Under the blue sea and blue sky, a coastal town in eastern Transvaal in southern South Africa.

Next to the temporary pontoon dock, two transport ships with the flag of the Chinese Empire docked here.

Thousands of workers from Transvaal were constantly transporting goods from transport ships. Although they were so tired that they sweated heavily, they looked happy.

This is the supplies secretly aided by the Chinese Empire to the Transvaal Republic, including weapons and ammunition, medical equipment, canned sausages, beer and cigarettes, and even the paradise under the name of medicine.

A man wearing a khaki camouflage uniform, a steel helmet, and a steel-bottomed long leather military boots, got off the boat neatly and orderly, gathered on an open area on the shore.

This unit had about 300 people, and the military uniforms they wore were enough to attract attention.

Khaki camouflage is suitable for the landform environment of South Africa. If it exceeds one hundred meters, it will be difficult for the naked eye to notice this army, because their military uniforms are almost integrated with the surrounding sand dunes.

Not far from the shore, a colonel from Transvaal was talking to a Lieutenant Colonel of the Chinese Empire, who was also wearing a khaki camouflage military uniform.

"Thank you for your country's great assistance to us, our Transvaal people will never forget the help of the Chinese Empire!"

"Your Excellency Colonel, we are welcome. It is our honor to help the people of Transvaal to resist the British invading army."

The two had a pleasant conversation, after all, Transvaal received tangible military assistance.

Open the box and set up brand new rifles covered with gun oil.

Then the boxes next to them were opened one after another, and there were bloody heavy machine guns and ammunition. Among the six largest containers, there were six 155mm heavy howitzers.

Seeing the bloody heavy machine gun and 155 howitzer, the officers of Transvaal were so happy that they stepped forward and touched again and again, as excited and excited as touching the bride.

However, when he saw the Khaki unit not far away, the officers from Transvaal asked one after another.

"Lieutenant Colonel Duan, don't you know which army is your country?"

"Your country promises to help our troops, there are not only a few hundred people, right?"

"Haha, that's right, there are 300 people in total, and they are the most elite troops of the Shence Army of our Chinese Empire!"

The officers of Transvaal immediately looked bad. They thought the Chinese Empire was fooling them, so they sent 300 people to the war. How could they defeat 50,000 British troops?

"This joke is not funny at all. You must have hid other troops!"

Duan Qirui suddenly laughed, making the Transvaal officers inexplicably.

"Don't worry, don't underestimate these 300 people. Do you know that these 300 people defeated our town's elite Shenjian Army in the annual military exercises of our Chinese Empire."

"Can these three hundred people defeat the elite of your country's town?"

"Three hundred people vs more than 20,000 people? This joke is not funny at all!"

"That's right, I don't believe it either!"

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Seeing that the officers in Transvaal did not believe it, Duan Qirui could only smile bitterly. There was no way, this army was a secret and some things could not be said.

However, as a member of the Shen Ce Army of the Chinese Empire, his head is arrogant and there is no need to explain it clearly.

The Chinese Empire's Shen Ce Army is famous, and even if these South African indigenous people do not believe it, they dare not question it too much.

"By the way, where have the British striker been?"

Duan Qirui suddenly asked, changing the topic.

The Colonel Natransvaal replied: "The vanguard has captured Frankfurt and is advancing towards Johannesburg."

When the battle situation was mentioned, the officers of Transvaal were frowning. It was obvious that they suffered a great loss in the battle with the British army and had never fought against the British army.

Duan Qirui frowned immediately. Since the Chinese Empire had no colonies or supply stations in South Africa, it took a lot of time to mobilize troops from the local area to aid Transvaal.

"What are your army planning to do? Do you have to defend Johannesburg to the death?"

"That's a must! We have concentrated 50,000 troops and are determined to fight the British army."

"We were not sure before, because our weapons and equipment were too backward, far inferior to the British army. However, seeing the batch of military supplies your country has provided us with, our confidence has increased greatly and we have a few more chances of winning."

Duan Qirui did not take the Transvaal army seriously. This was just a group of temporary armed troops by ordinary people. They were not trained enough and it would be difficult for the British army to fight in a head-on decisive battle.

"I suggest that your army temporarily give up Johannesburg and avoid a decisive battle with the main British army. That is your weakness. You should launch guerrilla warfare and attack the British army's logistics supply line."

Duan Qirui's suggestions are undoubtedly the most in line with the current tactics of the Transvaal army. Unfortunately, these officers cannot make the decision. Their upswing has decided to fight to the decisive battle and cannot be changed at all.

Duan Qirui sighed and said, "Since that's the case, we will attack the British army's logistics supply line. I hope that the main force of your army will not be defeated too quickly and persist until the British army lacks supply, so the British army will naturally withdraw their troops."

Duan Qirui is a straight person, and he says nothing without any concealment.

But this made the officers of Transvaal very embarrassed, and their eyes looked at Duan Qirui one by one.

I was complaining in my heart that even if your Chinese Empire Shen Ce Army is the strongest army in the world, you should not look down on our Transvaal Army like this!

However, taking Duan Qirui's identity, the Transvaal officers couldn't say anything.

The atmosphere of the subsequent welcome meeting became much weaker, but Duan Qirui didn't care. Soon he took his three hundred Shence soldiers and left and headed straight to the British army base.

Looking at this Khaki Army (the temporary nickname of the officers of Transvaal), the officers of Transvaal were all curling their lips. They did not believe that Duan Qirui could cut off the supply line of the British army with these 300 people.

Soon, they remembered the various canned foods, beef, beer and cigarettes that the Chinese Empire aided, and rushed back to the sea to eat and drink.

Let’s talk about Duan Qirui and his three hundred men interspered directly into the Bolishan area behind Frankfurt.

At this time, the British vanguard army had set out from Frankfurt and headed towards Johannesburg. The Transvaals also built a defense line in Johannesburg and prepared to fight the British army.

History has deviated greatly at this moment.

The original Boers' combat plan was to concentrate superior forces before the British army arrived in South Africa, divide into two routes, attack Natal eastward, divide and surround two major British strongholds, Lady Smith and Dundee, and occupy Durban port, and obtain the sea outlet. The other route went southwest, occupy Mefugen and Kimberley, the main British forces stationed on the Western Cape Railway. At the same time, the Boers' riots were incited in the Cape colony,

To restrain the British army's forces, especially to destroy the transportation of the two Cape railways, east and west, and to prevent the reinforcements from using the railway to advance northward. In addition, in order to prevent the African indigenous people from taking advantage of the opportunity to attack the Boers, General Princelow led heavy troops to station the Xiang River Basin far away from the frontline to guard against the Pedi riots, a militia of 800-1,000 people were stationed on the Swaziland border, and a militia of 1,000 people were stationed on the Basudo border in the Kaliden Valley.

However, due to the Chinese Empire, the six Sino-British wars dragged down the British Empire's finances, and lost the Yapin trade and Australian colonial plundering income. When the Chinese Empire was in a large-scale arms race, the British Empire's finances were exhausted, which intensified the gold plunder of the Boers in South Africa, and at the same time stationed a large number of troops in Cape Town for protection.

During this period of history, the British army only stationed a few thousand people in Cape Town, so the Boers could take the initiative and destroy the Cape Town colony before the main force of the British army arrived and prevent the British army from landing.

But now the British army has stationed 50,000 troops in Cape Town, and it has been planned. The Cape Town colonial authorities led by Chamberlain are also worried that the Boers will receive support from the world and will cause variables. Therefore, they took the initiative and took advantage of the negotiations to suddenly attack Transvaal and Orange.

The Transvaal and Orange troops were caught off guard, lost large tracts of territory, and lost their combat initiatives.

In this case, the situation is extremely unfavorable to the Boers.

Although the total strength of the Boer army in Johannesburg is more than 50,000, the training is poor. Even with the advanced weapons and equipment provided by the Chinese Empire, it is difficult to form combat effectiveness in a short time. Once you encounter the main force of the British army, you basically have no chance of winning.

However, the Chinese Empire still sent a large number of military experts to arrive in Johannesburg in advance and became the military adviser of the Boer army, helping the Boer people build fortifications in Johannesburg, hoping to hold on fortifications for a longer time and wait for various aid and volunteer troops from other European countries to arrive.

At the same time, the Chinese Empire could not directly send the Shence Army to the war, and could only intervene in the Boer War in the form of a volunteer army to prevent the outbreak of direct military conflict between China and Britain and detonate the world war.

Although the Chinese Empire is not afraid of world wars, war is always a difficult strategy. If it can be delayed, it will still have to be delayed. Only if it cannot be delayed will it be launched.

Not only the Chinese Empire, but also the German Empire, Britain, the United States, Russia and France, all understood this truth. Therefore, the British Empire invaded South Africa and did not protest against the sending of volunteer troops from Eurasian countries to the war.

There is one in the middle, called the bottom line, which is the result of mutual compromise between major powers and mutual defaults.

The three hundred people led by Duan Qirui were called the Khaki Army by the Boers, but in fact they were the most elite special forces in the Chinese Empire, code-named Libing, and belonged to the Third Special Operations Brigade of the Central Theater of the Chinese Empire.

These 300 people are elites from various war zones in the Shen Ce Army of the Chinese Empire. After concentrated training, they are among the elites selected.

Although there were only 300 people, they were actually paralyzed in the elite 5th town from the Eastern Theater Command during last year's military exercise.

The reason why they are so fierce and have such strong combat power is that in addition to their strict training and extremely high combat quality, the most important thing is that their weapons and equipment are fierce and sophisticated.

The direct instructor of the special forces of the Chinese Empire was Emperor Li Weiguo.

The Shence Army's special forces have always been very mysterious, with strong combat power, but highly confidential. Even within the Chinese Emperor's side, there are not many people who know about it.

The special forces were highly expected by Li Weiguo.

Its equipment is basically designed by Li Weiguo himself and produced by special arsenals, which is different from other military equipment.

For example, the Weiguo rifle, the standard Weiguo rifle equipped by the Shence Army of the Chinese Empire is a single-fire shot, that is, a single-fire shot is pulled and a single bolt is fired.

For the special forces, taking the Blade as an example, the Wei-style rifle used by its members is a semi-automatic rifle. It can be fired alone or continuously. However, its appearance is the same as the standard Wei-style rifle, and there is no difference.

In addition to rifles, the only machine guns equipped by the Shence Army are the heavy machine guns, which are large in size and require three soldiers to operate and use together.

The Sharp Blade Special Forces not only have heavy machine guns, but also light machine guns.

Among them, the heavy machine gun is not a bloody heavy machine gun, but a lightning heavy machine gun. It was designed by Li Weiguo. After five years of continuous improvement and improvement of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, the design was finally finalized.

Thunder and lightning heavy machine guns are also only equipped for use by special forces.

The lightning heavy machine gun continues the violence and fierceness of the heavy machine gun, and still uses a large caliber point of 50 inches, that is, 12.7 mm ammunition. Because this ammunition has the advantages of strong firepower, cruel lethality, stable ballistics, and extremely long range, it adopts the working principle of a short recoil barrel and a clamped iron lifting and landing locking structure.

The gun is equipped with a hydraulic buffer mechanism. When the barrel and the joint sleeve are seated, the piston of the hydraulic buffer is pushed back, compressing the oil in the buffer tube, so that it escapes forward from the gap between the inner wall of the oil pipe around the piston, and has a buffering effect on the rear seat. When the bolt is back in, the protrusion at the tail of the bolt hits the upper end of the accelerator to rotate forward, and the accelerator releases the hydraulic buffer spring and pushes the barrel and joint sleeve to return back in. The locking iron is forced to lift up under the action of the locking inclined surface on the wedge bolt, entering the locking groove under the bolt, and the bolt is locked.

The total weight of the lightning heavy machine gun is about 38 kilograms (empty gun), 58.2 kilograms (with tripods), and the total length is 1653 mm. It uses 12.799 mm personnel killing bullets or armor-breaking bullets, with a firing rate of 450-580 rounds per minute, an effective range of 1800 meters, and a maximum range of 7400 meters. The ammunition supply method is ammunition chains and ammunition is installed.

Heavy machine guns are used as fire support for special forces, and the team is particularly equipped with light machine guns.

The light machine gun was also designed by Li Weiguo himself and was secretly developed and improved by the Imperial Academy of Sciences.

However, Li Weiguo did not directly design famous assault rifles such as the later generations such as the famous AK47, m16, and 56. Li Weiguo was also very careful. He not only wanted to improve the combat effectiveness of the Chinese Empire's Divine Army, but also prevented the technology from being acquired by the enemy camp. After all, as long as the prisoners were captured and disarmed, they could be copied and copied.

Therefore, Li Weiguo left a backup plan and finally designed only an old light machine gun that appeared during World War I and World War II. Even the Czech light machine gun did not dare to easily manufacture it, but only designed a submachine gun similar to mp28.

Li Weiguo had never seen a real mp28 submachine gun. He could only rely on his own imagination to deliberately make many advanced parts very untrue, thereby reducing the performance of the submachine gun. Even if it is taken away by the enemy country, it will not pose a huge threat to the Chinese Empire.

However, in the end, the submachine gun designed by Li Weiguo was much more advanced than the German mp18 and mp28 in history.

Li Weiguo had no choice but to improve advanced technology into backward technology, which is something that ordinary people cannot do! It is very difficult!

The final formed single-soldier light machine gun, or early submachine gun or assault rifle, was named Lightning by Li Weiguo.
Chapter completed!