Chapter 1429: The ambition of the Boers
South Africa is a rich and beautiful land. +◆The earliest indigenous people here were the San people, the Koi people and the Bantu people who later moved south. In 1652, the Dutch began to invade and launched several colonial wars against the local black people. Britain began to invade in the early 19th century and seized the "Cape Colony" in 1806. The Dutch Boers were forced to migrate to the inland and successively established the "Orange Free State" and the "Trantuwa Republic".
However, after the British defeat in the World War, not only was the land divided, but even the overseas colonies were lost. Most of the overseas colonies were occupied by the Chinese Empire, while a small part was distributed to the Kingdom of Spain and the Kingdom of Belgium by the Chinese Empire. As for the other victorious countries, they were not obtained, which also made the other victorious countries very dissatisfied with the Chinese Empire.
South Africa was rich in gold and diamonds, making South Africa an important colony of the Chinese Empire. However, many gold and diamond mining areas belonged to the Orange Free State and the Terratuwa Republic established by the Boers. Of course, the empire could not tolerate these gold and diamond mines being occupied by the Boers. Therefore, the empire threatened the Boers with its strong military strength, forcing the Boers to agree to become a protector of the Chinese Empire and accept the colonization of the Chinese Empire. Subsequently, the Chinese Empire began to immigrate to South Africa and migrated more than 200,000 people in the Cape colony of the original British.
Because the empire's territory is too vast, there are many rich places that are not worse than South Africa. Therefore, there are not many people willing to come to South Africa. However, as the empire's population grows faster and faster, the population is also increasing. It is estimated that more immigrants will be willing to move to South Africa soon. However, now the Boers have actually broke out in an uprising. If the empire wants to immigrate to South Africa, they must first extinguish the Boers' uprising.
The total population of the Boers exceeded 1.5 million. In southern Africa, it can be regarded as a big force. With the secret support of the Germans, they have a group of weapons and equipment. The Germans assured the Boers that as long as they can defeat the Chinese Empire, they will recognize that the Boers ruled South Africa. When they were driven inland by the British, it was always a pain in the hearts of the Boers. Now that they have the opportunity to reoccupy the entire South Africa, they will certainly not let it go. Of course, the Chinese Empire is too strong, which is also what the Boers are worried about. However, the Germans assured them that when the Boers uprising, India will also break out in a massive uprising. Among the many colonies in China, India's status
It is much higher than South Africa. Even if the Chinese want to suppress the uprising, they will definitely suppress the uprising of the Indians first. Only by suppressing the uprising of the Indians will they turn to South Africa. By that time, the Boers may have occupied the entire South Africa. And as long as they capture the Chinese immigrants, they will have the capital to bargain with the Chinese Empire. Not to mention anything else, let the Chinese recognize South Africa's independence and guarantee that they will not invade South Africa again. That should be no problem. It is precisely because of this idea that the Boers and the Germans hit it off. After the Germans transported them a large amount of weapons and equipment, the Boers immediately began to rebel against the Chinese Empire.
When the rebellion broke out, the Boers used the troops obtained from the Germans to organize an army of 50,000 people. Moreover, the subsequent armaments were still being transported one after another, and the Boers would form more troops. For the Boers, who had a total population of only 1.5 million, the organization of 50,000 people has not reached their limit. If necessary, they can even organize an army of 150,000 people. With such an army, the Boers believed that they would definitely defeat the Chinese army that came to suppress the uprising and seize the entire South Africa.
However, the subsequent progress was beyond the expectations of the Boers. In the early days, their army quickly captured the inland areas of South Africa. Chinese immigrants and army chose to retreat strategically and all retreated to the Cape colony. Moreover, those immigrants quickly armed. In addition to the two regular troops of 12,000 brigades, 30,000 militias were armed. Although these troops may not be able to defeat the Boers, there is no problem in defending the entire Cape colony. After all, the Boers' army was not regular troops, and their combat effectiveness was not necessarily much higher than that of the imperial militia. However, the Boers were nomadic peoples, and they were very mobile and better at fighting guerrilla warfare. It would be more difficult to wipe out them.
However, it was impossible for the Boers to conquer the Cape colony and capture the Chinese Empire's immigrants in South Africa.
In early July and late July, the Boers launched two attacks on the Cape colonies. However, they were greeted by the fierce artillery fire and machine gun bullets from the Imperial Army. The dense firepower caused heavy losses to the Boers' cavalry, and the two attacks costed tens of thousands of people. This forced the Boers' cavalry to withdraw from the Boers' colonies.
But if the Cape colonies cannot be captured, the immigrants from the Chinese Empire will be unable to capture the Chinese Empire, and there will be no confidence to bargain with the Chinese Empire. Once the Chinese army enters South Africa in large numbers and suppresses the Boer uprising, how can they resist it?
When the 7th Cavalry and 8th Cavalry of the Imperial Army of the Imperial Army arrived in the Cape Colony, the Boers were very nervous. The two cavalry armies were more than 70,000 people. The total number of troops mobilized by the Boers was only this. However, the Chinese easily sent so many troops, which made the Boers feel huge pressure and the power of the world's most powerful country. They could easily send so many troops to suppress the rebellion of the Boers, which shows the strength of the Chinese Empire. If possible, the Boers of course would not be willing to confront such a world-class power. However, if they wanted to gain national independence and live a happy life that was no longer enslaved by the Chinese Empire, they had to do so.
Besides, the Boers had already begun to revolt and killed many Chinese people in the previous battles. This made them unable to compromise with the Chinese Empire. There was no other solution besides war.
In a small town about twenty kilometers away from Cape Town, the president of the Boers, Matinas Pretorius, arrived here. He was very anxious that the front-line troops could not capture Cape Town for a long time and captured the Chinese in the city. After all, that was the most important guarantee for him to believe that the Boers' uprising could achieve success.
Of course, Martinus Pretorius, who was able to become the president of the Boers, was not a fool. He knew that the Germans were bewitching the Boers to launch an uprising and had no good intentions. However, the Boers could not have had the support of the Germans. Without the support of the Germans, the Boers would not have obtained so many advanced weapons. With only old weapons, the Boers were no match for the Chinese Empire. Therefore, Martinus Pretorius and Deles would have imposed a false conspiracy with the snake.
Martinas Pretorius knew very well that fighting against the Chinese Empire with the strength of the Boers was simply an egg-killing stone. However, he also knew that if it was well operated, there might not be no chance of winning. After all, more than 200,000 Chinese in South Africa became the best bargaining chips in the hands of the Boers. As long as they could catch all these Chinese, they could use this as a condition to force the Chinese to agree to a series of conditions. Although this approach was a bit shameless, for the sake of the nation, Martinas Pretorius didn't care about so much. He firmly believed that all the Boers would support his plan.
Unfortunately, after the Boer uprising broke out, the Chinese immediately retreated to Cape Town, and the Chinese army escorted the people to retreat throughout the journey. Although the Boer cavalry chased and launched an attack like wild wolf, in the face of the dense firepower of the Chinese, the Boer cavalry did not take any advantage at all, and they watched the Chinese enter Cape Town.
Of course, the Boers did not gain anything. Over the past period of time, there have been thousands of Chinese captives, and the number of Chinese killed was no less than this. However, Martinas Pretorius believed that the Chinese would definitely not compromise with the Boers for these thousands. After all, the Chinese population is too large, a total of 600 million people! This is already four hundred times that of the Boers. The safest way is to defeat Cape Town and capture all the Chinese in the city. In this way, their trump card is big enough.
However, the Boers had lost the best opportunity. Although Cape Town's defense was not too strong, it was already unbreakable in the eyes of the Boers.
In addition, the Chinese Navy's battleship arrived in Cape Town and used the artillery of the battleship to provide artillery support to the Cape Town defenders, which made the difficulty of attacking Cape Town even more difficult. During the attack launched by the Boers in late July, they were violently bombarded by the Chinese navy. The power of the main guns of the battleship made the Boers suffer heavy losses, and even now they still feel scared.
Subsequently, the arrival of Chinese reinforcements, a total of 70,000 elite cavalry made the Boers feel deeply desperate. The arrival of Chinese reinforcements made Cape Town more powerful, and it was even more impossible for the Boers to break Cape Town. Moreover, they had to be ready to deal with the Chinese counterattack at any time. After all, cavalry is an offensive group. Although the Boers' cavalry is not weak, they really don't have much confidence to fight against the elite Chinese cavalry that have been on the battlefield for a long time. (To be continued, please search for astronomy, the novel is better and faster!
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