"Report to the Chief of the General Staff, a total of 3,000 enemies were destroyed, more than 10,000 prisoners were taken, including Lobengula, and 6,000 guns were captured."

Lobengula was lucky enough to be hit hard, but he didn't die, and woke up while the East Africans were clearing the battlefield.

Swift: "Now quickly organize the men to take these corpses to cremate so that they don't cause the plague, and bring Lobengula here." ”

"Yes, Chief of the General Staff!"

Soon two East African soldiers carrying a stretcher came to Sith, on which lay the monarch of the kingdom of Matabele, Lobengula.

Although he did not die, Lobengula broke five ribs, and given the current medical conditions, his fate is still unknown.

Witt: "You are the king of the kingdom of Matabele?" ”

Lobengula lay on the stretcher, looked at the young man who was much thinner than himself, and replied weakly: "Yes, I am the 'King of kings' of the kingdom of Matabele. ”

It's not that Lobengula is on the shelf, the indigenous king is also the chief, and many chieftains submit to Lobengula and accept his rule, isn't it the "king of kings"!

Witt didn't care about this, no matter how awesome he was, he was also a defeated general, and he was a vassal state in East Africa before, and he then asked, "Why did you start this rebellion?" ”

Lobengula chuckled, "Hahaha, rebellion? The kingdom of Matabele is originally two countries from East Africa, and we are just defending ourselves against the invaders! ”

Shwitt: "Hehe, how dare you put gold on yourself, as far as I know, you Ndebele people are nothing more than aliens who invaded the Matabele plateau from South Africa decades ago and enslaved the local Shona tribe. ”

Lobengula said disdainfully, "They are willing to accept the rule of the great 'King of Kings', and I have been chosen by the gods to fight against these white skins. ”

Sith is not Caucasian, but from the Far East, but in Lobengula's eyes, it is all the same, as long as it is whiter than the Zulus, then they are all Caucasian.

Witt no longer tried to correct Lobengula's stubbornness, he said: "Our East African Kingdom did not actually interfere too much in your administration, and let you keep your army, and the result is today, because of the actions of your Ndebele people, and many so-called 'kings of kings' like you, will lose their power in the future, and all because you, by yourself, have changed the policy of the East African Kingdom towards the natives." ”

Lobengula: "There can only be one 'King of kings', and that is the great Lobengula!" ”

"Okay, I'm going to ask you a question, who provided your guns and gunpowder?" ”

's question suddenly woke Lobengula.

He red-eyed and said, "It's all Wiggins' slut, you have to catch him!" ”

In Lobengula's view, his fate today was entirely caused by Wiggins, who just sold themselves a pile of "scrap metal", knowing that the weapons of the East Africans were more advanced, and instigated themselves to test the East African kingdom for them.

Witt: "Wiggins! ”

Lobengula: "That's right, it's all his fault, this despicable Boer. ”

Witt said to his subordinates, "Hurry up and find out, where is this Wiggins?" ”

"Yes, Chief of the General Staff!"

Soon, under the cross-examination of the East African army, Wiggins and his Boer advisory group surfaced.

: "He ran away?" ”

"Yes, Chief of the General Staff, the owner of the inn where they stayed said they left an hour ago, and that they fled on horseback."

Swift: "Let our scouts go after us, we can't let them go easily." ”

"Yes!"

……

By this time, Wiggins and his party had already galloped out of Bulawayo and headed west.

"Finally escaped!" Wiggins was impressed.

"Mr. Wiggins, if the East Africans find out of our presence, will they send men after us?"

Wiggins: "What are you afraid of, even if East Africa knows about our existence, it is impossible for it to catch up with us again, the kingdom of Matabele is so big, the possibility of us encountering the East African army is very small, and if we do the opposite, the East Africans will not think that we will go from the west." ”

Wiggins was clever enough to deliberately run some distance east before exiting Bulawayo, and only after running out of sight of the civilians of Ndebele did he bypass Bulawayo and head west.

East Africa was indeed hit, and they followed the clues provided by the civilians of Ndebele and pursued them eastward, in fact, they were completely at odds with Wiggins and his party.

But it really is!

Out of sight of Wiggins and the others, a small East African patrol team was coming in their direction.

This force does not belong to the Southern Route Army, but the South-West Army, which operates in Botswana, which is very small in number but has jurisdiction over most of Botswana's land, and regularly forms several patrols to check for suspicious forces in the territory, and at the same time has the task of surveying the Botswana area.

As for why it appeared in the territory of the Kingdom of Matabele, it was a complete accident, the Kingdom of Matabele did not have a clear border, and Lobengula almost drained the western forces of Bulawayo in order to fight East Africa.

In fact, there are not many Ndebele people west of Bulawayo, after all, the climate in the west is relatively arid, and a little further west you enter the Kalahari Desert.

The Ndebele people's support for Bulawayo caused a vacuum in the west, which naturally aroused the vigilance of the Southwest Army patrol, so they chose to come to detect this anomaly.

The Southwestern Army and the Southern Route Army are not the same system, so they do not know much about the Ndebele rebellion, and they did not receive orders from Sith, the number is too small, and Sith is too lazy to mobilize the Southwestern Army.

The patrol soon ran into Wiggins and his party.

"Mr. Wiggins! Look, that's the pursuers of East Africa, damn how they're faster than us! ”

In the distance, the Southwest Army patrol was also wary of Wiggins and his party, after all, they were not their own people at first glance.

Wiggins: "Don't be afraid, they don't have a lot of people, let's strike first and kill them." ”

Because it was a patrol, there were only seven people, and Wiggins and his party had thirteen people, so the advantage was mine.

So Wiggins, with the Boer instructors, rushed towards the patrol.

"Yes, enemy! Get ready for battle! ”

Seeing Wiggins and his party suddenly speeding up, the patrol leader immediately realized that the comer was not good.

"Put on your saber and don't shoot at the enemy with your gun." The patrol leader immediately ordered.

The enemy is more numerous than himself, so he can't be sloppy, and if he doesn't do it well, he may be wiped out, so the decision is very important, and the patrol leader thinks that the accuracy of shooting on horseback will definitely drop significantly, and if the opponent does not often receive military training, it will be very difficult to hit himself with a gun on horseback, so it is better to use a knife and melee with the enemy.

There is an element of gambling in this, after all, no one knows what the riding and shooting level of Wiggins and others is, but it will soon be clear.

"Damn, these East Africans are running from side to side, and they can't be sure of what they want."

"They're coming!"

"U-turn!"

Unfortunately, it was too late, just like dealing with natives, the East African patrol rode on horseback and easily chased after Wiggins and his party when they wanted to turn around.

With a hard kick in the horse's stomach, the spur made the horse accelerate instantly, and then raised his saber and slashed at the already leveled enemy.

Instinctively dodging, Wiggins fell straight off his horse and was captured, while the other Boers were either hacked to death or captured.

May 28, 1871.

Boer criminals, Wiggins was caught, and East Africa had irrefutable evidence of Boer support for the Ndebele rebellion.

(End of chapter)