Chapter Seventy-Five: The Great Escape
Early morning.
The sun slowly rises over the horizon.
The fiery red sunlight illuminates the grasslands of the entire East African land, and the animals are grazing with their heads bowed.
Suddenly, their sensitive ears pricked up and moved slightly.
There was a rush of footsteps in the distance.
"Bang...... Bang...... Bang......"
The sound of gunfire disturbed the tranquility of the steppe.
The animal, which had never heard a gunshot, was still in a state of bewilderment, staring at the west with a wary expression.
Soon, a group of people appeared in front of them.
Some of the animals didn't care to continue grazing and ran in all directions.
It was none other than the natives of East Africa, who were about forty or fifty people panting and running this way.
As a memory engraved in the genes.
These black men with spears and bows and arrows on their backs, the animals naturally awakened ancient memories.
"Danger!" It's an animal instinct.
And the blacks don't feel good.
Looking at their appearance, it is obvious that they do not have the courage to deal with wild beasts in the past, and they have lost their square inches.
They were disorganized, they didn't have the slightest sense of teamwork, they just wanted to get out of here.
A hundred meters behind them, a group of East African colonial soldiers and militia could be seen.
A. Thor.
Sheriff of the village of Roeen, Northern Highlands.
Riding a black horse, he led the soldiers and improvised villagers in the village, and was chasing the black natives in front of him.
In order to keep up with his subordinates, he rode his horse and did not travel too fast, after all, two legs could not outrun four legs.
Except, of course, of the black natives in front of him, A. Thor had never seen anyone so capable of running.
A. Thor and his men had been chasing the group of blacks all night.
Just yesterday, A. Thor was following the orders of the colonial government in East Africa to destroy the indigenous tribes in the vicinity.
In the vast East African grasslands, in fact, the density of blacks is not large, and the tribe where the group of blacks in front of them is already the only tribe within a hundred miles of Roean Village.
A. Thor easily destroyed their tribe, but a group of resisters refused to surrender and took advantage of the chaos to escape.
A. Thor personally led a team to arrest the fugitives, but because it was getting late yesterday, A. Thor and his men did not immediately catch up with the fleeing natives.
Today, according to the trail, A. Thor and his party quickly caught up with the natives who were gradually losing their strength.
It was A. Thor and his party firing warning shots just now.
But instead of slowing down, the blacks who heard the gunshots ran faster.
For these blacks, the muskets in the hands of the colonists were demonic weapons, which would emit demonic roars, and then those who were picked by the demons would go to hell.
The desire to survive instantly filled their hearts and bodies, and then finally burst out with power, and they rushed forward desperately, hoping to get rid of this group of demonic messengers.
These natives, who have been racing with African beasts all year round, have to say that their physique is really good, and in the blink of an eye, they have widened the distance between them and A. Thor and his party.
"Bastards, they grew up eating, so they can run!" A. Thor said angrily.
"Everyone, continue to pursue, we must not let them go today."
For a time, all the moving objects in the steppe were running, frightened animals, frightened birds, natives chasing natives.
Gradually, A. Thor suddenly ordered: "The troops stop advancing. ”
A. Thor's eyesight was good, and he had seen a river in the distance, blocking the aborigines.
"Now, see how you still escape, everyone prepares, and we will slowly outflank the past."
And the black people are also desperate to look at the river in front of them, mixed in the grassland all the year round, except for taking water, these natives living in the grassland, are rarely able to know water.
Is this the end of the world?
Of course not, a few natives who can swim have already started to enter the water to try to cross the river.
A. Thor also saw it from a distance, and he hurriedly ordered: "The river may not be deep, and they must not be allowed to run again, so we will rush over." ”
But the situation is a little different from what A. Thor thought.
The natives who had gone into the water had just descended into the river and were about to swim to the opposite side, when suddenly there was a scream.
The natives on the shore were just about to try to cross the river when they saw their companions being dragged into the water by something amid screams.
Several crocodiles, biting the natives of the river surfaced.
The river was instantly stained red with blood.
A. Thor was pleasantly surprised, "God forbid."
Seeing that going into the water was also a dead end, the blacks also gave up resistance.
They laid down their arms, fell to their knees, and prayed for mercy from A. Thor and others.
As for the last resistance, who has beaten the demons! Let them run they still have the guts, and they don't dare to fight that at all.
A. Thor rode his horse and walked slowly and leisurely in front of these black natives.
When I think of these natives delaying so much effort, I feel angry in my heart.
He whipped his horsewhip and whipped the backs of the bare-chested natives.
Seeing that A. Thor didn't kill himself with the thing that would make a demonic roar, but just whipped himself with a whip, the native felt relieved.
Lying on the ground, in strange language, begging for forgiveness, kowtowing vigorously.
A. Thor, who breathed a bad breath, finally stopped punishing these ignorant natives.
He said to his men, "Tie them up with ropes and take them back." ”
The natives were strung together with ropes by colonial soldiers to form a long procession.
Pointing guns at the natives, everyone slowly moved back in the direction of their heads.
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This scene has been repeated on the land of East Africa, and of course there are exceptions.
Some large tribes that have the ability to resist and would rather die than surrender are heading towards the depths of the continent in line with the purpose of running away if they can't be defeated.
This is what the colonies want to see, as long as these natives go west, as long as they remain in the East African colonies along the way, they can't stop.
And there are only two ways for them to really survive, one is northwest Uganda, Burundi, Rwanda and other places.
One is southwest Zambia, in the direction of Zimbabwe.
The colonies used pocket formations to drive out these natives, and Kenya to the north was the direction of the subsequent expansion of the East African colonies, which was relatively arid and the population was already small, and the colonies did not make it difficult for themselves.
The south is the sphere of influence of the Portuguese, and it is not easy to operate, and the east is already in the pocket of the East African colonies, so naturally it is not allowed to let the tiger return to the mountain.
As for the capture of those small tribes, the main reason is to continue to do business with the Sultanate of Zanzibar and return the funds.
More natives drove them to the interior of the west.
In order to survive, they inevitably competed with the original indigenous tribes and nations for land and resources.
It is entirely in the interests of the East African colonies to bring chaos to the entire western interior.
On the one hand, it can impact the systems of more developed indigenous countries and destroy their ability to resist subsequently.
On the one hand, by allowing these natives to fight, they can take the opportunity to destroy their numbers, which Ernst could not do on his own.
Although there is no room for land washing as a colonizer, there is still a big difference between direct and indirect participation in some things.
You don't see Leopold in Belgium in his previous life, that is, people will spit and scold animals when they see it, or he is too ugly to eat.
Although everyone is a colonizer, you play so rough that Britain and France look like saints in front of Belgium.
The Japanese can save Belgium's reputation, after all, there is no better beast than Japan when it comes to being unhuman.
This couldn't help but make Ernst have a bold idea, since Leopold was so "outstanding", then this time and space, he might have to help him.
After all, Ernst himself knows that he will not be able to wash himself in the future, so it is better to find a more animal in front, so that he can be considered normal.
Just like the Americans, instead of talking about the Indians, you should discuss your human rights issues.