African Entrepreneurship Records

  Chapter 246 The First Shots of the German War in 1870

According to the historical records of later generations, starting from July 1870, three major German powers launched wars successively, and these three major powers basically coerced all German states to participate in the war, so people collectively referred to these three wars in 1870 as the German War of 1870 .

   Among them, the largest scale (according to the number of people involved and the number of weapons), the most intense war, and the most influential is the Franco-Prussian War. This was followed by the Second Italian-Austrian War, and finally the Third War of Conquest by the Kingdom of East Africa.

   July 10, 1870.

  On the chain bridge between the two banks of the Lualaba River and the Zambezi River, there were crowds of people. The expanded East African New Army began to set off in three directions one after another.

  The Kingdom of East Africa, which has not digested Zambia, is about to use its final potential to completely establish the basic prototype of the Kingdom of East Africa.

   West Bank of the Lualaba River.

   Msiri took his sons, and the army of the Msiri regime had been waiting for a long time.

   "Mr. Merk! The strength of your country is really terrifying!" Msiri exclaimed with lingering fear. The more than 30,000 well-equipped and well-trained East African Kingdom Army gave Msiri, the African chief, endless shock.

"Of course, Mr. Msiri, any tribe is a chicken and a dog in front of the East African Kingdom, and it is vulnerable. If our East African Kingdom exerts a little force, you cannot stop it. You are a smart person and choose to cooperate with us. Friends who belong to East Africa, we will not treat you badly."

  Msiri has been shaped by the East African Kingdom into a **** "non-rapist". At the same time, the East African Kingdom has also made a promise that it will not kill the donkey in the future.

  Before this war, the Kingdom of East Africa provided Msiri with two options. After clearing the entire central and South African plateau in East Africa, Msiri would either go to the Sultanate of Zanzibar as an apartment, or use Central Africa to develop in West Africa. Msiri chose the second option.

  Looking at the huge crowd of East African troops in front of him, Msiri was a little thankful for his choice at the beginning. If he was on the wrong team, he would probably be the target of crusade now. Msiri didn't think that the hundreds of guns in his hand would be the opponent of the East African Army.

   "Mr. Merk, don't worry, this time we Yeke Kingdom will do our best to assist you in the battle. I dare not say that in other regions, the Luba Kingdom is my old opponent, so let my people lead the way for you."

   "Very good!" Merk affirmed.

  …

"Bang..." The third war of conquest in East Africa (the first war to eliminate the eight countries in the Northwest for the Great Lakes region, and the second war of Zambia and the Sultanate of Geredi, collectively referred to as the war of conquest in East Africa.) fired the first shot, Kasong The Go area is located between the Lualaba River, which is the upper reaches of the Congo River, and the Sankuru River, which is a tributary of the Congo River in the south. The East African army going north encountered the army of the Kingdom of Luba in this area.

  …

  The first town, the Palace of Witt.

Felix stood in front of the sand table and introduced: "In this war of conquest, our East African Army will be divided into four groups—North Route Army, West Route Army, South Route Army, and Southwest Army. The targets are the Azande Plateau and southern South Sudan respectively. ; the Lunda and Cuango plateaus; the Matabele plateau; the northern Kalahari basin."

  "Once the goal is accomplished, East Africa will border Egypt in the north, the Portuguese colony of Angola and the Kingdom of Congo in the west, and the Boers in the south, while encircling the Portuguese colony of Mozambique.

   That is to say, after this expansion, the neighbors of East Africa have changed from indigenous peoples to countries all over the world, including Britain, France, Egypt, Abyssinian Empire, Ottoman (Red Sea coast), Portugal, Boers, Somali tribes...

  So East Africa will not have such a big action for a long time in the future. "

   This is a very exaggerated operation. The area of ​​its plot is comparable to that of India. Once it is completed, the territory of East Africa will directly reach more than 7 million square kilometers.

This is also the limit of East Africa. The rest is nothing to eat. As usual, the plateau area is the foundation of the East African kingdom. This expansion operation is basically aimed at the plateau area. Only the plateau and mountains are the most suitable for tropical areas. human survival.

  East Africa has limited capabilities, so it is natural to give priority to occupying those good places in the eyes of East Africa, so rainforests and deserts are not included in this plan.

  Although the west and south of the Kalahari Basin are basically the same as no man's land, the desert climate and long supply lines are basically impossible to complete, and even if they are defeated, there is no way to make contact.

  The large-scale march in the Congo rainforest cannot be completed unless casualties are ignored. Even the indigenous people who have lived in the rainforest for generations dare not say that they can cross the rainforest.

In fact, along the river, it is still possible to occupy some strongholds along the river, but it is completely unnecessary, so effective rule cannot be established, and it is still possible to colonize, but there are not many people in the Congo rainforest, and they are all extremely small The tribe has no colonial value at all, and all the valuable land in the Congo region is in this expansion operation in East Africa.

Here I want to emphasize that the Congo area and the Congo rainforest in the previous life are completely two concepts. When Congo is mentioned, it seems that its natural resources are very rich and its arable land is very large. However, Congo's minerals, population, and arable land are all concentrated in the southeast, northwest Plateau and mountainous areas.

For example, in the former Congo (Kinshasa), its urban population was completely distributed around the Congo rainforest. In this circle, the Mitumba Mountains in the east are already the territory of East Africa, and the Katanga Plateau in the south is also in the hands of East Africa. Now that East Africa is expanding, the Azande Plateau in the north, the Lunda Plateau and the Kuango Plateau in the south are gone, and only the east and west of Kinshasa can still be inhabited.

There happened to be a power there already, that is, the Portuguese. In fact, before Belgium, the Portuguese had been advocating that the Congo area was their sphere of influence, but the British didn’t see it that way, and other countries didn’t recognize it. Now the western part of the Congo is occupied by the Portuguese and the British. The world is divided into two, and next to it is the French colony of Gabon.

"Our troops march along the plateau terrain, basically there will be no physical discomfort. The most difficult area here is the Kalahari Basin. Its water source is a big problem, although the Okavango River has formed a huge here. The inland delta, but that's where almost all the animals come together, and the mappers say there's hordes of hippos dumping their feces into rivers and wetlands, and clean water is hard to come by, so the size of the army can't be too large .”

"Logistics is also a big problem. The natives in the plateau grow a few things. If there is not enough food, they can temporarily solve it on the spot. There is no planting industry in the Kalahari Basin. All food has to be transported from the east. This cost cannot support large-scale production at all. The army exists, so the Southwest Army only has a total of more than 1,000 people."

   "The plateau areas are basically connected, and the river hinders our marching speed. If we want to control these areas in the future, we must build roads and bridges."

  (end of this chapter)