The artillery positions of the British were deployed according to the standard, each position had 4 to 6 guns, the artillery was deployed in a width of about 100 meters in the front, and more than 80 meters behind were ammunition vehicles. An artillery position is about 8000 square meters.

Although the artillery of the two sides gathered more than 7,000 meters at this time, this distance did not have much impact on the strike effect of the Boer artillery, because the Boers pursued a covering strike, aiming not at a certain point target, but covering the entire area with shells! AFTER CALIPUT'S CALCULATIONS AND EXERCISES, A POSITION CAN BE SOLVED WITH 80 TO 100 ROUNDS OF 150MM SHELLS, AND IF 12 150MM HEAVY GUNS ARE FIRED INTENSIVELY, IT WILL TAKE NO MORE THAN 5 MINUTES TO DESTROY SUCH A POSITION!

In fact, it was true, a British artillery position that was first targeted had just finished unfolding, under the command of the company commander, the soldiers pushed the artillery to the gun emplacement, and some gunners took out shells and ****** from the ammunition carts behind, and before they were sent to the gun emplacement in front, a red fireball slipped from the air with a piercing whistling sound! After a loud bang, the shock wave generated by the explosion of nearly 9KG of ******** swept away a radius of more than 20 meters with a large number of debris, and a cannon only 3 meters away from the explosion point was instantly blown to pieces. After a shock wave crossed, the entire company lost more than twenty people at once!

The first salvo of 12 heavy guns achieved good results, almost simultaneously fired, and the shells that landed at the same time were a disaster for the British who were caught off guard, huge explosions sounded from time to time, thick columns of smoke and gunpowder smoke covered the entire position, people could not see the situation inside, but from the violent explosions and the sound of vibrations from the ground, the British had no hope for those hapless colleagues. In just a few minutes, the entire artillery battery was destroyed, more than 70% of the vehicles and horses were lost, and more than half of the personnel were killed, and almost all the rest were wounded!

The British, barely reacting, lost a whole artillery battery. And when the British discovered that the other side seemed to have a long-range artillery, and the other artillery positions had been destroyed, the remaining two artillery batteries immediately gave up the suppression task and prepared to withdraw backwards. AND AT THIS TIME, THE FRONTAL FIRE OF THE BOERS FINALLY CAME INTO PLAY, AND AFTER THE SUPPRESSION OF ARTILLERY, A LARGE NUMBER OF MACHINE GUNS AND MORTARS BECAME THE MASTERS OF THE BATTLEFIELD, AND THE HIDDEN 75MM HOWITZERS ALSO BEGAN TO FIRE AT THE FOLLOW-UP TROOPS OF THE BRITISH, COMPLETELY DISRUPTING THE OPPONENT'S OFFENSIVE!

At this point, General Buller found himself in a pre-designed trap, and the firepower and warriors used by the Boers made him feel like he was not fighting against some African militia, but against a well-trained European force! Most of the artillery, which was the backbone of the fire, was destroyed in a very short time, and the infantry attack was completely disrupted, and it was difficult to even break away.

And at this time, the cavalry on both flanks of his own flanks also raised the alarm to meet the enemy, and with 4 red flares rising into the sky, Buller found that the Boers had launched an outflanking attack on his two flanks! If it is said that with the advent of machine guns, magazine rifles, and rapid-fire guns, the infantry engagement on both sides has changed dramatically.

Then the battle between the cavalry of the two sides during the first war did not change much, especially the British cavalry, although equipped with cavalry rifles, but because the horses were too fast, unless they were mounted infantry, otherwise the two sides still had to fight hand-to-hand with sabers in the end.

In the face of the outflanking Boer and American cavalry, the British naturally could not use the cavalry as mounted infantry, otherwise they would successfully cross the British not wide flank defense line in a circle. Led by the officers, the Anglo-Saxon sons and grandsons mounted their horses and then controlled the speed of their horses to approach their opponents at a lower speed, and with the command to draw their swords, the cavalry in platoon drew their sabers, and the slender and slightly curved swords shone in the sunlight with a dazzling white light. In the absence of heavy fire suppression, the outcome of cavalry engagements often depended on close combat.

A slightly piercing sound came from the air, a black dot in the British field of vision quickly expanded, and then around the formation bloomed a flower of death, the Boer cavalry carried a howitzer launched an attack 2000 meters away, although the not dense artillery bombardment for the cavalry with a higher moving speed had little effect, but it still made the British officer give other orders to charge, after all, this kind of light beating, unable to fight back is too tragic.

The British cavalry began to pick up speed, their sabers stretched forward with a chilling light. The cavalry of the Boers on the opposite side spread out a relatively large frontage, making their depth appear very thin, and the other side seemed to have given up hand-to-hand combat, and when the two sides approached more than 100 meters, the speed of the opposing cavalry did not increase.

For the first time in South Africa, the British cavalry suffered huge losses in the South African battlefield with the sound of gunfire, and each Boer cavalry almost missed the 20-round magazine of the M1897 semi-automatic rifle in his hand in the last distance! A barrage of explosive fire from a few hundred semi-automatic rifles in just under a minute is almost as great as the firepower of a machine-gun position!

With the wailing of horses and the sound of people falling to the ground and rolling, the British cavalry almost stepped on the blood of their colleagues through this round of stormy blows, but fortunately, in the end, they still succeeded in tearing apart the opponent's defense line with sabers and courage, the Boer cavalry line is not thick for the British cavalry group charge is very limited, just after the British crossed the smoke and smoke screen, the British were surprised to find that there was a U-shaped position in their kilometers, and they were right on this opening!

The British overdrew their horsepower prematurely, and after breaking through the enemy's line, which could almost be called a decoy, the remaining cavalry rushed headlong into this defensive line, and the mobility of the Boers was really not blown, and the infantry with one man and two horses allowed them to easily choose a suitable place to build a temporary position, when in fact the Boers had no intention of engaging the fundamentalist cavalry with the British, giving up their own firepower advantage and using cold weapons to fight short and long.

The Americans on the other side are more "honest". The price paid was relatively large, but with at least 4 times the superiority in troops, the Americans still managed to crush the resistance of the other side. The two cavalry began to slowly close together like an open pair of pincers. Everything unfolded according to the script, the infantry attack was thwarted, firmly attracted to the position, the artillery suffered heavy losses, the cavalry flanks were routed, and the rear road could be cut off at a glance.

And at this time, just when Kruger thought that everything was settled, the sound of artillery in a col on the outskirts of the encirclement put the Boers' plans to a back burner!

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