There is a question that must be clarified, don't look at the scale of the rifle is often seven or eight hundred, one or two thousand, in fact, they are all bluffing, without the use of a scope, only the use of mechanical aiming, two hundred meters away, the front sight is already larger than the target, at this time it is meaningless to ask for accurate shooting, whether it can hit the target is basically up to the blind.

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By feeling!

What do you mean by feeling?

Half of it is Mongolian, and the other half is still Mongolian.

Lee Enfield's ruler has a range of 1,800 meters, not to mention hitting people, elephants can't hit at this distance, under normal circumstances, the rifle's attack distance is about 100 meters, no matter how far it is, it will not exceed 200 meters, the distance is more than 200 meters, and when aiming, it is necessary to use the help of a scope.

The Lee Enfield rifle that Roque is equipped with can be regarded as the most advanced rifle in the world, but Roque is not equipped with a scope, although the scope has been used since the South American War, but the real practical value of the scope will not be successfully developed by Carl Zeiss of Germany until 1904.

In fact, it doesn't matter if there is one, they don't have Roque, let alone the Boer guerrillas, at a long distance, Roque and they can still use heavy machine guns to suppress the Boer guerrillas, and the Boer guerrillas don't have heavy machine guns to fight back, this is a completely asymmetrical war.

In fact, Roque and their cavalry also have heavy machine guns, although the heavy machine gun is "heavy", but the weight is more than 50 pounds, plus four boxes of ammunition is not heavy, it is very convenient to use horses to transport, and the assembly is also very simple, five or six people work together, and in less than two minutes, the heavy machine gun position is set up.

In fact, there was no need, when the heavy machine gun position on Roque's side was set up, the roundabout troops led by Anton had also returned to their positions, and the Boer guerrillas did not resist stubbornly, and simply chose to surrender.

It should be emphasized that the British prisoner policy during this period was still very lenient, and according to the regulations of the Expeditionary Force Command, all members of the Boer partisans who surrendered to the British troops would be lenient by the Expeditionary Force Command as long as they swore not to oppose the British again.

Of course, policy is policy, and execution is another matter, and when Roque and Henry set out, August Russell dictated an order from Sir Kitchener, chief of staff of an expeditionary force, that all captured members of the Boer guerrillas should be shot on the spot, whether wounded or captured, or surrendered voluntarily.

Note that August Russell was "dictated" and did not have a command document, at least not in sight of Roque and Henry.

So what to do with these captives is still a big problem.

"Locke, we have killed 35 Boers, captured 11, and prepared an eight-man firing squad, and this time we have a lot of credit." Henry was very happy, the annihilation of a guerrilla force with a total number of 46 people at one time may not be a big deal in the army, but it is very rare for the police.

What's more, before that, the expeditionary force had been repeatedly defeated on the frontal battlefield, and as far as Henry knew, this was the first time that a Boer guerrilla force had been annihilated in a formation.

"Henry, don't worry, these captives can't die, it's still useful to keep them." Roc didn't want to kill the captives, and these captives were of great use.

"Can't die? Have you forgotten what the Director said when we set off? Henry didn't think too much about it, the leniency of the expeditionary force command was for the Boers to see, and the actual implementation was another matter.

"Don't care what the director says, let me ask you, have you seen the relevant order documents?" Roque wouldn't listen to an "oral" order, what if August Russell didn't admit it in the future?

"Didn't see—" Henry looked confused.

"Then act as if it didn't happen." Roque is not stupid, what if this is a trap?

Don't think that this kind of thing can't happen, there was a case in the late Boer War, where a British captain was dismembered by the Boer guerrillas, and then the captain's men wiped out the Boer guerrillas, and in the process of killing them, they also killed a German priest, which attracted the attention of the Kaiser, and the final result was that two colonial officers were shot as scapegoats.

The two colonial officers were Australians, and the Australians later made a film mocking the sanctimonious British.

Unfortunately, Roque watched that movie, so Roque would not make this mistake, and regardless of whether the British would fail the debt, Roque would not give the British a chance.

"—How is that possible? Locke, you have to think clearly, it was the director's order. "Henry didn't expect Roque to dare to disobey, this is very dangerous, even if he successfully completes the mission of the expeditionary force headquarters, he will inevitably be put in small shoes by August Russell.

"I didn't say disobedience, but I didn't kill them now, those Boer captives are of great use, give them to Stanley, and let them stay in a conspicuous place, so that we don't have to worry about Boer bombs." Roque's method is a bit mean, but it works.

"Good way, Locke, you're a genius!" Henry was not stupid either, and immediately understood what Roque meant.

The main way the Boer guerrillas attacked the railway line was by explosives, first overturning the train and then attacking, otherwise the Boer guerrillas would not have been able to catch up with the train.

In the past, the train had no choice but to deal with it passively, but now Roque put the Boer prisoners in a prominent position on the train, and the Boer guerrillas want to blow up the train, and the first to die will be the captured Boer guerrillas.

Soon, the train started again, this time much faster, at a speed of almost 30 kilometers per hour, although it was still not fast enough, but if there were no accidents, the assault team should be able to complete the task of the expeditionary force headquarters.

Although he had seen the dawn of completing the mission, Roque was not happy, in the battle just now, four Chinese policemen were killed on the spot, and two Chinese-American policemen were seriously injured, and in terms of medical conditions in this era, serious injuries can almost be judged as death.

It seems unreasonable that there are casualties and serious injuries, but no minor injuries, and after inspecting the seized weapons and ammunition, Roque found that many of the bullets used by the Boers have been modified with files to varying degrees, which also means that the Boers are using dummy bullets on a large scale.

That's right, it's the dummy bomb, which takes its name from the place where it was produced, the British arsenal in the small town of Dhamdam near Kolkata, India.

Although the Hague Convention of 1899 explicitly forbade the use of dummies on the battlefield, it was clear that the Boers did not comply with this rule, and Roque believed that the British would certainly not do so.

For the British and the Boers, the Hague Convention –

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