"They don't have a lot of troops, only 2 battalions of about 1,500 people, but this is an important ammunition distribution center for them, with 8 75mm guns and 2 armored trains with at least 12 machine guns on them, and 4 guns! The firepower is very ferocious! When Wiljon saw this information, he was dumbfounded. The pen & fun & pavilion www.biquge.info Boer people are not faced with a piece of fat, but a hard walnut.

"It's okay, I'll take care of everything." Calipt took a deep breath and calmed down his slightly agitated mood before saying.

Thousands of troops suddenly surrounded the city, the cable telegraph to the outside world had been cut off, and the only radio telegraph had broken down. This time God was on the side of the Boers. However, the severance of the link and the victory meant that in front of them was a military fortress with relatively complete fortifications.

Rustle, rustle. The sound of digging came from outside Kirsberg, and thousands of soldiers, wielding sapper shovels in their hands, began to build offensive positions under the command of officers. Several trenches stretched from a distance under the cover of night, and the Boers made clever use of the terrain. Let the entire trench be protected by the terrain to the greatest extent, and most of the curved trenches are either in the observation blind spot or in the shooting dead end.

When these trenches were stretched to a distance of less than 300 meters from the British fortifications, the Boers began to dig laterally, like spiders weaving webs, and began to expand to the sides with the longitudinal frame almost completed, and in just one night an offensive position took shape.

"Open fire! Kill those gophers! When the British spotted the approaching Boers, they decisively concentrated their artillery and machine guns on the advancing Boers. Unfortunately, their estimate of the firepower of the Boers was seriously skewed.

The light of the searchlights and the muzzle flame of the guns directly exposed the position of the guns, and when the Boer howitzers advanced into the nests built in the night, the British artillery would also face their end! A barrage of artillery fire came from a distance, the slender muzzles of the guns spewing lethal shells, and the successive orange fireballs turned the exposed British artillery positions into a sea of fire.

Although the British tried their best to turn the town into a fortress, the wooden houses in the town had no resistance to the picric high-explosive bombs, and the yellow-green flames ignited the wooden bunkers, watchtowers, and houses of the British, and when a 75mm shell landed on the ammunition stack 150 meters behind the gun emplacement, accompanied by a series of violent explosions, a huge fireball rose into the air, and the shock wave generated by the explosion spread out in all directions. Reduced 2 75mm guns and 2 57mm guns to ashes, along with the entire gun crew!

When a large firecracker was lit, the Boers' machine guns and artillery began to attack the remaining searchlights, and after at least four extra-large light bulbs were blown to pieces, the British died down, leaving the Boers outside the city to dig holes except for scattered shelling.

The real fight began in the early hours of the next morning, when the Boers finally dug to the edge of the minefield laid by the British, and after digging out two iron watermelons in succession, they did not dare to continue digging in the dark at night. Subsequently, the Boers began to fortify the bunkers and breastwalks, and to deploy ammunition and weapons to the front.

After last night's victory, the Boers were in high spirits and prepared to take this important transport hub in front of them in one day, and everything was unfolded according to the predetermined script, with grenadiers and mortars firing smoke grenades, machine guns blocking the enemy's fire, engineering squads using explosives to open a path in the minefield, and the front artillery knocking out the enemy's firing points.

Groups of infantry then leaped out of the trenches and rushed towards each other under the cover of smoke. The whole unit was running like a sophisticated machine, and the closest distance to the British first line of defense was only about 300 meters! With the support of superior firepower, the Boers quickly opened several gaps!

After the Boer spearmen armed with semi-automatic rifles used continuous fire to suppress their opponents, they threw several grenades into the trenches, and with a muffled sound, a trench more than ten meters long was cleared, and the follow-up troops continued to advance, while the spearheads continued to advance with the sappers to the next line of defense.

Everything was so complete until the distant smoke came the sound of metal crashing and roaring....... A huge figure slowly approached from a distance, and the armored train consisting of two locomotives and 4 cars gradually became clear, with the coal car in front, then the first locomotive, followed by two armed cars, then the second locomotive, and the last one also an armed car. The armored train, which is more than 20 meters long, is entrenched on the railway line like a steel monster. As soon as they entered the market, they put a lot of pressure on the Boers!

The British also put a certain amount of effort into the deployment of this line of defense, and built a breast wall on the outside of the entire railway, which directly blocked the opponent's firing range and vision, and it was not easy to destroy the railway or attack the lower part of the train with mortars, and the distance between the breastwork and the railway was about 50 meters. It's not easy to carry out blasting.

A 37mm gun turret on the armored train numbered Elephant 1 slowly turned, and after a test shot, 24 shells were fired one after another, and a barrage enveloped the loose skirmish line of the Boers, accompanied by a series of explosions, the entire battle line collapsed in an instant, and the entire attack step was also stopped.

A single cannon was not enough to support the entire defensive line, and the Boers tried to launch a group charge, but soon the dense fire of up to 12 machine guns on the armored train turned the charge into a literal death! If the sound of tearing oilcloth is like a requiem of death, the dense bullets rush like waves to the charging crowd.

Although the Boers used a skirmish line and used the cover of the terrain as much as possible, the fierce machine-gun fire of the British smashed mounds or obstacles into a pile of pieces! "About 150 rounds of ammunition can make a large hole for one person to pass through the earthen wall a foot behind, and a bunker mixed with wood and dirt is not to be feared, and a maximum of 300 rounds can bring it down!"

The British recorded the power of these machine guns in cold numbers, and the Elephant carried a full 150,000 rounds of ammunition and 700 rounds of 37mm shells! And you can also open the side door to receive supplies at any time! The whole train is as impregnable as a moving steel fortress! The ferocious firepower made this armored train like a moving volcano, sealing the entire attack channel!

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