Kingdom of East Africa, First Town, Zhvet Palace.

"What's going on with the reorganization of the new army lately?" King Konstantin asked the officials of East Africa.

"Your Majesty, 80 percent of the progress has been completed, and we have split and reorganized the original troops, and according to their combat exploits, we have promoted a group of people with outstanding ability in the last time to serve as generals of the new army."

"Well, after the reorganization of the troops, send the materials to my office." Konstantin commanded.

"By the way, one more thing, what have the Portuguese been doing lately, have they taken the south shore of Lake Malawi?"

"I haven't heard of it, our troops on the border of South Salzburg Province have not seen any Portuguese troops so far, and the spies have not penetrated deep into the southern part of Malawi, but not a single Portuguese has been seen within more than two hundred miles south of South Salzburg Province." Merk said.

"They haven't sent troops yet!" Von der Leyen guessed.

"It's probably unlikely, it's been a few months, and it didn't take long for us to occupy such a large area in the southwest." Merk said.

"I do remember this, the Portuguese must have set off, two months ago, our intelligence officer in Maputo informed that the Portuguese had organized a team to go inland, but the number was not large, it seemed to be only a few hundred, this information did not attract our attention at that time, but compared to the time, it is likely that it is the army of the Mozambican colony to conquer the Kingdom of Malawi." Felix said.

"A few hundred people, it should be enough to fight an indigenous kingdom, but it should not be easy to achieve effective occupation, unless the natives have become stupid pigs and are willing to be slaves to the Portuguese." Si Te teased.

"Perhaps, the Portuguese force encountered some force majeure factors that caused the total annihilation, a flash flood of hundreds of people disappeared, after all, Mozambique has a lot of rainfall, and the rivers often overflow." Von der Leyen said.

"Forget it, let's not talk about this group of Portuguese, it doesn't matter to us if we can't take Malawi, before July, the army will be reorganized, and then we can expand wildly into the inland area." Konstantin sets the tone.

……

In the southern part of the southern part of the Kingdom of Malawi, in the Chipoka region, a squad of Portuguese is resting. Suddenly, a shadow flew out of the dense forest next to it.

"Be careful, Rose." Squad leader Anthony knocks a warrior named Ross to the ground.

At the same time, the shadow in the dense forest also revealed its true body, it was a bow and arrow, flying above Anthony and Rose with a breaking sound, and finally fell into the soil of the clearing in the distance.

"Damn, what are you doing stunned? Shoot! "Anthony deals.

The Portuguese soldiers, who realized it, began to shoot indiscriminately where the bows and arrows had flown out, and the leaves in the dense forest fell to the ground.

And the same as the previous days, no gains?

"Damn, these guys let them run away again, and if they fall into my hands, they're going to have to pull their skin." Anthony said indignantly.

Just as Anthony was grumbling and the Portuguese soldiers were reloading their ammunition, where they had just been shooting indiscriminately, a green "grass monkey" suddenly jumped up from the ground and instantly rushed towards the dense forest.

"Not good! Tricked? ”

Anthony noticed the movement and was annoyed, although the "grass monkey" was covered with green leaves just now, but the bare black skin of his escape spoke for itself.

"Captain! Are you still chasing? A soldier asked in a whisper.

"Chasing? Chase a fart, you can't see him playing you all by himself! And the deep forest is not in, how do you know if there is a trap of natives behind it, if it weren't for my strong observation, Rose would have gone to see God just now! So all these recruits listen to me, I don't care what you did before, you will obey my command next, otherwise no one will want to go back alive! "Anthony hates the education of iron and steel.

Anthony was actually quite speechless in his heart, this team gathered at zero hour was really difficult to lead, there was no vigilance on the battlefield, and the discipline was also very poor.

However, they are not to blame, they are originally a group of sailors, and rarely operate in the unfamiliar environment of the grasslands and rainforests of the interior of Africa, which is not necessarily safer than being pirates on the sea.

……

Rear.

"Bastard, a bunch of natives can't take it, what are you eating, are you trying to make the Prussian barbarians next door see the jokes of our great kingdom of Portugal?"

Commander-in-Chief of the Portuguese Colonial Malawi Expeditionary Force, Bullled, roared.

This time, the Portuguese colony of Mozambique dispatched more than 500 people, as well as more than 3,000 indigenous Mozambican servants, to attack the southern part of the Kingdom of Malawi.

As a result, it took three months to advance the front to the Chipoka area, and the worst thing was that the ammunition was running out, and the southern part of the Kingdom of Malawi was far away.

"Commander-in-chief, you can't blame the soldiers for not doing their best! But the natives on the shores of Lake Malawi are too cunning, they look at us from a distance and start to run, but when we pass with our front feet, they come out of the forest and grass with their back feet, and we don't have enough manpower for them to toss, and because of the existence of Lake Malawi here, the climate is too humid and hot, and even if the troops march normally, the attrition is very serious. ”

"Captain Chalvis, I don't want to hear any excuses now, the same Europeans, we Mozambique came earlier than the Prussian barbarians, why didn't they have the above problems?"

"Commander-in-chief, although Prussia is barbaric, they are good at land warfare, and we Portuguese are traditional maritime countries, so to put it mildly, we are afraid that we really have an advantage over the Prussians in this inland area."

This excuse of Chalves is perfect, Prussia is a land power, so it is like a fish in water on the African continent, and we Portugal are a maritime country, of course, we have an advantage over the islands and coasts.

Bullled still wanted to find a reason and reprimand, but after thinking about it, he suddenly felt that what Charvis said made sense.

"Moreover, our Mozambican team is also improvised patchwork, to be honest, the Mozambican colony has been peaceful for a long time over the years, so it can't play its combat effectiveness." Chalvis hits the railroad while it's hot.

"Although there is some truth in what you said, what if we can't complete the task now? And now the ammunition problem is also a problem, continue to fight, such a large number of casualties, the colonial government will definitely hold you responsible. Bullride said.

Although Bulled was the commander-in-chief of the expeditionary force, he was actually gilded by a name, that is, there were people on it, so the mistakes in the war were mainly the responsibility of Chalvis.

Chalvis was in a cold sweat, he thought about it carefully, and suddenly a flash of inspiration appeared in his head, and he said to Bulled: "Commander-in-chief, do you remember the heavy rain that fell a few days ago?" ”

"Ahh Of course, my coffee stove was wet and didn't light it, so I didn't have a sip of hot coffee that day. ”

Dude! Chalvis despised this guy in his heart, but he said with a good mouth: "Commander-in-chief, you think that this rain is the easiest way to complete the river flooding and flash floods, and the terrain near Lake Malawi happens to be relatively undulating, so we might as well polish the battle and report it." ”

"How? It's all done with this virtue! Bullred asked curiously.

"Commander-in-chief, let's just say that under your heroic leadership, our troops have advanced by leaps and bounds, but people are not as good as heaven, just when we were about to take the entire southern part of the Kingdom of Malawi, the main army suddenly encountered a flash flood, so ......"

"That's a good note, but how can you promise not to be exposed?"

"It's okay for our own people to say, anyway, there are not many people left, and it is enough to unify the voice, mainly the group of natives, cut out those who ran away, died, and more than a thousand people, we might as well simply do them here, and when the colonial government asked, they said that they ran away when they encountered a flash flood, and the heroic Portuguese soldiers did not disperse under your inspiration......"

(End of chapter)