized money but not people. The war money of Great Britain has been jealous of many British merchants.

So they spent a lot of money to buy production licenses for Honolulu's standard weapons, and even many patents, and began to establish new production lines in the UK. However, what they may not know is that these patents and technologies bought at a lot of money will soon be outdated, and the large-scale battle on the British battlefield is about to end. When their weapons are produced, they will be outdated and no one will buy them.

On May 15, the Boer army's defensive positions were finally bombarded in chaos. The Boer army suffered heavy casualties and was forced to withdraw from Makude.

Then the British infantry occupied the fortress that had been bombed. The reporter of the Guosui Army recorded the entire process of the British army taking the fortress at the cost of zero casualties.

The next day, the front page of the London Earth Newspaper reported this exciting thing. However, when British Logistics Minister Lord Landry saw the title of the "Cast Cases Pile out of Victory" in the newspaper and the photos of the shells piled up in the mountains next to it, he almost lost his breath.

He hurriedly picked up the phone, and after talking to the 6th Military Department, he asked loudly: "Damn it, are you wasting taxpayers' money like this?"

When it comes to the loud voice of the Logistics Minister, the guys from the 6th Military Department naturally have many ways to deal with him. After replying, he said, "It is necessary to conduct further investigation and verification", he hung up the phone.

Lord Langley, the Minister of Logistics, shook his head helplessly, knowing that such a guy would do his best to make excuses and perfunctory things. What should I do to investigate? Verify? Verify until the Year of the Monkey and Horse Month?

In modern popular terms, the flowers that have been waiting for have faded! You can't verify them!

On the 58th, the British vanguard easily conquered the new capital of Orange Free State. Matius Stey, president of Orange Free State, had to continue to retreat. There was only one way out when he had to retreat, which was Johannesburg in Transvaal. However, before that, he had to pass through the last city of Frini, New, but people were easy to leave, but what should I do if the 60-: gold of Orange Free State?

Because Johannesburg was under the attack of the Chinese army, the South African dispatched troops of the Chinese army, which had always been named the first robber army, would never allow this batch of gold to arrive in Pretoria safely.

So the cunning General Matius Stee ordered the division of 60 tons of gold into three parts and the three Boer divisions arrived in Pretoria from three routes. Unfortunately, the plan had not yet been implemented, and the situation on the battlefield changed rapidly.

Due to the successive failures, the morale of the Boers plummeted. Under Roberts' promise, the members of the militia who were mostly active in the rear of the British army surrendered to the British, handed over their weapons, and then returned to their farms. By mid-May, there were only more than 20,000 Boers who were still fighting.

On the 24th of the month, Lord Milner announced the British annexation of the Orange Free State in Bloemfontein.

After annexing Orange, Lord Roberts also knew that he was hiding in Frene's new President Orange and 60 tons of gold, so the British army stepped up his attack on Frene's new.

At this time, the Boer Army had no way out and had intercepted the Chinese army, and the British army pressed step by step. According to the president's order, the gold was distributed to everyone, and then all troops were dispersed to break through. This further aggravated the defeat of the Boer Army. By the way, the Boer people with gold in their pockets were desperate to fight? What's more, how could the scattered soldiers and vanguards compete with the British and Chinese coalition forces like wolves and tigers?

This batch of Boer troops has more than 60 tons of gold, and now two countries are making some regulations on robbing.

So Lieutenant General Luo Haichuan, commander of the First Army, contacted Lord Roberts, the commander-in-chief of the British Army, to discuss the ownership and distribution of the gold.

There is no good idea for this issue. After all, Britain and Honolulu are both invading troops, and the treasury gold of the country's separate countries is unpredictable and shameful. Lord Roberts thought for a long time before replying to Luo Haichuan.

"Whoever grabs it will belong to you!"
To be continued...
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