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At the League of Nations Congress, the Chinese Empire called on the governments of the north and south of South Africa to negotiate peacefully and stop the violent bloodshed. This appeal, from a humanitarian point of view, was unanimously endorsed by all the members of the League of Nations, and the General Assembly soon put to a collective vote on the question of the Chinese Empire's joint stationing in South Africa to prevent the South African civil war.

All countries voted in favor, but Britain voted against it in order to restore the British economy as soon as possible and maintain its colonial dominance in South Africa. As the United Kingdom, as a permanent member, had a veto, the first collective vote was not adopted.

But the Chinese Empire did not stop there, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and other countries all coveted the gold and diamond mines in South Africa, especially Germany and the Netherlands, the former's West African colonies were next to South Africa, and many invasions of South Africa finally failed, the latter was the suzerainty of the Boers, the defeat of the two Anglo-Boer wars, the Dutch descendants were brutally suppressed by the British, and the Netherlands, the suzerainty, was also disgraced.

Germany and the Netherlands took the lead in making a big fuss in international public opinion, accusing Britain of being the main culprit in causing the South African civil war because it had given South Africa the right to self-government, but it had never fulfilled its promises and had been interfering in South Africa's political affairs. Soon, countries such as France and Italy echoed the bill, accusing Britain of being the main factor in the civil unrest in South Africa. Demanded the withdrawal of British troops from South Africa.

Originally, Britain thought that the Chinese Empire proposed the formation of a coalition ** to help Britain interfere in the Irish independence movement, but they never thought that the first task after the establishment of the coalition** would be armed intervention in the South African civil war, which made Britain feel that they had been deceived by the Chinese Empire's politics.

Britain knows that other countries are clamoring no matter what. Britain can ignore it, because they don't have the strength to really intervene in the South African civil war, only the Chinese Empire has the ability to do so, because the funds of the United ** are mainly maintained by the membership fees of the Chinese Empire, so it is enough to convince the Chinese Empire.

However, when the representatives of the British League of Nations met with the representatives of the League of Nations of the Chinese Empire, the British realized that the Chinese Empire also wanted to meddle in the affairs of South Africa, and also had intentions for South African gold and diamonds.

The Chinese Empire demanded that Britain share its interests in the gold and diamond mines of South Africa with the Chinese Empire. That is, the Chinese Empire funded the acquisition of half of the shares of the British Platinum Company, the British African Gold Mining Company, and the British African Gem Company in South Africa, and China and Britain jointly controlled the gold and diamonds in South Africa, as long as the British agreed, the Chinese Empire would prevent the United ** from intervening in the South African Civil War, and supported the British to suppress the northern government, and at the same time assisted the British in suppressing the Irish independence movement.

Requirements for the Chinese Empire. The British representative directly refused, and the Sino-British negotiations broke down.

Subsequently. The Chinese Empire also stood up to accuse Britain of being the main culprit in the bloody war in South Africa and the executioner of the massacre of the South African people, and called on the international community to condemn Britain's atrocities.

Since the Chinese Empire also came forward to accuse Britain of preventing the League of Nations from maintaining world peace, violating the constitution of the League of Nations. It was the anti-peace countries of the international community, with the international influence of the Chinese Empire, which quickly caused a storm of international public opinion against Britain, and all countries received the secret promise of the Chinese Empire, knowing that once the proposal to jointly intervene in South Africa was passed. All countries will get a piece of the pie in South Africa. Therefore, for the sake of their own interests, all countries chose to side with the Chinese Empire and sprayed saliva at Britain.

In the face of the powerful offensive of international public opinion, the British authorities became the first street rat in the world to be shouted and beaten by everyone, and Britain's international image and status plummeted. Accusations of the British government as anti-peace and a criminal of human violence have made British people around the world afraid to go out and meet people for fear of being asked.

Subsequently, the Chinese Empire, Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands and other countries successively introduced economic sanctions and political isolation policies against the United Kingdom. The reason for the economic sanctions against Britain was that the British army was the main culprit in the South African civil war, and that only by cutting off British finances could the British troops be forced to withdraw. Political isolation is about countries strengthening exchanges and cooperation, excluding the UK and putting pressure on the British government.

Britain was under pressure from the international community, which was threatened politically and economically, and in order to reverse the situation, the British High Command believed that the South African problem should be resolved quickly, and as long as the South African problem was resolved in a short period of time, the international community could no longer interfere after it had become a fait accompli.

As a result, the British army quickly transferred 200,000 British troops from the country and other colonies around the world to Cape Town. The British High Command prepared 1,200 fighters and 200 bombers, 960 tanks, 2,350 cannons, 4,200 light and heavy machine guns, and 10,000 vehicles for the British army in Cape Town, mobilized all British warships and requisitioned thousands of merchant ships to transport this batch of equipment to Cape Town and equip the British army and the South African army in Cape Town.

Under the leadership of the British, the Cape Town government forces took the lead in the attack, launching a large-scale offensive against the Northern Army under the command of Ladysmith's 10,000 Southern Army and 50,000 British troops under the command of General William, and encountered the main force of the Northern Army under the command of Claire Jones on the Bennett Desert, and fierce fighting broke out between the two sides.

At this time, Claire Jones led the northern South African army of less than 30,000 people, equipped with weapons and equipment eliminated by the British army after the world war, although many of the weapons and equipment in it were similar to the British army opposite, but the number of tanks, planes and artillery was far from the opponent's opponent.

In particular, the British army under the world war has strong combat effectiveness, General William is a fanatic of armored troops, his tactics is to use aircraft air cover, tank clusters quickly break down the main force of the North Army in front, and then detour left and right to do a large depth and encirclement tactics, so that the left and right wings of the North Army can also be defeated in one fell swoop, and finally the infantry launched a fierce attack with the fierce support of artillery fire, completely eliminating the North Army on the opposite side.

In this battle, William won, and the Northern Army was defeated and lost more than 10,000 men. However, Williamcock failed to achieve the goal of annihilating the Northern Army, because an unexpected factor appeared, and the tanks of the various tank regiments of the British army, which were interspersed with maneuvers at high speed in the desert, broke down one after another. The 13th, 17th, and 33rd Tank Regiments were unable to complete the maneuver and penetration tasks within the scheduled time, and as a result, the Northern Army was given time to retreat, and the rest of the Northern Army was able to retreat to Pretoria.

William though did not achieve the pre-war goal. But the annihilation of more than 10,000 enemy troops was also an unprecedented victory. In this way, Williamcock immediately ordered his troops to quickly advance towards Pretoria, striving to take Pretoria in one fell swoop, because it was the capital of the northern government, and it was of great significance to take it.

But William made a huge mistake, he had the most elite mechanized troops in the British army, but the other two wings of the British army were mainly infantry, marching slowly, and resisting the Northern army.

When William's troops arrived in Frankfurt. The British troops on both flanks were already more than 170 kilometers away from him, and he made the tactical mistake of going deep alone.

However, Williamcock was so arrogant that he stopped his subordinates from admonishing him and insisted that his troops continue to advance.

On September 30, Williamcock's troops passed through Mount Heilbron. Further on is Johannesburg, the last barrier of Pretoria. The Northern Army deployed 70,000 heavy troops here for defense.

Just as William's army was launching a fierce assault on Johannesburg, the Boer guerrillas, who had been lying in ambush in the Heilbronn Mountains, suddenly appeared. By this time, the Boer guerrillas had reached an agreement with the northern government, which incorporated them into the government army. and promised that the status of the Boers was the same as that of the British Caucasians. As a result, the Boer guerrillas stopped their confrontation with the government forces and joined the ranks of the British and southern government forces.

The sudden appearance of the Boer guerrillas did not dare to attack William's armored troops, and their flesh and blood would certainly not be able to do anything about the iron shell, so they avoided the heavy and focused on attacking the British supply convoys. British supply convoys were ambushed one after another. All supplies were taken or destroyed by the Boer guerrillas, who fled long before the British reinforcements arrived, due to their presence in the mountains.

Because Williamcock's troops were all armored troops, the consumption of ammunition and fuel was staggering, and the supplies were completely provided by the rear, his rash advance put the British army's logistics under great pressure, the supply line was too long, and when it was attacked by the Boer army one after another, Williamcock's armored troops suddenly fell into a huge crisis of lack of ammunition and fuel. Especially in the absence of fuel, the armored forces of the British army could not move an inch at all. The tank was fierce, but once it lost its ability to move, it was quickly hit by artillery fire from the Northern Army.

By October 6, William's armored forces had lost more than 300 tanks, almost all of which had been destroyed by Northern artillery fire when the tanks ran out of fuel.

What made Williamcock even more sad was that the northern army saw that he was alone in the depths, and decided to pull out the teeth of the tiger, and the east and west flanks fiercely pinned down the British army, so that it could not reinforce Williamcock's troops. The Northern Army concentrated its main force of more than 90,000 men, 22 aircraft, 36 tanks and 320 artillery pieces to launch a counteroffensive against Williamcock's troops.

Williamcock's troops, which were struggling to supply ammunition and oil, were severely damaged by the Northern Army in less than a day, with 10,000 Confederate troops all captured, 50,000 British troops lost 30,000, 10,000 British troops were captured, and another 10,000 British troops were scattered and fled in all directions, and less than 1,000 British troops finally fled back to Ladysmith, and the others were missing.

The Northern Army took the opportunity to counterattack and regained several cities in succession, including Ladysmith. The British army originally marched in unison with the three main armies, but as a result, the middle route army was wiped out, and the left and right flanks faced the situation of being counter-encircled, and they were forced to abandon the cities they had occupied and retreat on all fronts.

On 19 October, the British army retreated to Cape Town, and its plan to destroy the Northern Army in a short time failed.

At this time, Britain had been isolated by the international community for three months. This is a departure from the glorious policy of isolation pursued by Britain in the past, which was the world's largest economic and military power and was not afraid of being isolated. Now that Britain has experienced the heavy blow of the Great War, its economic and military strength have fallen from the throne of the world's first, and Britain is a trading country, counting on economic and trade cooperation with other countries to restore the economy. As a result, the British coalition cabinet, under pressure from the international community, was forced to make concessions.

On 18 November, the representatives of the British League of Nations again met with the representatives of the League of Nations of the Chinese Empire, and the two sides held a closed-door meeting that lasted nine hours, and finally China and Britain reached an agreement. Britain allowed the United States to enter South Africa, demanded that the United States under the command of the Chinese Empire guarantee that Britain's core interests in South Africa would not be violated, and was willing to share the interests in South Africa equally with the Chinese Empire, and to transfer half of the shares controlled by Britain to the Chinese Empire at a reasonable price.

Regarding the British statement, Wang Chenhao, the emperor of the Chinese Empire, only gave one sentence of approval: "Promise them first, as long as they jointly enter South Africa, they will not be able to let the British." ”

According to Wang Chenhao's reply, the Chinese Empire immediately made a verbal promise. The British believed it and abstained in the second unanimous vote of the League of Nations, so that the Assembly of the League of Nations passed Resolution 7, allowing the United States to enter South Africa and stop the South African civil war by arms.

At the same time, the League of Nations Congress issued an exhortation to the governments of South Africa and the North, demanding an armistice between the North and the South, and putting all questions on the negotiating table. The British authorities secretly instructed the Cape Town government to accede to the League of Nations demands, so that the United States could avoid entering South African territory for peacekeeping. However, the northern government of the three provinces of Nantal, Transvaal, and Orange had reached an agreement with the Chinese Empire at this time, and after entering South Africa with the joint **, it would support the northern government to eliminate the southern government. Therefore, the northern government did not want to negotiate at all, and directly showed at the negotiating table that the Cape Town government must unconditionally obey the leadership of the northern government, and as a result, the Cape Town government was furious, and the negotiations between the two sides broke down in less than three days.

On December 3, 1925, the Chinese Empire-led joint ** peacekeeping force landed at Port Elizabeth in eastern South Africa without encountering any resistance.

The landing operation lasted for three days, until the afternoon of the 6th, when Cai set up the joint ** headquarters in the Elizabeth city government building, and then convened the main officers of the joint ** to discuss the next move.

The entry of the United ** into South Africa has made both the North and the South very nervous, and they do not know which side the United ** will attack.

The British envoy came to Cai Yi's headquarters again to confirm with Cai Yi the next action goal of the joint **. Cai himself was also waiting for orders from the Chinese Empire, because the Chinese Empire Congress suddenly proposed a new plan to deal with South Africa, that is, to maintain the division of South Africa.

The reason is that if the United ** marches to Cape Town, it will inevitably fall out with the British, and it is not the original intention of the Chinese Empire to fight to the death with the British army. Gold and diamond deposits in South Africa are now under the jurisdiction of the Northern Government, while Cape Town in the South is largely devoid of deposits. The purpose of the Chinese Empire and other states was only to control the gold and diamond deposits, and the next step was to negotiate with the northern government to seize control. Then appease the government of the South, unite ** between the North and the South, prevent them from going to war, so that all problems are solved.

The Imperial Congress of China is discussing, and it is uncertain when it will be able to come up with a final strategy, so Cai can only temporarily order the United ** to be stationed on the dividing line between the northern and southern governments to prevent them from going to war, and to show the world that the United ** peacekeeping operation is intended to prevent bloodshed. (To be continued)