After Lin Daxin returned to the Qing Dynasty from the city of Laoag in the Philippines in the future time and space, he learned that the British had sent a large number of warships to the Sea of Japan to help the Japanese transport ships escort the ship.

However, things have already been like this, and Lin Daxin has no time to regret the dispatch of South African volunteers, and he began to think about how to deal with the next situation.

According to the information obtained by the Military Intelligence Agency, the British Navy and the Japanese Navy have completed an escort mission together, sending a large number of Japanese troops and supplies to the Wild Boar River Wharf, and the next escort of the navies of the two countries may be in the near future, and now there will be a large-scale naval battle with the navies of the two countries. In terms of numbers, it has surpassed the 23 all-steel battleships of the Northeast Navy's First, Second and Third Fleets combined.

The Northeast Navy originally had a total of 28 all-steel battleships, but in the recent Battle of Tsushima, two were sunk, and three all-steel battleships were in service with the Fourth Fleet.

Lin Daxin considered that if the six main fleets of the Northeast Navy were concentrated, there would be 12 ironclad battleships with a displacement of more than 10,000 tons, and these ironclad battleships were all renovated by shipyards, and the main guns were replaced with two double-mounted 40 times caliber 305 mm rapid-fire main guns, and the secondary guns on them were also replaced by 4 to 14 single-mounted 40 times caliber 155 mm rapid-fire secondary guns according to the situation of each ironclad battleship. In addition, the boilers on some of the slower ironclad battleships have been replaced. So although now these 12 ironclad battleships are not all-steel, now their speed and firepower are not weaker than all-steel battleships. It's just a little weaker in terms of armor.

In this way, the 6 fleets of the Northeast Navy can fight with the navies of the 2 countries that are now escorting, and slowly the look in Lin Daxin's eyes became firm. I don't care if you are a naval hegemon or not a hegemon of the British Navy, since you British people have jumped out, then fight!

So Lin Daxin sent a telegram to the main force of the Northeast Navy, which was currently in the port of Vladivostok, asking the First Fleet, the Second Fleet, the Third Fleet, and the Sixth Fleet, which was already there, to continue to rest and prepare for war at the port of Vladivostok for the time being, and wait for the order to attack.

Lin Daxin then ordered all the warships of the Fifth Fleet of the Northeast Navy at the Lushun Naval Base to rush to the port of Vladivostok, and ordered the all-steel battleships Yami, Yumei, and Yimei, which had been drawn from the battleship formation of the Fourth Fleet at the Manila Naval Base in Luzon Province, to also rush to Vladivostok. The remaining warships of the Fourth Fleet, together with the Manila garrison, will guard the waters of Luzon Province.

If a naval battle broke out between the Northeast Navy, the British Navy, and the Japanese Navy's escort fleet, Lin Daxin was confident that the Northeast Navy, which had experienced many naval battles, would definitely leave a profound lesson for the British Navy.

With Lin Daxin's order, a large fleet will soon gather in the port of Vladivostok. The fleet's battleships, consisting of 26 all-steel battleships and 12 ironclad battleships, will wait for the opportunity to launch an attack on the British and Japanese navies in the Sea of Japan.

In addition, Lin Daxin felt that before a large-scale naval battle, he should find some trouble for the British. So he sent the only two submarines of the Northeast Navy, the Bayonet and the Sharp Knife, to the Japanese waterway to the Wild Boar River Wharf in the Far Eastern Province, and it was self-evident what to do.

The intervention of the British made Lin Daxin a little depressed, but it was just 2 days after he returned to the Qing Dynasty. A war report from South Africa alleviated his depression a lot. The British suffered another defeat in South Africa, and a big defeat.

The British after being surrounded by Boer troops in the important town of Ladysmith in South Africa. Although because of the tight defense of the British army of Leddy Smith, the Boers failed to attack the city several times, but the British did not want this unfavorable war to continue like this, and the powerful British Army was beaten by the small Boer armed forces at the beginning of the war and lost face, so the British began to mobilize a large number of land forces to gather to Leddy Smith.

Commander-in-Chief of the South African Expeditionary Force, reinforced by the British, and who had suppressed local uprisings in Ireland? The 30,000 British troops under Admiral Buller finally reached Cape Town after the Boers besieged Ladysmith.

Beginning in early October, the British army under the command of General Buller launched a counteroffensive against the Boer army on the eastern, central and western fronts, and Lieutenant General Mayhuin of the British Army relieved the siege of Kimberley on the western front and defeated the Boer army under the command of General Louis. Lieutenant General French of the British Army attacked the Orange Free State on the central front, and General Buller led the main force to relieve the siege of Leddy Smith on the eastern front.

In the early morning of 2 October, Admiral Buller launched an attack on the Boo forces at Coronso, a small station southwest of Ladysmith, in an attempt to force the crossing of the Tuguera River to Ledder Smith. The forces commanded by Buller included the 2nd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th Brigades of the British Expeditionary Force, totaling 24,000 men, in addition to four light cavalry regiments and three squadrons of lancers made up of colonial cavalry. The artillery had 5 artillery batteries with 30 cannons, as well as 16 naval 12-pounder guns and 4.7-inch guns. Including cavalry and artillery, the total strength of Buhler was 30,000.

The Boer army involved in the Battle of Colensor included vigilante groups from eight districts, including Johannesburg, Heidelberg, Krugersdorp, Freyhead, and Utrecht, troops from the Orange Free State, and white police forces from Johannesburg and Eswatini, totaling 3,500 people, and more than 1,100 South African volunteers sent by Lin Daxin also joined the Battle of Colonso.

In addition, the Boer army brought 20 75-mm mountain guns, 1 120-mm German-made Krupp howitzer, and 1 75-mm Krupp field gun. 2 75-mm mountain guns, 1 37-mm rapid-fire gun, 1 artillery regiment. Also joined the Battle of Colenso.

Due to the concealment of artillery positions by the Boer army in advance, as well as the command errors of the British commander-in-chief, the dispersion of forces and the rigidity of tactics. Together with the powerful South African Volunteers, the British suffered a crushing defeat in front of the defenders' defensive positions in the Battle of Colonso, with 4,139 killed, 550 missing, and 20 cannons lost. The Boer army suffered less than 100 casualties and more than 50 wounded. The losses of the South African volunteers were smaller, 8 killed and 12 wounded. Minor injuries are also included.

The commander-in-chief of the South African Expeditionary Force, Admiral Buller, had resigned from his post as commander-in-chief of the British Expeditionary Force because of the fiasco at the Battle of Colenso.

Lin Daxin looked at the war report from South Africa, as if he had eaten a cold watermelon in the hot summer, and he was so cool! The Boers were still quite powerful, and they did not waste their lives thousands of miles to support them.

However, Lin Daxin knows the history of the future time and space that the next battle in South Africa will not be easy, because of the successive defeats, the belligerence is rising among the British people, and the Salisbury cabinet's policy of carrying the war to the end has been supported by the British Parliament. Then a large number of British troops will rush to South Africa from all over the world to participate in the war, and the British army in South Africa will reach hundreds of thousands.

Because the Boers occupied the world's largest Rand gold mine, the British made up their minds this time. The Boers will definitely defeat the Orange Free State and the Republic of Teramwa established by the Boers and occupy the Rand gold mines.

Thinking of the Rand Gold Mine, Lin Daxin couldn't help but shake his head. I can't help but lament that wealth is the original sin, especially in the hands of the Boers who are not very powerful. It is also a lament for the greedy nature of the British.

Lin Daxin sent volunteers to South Africa and collected information through the military intelligence bureau. He had a more complete understanding of the struggle between the British and the Boers in South Africa.

Already in 1652, the Dutch, the sea coachmen, rose up and arrived in South Africa with improved ships. And a thriving small port was established in today's Cape Town, which is known today as Cape Town. The Dutch had a good commercial talent, so the Dutch realized that the trade between East and West would be getting bigger and bigger, and Cape Town was a natural concave port, and the outer island of Robben was just separated by ocean currents, so Cape Town began to develop slowly in the hands of the Dutch.

Cape Town prospered under the Dutch, and by about 1780 Britain was beginning to be able to balance the world. In just over a hundred years, the British defeated the maritime powers of Spain and the Netherlands, and defeated France in the Seven Years' War between Britain and France in 1763. Cape Town, which had been run by the Dutch for more than a hundred years, was already a thriving port city and was already profitable to resupply ships alone.

By 1805, Britain had taken control of most of India, and there was no Suez Canal, which was built in 1869. In the eyes of the British, one of the most important areas that must be passed between India and the UK is South Africa. Therefore, Cape Town's attack on South Africa is already a ripe matter from the perspective of Britain's geopolitical situation, or from the perspective of the economic interests after the robbery, or from the possibility of escalating the contradictions between the Netherlands and the Netherlands, which is already struggling to survive.

So the British Empire felt compelled to take action against Cape Town, South Africa, but the British had a tradition that once he saw something, he would pretend to have friendly negotiations with the locals, trying to take a place without bloodshed, if not to give Britain face. After 1790, the British finally had their hands free, so they said to the Dutch very gentlemanly: "Her Majesty has taken a fancy to Cape Town, and those who know each other should hand it over quickly, or I will beat you badly!" ”

But the Dutchman is obviously a little stubborn boy who actually doesn't give face. So, the British went straight to the ground and made the Dutch cry. In 1806, the Dutch were forced to hand over Cape Town, and the British used various means to force the Dutch, such as collecting heavy taxes, freeing black slaves, and other ways to persecute the Dutch in a very strong way of depriving property at that time, so the Dutch were forced to move to the interior of South Africa.

The Dutch, after losing Cape Town, were forced to move to the Transvaal, and the rule of the day was - don't cry when you are beaten, just find someone weaker than you. So the Dutch wiped away their tears and directly beat the black tribes that had lived in South Africa for thousands of years, and the black people at that time had extremely low means of warfare, usually fighting with bows and arrows. The Dutchman didn't say a word, and saw that he was caught as a slave, if not a slave...... Just shoot and kill. I have to say that the fighting spirit of the Dutch is still quite fierce.

At that time, France was also beaten by the British. So the French and the Dutch in South Africa were at least emotionally resonant at that time, and the French and Dutch sat together at that time, as long as they talked about the British, it was the rhythm of immediately becoming good friends, because the Dutch had bitter tears, and the French were even more inexhaustible bitter water, and the two beaten goods were easy to resonate, and it was appropriate to get together to draw a circle and curse the British.

Therefore, during the period of migration and pioneering, the Dutch and the French stood together for decades, and actually became a people, that is, the Boers. And the hard beating of the black tribe finally got a big land that looks like a decent. In 1852, the Boers established the Transvaal Republic and the Orange State with the consent of the British.

Where the Boers occupied at that time, to tell the truth...... The British look down on them, because these places are bitter cold, and large areas of thin meadows are simply broken places where birds don't poop. At that time, the Boers could only do some sheep herding things, and they wandered around when they had nothing to do, after all, they were herding sheep!

The British sat in Cape Town with toothpicks in their mouths to collect tolls, and the shocking news came quickly!!

Jacobs the Boer the sheep herder picked up a diamond the size of a pigeon's egg on the Orange side!! It wasn't long before another Transvaal discovered a large gold mine, a piece of gold the size of an ashtray!

The British's brain was congested all of a sudden, diamonds and gold, and the British didn't care about being a gentleman or a gentleman, they didn't wear any shoes, they threw a teacup and ran over, and then the British said very strictly, cough cough...... Her Majesty has taken a fancy to the Transvaal and Orange again, you so-called Boers, hand over your things honestly!

The little boy Boers saw that you British were too bullying, and they drove us all here, because diamonds and gold were going to drive us away, and it was unbearable, so the first Boer War broke out between the little boys and the strong British.

As a result, I didn't expect that at the beginning of the war, the little boys would throw away their armor and armor from the British like strong men, but the Boers were also very afraid of the British, and the British did not want to continue to use force to increase expenses. Therefore, it was decided that the Boers would recognize the British suzerainty in the Republic of Tereswa, and that the British would not interfere with the Boers' right to govern.

However, this equilibrium was upset by the emergence of the Rand gold mine, and the Boers discovered a huge gold cluster in an arc mountain range in the Rand Basin of South Africa, which has n super gold deposits, and the total number of super gold mines discovered later is 63 mines.

How big is this super gold mine? Let's put it this way, the total length of the golden vein is about 263 kilometers, and the two flanks add about 100 kilometers. Sixty percent of the world's gold is currently in this vein. How much do you say you can dig in a year? The starting price starts from four or five hundred tons, and it is not discounted.

This Englishman couldn't bear it at all, his eyes were red, how much was that! It is Lin Daxin, who is now rich and rivals the country, who swallows saliva at the Rand gold mine in South Africa, not to mention the greedy British! And so now the Second Boer War broke out! (To be continued......)