Just when the British expatriates were planning to join forces and bring down the Boers' "tyranny" in one fell swoop. When South Africa belonged to Britain and the gold mines belonged to Cecil Rhodes, there was a sudden sound of fierce gunfire in the distance.

"What's going on? Didn't you say it would be tomorrow morning? Mr. Dahl was taken aback, and he understood that it was definitely not good news that there was a fight at this time. It only meant that Jensen's side was exposed. The question now is what's going on on Jensen's side. Did they expose whether the Boers were on guard or did Jensen be too stupid and careless?

If the latter were the case, then the Boers would have suffered from a lack of troops, and there might have been a void in their defenses, and Mr. Dahl should have taken the opportunity to immediately attack the city hall and the police station in response to Jensen's actions.

But if it is the former, if it is the Boers who have been prepared, then there is no doubt that not only Jensen and they must have fallen into the ambush of the Boers, but even on their own side, the Boers must have been prepared for a long time. If they had known the information in advance, they would have been able to muster enough strength in advance to deal with Jensen's mere 500 mine police and the few rebels of their own. If this is the case, the most important thing for me to do is not to rush out with people immediately and fight with the Boers, because that is to send them to death. The Boers must have been willing to see these unstable factors jump out and die on their own. At this time, it would be nice for a guy to get rid of all these unstable factors reasonably and legitimately. So at this time, the most important thing they should do is to give up the violence immediately. and, as much as possible, destroy a qiē related evidence.

Now that choice was in front of Mr. Dahl, they didn't have much time to hesitate. A decision must be made now, otherwise it will be too late to chase anything.

……

Dmitry quietly poked his head out of the trench, and after a glance, he was pulled down by Lawrence, the squad leader next to him:

"Don't move, others they found out!"

At this time, Jensen's mine officers were walking along the road towards here. This is already within the territory of the Transvaal Republic, so they must be extremely cautious.

"Quickly get to the mine, and then you can send someone to contact someone from the Aliens Reform Committee. Fortunately, the destination is not far away, and when we get there, there will naturally be someone on the mine to cover us. Jensen thought. As an executive of the company, he also knew the danger of this operation. Even he understood the calculations behind his boss, Mr. Cecil Rhodes. However, as long as he can go back alive, no matter the success or failure of the matter, the boss will definitely give him a good preferential treatment. However, the precondition for this qiē is that he must be able to return alive.

In order to ensure that he went back alive, Jensen also spent a lot of thought. He walked right in the middle of the line and didn't ride a horse, so the first bullet hit him, making it much less likely that he wouldn't even have time to surrender. In addition, he prepared a steel helmet for himself. According to the Americans, this thing can drastically reduce the mortality rate. So, although Britain ridiculed Americans as cowards for this, Jensen still prepared one for himself.

By this time, the mine policemen had gradually entered the ambush circle of the Boers.

"Ready." Company Commander Celt whispered, while opening the safety of the McDonald automatic pistol in his hand. Heavy Karl also gently pulled the bolt of his gun. His assistant Wald gently put the canvas chain in place. Unlike the water-cooled heavy machine gun, which is now popular in Europe, the machine gun in Karl's hand is the latest product from MacDonald's Infantry Weapons. Unlike the bulky, water-cooled machine gun, this machine gun is relatively lightweight, and a slightly more robust soldier can carry it and fly away, although of course, the bullets and spare barrel still need to be carried by another person. If another traverser appeared and saw this machine gun, he would surely shout: "Hell, it's MG-42!" ”

All the mine policemen have entered the ambush circle.

"Fire!" The company commander gave the order. Wald immediately pulled the bolt, and a blazing tongue of fire immediately erupted from the muzzle, and a series of bullets dragged out a long red band of light and swept across it like a saw. Immediately knocked over a large platoon of mine police. At the same time, several 60-mm mortars began to fire wildly, and the sound of gunfire, explosions, shouts, and groans suddenly rang out.

More than a dozen machine guns, hundreds of rifles, and several mortars weaved a web of death from different angles, and the mine policemen were completely blinded, and those who were still alive did not care about fighting back, but in vain looked everywhere for a place to hide, and then were knocked down by the flying bullets.

"Ceasefire! We surrender! Jensen found a small depression and hid, then shouted loudly. But his voice was completely drowned out by the gunfire. But this did not bother him, and he immediately took out the white flag that had been prepared long ago from his clothes, and then picked it up with a rifle and shook it vigorously at them.

I don't know how long it shook, maybe just a few seconds, maybe a full century. The gunfire finally stopped, and then Jensen heard a voice shouting, "Lay down your arms!" Raise your hands and stand up! ”

Jensen quickly tore the white flag off his rifle, grabbed it in his hand, and then got up with trembling legs, and accidentally fell, causing the Boers standing on the opposite side to laugh.

"These useless guys, how dare they come and attack our ideas?" A Boer soldier said contemptuously.

"I've heard that their army is even more useless than these mine police." Another Boer soldier also replied with a smile, looking at Jensen and the others with disdain in his eyes.

"The British should not be underestimated, it is said that the British army is still very elite." Another officer-like man said, "Okay, hurry up and control these people, and those wounded, I'm afraid they also need to be dealt with urgently." "At least at this time, the Boers had not yet completely turned against the British, so the necessary gentlemanly demeanor was needed.

So the Boer soldiers raised their rifles with bayonets and surrounded them.

In the original history, Jensen's expedition ended in failure, but because the firepower of the Boers in the original history was not so ferocious, so although Jensen's expedition team was also ambushed by others, but only about 100 of the 500 people died, but this time, the firepower of the Boers was so ferocious that it was a magazine rifle, a machine gun, and a mortar. Only about a hundred people survived.

By this time, Jensen, like the others, had been forced by the Boers with bayonets to lift the magazines and transport the wounded mine policemen. Because of the proximity, he could clearly see the blue-colored barrel of the MacDonald's 1864 II rifle in the hands of the soldiers, and the dull and dull MacDonald triangular flat-head rifle mounted under the barrel. Stab.

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Time did not allow Mr. Dahl to hesitate any longer, but Mr. Dahl, who had never experienced such a crisis, hesitated for too long. He felt as if it had only been a moment before the fierce gunfire had stopped. The cessation of the gunfire caused Mr. Dahl to have the illusion that everything he had just done was his hallucination. But he quickly came to his senses, and he understood that it was definitely not a good thing for the guns to stop so quickly. For if Mr. Jensen's men had inadvertently exposed themselves and fought with the Boers, they would never have ended the battle so quickly. And now, when the gunfire has stopped so quickly, it only shows that the Boers had been prepared, and Mr. Jensen and they all fell into the trap of ambush. In this case, now near their position, the Boers must have prepared an ambush a long time ago.

"Damn it! Burn all the records at once! Put the guns back in the storeroom! Mr. Dahl cried out, his voice so sharp with fear that he himself did not believe that it had come from him.

At this moment a man burst in and shouted, "Sir, Mr. Dahl, we are surrounded. Those Boer cops are going to come in and search! At the same time, there was a banging knock at the door of the committee.

"Quick! Hide the guns, and all those plans! Mr. Dahl shouted. The whole hall was immediately in chaos. At this moment the door outside was slammed open, and a group of heavily armed Boer policemen rushed in, shouting: "Hands up!" ”

Mr. Dahl tried to calm himself down, and he stepped forward and said to the policeman who was leading the group, "What are you going to do?" This is private territory! ”

"We've got a tip-off that you're plotting violence. Disorderly. This is a search warrant presented by the court. We are going to search this building and temporarily detain you, please do not resist law enforcement. The officer shook a search warrant in front of Mr. Dahl's eyes and said in a cold tone. At the same time, some of the policemen around him had taken up important positions and set up machine guns.

"This is utterly outrageous slander!" Mr. Dahl's face turned pale.

But by this time, the officer had completely ignored him, he just waved his hand to his subordinates and said, "Search!" ”

In a few moments, a large pile of things was gathered in front of Mr. Darle and the officer. The Boer officer looked at the things in the same way.

"Very good, correspondence with the Cape Colony, discussing how to cooperate with them in taking Johannesburg. That's nice...... Well, this one is better, the map, the battle plan, it's really professionally prepared...... Do you still think this is slander, sir? ”

When the evidence was found in the same way, Mr. Dahl gradually calmed down, raised his head, and said to the officer: "We demand fair treatment and trial, sir, and do not forget that the British Empire is the most powerful country in the world. ”

Then he turned to the trembling expatriates and said, "Do not be afraid, fellow citizens. We want to be confident that the Government of the United Kingdom and the Royal Army have your back, wherever we are in the world. ”