Half a day later, Sun Gang swaggered with a few hundred Boer cavalry into a barracks near the western foothills of the Dekenras Mountains, and a little later, the special battalion officer who had taken off his merchant robe appeared outside the camp with Major Botha, two hours before the two men had met for the first time, but now they looked more like old friends......

Sun Gang naturally understood the price code of his old friend, 2oo silver dollars, half a box of Chinese Hongshan cigarettes and 5 bottles of Chinese liquor...... The Boers were not fools, but extremely shrewd, and although the Chinese suddenly crossed the valley into the Transvaal border, although he did not know the purpose of the other party, the army in his hands was enough to wipe out the Chinese caravan.

But the other party gave him a benefit that he could not refuse at all, of course, not the very useful consumables above, Sun Gang had earlier received the news that Major Botha was stationed here, accompanied by his wife and a pair of lovely children, and he very clearly expressed his request to go deep into the Transvaal, the reward was to establish a supply point in the eastern foothills of the Dkenras Mountains, and if Major Botha needed it, he could help him board the Chinese transport ship on the Maputo River and eventually return to Europe.

Although Major Botha was very interested in this condition, he immediately multiplied the price several times, increasing the number of places to assist in the transfer to 2o instead of the number of people previously agreed...... This was obviously a bit different from what had been expected in advance, but for Sun Gang, these were perfectly acceptable conditions, not to mention, when he arrived at the supply station, it would only be good for him to enter the Transvaal safely.

And this also corroborates the news obtained before, the Boers are obviously not as confident as Pretoria, even under the premise of continuous military victories on the front line, the army commanders on these flanks seem to be able to see the truth of the battle situation more clearly! And these Boers, who controlled the rear, saw fleeing back to the Netherlands as the only way out, and this was an opportunity they could make the most of.

The doubts of these Boer army officers were obviously not on the decisive battle with the British, and Major Botha even expressed his concern very blatantly, "The front line has gathered almost all the fighting power of the Boer, and although the victories are now continuous, they are only limited to blocking the British attack, and the difficulty of attacking the Cape Town colony is really unlikely in terms of the strength of the Boer army...... If a certain front loses, it will be the whole situation that will collapse! ”

The main factor in the final victory of the Boers was not how many victories the Boer army could win against the British 6th Army, but how much the British government and Britain could fight in the country.

When he left Maputo, the information obtained from the British intelligence department made him see the results of the war more clearly, and for the successive bad news of the British 6th Army, except for the Liberal Party's armistice proposal in Britain, the House of Commons, the House of Lords, and even domestic public opinion were all hard-lined, and the Boers tried to preempt the people and take the initiative to provoke the war, which was obviously counterproductive.

After some discussion that seemed to Sun Gang to be difficult, Sun Gang, in order to ensure his own way out, once again added a condition that Major Botha could not refuse at all - if they wished, they would be free to choose to return to the Netherlands or live in the Far East!

Two days later, Sun Gang had obtained all the reassurance he needed, and when the caravan left, a certificate from the border garrison, a 3o Boer cavalry corps led by a captain 3 people joined, and the accompanying camel caravan was reduced by a third! And under the construction of Major Botha, he acquired a status that could not be laughed at - a writer from the East, and the Boers obviously had an irresistible need for international public opinion, especially influential international public opinion!

It was only 18o kilometers from the western foot of the Dkenras Mountains to Pretoria in the Transvaal, but the poor traffic environment in the area still gave Sun Gang a big headache, but fortunately, Major Botha allocated his cavalry to great use, and the abundant animal power was undoubtedly the best mobility in this era, but he still walked for 15 days on the journey that could be completed in two days on this rapid march in the country.

On 25 January, Sungang, who had reached the outskirts of Pretoria almost without hindrance, encountered a communications squad coming down from the front line, and he received the news that the Boer victory had apparently not stopped in the face of the poor contrast of forces, and that the 3rd Division of the British 6th Army, which had been attacking at the beginning of the month, under the command of Lieutenant General Gatak, had attacked Bloemfontein, the southern gateway of Orange, only to suffer another defeat that was almost identical to that of the previous battle.

The Boers made full use of their familiarity with the terrain and placed their artillery behind the main battlefield of the British 6th Army's attack, and then used the rangers to lure the enemy and block the trenches as a means to attack the British 6th Army from the flanks to the British 6th Army, which launched a large-scale attack, and the result of the war was almost one-sided, the 3rd Division of the British 6th Army was unable to destroy the Boer artillery suppression in the unfavorable terrain, suffered heavy casualties, more than 69o people were captured, the whole line was routed, and the gap in attacking the military town of Deauer from Orange was opened......

On that day, Sun Gang entered Pretoria and left to investigate, but the black guards he brought with him played an unusual role here...... Due to the fact that most Boers were extremely racist against blacks, although there were many black tribes in the Transvaal and Orange, the Boer coalition forces completely refused to allow blacks to participate in the war throughout the Boer War. Even on the issue of prisoners, the British prisoners were treated very gentlemanly after they were sent to Pretoria, but for the blacks captured in the British army, it was the fate of direct execution.

But in fact, it is almost impossible to eliminate the influence of blacks in the Transvaal Republic, and a large number of low-level jobs here and the mining industry on which the Transvaal depends require a lot of black labor, so although the local blacks have no status, they also have a lot of geographical advantages!

As a trader and news writer, Sun Gang quickly found his way through the Boer military channels with the help of documents provided by Major Botha, and given China's strong international influence, his temporary guest appearance as a newspaper writer even gained access to the wounded Boer soldiers and captured British troops, while the black retinue Nassim and the tribal elder Nadila also received more information from the local black community.

Less than 1o days after the victory of the Boers at Bloemfontein, Sun Gang replied with the first Boer briefing on the situation by telegraph from Guò Transvaal to the western foothills of the Dkenras Mountains, and he came to the preliminary conclusion that, although the Boer army had a great tactical advantage over the British, the great demographic disadvantage of the Boers and the extreme attitude of the Boers towards the black question would eventually turn the tide of the war, but the British needed time! A more detailed report revealed that the caravan that had returned half a month later had been brought back to the military camp on the border with Maputo.

At the beginning of November 1899, the Ministry of Military Affairs in Beijing had received dozens of messages from the Anglo-Boer war front, and the news from the military attache who had entered with the Chinese medical team from Cape Town was obviously very unfavorable to the Boers, and the port of Cape Town was crowded with supply convoys from the British Empire and the colonies, and the British 6th Army was constantly arriving at the port to complete the assembly and board the trains on the front.

In just two months, according to the information obtained from Cape Town, the 6th Army of the British has completed the supply of 4 6th Army divisions and nearly 60,000 people...... The lessons of the previous defeat made the British commander-in-chief in South Africa, Vice Admiral Buller, pay more attention to the use of heavy artillery, and the large-caliber secondary guns on the British battleship "Fearless", which arrived earlier, were dismantled and loaded on armored trains.

More importantly, intelligence from the colonies of London and Cape Town showed that Britain was not prepared to negotiate at all because of the defeat on the front, but rather intensified its military investment, so the intelligence investigation in the Cape Town direction believed that with the formation of an overwhelming superiority in the number of the British 6th Army, the Anglo-Bravo war would soon be upset, and Britain would eventually win.

On the afternoon of 14 November, the Ministry of Military Affairs submitted the first report on the Anglo-Boer War to Qin Kai, and Qin Kai, who was holding a cabinet meeting to discuss the proposal to end the stage of political training within 2o years and enter the constitutional government no later than 2o years later, did not care at all about the judgment of various conclusions when he saw the report's conclusions on the Anglo-Boer War, and the pragmatic and meticulous intelligence staff work of the Ministry of Military Affairs was obviously more important than drawing conclusions.

In the afternoon of the same day, on the sidelines of the cabinet meeting, Qin Kai summoned the senior officer corps of the Ministry of Military Affairs and made his views on the Boer War very clearly - the loss of vital German support, the Boers want to fight against the British, and defeat is a matter of time, but the British obviously cannot easily win the Boer War, and China has no intention or interest in participating in this war between whites, and the main topic of the Ministry of Military Affairs in the future will not only be army building, It is also necessary to fully handle the issue of the army's participation in local construction.

On November 22, the day when the fourth batch of officers rushed to South Africa to change their guards, the Beijing government once again announced a news that shocked the world, that it would build railway lines into Sichuan, Yunnan, and Gansu respectively, and that the main line would be 6ooo kilometers long, and that the military, as the assisting unit of this important national project, would send a large number of troops into the line to be responsible for construction and safety.

On the same day, the Ministry of Commerce transferred the five-year railway construction plan that the cabinet has signed, which will be built in the form of national investment and public bidding, on the basis of the existing railway trunk lines in 22 provinces in China, and the construction of 25ooo kilometers of double-line trunk lines and 3oooo kilometers of branch railways!

The news has already been announced, and a new round of investment in railway stocks has been set off on the Shanghai Stock Exchange and the Guangzhou Stock Exchange, but Premier Qin, who has set off this new round of infrastructure construction upsurge, has already left Beijing that day and taken a special train to the Jiangnan Shipyard in Shanghai, where he will personally open the prelude to a new era of the navy.

[There are some cards in the recent chapters.,Because it involves the later layout.,Snow drift head is a little short-circuited.,The update is a little slow.,Brothers.,I'm sorry~~] r1152.】

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