22. The Great Retreat

At this time, the Boer line was extremely porous, and the British cavalry wing at Dundowner on the eastern front was rapidly advancing northeast, approaching the commanding heights of Mount Heranvin on the south bank of the river. Once the British occupy this place, then their artillery will pose a great threat to the other side.

According to the battle plan, the Sotpansberg militia, which was guarding here, was bombarded by the British and moved its position to the bend of the Tuguela River. Botatt was greatly annoyed by this, but fortunately Jubert led the Wachstrum militia in time, and they took the high ground before the British.

After the attack was frustrated, Tun Donner asked Buller to send the 6th Brigade to reinforce the Hrangwan Hill, but Buller did not seriously consider his construction at all, and he was busy urging the 6th Brigade to regain the dozen or so artillery pieces that had been lost at the front.

The British 6th Brigade was sent into a death trap, and under heavy Boer fire, not only did not recover the artillery, but also lost nearly 1,500 men. Taking advantage of the situation, the Boer army pursued the Ferrehead militia and the "Volunteer Brigade" from the road bridge west of the town of Colenso, and the British 6th Brigade was scattered.

In the midst of the fierce fighting, a shell landed near the headquarters in Buller, the supreme commander was wounded, and two of his staff officers were killed. The command of the British army was disorganized, the Boer army counterattacked on all fronts, and the British army retreated for more than ten kilometers until it was dark.

In the two-day battle at Corsolon, the British lost more than 5,000 men and more than 20 cannons, and the exhausted Buller ordered the entire line to retreat, and sent a telegram to Lieutenant General White in the city of Leddy Smith, informing him that there was no hope for Leddy Smith to break the siege. He told General White to burn the codebook, blow up the ammunition depot, and then "negotiate a decent terms of surrender with the Boers." But White decided to stay in solitude with his men.

On January 11, Lieutenant Colonel Mayer also arrived at the Ladysmith front with more than 1,000 volunteers. This time he also brought two 240 mm siege guns, and Heldon suddenly remembered that at the beginning of the war, it seemed that the Boers had the advantage because of the lack of siege artillery, and the two important towns defended by the British army were not captured.

In time, he delivered two more 240-mm siege guns to the Boers.

The arrival of two heavy guns left the British in the city of Ladysmith completely desperate, and now their fortifications have been destroyed, and the defenders of the city have suffered heavy casualties. On 18 January, the British surrendered in Leddy Smith, leaving less than 5,000 of the more than 8,000 British troops left, including about 3,000 wounded.

Bolojevich led his "Volunteer Brigade" to the Diamond City of Kimberley, where General Wiesel's cavalry could not do anything with it due to a lack of artillery, and the nearly 4,000 defenders of Kimberley had been holding out for nearly four months.

On 1 February, the "Volunteer Brigade" arrived in Kimberley with two heavy guns, and the shape of the city deteriorated suddenly.

On 7 February, the Boer army finally broke through the Kimberley's defenses and stormed the city, engaging the defenders in street fighting.

On 9 February, the Kimberley fell, and large sums of gold and diamonds stored by the De Beers Company in the city fell into the hands of the Boer People's Army and the Volunteer Brigade.

What's more, the "Volunteer Brigade" captured Rhodes, a money-hungry tycoon who was holding the city alive and is now a hostage.

By February, however, the battlefield had deteriorated dramatically, and by February the total number of British troops in South Africa had increased to 220,000, seven times that of the Boers.

Bolojevic asked President Stein to evacuate the women and children, but there was no response, and most of the Boers were reluctant to abandon their homes. The women and children who remained behind would later become hostages at the hands of the British.

Pressed by the British, Bolojevic and Kronge's Orange Corps defended President Stein and some of Orange's high-ranking officials, and on March 13, Bloemfontein was captured by the British, and the orange and white striped flag, symbolizing the Orange State, was lowered.

On 26 March, General Jubert fell again while commanding the operation, and died the next day, and Botat succeeded him as commander-in-chief of the Boer army.

Lieutenant Colonel Mayer was ordered to do something "dishonorable" and extort a ransom of up to £5 million from the Rhodes family, who was released after receiving that the £5 million ransom had been transferred to a designated account in a Swiss bank.

The British billionaire, who advocated the hegemony of the British Empire and wanted to turn much of the world, including the Rim of China and Japan, into an English-speaking region, and established the Rhodes Scholarship for this purpose, has now lost more than half of his wealth. Bolojevic, however, began a major retreat with more than four million pounds worth of diamonds and gold looted in Kimberley.

About 1,500 soldiers of the "Volunteer Brigade" and nearly 20,000 Boer women and children formed a huge contingent of migrants, and nearly 3,000 ox trucks carried these people away from the homes where they were raised.

About 1,200 volunteers remained and continued the guerrilla war against the British.

The Great Migration, the uprooted Boers once again experienced the hardships of their ancestors a hundred years earlier, and they made their way through the jungles and steppes of Rhodesia to German East Africa.

The Transvaal was over, and while the indomitable Boers continued their guerrilla warfare, their women and children were thrown into concentration camps by the British, and in 1901 some 30,000 Boer women and children died in the camps.

The atrocities of the British caused protests all over the world.

Later, this "great initiative" of genocide by the British was inherited and carried forward by a comrade named Hitler, reaching the extreme.

Now, Bolojevich and Mayer were leading their men on the returning steamer, and most of the officers who came to be known as the "Boer Officers' Corps" later became important generals in the Imperial Army.

The asymmetrical approach to warfare and the haphazard nature of the Boer militia had opened the eyes of these officers to many things that they had not experienced before, and future military operations would take more account of the contingencies that would arise when their commanders were unable to complete their tasks.

These are all beneficial gains.

The evil arms dealers have always been the source of this damn war.

Lee Hayden had been vocal about the Boers and kept blaming the British.

The Islaia company had made more than 20 million pounds in profits from the Boer War, and in the face of such huge benefits, not to mention saying some inconsequential things, even secretly sending troops, Boloyevich estimated that the Grand Duke could do it. Of course, if he has the power.

In essence, Haydn. Archduke Friedrich was a businessman, and a greedy profiteer, an immoral and even somewhat evil profiteer. Over the years, there are definitely not a few countries that have been cheated by him, and of course, the Grand Duke's favorite pits are the British, because they are the fattest.

Of course, Heldon would not agree with Bolojevic, in his opinion, he was at least much more noble than the English and French ** traffickers, and as for the methods used, ah, they were just some commercial skills, which belonged to the category of technology.

After several years at Heldon's side, Boloyevich felt that he was about to become a qualified arms dealer -- he was familiar with the performance of various weapons, knew many new technologies in the military field, and was well aware of the situation of military equipment in various countries, their weaknesses and, of course, their needs.

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