Phase One

While Rost was nursing a headache, the Ninth Brigade successfully withdrew to New Hamburg City. Even the First Battalion of the Second Regiment, responsible for covering the rear, returned safely to New Hamburg City.

As for enemy pursuers, there simply were none. The mountain of Indian soldiers' corpses piled up on the front lines was enough to keep the British Army busy clearing them away for quite some time.

The only pity was that the results of this battle could not be counted. The Ninth Brigade did not know the British Army's exact casualties, but it was certain that both the Kronkops blocking battle and the earlier Tugela River blocking battle had achieved outstanding results, effectively killing and wounding the enemy's living forces and striking down their overbearing arrogance.

First Town.

The war had already begun a week ago, and intelligence from every front was rapidly converging on First Town.

Svit reported to Ernst, "The overall situation at the front is good at present. Our forces have withstood the coalition army's first wave of attacks. Apart from the western region, the other major fronts have effectively delayed the enemy's military operations. The most stable is the Southern Military Region. The only pity is that there are too many British troops in the southeast, so the Tugela River defense line was breached.

The Ninth Brigade has now withdrawn to New Hamburg City and is preparing to deal with the British Army's next round of attacks. However, the Ninth Brigade also overfulfilled its mission. According to their battle report, they wiped out at least several thousand British troops, with the Indian units suffering particularly severe casualties.

At the same time, machine guns played an enormous role in the war. Their only drawback was their excessive ammunition consumption."

"The Eastern Defense Line