Lorenço Marques was a new city, later renamed Maputo, in honor of the white explorers who arrived in 1544. The prosperity of Los Angeles began with the completion www.biquge.info of the North Transvaal Railway, the construction of the railway between Pretoria in 1895, and the relocation of the capital of the Portuguese colony of Mozambique to the city in 1897.

The temporary transshipment camp next to the harbor is being reorganized by the young Chinese workers who have just disembarked from the steamer, and all those who are willing to join the garrison will be reorganized into an army in the manner of the Adventurer freighter. From the 2,000 people who have already been reorganized, some of the trainees of the teaching team and grass-roots squad leaders have been transferred to the new unit. Liang Hong's purpose in doing this was not to allow these people to participate in the battle immediately, but more to consider that they could achieve a fast march.

In the largest tent in the center of the camp, the elites of Liang Hong's subordinates gathered here. Spy 05, who is proficient in Portuguese, Spy Yiqi, who is stationed in the local area, Bond and Spy 07, who rushed from the Transvaal, these people have formed a temporary command team.

The table was covered with a map of the Transvaal, and the real trouble was not in the Portuguese colony, but in the Transvaal, especially the moment they got off the train in the eastern suburbs of Pretoria. According to the latest information, at the end of September, General Kitchener, who won in Sudan, led LinkedIn troops south along the White Nile River to Fashoda, where they engaged in an armed confrontation with French troops. In October, news from Sudan reached Europe, but Britain and France refused to make concessions, and Britain even issued a direct threat of war. Against this backdrop, the confrontation between the British colonies in southern Africa and the Transvaal has eased, most notably by the weakening of the blockade of supplies destined for the Transvaal.

"Pretoria has a police force of more than 1,000 people and an urban militia of nearly 3,000 people. The Northern Mounted Police originally consisted of 300 men, all of whom were elite cavalry, and 100 of them were temporarily transferred to the west to strengthen the defense of the British colonial border, but they have not yet been transferred back. ”

Bond pointed to the map and explained the garrison. In the Transvaal, the police force is the equivalent of a regular army, with all the Boers being soldiers, and the militias are much more effective than the militias of other countries.

"The police force in Pretoria is more elite, well-equipped and well-trained, but it is slightly inferior in combat effectiveness to the Johannesburg-based force. Pretoria is a large city with six constituencies, each with more than 400 militia detachments, which they call WYK. The militia groups in Bicheng are all urban citizens, and their combat effectiveness is far inferior to that of the militia groups in small and medium-sized cities, which are mainly peasants, and in particular, their will to fight is not resolute enough. ”

Liang Hong could understand that the Boer peasants were known for their hardships and tenacity, but the urban citizens were much worse off. Therefore, in the Second Boer War, when the British army in the center defeated the police force in Johannesburg and approached Pretoria, the soldiers and civilians of the city chose to surrender.

"How is the delivery of supplies and personnel in front?"

He asked, looking at the newly marked roads on the map. Nearly 200 kilometres from Pretoria to the base, the Transvaal has a road leading to Blind's farm, 70 kilometres north of the city, where the Northern Mounted Police are stationed. As for the base, 30 kilometers of roads have been built to the south due to the presence of mines in the south. This time, a large number of food supplies and personnel were transported, and nearly 100 kilometers of roads were repaired in a hurry, and before the transfer, the Blinder farm was connected.

"Most of the 200,000 stone of rice purchased has been rushed, and we have paid the import duties in full in this regard. As for the personnel, although the first two groups of personnel were strictly checked, they were quite smooth. They were all peasants with their families, and the Boers were willing to have more of these coolies in their territory. ”

Bond glanced outside the tent, where the two thousand men on board the Adventurer were practicing. Unlike the teenagers on other ships, they have been training all the way and have begun to look like an army.

"The third group is on the railroad and is expected to arrive tonight. Some of them are young and strong, and they may be in trouble. The biggest trouble may be the last group of people, all of whom are young and strong, and there is news from Pretoria that the Transvaal official is discussing whether to go north, and the target of the crusade is likely to be our North Transvaal militia. ”

"Let's talk about the situation at the Dongjiao Railway Station."

Liang Hong was bitter in his heart, the conflict between Britain and France really made the Boers feel that they had a chance to breathe, and as a result, the idea hit him.

"The railway station usually has a police detachment of fifty or sixty people, and there is a Maxim machine gun on the bell tower, which is guarded by about ten Boer soldiers. A kilometre away from the railway station, there are dozens of Boer households, each with rifles, but the militia is not formed. ”

Bond pulls out a hand-drawn map of the train station and points to the building marked with the clock tower on it.

"The bell tower is more than twenty meters high, and the machine gun can control the surrounding area of two or three thousand meters, and the threat is the greatest. Other soldiers were stationed in the barracks next to the station, and there were daily one-man sentry guards at the station and in the freight yard, changing shifts every four hours, and patrols passing every half hour. ”

"Got the telegraph line figured out?"

The last time they attacked the Kimberley, they had suffered the loss of the special telegraph line for the railway.

"It has been found out that there are two lines, there is a small telegraph office in the town, which uses civil telegraph lines, and there is a special telegraph for circuits at the railway station." Bond blushed, it was his negligence last time, which caused a lot of trouble.

"First, our group of people should be arranged on several trains in a row, and we should not be afraid to spend money in this regard, and try to dredge the Portuguese at the local railway station as much as possible." Liang Hong instructed the local spy Yiqi, and he began to arrange the task according to his own ideas.

"Secondly, buy as many guns and ammunition as possible in the city, disguise them as carry-on goods, and carry them with the first train. The first train transports the Adventurer, led by me personally, and after entering the Transvaal, ready to take out their weapons and fight. If it is intercepted in the middle of the way, organize a defense on the spot and cover the subsequent team to withdraw to the base from the north detour. ”

If such a battle occurs, it is actually the most unfortunate of all kinds of expectations, nearly a thousand miles of detour, the casualties and losses of the troops must be quite large, after all, the teenagers on the other ships are still newly reorganized.

"If this happens, immediately order the lurkers to blow up the North Transvaal Railway and the railway bridge north of Johannesburg to prevent the Transvaal army from quickly gathering reinforcements. At the same time, the base militia was ordered to send cavalry, carrying guns and ammunition to respond. ”

"If we can successfully reach the railway station in the eastern suburbs, most of the personnel will immediately start to evacuate to the north, leaving only a small number of capable teams to monitor the garrison at the railway station." Liang Hong still hoped for a smooth transfer, and he needed time until the British resolved the conflict with France, at which point the Second Boer War would be inevitable.

"Order to send part of the militia to move south to the outside of the mountain pass north of Blind's Farm, monitor the movements of the Northern Mounted Police, and order the special detachment to lurk in advance in the town outside the railway station in the eastern suburbs, waiting for orders at any time."

Thankfully, he now has enough radios to direct the teams to work together at any time.