Chapter 338: Diamond War (7)
When Li Wenhao went to the mouth of the Congo River, Zhu Kezhen personally led a special soldier to the junction of the Dalong Empire and the Ndaru tribe, Zhu Kezhen and Li Wenhao's tasks are different, Li Wenhao's task is to disrupt the rear of the English coalition army, so that they cannot launch an attack on the Ndaru tribe, Zhu Kezhen's task is to make the Ndaru tribe quickly strong, so they take a different way of fighting.
The Talon Empire has experienced the war with the English coalition army, and they know very well that the other party's combat effectiveness is much stronger than their own, but it is much worse than the army of Ming Island, so the Emperor Yara Naviji of the Talon Empire handed over the command of the army to Zhu Kezhen very shamelessly, his move made Zhu Kezhen feel very speechless, he originally did not plan to carry out large-scale war operations, but now he has the power of the two armies, and he has to carry out some larger wars.
Sun Yuzhi also thinks that Yara Naviji is more cunning, thinking that it may be that the Talon Empire feels that its strength is weaker than that of the Congo Kingdom, they accepted the lesson of the Congo Kingdom, and took the initiative to hand over the army to Zhu Kezhen should be afraid of too much loss, especially the defeat of the Congo Kingdom, the Talon Empire can't afford to lose, so Zhu Kezhen accepted this military power, and told him to play freely, try to expand the territory of the Talon Empire and the Ndaru tribe, and curb the expansion of the English coalition.
With Sun Yuzhi's permission, Zhu Kezhen led the army to start the operation. First of all, he asked the special forces to stop their attacks, suspended the frequent attacks on the English coalition forces, and only had them divide them into several squads to reconnoitre, and draw the terrain into an accurate map, which included not only the geography, but also the distribution of various resources.
The process of this reconnaissance is relatively slow, and Zhu Kezhen is not in a hurry, his purpose is to determine the future division of forces through this more detailed map, so that the Ndaru tribe can occupy the best land and mineral resources, and secondly, let the power of the Dalong Empire also expand to be similar to the Congo Kingdom, and can fight alone.
After meticulous reconnaissance and a great deal of effort on the part of the soldiers, the terrain here is quite complex, ranging from dense rivers to desolate desert terrain with countless small tribes. Fortunately, Zhu Kezhen's soldiers are of relatively high quality, and their equipment is advanced, and the logistics materials are well replenished, so they can use their own things to give away to the indigenous people, so as to gain their favor, and the close cooperation of the Daron Empire finally completed this task, and then began to prepare to teach the English coalition a lesson and let them stop.
In the area of Maun, Zhu Kezhen has established a base, although the location here is not very suitable for transportation compared to the coastal area, and the traffic is somewhat inconvenient, but the terrain here is very suitable for Zhu Kezhen's current solution to the problem, here is backed by dense forests, swamps, facing the vast desert, with high mountains and dense forests on both sides, if the British coalition forces are attracted here, it is good to teach them a profound lesson.
After making a plan, Zhu Kezhen asked the indigenous people to continuously release the large ore veins here, and then let the expedition team start to frequently appear in the nearby jungles and mountain streams, and then constantly announced that they had found gold and copper mines, and occasionally displayed giant diamonds, etc., which made the Nordic expedition team feel very envious, and then had a strong desire to possess it.
In order to make the plan go more smoothly, Zhu Kezhen dispatched special forces again, and they did not take the initiative to attack, but waited in this area to clear out the expedition team that tried to enter here. After all, this area is vast, and it is impossible for the special forces to be completely closed, so there are also many expeditions that have obtained a lot of useful information, which includes both accurate mineral distribution and false information deliberately created by Zhu Kezhen.
In a dry river valley west of Maon, an expedition finally reaped the harvest of some trace diamonds and golden sand from the mountains that had been washed out by the rainy season floods, and when they found them, they finally decided that it was indeed rich in veins and finally made up their minds to control the area.
The rainy season was followed by the dry season, but now there was an abundant water source for the expeditions and armies, and nearly fifty or sixty thousand troops and a larger number of explorers began to use this valley area, and even for the sake of their own power, they deliberately exaggerated the gold and diamonds all over the place, as if they could get rich overnight, and for a time it became a crazy gold digger's paradise.
Zhu Kezhen's goal of gathering and destroying is about to be achieved, but he still hasn't attacked, it is still a time when the water source is relatively abundant, there is still a period of time before the extreme of the hot dry season, if you want these greedy Nordics to get a memorable lesson, you have to bury them here completely, it still needs a time, Zhu Kezhen waited silently.
In the beginning, there were not many problems, but with the gradual start of the dry season, the situation gradually became serious, first of all, food began to be scarce, and after going deep into the interior, the grain that was already very difficult to transport appeared to be even more scarce, and Zhu Kezhen's special operations team began to harass and attack, which aggravated the crisis. Then there is the water crisis, which is a common phenomenon that occurs every year during the dry season, and is now exacerbated by the influx of explorers.
The scarcity of materials, especially the food and water necessary for life, is simply maddening, so in order to compete for limited materials, the explorers first robbed the indigenous people everywhere, but Zhu Kezhen had already done a good job of clearing the wilderness, and the indigenous people were also very cooperative, which made them gain little, only got some scraps, and they were constantly attacked by Zhu Kezhen's special forces, and suffered heavy casualties.
The dry season has officially arrived, whether it is the coalition forces or the adventurers who came with them, they finally feel threatened, water, food, and medicine have begun to be extremely scarce, and the non-combat attrition is serious, and the surrounding indigenous people do not know where to hide, and there is no hope of grabbing supplies from them, so they have no choice but to shrink to the riverbed, trying to dig wells on the riverbed to find water, on the other hand, they are hurrying to urge the base behind to replenish supplies, and try their best to get through this dry season.
Zhu Kezhen was waiting for this opportunity, he gathered all the troops that could be mobilized, and all the large and small mortars, and then mobilized the indigenous people in the nearby areas who had been harassed for a long time, and let them participate in the war together.
As soon as the grain that was finally put together was put into the pot, people looked at the cauldron one by one. Just as the coalition forces were about to eat breakfast, rows of shells exploded from their side, and the cooking cauldron was blown up into the sky. The sudden attack caused the coalition soldiers to panic, and one by one they scurried like headless flies. It was easy for an officer to come to his senses and plan to put order in order and resist, but Zhu Kezhen's special forces had already rushed over and quickly dispersed the squad that had just formed a group.
Then it was even more chaotic, and a large number of soldiers and natives of the Talon Empire also took advantage of the situation to rush over. It's a pity that these coalition soldiers can't even eat breakfast, and the strength in their bodies is dizzy from the impact of these people, and they can't find their way even if they want to escape.
In the end, the result of the battle was tragic, the coalition soldiers and those adventurers were all annihilated, none of them could escape, the natives were relieved this time, three or five people caught a coalition soldier and beat him fiercely, the killing was not enough, their clothes were stripped of their clothes, everything was also looted, not even a single living mouth was left.
Both the north and the south won decisive victories, and Sun Yuzhi withdrew his troops. Li Wenhao left him free to develop, and Zhu Kezhen's troops summoned the Ming army instructors to Mingdao, and handed over the rest to Endaru, so that he could continue to harass the activities of the British coalition army, and by the way, train the team and develop his territory.
After stabilizing the situation, Sun Yuzhi will no longer continue to let Zhu Kezhen act, and will expand around Mingdao, the original territory is still a little small, for the long-term plan in the future, Sun Yuzhi let Zhu Kezhen's own team expand somewhat, so as not to suffer losses in the event of a war in the future, although Ndaru will not betray, but fate is still in his own hands The safest.