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Chapter 1305 The Winner (Third Update, please subscribe)
In the twilight, the 4.7-inch rapid-fire naval gun on the train flatbed truck was constantly roaring, the flames from the muzzle illuminated the night sky, and the shells weighing forty or fifty pounds kept falling on the defense line of the Boer army like raindrops superior.

Although the British army does not yet have a suitable field artillery, the British responded very quickly to the war, and they were not as conservative as the legend said.They quickly took out the navy's 4.7-inch rapid-fire gun. Although it is very bulky compared to ordinary field guns, the weight on the train has little effect, and its firing rate is faster and powerful. bigger.

Under the fierce shelling, the Boers' positions continued to have smoke columns rising from the shells.

At the same time, the British field artillery and mortars were also bombarding the Boer positions, but the shells fell into the soft soil, and the semi-sandy soil absorbed most of the shock waves and shrapnel caused by the shell explosion. The damage wasn't that great, it was just a continuous burst of black smoke columns.

In order to stop the British attack, the Boers also set up barbed wire in front of the trenches. The barbed wire and machine guns successfully prevented the British attack. Under the suppression of the machine guns, the two sides could only shoot with rifles through the barbed wire.

Fighting continued from midnight until 05:30 in the morning.At dawn, the Boer artillery, which had been silent during the battle, also went into battle, and mortar shells rained down on the British positions, because the British positions were on the gravel field, and after the shells exploded , The fragments of the blasted stones and shell fragments caused greater casualties to the British army.

When swarms of mortar shells were blooming in the British army's positions, General Kronzhi, standing on the commanding height, gave an order immediately after carefully examining the situation on the battlefield.

"Concentrate your firepower first and attack the western positions of the British army, which are relatively flat."

With an order, the 64 cannons under his command fired continuously at the British positions at the highest rate of fire for half an hour. The shells burst out like hailstones in countless columns of smoke and dust, covering the enemy positions tightly.

As the artillery fire extended deep into the enemy's position, the two infantry regiments under the command of General Cronzhi jumped out of the trenches one after another, and formed multiple waves of skirmishers from the west, southeast, and south to the western position of the British army. The British army launched an attack, and quickly formed a spectacular situation all over the mountains and plains. The two 300-meter area between the parallel trenches that met the enemy and the enemy's position was full of Boers.

Major Cheng Guotao, who was with General Kronzhi, wrote in his diary that day:
"...Although I had expected it before, the so-called group charge should be nothing more than that. I saw the [-] Boer army, without the slightest fear, rushing towards the enemy with shrapnel and machine gun fire, and stormed into the enemy's position with lightning speed. We couldn't help but gasp in amazement, I thought that the absolute justice of defending the country, the number one in the world, can arouse the supreme will to fight, and nothing else seems to be able to match..."

The attack of the infantry regiment was just a feint attack, and the real winner was the cavalry. When the British resisted the Boer infantry attack with all their strength, they did not notice that the Boer cavalry of the two regiments had already pressed the attack from another direction. British army positions.

Xueliang cavalry swords are pointing forward, more than a thousand cavalry are galloping on the battlefield like a whirlwind. The cavalry on horseback are not holding sabers like European cavalry. pistol or rifle.

This cavalry unit is not so much cavalry as it is a group of armed Boer herdsmen. They gathered together under the mission of defending their home and country. Although they cannot use sabers skillfully, they are all good Cavalry, when the cavalry attacked, the leading cavalry's legs clamped the horse's belly, and the spurs on the heels of the boots made the horse neigh painfully, and the speed of the horse increased.

The two regiments of cavalry were like tigers descending the mountain, sweeping across the land like autumn leaves. The cavalry who suddenly joined them became the last straw that crushed the defense of the British army.

When the cavalry broke into the battlefield, they kept shooting the fleeing British soldiers with their rifles. These Boers had been riding and shooting on the vast South African plateau since they were young. Almost every shot would knock down a British soldier. The Boer cavalry in the position, the British army could not organize an effective defense at all. After the defense line collapsed, there were many British troops who abandoned their guns and fled everywhere, and more of them raised their hands to surrender.

"The British are retreating..."

The entire army was in danger of being annihilated if they did not retreat any longer. General Payne Simmons ordered the entire army to retreat. Despite the firepower, the British army successfully withdrew from the battlefield by train.

At the end of the battle, the defeated British army left thousands of corpses and a large number of weapons, and retreated all the way along the way they came.

"Cunning Boers..."

On the armored train running, when General Payne Simmons was complaining about the Boers, what he didn't know was that another army had been waiting halfway for a long time.

With a "boom", accompanied by a loud noise, at the same time that the railway track was blown into the sky, the armored train full of British troops suddenly rushed out of the track, fell hard to the ground, and was everywhere in the dust. The wounded British soldiers were screaming there, and the British soldiers who had just escaped by chance hadn't figured out what was going on, and the intensive gunfire rang out again.

It was not the Boers who ambushed the armored train, but the Irish Brigade.

Unlike the enthusiasm of the Boers to defend their country, facing the British and the Irish, they are enemies of the country and their families. Of course, their offense is also very brave.Those British soldiers who were thrown and have not recovered their souls are the opponents of the Irish.

Those British who resisted stubbornly around the armored train did not even organize an effective defense, and were blown into the sky by the Irish with mortars. In the distance, an Irishman holding a 12-year sniper rifle The soldier crouched behind the rocks, saw a British officer pointing at the side of the carriage through the telescopic sight, and seemed to be directing the troops to organize defenses, so he aimed directly at the enemy, and then pulled the trigger.

When the gunshot fell, the Irish sniper saw the officer fall through the scope. After the officer fell, the surrounding British troops became a mess.

Even the sniper himself didn't know that the one he shot was General Payne Simmons, who had blood on his hands from many members of the Irish Fenian Brotherhood, and died silently in this way. Under the muzzle of a sniper rifle.

(End of this chapter)