Chapter 59: Defenseless

Andreas Pretorius knew very well that he could not resist the invasion of the British, he had been to Europe and seen the strength of the British, so he knew very well that even the Boers would not be able to defeat this formidable enemy even if they fought to the last man.

However, Andreas Pretorius retreated again and again, while England advanced again and again, and the Boers had to pay blood and sweat for every piece of land they developed and every pasture they conquered.

The journey was never easy, as they had to deal with poisonous insects, beasts, and the terrible malaria.

Many Boers lost their lives along the way, and not all of the land was suitable for development, at least not at the level of technology at the time.

The land was too barren to support the large population and livestock, and famine soon followed. As people and animals starved to death and the plague struck, they were forced to abandon their newly acquired lands and continue their migration inland.

The story of Louis Trika is most typical, as they were initially numbered of nearly 200 men when they left the Cape Colony.

In order to escape the British and natives, they chose a relatively remote land. Louis Trika worked hard with the other Boers for a year, and when the harvest came time a lot of wheat did not bear head.

As a result, they had to hunt wild animals for a living, and soon the animals became scarce, and at the same time an outbreak of a disease called "sleeping sickness" began among the livestock.

Cattle were the most valuable asset of the Boers, so they had to move again. As a result, something went wrong on the route, and they deviated from the original route.

First Luis Trica's father, then his wife, then his two children, and when his party circled around the Portuguese colony of Mozambique, he was the only one left in the family of a dozen or so.

The natives also caused great trouble for the migrating Boers, and the Battle of the Blood River of the Boers was depicted as a massacre under the influence of Black Lives.

In fact, however, the leader of the Boers, Retif, negotiated with the Zulus, who claimed that if the Boers could help them recover their lost herds, they would be allowed to settle in the area and give them some land to graze.

So Retif went to war with another tribe and recaptured the herd.

When Retif and his own army (less than a hundred men) approached the Zulus to fulfill their promise, the Zulu leader Gunding asked the Boers to lay down their arms and wait in the hut according to Zulu tradition.

So Retiv laid down his weapons and led the men to the hut (a place similar to the tribal chamber), and then a group of Zulu warriors rushed in and put all the unarmed Boers to death.

The use of sticks and stone hammers to smash heads seems to be associated with some kind of forbidden ritual, and in the end, Andres Pretorius was able to identify the dead only from their clothes and belongings after winning the Battle of the Blood River.

It was because of these blood, tears, and sweat that the Boers were unwilling to give up their hard-won land, and Andres Pretorius heard about Luxembourg by chance.

He thought that he also spoke German, so was he also German? As a result, Pretorius went to the Dutch merchant, and it just so happened that the latter happened to be a Dutch merchant, but in fact a Luxembourger and an ultra-nationalist.

At his instigation, Pretorius decided to go to Vienna, but he did not know where Austria was, so he had to take a ship to Holland first.

King Wilhelm II of the Netherlands was not interested in such non-Dutch colonial matters, and in fact no one was willing to introduce Pretorius to him because he did not have enough money to pay bribes.

After traveling to Luxembourg, his deeds touched the Luxembourgers quite a lot, and even donated a sum of money for him, and the speaker of the parliament, Kurdere Jr., personally took him to Vienna to attend the German Confederation Conference.

But because of the division of land, the little Kurdre put aside the matter of Pretorius for the time being.

Pretorius also had a good look at Vienna, the most prosperous city of the German Confederation.

In his eyes, it was many times better than gloomy London, and the national mood was very contagious, and it happened that the German Confederation Congress was convened here and nationalists of all stripes gathered.

Then came one victory after another, the streets of Vienna were bombarded with all sorts of good news, the streets were full of propaganda, people talking about these things, and the old Pretorius was successfully brainwashed into becoming a German nationalist.

By the time little Kurdre, who had gained a lot of money, remembered the matter of old Pretorius, the Congress of Vienna had ended, the monarchs of the states had left, and all that was left was the regular meeting of the German Confederation.

But instead of diminishing the latter's emotions at this time, a strong sense of national pride arose, and he had never been so proud in his life.

So old Pretorius spoke impassionedly at the Congress of the German Confederation and spoke out. The scalp of the Count of Pillersdorf, the representative of the Austrian Empire, was fried, but it was gas-fried.

Looking at the silent venue, Count Pilestoover breathed a sigh of relief, fortunately that guy from Lens was sent to California, otherwise I don't know what would have happened.

In case the young man is angry and says something, you must know that it is the British, the hegemon of the world. The most important thing is that the Austrian Empire did not have a navy, and that damn Boers lived on the other side of the world.

If there was a war between Austria and Great Britain, then the good days of the Austrians would have come to an end at this time. As a member of the upper echelons of government, the Count of Pillersdorf was well aware of how much benefit the colony would provide to Austria each year.

In addition, the Austrian Empire's overseas trade has been on the rise in recent years, and the market has expanded to all parts of the world.

All of this needs to be done by sea, otherwise resources cannot be brought in, domestic goods cannot be transported, and overseas markets and colonies will be lost sooner or later.

The English rose by stepping on the corpses of the Spaniards and the French, and the Count of Pilersdorf did not want Austria to be next.

At this time, he found that the young man he was taking with him had moved, and there seemed to be a kind of desolate power running around in his body.

Fortunately, the Earl of Pierersdorfo was quick to hold down the young man next to him, and he hated this kind of intern policy of bringing the old with the new.

Some young people always can't control their hands and mouths, but fortunately he is a serious diplomat with him.

However, he miscalculated, and the last thing Franz wanted to see happened, one "Lens" fell, and thousands of "Lens" stood up.

What was supposed to be a confederity convention turned into a feast for nationalists, with the young people chanting "Down with the British, free the Africans, long live Germany!" ”

The German nationalists made a fuss about the German Confederation and demanded troops from Orange, casting a shadow over the victory of the Vienna Conference.