Madagascar, an island made of volcanic rock, is the largest island in Africa and the fourth largest in the world, and it was once prosperous before the Suez Canal was opened because it could be one of the relay stations from Europe to Asia. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

After the opening of the Suez Canal, Madagascar's status plummeted, and its position in the modern world has been repeatedly marginalized, and now it has gradually fallen to the point where no one cares about it.

The exception is France, which has been trying to colonize Madagascar since about half a century ago, which provoked a strong opposition from the Malagasy people, and until now, although from 1896 Madagascar was finally reduced to a French colony, the Malagasy resistance has never stopped.

If you stand in the perspective of human reproduction, it is difficult to understand the resistance of the Malagasy people to the French, you know, before the French arrived in Madagascar, Madagascar could not even be self-sufficient in food, if there is a disaster year, there will be a large number of Malagasy people die of famine, the French occupied Madagascar for the purpose of Madagascar's mineral deposits, but at the same time brought enough food to the Malagasy people, at least in the year of the catastrophe, the Malagasy people will not die in large numbers, Moreover, the French also brought a modern way of life and products of industrial civilization, which objectively also contributed to the development of Madagascar.

But from the perspective of Malagasy, this is probably not the case.

Around the 1st to 10th centuries AD, Indonesians and Arabs moved to the island of Madagascar and intermarried with the locals, forming the Malagasy people. So far, the inhabitants of Madagascar are mainly Imelina, Behemizaraka and Bejillo, who make up more than half of the Malagasy population.

For the Malagasy people, although the life is poor and the economy is backward, the Malagasy people enjoy it and do not feel inferior, and when the French colonizers arrived, it seems that the French did bring a more advanced way of life, but at the same time, it also means that the Malagasy people have become "second-class citizens", which is unacceptable to the Malagasy people.

At the same time, many Malagasy people's resistance to the French stems from the fear of the unknown.

In Madagascar, although a unified state was established decades ago, only a small part of the population has received modern education, and about 99% of the nearly 1.2 million people in Madagascar are illiterate, and they cannot understand the products of industrial civilization brought by the French, whether it is muskets or electric lights, many Malagasy people believe that they are the products of demons, and then they are afraid.

This was even more evident when Huang Li and Wu Qing led the "exploration escort team" to Manandenina.

The unit led by Huang Li and Wu Qing was drawn from the active army of Lanfang, and as an active army, it must be fully equipped, among which the iconic equipment is a large number of military vehicles represented by "bulldogs", which gave the Malagasy people a great shock.

Although the French have colonized Madagascar for more than 20 years, because of the Malagasy resistance, the French footprint is limited to the west and north of Madagascar, and for the southeast of Madagascar, including Manantenina, the French rarely set foot in it.

When the "exploration escort" arrived at Manan Tainina, it was still pure and primitive, and there was almost no trace of modern civilization, although the whole Manan Tainina was marked on the map with the size of a city, but in Huang Li's view, Manan Tainina was at most the size of a small town, which was far from the concept of the city, and even the whole Manan Tainina did not have a decent wharf, and the cruise ship on which the "exploration escort" took could not dock at all, and could only rely on lifeboats to transport people to the shore one by one.

Before coming, Huang Li was already prepared to face difficulties, but he didn't expect that the difficulties were so great that Huang Li had no idea where to start.

There is a popular saying in the Lan Fang army: If there are conditions, you must go up, and if you don't have conditions, you must also go up.

Therefore, Huang Li did not flinch, nor did he mean to wait, even if he used a lifeboat to send it one by one, Huang Li had to resolutely implement the military orders issued by the military department.

There are only a few lifeboats, and the cruise ship taken by the "exploration escort team" has only eight lifeboats, even if it is running at full speed, it can only send one company ashore at a time, and the lifeboats can only go back and forth every half an hour, and the difficulty of landing is still not small.

As the captain, Huang Li, who was already wearing the rank of major general, must take the lead, so he went ashore with the first batch of exploration team members.

The major commander commands a battalion, and this specification can be regarded as a high configuration.

Huang Li and his companion were accompanied by Huang Li's car, a modified "bulldog", which caused the first clash between the exploration team and the locals.

"This is Manan Teynina? This is too desolate, isn't it-" As soon as he landed, Huang Li was stunned as he looked at the scene in front of him.

In fact, June is the time of the aquatic grass style, thanks to the fact that Manantenina has not been developed yet, the mangrove forests by the sea are actually well preserved, and large trees that require several people to hug can be seen everywhere, these are all high-quality wood, and they can be turned into money if they are transported back to Lanfang.

And right next to the lush mangrove forest, a few narrow and dilapidated grass houses caught Huang Li's attention, the houses were indeed too small and dilapidated, if it weren't for the cows grazing leisurely near the house, Huang Li would definitely not think that it was a place where people lived.

There is a piece of land that has been reclaimed next to the grass house, and a few crops that are extremely sparse grow listlessly, and it is estimated that no one has taken care of them since they were planted.

There were still people, and two unarmed children hurried out of the woods, plunged into the thatched hut and never came out.

Huang Li clearly saw that one of them was a woman, and it was not too young a woman, such a girl didn't even have clothes, which showed how poor this ghost place was.

"It's just right to be desolate, the more desolate it is, the more space we have to operate, hurry up, I don't want to stay in this ghost place for the rest of my life." Wu Qing, who also wears the rank of major general, is more optimistic.

Huang Li and Wu Qing are old partners, the two of them have always been the best candidates to do dirty work in the Lan Fang army, this time coming to Madagascar is a chore, Huang Li and Wu Qing are naturally not spared.

"Hurry up, we will set up an improvised camp here before dark, and this will be our base in the future-" Huang Li cheered up and urged the soldiers to speed up their movements.

Over there, more than a dozen soldiers had already dragged the "pit bulls" ashore, and the driver went up to fiddle twice, and the "pit bulls" snorted out a few puffs of black smoke, and suddenly roared, which immediately caused a burst of exclamations from the thatched houses.

Although he has a special task for the residents of Madagascar, Huang Li still does not want to have a conflict with the residents of Madagascar now, why must there be a stable base before Huang Li will begin to carry out the orders of the military department, so Huang Li raised his hand and called a soldier and asked him to communicate with the residents of those thatched huts, so as not to cause any misunderstanding.

"If you don't understand the language, what effect can you have in communication?" Wu Qing scoffed at Huang Li's decision.

"Language is not a problem, some things are connected, and it doesn't matter if you don't have a language." Huang Li didn't care, let the soldiers bring some food to the people in the thatched huts, it didn't matter if there was communication or not, as long as they could express goodwill.

The soldier took the order, went to the logistics officer to get a few pieces of chocolate, took a few boxes of canned food, and walked happily in the direction of the thatched house.

Almost all of them were optimistic, relying on strong force to face a group of indigenous people who were still in a primitive state, including Huang Li, there was no concept of defense at all, and no one thought that these natives with or without clothes would use force to resist these soldiers who were armed to the teeth, and the soldier's rifle was not even taken off on his shoulder.

Just as the soldier was about to approach the thatched hut, a cold arrow suddenly shot out from the nearby woods, hitting the soldier in the throat.

Before the arrow, the soldier was still smiling and wanted to say hello, so he was unprepared for the flying arrow, and was directly shot to the ground by an arrow.

"Enemy attack!" Immediately, there was a warning.

Before waiting for the order of the squad and platoon commander, some soldiers armed with rifles set up defensive positions on the spot, and some people jumped on the "bulldogs" to manipulate machine guns to establish defensive fulcrums, and the artillery squad also quickly deployed mortars to prepare for fire support, and a simple position was immediately formed.

"Get people back, be careful!" Although he had already experienced a hundred battles, Huang Li still blamed himself in his heart, if it wasn't for carelessness, this kind of loss could have been avoided.

Several soldiers covered each other and left the position, cautiously moving in the direction of the fallen soldier.

"Cover the fire, force those bedbugs out to Lao Tzu." Huang Li did not want to incur any more unnecessary losses, and gave the first combat order after the landing.

This kind of order is aimed at enemy snipers, and in the face of snipers, Lan Fang's soldiers do not have the patience to conduct counter-sniper operations, and fire coverage has always been the first choice.

The sound of the mortar fire was unusually brisk, and in an instant, there were three rounds of fire, and the shells fired from the eight 80mm mortars were enough to cover the grove where the arrows had just flown out.

"Knock knock—" The heavy machine gun on the bulldog began to roar, and the target was not the grove, but the thatched houses.

Since they have already met each other, they will not show mercy.

(To be continued.) )