In Durban, at the headquarters of the British South African garrison, a group of senior John Bull officers were engaged in heated discussions with telegrams from the strongholds along the railroad line.

Judging by the hideous expressions of the officers, it is clear that these telegrams did not bring good news. Relying on a colonial garrison that was many times larger than the Boers, John Niu wanted to deal with the unruly Dutch and German descendants who had hooked up with Wilhelm II as soon as possible.

In the north, their Egyptian puppet regime had been beaten to the point of inhuman shape by the Mahdi army in Sudan, and even if they later sent troops into Sudan to prevent the Mahdi army from burning the war down the Nile River into Egypt, the situation in Sudan was still beyond their control.

Their general, who was very good at suppressing rebellions in the name of religion, even ended up in the Sultan with his body separated, and he was a highly decorated professional soldier who had participated in the Manchu army's suppression of mobs disguised as followers of God in the Far East.

For this reason, General Gordon even received a kind of clothing that only emperors were entitled to wear, as well as a military rank no less than that of a major general. Considering the secluded and xenophobic policy of that mysterious country, it is already unprecedented for a white man to receive such an honor, which shows how well General Gordon performed in that war against the hypocrites.

However, this is the same general with rich combat experience, and during his tenure as governor of the Sultan, the head of the Mahdi army was cut off by the Mahdi, and the troops of the Imperial Overseas Legion that had been intended to reinforce him were finally driven out of the Sultan.

John Bull also planned to retreat to Egypt to organize defense, and for the time being, he ignored the Mahdi army, which had basically controlled Sudan. The Egyptian Pasha was already in debt for this war, and the opium cow who had completely eaten the Suez Canal shares in the hands of the Pasha must not be willing to be the unjust big money owner anymore.

However, the French, who occupied Somaliland (present-day Djibouti), seemed to have a disillusioned attachment to the Suez Canal, and it was clear that they were sending more troops to Somaliland than would be needed to prevent the Mahdi army from invading their colony.

This was a dispatch of troops to a colony in North Africa far from home, and it was a huge expense to provide food, drink, and sleep for the soldiers, and the French certainly did not want to put on a good show by massively increasing their troops in the colonies before they were attacked by the Mahdi army.

It only takes a reason for the past, even if it is the same shoddy trick of a missionary being murdered and persecuted by someone else, and the French troops can pour into Sudan. Then set up a game to pursue the remnants of the enemy, and they could easily follow the Nile into Egyptian territory.

Especially now that there are already a large number of Mahdi troops stationed on the border between Egypt and Sudan, the French will definitely be able to drive these low-powered Mahdi followers into Egypt as long as they attack northward.

Having discovered that the situation in Africa was not right, John Bull planned to cut through the mess in order to stop Hans and the Gallic chickens from reaching for their picnic baskets in Africa.

In recent years, the opium cows, who have been busy all over the world to suppress colonial uprisings, no longer dare to fight on two fronts in South Africa and North Africa at the same time. Especially in the case of the magic chicken, the British, who have entered the late stage of victimization paranoia, have become more cautious.

The Boers who have migrated to the interior of southern Africa have a population of only about 300,000, and it is clear that they have become an easier mess to cut through the eyes of the opium ox than the Mahdi army, which has basically controlled most of Sudan.

The allusive telegram of Willy II had already convinced the British to settle the problem of southern Africa by force, and the arrogant rhetoric of the famous nationalist of the Great Song Dynasty who was openly clamoring for help to the Boers was the straw that led to the adoption of the British Parliament's resolution to declare war on the Boers.

As veteran victims of paranoia, the British are well aware of the destructive power of the sick man who has been wreaking havoc in the Far East and the South Pacific, but wherever they have been, you should not think of being quiet.

The Great Song Empire, which was also an island nation, was obviously carrying out the same continental counterbalancing strategy as itself, and the Gallic chickens going north along the Nile River to get involved in the Suez Canal, or Hans intervening in the affairs of southern Africa through the Boers, were the situations they were most happy to see.

At present, these telegrams from Durban to Johannesburg can be seen in the many telegrams of the defeat in the battle, and the figures of those who love to stir up trouble, they are even more enthusiastic about agitating and supporting the Boers to stir up trouble than the German emperor who loves to speak up.

With powerful explosives, hand-held burst weapons, targeted weapons that could effectively kill tanks, and tactics that were completely different from those of previous European armies, the British officers stationed in South Africa knew on their toes that it was their sick friends, the Great Song people, who were stirring up the situation.

Although it seems that the British army's current casualties are only the two Boer attacks on the airport, if you look at the casualty data of the British army in the first phase of the second Boer War in the history of the original time and space, you will find that the two 155mm howitzers harvested the head of Nyima to catch up with the total number of casualties of the British army before the battle of Ladysmith, known as "Sad Monday".

Such casualties were undoubtedly unacceptable to the British troops, who had thought that they would be able to finish with a single thunderous blow to the Boers, and they had not even finished changing the front-line troops, and the uniforms of the famous brown overseas regiments were still lying in the boxes in the port, and they had already lost an airfield and nearly half a regiment of troops.

"What the hell are those stupid politicians in the Foreign Office doing? The Russians, who were at war with the Great Song people, have been silent for half a year, and the Germans have obviously caught up with us in terms of the technology of weapons and equipment obtained from the Great Song people, and even the French are thinking of taking advantage of the chaos to make a profit in North Africa, since when have we been isolated to this point!? Admiral Redforth Buller, who had just arrived from the battlefield of Ireland to suppress the local uprising, shouted excitedly.

The Admiral's South African Expeditionary Force landed on the African continent at the port of Cape Town in the original plane, but in this plane disturbed by the butterfly effect, the British, who had already tasted the sweetness of the military application of aircraft, adjusted their landing site to Durban.

Obviously, the distance from Durban to Johannesburg and Pretoria is much closer than from Cape Town.

The British would probably only need to build two or three airfields of the same kind that had previously been occupied by the Boers to complete the reconnaissance coverage of the entire battlefield, and then use their control of the railroads and the great superiority in their numbers to strike a thunderous blow at the Boers.

Admiral Redfus Buller had carefully studied the battle plan made by the staff officers on the ship that had crossed the sea, and judging from his extensive experience in operational command, this tactic, combined with the new equipment, was basically capable of crushing the poorly equipped and limited Boer militia in one fell swoop.

However, the ambitious Admiral Redfus Buller had not yet assembled the South African Expeditionary Force in Durban when he was informed that the airfield had been occupied by the enemy, and that the tanks that had won his favor had been destroyed by the Boers with weapons suspected to be discontinued by the Great Song people.

A few days ago, Admiral Redfus Buller even joked to the captain who had sent him to Durban, "The next time you see me, you will probably be on a mission to send me to Egypt to pacify the Mahdi army."

"Your Excellency, the soldiers who survived the attack by luck say that they were shelled at the airport by artillery suspected to be of the level of coastal defense heavy artillery." The adjutant said to Bühler.

"Impossible! The Boers apparently also learned from the Song people to plant explosives in advance and then come up with a trick similar to shelling, which is said to have been how the Song people blackmailed the Japanese. Bühler said.

"Your Excellency, another of our troops, which were on their way to the assembly area, also reported similar shelling on the way, with heavy losses and almost total annihilation. The two reports described the locations of the attacks were so far apart that even if the Boers had powerful heavy artillery, they could not have placed it at the same time in two positions so far apart. An officer's statement clearly corroborates Buhler's judgment.

Hans had long been tricked into smelting the high-quality steel needed by the rough embryos, and of course Hans was not in vain. With these first-hand materials for metal smelting research and development, Krupp's heavy artillery has reached a new level.

Bühler just cursed that Hans had obtained more weapons and equipment from the Great Song people than his own, referring to the new Krupp heavy artillery discovered by British intelligence.

However, they were also well aware that this kind of heavy artillery, which had to be operated in orbit, and even if Hans really sold it to the Boers, it was impossible for the Boers to play the kind of accurate artillery bombardment described in the telegram in such a short time.

Not to mention how the Boers moved these big guys to the battlefield when the railroads were completely in the hands of the British.