The British artillery positions were deployed according to the standards. Each position had 4 to 6 artillery pieces. The artillery was deployed at a width of about 100 meters on the front, and the ammunition trucks were more than 80 meters behind. An artillery position was about 8,000 square meters.

Although the artillery soldiers of both sides gathered more than 7,000 meters at this time, this distance did not have much impact on the strike effect of the Boer artillery, because the Boers pursued a cover strike, and did not aim at a certain point, but covered the entire area with shells! After Kariput's calculations and exercise inferences, a position such as 80 to 100 rounds of 150mm shells can be solved. If 12 150mm heavy artillery are used to shoot in a concentrated manner, it will take more than 5 minutes to destroy such a position!

In fact, this is true. First of all, a British artillery position targeted was just opened. Under the command of the company commander, the soldiers pushed the artillery to the artillery position. Some gunners took out shells and ******* from the ammunition truck behind. Before they could be sent to the artillery position in front, a red fireball slid from the air with a harsh roar! After a loud bang, the shock wave generated by the nearly 9kg of ******* explosion swept over more than 20 meters with a large amount of debris. A cannon, which was only 3 meters away from the explosion point, was instantly blown to pieces. After a shock wave passed, the entire company lost more than 20 people!

The first round of 12 heavy artillery fired well, and the shells that landed at the same time were a disaster for the British who were caught off guard. The huge explosion sounded from time to time, and the thick smoke columns and smoke covered the entire position. People could not see the situation inside clearly, but from the violent explosions and the vibrations from the ground, the British had no hope for those unlucky colleagues. In just a few minutes, the entire artillery company was destroyed, and all the artillery companies were lost, and more than 70% of the vehicles and horses were lost, and more than half of the personnel were killed in battle, while almost all the remaining people were injured!

The British lost a complete artillery company without reacting. When the British discovered that the other party seemed to have a long-range artillery, the other artillery positions had been destroyed. The remaining two artillery companies immediately gave up their suppression mission and prepared to evacuate backwards. At this moment, the firepower of the Boers on the front finally showed their power. Without the suppression of artillery, a large number of machine guns and mortars became the masters of the battlefield, and the hidden 75mm howitzers also began to fire at the British follow-up troops, completely disrupting the opponent's offensive!

At this time, General Buller found himself in a pre-designed trap. The firepower and the warriors he had made him feel that he was not fighting a certain African militia, but fighting a well-trained European brigade! Most of the artillery as the pillar of firepower was destroyed in a very short time, and the infantry attack was completely disrupted, and it was even difficult to escape.

At this moment, the cavalry on both sides also issued an alarm for the enemy. As four red signal flares rose into the sky, Buller discovered that the Boers had launched an encirclement on their wings! If the battle between the infantry between the two sides had undergone earth-shaking changes with the emergence of machine guns, magazine rifles, and rapid-fire cannons.

Then during the 1st War, the battle between the cavalry of the two sides did not change much, especially the British cavalry. Although they were equipped with rifles, the horses were too fast, unless they were horse-riding infantry, the two sides would eventually fight with sabers.

Faced with the surrounding Boer and American cavalry, the British naturally could not use cavalry as horse infantry, otherwise they would successfully cross the British's not-wide flank defense line in a circle. Under the leadership of the officers, the descendants of Anglo-Saxons got on the horse and controlled the horse speed to approach the opponent at a lower speed. With the order to draw the sword, rows of cavalry pulled out the sabers, and the slender and slightly curved sabers flashed with dazzling white light under the sunlight. Without heavy firepower suppression, the result of cavalry fighting often depends on melee combat.

A few harsh sounds came from the air, and black spots quickly expanded in the British's vision, and then flowers of death bloomed around the formation. The howitzers carried by the Boer cavalry launched an attack 2,000 meters away. Although the intensified shelling had little impact on the cavalry with higher movement speed, it still allowed the British officers to issue other orders to launch charges. After all, this situation of being beaten and unable to fight back is too tragic.

The British cavalry began to accelerate gradually, and the sabers stretched forward carried a terrifying cold light. The Boers' cavalry opposite opened a relatively large front, making their depth look very thin, and the other side seemed to have given up hand-to-hand combat. When both sides approached more than 100 meters, the speed of the opponent's cavalry did not increase.

The gunshot like a bean-like blasting gun caused huge losses for the first time on the South African battlefield. Every Boer cavalry almost wiped out the 20 super-large magazines equipped with the m1897 semi-automatic rifle in his hand in the last distance! The barrage caused by the explosion of the semi-automatic rifle in less than a minute is almost as good as the firepower of a machine gun position!

Accompanied by the whine of horses and the sound of people falling to the ground, the British cavalry almost passed through this storm-like blow in the blood of their colleagues. Fortunately, they finally successfully used sabers and courage to tear open the opponent's defense line. The Boers' not thick cavalry line had very limited effect on the British cavalry group's charge. Just after the British passed the smoke and smoke screen, the British were surprised to find that there was a U-shaped position in their kilometer, and they were just at this opening!

The British overdrawed their horsepower too early, and after breaking through the opponent's line that could almost be called bait, the remaining cavalry, who were trapped and lacked, plunged into this line of defense. The Boers' mobility is really not a pity. One infantryman and two horses allowed them to easily choose to build temporary positions in a suitable place. In fact, the Boers had no intention of having a fundamentalist cavalry battle with the British, and gave up their firepower advantages and used cold weapons to use short strikes.

The Americans on the other side were "true". The price was relatively high, but with at least 4 times the strength advantage, the Americans successfully crushed the opponent's resistance. The two cavalry began to slowly close like a spread pliers. Everything was unfolded according to the script. The infantry's attack was frustrated and was firmly attracted to the position. The artillery suffered heavy losses, the cavalry's flanks were defeated, and the rear path could be cut off...

And at this moment, when Kruger thought that everything was settled, the sound of cannons coming from a valley outside the encirclement made the Boers' plan fail!
Chapter completed!