The camp of the Northern Rhodesian Division was at the entrance to Nicholson Canyon, and on October 30, 1899, the 4,000 British troops under Lieutenant General George White encountered the main force of the Cloth Army under the command of Joubert in Nicholson Canyon, in which the British lost 1,272 men and the rest retreated to Leddy Smith, where they were immediately surrounded.

The Northern Rhodesian Division would not make the mistake of the expeditionary force, in addition to sending out all the scouts, every half hour a company of soldiers would go out of the camp on horseback to patrol the surrounding area, and in the event of an encounter, there would be two companies of troops in the camp ready to reinforce them.

Although it is a temporary camp, but in the construction of the camp, the northern division of Rhodesia is also meticulous, drainage ditches and toilets are indispensable, tents are all set up on the high ground in the camp, there are watchtowers around the camp, and Makqin heavy machine guns are placed on the towers, although the weight of the 37mm Makqin rapid-fire guns has not been reduced, Anton and Martin still used horse-drawn carriages to get more than a dozen, which will become a big killer against the Zulus, as long as the Zulus dare to fight head-on with the northern division of Rhodesia, The 37mm Maxim rapid-fire cannon would have made the Zulus suffer.

In order to maintain morale, Anton and Martin came up with a lot of mini-games, set up prizes for team-level small confrontations, shooting horse racing is the most common way, the winner's reward may be just a meal at noon, and the loser's punishment is to serve the winner.

The prizes are not abundant, but they effectively maintain the morale of the troops, and the technical and tactical abilities of the soldiers are also strengthened in the game.

It was only then that Roque discovered that many of the soldiers were armed with grenades.

The grenade of this period is still a bit complicated, the grenade is actually a deformed grenade, using a grenade and a gun grenade tail rod, directly inserted into the muzzle, fired with an empty cartridge.

"Our individual firepower is still a little weak, the arsenal was originally committed to the 37 mm Maxim rapid-fire gun miniaturization, in order to strengthen the firepower of the troops, but I didn't expect this goal to be completed, but the gun grenade was tossed out, for ordinary soldiers, the operation of gun grenades is more complicated, and a lot of training is required, so many of our current training subjects are around gun grenades, and the effect is still quite good." Martin has a penchant for grenades, and to strengthen his individual firepower, a grenade is the best way to do it.

"Very well, keep up the good work-" Roque of course knew the power of the gun grenade, and in another time and space, the Japanese soldier's gun grenade impressed Roque, and almost all memoirs will mention the Japanese gun grenade.

Anti-personnel grenades generally weigh 200 to 600 grams, have a killing radius of about 10 to 30 meters, and have a maximum range of 300 to 600 meters.

On June 20th, the Zulu scouts who had gone out to scout returned in batches, and more information was gathered here at Roque.

There are now more than 150,000 Zulus involved in the riots, and most of the Zulus involved in the riots gathered in Pietermaritzburg, surrounded Pettermaritzburg, and then sent troops to attack the colonial forces supporting Pettermaritzburg.

This routine is very familiar at a glance, and the Yao people in Portuguese East Africa used this tactic of "encirclement and reinforcement", which made the Portuguese suffer a big loss.

Now it seems that the Zulus also fully absorbed the experience of the Yao against the Portuguese, and it may be that the Zulus, who had participated in the Portuguese East African War, were commanding the Zulu forces besieging Pietermaritzburg.

"Very well, to find the main force of the Zulus, we will go directly to Pietermaritzburg." Roque was familiar with this routine, and as long as the intelligence was in place, the Zulus were basically no threat to the northern Rhodesian division.

Even if there were traitors among the Zulu scouts, colluding with the rebellious Zulus inside and outside to try to lure the Northern Rhodesian Division into the encirclement of the Zulu rebels, Roque was not very worried.

The British were still very wary of the Zulus in the past, and they had strict control over the Zulus in terms of weapons, and the Zulu rebels were only able to get some of their weapons because they defeated the colonial army in Pietermaritzburg and the colonial army in the Cape, but those rudimentary weapons certainly could not compete with the well-equipped northern Rhodesian division.

Rokeke had never armed the Yao with a 37mm Makqin rapid-fire gun.

On June 21, the Northern Rhodesian Division set out for Pietermaritzburg in search of the main forces of the Zulu rebels for a decisive battle.

There are more than 3,000 officers and soldiers of the Northern Rhodesia Division who came to Natal, in addition to more than 2,000 members of the Nyasaland militia group, these members of the Nyasaland militia are responsible for transporting supplies for the northern Rhodesian division, and they are actually all highly trained, and they can also take up arms to fight when needed, this is the insidious beginning of Roque, nominally, the northern Rhodesian division only came 3,000 people, but in fact the number is more than 5,000, not only the Zulus do not know this, Even Ade and Philip don't know.

The 5,000-strong troops, accompanied by more than 300 carts, so the speed of the troops' advance could not be too fast, that is, about 30 kilometers a day, thanks to the roads built by the British Expeditionary Force during the Boer War, if there were no roads, the speed of the daily advance would be more than 10 kilometers.

Before the departure of the large army, it is customary to release all the scouts, this time the scouts are not limited to the Zulus, the teaching battalion also draws a company of cavalry to participate in the reconnaissance, the thirty kilometers of the daily advance of the troops, basically within the control of the scouts, the Zulus want to ambush the northern division of Rhodesia is unlikely, unless they have a way to hide from the omnipresent scouts.

On June 23, the third day after leaving Leddy Smith, the Northern Rhodesian Division came to the Mooy River, less than 50 kilometers from Pietermaritzburg, where the Northern Rhodesian Division finally encountered stubborn resistance from the Zulu rebels.

"Their calculations are good, with the natural geographical advantage of the Moi River, they hope to stop us at the Moui River-" Anton regretted that these Zulu rebels were quite clever and did not choose to ambush the Northern Rhodesian Division, but to build positions along the Moy River, which really created more difficulties for the Northern Rhodesian Division.

"The scouts went upstream and downstream to look for shoals to cross the river, taught the battalion to set up positions opposite the rebel positions, suppressed the rebels, and organized a tentative attack to see if there was a possibility of a direct breakthrough." Roque's heart is as strong as iron at this moment, and there will definitely be a price to pay for forcible crossing, but without experiencing the test of blood and fire, the northern division of Rhodesia will not be able to grow.

"Yes!" Anton and Martin don't talk nonsense, they will succeed in one go, this is also something that can't be helped, since they are on the battlefield, they must have a sense of sacrifice, and the officers will also act together with the soldiers.

The preparations were carried out immediately, the training battalion began to set up positions, the selected A company was preparing to force the crossing of the Mui River, and the militia members were busy sorting out the assault boats, which were all sewn with cowhide, and in order to prevent stray bullets, there were more than a dozen airbags in the assault boats, even if one or two airbags were broken, it would not affect the normal use.

Zulu rebels on the other side of the Moi River noticed that the camp was setting up positions and harassed the camp with Makqin heavy machine guns.

It's quite methodical, and it uses point shooting.

The training battalion suffered casualties immediately, and the prepared medics rushed to the rescue, and Anton was furious and commanded the 37mm Maxim rapid-fire gun to suppress the Zulu rebel positions.

Compared with the 37mm Maxim rapid-fire gun, the firepower of the Maxim heavy machine gun was simply not enough, and with the great power of the Makqin gun, the heavy machine gun of the Zulu rebels was completely suppressed.

"Keep an eye on the other side, as long as there is a heavy machine gun that dares to shoot, shoot him out for me!" Anton searched carefully with a telescope, and dozens of snipers in gilly suits also entered the front-line position.

During the American Civil War, some Confederate soldiers were equipped with British Weyworths rifles with 3x scopes, and set a record for the longest sniper kill of 800 yards.

During the Boer War, the sharpshooters in the Boer army posed a serious threat to the British Expeditionary Force, and the British began to formally train infantry or special mission personnel with sniper expertise in large quantities.

As a British unit, the Northern Rhodesia Division is of course also equipped with snipers, because of Roque's attention, the Northern Rhodesia Division is equipped with a lot of snipers, and the snipers are under the direct command of the division command, and the allocation of precision shooters has reached the squad level.

At present, in the world, only the British army and the Russian army are equipped with snipers, and the British troops suffered at the hands of the Boers, so they will pay attention to snipers, and Russia has suffered from the sharpshooters of the Finnish troops, so they have learned from the pain.

It is worth mentioning that snipers pursue the hit rate, not the speed of fire, so the rifle used by the snipers of the Northern Rhodesia Division is not Lee Enfield, but the older Martini Henry, compared with Lee Enfield, Martini Henry is more powerful, and the well-modulated rifle shooting is more accurate and more popular with snipers.

The entry of 37-mm Makqin rapid-fire guns and snipers effectively changed the course of the battle.

The Zulu rebels did not realize that the tactics of the Northern Rhodesia Division had developed to such an extent, because they had been supplied by a part of the colonial army before, so the Zulu rebels also had some binoculars on their side, and the Zulu rebels used binoculars to detect the movements of the Northern Rhodesian Division.

When the snipers were not in the war, the rebel officers with binoculars could use the binoculars to observe the positions of the Northern Division with impunity, and after the snipers exhibited, those officers who used the binoculars were unlucky.

The soldiers of the Northern Rhodesian Division had a 95 percent excellent shooting rate, and when equipped with sniper rifles, with the assistance of scopes, the snipers were literally 100 shots.

Bah, Bah, Bah -

The gunfire was not intensive, but it was very efficient.

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