Under the blue sea and blue sky, a coastal town in the eastern Transvaal in southern South Africa. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Next to the temporary pontoon pier, two transport ships flying the flag of the Chinese Empire docked here.

Thousands of workers from the Transvaal are constantly moving goods down from the transport ships, tired and sweaty, but with happy faces.

These were the materials secretly aided by the Chinese Empire to the Transvaal Republic, including weapons and ammunition, medical equipment, canned sausages, beer and cigarettes, and even Bliss in the name of medicine.

A group wearing khaki camouflage uniforms, steel helmets on their heads, and long leather boots with steel soles disembarked in a neat and orderly manner and assembled in an open area on the shore.

This force was about three hundred men, and the uniforms they wore alone were enough to attract attention.

The khaki camouflage is suitable for the terrain of South Africa, and if it is more than 100 meters, it is difficult for the naked eye to notice this unit, because their uniforms almost blend in with the surrounding sand dunes.

Not far from the shore, a colonel from the Transvaal was talking to a lieutenant colonel of the Imperial Chinese Empire's Shence Army, who was also wearing a khaki camouflage uniform.

"Thank you for your great assistance to us, we, the Transvaal people, will never forget the help of the Chinese Empire!"

"Your Excellency the Colonel is gracious, it is our honor to help the people of the Transvaal against the British invading army."

The two had a good conversation, after all, the Transvaal side had received real military aid.

When the case was opened, the brand-new rifles covered in gun oil were neatly stacked.

Then open the boxes next to them one after another, and there are bloody heavy machine guns and ammunition. In the six largest containers, there are six 155mm howitzers.

Seeing the bloody heavy machine guns and 155 howitzers, the officers of the Transvaal were immediately overjoyed, and stepped forward to touch and touch, as excited and excited as the bride.

However, when they saw the khaki unit not far away, the officers of the Transvaal inquired one after another.

"Lieutenant Colonel Duan, I don't know if this is your country's troops?"

"Your country promised to help our troops, won't it be just these few hundred?"

"Hehe, that's right, a total of three hundred people, the most elite troops of our Chinese Imperial Divine Army!"

The officers of the Transvaal suddenly looked bad, thinking that the Chinese Empire was fooling them, so they sent 300 men to the battle, how could they defeat 50,000 British troops?

"This joke is not funny at all, you must have hidden the other troops!"

Duan Qirui suddenly laughed, leaving the Transvaal officers inexplicable.

"Don't worry, don't underestimate these three hundred people. Do you know that these 300 people brutally defeated our elite Shence army in a town during our annual military exercises of the Chinese Empire. ”

"Just these 300 people can defeat the elite of your country?"

"Three hundred against more than twenty thousand? It's not funny at all! ”

"Even I don't believe it!"

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Seeing that the officers in the Transvaal didn't believe it, Duan Qirui could only smile bitterly, there was no way, this unit was a secret, and there were some things that could not be said.

However, as a member of the Chinese Imperial Divine Army, the head is arrogant, and there is no need to explain it if it can't be explained.

The Chinese Imperial Shence Army has a good reputation, even if these South African natives don't believe it, they don't dare to question it too much.

"By the way, where is the British striker?"

Duan Qirui asked suddenly, changing the topic.

The colonel of the Transvaal replied: "The vanguard has taken Frankfurt and is advancing towards Johannesburg. ”

At the mention of the war, the officers of the Transvaal had a sad face, and it was obvious that they had suffered great losses in the battle with the British army, and had not fought the British army.

Duan Qirui frowned suddenly, since the Chinese Empire did not have colonies and supply depots in South Africa, it took a lot of time to transfer troops from the mainland to aid the Transvaal.

"What are you going to do? Do you want to hold on to Johannesburg? ”

"That's a must! We have gathered 50,000 troops, determined to fight the British. ”

"We weren't too sure because our weapons and equipment were too backward, far inferior to the British. However, seeing the batch of military supplies that your country has provided to us, our confidence has been greatly increased, and we have a better chance of winning. ”

Duan Qirui didn't take the Transvaal army seriously, this was just a group of ordinary people temporarily armed with an army, and it was not well trained, and it was probably difficult to defeat the British army in a frontal battle.

"I suggest that your army abandon Johannesburg for the time being, and avoid a decisive battle with the main British army, that is your weakness, and you should launch a guerrilla war to attack the logistics supply lines of the British army."

Duan Qirui's suggestion is undoubtedly the most in line with the tactics of the current Transvaal army, but it is a pity that these officers cannot call the shots, and their superiors have already decided to fight a decisive battle, and they cannot be changed at all.

Duan Qirui sighed and said: "Since this is the case, then it is up to us to attack the logistics supply line of the British army, I hope that the main force of your army will not be defeated too quickly, and hold on until the British army is short of supplies, and the British army will naturally withdraw its troops." ”

Duan Qirui is a straight gut, he will say anything and make no secret of it.

But this made the officers of the Transvaal very embarrassed, and they looked at Duan Qirui one by one with very unfriendly eyes.

I am complaining in my heart, even if your Chinese Imperial Shence Army is the strongest army in the world, you can't look down on our Transvaal Army like this!

However, given Duan Qirui's identity, the Transvaal officers were not easy to say.

The atmosphere of the subsequent welcome meeting was much weaker, but Duan Qirui didn't care, and soon he left with his three hundred Shence soldiers and went straight to the British base camp.

Looking at this khaki army (the temporary nickname given by the Transvaal officers), the officers of the Transvaal were pouting, they didn't believe that Duan Qirui could cut off the supply lines of the British army with these three hundred people.

Soon, they remembered all kinds of canned food, beef, beer, and cigarettes that the Chinese Empire had aided, and immediately rushed back to the sea to eat and drink.

Let's say that Duan Qirui took his three hundred men and directly interspersed with the area of Boli Mountain behind Frankfurt.

By this time, the British vanguard army had already set out from Frankfurt and headed for Johannesburg. The Transvaal Army also formed a defensive line in Johannesburg in preparation for a decisive battle with the British.

History has deviated dramatically at this moment.

Originally, the Boer battle plan was to concentrate superior forces before the British army reached South Africa, divide into two routes, one way to the east to attack Natal, divide and encircle the two main British strongholds - Leddy Smith and Dundee, and occupy the port of Durban to gain access to the sea. The other way to the southwest, occupying two strategic points on the Western Cape railway line where the main British forces were stationed, Mefugan and Kimberley. At the same time, he instigated a Boer rebellion in the Cape colony, pinned down the British forces, and especially disrupted the transportation of the two eastern and western Cape railways, preventing the reinforced British army from using the railway to advance northward. In addition, in order to prevent the African natives from taking advantage of the war to attack the Boers, General Princeloe led a heavy army to garrison the Elephant River valley far from the front line to guard against the Pedi riot, with a militia of 800-1,000 people stationed on the border of Eswatini and a militia of 1,000 people stationed on the border of Basuto in the Caledon River Valley.

However, because of the Chinese Empire, the six Sino-British wars dragged down the finances of the British Empire, coupled with the loss of the Yapian trade and the plundering income of the Australian colonies, and then engaged in a large-scale arms race with the Chinese Empire, the British Empire's finances dried up, so it intensified the gold plundering of the South African Boers, and at the same time stationed a large number of troops in Cape Town to protect it.

At this time in history, the British had only a few thousand troops stationed in Cape Town, so the Boers could preemptively destroy the Cape Town colony and prevent the British from landing before the main British army arrived.

But now that the British army had 50,000 troops stationed in Cape Town, it was premeditated, and the Cape colonial authorities headed by Chamberlain were also worried about the uncertainty of the Boers being supported by the whole world, so they preemptively attacked the Transvaal and Orange while they were negotiating

The Transvaal and Orange armies were caught off guard, losing large swathes of territory and losing their head start.

In this case, the situation was extremely unfavorable for the Boers.

Although the Boer army in Johannesburg had a total strength of more than 50,000 people, it was poorly trained, and even with the advanced weapons and equipment provided by the Chinese Empire, it was difficult to form combat effectiveness in a short period of time, and once it encountered the main force of the British army, it basically had no chance of winning.

However, the Chinese Empire still sent a large number of military experts to Johannesburg in advance to become military advisers to the Boer army, helping the Boers build fortifications in Johannesburg, hoping to hold out for a longer time, waiting for various aids and volunteers from other European countries to arrive.

At the same time, the Chinese Empire could not directly send the Shence Army to participate in the war, but could only intervene in the Boer War in the form of volunteers to prevent the outbreak of a direct military conflict between China and Britain and the detonation of a world war.

Although the Chinese Empire is not afraid of world wars, wars are always a strategy, and they still have to be delayed, and they will only use force if they can't drag it out.

Not only the Chinese Empire, but also the German Empire, Britain, the United States, Russia, France and other countries understood this truth, so the British Empire invaded South Africa and did not protest against the Eurasian countries sending volunteers to participate in the war.

There is a clause in the middle, called the bottom line, which is the result of mutual compromise and acquiescence between major countries.

The 300 people led by Duan Qirui, known as the Khaki Army by the Boers, are actually the most elite special forces in the Chinese Empire, codenamed Sharp Blade, and belong to the Third Special Operations Brigade of the Central Theater of the Chinese Empire.

These 300 people are all the elites from various major theaters in the Chinese Empire's Shence Army, and the elites selected after intensive training.

Don't look at the fact that there are only 300 people, but it is true that in last year's annual military exercise, the elite 5th Town from the Eastern Theater was directly paralyzed.

The reason why they are so fierce and so strong in combat is that in addition to their strict training and extremely high combat quality, the most important thing is that their weapons and equipment are fierce and sophisticated.

The direct instructor of the special forces of the Chinese Empire was Emperor Li Weiguo.

For a long time, the special forces of the Shence Army have been very mysterious and powerful, but they are highly secretive, and not many people even know about it within the Chinese Imperial military.

The special forces were pinned on by Li Weiguo.

Its equipment is basically designed by Li Weiguo himself, and it is produced and manufactured in a special arsenal, which is different from other ordnance equipment.

For example, the Patriotic Rifle, the standard Patriotic Rifle equipped by the Shence Army of the Chinese Empire is a single-shot shot, that is, a bolt is pulled to shoot once.

And the special forces, in the case of the Blade, the patriotic rifles used by their members, are semi-automatic rifles. It can be fired in a single shot or in bursts. In appearance, it is the same as the standard Patriotic rifle, and there is no difference between it.

Individual weapons, in addition to rifles, the machine guns equipped by the Shence Army are only Bloody Heavy Machine Guns, which are large in size and require three soldiers to operate and use together.

And the Blade Special Forces have not only heavy machine guns, but also light machine guns.

Among them, the heavy machine gun is not a bloody heavy machine gun, but a Thunderbolt heavy machine gun, designed by Li Weiguo, after five years of continuous improvement and improvement by the Imperial Academy of Sciences, the final design was finalized.

The Thunderbolt Heavy Machine Gun is also only available to Special Forces.

The Thunderbolt heavy machine gun continued the violence and ferocity of the Bloody heavy machine gun, and still used large-caliber point 50 inches, that is, 12.7 mm ammunition. Because this ammunition has the advantages of strong firepower, ferocious lethality, stable trajectory and extremely long range, it adopts the working principle of short recoil of the barrel and the locking structure of the clamp iron landing type.

The gun is equipped with a hydraulic buffer mechanism, when the barrel and the knot sleeve recoil, the piston of the hydraulic buffer is pushed backwards, compressing the oil in the buffer tube, so that it escapes forward from the gap between the inner walls of the oil pipe around the piston, and has a cushioning effect on the recoil. When the bolt is re-entered, the bulge at the tail of the bolt hits the upper end of the accelerator to make it rotate forward, and the accelerator releases the hydraulic buffer spring to push the barrel and the knuckle sleeve to re-advance. The locking card iron is forcibly lifted up under the action of the locking slope on the wedge latch, and enters the locking groove under the bolt, and the bolt is locked.

The total weight of the Thunderbolt heavy machine gun is about 38 kg (empty gun), 58.2 kg (including tripod), the total length is 1653 mm, the use of 12.7x99 mm personnel anti-personnel bullets or armor-piercing shells, the rate of fire is 450-580 rounds per minute, the effective range is 1800 meters, the maximum range is 7400 meters, the ammunition supply mode is the bullet chain feed, and the adjustable mechanical door is installed.

Heavy machine guns were used as fire support for special forces, and the squad was exceptionally equipped with light machine guns.

The light machine gun was also designed by Li Weiguo himself, and secretly developed and improved by the Imperial Academy of Sciences.

However, Li Weiguo did not directly design the famous AK47, M16, 56 and other famous assault rifles in later generations, Li Weiguo was also very careful, not only to improve the combat effectiveness of the Chinese Imperial Shence Army, but also to prevent the enemy camp from gaining technology, after all, as long as the prisoner disarmed a few light machine guns, it can be copied and imitated.

Therefore, Li Weiguo left a back hand, and finally only designed an old light machine gun that appeared during World War I and World War II, and even the Czech light machine gun did not dare to be easily manufactured, and only designed a submachine gun similar to MP28.

Li Weiguo has never seen a real MP28 submachine gun, so he can only rely on his own imagination to deliberately make many advanced parts very locked, thereby reducing the performance of the submachine gun, even if it is taken away by the enemy, it will not pose a huge threat to the Chinese Empire.

However, in the end, the submachine gun designed by Li Weiguo was much more advanced than the German MP18 and MP28 in history.

In this regard, Li Weiguo has no choice, and improves advanced technology into backward technology, which is also something that ordinary people can't do! It's very difficult!

The final individual light machine gun, or early submachine gun or assault rifle, was named Lightning by Li Weiguo.

Similar to the name of thunderbolt, thunder and lightning are called thunder and lightning because of their fierce firepower and thunderous roar when they are shot. The Lightning is a submachine gun that uses 7.62 mm caliber light machine gun cartridges, with a gun length of 900 mm, an empty gun weighing 4 kg, a magazine feed of 30 rounds, a rate of fire of 400 rounds per minute, and an effective range of 150 meters. (To be continued.) )