According to later historical records, starting in July 1870, three German powers launched wars, and these three powers basically coerced all the German states to participate in the war, so people collectively refer to the three wars in 1870 as the German War of 1870.

Among them, the largest (in terms of the number of people invested and the number of weapons), the most intense war, and the most influential was the Franco-Prussian War. This was followed by the Second Italo-Austrian War and finally the Third War of Conquest of the Kingdom of East Africa.

July 10, 1870.

On the chain bridge between the banks of the Lualaba River and the Zambezi River, there was a surge of people, and the expanded East African New Army began to set off in three directions one after another.

The Kingdom of East Africa, which has not yet digested Zambia, is about to use its last potential to lay the foundation of the Kingdom of East Africa.

West bank of the Lualaba River.

Mrsiri, his sons, and the army of the Msiri regime have been waiting for a long time.

"Mr. Merk! The strength of your country is terrifying! Mrsiri admired with palpitations, and the more than 30,000 well-equipped and well-trained East African Royal Army gave Mrsiri, an African chieftain, endless shock.

"Of course, Mr. Msiri, any tribe is a chicken and a dog in front of the East African Kingdom, vulnerable to attack, our East African Kingdom uses a little force, it is not something you can stop, you are a smart person, choose to cooperate with us, belong to the friends of East Africa, we will not treat you badly."

Msiri has been portrayed as a hardcore "non-traitor" by the East African Kingdom, and at the same time, the East African Kingdom has also made a promise that it will not unload the mill and kill the donkey in the future.

Before this war, the Kingdom of East Africa offered Msiri two options, after East Africa cleared the entire Central and Southern African highlands, Msiri either went to the Sultanate of Zanzibar as a duke, or went to West Africa through Central Africa to develop. Msiri opted for the second one.

Looking at the crowded East African army in front of him, Mrsiri was a little glad that he had made the choice, if he was on the wrong side, he was estimated to be the target of the crusade now, and Msiri did not think that the hundreds of guns in his hand would be the opponent of the East African Army.

"Mr. Merk, don't worry, this time our Yeke Kingdom will fully assist you in the battle, I don't dare to say other regions, the Luba Kingdom is my old opponent, let my people lead the way for you."

"Good!" Merk affirmed.

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"Bang ......" the Third War of Conquest in East Africa (the first was the Great Lakes War to wipe out the Northwest Eight, and the second was the Zambia and Gradi Sultanate War, collectively known as the East African War of Conquest. The first shot was fired in the Kasongo region, which is located between the Lualaba River, the upper section of the Congo River, a tributary of the southern Congo River, and the Sankuru River. The East African Army, which went north, encountered the army of the Kingdom of Luba in this area.

……

The first town, the palace of the Witt king.

Felix stood in front of the sand table and introduced: "In this war of conquest, our East African Army is divided into four routes - the Northern Route Army, the Western Route Army, the Southern Route Army and the Southwest Army. The targets are the Azande Plateau and southern South Sudan; the Ronda Plateau and the Cuango Plateau; Matabele Plateau; The northern region of the Kalahari Basin. ”

"Once accomplished, East Africa will be bordered by Egypt to the north, the Portuguese colonies of Angola and the Kingdom of Congo to the west, the Boer forces to the south, and the Portuguese colony of Mozambique.

In other words, after this expansion, the neighbors of East Africa changed from indigenous to all countries of the world, the British, French, Egyptian, Abyssinian Empire, Ottoman (Red Sea coast), Portuguese, Boer, Somali tribes......

So there won't be such a big operation in East Africa for a long time to come. ”

This is a very exaggerated operation, and the plot area is about the size of India, and once it completes the territory of East Africa, it directly covers more than 7 million square kilometers.

This is also the limit of East Africa, the rest is not eaten at all, as usual, the plateau region is the foundation of the East African kingdom, this expansion is basically aimed at the plateau region, only the plateau and the mountains in the tropics are the most suitable for human survival.

East Africa has limited capacity, so it is natural to give priority to occupying those good places in the eyes of East Africa, so rainforests and deserts are not in this plan.

Although the Kalahari Basin is basically the same as no man's land to the west and south, the desert climate and long supply lines are basically impossible to complete, and even if they are defeated, it is impossible to make contact.

And the large-scale march in the Congolese rainforest cannot be completed unless you do not care about casualties, and even the indigenous people who have lived in the rainforest for generations dare not say that they can cross the rainforest.

In fact, along the river, it is still possible to occupy some strongholds along the river, but it is completely unnecessary, that will not establish effective rule, and there are some possibilities to colonize, but there are not many people in the Congo rainforest at all, they are all very small tribes, and there is no colonial value at all, and all the valuable lands in the Congo region are in this expansion in East Africa.

It should be emphasized here that the Congo region and the Congolese rainforest in the previous life are completely two different concepts, and when it comes to the Congo, it seems that it is very rich in natural resources and has a very large area of arable land, but the minerals, population, and arable land of the Congo are all concentrated in the highlands and mountainous areas of the southeast and northwest.

For example, in the previous life of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), its urban population was completely distributed around the Congo rainforest, and in this circle, the Mitumba Mountains in the east were already East African territory, and the Katanga Plateau in the south was also in the hands of East Africa.

In fact, before Belgium, the Portuguese had been promoting the Congo region as their sphere of influence, but the British did not see it that way, and other countries did not recognize it, and now the western Congo is divided between Portugal and the British, and there is a French colony of Gabon next to it.

"Our troops, marching along the highland terrain, will basically not have physical discomfort, the most difficult area here is the Kalahari Basin, whose water source is a big problem, although the Okavango River forms a huge inland delta here, but it is also for this reason that almost all the animals gather here, and the mappers say that there are herds of hippos that discharge their feces into the rivers and wetlands, and clean water sources are difficult to find, so the size of the army cannot be too much."

"Logistics is also a big problem, how many kinds of things do the natives in the plateau area, if there is a shortage of food, it can be temporarily solved on the spot, there is no planting industry in the Kalahari Basin at all, all the grain has to be transported from the east, this cost simply cannot support the existence of large-scale troops, so the total number of people in the southwest army is only more than 1,000 people."

"The plateau areas are basically connected, and the rivers hinder our marching speed, and if we want to control these areas in the future, we must build roads and bridges."

(End of chapter)