The Kingdom of Eswatini, a small country with no name, even if Britain only turned it into a semi-colonial country in 1907, the average British do this only two situations, one is that they can't eat, and the other is really worthless, and the Kingdom of Eswatini belongs to the latter.

But now the people of Eswatini have poured blood mold, the so-called people sit at home, and the disaster comes from heaven, and a group of troops who do not know where they came from directly attacked the Kingdom of Eswatini.

The Kingdom of Eswatini is only a small country with a population of tens of thousands, do not look at Eswatini's small area and small population, in fact, Eswatini is located in one of the most densely populated areas in Africa.

In the 19th century, the population of Africa was only more than 90 million, of which Egypt (plus Sudan) and the Abyssinian Empire accounted for more than 20 million, the Kingdom of East Africa plus blacks accounted for more than 27 million, and the three countries accounted for almost half of Africa's population.

This is mainly due to the low level of civilization of the black people who originated in West Africa, which led to their spread to the entire region and still in the primitive social stage, and the population growth of the primitive society was basically constant, although there were more births, but also more deaths.

So the environment has a great impact on the population of Africa, along the Nile River in Egypt, the Great Lakes region of East Africa, the Abyssinian Empire, West Africa, the Mediterranean coast of North Africa, the Lake Malawi region, and the northeastern region of South Africa are a few of the most densely populated areas in Africa today.

Eswatini is located in the northeastern region of South Africa, next to Maputo, the capital of the Portuguese colony of Mozambique, the Zulu Kingdom, the British colony of Natal, the Transvaal Republic, and the buffer state between East Africa and Mozambique, the Gaza Empire (indigenous country).

Eswatini is less than 100 kilometres from Maputo, and the East African occupation could pose a direct threat to the Mozambican capital.

The King of the Kingdom of Eswatini stood by Felix's side at this time and briefed Felix about the Kingdom of Eswatini.

"The east of my country is the country of the Portuguese, the southeast is the barbarians of the Zulu Kingdom, and the west was occupied by the Boers a few years ago, because of the barren land and complex terrain, so under normal circumstances, no one will come to our Kingdom of Eswatini."

I have to say that the Eswatini are more casual, and the Zulu people are of the same origin, but they are completely different in personality, and they directly chose to surrender after encountering the East African army, without any hesitation.

This made Felix very helpless, originally thinking that the size was an indigenous country, and there should always be a war to fight, and it was enjoyable, but people didn't resist at all.

Felix: "Well, I'm well aware of that, it's really not very inhabitable. ”

However, this is not a reason for the Kingdom of Eswatini to continue to exist, and the strategic intention of East Africa this time is obviously to control the Transvaal and Zulu Kingdoms, and the Kingdom of Eswatini is located at a key point in East Africa's southward movement.

"As for your attitude, the performance should be unique to the whole of Africa, so I will react with the Kingdom of Eswatini and fight for some good conditions for you." Felix said.

How to deal with the issue of the Kingdom of Eswatini, it is really difficult to handle, people are so cooperative, of course, it can't be too rough, this matter is still a headache for His Royal Highness the Crown Prince in the future!

At this moment, the herald suddenly came and reported: "Commander-in-chief, our men have found an unknown force in the southeast, and they are coming in the direction of Eswatini. ”

Felix: "Unknown forces! What's going on? ”

"It's a white army, I just don't know if it's not the Portuguese, or the Boer army."

"How many of them are there?"

"There should be three or four thousand."

Felix turned to the King of Eswatini and asked, "You Eswatini have offended people recently!" ”

"How is this possible, General! We in the Kingdom of Eswatini have always loved peace. ”

Of course, the king of Eswatini said this on his lips, but he did not think so in his heart, mainly because Eswatini has too little population and poor military strength, otherwise he would have left this broken place long ago.

The Kingdom of Eswatini has been here since the 16th century, with no chance to expand outward, mainly because the Zulu people are too capable of fighting and are madmen who don't want to die, and the indigenous kingdoms in the north are "big countries" for Eswatini.

Felix said to the heralds: "Let our men stop them, and if they are Portuguese, then bring their commanders over and talk, and if they are Boers, then go straight to a battle." ”

If you don't take the initiative to ask, you may really not be able to tell where they are from, and the Portuguese and Boer forces will not be able to tell from the outside.

And at this time, the Boers in the mountainside part were also confused, there were people from other forces here! Didn't Eswatini say that it was a black kingdom!

So both sides looked at each other cautiously, and by this time someone had already recognized the East African military uniform, which was probably the East Africans who had invaded the Transvaal.

"Who are you?" East African soldiers shouted.

When the soldiers of the Transvaal Republic heard this,

"It's German, it seems to be East Africa!"

"Now what are we going to do!"

The Boer commander said: "Ignore them, we will return the same way for the time being." ”

And by this time Felix's heralds had arrived, "Commander of the Belk division, the commander said that if there were Boers on the other side, they would be left behind. ”

Although it was not clear whether the other side was a Boer or not, seeing that the other side wanted to run away, this made Belk unable to sit still.

"Pass my military order, don't let the Boers on the opposite side run away!"

At present, Belk has only one brigade in his hands, but the Boers are tired of traveling and going up the mountains, which is extremely physically exhausting, which is just enough for the East African Army to wait for work.

As the trumpet sounded, the 2nd Brigade of the Mountain Division came out of the cage like a tiger, and Belk took the lead and led his troops directly towards the Boers.

This made the Boers who wanted to sneak away in an instant dilemma, coupled with the terrain restrictions of the mountain road, they could not disperse, the retreat turned into a rout, and the stampede could not be avoided, and the whole army was in a mess. In less than two hours, the East African Mountain Division ended the battle, and the main Boer forces were captured.

Felix, who heard the sound of the battle, also led his troops and asked the captured Boer commander, "You are the main force of the Transvaal Republic?" ”

"Yes, sir!"

"Then how did you end up in Eswatini?"

"Alas, because Pretoria urgently summoned our troops to return to defense, and as a result, the Zulu Kingdom detected our abnormality, so the Zulu sent heavy troops to encircle and suppress us, although we tried hard to get rid of the Zulus, but we have not been able to break through, and finally we have no choice but to use the Kingdom of Eswatini, and then turn back to the Transvaal."

Felix immediately laughed out loud when he heard this, this way was not borrowed, but he fell into the mouth of the tiger and sent himself military merits for nothing.

(End of chapter)