"Crush it! Squeeze it over! Lying on the periscope with red eyes, he gritted his teeth and ordered his driver to move the tank forward quickly, running his car over a heavy machine-gun bunker. With the roar of engines, huge tracks ran mercilessly over heavy machine guns and ammunition boxes, turning the murderous weapons into a pile of scrap metal.

The terrified Boer machine gunners crawled out of the bunker, watching in horror as the massive steel monsters in front of them wreaked havoc on the makeshift line.

Lu Zhiyuan, as the commander of the regiment, should be directing the operation in his own command vehicle in the rear at this time. However, since the morning, Lu Zhiyuan, who has been holding back his anger, personally boarded a spare tank to command the vehicle group to assault. As a front-line commander, he made a mess of things. The edge of the road in a bad mood chooses to send on the battlefield. Vent the anger in your heart.

After crossing the railway bridge in the town of Colonso, Lu Zhiyuan took his tank regiment on a wild ride, no longer paying attention to any of the precautions required in the training manual. More than 100 tanks and more armored vehicles rolled up a cloud of dust and roared along the railway line towards the town of Leddy Smith. In less than two hours, the high-speed mechanized troops had reached the outskirts of this important town.

The armoured assault was not just a cluster of tanks, but was followed by a large number of tracked armored vehicles and various trucks loaded with soldiers and supplies. They will be responsible for protecting the flanks of tank units and clearing and seizing enemy positions.

Originally, according to the combat manual compiled by Zhang Cheng, at this time, the artillery units that followed the advance should have deployed their positions to prepare for artillery bombardment. It is a pity that the self-propelled gun in Zhang Cheng's hands has never been developed, and it is still on the design drawings. The technical details are yet to be worked on. As for those towed artillery, it was only when they really went to actual combat that they realized that the speed of the towed artillery towed by heavy trucks could not catch up with the armored troops in front at all. This also strengthened Zhang Cheng's belief in changing all the supporting artillery of the armored forces to self-propelled guns.

As with self-propelled guns. The planned trump card against enemy tanks, the heavy tank battalion directly under the command of the division headquarters is just a shelf at the moment, and the new heavy tanks have been difficult. Give birth.

Zhang Cheng can design a finished product with very good performance. However, the technology of this era does not mean that all subsystems can meet his required standards. To take the simplest example, the power of the existing engine and the strength of the armor do not meet Zhang Cheng's requirements.

Let's not talk about whether Zhang Cheng can search for the formula and technical drawings of this core technology through the mobile phone network, even if it is a technology from decades ago. Even if he could find it, it wouldn't be an easy thing to do. The advancement of science and technology requires accumulation. This kind of thing must also have a foundation to do it overnight.

Zhang Cheng now has no time to search and copy these huge materials, and even if he gets them, he has to send them to a special factory to do it from scratch. Each subsystem has to be reinvented, and these are definitely not things that can be done in a short period of time.

Zhang Cheng, who is unwilling to lower his standards or change his design, can only promote scientific and technological progress as much as possible, and wait for all aspects of the subsystem to meet the requirements before launching products. As a result, now the armored forces are left without self-propelled guns and heavy tanks. Fortunately, these things are hardly needed to deal with the opponent this time.

The Boers had prepared to attack the port of Durban, so they had little to do with any decent defensive positions. How can improvised positions cope with the assault of huge armoured clusters? These Boers didn't even have anti-tank guns.

"Boom!" The short-stop, abrupt tank group fired one high-explosive bomb after another at the Boer positions, bringing bloody rain and destroying the Boers' belief in resistance. The morale of the Boers was high, after all, they were fighting on their own soil. But after all, they are just militiamen, and if they encounter this kind of invulnerable steel monster, their morale will not collapse.

After a much larger number of armored vehicles and trucks rushed up. The resistance of the Boers outside the town was quickly broken down. In panic, the Boers threw away their weapons and fled towards the town, perhaps believing that the houses would give them a sense of security.

Because the new submachine guns had not yet been landed, the armored infantry that was still using the American-made Thompson jumped out of armored vehicles and trucks to occupy and clear the Boer positions. Then, under the command of the edge of the road, a large number of armored infantry hid behind the resupplied tanks and suppressed it towards Leddy Smith

"This can't be?!" Boer Commander-in-Chief Piette. General Joubert raised his hand and flipped the map table in front of him to the ground, his red eyes and roaring fiercely.

His troops were shattered by several hours of bombardment by planes and tanks, which was completely unacceptable to General Joubert, who had never been exposed to new forms of warfare.

"Although I have always heard that the Ming army in Durban has a lot of heavy equipment, I didn't expect them to send so many tanks." General Drary, known as the Lion of the West Transvaal, frowned. Helplessly responded.

With the success of the war on the battlefields of northern Italy, the prestige of the tank has already spread to the whole world. Even the Transvaal had heard of the steel behemoth's prestige. It's just that they never knew when Da Ming already had such a powerful tank force?

"What now?" Bearded. Dark-skinned and known as the Black General Piette. General Cronye shouted.

Now these high-ranking Boer officers need to think about not how the tanks of the Ming people came out. Their priority now is to deal with an unstoppable attack.

"Give orders to all the troops, disperse and leave to assemble in Dundee." General Delarey was quick to make a suggestion.

"It can't be." General Meir, who had not spoken much, said in a deep voice, "I just watched the battle of those Ming tanks outside the town, and their speed is very fast. If the retreat is dispersed, who can guarantee how many people will end up in Dundee alive? ”

"What then? How can staying here resist the attacks of these steel monsters? We simply don't have weapons against them! General Cronye shouted.

Before the war, many Boers had faith in themselves. Because almost the whole world is on their side and has provided them with a lot of assistance. As for Da Ming. They are too far away. The laborers came to this wild place on an expedition, how long can the Ming Dynasty, which is suffering from an economic crisis, last?

The plan of the Boers before the war was to drag the Ming to death in the vast wasteland. But no one thought that after the real war, it would be such a dangerous situation in front of them. It only took a few hours for the powerful Ming to force them into danger, and it was only an advance team. At this moment, a feeling of fear rose in everyone's hearts. World Empire. It's not blown out of your mouth!

"Retreat is a must." General Joubert, who had calmed down, pursed the corners of his mouth. With a cold face, he said in a deep voice, "Now that the troops are in chaos, we can't fight against so many steel monsters. Temporary retreat to preserve strength is the only option. His tone paused slightly, and then he spoke, "But you can't just run away." Most of our troops are militia groups, and once they disperse, it will be difficult to gather again. So there must be an organized retreat. The town of Ladysmith must leave its troops to hold its ground and hold back the Ming army. ”

"Who stays?" General Meir asked with a frown. In this current war situation, whoever stays will be unlucky. Western-style armies do not have a tradition of voluntary sacrifice. They may surrender when they are in a desperate situation, but they will never sacrifice themselves.

"Let those volunteers stay behind." General Joubert groaned slightly and then ordered in a deep voice.

Since this time, in the politics of various countries. Under the strong funding and publicity of the government. At least thousands of volunteers from all over the world traveled thousands of miles to the wilderness of South Africa to help the Boers. There are people from almost every country, but most of them are private. It's like the only one in the United States that comes in droves and planes. After all, the strength of the Americans is strong, and they dare to test and touch some of the bottom lines of the Ming Dynasty.

Now that they were in danger, the Boers naturally wanted to let these foreign volunteers plug the holes so that they could evacuate smoothly.

Ladysmith says it's a town, but it's actually huge. It's the equivalent of a small city. The town is at the junction of the railway connecting Durban to Pretoria, the capital of the Transvaal, as well as several important highways. Location is extremely important. It was also the only one in the Transvaal.

After years of suffering, living in the arid and barren South African highlands. experienced the great migration driven by the Ming Dynasty and displaced. Over the years, there have been numerous brutal wars fought against the local natives in order to survive. These things greatly honed and shaped the character of the Boers. Tough and hard-working, conservative and frugal, rugged and martial, unwilling to accept foreign domination. By the time they learn that they have endless wealth under their feet, large-scale wars are inevitable.

The Boers also possess one quality, and that is intelligence. Without a brilliant mind, the Boers would have been drowned in an endless sea of indigenous Africans. This can be seen from the fact that they chose to flee on the spot, and left volunteers from various countries behind to be sent to the dead.

There were about 5,000 volunteers from all over the world assembled in the town of Ladysmith, while the main force of the Boers was more than 20,000.

The rapid assault of the Ming armoured forces disrupted the plans of the Boers, brought them massive confusion and demoralized. However, those determined volunteers caused Zhang Cheng's armored troops a lot of trouble.

The volunteers who were able to travel thousands of miles from civilization to the distant wastelands of South Africa to fight against the world empire in this difficult era were almost always strong-willed. Even in the face of the attack of the steel beast, he is not afraid.

When the tanks and armored vehicles of the Ming army and the armored infantry of the black pressure rushed into the town of Ladysmith, which was full of buildings. A battle broke out in the truest sense of the word. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the starting point (qidian.com) to vote for recommendation and monthly pass. Your support is my biggest motivation ......)

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