Chapter 421: Head Like Rain (2)

June is the time of the rainy season in Japan in the northern hemisphere, and winter in southern Africa in the southern hemisphere. Unlike rain-soaked Japan www.biquge.info the wastelands of southern Africa do not see the slightest shade of green, and there is nothing but gravel and dust on the land. This is true up close, and even more so at an altitude of several hundred meters.

"Captain, I used to think that humans were very delicate creatures, but only humans can operate on a large scale in such a wasteland." The person in charge of taking pictures was very emotional while adjusting the shooting angle and focal length.

The captain was the pilot, and after listening to such literati words, his first reaction was that he didn't know how to answer. In the moor, where there was not the slightest living thing, there were farms set up by the Boers, and there were British cavalry who were rumbling through the wilderness from the railroad to the farms. All this proves that only human beings can endure such difficult conditions.

Finally, the captain sighed, "yes." The two crew members who ran out of this desert last month are really heroes. ”

The air force's casualty rate is actually not low, and those complex mechanical systems have caused the incidence of mechanical failures to skyrocket. Take-offs and landings have been the cause of frequent aircraft accidents, and last month there was a mechanical failure that shut down the plane's engine in the air. The driver parachuted with the comrade who was in charge of filming in the back. Not only did the two eventually get out of the desert on two legs, but they even brought back their cameras.

Such a heroic example is indeed a testament to the ability of humans to conquer nature, but their proficiency in the handling of survival equipment and the provision of airdrops from flying units probably accounted for a larger proportion.

Unlike the Chinese, who boasted about air to air, the commanders of the British troops were moving down to the target. A month earlier, on May 1, 1890, the British forces had broken all the Boers who stood in their way and had entered Pretoria. In the early morning of 1 May, the British army marched into empty Pretoria. British prisoners of war held in the city were released from the National Normal School, which was used as a prison, and warmly embraced the British troops entering the city.

Those compatriots who remained in the prisoner of war camps were treated well by the Transvaals. The soldiers also held a party and danced a Scottish dance with the soldiers from Glasgow along with the Duke of Norfolk and the Duke of Marlborough, who accompanied Roberts on his expedition to South Africa. At two o'clock in the afternoon, General Roberts rode into the city. He found the city, surrounded by greenery, "elegant and dignified, with magnificent architecture and neat appearance, comparable to the capitals of the first-rate countries in Europe." British troops carrying colourful flags entered the city from all directions, and the tide of red coats flowed through the streets of Pretoria for two hours.

Roberts and his staff members walked along President Kruger Avenue to Government Square, located in the middle of the city, on a bare marble pedestal, on which a bronze statue of Mr. Kruger was soon placed. The square is surrounded by classical-style government ministries, the Legislative Council and the High Court of South Africa building.

It was in this square that Lord Roberts announced that "the Government of the South African Colony was formally established, and Pretoria was an integral part of the South African Colony". At this time, on the Legislative Council building of the Transvaal Republic, the rice flag has been raised high. And the excited British soldiers erupted in earth-shattering cheers.

But there was always an end to the cheers, and the rest was when the British soldiers who arrived at the gold field for the first time wanted to get their hands on a piece of the local gold ore. These Englishmen listened to a lot of unrealistic propaganda and thought that gold ore was something made from a mixture of a large amount of gold and a small amount of other ore. Just take one piece home and burn it in the fire to separate the melted gold from the rest of the stone.

So when they found out that this idea was very wrong, and that the ore here was a kind of thing that had nothing to do with the golden eight rods, many soldiers were greatly depressed. After learning that the gold content of the ore was actually only 15 grams in a ton, that is, the ratio of 15 parts per million, the soldiers' interest in the ore was reduced to the extreme. They found that even if they brought back a large piece of ore, the gold that could be refined was not even enough for the cost of shipping and refining. This even raised questions among the soldiers about the spoils of war.

However, the British soldiers were not able to soak up the emotions and discussions that could only be enjoyed after these victories, and the capture of Pretoria did not mean a complete victory for the British, and the Boers continued to fight after withdrawing from Pretoria. The British only broke up the mass organization of these Dutch descendants, but they did not make these stubborn men abandon their actions.

Since May 1, the fighting has not stopped at all. The British hoped that they would be able to occupy Pretoria and give the Boers who lived on the farms an environment to continue to live. The Boers, however, clearly did not think so, and began their attacks based on farms.

Roberts and his staff members walked along President Kruger Avenue to Government Square, located in the middle of the city, on a bare marble pedestal, on which a bronze statue of Mr. Kruger was soon placed. The square is surrounded by classical-style government ministries, the Legislative Council and the High Court of South Africa building.

It was in this square that Lord Roberts announced that "the Government of the South African Colony was formally established, and Pretoria was an integral part of the South African Colony". At this time, on the Legislative Council building of the Transvaal Republic, the rice flag has been raised high. And the excited British soldiers erupted in earth-shattering cheers.

But there was always an end to the cheers, and the rest was when the British soldiers who arrived at the gold field for the first time wanted to get their hands on a piece of the local gold ore. These Englishmen listened to a lot of unrealistic propaganda and thought that gold ore was something made from a mixture of a large amount of gold and a small amount of other ore. Just take one piece home and burn it in the fire to separate the melted gold from the rest of the stone.

So when they found out that this idea was very wrong, and that the ore here was a kind of thing that had nothing to do with the golden eight rods, many soldiers were greatly depressed. After learning that the gold content of the ore was actually only 15 grams in a ton, that is, the ratio of 15 parts per million, the soldiers' interest in the ore was reduced to the extreme. They found that even if they brought back a large piece of ore, the gold that could be refined was not even enough for the cost of shipping and refining. This even raised questions among the soldiers about the spoils of war.