"This is the Buganda Palace, it really doesn't look good!" Felix said with a big grin as he sat on his throne in the palace of Buganda in Mongo.

"After all, it's not a rich country compared to Zanzibar, and it's good that Mutesa I and his ancestors were able to make the palace like this." The staff officer said.

Mongo is located in the north of the Great Lake, and there are many large islands in the south, and Mongo is built on a peninsula surrounded by these islands, and the Buganda royal palace also stands on a mountainous terrain.

"It's a pity that Musat I was on the southern front and did not fight him." Felix said with a little regret.

Leading the Bugandan army on the eastern front was the son of Mutesa I, the crown prince of the Buganda kingdom, and it was obvious that the prince of Buganda was not as brave as his own father.

After just fighting, it fell into a rout, and the prince of Buganda took the lead in running away, and in the past few days, Felix pursued all the way to the capital of Buganda.

Now that the city is empty and the valuables of the royal palace have been taken away, the Buganda palace has a distinctly Arabic architectural style, clearly influenced by the North African countries.

"Report sir, our vanguard has met the men from the south, and Lord Yarman has asked us to pursue them north." The intelligence officer handed Felix an order.

"It's coming so fast! It seems that Mutesa I was also defeated on the southern front, no wonder the Bugandas would abandon the royal city, it turned out that they got the news and ran away, I said why don't they regroup here and continue to resist! Felix said.

"Your Excellency Yarman must have won a big victory on the southern front, but there is a four-nation alliance over there, and the Kingdom of Nkole and Buganda are still fighting on their own, so I didn't expect it to be so vulnerable." The staff officer said.

"Well, Buganda is not the kind of uninformed native, they often interact with the Egyptians, and there are Egyptian-made weapons in the army, but the Buganda people operate and maintain these weapons too poorly, and they don't see any effect when they fight."

Felix continued: "It follows from this that the natives of the land, especially the closer the northern powers, had more communication with the Egyptians, and were very different from the natives of the south and Tanganyika. ”

"Unfortunately, the Buganda people live far inland and cannot communicate directly with the civilized world, otherwise their level of development would not be so low, at least at the level of the countries bordering the Indian Ocean." The staff officer analyzed.

In Buganda, it is obviously influenced by Egypt and other countries, and there are many halal-style buildings, but unfortunately there are some less advanced civilizations around.

The only way to reach Egypt was through Arab caravans, because Buganda did not directly border Egypt, and there were many nomadic tribes separating the two countries.

Especially in Egypt and Sudan, the Sahara Desert is boundless, and the long and difficult supply lines make it impossible for Egypt to penetrate deep into the interior of Africa.

"Alright, let the whole army rest and then our task is to drive the natives to the northwest, and we will connect the entire land along the Great Lake." Felix ordered.

And the Buganda royal family, which disappeared from the front line, had long since fled to the northwest under the leadership of Mutesa I.

The reserves left behind by Mutesa I in Kampala became the capital for his re-establishment of the state, and Mutesa I knew that it would not be possible to flee north.

Although Mutesa I had a good relationship with the Egyptians, it was only with Arab merchants, who were responsible for getting some good things for Mutesa I.

The power of the Egyptians was in the north, and Mutesa I did not want to live a life under the fence, and the subsequent greedy East African colonies were likely to continue to go north, so Mutesa I chose to go northwest.

Mutesa I had a good idea, but his eldest son didn't think so, and the prince of Buganda, who was deeply influenced by Arab culture, hurriedly took the hundred and ten people in the direction of the Egyptian sultan, preparing to go directly to the Egyptians.

Mutesa I didn't care, there were dozens of sons, and the absence of this one was not a big deal, and the remaining elite forces of Buganda were in his own hands.

After having all the belongings of the palace packed up, Mutesa I headed northwest.

There are rich people who are not afraid of anywhere, and the most elite royal guards formed by Mutesa I through the firearms obtained by Arab merchants did not participate in the war this time, and Mutesa I was confident that he would make a world in the northwest.

This defeat did not break the confidence of Mutesa I, but made him feel that the East African colonies could only defeat the coalition forces by virtue of firearms.

Mutesa intended to increase his contacts with Arab merchants after his journey to the northwest, and at that time to build up a large army armed entirely with firearms.

When his power grows, he will fight back, and as for the military expenses, Mutesa I has thought about it, first go to the various tribes in the northwest to grab a wave, and when the kingdom is re-established, just collect more taxes.

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Over the next few days, the East African army marched north, driving the indigenous forces to the northwest, and even the nomadic tribes in the north suffered.

Starting from Kampala Lake, it swept west and north until it reached a land of about four or five hundred kilometers in diameter near Omolat and on the northeastern shore of Lake Frederik (Lake Albert), where the nations and tribes along the Great Lakes and the nomadic tribes of the north were within striking range.

Omolat cooperated with the operation, preventing the native forces from fleeing eastward, while cutting off the way to continue northward.

If these tribes were allowed to go all the way north, they could disturb Egypt and Abyssinia, and East Africa did not want to be in direct contact with these two countries at the moment, so a certain stable buffer zone was needed.

From the mountains of southwestern Ethiopia to the grasslands of South Sudan, an area about 300 kilometers wide and 400 kilometers long, East Africa intends to leave it untouched for the first time.

The tribes and kingdoms near the Great Lakes region drove west to the Congo and Central Africa.

As a result of this campaign, the entire Great Lakes became the inner lakes of the East African colonies, and its nearly 70,000 square kilometers of water area were exclusively owned by the East African colonies.

More than 300,000 square kilometers of land fell into the hands of the East African colonies in the northwestern part of the Great Lakes region, while the newly occupied territories were directly connected to Lake Turkana, Lake Frederika (Lake Albert), Lake Tanganyika and Lake Victoria.

In this way, several large lakes in East Africa were connected to the East African colonies, among which the Great Lakes (Victoria), Lake Kivu and other lakes became inland lakes in East Africa.

(End of chapter)