The second lieutenant who led the team directly to the opposite side was called Li Fei.

Li Fei was a native of the Qing Dynasty, and was wanted by the Qing Dynasty for committing an incident in his hometown, so he simply came to Johannesburg.

When Roque began to train security guards at the Matilda Gold Mine, Li Fei was a member of the security team, and then Li Fei followed Roque's footsteps to the Roque Gold Mine, and then went to Nyasaland, and finally when the Northern Rhodesia Division was established, Li Fei served as a second lieutenant platoon commander in Company A of the Northern Rhodesia Division because of his outstanding military qualities.

When crossing the river, Li Fei's assault boat was estimated to have encountered an undercurrent and was washed directly to the opposite bank, and it was too late to retreat, so Li Fei simply led ten soldiers ashore and relied on a shoal to establish a beachhead.

"Platoon commander, Lao Zhang is seriously injured—" Li Fei had just pounced behind a big rock when he heard a soldier shouting.

"Bandage on the spot, think about how the doctor taught you-" Li Fei didn't have time to help, squatted behind the stone and suddenly poked his head out to observe the rebel position on the bank of the river, and immediately retracted after taking a look, then took out a grenade and threw it out according to the direction in his impression.

Boom –

The violent explosion was accompanied by the screams of the rebels, Li Fei pulled out his pistol, carried Lee Enfield behind him, and was about to charge, when he suddenly heard the roar of cannons behind him.

In the past, when he heard the sound of the cannon, Li Fei probably wanted to laugh twice, but now he only felt extremely relieved.

At least four guns ploughed the rebel positions around Li Fei and them.

Hearing the sound of explosions in all directions, Li Fei had time to take care of the wounded.

"I'm okay platoon leader, I can't die!" Lao Zhang was sweating profusely, a hole was made in his stomach, the bullet hit Lao Zhang's abdomen, and then pierced from behind, and now there is definitely no time to check whether the internal organs are injured, so he can only wrap the wound first.

"Iron head, old knife, you two send Lao Zhang back-" Li Fei was very worried about Lao Zhang's injury, this kind of injury should be dealt with as soon as possible, it is easy to be in danger after a long time.

"Platoon commander, I'm fine-" Lao Zhang is still holding on, there are only eleven people in total, and if the rebels besiege it, then Li Fei and them are probably more than lucky.

"Don't talk nonsense, iron head, old knife, action." Li Fei didn't delay, this was not the time to bargain.

The iron head and the old knife didn't talk nonsense, they unloaded all the bullets, grenades, and supplies on their bodies, picked up Lao Zhang, jumped on the half-deflated assault boat, and rowed back desperately.

The artillery is more lively at this time, and even the heavy machine guns have joined in, regardless of whether they can hit people or not, now that the rebels' firepower is suppressed, let's talk about it.

"Platoon commander, what should we do?" Eight people, in the face of thousands of rebels, it is impossible to say that they are not afraid.

"Spread out, spread out, let's hold here, and wait for our people to rush over, we will be a great achievement!" Li Fei will definitely not retreat at this time, and there is no way back.

The strange thing is that the rebels have not launched an attack, as if they have forgotten Li Fei and them, even if the firepower of the Yao Yao cannon is much weaker, Li Fei and they have not found the rebels.

"Platoon commander, something is wrong—" A sergeant climbed up to Li Fei's side.

"That's not right—" Li Fei had already poked his head out several times, except for the rebels he had first discovered, he couldn't see the rebels at all, and he couldn't hear the rebels' voices.

It's like—

It was as if the position of Nuoda was empty.

"Three artillery, fire cover, the others are ready to charge me-" Li Fei howled, ready to charge at the rebels' positions.

"Received the platoon commander-" The third artillery is a machine gun shooter, and the Madsen light machine gun of the Northern Rhodesia Division has been equipped to the platoon level, and the next step is to equip it to the squad.

The Madsen light machine gun equipped by the Northern Rhodesia Division is no longer the same thing as the Madsen in Roque's impression.

The main improvement is in the way of ammunition supply, the original Madsen light machine gun, using 30 rounds of magazines to feed ammunition, to Nyasaland, 30 rounds of magazines is definitely not enough, so the designers of the Nyasaland Arsenal refer to the Maxim heavy machine gun feeding method, the Madsen light machine gun produced in Nyasaland to 100 rounds of ammunition box supply.

In addition to the magazine, in order to better provide fire continuity, the Nyasaland Arsenal also changed the barrel of the Madsen light machine gun to a replaceable barrel that can be quickly disassembled, and the task of the secondary shooter is to carry the spare barrel and cartridge box, in Nyasaland, each light machine gun is equipped with two secondary shooters, and when the troops are dispatched, they can carry two spare barrels and eight magazines of 100 rounds, and when necessary, others can also help carry them, so the bullets do not have to worry, Engineers at the Nyasaland Arsenal are working on changing the 6.5mm smokeless powder round used in the Madsen light machine gun to a 7.7mm pointed bullet that is common to Lee Enfield, which, if successful, would greatly reduce the logistical pressure.

It should be emphasized that the Maxim heavy machine gun currently produced in Nyasaland is 7.7 mm caliber, which has achieved universal ammunition with Lee Enfield.

At this time, the fire of the artillery finally stopped, and Li Fei and the others seized the opportunity to throw a round of grenades at the Zulu rebel position, and then Li Fei took the lead in rushing out of the bunker with a pistol.

The other soldiers didn't speak, they all rushed forward with their heads buried like Li Fei, at this time, they didn't care about any serpentine moves, they advanced alternately with the help of cover, and it was right to rush into the woods first.

The situation of the rebel position was the same as Li Fei's judgment, the entire position was empty, and Li Fei even found the corpse of the rebel who had been killed by himself with a grenade, and his gun had been taken.

"The rebels have run away, platoon commander, what to do?" The soldiers all gathered around Li Fei, this situation was a bit weird, and the soldiers didn't know what to do.

"Check the rebel positions and open the passage for the follow-up troops." Li Fei did not rush to pursue, in case the rebels killed again, then Li Fei and they would be unlucky.

It turned out that Li Fei's decision was very correct, and when Roque crossed the river with Anton and Martin, Li Fei and his team were immediately received by Roque.

"I have the ability, just eight people, and I directly took the position of the rebels, and I did a good job!" Luo Ke did not hesitate to praise, no matter what the reason behind this incident was, the fact is that when Li Fei and the eight of them rushed to the rebels' positions, the rebels all fled, then this is Li Fei's credit, and no one can take it away.

"Sir, how is Lao Zhang's injury?" Li Fei is still thinking about Lao Zhang.

"It's not a big problem, your guy has a big life, the bullet passed through the stomach, only two taels of meat were knocked out, the internal organs and intestines are fine, and he has been raised for ten days and half a month, and he is a good man!" Roque was very happy, so far, the performance of the northern division of Rhodesia is indeed trustworthy.

"Sir, can we count our merits together, and Wei Chang, who died when crossing the river, I didn't even snatch his body back, it was washed away by the water-" Li Fei's expression was gloomy, and the joy of victory was diluted a lot.

"Okay, no problem, I'll give you collective credit." Roque didn't feel comfortable either, but that's part of the war.

"Sir, do you want to continue the pursuit? The rebels have all fled—" Martin was very unwilling, this battle began inexplicably and ended inexplicably.

"No need to chase, let's go directly to Pietermaritzburg, the Zulus can't escape far." Roque does not take risks, the northern division of Rhodesia now has the advantage, just push it over in a dignified manner, and it is a great achievement to break the siege of Pietermaritzburg first, and the Zulu rebels can slowly clean up.

Anton and Martin, although they had few regrets, did not question Roque's orders, and after cleaning up the battlefield and organizing their troops, the troops continued to advance towards Pietermaritzburg.

Roque was right in his judgment, the Zulu rebels were not reconciled to defeat and again organized a sniper attack on the northern division of Rhodesia in Howjko, less than 20 kilometers from Pietermaritzburg.

This time Roque was not welcome, the artillery positions and heavy machine gun positions were lined up to suppress the fire, the snipers entered the position to focus on care, and the two companies flanked and outflanked, and it took only half an hour for the northern division of Rhodesia to break through the positions of the Zulu rebels, annihilating 650 rebels, capturing 1,500 people, and suffering less than 20 casualties.

The next step was to reach Pietermaritzburg, where the Northern Rhodesian Division had no more organized resistance, and it was only 25 June, just four days after the Northern Rhodesian Division had left the Nicholson Gorge.

Roque was marching forward, and Pietermaritzburg, besieged by the Zulu rebels, was living as it had been.

There are now less than 1,000 soldiers and policemen left in the whole of Pietermaritzburg, and the Natal Administrator, Isaiah Quiller, has organized the whole city of adult men, only about 1,500 people, and the rest are old and weak women and children.

With the ability of Pietermaritzburg, it was no longer able to break through the siege of the Zulu rebels, and fortunately, the Zulu rebels wanted to encircle the point and send reinforcements, and did not attack Pietermaritzburg, so Pietermaritzburg was able to survive until now.

Otherwise, it is estimated that Pietermaritzburg has now fallen, which would be a disgrace to the entire British Empire.

"Thank you, Sir, thank you very much, I thank you on behalf of the 6,500 people in the city, I can't imagine what would have happened if it weren't for your timely reinforcements-" When Roque appeared under the city of Pietermaritzburg, Isaiah Quiller hugged Roque tightly, and he was almost a little tearful.

"I'm sorry, I'm too late, don't worry, I'll kill the rebels!" Roque is murderous, and it is estimated that it is impossible to cut the grass and eradicate the roots, but Roque is sure that after this stop, the Zulu people will not dare to make trouble for half a century.

"That's right, we must kill them all, these ungrateful fellows, they all deserve to hell-" Isaiah Quiller hated the Zulu people to the core, and his revenge was much stronger than that of Roque.

"Don't worry, I will-" What else could Roque say, this is war, and it is impossible for the war to stop until one side completely admits defeat.

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