South Africa is exceptionally hot in the afternoon, although he has been here for a year, Long Yuhui is still very unaccustomed to the weather here, but just not used to it, it does not mean that he can't adapt to life here. After a night of nothing, another morning was spent peacefully, and Long Yuhui could see what the British army on the opposite side was doing from the telescope.

With such a generous build-up of troops and a halt miles away, did he really think that the other side could not be seen? After building a position last night and this morning's emergency repair, although the position at this time is still not very solid in the eyes of Long Yuhui and others, it is still good. After all, these Boers were still very unaccustomed to digging trenches in the battles of Pingli.

At this time, the Boer soldiers were crouching in the trench with their rifles, and all the soldiers were facing their backs to one side, leaving a path in front of their feet for people to pass. After yesterday's battle, plus the construction of positions, these Boer soldiers were already exhausted, and while there was nothing to do at this moment, after lunch, they hurried to the traffic trench to rest on the side of the back, and came here to rest mainly to prevent the enemy from sneaking attack.

As long as there is an enemy coming up here, they can enter the position to defend in the first time, which can save a lot of time, and there are anti-artillery holes here, which is still safer than the back.

In the sky in the distance, there was a dull thunderous sound, and after Long Yuhui carefully distinguished, he hurriedly shouted to the soldiers who were still behind and in the traffic trench: "Anti-artillery!" Anti-artillery! ”

Long Yuhui's roar frightened the soldiers who were still walking slowly and lying in the traffic trench in the rear, the artillery battle that happened the night before became a nightmare for all the soldiers, although they were not hit, nor were they in the range of the artillery strike, but when they passed by there, looking at the terrifying scenes were enough to make them have a nameless fear of the cannon.

All the soldiers hurriedly looked for the nearby anti-artillery holes, and then plunged into them deeply, this regiment is less than two kilometers of defense line, hundreds of anti-artillery holes have been dug out, all the soldiers feel that as long as they get into the anti-artillery holes, it seems to be safe, but as everyone knows, this is just a corresponding reduction in the lethality of shrapnel and set, if they are directly hit by large-caliber artillery, the soldiers in this anti-artillery hole still have to finish playing.

Long Yuhui quickly found an anti-artillery hole and drilled into it, and then calmed down and waited for the enemy's shells to come, in the artillery battle, especially this kind of large-scale shelling, you don't have to think about running, because you can never run the speed of large-caliber artillery, mortar is coming, you can dodge according to his trajectory, but large-caliber artillery can't.

'Boom, boom, boom' The three regiments rose into the air several kilometers away, and the sand, trees, and dirt lumps were destroyed one by one in the earth-shattering explosion. The British observers quickly corrected the artillery according to the location of the shells, and the second round of shelling soon followed.

One shell after another landed within a few hundred meters of the position of the three regiments, the sound of explosions like thunder resounded throughout the entire position, the entire defense line was trembling terribly, the artillery fire of the British army has not stopped since it began, and the shells like a rain of meteors rushed frantically towards the positions of the three regiments.

Countless shells rained down on the positions of the three regiments, and there were always some unlucky shells that fell into the trenches, exploding with a bang, mixed with continuous screams. When he first dug this anti-artillery hole, Long Yuhui had already calculated that the anti-artillery hole was rectangular and expanded inward, so that there was a chance to prevent shrapnel from penetrating the soldier's body, so as to re-injure the soldiers on the opposite side.

According to Long Yuhui's idea, his anti-artillery hole construction method is divided into two façade and two outside, if you are lucky, all four people are alive, if you are unlucky, you are drilled by a cannonball from the gap between the two people outside, and you are stabbed again, then it can only be said that your luck is really not good.

The Boer soldiers in the center of the bombardment, even if they were hiding in the anti-artillery hole, their eyes were red, their heads were dizzy, and they had a brief loss of sound, and their bodies were even more violently affected by the raging air waves, and the vibration of the shells when they landed and exploded, and they crashed into the anti-artillery holes, and finally hit their heads on the walls, and some officers and men even began to bleed all over their faces and ears.

The position was littered with limb parts and some anti-artillery holes that had been hit directly, and there were many people with one hand or one foot exposed outside the soil.

'Boom, boom, boom' your own artillery position finally confirmed the location of the opponent's artillery position, and finally stuffed a shell into the barrel of the gun, and hit the opponent's artillery position fiercely.

Artillery positions were threatened by their peers, and the preferred target was, naturally, switching from infantry to artillery. However, at this time, the artillery of the Boer army had already been in accordance with the requirements of the Chinese instructors, and after arriving at the artillery position, they stored the artillery separately, and found a relatively hidden place to build a position, so as to give the enemy the most painful blow with a concealed surname.

After a few minutes of bombardment, the focus of the British artillery was no longer on the infantry, Long Yuhui quickly jumped out of the anti-artillery hole to check the situation on the position.

After a round of inspection, the situation was optimistic, except for the three anti-artillery holes that were destroyed by direct hits, the soldiers who stayed in the anti-artillery holes only died less than twenty people, you must know that in these few minutes, the positions of the three regiments have been poured thousands of shells, if there is no anti-artillery holes to protect the soldiers, the best situation for the three regiments now will be half of the soldiers.

"A battalion entered the position. The rest repaired the anti-artillery holes. "The British infantry did not wait for the artillery and the Boer artillery to finish the confrontation and rushed straight up, the enemy soldiers were in the position, this British army can already confirm, although the time of the shelling is a bit short, but they at least suffered thousands of shells, even if they can't be killed, they will kill a lot, right? The British infantry, under the command of General Buller, rushed towards the position of the third regiment with great momentum.

"What a big formation, the first regiment, the second regiment, and the third regiment each have two British infantry regiments attacking, and they dare to fight like this at the beginning?" Long Yuhui muttered. The four regiments had been reduced to a general reserve, and had been broken into pieces and lurked in various shadows, waiting for them to run quickly wherever reinforcements were needed.

'Da Da Da! Da-da-da-da! The ten Maxim machine guns above the position began to fire when the British infantry was still a kilometer away, although the probability of accurate hit was not large, but the number of soldiers on the other side was particularly large, and the cluster charge used did not need to be carefully aimed at all, and someone would definitely fall if they were roughly aimed in one direction and fired at a few points. If it is a group charge at close range, a few machine guns can break up the attack with a single strafe back and forth, which is the role of the group charge in front of the machine guns.

The distance between the two sides is getting closer and closer, and the distance has reached about 500 meters in the blink of an eye, and hundreds of British soldiers have fallen to the ground along the way, most of them are wounded, but after the war, these soldiers who fell behind because of their injuries became survivors, because it was their injuries that saved their names, and also made the British see the shortcomings of the cluster attack, so as to completely change the offensive tactics.

The enemy entered the range of 300 meters, and the Boer soldiers who were lying behind the bunker above the trench pulled the trigger together, and dozens of British soldiers died instantly, and the other British infantry wanted to squat down to find cover, but they had no choice but to squat down and find cover, but the most important thing with this charge formation was the density of the formation, so basically the distance between the two people was very short, as long as one of the movements was fast, or slow, it was possible to form a rear-end collision.

In the end, after nearly a minute of effort, the British infantry unified the battle line, fell to the ground and returned fire, and slowly crawled forward. At this time, although the machine guns had been installed in the troops, they were used on a large scale around the time of World War I, and it was certain that the combat effectiveness of the British troops was low, so it took so many years in the Boer War to end the war.

It was also after this war that the British army began to pay attention to the reform of the army units.

The first charge of the British army had to retreat before they could get close to the enemy's line of defense despite the huge casualties, and the effect of the trenches made many British soldiers curse in their hearts, and the opponent only showed half of his head outside, and even if he had good marksmanship, he would not be able to hit a single shot from a distance of 200 meters.

After that, the British made several charges, but all of them were beaten back, and the artillery was fighting against the Hubul artillery, and both sides also did not have time to support the infantry. Since the British artillery was in the same position, while the Boer artillery was in a different position, it was often impossible to prevent shells from the other direction as soon as you knocked out the enemy's artillery.

After a bitter battle to no avail, the British army hastily ended the battle after dropping thousands of corpses. Therefore, in order to prevent the Boer army from escaping in the night, General Buller ordered the British troops to surround the Boer army and wait for the Ming Dynasty to continue the attack.

After three successive battles, the battle was fruitless, and the best record of the British army was only to rush to the position of the Boer army and be beaten back. After this, the British army no longer had time to concentrate on the Boer army in the middle of this henchman, because the Boer army on the periphery was already approaching in large numbers, and there was even a skirmish in the vanguard.

After another three days, the Boer army, which adopted the tactics of combining the inside and the outside and flowering in the center, won a major victory on the battlefield, and the scale of the battle between the two sides reached the largest since the beginning of the war, with a total of about 350,000 troops on both sides, including 200,000 Boer troops and 150,000 British troops. In the end, the war ended with more than 30,000 losses to the Boer army and more than 50,000 to the British army.

The British troops, having lost a large number of fresh troops, had to retreat back to hold their defensive lines, and at the same time reported the situation to the country. Micchiri, who won the battle at the stage of victory, was even more excited and couldn't stop clapping, and expressed his desire to continue to sign a contract with the Chinese, but Yuan Shikai refused, and said that the Chinese could provide armaments and weapons, but these people had to return to China to participate in the domestic war.

In the end, before leaving, Michley was very generous to give them a few diamonds and two gold bars as a thank you gift, without their help, then the Boer army would not have the current situation, can force the British army to hold the line tightly, and can be regarded as forcing the British army back to the situation of a year ago, but the difference is that the British army is now reduced by one-eighth, and the losses of the Boer army are much lower than the British army.

Long Yuhui, who was standing on the deck, breathed in the humid air, felt the feeling of the African sea breeze blowing in his face, and said secretly excitedly: Teacher, I am going back.

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