Four shooters carrying special rifles killed the British officers who tried to organize resistance one after another, the blood splashed, and the corpses close at hand, and the killers hidden in the grass completely destroyed the British will to resist, when the grenades fired from the grenadiers fell with a whistling sound, the British completely collapsed, they threw away their rifles, bullet belts, and even took off the military uniforms that they were proud of, and fled in all directions, but even so, most of them still could not escape the pursuit of death. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

"Take everything you can with you, be careful not to exceed the weight of the horse, and burn all the rest." When the Boers shot the last British, who were unwilling to surrender, more than 40 truckloads of supplies became their trophies.

Several Boers even removed a piece of target from the car and wrote on it with a carbon bar the phrase "This is only the beginning, far from the end, unless the whole of South Africa is placed at the feet of the Boers!" They said this provocative slogan in the middle of the road, and at the same time there were several corpses of British soldiers as a warning!

After the annihilation of the 19th Transport Company, the news was delivered to Captain Strong about the afternoon of the same day, and his first reaction after learning of the news was to abandon the pursuit of the target in front of him and immediately retreat in the direction of the town!

"Send a telegram to Cape Town at once, saying that we are under siege by a large number of cavalry! Outside the city of Hanover, they had at least five or more cavalry! There is a company for every cavalry size! Well, that's all! "As a veteran officer who had suppressed an uprising in Sudan and dealt with Hindus in India, Captain Strong was the first to recognize the crisis of his situation!

Within a radius of less than 50 kilometers, I encountered 2 cavalry units! This density is a bit large! If it weren't for the fact that the other side was going to concentrate its forces and take some big action, then the Boer cavalry should have been more dispersed! This anomaly caught his attention!

"Captain, the telegraph line has been cut off, and we can't even communicate with the surrounding cities!" Soon, an even more frightening piece of news worries Captain Strong even more.

"All the personnel shrank into the city and requisitioned the local people to build a defensive line! Send someone on horseback to contact the other friendly forces, the Boer army is coming! Not only Captain Strong, but also the other British cavalrymen who carried out the task of countering the riot quickly realized the seriousness of the problem, and the clever ones ran away, while the sluggish ones lay on the grasslands of South Africa, and then became a meal for the hyenas.

And this was only the beginning, and soon a large number of Boer cavalry appeared around the towns behind the British, which, according to eyewitness accounts, ranged in size from a few hundred to a few thousand! The dust kicked up by the cavalry as it passed over the British like a shadow of death, and the Boers quickly cleared all the buildings and personnel outside the city that were not protected by fortifications.

They destroyed the farmsteads of the British, burned houses and granaries. Destroying mines and even smuggling into parts of water sources. So much so that the current British draw water from the well and let the dog drink the ...... first. Subsequently, the concentrated Boer cavalry began to destroy the railway in sections, and began to besiege some of the strongholds that were not too well defended. Some places were knocked down and reduced to ashes in the flames, while most survived the catastrophe unscathed.

"Now that our transport line through Cape Town-Bloemfontein is now in crisis, a large number of Boer cavalry are present in our rear, and I am disappointed by the performance of our clearance troops, that in just one week 10 transport companies have been attacked, 8 of them completely destroyed! We lost fifteen villages, as well as thousands of tons of various supplies, including food, forage and weapons that were urgently needed at the front. They even attacked our towns. Sir Roberts, the British commander-in-chief in South Africa, said solemnly.

"The cavalry drawn from the colonies is not very good at suppressing the Boers, and I hope that you will be able to clear the British Imperial cavalry of your homeland from these annoying hyenas. General French, I can help you as much as I can in my role, and you must complete the mission! Sir gave the order.

So, under the strict orders of Sir Roberts, General French, who had just arrived in South Africa, began to integrate all the cavalry at hand to form a rapid strike force ready to be put into anti-encirclement operations, French theoretically had a cavalry division, according to the British establishment, a cavalry regiment composed of 3 cavalry companies. A cavalry division consisted of 12 cavalry regiments, a regiment of 9000 men with at least 18 machine guns and a certain number of artillery. But now, General French's actual force is just over half of it, about 5,000 men!

"My troops need some artillery, the Boers are even better in terms of individual quality, they spend half of their lives on horseback, they are natural riders and well-trained hunters, they are also better armed, they have semi-automatic rifles with an unusually high rate of fire, they have grenadiers, some mortars and machine guns, and we are completely suppressed in regimental battles." General French uttered his request.

"Do you want naval artillery? The 120mm gun was replaced with an army gun mount. Sir glanced at the latter, and said helplessly.

"What we need is a 12-pounder gun, even a smaller one, a 6-pounder gun, or an old 9-pounder gun, but a 120mm gun is a 40-pounder gun, which is already considered a siege artillery, and you let the cavalry units carry these guns? Are you sure you got it right? The muscles on General French's face jumped slightly, if the person in front of him was not his immediate boss, he would definitely teach a good lesson and let the cavalry move with heavy artillery, isn't it funny?

"All the artillery suitable for carrying has long been moved to the front by the army, and now you can't even piece together a 75mm gun in the warehouse, whether it's naval or army guns. We only have the guns here that have just rested from the battleship, and by the way, by the way, all the small and medium-caliber guns on the battleships docked outside the harbor have been unloaded in the port of East London, and if I hadn't left you a batch of guns in advance, I'm afraid you wouldn't even have this! Or would you rather use those 6-inch guns? "But Sir was still an experienced commander, and he had already considered the problem of supply lines, so he arranged for General French to transport and supply.

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