Chapter 88: Escalation of the conflict

Enzela.

Colonial border post in East Africa.

It is mainly responsible for monitoring the movements of indigenous exiled tribes and preventing the return of indigenous peoples.

At present, the effect of this "purge" campaign has largely met the expectations of the colonial governments in East Africa.

The Northwest had become a pot of porridge, and wars were always dead, and the colony's plan to exterminate the native indigenous population was achieved.

It is not without indigenous tribes who want to return to the East, and the colonial governments of East Africa have set up dozens of military posts, large and small, in the border areas with the northwestern countries.

A one-way valve was formed, and only the natives were allowed to go out, and they were not allowed to enter.

Enzela was one such military stronghold.

The northwestern defense of the East African colonies consisted mainly of a straight line between the southwest corner of the Great Lake (Lake Victoria) and the northeast corner of Lake Solon (Lake Tanganyika).

There are about 300 kilometers of military posts, and military posts are set up every 20 or 30 kilometers, and patrols are arranged between these bases to continuously patrol the border areas.

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The northwestern countries, which had suffered greatly from the scourge of the Eastern Bantu people, began to cooperate with each other.

Although the Eastern Bantu people were caught off guard and the domestic situation in each country was relatively turbulent, the emaciated camel was bigger than the horse.

As the center of an indigenous country, there is still some strength, at least the royal family still has a direct army in its hands.

Even though many places were temporarily separated from the kingdom due to communication and enemies, the central government still occupied the largest plots.

In the face of the menacing Eastern Bantu tribes, the northwestern countries that have been dealing with all the year round, put aside the hatred of the past, and prepared to join forces to suppress and clean up the barbarians first.

After all, the natives who were driven out by the colonial government of East Africa were not all hundreds of large tribes, but also small tribes with dozens or even a few people, and some scattered natives.

These small tribes and individuals were incorporated into the larger tribes of the Eastern Bantu tribes, which strengthened the strength of the Eastern Bantu tribes.

As a result, the scale of the war escalated, and the nobles who had been living here formed an alliance to jointly crusade against the Eastern Bantu tribes.

The Eastern Bantu tribes, after receiving the replenishment of the population, increased in strength and were not afraid, and the two sides fought in the area west of the Great Lake (Lake Victoria).

As a result of the war, the social order of the northwest countries was disrupted, and the slaves who were originally used for development and cultivation took advantage of the chaos to join the camps of both sides of the war, or fled into the wilderness.

The original aristocracy, when they had to fight against the Dongbantu people, naturally had to recruit a large number of slaves to serve as cannon fodder, which further aggravated the situation of land abandonment.

The land was deserted, the grain production was reduced, and the already not wealthy families were even worse, and in order to compete for the remaining resources, the two sides fought more vigorously.

Facts have proved that when the nobles of the northwestern countries get serious, they do have an advantage over the scattered tribes of the Eastern Bantu.

As the most productive region of the indigenous people in East Africa, the northwestern countries not only possess more advanced social systems and organizational capabilities than the eastern Bantu people, but also have more advanced iron forging capabilities.

After all, as a civilized country, the northwest countries still have the attribute of construction, and the eastern Bantu tribes who are still in the primitive society only know how to compete for resources.

Fortunately, the aristocratic armed forces of the northwestern countries were not wasted, and due to the narrow land area between the west of the Great Lakes (Lake Victoria) and the Great Rift Valley, "friendly games" were often held between the countries.

Moreover, as a slave civilization, the nobility of the Northwest countries had a natural monopoly on force and was responsible for suppressing slaves in their respective jurisdictions.

In other words, these nobles are actually primitive military aristocrats.

On the other hand, there is no aristocracy in the Eastern Bantu tribes, and the main thing is to elect the strong man of the tribe as the chief.

After being driven out of the East African colonies, they lost their hunting grounds, and the animals of the steppes were their main source of food.

Coupled with the fact that they came all the way from the east, the long journey and the fasting stomach, in order to survive, the Eastern Bantu tribes could only live by robbing the lords of the northwestern countries.

The nobles of the Northwest, who possessed the advantages of iron weapons and had strong organizational skills, soon had an advantage over the Eastern Bantu tribes after uniting as one.

The balance of victory in the war slowly tilted in favor of the northwestern countries, and the nobles of the northwestern countries, who hated the eastern Bantu tribes to the core, did not accept their surrender, and as long as they were captured, they were immediately executed.

Seeing that there was no way to survive in surrender, the Eastern Bantu tribes, who were at a disadvantage, also dealt a fatal blow to the northwestern countries.

The hatred between the two sides is getting fuller and fuller, and the war is becoming more and more bloody, and both sides will put their opponents to death as the only goal of the war.

The winner lives, and the loser dies. There are no bells and whistles, and the goal is completely to eliminate the last person on the other side.

The battle lasted more than three months and ended in victory for the northwestern states.

Naturally, the Eastern Bantu tribes could not be killed, but there were only some old, weak, sick and disabled left, who were enslaved by the northwestern countries to supplement the loss of labor caused by the war.

This war, which is not remembered by the world, has caused at least a few million vendettas, and the entire northwestern countries and many regions have fallen into a situation of ten rooms and nine empty rooms.

To make matters worse, in the aftermath of the war, the corpses of both sides were not effectively disposed of, and in the past, when the scale of the war was small, wild animals could dispose of the corpses that no one cared about.

The scale of this war, coupled with the hatred of the northwestern countries against the eastern Bantu tribes, was exposed to a large number of corpses in the wilderness.

Even nature did not have time to decompose so many corpses, and a terrible plague began to spread among the countries of the Northwest.

The tragic situation in the Northwest countries was reported to the government by the East African colonial soldiers on the border, and in order to prevent the plague from affecting the colonies, the East African colonial government strengthened the blockade of the entire Northwest countries.

This time, even Kenya, which borders the Kingdom of Buganda, was heavily guarded.

In the tropics, diseases are already quite terrifying, and many people in the East African colonies are infected every year, which is still based on the premise that the East African colonies attach importance to hygiene.

In order to prevent the plague from being brought into the territory of the East African colonies, the government of the East African colonies ordered that not a single living creature be released from the soldiers guarding the borders of the East African colonies and the northwestern countries.

Even a rat or a snake must be shot immediately.

At the same time, the government of the East African colonies urgently ordered a large number of disinfectants and antiseptics from Europe to carry out large-scale sanitizing work on the borders of the East African colonies and northwestern countries.

Under strict defense, the East African colonies succeeded in preventing the spread of the plague into the East African colonies.

The northwestern countries have completely become ten rooms and nine empty places, and the countries that are further south are more miserable, but the northern part of the Buganda Kingdom, the Turou Kingdom and the Gitara Kingdom are the least affected.