"It's over!" When the 1st Bull Cavalry Regiment appeared in the rear of General French, the veteran general who had worked for the British Empire for decades finally came to an end in his military career! The battle was no longer fought, although he soon realized that this army was the cavalry that he had been chasing for more than a week, but had not finally eaten, and in terms of numbers, it was no more than 1,000 at most. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Even in terms of the total number of people, the current British army still has to surpass the opponent, but unfortunately, the British army, which is still superior in numbers, cannot fight! French and George's British army together has about 7,200 men, and in order to break through the line of defense in front of them, the British have thrown more than 700 people in, and there are still 2,000 people trapped in it, and they can't get in and don't come out!

Colonel George's position was raided, and there may still be some people left to resist, but it can already be regarded as being wiped out by the formation, this force is about 1,500 people, and these two alone have lost 4,200 people! Plus the 800 people that Velun took away, that's 5,000 people, that is, there are 2,200 people next to French! But what are these 2,200 people? The logisticians, the dying sick who had been tortured by the long run and disease, the command staff, and the fighters who had just rotated and had not had time to rest.

He knew there were only 1,000 people on the other side, but his subordinates didn't know! After a long run and a series of battles, the mental and physical strength of these people has reached the limit, the opponent's attack route is well chosen, and their own side lacks machine gun firepower and has no cover, how to block?

But even so, French did not give up his last hope, and he ordered the last cavalry to make a charge to prepare to attack, and if the opponent went straight to his own position, then his cavalry still had a chance to launch a flank from the flank and go to Bo!

But it's a pity that this cavalry didn't give French a chance, Veron's cavalry has fallen into the encirclement and attack of the superior Boers, and the cavalry that lost its speed suffered in the face of several times the infantry itself, and the sudden appearance of the Boer cavalry in the rear made the morale of the British extremely low, and the combat effectiveness was greatly reduced, if nothing else, this army was either ground to death, or forced to withdraw from the battlefield, these 800 people were also wasted, and the battle behind them did not need to be considered.

Paul decided to use the best tactics of the Boer cavalry - dismounting! When his cavalry arrived on the battlefield, his troops dismounted and began to pretend to be machine guns and grenadiers, gradually closing in on the opposing British army and attempting to establish contact with Calyput.

During this time, the British cavalry tried to break through Paul's line, but the British were forced to retreat after falling more than 100 men under the fire of machine guns, grenadiers and semi-automatic rifles, and at this time, Calyput finally drove Velon's cavalry, and the two Boer armies established contact, and then formed an encirclement of French, and now the British general was a complete defeat, his army lacked heavy artillery, was exhausted, and was sandwiched between three Boer troops. Problems in the rear directly affected the attack on the front.

When the rear position sounded a dense exchange of fire, the British army attacking in front finally collapsed, and even many British troops directly chose to surrender, throwing away everything that could be used as a weapon in their hands and then squatting on the ground to pray for the other party's forgiveness, while most of the remaining people fell into confusion, they tried to escape from the battlefield, but were knocked to the ground one by one by the bullets behind.

"Everyone evacuates, while the other party is not yet encircled, run out, as much as you can! Follow your officers back to our zone of control. After saying that, French gave the order to break out, and he himself ended his life with a bullet, there is always someone to be responsible for this defeat, and French chose to use his life to resist all the guilt!

"We won, and no more than 1,500 Britons ran out in the end! They were exhausted, unfed, unarmed, like frightened birds, and there was no one in the whole area north of Hanover to stop us. Looking at the devastated battlefield, looking at the British who were gathered in groups and squatting together under the threat of the guards, Pershing said triumphantly.

"We killed more than 5,000 British and their servants in the first war, and President Kruger's frontal results will be even greater, and the tens of thousands of British troops will eventually escape back no more than 5,000 people, and the British will consider our opinions after this war." Boer representative Will Jon was more optimistic.

And the reality is that the 20,000 British troops, 5,000 Australian troops and 15,000 Indian troops on the front have indeed been crushed. And the process of losing is very dramatic. After the news of the British logistics being cut off reached the frontal battlefield, the British were ready to start retreating, taking advantage of the fact that the supplies were still relatively abundant, exchanging space for time.

This tactic itself was correct, but there were some problems in its implementation, at the northernmost point of the battle line, there was a large hole in the middle when the troops were withdrawn, and Kruger seized this opportunity to launch an attack, and successfully broke through this line of defense, which would normally be worn through, no big deal, but the Boers suddenly discovered that if they pulled the artillery to the front line, they could use heavy howitzers to attack the waterworks 21 kilometers northeast of Bloemfontein...... outskirts.

This is a natural disaster! When the British army made a mistake in their busy evacuation, they neglected the supplies that were more important than food - water, people can go without food for seven days, and you can try without drinking water for three days! After the waterworks were put off by 150mm howitzers, the British collapsed faster than they could have imagined and beyond the imagination of the Boers!

There was not enough fresh water, the horses collapsed first, then the troops, and the British decisively withdrew with a fairly sufficient amount of ammunition. The Boers did not react at first, and only found out when the British had been gone for a long time. Subsequently, the Boers who attacked from the front took advantage of their mobility and began to attack the scattered and evacuated British troops, although the final result was not as Wiljon imagined, the number of British troops and servant troops reached 13,000, and almost all the Indian troops became Boer prisoners, and the number of British losses reached more than 10,000!

Never since the end of the Napoleonic era have the British paid such a heavy price in a single campaign! A complete failure, a complete failure, and it was the Boers who caused all this! A bunch of Boers who, in the eyes of the British, are indistinguishable from the natives of Africa! A few months ago, the British were mocking the Americans for their vain navy, and now the British suddenly found themselves weak to a certain extent in their army!

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