"Do you know what I'm trying to say?"

When the ant narrates the story, the language is straightforward and plain, without any emotional overtones, making it impossible to understand his tendencies, preferences, and likes and hates from the ups and downs of the sentences.

Although the protagonist has already recognized that the ant on the opposite side is himself, and he is also himself, but at this moment, the protagonist really can't guess the deep meaning that the other party wants to express hidden in the plain language.

He didn't think much about it, and hesitated to reply: "Is this the crushing of high-tech to low-tech?" If you fall behind, you will be beaten? ”

The ant shakes its head, and a series of humanized movements are embodied from an ant, which seems comical and weird, surreal but realistic.

"I'll continue the story, this story is over, but you don't know the people behind it!"

The empty and emotionless language of the ant is as distinctive as Zhao Zhongxiang's explanation of the animal world, and its characteristic is that there is no emotion and no fluctuations, just like an ancient well without waves.

"Henry Lawr became a hero and a star because of this fight. In fact, he was originally just the child of a peasant family in Manchester, because of the industrialization of England, he had too many children with his drunken and beating father, he was not much educated, but he was bold and adventurous, aggressive, and never flinched or afraid of death.

In order to eat, when he was older, he left the family full of pain and violence, and left the family that was destined to rot with dust. After drifting to London, he joined the British colonial team sent to South Africa. There, he joined the local police force and later joined the colonial army.

The colonial army most welcomes this kind of scum from the homeland, cheap, has immediate combat power, and has no worries. In general, their destiny is to die in the years of war with the indigenous tribes. When the time comes, the commanders will say that he has no relatives and will keep the withheld military pay and his relics for himself.

However, Henry was born to be the kind of adventurer, and South Africa's wild and adventurous world history was his paradise. He is at home here, because he is brave, cunning, and especially because he likes to gamble with other people, but his luck and craftsmanship are not good, he can be called a fortune boy. Therefore, he was loved by the soldiers here, and slowly became an officer of the colonial army, which was a great achievement for a civilian.

After the Battle of the Shangani River and the Battle of the Benbezi River, he became a tool of the British Empire's internal propaganda, obtained knighthoods and medals, and returned to his homeland. But he did not fit in with the upper class, was instructed to behave rudely, and soon died of depression in alcoholism. Only in history books and military textbooks will he be recorded - the massacre of Africans with high-tech weapons. ”

At this point, the ant paused, and then continued:

"The second person doesn't appear by name in the story. Only in the senior history books and in the textbooks of the military academy do the names of Lobengula, the king of Matabele, a native of Northern Engni, be recorded.

The Northern Engni belong to the same Bantu language group as the Zulu people, who also live in the Zululand of the eastern highlands of South Africa. After the establishment of the Zulu kingdom, the Zulu army defeated the army of the Engni kingdom Ndwandwe, and the Engni began to retreat northward, and their migration, like the migration of the Xiongnu, had a domino effect throughout southern and central Africa.

In the first half of the 19th century, the Engnees swept across the north and south of the Zambezi River, traveling thousands of kilometers, and the whole of Central Africa was stimulated by them to enter the Kingdom Age, and it can be said that they were the destroyers of southern African civilization and the creators of Central African civilization.

And the grandson of King Zvid of Ndvandwe, who once defected to the side of the Zulus, Mzilikazi, became a general under the Zulu King Chaka and made military achievements. Later, angered by Chaka's failure to hand over enough booty as required, he led his men to defect and cross the Drakens.

Led by Mzilikazi and his peer army built on the Zuluchaka military system, the Northern Engni army reached the Vaal River to establish a base and moved west to the Marico Valley west of the Transvaal. They conquered the Emirates of Tswana, and the Kunna, Ngwakizi and Rolang were successively called vassals, served the Ndebele people, and tended herds.

Later, Mzilikazi established his capital in Inati and rebuilt the kingdom of Matabele. He annexed the local Engoni tribe by means of marriage, and the two Ngoni tribes merged into one, and the kingdom expanded.

In September 1868 Mzilikazi died of illness, after a severe succession crisis. The most powerful concubine, Lobengula, seized the throne.

Because the kingdom discovered gold, it attracted the covetousness of Europeans, and the civil strife of the kingdom of Matabele greatly weakened the kingdom, and finally created an opportunity for direct invasion by the colonists.

When Lobengula succeeded to the throne, he rashly granted mining rights to two British companies that had supported him in the struggle for the throne. However, the European colonizers later interpreted the granting of land concessions as a transfer of ownership, much to Lobengula's anger and recognition of the British colonialists' ambitions for the kingdom of Matabelleran. He sent two Induna (ministers) to London to appeal to Queen Victoria of England, but to no avail. The kingdom of Matabele is in danger of being annexed.

In January 1890, the first British colonial expeditionary force arrived to intensify military colonization activities to expand the occupied territories eastward. By 1893 the colonial army had sufficient strength and had built two railways from Beira and Kimberley to Mashonaland, all in preparation for the annexation of Matabelleland by the South African Company. The head of the company, Rhodes, announced the conquest of the kingdom of Matabele by armed force, with the support of the colonial governor Jameson.

Against this background, in September 1893, the troops of the British South African Company began their march.

Lobengula transferred back the 6,000 troops that had been sent out in time and deployed them in Gyeonggi to defend them. However, they were defeated in the Shangani River Blockade and the Benbezi River Blockade.

Lobengula burned the capital and retreated to the northwest. The British army then entered the burning Bulawayo and pursued Lobengula.

On 3 December, Lobengula led his army to a small victory on the banks of the Niyangazi River, annihilating 34 British forward soldiers.

Lobengula then continued to retreat to the northwest, preparing to regroup and regain the territory. Unfortunately, when he arrived at Mosituria Falls (Victoria Falls), he contracted cholera and died in early 1894, and with his death, the once-prosperous kingdom of Matabele was wiped out. “