African Entrepreneurship Records

  Chapter 297 Army Exchange

  Wars are raging in Italy, but Trieste next door to Venice is a different scene. After the war broke out, the transfer of military supplies and the huge demand triggered by the war made Trieste eat a wave of war dividends.

  A group of factories, including the Hexingen food processing company, stepped up their efforts to produce military supplies, and then transported them to Venice and the Pope by sea.

  The boats in the port of Trieste were coming and going, and the pier was very lively, but a large area was isolated from the crowd.

  The graduates of the Hexingen Military Academy who arrived here from the Hexingen area are about to go to East Africa here.

   Except for 30 members who went to Austria Theresia Military Command Academy for further studies, the rest of the graduates are here.

  Ernst personally saw off the Hechingen students who were about to go to East Africa. There was no complicated ceremony, but before boarding the ship, Ernst said a few more words on the pier.

Ernst: "After your visit to East Africa this time, your goal is to improve the theoretical study of the East African army to a higher level and speed up the modernization of the army. Of course, you should not look down on the level of the East African army. Many of them have also fought a lot of battles. Yes, although it is not a military power like France, it may not be less difficult than the Franco-Prussian War. The East African army not only faces the hostile indigenous forces, but also has to deal with the harsh environment. This is not felt in Europe. Sometimes marching The roads may have been opened temporarily, and the indigenous forces are very flexible. They may disappear from the East African soldiers in front of the mountains and forests in a blink of an eye. The enemy suddenly disappears, and they will be broken into pieces. You say Whether the East African army pursues or not, so the East African army has a lot of experience in dealing with guerrilla tactics. This is very different from the large corps operations in Europe. When you go there, you must learn to adapt to local conditions. Don’t be superstitious about knowledge in books. Analyze the various enemies that East Africa may face, analyze their strengths and weaknesses, know your enemy and yourself, and win a hundred battles.”

  Students: "It's the principal!"

   Ernst waved his hand and said, "Go! Start a new journey."

  Amidst the roar of steam ships, the 70th graduates of the Hechingen Military Academy boarded the ship one after another. They were about to carry out a revolution in the army of the Kingdom of East Africa.

   Dealing with the natives all day long, the combat effectiveness of the East African army will inevitably be affected by the natives. If they suddenly go to war with a country with a little modern experience, the East African army may suddenly fall into a brain freeze.

  So the Hexingen graduates who participated in the Battle of Franco-Prussian this time will carry out a major reform of the main force of the East African Kingdom Army to accelerate the understanding of modern warfare by the East African Army.

  As for the non-main force, there is no need for it. If it weren’t for the fact that East Africa is too large, the transportation is poor, there are many internal indigenous forces, there are also many surrounding forces, and the national defense is under great pressure. Ernst would like to abolish them now.

  Compared to the population, East Africa’s current military strength is surplus, and it has reached the strength of Europe. In fact, hundreds of thousands of troops in Africa are quite explosive, and Egypt has this level.

   On a ship flying the Austrian flag, this is the second time for some Hechingen students to cross the ocean, and some are native German students.

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  East Africa, the first town.

  East African Defense Minister Yarman reported to Constantine the work content of East African retired personnel.

Yarman: "Your Majesty, this is the list of voluntary retired officers. There are a total of 407 people. The lowest rank is the platoon leader, and the highest rank is the commander of the 23rd Division. Most of them are old people from the colonial era. .”

  The old man in the colonial era was the mercenary group hired by the Hexingen Consortium, and Arman was the leader of the mercenary group at that time.

  Konstantin took over the list and looked at it. Except for the older ones, some of them were injured, and the remaining part was due to other reasons.

Constantine: "Those original mercenary teams who want to return to Germany for retirement, carefully calculate their salaries and bonuses over the years, so that they can enjoy the rest of their lives when they return to Europe, and I will personally provide them with some Bonuses, if they want to stay in East Africa, we also welcome their families to come and settle down, as for the disabled veterans, arrange local jobs for them.”

  The mercenary group itself came to East Africa for money. Most of them are retired soldiers from various German countries, so they are generally older, and the representative one is Arman himself.

  Most of their families are in Europe and their roots are in Germany, so many of them plan to leave East Africa and return to Germany after earning enough money. After all, they have struggled all their lives, and they should enjoy it.

  Yarman also had this idea, but Constantine and Ernst didn't intend to let him retire. In order to stabilize Yarman, they arranged for his family to live in the first town alone.

  After listening to Constantine's decision, Yarman replied: "Yes, Your Majesty, we will verify it carefully based on the files."

  Arranging for the retirement of officers is to make room for the upcoming graduates of the Hechingen Military Academy. In the past two years, because of the suspension of the crash course, the students of the Hechingen Military Academy have never provided military personnel to East Africa.

   After all, the normal school system is three years, and the time for this Hechingen Military Academy to resume the normal school system was three years ago.

   Relying on the voluntary retirement of officers alone is definitely not enough for the position, so before East Africa invited a group of incompetent people with negative records out of the army and asked them to change jobs. Through these two actions, a large number of officers were dismissed.

  So at present, East Africa still lacks military talents in general, not only high-end military talents, but also low-end military talents, and this year's graduates of Hechingen Military Academy will make up for these gaps.

  Yarman: "Your Majesty, there is one more thing. Our diplomats were driven back by Mozambique. I heard that they have not even seen the face of the new governor of Mozambique."

  Konstantin: "Oh! Is there any specific situation about this person?"

Yalman: "We learned from the Maputo merchants that this man was born in the army and was a general of the Portuguese Continental Army. Mozambique, I heard that its military capability is not bad, just arrived in Mozambique, led the army to defeat the remnants of the Kingdom of Malawi."

  Konstantin: "If this is the case, we should also be careful about this person, and let the troops stationed on the border of Mozambique be more vigilant. If there is any change in Mozambique, we must report it in time."

  The new governor of Mozambique does not seem to be easy to deal with, and East Africa has to consider that Caboril will challenge East Africa in a convulsion. Because Mozambique is already surrounded by East African territory, from the perspective of security, Mozambique must be full of worries. The expansion speed of East Africa is too terrifying, it is simply a copy of Tsarist Russia, West Africa and North Africa are okay, and East Africa is completely under the pressure of East Africa's expansion.

  (end of this chapter)