Without heavy fire cover, the 514th Division could only advance unhurriedly, like a turtle speed, while looking for cover, while firing a counterattack, the East African Army and the Pretoria defenders entered garbage time.

This made Wiggins very proud, and he said to the "Young Patriots": "I just say that the Germans can't do it, who do they think their opponent is this time?" The primitive people of the Ndebele people! ”

The patriotic young people in Pretoria also changed from nervousness to calmness, after all, the opposite side is the Germans, and the German region is the place of the four wars in Europe, plus the image blessing of Prussia and Austria-Hungary, no one doubts the combat effectiveness of the Germans, and the other side has a large number of people, and there are only more than 2,000 people on their side (not counting the natives), it is inevitable that they will be a little nervous before the war, but now they are okay, seeing the strength of the 514th Division, they suddenly feel that they are doing it again.

Ernst summed up in the rear: "Troops like the 514th Division are better at bullying the natives who use cold weapons in the open areas of the steppe, dealing with fortifications, fortresses and cities without the appearance of an army, fortunately the Boers helped us test the shortcomings of our army!" ”

Of course, the natives do not know how to build cities, but their cities are quite primitive, aside from the Ndebele people who gave up their choice of cities and East African field warfare, and the Sultanate of Zanzibar, which took advantage of East Africa because of internal strife, the most difficult thing the East African Kingdom has encountered in Africa is the original city walls built by several indigenous kingdoms in the Great Lakes region.

These cities are unceremoniously built with stones, without any beauty, and it is possible to defend against wild beasts and surrounding tribes, and it is impossible to deal with a slightly civilized force, and the only large-scale city building built by blacks in the whole of black Africa (sub-Saharan Africa) is only the ruins of Great Zimbabwe.

The walls of Pretoria were built temporarily before the war, Wiggins used a mixture of masonry and earth to connect the houses and buildings on the periphery of the city of Pretoria, fortunately there is no rain in Pretoria these days, otherwise this temporary wall is likely to fall apart, although it is a temporary structure, but the shooting holes, batteries, machine gun fortresses are all available, and the thickness is enough to withstand two or three rounds of shelling.

So far, however, Wiggins has not used advanced weapons such as artillery and machine guns, because he knows that East Africans also have artillery, and that the small-caliber artillery of East Africans played a big role in the last Ndebele uprising.

The Boer artillery was not large in number, but its caliber and power were much larger than those of the small-caliber artillery in East Africa, and the only drawback was that it was not mobile and could not be moved at will, and could only be used for defense and siege.

It stands to reason that the Boers would not have used this weapon against the Boers, and it is self-evident what the Boers had to deal with when purchasing this artillery, that is, the British colony of Cape Town.

"Commander, let's give the Germans in the city a few shells to taste!" A Boer soldier suggested.

Wiggins waved his hand and said: "You don't understand, now the Germans are only tentatively attacking, although there are many troops in front of them, but they are not their main force, they have not used artillery yet, that means they did not pay attention to us at the beginning, now their forward troops can not make progress, and the rear troops will definitely not be idle, and that is when our artillery will exert its power." ”

"Commander, since the enemy also has artillery, how powerful is their artillery?"

Wiggins: "Don't worry, the Germans in East Africa are armed with very small artillery and not many of them. ”

This is also normal, in the past, in addition to the coastal defense artillery East Africa paid more attention, the artillery equipped by the army was closer to a symbolic weapon, and it was enough to deal with the indigenous people with rifles, and the artillery was only used to deal with the kind of African indigenous people who were not afraid of death, and it was used when it hit their morale, so the number of artillery equipped by the East African Army was not much, like all the units of the entire Southern Route Army added up to only a dozen, and the bottom troops of the 514 and 514 divisions did not even have one, and only the 511 and 512 divisions were equipped with artillery.

And the 514th Division, which did not have artillery, naturally could not carry out artillery bombardment on Bitoria and open up the situation, of course, the war does not mean that with stronger firepower it will definitely win, and the 514th Division is obviously not suitable for siege operations, so it is not prepared to face the city for the first time, so that it is at a loss.

So Ernst ordered: "Let the 514th Division withdraw, it's time to test the capabilities of the new 111th Division." ”

With Ernst's order, the 514th Division began to retreat, which made the Boers very happy, and some even ridiculed that the Germans were nothing more than that, only Wiggins was a little heavy in his heart, and the East African Kingdom did not even carry out a large-scale offensive and withdrew, although Pretoria was transformed by itself and could fight, but it was not as unbreakable as he said in order to stabilize the morale of the army, but it was full of flaws.

After all, what is the quality of the fortifications built in just a few days, Wiggins knows in his heart that as long as the East African army just now charges at any cost, it will definitely be able to break through, and at most it will lose 100 people to reach the edge of Pretoria. Obviously, the East African army does not want to pay such a small price, which means that they have better means and ways to attack.

The new 111th Division, one of the main forces in East Africa, was formed from the Franco-Prussian War of Haxingen Military Academy students who served as officers, and these officers were typical of the academy, and they were not comparable to the previous crash course trained Hexingen students.

For example, the Chief of the General Staff of the East African Army, Siite, was born in a crash course, and let him compare theory with these Heixingen students who have studied for three years, which is incomparable.

The most commendable thing is that this group of cadets has seen blood, and they have fought against the world's first army, the French Army, more than a year ago, and have won victories, and have a good record, so they have enough confidence when they reorganize the 111th Division in the Tanganyika region.

The equipment of the 111th Division has also been greatly improved, except for the fact that the artillery is far behind the Prussian army, there are almost no shortcomings.

With the 111th Division on the field, the commander of the 111th Division, Chris, began to command the operation of the troops, compared with the 514th Division, the command of the 111th Division was obviously smoother, and each unit began to operate in an orderly manner after dividing its own areas of responsibility.

The 111th Division did not use artillery when it came up, but after estimating a safe distance, it used a small force to reach the Pretoria fortifications, which was about 450 meters, because the Boer weapons were more mixed and had different ranges, but the 111th Division estimated that it had little effect at about 450 meters according to the Dreiser rifles it used.

After constructing a preliminary defensive position at a position of 450 meters, the sappers began to work, using sapper shovels and hoes to dig tunnels to get closer.

Standing on the walls of Pretoria, Wiggins also saw the East African Army in action, and as the dust was thrown from both sides of the tunnel, the East African sappers were soon gone.

"The Germans want to use the trenches to move forward!"

At this time, Wiggins was a little hesitant, this distance rifle must not be able to attack the East African Army, if you use artillery, you can bomb the East African forward positions, but the East African artillery has not yet been on the field, Wiggins still has to leave the limited artillery shells and restrain the East African Army, then you can only send people out of the position to take the initiative to attack the East African forward positions!

"Pass my order, the 3rd Battalion will take the initiative to attack the East African positions out of the trenches and interrupt their construction work! The East African conspiracy must not be allowed to succeed. ”

The Transvaal army, which was then blackened, was forced by the Boer commander to break out of the trenches and launch an attack on East Africa.

"Rush, give me all rush, bastard, what are you still doing? Do you want to die? The Boer officer kicked the hesitant black man in the ass, and the black man had to pick up his rifle and charge at the East African position.

Although the blacks had weapons, they did not dare to resist the Boers, because before the war, Wigginster deliberately disguised their Gatling-like shock, and the black machine gun muzzle was pointed at them at this time.

(End of chapter)