The north bank of the Limpopo River.

"Mr. Wiggins! We have prepared a boat for you, and you can go back to the Transvaal Republic after crossing the river, and this is a letter that I hope you will bring to the President of your country. The East African warrior said as he handed Wiggins a letter.

Wiggins, who was in a somewhat depressed mental state, said incredulously: "You really want to let me go!" ”

Escorted by two East African soldiers to the Limpopo River, Wiggins thought that the East African Kingdom was going to execute himself, for so many days, he has been under house arrest in East Africa, and no one speaks, even the best people can't stand this kind of torture, Wiggins knows what he is doing, and it is not an exaggeration for the East African Kingdom to shoot himself a hundred times.

"Of course, Mr. Wiggins, although we don't like you very much, but your sentence is over, and you do have some role, isn't this a messenger for our two countries, and I hope you can pass on our friendship to your government."

Regaining his freedom, Wiggins hurriedly responded: "No problem! I will definitely deliver the letter to the president! ”

The East African soldier waved his hand and said, "Then please go back quickly!" Remember not to do this kind of shady thing again in the future! ”

Wiggins put the letter in his arms, and saw that the East African soldiers were indeed going to let him go, so he nodded fiercely and said: "Today I swear to the Lord that I will never set foot on the land of the East African Kingdom again." ”

Under the watchful eye of the East African soldiers, Wiggins boarded the boat and paddled across the river, and when Wiggins crossed the river, he was convinced that the East Africans had kept their promise and did not shoot him in the back. However, he had to find a nearby Boer farm and send himself back to Pretoria.

In this way, Wiggins, completely unaware, carried the Declaration of War in the direction of Pyritoroa, a national gift from the Kingdom of East Africa to the Transvaal Republic.

The Declaration of War declared East Africa to be at war against the Transvaal Republic on the grounds that the Transvaal Republic had supported the Ndebele people in launching a conspiracy to rebel in East Africa and subvert the politics of the East African Kingdom.

Wiggins could not have imagined that he was carrying such a thing in his arms, so that when the East African army invaded the territory of the Transvaal, he was still on his way to the Transvaal.

……

Bulawayo.

Ernst, the crown prince of the Kingdom of East Africa, personally inspected the East African combat troops trained here, after more than ten days of rapid marching and wind and sun, Ernst's fair skin when he first arrived in East Africa from Europe has completely turned bronze, and he is still the sun of East Africa! Ernst thought so to himself.

"Your Highness, please review the 331st Battalion of the 2nd Brigade of the 1st Division of the East African Mountain Forces!" A short, muscular man saluted Ernst.

Ernst returned a military salute.

The East African Mountain Force is a special unit prepared by Ens for the Zulu people, and most of its members are immigrants from Germany in the Alps and immigrants living in Guangxi in the Far East and Yimeng Mountain in Shandong.

The Boers did not take advantage of the victory to destroy the Zulus, in large part because of the presence of the Drakens, which made it difficult for the Boer cavalry to deploy in the mountainous terrain.

Therefore, as early as after the occupation of the Azande Plateau in East Africa, a mountain army was formed on the Azande Plateau, where the terrain was complicated, to deal with the war in the mountainous terrain.

When selecting the mountain troops, Ernst specially selected Guangxi soldiers as the focus, first of all, the people in Guangxi were more bloody, and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement, as well as the later Gui warlords and the performance in the War of Resistance against Japan, all proved that the Guangxi people were more capable of fighting.

Guangxi wolf soldiers from the Ming Dynasty is very famous, one is the folk customs, no matter at any time Guangxi is far from the political center, belongs to the influence of Confucianism is weak, Ernst does not depreciate Confucianism, but after the Song Dynasty, Cheng Zhu Lixue's castration of the Far Eastern national thought is really not like words.

The Han Dynasty also revered Confucianism, but the scholar class could say: "The sun and the moon shine on the Han land, and the rivers are all Hanchen." "This kind of thing is extremely shameless in the eyes of foreigners. In Ernst's view, this is the pinnacle of national spirit.

Especially in the world of the 19th century, the so-called benevolence and morality were useless, the great powers did not talk about benevolence and morality, and the European colonizers, starting from Portugal, were a group of fraudsters with weapons, and the Indians were deceived and there were no underpants left.

As a descendant, the Kingdom of East Africa is actually the successor of colonialism, and its attitude towards the indigenous people is unswervingly centered on interests.

It's just that Ernst, as a person who has lived for two lifetimes, has a more long-term perspective and knows that colonization will be backfired, so he does more to eradicate the roots to avoid East Africa from being eaten by colonization in the future.

Guangxi's special geographical environment has shaped the spirit of Guangxi people who are not afraid of hard work and tenacity, and there is nothing to say about this kind of thing, before the level of productivity develops to a certain extent, before the plains become green deserts, the mountainous areas will never be worse than the plains, and most of the uprisings in the Far East are launched from the mountainous areas.

Last and most importantly, the climate of Guangxi is the most similar to that of East Africa, the latitude of Guangxi has been exposed to the tropics, and the population is also large, although the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom originated here, but Guangxi was not particularly affected, the main areas affected by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement were Jiangxi and southern Anhui and Huijing, which almost became a white land, and now it has not eased.

Therefore, Ernst has no psychological burden to recruit immigrants from Guangxi, and according to the current standard of living in East Africa, it can be regarded as making a fortune from Guangxi to East Africa.

After the mountain troops passed, it was the artillery unit of East Africa, and the East African artillery liked small-caliber artillery the most, which was used in Africa as a cannon to fight mosquitoes, and this time Ernst concentrated thirty percent of the artillery in East Africa to Bulawayo in order to deal with the Boers.

The most famous tactic of the Boers is to use ox carts to form a circle, as a cover, to deal with the enemy, plus they have hot weapons in their hands, so to deal with this formation, artillery is indispensable, a cannonball past, the Boer cattle and horses can not resist at all.

The last to be read is the cavalry troops of East Africa, which is also the first large-scale use of cavalry in East Africa, the Boers are a horse people, the best way to deal with cavalry is cavalry, the cavalry of East Africa has developed for so long, and it can be regarded as decent.

In addition, the East African attack on the Transvaal was still dominated by infantry, but this time the East African infantry was also different from the past, that is, for the first time, machine guns were used.

Machine guns appeared as early as the American Civil War, and East Africa also had equipment, but it was not conspicuous in the previous wars in East Africa. The East African infantry used machine guns on a large scale this time, mainly to deal with the Boer cavalry.

In order to deal with the Boers, Ernst can be said to have been planning for a long time, and from the day he started to attack Zimbabwe, Ernst knew that there would be a war in East Germany (East Africa and the Transvaal Republic), after all, he was a man who could not resist temptation.

The reason for this review of the Bulawayo rather than the banks of the Limpopo River was to avoid arousing suspicion among the Boers, and prior to Ernst's arrival, the East African Army had conducted a number of military exercises with the Transvaal Republic as a blind enemy, including the release of Wiggins, all of which had been selected on the banks of the Limpopo River to prevent it from prying eyes on the ambitions of the East African Kingdom.

At the end of the review, Ernst ordered: "Pull out!" Target the Transvaal Republic! ”

(End of chapter)