Finally packed all the 7 super dreadnought battleships of the U.S. Navy in the future time and space, stole back to the time and space of the Qing Dynasty, and could form a formation of super dreadnought battleships.

The 7 super dreadnought battleships are very well maintained by the Americans, and the 8 heavy oil boilers and 4 steam boiler turbines on the warship can be used normally, and Lin Daxin has let the people of the Huludao shipyard test it, although the 7 super dreadnought battleships cannot reach the maximum speed originally designed, but the speed is still not slow, the maximum speed of the 4 super dreadnought battleships of the Iowa class is still close to 29 knots, and the other North Carolina, Massachusetts and Alabama are also close to 26 knots, plus their powerful firepower and thick armor, in the Qing Dynasty time and space, 7 super dreadnought battleships are definitely against the sky.

However, there is also a problem that plagues Lin Daxin, that is, the life of the 406 mm main gun barrel of the 7 super dreadnought battleships, the 406 mm main gun barrel generally only has the life of 200 to 250 shells, and then the accuracy of the gun will drop a lot, and the current 406 mm main gun barrel on the 7 super dreadnought battleships is half-new, that is to say, Lin Daxin must prepare to replace the gun barrel of the main gun of the 7 super dreadnought battleships, Otherwise, these 7 super dreadnought battleships may not be able to fire many guns, and the hit rate will plummet.

However, the main guns of these super dreadnought battleships of the United States during World War II represented the top manufacturing level of heavy industry in that era. There are several technical problems plaguing the Shenyang Arsenal under Lin Daxin's command, such as the manufacturing process of high-pressure gun barrels, the smelting and processing technology of large-scale forgings, and the precision machining technology of large-scale bearings, so that the Shenyang Arsenal does not want to make a replaceable 406 mm main gun barrel for a while.

Fortunately, the hardware production equipment. For example, the 15,000-ton hydraulic press in the arsenal and the 100-ton acid open-hearth furnace in the steel mill, these indispensable things for the production of giant naval guns are no longer lacking, and the only remaining problems are to let the arsenal, which is responsible for developing the barrel of the 406-mm main gun, overcome the difficulties one by one.

Although the 7 super dreadnought battleships have this problem with gun barrels, even according to their current combat effectiveness, they can also sweep a qiē naval power in the Qing Dynasty. It is definitely another heavyweight killer feature of Lin Daxin, so 7 super dreadnought battleships follow Lin Daxin's orders. It will always be hidden, and if it is taken out at a critical moment in the future, it will definitely shock the jaws of countless people.

Time flies, and in a blink of an eye, it is the Spring Festival of 1902. In the past 2 years, many high-level officials under Lin Daxin have built Lin Daxin's troops to go south, overthrow the Qing Dynasty, and replace it, but Lin Daxin has become indecisive at this point, and he has not made up his mind to send troops to Shanhaiguan's battle plan. The General Staff of the Dingbei Army had already been made, but it was shelved by Lin Daxin, and the surrounding other countries. In the past 2 years, no one dared to provoke Lin Daxin, and Lin Daxin did not take the initiative to cause trouble, so the forces under Lin Daxin spent 2 years of peace.

And it is precisely because of the two-year period of peace that Lin Daxin completely controlled the newly added territory in his hands, and the policy of very preferential immigration was passed through the entire 12 provinces under Lin Daxin's command. The population has reached 120 million, more than doubling from two years ago. This does not include the indigenous population of the Philippines.

The reorganization plan of the Dingbei Army formulated by Lin Daxin has also been implemented smoothly, and the three Guards Army, the 10 field armies of the Dingbei Army, and the 12 garrison armies have all been reorganized, making the number of regular troops of the Dingbei Army reach a full 2.4 million, ranking second in the number of armies in the world.

Originally, when Lin Daxin planned to reorganize, the 2.4 million army was definitely the largest number of armies in the world, but there was an even more crazy Russian Tsar Nicholas II, who raised the Russian army standing army to more than 3 million, I really don't know how the Russians can afford this huge army, but according to the intelligence of the military intelligence agency, many units of the Russian army are still equipped with single-shot rifles, which are fast becoming antique weapons.

In this way, the combat effectiveness of the Dingbei Army ranks first in the world, and Lin Daxin is still very confident.

The Northeast Navy is also stronger than 2 years ago, with 8 more city-class all-steel battleships and 8 Trotto-class large armored cruisers joining the main fleet of the Northeast Navy, and 6 Dragon-class dreadnought battleships have also entered the sea trial stage.

What makes Lin Daxin's confidence more and more is that a large number of newly built large-scale factories have been put into operation, and now the industrial level of Lin Daxin's forces is compared with Britain, the United States, Germany and France, and it is no longer possible to say who is stronger and who is weak, but you can only say that you are stronger than me in some aspects, and you are weaker than me in other aspects, each has advantages and disadvantages, and the forces under Lin Daxin's command are enough to rank among the ranks of industrial powers.

Although Lin Daxin signed a secret treaty with the British and withdrew the South African volunteers to the northeast, the resistance of the South African Boers still made the British suffer.

Because of the cooperation of the South African volunteers, after the start of the Second Boer War, the Boers caught the British in the Battle of Mount Tarana and slapped them a few times. After the British were defeated and retreated, they held back their grievances, Nima's, fight more and fight less, Lao Tzu told people to go!

Then the British began to dispatch troops, and the Battle of Leddy Smith began, and the Boers had long forgotten that his opponent was the British, because he had already hit the British in the face, and of course there was a strong South African Volunteer Army standing next to him, which was also the reason why the Boers had confidence, so in the Battle of Leddy Smith, the Boers caught the British and beat them violently.

The British were beaten in the face, and if you count the first Boer War, the British fought against the Boers, and they already knelt three times in a row. The British themselves are a little embarrassed, we are a powerful world hegemon!

So the British were completely furious, and the successive defeats made the British feel a little embarrassed, if the British could not suppress a small place in South Africa, then the other British colonies were likely to rebound. So the British decided. The days are over, and I will die to the end.

The British wanted to get rid of the South African volunteers who were causing trouble, so they created a powerful escort fleet. Participated in the war between Lin Daxin and the Japanese, but unfortunately in the end, the powerful British Navy knelt down in front of the Northeast Navy, well, the British immediately turned into a smiling face and signed a secret agreement with Lin Daxin, so that the South African volunteers who made the British itch their teeth finally got out.

In fact, it is not easy for the British, except that Lin Daxin is making trouble for them. At least 11 countries in the West are watching and stumbling on the British in various ways, representing Germany, Russia, the United States, France, Belgium, Italy and other countries.

In short, as long as you can talk, you will run to chatter. Everyone rushed to the trembling kick and expressed their support for the Boers to hold on, to be free, and to resolutely not bow to the British. Big brothers will support you. It's just that the support of these big brothers is a little insufficient, and no one directly organizes an army to be transported to South Africa like Lin Daxin.

After the South African Volunteers left in an airship, Lord Roberts, the commander-in-chief of the South African Expeditionary Force, who was newly appointed by the British Prime Minister Lord Salisbury, changed his strategy after weighing the situation on the battlefield, moving the direction of the main attack from Natal West to the Orange area, where the troops were weaker in the center, and at the same time changing the rigid frontal attack tactics and adopting a roundabout and flanking strategy. This time the British got serious and used several times the strength of the Boer army.

Subsequently, in the direction of the Western Front, the British defeated the fiercest black general in the Boer army, Piette? The militia under the command of Cronye. On February 16, 1900, Kimberley, which had been besieged for several months, was liberated. On February 27, 1900, the British on the Eastern Front launched an offensive and in less than a week at Dodrecht, defeated the Boer army there, and finally were able to relieve the siege of Lattice Smith.

The tempo of the war was then temporarily in the hands of the British, and after eliminating the threat to his left flank from the militia commanded by the most formidable Cronye, Roberts turned his main forces back to Orange. Steady advance to the north. Having learned the lessons of the failures of the first stage, the British changed their tactics. When ambushed by the Cloth Army, the infantry units no longer remain in formation. Instead, they dug trenches nearby to cover the cavalry's charge against the positions of the cloth army. Under this tactic, the Cloth army's resistance in poplar forests, Abraham's bullpen and other places failed one after another.

On 10 March 1900, the British 6th and 7th Divisions defeated the Johannesburg Police Force, the best equipped of the Bono Army, at the Abraham's Bullpen. On March 12, Orange Free State President Matthius ? Stein led government and parliamentary officials out of the capital, Bloemfontein, to Kronstad in the north, declaring Kronstad the new capital of the Orange Free State. On the afternoon of 13 March, the British army marched into Bloemfontein. On 26 March, the commander-in-chief of the Burundi army, Joubert, was seriously wounded in a fall from his horse in the battle of Willow Farm, and was declared dead the next day. According to his last wishes, Louis, who was good at guerrilla warfare? Botha succeeded him as commander-in-chief of the Boer field forces.

At the end of April 1900, a large number of British reinforcements arrived in South Africa. After the adjustment of forces, in the direction of the main attack, Roberts had 8 infantry divisions and 2 cavalry divisions. The British resumed their offensive in early May, after which Roberts' army captured the new capital of the Orange Free State, Kronstad. As a result of successive defeats, the morale of the Boers plummeted. With Roberts' lenient promise, many of the militia members operating in the rear of the British army surrendered to the British, surrendered their weapons, and returned to their farms. The British beat the Boers so violently that by mid-May there were only about 20,000 Boers still fighting.

Later, the British impatiently announced in Bloemfontein that Britain had annexed the Orange Free State, and there was no need to cover it up, and the bandits' faces were undoubtedly revealed.

After the annexation of Orange, the British intensified their offensive against the Transvaal Republic. General French of the British Army, commanding Australian cavalry units, defeated the last defensive force at the Clipp River on the southern outskirts of Johannesburg. President Krueger of the Transvaal Republic leaves the capital Pretoria by train. At the end of May, British troops entered Johannesburg and soon before Pretoria.

On September 1, 1900, the British declared the annexation of the Transvaal Republic and declared the end of the war.

Although the British declared the annexation of the Orange Free State and the Republic of Teramva, the Boer resistance did not end there, and President Kruger was authorized by the exiled Transvaal government to arrive in Lorenço Marques, the capital of Portuguese Mozambique. Kruger then traveled to Europe on a fast protection cruiser sent by Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands to ask for help.

By this time, the Boer army, which had withdrawn from the city, had broken into pieces, formed several guerrilla units, and gave full play to the strengths of field cavalry and archery. Attack the British lines of communication, plunder the British army's supplies, and annihilate small groups of British troops. From December 1900 to April 1901, the Boer guerrillas fought even deep into the British Cape colony. During the winter campaign from April to September 1901, the Burunese guerrillas launched a number of sneak attacks on British forces in the Transvaal and Orange, and repeatedly succeeded, capturing large quantities of munitions, provisions, and artillery. September 1901 to January 1902. The 5,000 cavalry of the Boer guerrillas again entered the Cape colony, divided into small partisan units. Thousands of miles into the rear of the British army, all the way to the Atlantic coast and the suburbs of Cape Town, forcing the British to declare martial law in the Cape area.

You Boers are not finished. The British were outraged and began to use bunker tactics, scorched earth policies, and concentration camps to deal with the Boer guerrillas, and in the areas where the Boer guerrillas operated, the British erected barbed wire, divided the occupied area into a number of appeasement areas, and carried out partition sweeps, with a total length of 6,000 kilometers. Wooden blockhouses were set up every 1 to 2 kilometers in the appeasement zone, and soldiers were stationed to guard them, and anyone who approached the pillbox was within range. Shoot them all. More than 8,000 pillboxes were set up. In these pacification areas, where Boer farmers were found to be helping the guerrillas, farms and houses within 10 miles of the area were burned down. Furthermore. The enraged British also reversed their previous leniency policy towards prisoners of war, and surrendered and captured guerrilla members, as well as adult male citizens who had participated in the guerrillas, were exiled to prisoner of war camps in distant India, Ceylon, and Bermuda. In the Cape and Natal colonies, British citizens of Dutch descent who responded to the call to take up arms were sentenced to death if captured.

In order to completely eliminate the basis of the guerrillas' activities. Kitchener ordered 136,000 Boer women, children, and the elderly, as well as more than 80,000 black servants, to be taken from the burned farms. They were transported together in open-top wagons or ox carts and put in concentration camps.

First established in September 1900 as a refugee camp for the families of Boer soldiers whose homes had been burned down, the British converted them into camps for all Boer civilians in 1901 to deal with the Boer guerrillas. There are more than 50 concentration camps in South Africa, located on both sides of the railway lines in the Cape, Transvaal, Orange and Natal, as well as in the suburbs of major cities such as Johannesburg, Bloemfontein and Durban.

A strict and harsh rationing system was imposed in the camps, with three quarters of a pound of cornmeal, rice, or potatoes per person per day, an ounce of coffee, two ounces of sugar, half an ounce of salt, and one pound of meat per week, and women and children with relatives who joined the guerrillas were denied meat. Infants and children under the age of six receive a small amount of milk per day. The situation was worse in the black concentration camps, but they could be assisted by black relatives and friends, and they could also be released after pledging allegiance to the British. The camp was surrounded by barbed wire, and anyone who tried to escape was shot. The concentration camps were extremely densely populated, with a shortage of tents, blankets, clothing, and medicine, plague, malnutrition, and a very high mortality rate, which had been as high as 40 percent in October 1901.

The high mortality rate in the concentration camps shook the morale of the Boer soldiers, and at the same time caused the image of the British to plummet in front of the whole world. At this time, many countries jumped out and criticized the barbaric policies of the British, even Lin Daxin also jumped out, pointed at the British and scolded, under pressure from all sides, the British Parliament had to send an investigation team to South Africa, and after severely criticizing the concentration camp officials, the rationing and medical conditions of the concentration camps were improved, but during the entire Boer War, nearly 30,000 Boer civilians died in the concentration camps, and 22,000 children accounted for them.

As soon as the Boers saw that this would not work, and if this continued, the next generation of our Boers would die, and the soldiers of the Boer guerrillas were malnourished, ragged, and demoralized, and their food and ammunition had been exhausted, so the Boers finally stopped their military operations in January 1902, recognized the bears, and began formal negotiations with the British.

Eventually, the British got their wish, and the Boers recognized the British annexation of the Orange Free State and the Republic of Teresa, and all the Boers in South Africa became British subjects.

However, according to the statistics of the British after the war, the one who was careful of his liver hurt was really a little injured, but because of the survival of the South African Volunteers in the early days of the war, and Lin Daxin's support for Boer weapons, the British paid a greater price than in history.

The British spent £250 million in the Second Boer War, mobilized 470,000 troops, and killed nearly 35,000 men, a figure that refers to British, Australian, New Zealand, and Canadian troops.

For the British, the Second Boer War was definitely a tragedy, the British were indeed relatively wealthy, but once such a large sum of 250 million pounds was spent, the British really couldn't afford to be hurt, and the landlord's family couldn't afford to make such a thing! (To be continued)

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