Having suffered several crushing defeats in South Africa, the powerful British Empire is preparing revenge. The forces are unequal, the only way to win is to attack first. The goal is the Cape Colony, still under British occupation. The leading world powers are not going to get involved with Britain and help the Boers only nominally, and some even openly put a spoke in the wheels. But an ordinary midshipman of the Red Banner Pacific Fleet, Mikhail Orlov, who, by the will of fate, was abandoned at the very height of the Boer War and became the Minister of War of the Union of South Africa, will do everything to ensure that the British break their teeth once again.