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On June 19, the day after the signing of the armistice treaty with Russia, Lin Daxin ushered in the birth of his fifth child, Liu Xiumei gave birth to another big fat boy to Lin Daxin, and rushed to the governor's palace to congratulate Lin Daxin The military and political leaders of the four northeastern provinces became endless.

After Lin Daxin received some of the guests who visited and congratulated, he handed over the task of receiving the guests to the adjutants of the Governor's Mansion around him, and he himself brought his cousin Wang Yan and Li Kun, the director of the Military Intelligence Bureau, into a room at the back of the Governor's Palace.

After entering the room, Lin Daxin motioned for Wang Yan and Li Kun to sit on the sofa in the room, which was a living room in Lin Daxin's residence behind the Governor's Palace, and Lin Daxin himself sat on a sofa.

Lin Daxin asked Li Kun: "A while ago, the military intelligence bureau didn't get information, and Japan seems to be dishonest in South Korea, so what is the situation in South Korea now?" ”

Li Kun said: "Principal, according to the intelligence of our military intelligence agents in South Korea, the Japanese have secretly increased the number of troops stationed in South Korea, and now the Japanese Army in South Korea has reached 18 divisions, and according to the intelligence of the agents, the Japanese will continue to increase the strength of South Korea. Headmaster, it seems that the Japanese have some bad intentions against our Yalu River Province. ”

Lin Daxin nodded and said: "It seems that the last war with the Japanese has not hurt them, if the Japanese dare to make any moths this time, they must clean up this group of little." ”

Japanese people are generally short in height during this era. It is not very common for men to be more than 1.65 meters tall, and the average height cannot even reach 1.6 meters. If there is a Japanese man who is 1.7 meters tall, he will definitely stand out from the crowd when walking on the streets of Japan. It is not an exaggeration for Lin Daxin to call the Japanese a little man.

Wang Yan next to him frowned and said: "Marshal, we have just ended the war with the Russians, and all kinds of materials that the four northeastern provinces have hoarded over the years, especially the weapons and ammunition stored in the arsenal before, have almost been consumed. ”

Lin Daxin thought about it for a while and said: "In this way, let the workers of the Shenyang Arsenal work hard and inform Lian Hongkai, the person in charge of the Arsenal." Let the arsenal continue to insist on three shifts, 24 hours a day non-stop production of weapons and ammunition, and strive to stock up on a certain amount of weapons and ammunition, if the Japanese are really not afraid of death and choose to wage war with us, do not let the troops suffer on the battlefield because of the problem of weapons and ammunition. In addition, for other materials needed by the troops, I will allocate a sum of money to your cousin to procure them as much as possible. Complete the reserves, preferably at the level we were before the war with the Russians. ”

In the final stage of the Russian war, the Shenyang Arsenal was almost exhausted of spare weapons and ammunition, so the arsenal began to insist on three shifts. 24 hours non-stop production of weapons and ammunition, but when negotiations with the Russians began, it was obvious that the Russians could not hold on. So the arsenal resumed normal production again, but now the Japanese are not honest. Just in case, the arsenal had to restart three shifts. Reserve weapons and ammunition for the troops.

Wang Yan heard Lin Daxin's order, and immediately said: "Okay, I will immediately inform Lian Hongkai to arrange for the arsenal to start working three shifts again, and also send people to start purchasing other materials needed by the troops, and prepare as many as possible, Marshal, does Yalu River Province need to send some more troops?" ”

Lin Daxin waved his hand and said: "Yalujiang Province has 3 A integrated divisions and 5 B divisions, with a strength of more than 200,000, as well as perfect fortifications, even if the Japanese attack, they may not be able to take advantage of anything, if there is a war, we will be able to transfer troops to support Yalu River Province, and the other divisions are on the front line of the war with the Russians, that is, the divisions with small losses, and because of the long distance of the march, they need to rest for a while, not to mention those divisions that have suffered heavy losses, At least you have to recuperate for a while before you can regain your vitality. ”

Wang Yan and Li Kun both nodded, Yalu River Province is full of high mountains, the Dingbei Army has been operating there for several years, building a large number of fortifications, even mountain fortifications like outside the inner city of Svobod and outside the city of Darkhan, and a lot of them have also been built in Yalu River Province, with these mountain fortifications that can be described as turtle shells, the Japanese don't want to defeat the Dingbei Army in Yalu River Province lightly, the example of the Russians is there.

Lin Daxin suddenly changed the topic and asked Li Kun: "Have you checked the task I gave you to the Military Intelligence Bureau?" ”

Li Kun nodded and said: "Headmaster, you have asked our Military Intelligence Agency to investigate the situation in the Orange Free State and the Transvaal Republic in Africa, and the British are indeed eyeing these two places, and it is likely that they will use force against these two places." ”

It turned out that Lin Daxin had been itching the roots of his teeth that he hated for the British, and wanted to find an opportunity to take revenge on the British, but Lin Daxin could not directly provoke the British, that was too unwise, so Lin Daxin put his mind on the second Boer War that was about to take place in the fall of 1899.

Lin Daxin decided to use this war, which cost Britain a lot, to add to the blockage of the British, so that Britain would be even more miserable in the end, and the price paid was greater than in history, and he tasted the taste of being blocked.

The Boers are a mixed ethnic group of Dutch, French and German white immigrants living in South Africa, the British began to invade South Africa in the early 19th century, seized the Cape Colony in 1806, established the Cape Province, and the Dutch Boers were forced to migrate to the interior, and in 1852 and 1854 established the Orange Free State and the Republic of Transanda respectively.

Historically, the British were known as the Second Boer War, occupying the Boer Free State of Orange and the Republic of Teresa, and in May 1910, the British merged the Cape, Transvaal, Natal and Orange Free State into the Union of South Africa, which became the self-governing territory of the United Kingdom, which later became South Africa.

There was a war between the Boers and the British 19 years ago, known in history as the First Boer War. In 1876, Shepstone, Governor of the province of Natal, British South Africa. Traveled to the Transvaal Republic to lobby for British rule. Due to financial difficulties. and faced with a large-scale conflict with the Zulu kingdom, an indigenous state in South Africa to the east, the Boers of the Transvaal Republic accepted the demand for annexation to the British.

April 1877. Britain issued a statement that the Transvaal Republic became a British colony, Sir Shepstone was appointed Administrator, and the President of the Transvaal, Boer Burgess, resigned.

After the Zulu War in 1879, Britain eliminated the Zulu Kingdom, an indigenous state in South Africa, and removed the greatest threat to the Boers. During the three years of British rule in the Transvaal, instead of improving the living conditions of the middle and lower Boers, they did not increase investment and improve the financial, economic and political life of the local people, but allowed British merchants to speculate on land and collect back taxes previously owed to the Boers to the Transvaal. caused widespread discontent among the Boer people.

So the Boers took advantage of the main British force in the Transvaal to go south to suppress the black riots, so that the total number of British troops remaining in the Transvaal did not exceed 3,000, making the British defense in the Transvaal empty, and could only be stationed in a few important towns such as Pretoria, Rustenburg, Leidenburg, and Sanderton.

On December 16, 1880, more than 5,000 Boers dissatisfied with British rule gathered in Pardekral for a national convention, declaring an armed revolt and restoring the Republic of the Transvaal, with three of the most respected Boers as its leaders. On the same day, the newly formed three-member government sent the declaration of independence of the Transvaal Republic to the British garrison in Pretoria. The British refused to accept and ordered the garrisons to rush to reinforce Pretoria.

Heavy fighting ensued between the Boers and the British, and in February 1881, the Boer army defeated more than 1,000 British troops near Mount MaZuba. Britain was forced to recognize the independence of the Transvaal Republic and sign peace treaties with each other in the name of retaining some powers. Ended the First Boer War.

But the smoke of the First Boer War did not last long, in 1884. Prospectors have discovered the world's largest Rand gold mine on a remote pasture between the city of Pretoria and the Vaal River in the Transvaal.

The mining area is centred around the city of Johannesburg. Expanding to the southeast and southwest flanks, a gold arc belt about 500 kilometers long was formed, accounting for about 1/4 of the world's gold reserves at that time.

This discovery spurred thousands of gold diggers from all over Europe to flood in, and over the next four years, gold prospectors from all over Europe organized 141 mining companies to frantically mine diamonds and gold in the region for high profits. Profits from the gold mines and tax revenues allowed the Transvaal Republic's economy to skyrocket, while also increasing friction with the British. Seeing the huge profits and taxes in the coffers, the British were guilty of pink eye.

In 1895, the British government secretly instructed Rhodes, the colonial governor of the Cape, to annex the Transvaal. Rhodes sent a well-armed army of 800 men to attack the Transvaal capital, while planning a revolt of the British expatriates in the city as a response. However, this secret was learned by the German government, which wanted to compete with Britain for world hegemony, and told the Transvaal government to prepare in advance. On January 2, 1896, on the outskirts of Krexdorp, more than 2,000 Boer troops ambushed the British army, killing 134 people and seizing all British firearms. After this fiasco, Rhodes was forced to resign as governor of the Cape.

But the ambition of the British to occupy the world's largest Rand gold mine did not disappear, and there was massive anti-Boer propaganda in the British newspapers, claiming that European immigrants in South Africa were bullied, exploited and blackmailed by the Boers, creating public opinion and preparing for war against the Boers.

In April 1899, the Prime Minister of the British Cape Colony, Alfred ? Milner instructed the British expatriates in the Transvaal to write a letter of grievance to Queen Victoria, asking her to protect the interests of her British subjects.

When Lin Daxin signed the armistice treaty with the Russians, Britain and the Transvaal Republic held the last negotiations on the protection of the rights and interests of foreigners, and the British issued an ultimatum to the Boers of the Transvaal Republic at the negotiating table, demanding that the Boers disarm, which was sternly rejected by the Boers, so that the pace of war was getting closer and closer.

This year, a number of European countries launched campaigns of sympathy and solidarity with the Transvaal, and the Netherlands and Belgium formed numerous civil society groups to solicit donations, publish articles, establish foundations, and donate wartime mobile hospitals and medical equipment to the Transvaal. Thousands of volunteers from the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, France, the United States, Russia, Ireland, Italy and other countries crossed the ocean to the Transvaal Republic, ready to fight alongside the Boers.

Lin Daxin was also preparing to send a group of officers and soldiers to South Africa to help the Boers in the Transvaal Republic and the Orange Free State in their war against the British invasion.

In the 1 year and a half war, Britain mobilized 450,000 troops, of which 256,000 were British regular troops, 109,000 were British volunteers, 53,000 were British colonial troops in South Africa, and 31,000 troops from Canada, Australia and New Zealand, although in the end Britain still won. It owned the world's largest Rand gold mine, but Britain paid 21,000 dead and 220 million pounds in war spending.

You must know that the total population of the Transvaal Republic and the Orange Free State faced by the British is less than 440,000, which is less than the number of troops sent by the British, and there are more than 80,000 young and middle-aged people who can participate in the war in the two small countries, but the Boers used flexible guerrilla warfare to bring extremely heavy costs to the British.

But now Lin Daxin has put the idea on the head of the second Boer War, the British will definitely pay a heavier price than in history, thinking of this, Lin Daxin smiled and said to Wang Yan and Li Kun: "Since the British want to do it in South Africa, I am ready to form a volunteer army and rush to South Africa to help the Boers resist the British invasion together, and add a little blockage to the arrogant British." ”

Wang Yan nodded, he knew from the information brought by Lin Daxin in modern time and space, that the British would suffer a big loss in the second Boer War, and if Lin Daxin sent a volunteer army, the British might pay a heavier price, which Wang Yan liked to see, and there was no one in the military and political leadership of the four northeastern provinces who did not hate Britain so much.

Li Kun didn't know the future direction of history, he heard that Lin Daxin was going to send volunteers to South Africa, his brows furrowed and said: "Principal, those two small countries may be wiped out by the British without much effort, is it useful for us to send volunteers?" How many troops do we have to send to South Africa? ”

Lin Daxin said confidently: "Don't worry, those two small countries composed of Boers are not so easy to be destroyed by the British, your military intelligence bureau will send someone to contact the Boers now, I am ready to send a volunteer army of about 1,000 people to South Africa in advance to help the Boers resist the British invasion, according to the situation, the number of volunteers may increase in the future." (A pie-in-the-sky event, cool phones are waiting for you!) Follow from ~ point / official account (WeChat add friends - add official account - enter dd), participate now! Everyone has a prize, now pay attention to the dd WeChat public account! (To be continued......)