Chapter 85

In the early days of the war in the Transvaal Republics except Cape Town, the Boers took the offensive and defeated the British many times. The Boers attacked in scattered formations, shot accurately, and were good at using basic wages to build field battles fortifications

The United Kingdom, on the other hand, adopted a clumsy and dense formation, neither maneuvering nor fully camouflaged, resulting in heavy casualties.

On March 29, 1862, the Boer army overcame the British defense and pushed them back 1,000 kilometers, completely out of the territory of the Orange Free State.

In just one day, the Boer army captured Newcastle and Glencoe, surrounded Ladysmith, Mavking, and finally brought an unaccounted for the British on April Fool's Day on April 1. A fool's story, that is, Kimberley, where the 30,000-strong Transvaal Republic was stationed, was captured by the Boers, and the British collapsed rapidly.

On the 5th of March, on the three fronts of Colenso, Stromberg and Magsfontein. The Boer army repelled the siege of the British army, and the British army suffered heavy losses.

After that, the Boer Army used the main force to besiege the castle and dispersed the force, which greatly slowed down the offensive ability to attack the British colonies, and the death caused the loss of momentum, which gave Britain a breather, and the main force failed to attack Huanglong. The attack on the eastern coast led to the opening of the channel connecting Cape Town and the complete border with the Boers in Cape Town. As a result, groups of more than 400,000 Boers formed. For the United Kingdom, South Africa at this time had reached the most Dangerous time.

Because Cape Town was also occupied.

The Boer military-civilian team there, which is not even a miscellaneous card, completely controlled Cape Town.

In this battle for Cape Town, the British army still used the old tactics of marching in dense formations and listening to the commander's orders to shoot.

The Boers, on the other hand, were heroic and good at fighting, flexible and flexible, and adopted the tactics of dividing the encirclement and encircling points to fight for reinforcements, so that these unregular Boers defeated the remaining 3,000 British troops and defeated them.

This left-behind British army suffered heavy casualties, with more than 2,000 dead, and the remaining 1,000 were forced to surrender.

And the one who surrendered with them was their new governor, Jobon. In order to save his life, Jobon finally forced him to agree to negotiate a peace.

The news of the British defeat again came back to China. Although Palmerston was not asked to resign, their popularity plummeted, and after signing the contract, all the troops on the front line were withdrawn.

The Tories temporarily lead the ruling Whigs by 6 percentage points in popular opinion, 53% and 47% respectively.

In the end, the Transvaal Republic and the Orange Free State suddenly got a chance to breathe, because they knew that Ejobun, with an army of 50,000, would never give up their ambitions.

This half-month war was called the first Boer War by European countries.

Its occurrence has also let Europe know that Britain's continuous unfortunate defeat by others has made Europeans curious about Africa.

Are all the motley armies composed of indigenous and immigrant Africans so powerful?

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However, the British government was furious, but after calming down, it became frightened.

The first time can be said to be a fluke, but also in southern Africa, the United Kingdom was defeated in the hands of the Transvaal Republic's motley army under the condition of changing opponents. This can be a serious and terrible fact for all the United Kingdom. .

British Army, this is too watery and incompetent, right?

Compared with the navy, at this moment, it was called the title of the Royal Army, but now it is just an empty name. Many people in the navy feel ashamed for this.

They felt that they put the majesty of the British Empire on the ground a few times, which made them sad.

In 1862, the helpless Queen Victoria signed it again in the name of the Supreme Head of the British National Army. After the last 50,000 troops were transferred from the mainland, 50,000 troops were transferred from the remaining 350,000 troops to South Africa. , but the difference this time is that a small fleet will be added to accompany them to respond to land attacks at any time