1855 United States Tycoon

Many years later, when the Republic of South Africa succeeded in its independence from the United Kingdom, the then South African government, as the natural successor of the Transvaal Republic, asked for the gold from McDonald Ventures Bank. It was only a matter of time that it took part in this matter. Most of the people are gone. All kinds of materials have also escaped. Including those votes originally held by the government of the Transvaal Republic. Many data have disappeared. (Some unscrupulous elderly historians claimed that after the Boer War, the Macdonald Consortium had privately collected some members of the former Transvaal Government with a large amount of money, and took a lot of money from them. Certificate of deposit. Of course, this kind of unconscionable truth is absolutely unreliable.) Therefore, how many deposits does the Transvaal Republic have in McDonald’s Venture Capital, except for a few votes that the South African government finally suffers. According to the above How much is beyond the number, of course, can only be said by the McDonald Venture Capital Bank. However, MacDonald Ventures is indeed a credible and reliable bank. After the South African government passed a law to confirm their legal validity as the successor of the Transvaal Republic, except for the two evidences in the hands of the Republic of South Africa. In addition to the five tons of gold, after self-examination, McDonald Ventures also discovered another two tons of gold. Over the years, the interest on these golds has been a considerable number, but McDonald Ventures has still very honestly acknowledged it. Of course, the South African government on the other side has also shown its trust in McDonald’s Venture Capital Bank and the Federal Reserve Bank of the United States. The gold continues to be deposited in the accounts of McDonald’s Bank and stored in the Federal Reserve Bank’s vault. The interest was commissioned by MacDonald Ventures to purchase United States Treasury bonds...

According to the research of some unscrupulous elderly historians, the transport submarines of the Macdonald Consortium carried out more than ten transport missions during the Boer War. The carrying capacity of these transport submarines is as high as 300 tons. If only 4.5 tons of gold were transported...Of course, this claim is baseless, because most of these transportation tasks have nothing to do with gold. It is irresponsible and absolutely wrong to say that the McDonald Venture Capital Bank obtained dozens of tons or even hundreds of tons of gold from South Africa. Although in the 1960s and 1970s, the gold held by only one McDonald Venture Capital Bank accounted for nearly one-third of the total amount of gold in the Fed’s vaults, far exceeding the gold reserves held by the governments of most countries. . So that people at that time even compiled such a world gold reserve ranking list:

Number one in the world's gold reserves: United States (excluding McDonald Venture Capital Bank)

Second place in the number of gold reserves in the world: McDonald Venture Capital Bank (excluding McDonald Venture Capital Bank Manhattan branch)

Third place in the world's gold reserves: McDonald Venture Capital Bank Manhattan Branch

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Of course, although McDonald’s venture capital has a lot of gold, it can be guaranteed that every piece of gold in it is legal. It only takes a few months or years to study and you can tell the source, absolutely and What Transvaal gold, what World War II, Death Jewish gold during the Nazi period has nothing to do.

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The siege of Johannesburg has been going on for a month, but the progress made by the British is pitiful. In the past month, after hard work, hundreds of thousands of various shells were fired, of which only the 11-inch cannon shells were enough. There were hundreds of them, forcibly, hitting this giant cannon to the point where it needed to be replaced, and the infantrymen incurred more than 30,000 casualties. The result? The British just moved less than a hundred meters toward their goal!

"This is simply a bottomless pit! It's a meat grinder!" Lord Roberts sighed as he looked at the battlefield not far away through the binoculars from the gun hole on his side. It's four o'clock in the afternoon. According to the agreement between the two parties, everyone will stop fighting for one hour to contain the wounded on the battlefield and recover the remains of the dead. Otherwise, if the wounded were thrown on the ground, there would definitely be a dead end. Now that the weather is getting warmer, those corpses may also cause serious disease problems. So when the British army first appeared near Johannesburg, the Boer's military envoy came to negotiate with a white flag and agreed to a truce between the two sides from four to five o'clock in the afternoon every day. The Boers will collect the wounded or dead British who have been left on the Boer's position during this time and send them to the designated place for the British to receive. Even Lord Roberts has to admit that these hateful rebels are indeed very gentlemen in this matter.

But their gentlemanly demeanor is limited to this. Others, whether it's the way of fighting or anything else, are too trivial to be trivial anymore. Not to mention their bright and dark bunker, minefields, and the powerful 11-inch cannons. The continuous disturbance of the rear supply line by the Boer troops alone caused Lord Roberts a headache.

Although Lord Roberts arranged many forts along the railway line, there are always many loopholes in such a long railway line. Some time ago, several supply trains were bombed in succession, and thousands of garrison troops were wiped out. In this series of battles, the Boer army armed with horses and military trucks demonstrated a high level of amazing mobility and attack power-they can actually use trucks to drag 3 inches or even 5 inches of artillery to attack. ! No matter how much manpower and material resources Lord Roberts has in his hands, he can't make the entire railway into a standard against 3-inch or even 5-inch artillery. For example, last time, the Boers didn't even formally rushed to the railway. They just placed a few 3-inch guns hundreds of meters away from the railway, and then directly destroyed a column full of supplies by shelling. Those damned rebels didn't know what kind of burning, burning, bombs were used, and they actually melted the steel.

As a result, Lord Roberts had to ask for domestic help again, asking the country to increase troops to protect the railway line, demanding more war horses, demanding... In short, Lord Roberts felt that those in the domestic budget department were now afraid that they would be fighting him. Thoughts are all there. However, this time, the country did not mobilize another 100,000 troops for him according to his request, but only sent them a small force of no more than one or two thousand.

This is a small unit with a difference. The weapons they are equipped with do not seem to be much different. They are nothing but large-caliber mortars, but their boxes are painted yellow and black. Color, and was closely guarded. Unless they get a written order from Lord Roberts, people from other troops can't even look at these boxes. Because these boxes were yellow and black and looked like bumblebees, this unit also received the nickname "Wasp Force". In addition, the composition of this force is also very strange. In addition to the commander, it is also equipped with a large number of technology officials, many of whom are experts from some universities and research institutions in the UK. Moreover, every soldier in this small army has a high school degree, and all the company commanders and above all graduated from regular universities majoring in chemistry. Such an academic level was simply unimaginable at the time.

However, apart from Lord Roberts, few people really know the purpose of this force. This unit is the first chemical warfare unit established by the United Kingdom. The above clearly tells Lord Roberts that he can no longer expect a larger scale of reinforcements, and now he must rely on this force to capture Johannesburg.

With a believable attitude, Roberts ordered the use of chemical bombs to attack Johannesburg. However, the commander of that unit said that the weather has not been very good recently, and the wind has become a little stronger, making it unsuitable to use these weapons. Therefore, it is necessary to wait for the weather to improve before launching an attack.

So a very strange situation appeared on the battlefield-the British no longer attacked, the defensive Boers tried to counterattack, but after suffering another loss, they couldn't get out of the tortoise shell. The original battle turned into everyone using tweeters to shout to each other, shouting at four o'clock in the afternoon, and then everyone came out of the anti-cannon hole to let out the wind for an hour. In the meantime, some Englishmen and Boers actually started talking. The spring was very windy, and I didn’t wait for a good weather for ten days. As a result, the chemical attack was never carried out. When some people in the British and Boer army got acquainted with each other, it eventually developed to the point where both sides used the truce. Football started on the battlefield.

But this short peaceful time passed quickly. At the beginning of November, the weather finally changed. Weather experts have made a forecast: in the next few days, the wind will be less than the second-level, which basically meets the conditions for the use of chemical weapons. So Lord Roberts gave the order to use this weapon.

Before dawn, the offensive troops entered the offensive position. During the offensive during this period, the British army has been digging the traffic trench to a place less than 30 meters away from the Boer’s defensive position. The two sides can even throw hand grenades directly from the trenches here. Go into the trench opposite.

The soldiers who were about to attack were ordered to wear a gas mask that looked like a pig's head mask. This is the first time this kind of thing has been issued to ordinary soldiers. Before they set off, each unit spent nearly an hour training how to use gas masks.

At six o'clock in the morning, the 7-inch heavy mortars of the Hornets began to fire the first round of double-light gas artillery shells at the Boers on the opposite side. The first gas war in human history officially began.

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