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No matter how the political show, the situation is still deteriorating.Contradictions that were covered up in the past have also emerged.

The law and order in Cape Town is rapidly deteriorating, killing, robbery, rape ... Various vicious crimes are happening endlessly, causing panic.

The Cape Town colonial government was very weak in this respect, and the police, who had a serious bureaucracy, did nothing.Nor are they completely inactive, they focus their police power on defending the interests of the powerful.

The deterioration of public order is still a trivial matter, but nothing more than a rush of incidents.The people in the colony are not soft persimmons. Even if a male enters the army, a woman can also kill with a gun.

After the initial chaos, the people also learned to hold groups to keep warm.Anyway, in the colonial tradition of people holding guns, most ordinary people basically have shotguns in their homes.

If there is no external interference, Cape Town in the future will be a holy place for gangs.After going through this wave, it is difficult for the gang forces not to grow.

A middle-aged official worriedly reported: "His Governor, since the outbreak of the war, the price of food in Cape Town has tripled, and has exceeded the tolerance limit of many ordinary people.

Not only food but also the prices of most living materials have risen to varying degrees, and some commodities have even been out of stock."

Making a country difficult to make money is the basic quality of an excellent capitalist.Of course, this time is an exception, the pot of skyrocketing prices should not be completely borne by the capitalists.

Because of the war, Cape Town lost all food produced in South Africa and could only rely on imports.This cost naturally goes up, and price increases become inevitable.

Governor Delphi's face changed, and he sternly ordered: "Submit the order to quell the price as soon as possible, and absolutely cannot let the food price rise anymore.

Forget it, don't embarrass you anymore, I personally went out.Tomorrow evening I will have a banquet in the Governor ’s Palace and invite these bastards. Whoever does n’t cooperate with the government to stabilize prices will take the flag."

Such an extreme matter, under normal circumstances, Governor Delphi can not do it.But isn't it abnormal now?

He has already expressed his attitude in the background of the London government. If he loses this war, Governor Delphi will have only one dead end.The difference is how to die, to fight to death in the battlefield, or to be killed by someone.

Life is about to die, and Governor Delphi is naturally not afraid of offending people.Anyway, even if he won the war, he, the war provoker, would have to go home to provide for the elderly, and he was not afraid of revenge.

There is still a bottom line in the political struggle in the London government, and there are very few cases of utter extinction.The governor of Delphi in the background, it is not difficult to get out.

A middle-aged man in military uniform said, "My Excellency, our military reserves are seriously inadequate. Due to insufficient prior preparation, we have only stockpiled 20,000 three-month combat supplies.

Judging from the current situation, these materials will support up to one month.For the newly recruited soldiers, we can only equip them with retired rifles and make use of them."

Because of the war, the people of the British South African colonies, except for the indigenous tribes, are mostly concentrated in Cape Town and the Cape of Good Hope. The total number of young and old is four or five hundred thousand.

So many people can't ignore the eating and drinking of Lhasa.Even if shipping can meet the needs of materials, this pressure is still great.

Before the arrival of Austria, the Cape Town colonial government did not take into account the threat from the interior, and the Royal Navy was the world hegemony enough to ensure smooth sea routes.

In this context, the Cape Town colonial government naturally did not consider strategic reserves, and indigenous African tribes could not threaten them.

Governor Delphi can be said to be one of the earliest people to anticipate the threat of Austria. The main purpose of this attack on the Republic of Boer was to eliminate Austria ’s advantage in South Africa.

Unfortunately, the plan did not change quickly, but instead caught the enemy's trap, which directly led the Boers to fall into the arms of Austria.

The Governor of Delphi calmly replied: "I have already asked the country for assistance in terms of materials, and it will not be long before it can be resolved."

How long is it?This question is about to test the ethics of the British bureaucrats, as fast as three or five days, and as slow as three or five months.

There are so many processes in the British government, as long as there is a problem in one of the links, it can be delayed indefinitely.

It ’s important to know that not everyone wants to see him win the war, and there are many people in the London government who want Delphi to lose the war.

The internal enemies in a political struggle will always be more terrible than the external enemies.In the eyes of many people, Cape Town is a backcountry, and the victory or defeat of this battle is simply irrelevant.

To put it bluntly, the greatest value of the current British South African colony is to hold the Cape of Good Hope and provide supplies to the Royal Navy.

If a Cape Town is sacrificed and the London government can be substituted, it is estimated that many opposition parties will not mind.

Anything lost on the battlefield can also be retrieved from the negotiating table.An unprecedentedly confident Englishman doesn't think anyone dares to slam his wits.

Of course, it is not the high-level government that sees this, otherwise Governor Delphi will be really pitted.

Once Britain and Austria compromise, the war is over.However, as the culprit of losing the city and losing his ground, Governor Delphi will stare at the infamous military court, and will not even have the chance to make a contribution.

Even his backstage will be implicated, the colony will fall, and the colonial ministry will naturally bear the brunt.Without backstage support, Delphi would be dead.

This bad situation did not happen. The politicians in the London government were still on IQ and did not listen to the rhetorical party command.

Austria has a great potential on the African continent. In the event of losing Cape Town, whether it can be recovered in the future is completely unknown.

If the government of Vienna does not buy the bill, can it still be won by force?

It ’s not bragging: at sea, even if the Austrian Navy doubles, the Royal Navy can still sling; on land, it ’s just the opposite. The British Army doubled its army and sent to the African continent is not enough to die.

Relying on "maritime deterrence" to force Austria to make concessions is an ideal situation.Even if the London government worked hard, at most it would seize a few Austrian chicken rib colonies, and the African continent could not beat it.

Sending the Royal Navy to block the door in the Adriatic Sea was originally the most deterrent way.Unfortunately, unlike in the past, the Royal Navy dares to enter the Mediterranean, so it must be prepared to go back and forth.

The French occupy Sicily, and the Mediterranean has been divided into two in essence.At this time, the risk of sending the Royal Navy into the Mediterranean increased greatly, and in case the two countries joined forces to knock on the sap, and the Royal Navy would be buried.

This possibility is not only a problem, but it will inevitably arise.Faw did not join forces to engage the British, the main reason is that they did not encounter the opportunity to start.

Otherwise, in front of the interests, the two have already started to do it.The alliance between France and Austria was originally intended for the British, and had similar plans from the beginning.

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The roaring artillery fire was deafening and opened the prelude to the war.After the artillery fire, the black crowd held a variety of weapons and charged the British position.

Dense gunshots sounded and the charged crowd kept falling.The heavy casualties left the charging team with no morale, and many people even turned around and fled.

Putting down the telescope in his hand, Viscount Fickney frowned.Obviously, he was very dissatisfied with this tentative attack.

After sighing, Viscount Fickney issued the cruelest order: "Send a war team to supervise their attack, and the fear of the enemy and those who run away on the battlefield will kill them.

From now on, we will attack day and night.Unless our cannon fodder is dead, the attack cannot stop."

This is the most typical life-threatening tactic, also known as: the worst tactic.

This way of attacking the city completely hurts people.Even if the war is won in the end, it will be bleak due to the great loss of one's own side.

Viscount Fickney was not at all worried about this problem. Anyway, he used the cannon fodder, and he didn't care how much he died.

In the view of Viscount Fickney, as long as he can conquer Cape Town, even if all these tens of thousands of cannon fodder are consumed, it is worthwhile.

A young officer immediately replied: "Yes, Your Commander."

This tentative offensive was not completely without results, at least the enemy's firepower was exposed.

Without the order of Viscount Fickney, the frontline commander had made fine adjustments during the second round of artillery attack.

This time, it is no longer blooming on all sides, but instead focused on bombing, specifically attacking the areas with the strongest firepower.

For a time, the British position suffered heavy losses, and the Sixth Colonial Division, stationed in northern Cape Town, became the first group of victims.

Colonel Belding, hiding in the fortress, scolded angrily: "Are all our artillery soldiers going to eat shit? I don't know how to fight back!

The guards connected me to the headquarters and asked for fire support.It must be fast, and the sixth division will run out no matter how it continues."

The sixth division is about to run out, which is an exaggeration.Even after two rounds of bombing, the number of casualties in the Sixth Division was no more than 180.

It was only the passive beating that hurt morale that made Colonel Bolding angry.

The British artillery did not launch a counterattack, but they suffered a small loss in front of the artillery.

After all, the area of ​​Cape Town is limited, there are many buildings in the city, and there are not many places suitable for artillery installation.

The "Bourgeois" troops attacking outside are not the same, but there are places where artillery positions are dispersed.

Although it became more difficult to conduct the command after being dispersed, it is not a problem to have a phone.Taking into account the increased security of artillery positions, this is totally worthwhile.