The flames burning at the station certainly attracted the attention of the British troops nearby, so the British troops of the battalion stationed nearby hurriedly took up their weapons and rushed in the direction of the station.

Commander Jericho knew that if he went out to rescue on such a dark night, he was afraid that he would encounter enemy resistance, so he divided his troops into two teams. Company A took the lead in the front, while Company B and Company C dragged behind for a distance of about 200 meters. In this way, generally speaking, if the enemy is prepared for an ambush, then everyone will not fall into the ambush circle, so that there will be opportunities for mutual reinforcements.

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Primorac turned his head and looked at the burning station, knowing that Waldner's side had a hand. However, he knew that it would take time to get all those things out, and these supplies were very important to the Boers.

"Vice-captain, the British are coming over there!" A partisan came running over to Primorac and said.

"Okay, get ready!" Primorac said.

In a few moments, the troops of the British appeared in everyone's sight. At the front were several cavalrymen, all with flashlights, and their task was to be in charge of the search. But Primorac wasn't worried about what they would find. This is because it is too dark, and the second is because they simply don't have time to search carefully. Really searched all the way, and by the time they reached the station, Waldner and the others had probably already gone back to the celebration. Therefore, the search and reconnaissance of these cavalry is only a form that is better than nothing. In the current environment, it is almost impossible for them to spot those good ambushers who are well hidden.

However, another circumstance made Primoratz frown, the British actually divided the team into two parts, and the front and back were so far apart that he could not put both teams in the ambush circle at the same time. In this way, he must choose whether to attack the British in front or let the front group go first, and attack the gang in the back first. Although it is difficult to judge that there are more people in the front and rear teams in the dark, generally speaking, the gang in the back should be the main force, so from the perspective of attacking the enemy, the line head troops should be put in the past and focus on attacking those enemies behind. But this time the operation was a blocking war in nature. Let's not talk about how to deal with the front and back after the troops behind are attacked, what if those guys who passed in front of them don't care about the back and rush straight towards the station? So, Primorac thought about it a little and gave the order to attack the group in front and block all the enemies here. It's just that in order to deal with the group of enemies behind him, he still needs to make some adjustments to his tactics.

"You go and tell Harris not to get busy knocking that thing out, and to follow my orders before fighting!"

By this time, Company A of the British's front team had already entered the ambush circle.

Aiming at a British soldier with a flashlight who was walking in front, Primorac fired the first shot while shouting: "Hit! Then the sound of gunfire and explosions rang out.

The guerrillas first sounded a chain of mines, and more than a dozen mines exploded together, and threw more than a dozen defensive grenades into the air. When British soldiers who were hit by explosions habitually lay on the ground, under normal circumstances, this action would allow them to face shrapnel and bullets in a smaller area, thus greatly reducing the chance of being shot. However, at this time, this action is very deadly, because the defensive grenade thrown into the air by the chain of mines explodes in the air, and at this time, the action of lying down not only does not reduce the area of the bomb, but enlarges the area. The more than a dozen defensive grenades that exploded in the air caused even more casualties than the mines and guns that exploded earlier. Company A lost more than half of its combat effectiveness in the blink of an eye.

However, the British still stabilized themselves from the panic and began to slowly launch a counterattack. At the same time, the British troops of the second team also came up and joined the battle, and the pressure of Primoratz's battle immediately increased.

The British began firing flares with mortars over Primorac's defensive positions. Hit. Cannon. The bullets rained down. Then the British began to organize and rushed towards the defensive positions of Primorac with bayonets.

"Now is the time to wait!" Primorac thought, and by the light of the flares, he estimated the distance of the British, and then ordered: "Detonate!" ”

Suddenly four broadswords exploded, and immediately brought down a large column of British, and the British attack was once again suppressed.

Primorac looked at the time, and the Americans provided them with a glow-in-the-dark watch, which was especially convenient to use at night. It's been almost an hour. After this period of resistance, he estimated that Waldner's side was finished, and he remembered his partisans' signal: "We can retreat." ”

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"You see, I'll just say that chemical weapons won't lead the Boers to a quick defeat." Scrooge took the newly obtained information and said triumphantly to everyone.

"The Boers don't fail quickly, it doesn't seem to make much more sense now." "Anyway, the last shipload of gold has already departed, and the most important revenue has already arrived." Moreover, the incompetence of the British Army in frontal combat was also quite fully exposed, at least, the Germans now have a noticeable sense of reverence for British military power, and we have in fact won, haven't we? ”

"That's right. But we can do better, not only to convince the Germans that the British Army is nothing great, but also to convince them that the British Navy is not invincible. If we had done this, then the lame man would have definitely been more aggressive in provoking the British. Scrooge said.

"Challenging the British Navy? It's not easy. The Boers did not even have a navy. Carroll said.

"Such a thing cannot be done by the Boers alone, of course, but it is not impossible with our help. Well, Catherine, if something like this happens, I think the disruption to the gold market is definitely very big. In addition, you can spread rumors now, which are not rumors, that the Boers have successfully broken through the British blockade and obtained new gas masks and other weapons. We can even provide some photos of Boers wearing gas masks. Scrooge laughed, "Then the effectiveness of the British Navy will also be questioned." Encouraged by this, the lame man may do something. ”

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After the British captured Johannesburg with chemical weapons, the British attack became quite smooth, and the Boers put up little decent resistance in the remaining cities. However, this does not mean that South Africa is stable and united, on the contrary, there are more and more attacks. The British army had to be on high alert 24 hours a day, because there was a possibility of attack at any time, sometimes with sniper rifles, sometimes with mortars, sometimes with grenades, in short, many British soldiers felt that life was more difficult than before.

Compared to the frustration of the soldiers, Lord Roberts has been in a good mood lately. For according to the orders from above, he will soon be able to return home, and he will return to take over the post of Commander-in-Chief of the British Army, and his present post will be taken over by Lord Kitchener.

Roberts knew that it would be very difficult to eliminate the Boer partisans in a short time. The other day, in a battle, the British killed several partisans, and from one of the partisans they found a pamphlet called "Guidance on the Tactics of Guerrilla Warfare". Lord Roberts carefully studied the modest pamphlet, and found that he could hardly think of any good way to deal with the means of warfare mentioned in it.

This pamphlet mentions that in order to win victory in guerrilla warfare, it is necessary to adhere to the principle of long-term warfare and accumulate small victories into big victories. It is necessary to preserve oneself and destroy the enemy. Among the purposes of war, the destruction of the enemy is the main one, and the preservation of oneself is the second. Because only by destroying the enemy in large numbers can you effectively save yourself. And to do this, it is necessary to integrate guerrilla warfare into the masses, to believe in the masses, to rely on the masses. When talking about tactics, this pamphlet even pointed out that "superiority without preparation is not a real superiority, and there is no initiative." Therefore, the guerrillas should launch an attack when the enemy's vigilance is reduced and their preparation is insufficient, so that they can defeat the strong with the weak. For this reason, a principle is put forward in this booklet: if the enemy attacks, we should not fight with them, but retreat first, so that they cannot find us and cannot fight us; When the enemy is stationed in a certain place, we will constantly harass him, so that they will not eat or sleep well, and they will be in fear all day long; When the enemy is exhausted, let his guard down, and show his flaws, we can strike them hard; And when the enemy is unable to hold out and is forced to retreat, we have to pursue them all the way, just as Kutuzov pursued Napoleon. In this way, when the enemy hits us, we can't beat them, but when we hit the enemy, we can hit them in the sore spots, and they have nowhere to escape......

After careful study of this pamphlet, Lord Roberts realized that if the Boer partisans were really fighting according to the principles of this pamphlet, it would not be possible to exterminate them in a day. And in this process, there will only be constant small-scale battles, and there will never be a great victory that can bring him glory, on the contrary, there will be many things that are not good and humiliating. So Lord Roberts immediately sent a telegram to the country, declaring that he was not in good health, and asked to be transferred back to the country. He wasn't worried that no one would want to replace him, because now, a lot of guys would feel that the situation was settled and they could come and gild. R1058