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"You are so confident that the French will prevail over the British? That's Great Britain! When it comes to sovereignty, and if it is more serious, it will be ugly to see the Tuileries and Downing Street peeled apart, and the Germans will be eager to see Britain and France fight. ”

Trochu turned, he asked Napoleon, and said, "May I ask how His Majesty Napoleon can solve the next crisis?" Tearing the skin with the British is equivalent to France readjusting its diplomatic strategy. And on the German side, Chancellor Bismarck has always refused to let go, even if Frederick III agrees to cooperate with the British,"

Napoleon walked out of his office, he stood in front of the Louvre, looked at the pigeons foraging in the square, and whispered, "The British are the root of all evil in the problems of the European continent, and if we do not deal with them first, even if we can defeat France, we will face an opponent that is almost impossible to defeat." ”

Napoleon admitted very honestly, "Our army can fight Germany to the death, this is our navy, forget it, I don't expect the green navy to defeat Great Britain, as long as they don't lose too ugly." ”

The Royal Navy fleet was a typical blue-water navy, with the strength of an ocean-going fleet, and if Napoleon wanted to fight them alone, it was France who would ultimately suffer.

Once ashore, the French were never intimidated, but even if Napoleon could level Europe, he would be helpless against the islands on the other side of the Channel.

"As for the Germans, I've already figured out how to deal with them. The secret of the Rand gold mine will not last long, and when the time comes, the gold mining will sooner or later reach the ears of the British, and they will be desperate to counterattack at that time. We have to bring Frederick III in as well, Berlin will not do anything without benefits. ”

Napoleon smiled slightly, he knew that France was not strong enough to swallow the Transvaal in front of the British Empire, so he needed a common ally to exert pressure.

"What if they knew the secret of the Rand gold mines, and we were willing to share it with them? As long as Berlin is willing to cooperate with France, we will share part of the benefits of the gold mine with the Germans. This is the price of the capture of the Transvaal. ”

"But ......"

Napoleon interrupted him and said slowly, "Part of the price is better than nothing, look at it, Chancellor Trochu, this is the international political struggle, and we can never get all the benefits, can we?" If Germany agreed, then the greedy Frederick III was tied to the fate of France, and when the time came they would also have to go to war with England, and no one would refuse the temptation to become a world hegemon, and the Germans were no different. ”

The war in South Africa continued, and no one would have thought that the French would win so easily.

Heraclitus said that one cannot step into the same river twice, but this is not true for the British.

Obviously, these fools did not learn enough lessons in the last Crimean War, and the British army was still using the old-fashioned way of fighting, and they even thought that the musketeers were competing for courage, so when the other side charged, the British thought that they had seized the opportunity to annihilate the other side in one fell swoop.

Pochevstum became the focus of the conflict overnight, and the British were the vanguard of the charge, believing that the Boers were just as they had expected, and hundreds of unarmed peasants, wielding Winchester rifles, tried to drive away the invading invaders.

They were wrong, very wrong. The Boers who seemed to be charging forward were nothing more than a decoy. The British army was completely unaware that they were surrounded from the flanks, and the French army appeared silently behind them, blocking the rear road.

The British officers realized that the Boer lines and trenches would not be able to be taken for a while, and that their initiative to attack was the best opportunity. They ordered all their soldiers to line up and use outdated line infantry tactics to fire a burst of rifles.

After all, the French army has been comprehensively reformed for almost a decade, and it is no longer the backward and incompetent French army of the past.

The British officer gave the order, and he was about to shoot, when suddenly a nightmarish sound sounded on the hillside of the flank.

A Maxim heavy machine gun was firing at the British army phalanx on the hillside, and the dense gunfire made people's scalps tingle, and the French machine guns wantonly harvested people's heads, and the British line infantry formation was instantly disrupted.

The French officers tried to split up a part of their army and attack the Boers on the flank, but the heavy artillery fire weighed them down.

This time, the French used 75mm guns, and although they did not play much of a role in the battle against the Germans on the frontal battlefield, they were one-sided against the British colonial army. Simple and unexpected, the French army was more like coming to the Transvaal to wash away the shame, and for the British it was as simple as brushing up experience.

But in the eyes of the British, these black technology weapons against the sky have crushed them to the point where they are powerless.

If this continues, the vanguard of the 94th Regiment in Fort Ryderburg will only be wiped out!

The British officers immediately decided to counterattack the advancing French troops while withdrawing in the direction of the Bronckhorst dry river, trying to establish a point of fire on the opposite side of the bridge to block their advance.

"They're retreating."

The French volunteers made a decisive decision and continued to advance towards the British, forcing them to evacuate in the direction they had envisioned.

A battle ensued between the fleeing British and the pursuing Boers, who were forced all the way to the Bronkhorst Dry River, where they were forced to defend. At the same time, they also sent a request to the Natal colony that the British commander, General Kerry, would be able to move west to the Transvaal and meet them at Lang Gap on the border.

The French had already seen through the intentions of the British Ninety-fourth Infantry Regiment, whose mission was to encircle the British army near the Bronkhor Tsan River and to encircle and suppress the group.

The pursuing French slowed down, making the British think that they would not dare to catch up again. The British troops fled all the way to the riverbank, rested a little, and then prepared to retreat to Lang Gorge to join the reinforcements.

However, before they could cross the riverbank, the French, who had long been lying in ambush in the grass and bushes, charged.

Under the scorching sun, the originally calm grass began to sway, as if countless assassins lurking in it began to assassinate them.

The neighing of the Maxim machine gun turned the leaves that had stopped in front of him into powder, and the green leaves fell one after another, leaving only a row of horizons after the strafing began, and the panicked expressions on the faces of the British soldiers could be clearly seen.

The shouts that filled the mountains made the British face suddenly change their faces, and they tried to resist, gathering in a line of guns to fire bullets, trying to maximize the power and damage. However, the French, who had an improved model of Chasepo, took full advantage of the skirmishers.

The Boers, who were skilled in guerrilla warfare, took advantage of the terrain and numbers to carry out ambush warfare.

Traces of fear are carved into the face of every soldier.

More gunfire rang out than before, and the French made the most of the improved version of Maxim and Chasebo. Under the cover of machine guns, the French charged very smoothly, and the British, without the protection of trenches, had to rely on dense line infantry phalanxes to maximize their firepower.

However, in the eyes of the machine gunners, the huddled British troops were the target.

Not only can it be harvested in a whole row, but it can even reduce the losses of the stormtroopers.

Because the British commander's brain could not turn around, it caused the current situation of being passively beaten.

The red-shirted soldiers fell almost at a speed visible to the naked eye, and when the French rushed in front of the British officers, only the last hundred or so were still resisting, but in the face of the encircled French volunteers, they knew that the war was over. The British officer was the first to wave a white handkerchief and signal for the other party to stop shooting.

"Lay down your arms, soldiers, we surrender, we surrender, stop fighting!"

The remaining soldiers were forced to drop their weapons and raise their hands in surrender. Their faces were in horror for the rest of their lives, and when they saw the Maxim machine gun aimed at them, they couldn't help but take a deep breath of cold air.

It's horrible.

"Pressing down, I thought the British Army was very promising, but I didn't expect that none of these Brits could fight."

The commander of the French Volunteer Regiment said disdainfully, "Far worse than the Germans." ”