The storm over the entry into service of the new battleships of the Chinese Empire swept the world, and on the other side, the war between the British and the Boers in South Africa continued. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

In May, Roberts, commander-in-chief of the British South African Expeditionary Force, concentrated eight infantry divisions and one cavalry division to launch a new offensive, and on 12 May, Roberts' army launched an attack on Kronstad, the new capital of the Orange Free State.

After obtaining a large number of heavy machine guns and ammunition supplies, the Boers also wanted to launch a large-scale battle to combat the arrogance of the British and force the British to stop the war.

The Burnese army assembled at Kronstad, and the city of Kronstad was quickly surrounded by Burunesque trench positions, in which heavy machine guns were hidden.

On May 12, Roberts' army arrived, and when Roberts saw that the Boers were going to have a decisive battle with them, he had no doubts in his heart, but laughed heartily, believing that the war had been won and the two Boer states were completely destroyed.

Roberts knew how the British army, which lacked automatic weapons and artillery, and even rifle ammunition, was an opponent of the British army, which was well armed with ammunition and heavy machine guns, under the British blockade.

The two armies faced each other, the British set up artillery and heavy machine guns, and first launched an artillery bombardment of the positions of the Cloth Army, and the only artillery of the Cloth Army launched a counterattack, but the fire was soon extinguished, and the Cloth Army in the position could only curl up, hoping not to be blown up by the enemy's shells, nor did they want the heavy machine guns to be blown up.

Under the cover of British artillery fire, Roberts ordered the cavalry division to charge the position of the cloth army, thousands of cavalry drove their horses, brandished cavalry knives in their hands and rushed to the position of the cloth army, followed by the British infantry also armed with a rifle with bayonets rushed out of the position, Roberts wanted to use superior forces to defeat the enemy in front of him in one fell swoop.

Thousands of cavalry rushed out of their positions and galloped wildly towards the positions of the Cloth Army, and tens of thousands of infantry also jumped out of their positions after the cavalry and charged towards the positions of the Cloth Army.

The British cavalry and infantry artillery coordination was not good enough, and when the cavalry was only a few hundred meters away from the infantry position, the British artillery fire stopped to prevent the artillery fire from hurting the cavalry.

At this time, the soldiers of the Burenos Army, who had been destroyed by the British artillery fire for a while, occupied and returned to their posts, and the heavy machine guns that were not damaged were also set up, which was more than a hundred heavy machine guns, which were enough to kill the charging British troops, but the heavy machine guns consumed bullets too quickly, and the existing heavy machine gun bullets of the Buennese Army were probably only enough to maintain a large-scale battle, which was one of the reasons why Joubert had to fight a decisive battle with the British.

Closer, closer, the British cavalry was getting closer and closer to the position of the Cloth army, they knew that the guns of the Cloth army were already aimed at them, but they still moved forward fearlessly, as long as they rushed through this distance, the cloth army was at their mercy.

Da! Da! Da!

More than 100 heavy machine guns opened fire in unison, and the heavy machine gunners of the Cloth Army held down the trigger and did not let go, and one by one the fiery snakes rushed towards the British cavalry.

When the heavy machine gun appeared on the stage of history, it was when the cavalry went into decline, and the heavy machine gun was the nemesis of the cavalry, although the British cavalry played a great role in the South African battlefield before, but it was the lack of automatic weapons in the Buen army, and the cavalry could not be restrained by rifles alone.

Now the Bu army has more than 100 heavy machine guns, and when the heavy machine guns form a scale, there is a death zone in front of the heavy machine guns. The body cannot be easily penetrated, and neither can the cavalry.

A string of bullets reached the cavalry, killing the cavalry and even men and horses, more than 100 heavy machine guns opened fire together, and thousands of cavalry of the British 12th Cavalry Division fell in rows in this death zone, unable to move forward, no matter whether the cavalry advanced or retreated, or stopped in place, they could not escape the harvest of heavy machine gun bullets.

In a short period of time, thousands of cavalry fell, and the heavy machine guns of the cloth army were aimed at the infantry following the cavalry, and the range of the Maxim heavy machine gun of more than 1,000 meters could make the heavy machine guns easily hit the British infantry, and the rows of infantry had already entered the end of the cavalry.

"Retreat! Retreat! ”

Roberts hurriedly ordered the British army to retreat, and the officers on the front line were also giving the order to retreat, because any officer knew that the front was a death zone, and advancing was death, and stopping in place would become a target for the deployment army, and only by retreating quickly could the losses of the British army be reduced.

The British army retreated to its own position, and the Cloth army did not pursue it, because the Cloth army knew that the British army also had a large number of heavy machine guns, and the Cloth army would only be sent to death if they rushed forward now, and the British army was defeated today, and the gain of the Cloth army was enough.

After the battle, the British army counted the number of dead and wounded, and the British army actually suffered nearly 10,000 casualties in this battle, and the 12th Cavalry Division was almost completely annihilated.

"Damn, who sold them heavy machine guns?"

The sudden appearance of a large number of heavy machine guns in the cloth army was the direct cause of the heavy casualties of the British army, no matter who sold the heavy machine guns to the Boers, the cloth army, which had a large number of heavy machine guns, was now the most troublesome enemy for the British army.

Roberts was unwilling to withdraw his troops, and after consulting with Chief of Staff Kitchener, he decided not to attack the positions of the Cloth Army in the short term, but to give full play to the artillery superiority of the British Army and destroy the Cloth Army with artillery.

The British artillery bombardment began, because the British artillery was also limited, so the British artillery did not fire shells all the time, but carried out a short bombardment of the positions of the British army at intervals, which could also consume the energy of the British army, and when the energy of the British army was exhausted and the morale plummeted, the British army launched a tentative attack.

In this way, the British artillery bombardment began, but the British army had to endure the bombardment of the British artillery in pain, maybe they would be killed by the shells in the next moment, and the soldiers of the British army silently prayed for themselves in their hearts, praying that the enemy's shells would not blow themselves up.

After two days of shelling, the British suddenly realized that something was wrong, and felt that the positions of the troops were quiet as if there was no one.

Then a British squad touched the position of the Bronstad, and found that the Bronstad position was empty, and even the city of Kronstad was gone, Roberts was a little confused, and did not know why the Bronstad army suddenly retreated, but the Blotters gave Kronstad white to the British army, and the British army took it, and soon the British army marched into the city of Kronstad.

Unbeknownst to Roberts, the British bombardment accidentally wounded Joubert, who was inspecting the Burundi army, and was declared dead the next day, and according to his last wishes, Louis Botha, who was skilled in guerrilla warfare, succeeded him as commander-in-chief of the Burundi army.

Under the orders of Louis Botha, the Cloth army quickly withdrew from Kronstad, allowing the British to easily take the city of Kronstad.