At night, the team with rifles hastily marched north. They were armed, but they were not called armies, they had not undergone the necessary combat training, and they could not even fire their guns.

Only two horse-drawn wagons were found inside the station, which were used to carry the remaining guns and ammunition. Sitting on the wooden box full of guns, Shen Yue looked back behind him with teary eyes, gunshots rang out from time to time in the night, and he didn't know if that person would be in danger after he was broken. Mrs. Shen beside her looked at her daughter dejectedly, there were too many things that happened this night and were too unexpected, beyond her psychological bearing. Shen Mingxuan and the students walked behind the car, in the vast darkness of the night, not knowing where to go to the end, quite a sense of confusion.

Joshua stood in the courtyard of the barracks, listening intently to distant sounds. I was disappointed that there was no fierce gunfire, which meant that no reinforcements arrived. They were forced back by reinforcements from the enemy, and although the Boer warriors were well-trained and had excellent marksmanship, the enemy was outnumbered. The dark night, to a large extent, cancels out the effect of marksmanship, and if you can't see clearly, you can't shoot accurately.

At the Army Headquarters south of Pretoria, Piet Jubert looked out the window angrily. The flames of a flour mill not far away lit up the night sky, and the fire had been burning for more than an hour and showed no signs of extinguishing. Now, communications between the city and the rest of the city have been cut off, and even the city telephone has been completely paralyzed by the bombing of the telephone and telegraph building.

This was a deliberate attack, and who was the initiator? He instinctively remembered the British, the latest news from Europe, that Britain and France were negotiating, and that the expected Anglo-French war might well be wiped out. The two countries quit the army, and the British returned to South Africa, and he was violently shaken.

Downstairs was noisy, and there were constant formations of troops, both police forces scattered in the city and vigilante groups in the city that had gathered urgently. These are the only mobile forces that can be mobilized in the entire country at the moment, and he will first have to hold the capital, and only then will he repel the enemy.

"Commander-in-chief, Joshua sent someone back from the eastern suburbs, and the train station was attacked by unknown troops." Adjutant Brent pushed the door in to report.

"Railway station, army."

Jubert's body shuddered violently, and the enemy's army actually reached the outskirts of the capital.

"How's Joshua?"

"People are being brought to resist, and those who have returned say that the situation is not very optimistic, and the number of enemies is extremely large."

Jubert pounded the table in pain, father and son were connected, Joshua was very good, and he was always proud. It took a while for him to regain his composure and give instructions to Brent.

"Send a detachment of cavalry over to find out what the enemy is doing, and," his lips trembled for a long time before finally uttering the latter words, "try to find Joshua." ”

On the same night, Blind's Farm, 70 kilometres away, was still in peaceful tranquility. The chaos in Pretoria, because of the interruption of the telegraph line, the news could not reach here.

Jia Lingyi watched uneasily as the team passed by quietly, commanding thousands of people to fight, which was greatly beyond his ability. Although the commander had drawn up a battle plan for him, and even though the battle plan seemed to be meticulous and thorough, he was still inexplicably nervous. The militia regiment, which has been trained for nearly half a year, looks like a well-trained army, but he knows that this army has not been tested in any actual combat at all.

The vanguard team reached the barracks of the Northern Mounted Police, and according to the plan, this squad with the best training performance as an assault force needed to quietly take out the sentry at the base. Lead a surprise attack of the whole army.

The gates of the camp were closed, and sentry posts with Mauser rifles walked back and forth outside the gates, and there were also sentries on the guard tower a little farther away. A sneak attack requires the silent killing of two sentry posts at the same time.

A thin figure scurried through the night, and Hora swooped towards the watchtower with a crossbow in hand. It wasn't a white man's relationship, he didn't go to Pretoria with the special detachment, and now he was tasked with taking out the watchtower.

Slipped all the way to the outside of the barracks walls, which were only forty or fifty meters away from the watchtower, still within the accurate range of the special crossbow. Raise your crossbow and aim at the figure on the watchtower, and look into the mountains to trap the neck of the drop. Nine out of ten shots at this distance are the results of his usual training, and this medium refers to the choking throat when he shoots.

As Hora pulls the crossbow machine, the bolt flies into the ghostly lightning of the night, heading straight for the towering watchtower.

"Medium, Medium"

Hora clenched her fists and thought to herself, and the crossbow bolt seemed to hear his prayer and hit the figure in the high place as expected. Seeing the sentry on the watchtower, the man suddenly paused, raised his hand to grab the crossbow arrow that had penetrated into the Adam's apple. However, the coating on the arrow had its effect, and the hand grasped the shaft of the arrow, but in the end it did not have the strength to pull it out.

At the same time as the crossbow arrows were fired, several crossbows also shot at the sentry at the gate of the camp. The poor fellow had several crossbow bolts stuck in his body and fell to the ground.

"It's done!"

Holding a telescope to observe, Nail Zero One almost jumped up and killed the sentry, and victory was almost within reach.

The assault team swarmed and rushed to the barracks courtyard gate.

Bang! The crisp sound of gunfire shattered the silence of the night.

A zero-yi angrily put down the binoculars, and fell short, this is the enemy also arranged a secret post in the camp.

The assault team continued to charge forward, and then the camp exploded, and as Dutch shouts rang out, gunfire continued to ring out, and it became more and more dense, eventually turning into a fierce fire inside and outside the barracks.

In the front and rear rows of red brick houses, the muzzles of guns poked out of the doors and front and rear windows, pointing out into the darkness outside. The Boer soldiers were accurate in their marksmanship, and the soldiers who were constantly charging forward were shot and fell.

"Carry out the backup plan, suppress all the fire, and machine gun fire at the stables."

Fortunately, the plan was very thorough, and the possibility of a failed sneak attack had been considered, and there was a backup plan for the attack. In this attack, the ideal goal is to completely annihilate the Northern Mounted Police with the smallest possible casualties, and the lowest goal is to surround and control it, so that it will not be able to exert its combat effectiveness.

The Lebel rifle has eight rounds, and although smokeless powder bullets are used, the round-headed bullet barrel magazine has poor shooting accuracy and is slow to reload the bullet. In the exchange of fire inside and outside the barracks, although the attackers had an absolute numerical advantage, they were still unable to completely overwhelm the opponent. The Boer barracks were rigorously designed, and the houses were sturdy and thick-walled, which were entrenched as a rampart.

On the other hand, the Maxim machine gun attack on the stables was fruitful. The wooden walls could not stop the bullets from penetrating, and although they were black powder bullets, they were still strong in lethality to life. Under the repeated strafing of the two machine guns, the mournful screams of dying horses continued to be heard in the stable.

At the time of the attack, Mountie Captain Adams had not yet fallen asleep and immediately got up to command his subordinates to defend.

"Send another telegram to the headquarters!"

Red eyes almost roaring.

"Captain, there is no signal at all, it should be that the line is broken." The telegraph operator replied helplessly.

"Damn it!"

Listening to the dense gunfire outside, Adams was completely desperate.