Chapter XXXVI Coastal District
"Attention everyone, the five-kilometer weight-bearing off-road begins!."
The New Army of the East African Colonies, formed by Chinese immigrants, carried their burdens in the rain.
In April in East Africa, it was rainy and rainy, but the colonies' recruits still had to be trained, and with the passage of time, the East African colonies had begun to lay out the entire interior.
After the departure of the advance team, the area originally close to Dar es Salaam naturally did not stagnate, and this was the first place where the immigrants came, and the first town, as the name suggests, every Chinese immigrant who came to East Africa had to stay here, and after redistribution, they were sent to new bases.
Recently, the East African colonies have begun to plan new villages and towns, mainly the first towns to the north, where the plains are more expansive and are the essence of the Tanzanian coastal plains.
Dar es Salaam belongs to the Sultanate of Zanzibar, with this as the core, spreading the entire East African coast from north to south, but the part of the plain near the inland to the west of the coast has no population, and the main body of the Sultanate of Zanzibar is still on the island of Zanzibar, and Dar es Salaam on the opposite side, and the population of other areas is not large.
This gave the East African colonies the opportunity to expand their territory as much as possible, and this time the East African colonies did not plan to set up a stronghold around the first town, but to establish three new towns in Msoluwa, Ponwe and Manda, which were a little further away.
In this way, starting from the first town (Mlandizi), passing through Msolowa, Pongwe, Manda, and the second town (Rufu) formed a huge circle, including the third town (Kitunga) with an area of almost 3,500 square kilometers of land.
The Primordial District temporarily had six towns, the first of which was the first sub-district of the colony.
The land could not appear in a vacuum, so it became important to drive out the natives of the land, and now the number of Chinese immigrants in this area has reached more than 18,000 after nearly a year, and they are concentrated around the three completed towns.
So the East African colonies decided to pull out an army of 2,000 men to carry out a dragnet sweep of the indigenous tribes in the coastal area.
Weapons had been prepared in warehouses for a long time, and now they could be issued to soldiers after a short period of training, and then they could set out to ban the indigenous tribes.
April was the rainy season, so the training of colonial soldiers often encountered heavy rains, but the German instructors did not care about 3721, and everyone had to complete the training on time every day.
The recruits climbed forward painfully in the mud, and the sound of gunfire in their ears from time to time exercised their courage.
The natives that the recruits had to face were not difficult opponents, mainly small tribes of cats in the mountains and forests, and the larger tribes were all in the west, with hard brains, and had already been captured by the Sultanate of Zanzibar and sold to the Arab countries.
It's okay for the Sultanate of Zanzibar to bully and bully the natives, and the East African colonies with guns and ammunition in their hands are not easy to mess with, so the two sides have been at peace so far.
The East African colonies also sold stolen goods through the Sultanate of Zanzibar, and now the Sultanate of Zanzibar has begun to lie flat, sitting at home and waiting for the East African colonies to deliver slaves and ivory to their doors.
The Sultanate of Zanzibar was responsible for selling these goods overseas through Arab merchants, so the early colonial period in East Africa contributed to the deformed prosperity of the Sultanate of Zanzibar.
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A few days later.
Manda, the northernmost part of the Marina District.
"Hurry up and chase, even if you can't catch them, you can't let them run back and let them go!"
Bang... Bang... Bang......
The panicked natives could only desperately flee to the north, and I have to say that these natives ran really fast, and they disappeared after a while.
"Alright, let's chase it here! The North is not yet our goal. Everyone takes a break for a while. ”
"Captain, that black thing, why did you run so fast, and you disappeared as soon as you slipped away!"
"That's because these natives all live by hunting, and they have to chase all kinds of animals every day, or be chased by animals, and you think how fast the lions, cheetahs, and wildebeest can run, if these natives can't catch up, or can't escape, then they will starve to death or be eaten! We are different, in the Far East, generations have mainly farmed, and all their energy is in the field, so they can't run as fast as those natives who run faster than the beasts every day. ”
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The German commander Rorschach was studying the map, and Yarman was currently in charge of the military affairs of the entire East African colony, while Rorschach was in charge of the military affairs of the Primorsky District, so he could be regarded as the second-in-command in the colonial military forces.
The mission of the expulsion of the indigenous tribes from the coastal area was led by Rorschach, who were led by veterans of the war, and a number of students from the Heshingen Military Academy acted as interpreters.
This operation in the coastal area was the first large-scale coordinated operation, with a total of 2,321 personnel dispatched.
The completion of the operation means that the plan for large-scale military use of Chinese people is operational, and the Hexingen Military Academy has played an important role in connectivity.
But this alarmed Ernst, and although the students of the Hauhingen Military Academy were brainwashed and very loyal to the Hohenzollerns, it was important to be careful that they were divided with other Germans.
After all, the students of the Heshingen Military Academy had direct contact with the soldiers of the colonial army, and the German commanders had to rely on the students of the Heshingen Military Academy to act as interpreters.
This shows how much influence the cadets of the Heshingen Military Academy had on the soldiers at the bottom of the colony.
For Ernst, any uncontrollable cause must be nipped in the bud, and after thinking about it for a long time, Ernst came up with a good solution.
The Heixingen Military Academy should not only have Chinese cadets, but also white cadets, and Ernst planned to find some orphans in Europe, especially in Germany, so that he could learn German and Chinese, and finally develop in the colonial army with Chinese cadets.
In this way, the two can supervise each other, check each other, and study in the same school and allow them to communicate and integrate.
The army of the future colony will have white people who can understand the Chinese immigrants, and they can understand the real thoughts of the immigrants and report to Ernst at all times.
This was a delaying tactic, and what should really be done was to start German education in the colonies, and when the whole colony spoke German, Ernst could relax a little.
Fortunately, the colony is not large now, and Ernst does not have to worry about anyone trying to make trouble, and the colony is extremely dependent on the Hexingen consortium, which is why Ernst can command the East African colonies remotely.
At the same time, he constantly sent his henchmen to take up important positions in the East African colonies and divide the colonies' top leaders, and these measures conducive to his own centralization of power were not put down.