Chapter 115: The Boer War (6)
The British army, which had lost a lot of strength in hand-to-hand combat, did not have much strength to dodge the shells in the subsequent shelling, and the shells fell overwhelmingly, and the explosions like thunder were endless.
A British soldier left this world with tears in his eyes and blood on his body, and killed himself with his own weapon, which was cruel to a soldier.
The bombardment of the Boer army basically never stopped, and although they only used more than 20 guns, it was also fatal for the hundreds of British soldiers who survived. The sound of continuous explosions, round after round of shells stirred up waves of silent air, and every place in front of them was covered by artillery fire, and this time, for the first time, the British army felt what it means to have a head and no way.
The shelling lasted more than 20 minutes, which took the lives of hundreds of British troops, and even more wounded, and almost all of the less than 200 British artillerymen who walked out of here were wounded and incomplete, and some of the British soldiers even held their own stumps in one hand.
The British soldiers who returned alive were lucky, the dead were freed, still alive, and not injured, and the pressure on their hearts increased a lot after seeing these still alive British artillerymen. Why did the Boers become so powerful in an instant? Although the Boers have had many surprising ways of fighting in the past year, and even forced the British army to attack with all their might, there has never been a situation like today.
The British commander, General Buller, came to the forward headquarters, and he had just drawn up a plan for an all-out attack, which was divided into three stages, the first stage was to break through the enemy's line and force the enemy out of 50 kilometers, the second stage was to force the enemy together, and then concentrate all the artillery to bombard them indiscriminately, and the third stage, to attack with all his strength and enter the tail end battle.
General Buller's battle plan contained too many hopes, not only for the British soldiers on the Boer battlefield, but also for Buller himself, but also for the British people, parliament, and the king. But no one could have imagined that the Boers would suddenly become so powerful, and that their plan was for the morning after tomorrow, no, it should be said that it would be tomorrow morning.
The plan was to officially launch the first phase of the mission tomorrow morning, but things were man-made, the weather was not as expected, and Buhler never thought that the Boer army, which was still pressed and beaten by himself a year ago, and could not attack with all its strength a month ago, now has the ability to counterattack. The Mauser rifles in their hands pierced General Bühler in the heart, and he swore that he would stand before the Kaiser and question him why he was selling weapons to the Boers.
"Kid, can you tell me what happened to you over there?" Bühler gently walked up to a lightly wounded man and asked in a low voice.
"It's horrible, they're horrible." The young soldier kept muttering that it was so terrible and repeated so much that General Buller stayed in front of him for about half a minute, and he still said it. Eventually, General Buller had to turn around and walk away to another wounded man.
"They're demons, no, more terrible than demons." The slightly more sober Englishman replied with a shudder.
"Can you tell me what happened to them? Don't be afraid of the children, now that you are in our camp, they will not be able to get by. General Buller smiled slightly, he wanted to let the soldier relax so that he could get the news he wanted.
"They have a leader, the man looks like a wolf, as long as the wolf is on the battlefield, the Boers are like completely crazy, and they start a battle with strange tricks, I think they must have used some kind of magic and cursed us, so we suffered such a defeat, our soldiers have no way to stop them in front of them, as long as they move forward, no one can stop them at all. As soon as the wolf roared, one of us would lie down, and all the throats would be severed, and the worst head would be cut in half. The British soldier said, subconsciously placing his hands on his throat, and then touching his head again, until he confirmed that the objects were still there.
Seeing that the British soldiers were so frightened, Buller couldn't help but learn the wolf roar in his impression.
Hearing the wolf's howl, these wounded hurriedly lay on the ground, quickly found a bunker, hid their bodies inside, some soldiers were lucky, found some empty boxes or gaps in the pile of supplies, frightened and hurriedly got in, and then closed their eyes tightly, trembling up and down, and prayed to God in the depths of their hearts not to come to themselves.
The unlucky British army had no cover around them, and there was no place to hide, except for the fear from the depths of their hearts, they hurriedly threw away all the weapons around them, knelt on the ground and kowtowed repeatedly, their eyes looked at the ground without blinking, and they did not dare to look at the place in front of them again.
Looking at these British soldiers who had been frightened by the wolf howl, General Buller shook his head helplessly, it seems that these soldiers were indeed frightened, and now they actually heard the wolf howl, no matter whether they learn like or not, the high or low tone can scare them like this, is there really a master in the Boer army to help?
After careful statistics after the war, after the end of the war, there were about 2,000 surviving soldiers in the troops that had directly fought with Long Yuhui, and they chose to retire after returning to the United Kingdom, and never joined the army again, and most of the soldiers moved and lived in a place where there would be no wolves at all. The howl of the wolf has been deeply imprinted in their minds, and it will never be forgotten.
"Order the troops to speed up their march, and tomorrow afternoon we will go to regain the lost ground and completely destroy the Boers." General Brown looked in the direction of the artillery position and said angrily.
On the artillery position, Long Yuhui, who had stopped the shelling, walked back and forth to the infantry defense line five kilometers in front of the artillery position. This mission was different, as the entire Provisional Boer Army would stay here for at least three days, waiting for the Boer Army to open their way to them.
The A5 defense line, where the Provisional Army was located at that time, was not the defense line of the Boer army, which they had drawn improvised at that time, and it was still fifty kilometers away from the real defense line of the Boer army, while the A5 defense line was more than ten kilometers away from the British positions, and the artillery positions were about twenty kilometers away from the British positions, and the Provisional Boer Army was about eighty kilometers away from the Boer army at this time, so to speak, they had entered the belly of the enemy at this time.
Long Yuhui looked at the Boer soldiers with smiles on their faces, digging trenches hard, the trenches that had been busy for several hours have now begun to take shape, but now Long Yuhui is still struggling, whether to tell them how to dig anti-artillery holes? In the end, in the back and forth entanglement, Long Yuhui still decided to tell them the method of anti-artillery hole, because from then on they had no way back.
If the British army wants to attack, it will definitely be in the daytime, as the previous method of dodging shells is no longer suitable, and the anti-artillery hole is not a high-tech thing, everyone will know in a few years, this Dongzang province is better to take out generously.
In the end, under the command of Long Yuhui, the Boer soldiers looked at the trench that had been dug one meter and five, and reluctantly continued to dig down, until it was one meter eight deep, and then according to Long Yuhui's request, a hole about one meter high was dug on both sides of the trench, which could accommodate four people to drill into it together.
The earth excavated from the anti-artillery holes and trenches was placed above the trenches, facing the enemy's side, where they would fight, and the trenches below were to be used as communication trenches.
"Old Dragon!" After completing the civil engineering of the entire defense system, an extremely cordial voice came from the rear of the position, and Long Yuhui looked back, it was his comrade-in-arms of the instructor group who came with him, Shang You. The 10,000 men of the temporary Boer army were divided into four regiments, Long Yuhui's regiment was the third regiment, Shang You's regiment was the first regiment, the second and fourth regiments were pulling supplies behind to step up the march, and there was also a division of the Boer army following the second and fourth regiments to transport supplies for them, and then they went back to replenish ammunition and prepare for battle.
"You kid, why are you here? Where's my supplies? "Along the way, the three regiments originally didn't bring much supplies, and the supplies of the strikers are now completely dependent on the follow-up troops to supply, one regiment brings a little more, and when all three regiments have arrived, the supplies of the three regiments will be replenished.
"Later, I'm sending the soldiers here." Shang You pointed to the rear, and then said, "Yo, the trenches have been dug?" Is it efficient and good. ”
After that, Shangyou took a few steps forward, jumped over the trench and jumped directly into the trench, when he saw the anti-artillery holes that had been dug one by one, and there were already soldiers practicing how to enter the anti-artillery holes to avoid the artillery. Shang You's face couldn't help but darken, and he hurriedly lay down next to Long Yuhui's ear: "Why did you move out the anti-artillery hole?" ”
"Don't worry, it's okay, besides, he really can't defend against this thing, and the 120 mm cannon will go down like this, but think about it, our 10,000 people will stay here for a few days, and face several times, or even dozens of times the British army, if the first round of shelling will reimburse me for all the reimbursement, how will we fight in the future? What's more, this thing won't be kept secret for long, and everyone will know about it by then. Long Yuhui seemed to have known that Shang You would ask this, so he had already prepared his words.
The two chatted with each other for a while, and Shang You returned to his position, watched his soldiers dig trenches, and then dug the same anti-artillery holes, and let them conduct several drills to rest assured, they were not afraid that the Boer soldiers would die too much, but that they were afraid that they would not be able to complete the task assigned by Wang Lin. Heavy damage, how many people killed is considered a heavy injury? No one knows this, they can only try their best to kill, at least not to make others think that they are tickling.
As the sky began to darken, the positions of the 1st and 3rd regiments had been dug up, and the Boer army of the 2nd and 4th regiments and a division had just arrived, and after unloading the supplies, the division returned the way it came. At the same time, he informed Long Yuhui that the artillery would arrive tomorrow morning, because he did not expect to capture the enemy's artillery position, and the enemy's artillery position dared to be placed so far forward, so when he had just captured the artillery position, Long Yuhui sent someone to send a message to the artillery soldiers for reinforcements.
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