"Hundreds of years of glory of the British Empire have thrown those rice buckets into the Indian Ocean! Our forefathers defeated the Spaniards, defeated the illustrious Dutch, crushed the Napoleonic Empire, which made all of Europe tremble, in the Crimea! At the door of the Russians' house, we repaired the Russians with naval guns and rifles! And now? Decades have passed! Our army was actually defeated by a group of herders in South Africa! Descendants of a group of Dutchmen! This is unforgivable! When news of the Battle of Bloemfontein reached London, a furious Salsburi angrily threw the documents in his hand next to Colonial Chancellor Neville Chamberlain. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

"What do you say? It will take only half a year to completely solve the Boers! Then we will get the whole of South Africa's gold mines! We will increase our revenue by at least £5 million a year! But what about now? Defeated twice in a row, we lost 40,000 troops! The war cost has reached 35 million pounds! And the Boers have reached the side of the Orange River! Where will they go next? East London? Or Cape Town? ”

"Your Excellency, although our army in South Africa has suffered a heavy blow, the Boers have also paid a heavy price, with more than 20,000 casualties, and the two Boer republics have only 220,000 men combined, and even with the Eastern Cape, no more than 600,000. Although they repelled our attacks on the frontal battlefield, they also reached the limit of their strength, and for a long time to come, there would be no major military operations other than the use of cavalry harassment. "said the representative of the military, General Merey.

For the British Empire, the loss of face is much greater than the loss of the inside, the British native army only lost 20,000 people, which is indeed the largest loss in a single British battle after the Crimean War, even in the Napoleonic era, the British army rarely had such huge losses, but 20,000 people in the past is nothing for the current British Imperial Army. It's just that this battle broke the golden sign of the British Empire's Hundred Battles Heroes, and the Hundred Battles are true, but the title of the Heroes is debatable.

In fact, the losses of the Boers in this war were also very large, although the intelligence of 20,000 casualties is exaggerated, but 12,000 are still available, and more importantly, the consumption of ammunition and supplies. In this campaign, the Boers had already spent £300,000 on weapons and supplies, and now only £1,500,000 remained in the Boers' coffers. And the transportation of ammunition and supplies has also become a problem relative to money.

The Boers needed to get weapons and ammunition from former Portuguese Mozambique and transport them all the way to the north bank of the Orange River, and in order to support the cavalry battle, a lot of livestock and transportation capacity were consumed, so, as the British said, this time the Boers were fighting to the limit, they needed to recuperate, and carry out the next round of deep mobilization in the Eastern Cape! And it takes time!

"So does the Army have a new response plan?" Salspoli took off his eyes and wiped the sweat from his head with a hand towel. He knew that there was no value in the urgent need to be held accountable now, and that the key was how to solve the problem and how to hold on to the most important colony of the British Empire after India!

"In the next phase, the Army wants to take over everything in the colony, and I hope that His Excellency the Prime Minister and the Cabinet will pass it, and we will take some extraordinary measures in the next phase, which may be detrimental to the interests of some people." General Merley said carefully.

"Tell me about it." Salzpoli did not immediately agree.

"We need to clear the wilderness, and all food and supplies must be moved to the fortress towns, and all that cannot be taken away must be burned! Even the water sources had to be destroyed if necessary, and the Boer cavalry gave them a considerable advantage in mobility, but at the same time it also put a lot of pressure on their logistics, they had to loot to get some supplies, and what we needed to do was increase their logistical pressure. ”

"We must strike resolutely against any tribe or individual who colludes with the Boers, and with blood and sabers we can deter these people who have two hearts for the British Empire! All suspects are to be sent to concentration camps for strict guard! At the same time, we can also mobilize a limited number of cavalry into the territory of the Boers to attack! Although it will be a big price, it is necessary to delay the other party's action. ”

"We need more troops, the original plan of 150,000 troops is obviously not enough, because half of these troops need to be deployed in the lines of communication and important towns along the way, and the other part is transport units, and the number of people who can actually be used for combat does not exceed 50,000, and this number of troops is obviously not enough! We just need 250,000 troops to stabilize the situation in South Africa. ”

"A large number of cavalry, at least 3 divisions of cavalry to deal with the partisan forces of the Boers. At the same time, we also need to have a large number of vehicles to tow artillery and transport supplies, and it is clear that the capacity and speed of the horses have reached the limit, and if our troops want to be faster, then there must be new capacity. ”

"In the end, we need to build enough and dense enough bunkers and fortifications, and then link them by rail and road, starting from Cape Town and pushing directly to the Boer Republic! Slowly hang the Boers with a huge net! "General Merley told the whole plan of the British Army.

"That's it? I thought you were going to kill all the Boers, so let's do it, and if something goes wrong, the Imperial government will take responsibility, and you just have to remember that the British Empire must win the final victory, and we cannot afford to lose. Saldspori said very simply.

"There is another general problem that we need to solve, and if this problem can be solved, it will be half the difficulty of us to put down the Boer rebellion!" Chamberlain, who has not spoken, said.

"I know, you're talking about the weapons of the Boers, yes, now all kinds of evidence and speculation point to the fact that it was the Germans who supplied the Boers with weapons and ammunition, and the Americans, but what can we do? Economic and trade sanctions? The Reich's foreign trade with Germany was superb, we could make a lot of money from the Germans, and if it was peacetime, we could naturally take sanctions, but not now. ”

"On the one hand, we need to support the expansion of the Japanese fleet in the war, half of their shipbuilding funds are actually loans from the British government, and on the other hand, we need to support the consumption of the Boer War! The money bag of the British Empire is very tight right now, so the economic repression will not be mentioned for the time being, which will have a greater impact on us. ”

"As for the exchange of political interests, it is not possible unless it is absolutely necessary, because the Germans want too much, their ambitions for the 3B railway are too great, and the imperial government does not want to accept it, so it is difficult to change the diplomatic situation now." The prime minister said helplessly.

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