The Fette River is a tributary of the right bank of the Farr River, a tributary of the northern tributary of the Orange River in South Africa, and the confluence of the Farr River downstream is the Brukhov Reservoir in the former South Africa, and the upstream is the important city of the Transvaal - Winburg City, and the boundary river between the Transvaal Republic and the Orange Free State.

Located on the plain in the middle of the Fett River (the upper reaches of the Fit River is Y-shaped), Winburg was one of the Boer republics established by the old Pretorius, and was incorporated into the Transvaal Republic in 1852 along with the Boer colonies such as the Republic of Leidenburg, and is the southernmost city of the Transvaal Republic.

The 513th Division of East Africa occupied the area a few days ago, and the command system of the Transvaal Republic after the loss of Pretoria was actually completely out of control, which made the occupation of the Transvaal Republic in East Africa very smooth.

"After taking Victor, the north of the Fite River is completely in the hands of our East Africa, and south of the Fit River is the Orange Free State, according to the order of the crown prince, after our department occupies Windburg, we will control the north bank of the Fit River with Winburg as the center, unless the Orange Free State takes the initiative to provoke, and the East African army will no longer fight across the Fit River." The commander of the 513th Division, Kerry Rhodes, pointed to the map and said to his subordinates.

After the capture of Wimburg, East Africa's combat mission to the Transvaal Republic was basically completed, or Ernst's strategic intention was initially completed, the initial purpose of attacking the Transvaal Republic was to let the gold mines on both sides of the main stream of the Farr River rot in the soil, after East Africa controlled the Fite River, ninety percent of the gold mine distribution area fell into the hands of East Africa, as long as East Africa banned the development of the land north of the Fite River and south of Pretoria, these gold mines would not be discovered, including Johannesburg in the previous life.

The reasons for the ban on the development of this area are also readily available, as the deep nest in the South African highlands, combined with the fact that Lesotho blocks the moisture of the Indian Ocean, makes it very arid, barren and ecologically fragile.

East Africa could use ecological protection as an excuse to prohibit any individuals or forces from exploiting the area, and Ernst intended to establish a natural ecological reserve similar to that of the Gelencetti savannah.

On the one hand, the Kingdom of East Africa declared war on the pretext that the Transvaal Republic supported the rebellion of the Debele people in Orange, but the Transvaal Republic and the Orange Free State are two countries, so there is no pretext for war against the Orange Free State.

Although the Orange Free State and the Transvaal Republic are brothers, their interests do not coincide exactly, and the Orange Free State rejected the Orange Free State's previous attempt to promote the merger of the two countries.

Ernst thought that he could try to win over the free state of Orange, and Ernst had no hostility to the Boer state in the first place, but only conflicted with the Transvaal Republic in terms of interests and national security.

On the other hand, the Kingdom of East Africa needed the Orange Free State to act as a buffer between East Africa and the British colony of Cape Town. Because the Kimberley diamond mine has been discovered and developed, the British have a real interest in the Orange Free State, and it is impossible for the British to allow East Africa to annex the Orange Free State.

On the contrary, Ernst of the Transvaal Republic will never allow it to continue to exist, and the existence of this country will be a great disaster in the future, because in the previous life it was because of the discovery of many gold mines such as the Lander gold mine, which caused the British to explore South Africa with unprecedented enthusiasm.

The British added military presence and colonization in South Africa, which made the colony of South Africa in the previous life take shape, and South Africa directly became the colony with the largest number of whites in sub-Saharan Africa, and the Boers alone may reach the scale of six or seven hundred thousand, counting the British, Ireland, India...... The number of white South Africans could easily exceed one million, which would pose a huge threat to East African national security.

After East Africa occupied the Transvaal Republic, South Africa, in addition to the strategic position of Cape Town, only had the interests of Orange's diamond mines, but there was no shortage of diamonds in East Africa, and even the world's largest reserves.

Relying only on diamond mines, the landlocked country of the Orange Free State will not be able to complete industrialization, not to mention the fact that the Orange Free State is still short of water, and its future development potential is also locked in, even inferior to Mongolia in the previous life.

At the same time, with the advancement of the policy of the East African Kingdom, a large number of Boers from the Transvaal Republic took the initiative to migrate to the Orange Free State, which could greatly strengthen the Boer power in the Orange Free State.

According to the population growth rate of the two Boer republics in the previous life, the population of the Orange Free State will definitely easily exceed 400,000 by then, so that the Orange Free State can be fully developed, and at least it can become a good agricultural country, unlike the previous life, the two Boer republics are parallel goods.

In this way, the Orange Free State would be about the size of some of the smaller countries in Europe, and would not be easily annexed by the British.

Although due to the invasion of the Transvaal Republic by East Africa, it is certain that the Orange Free State will not have a favorable opinion of East Africa at the moment, and may even directly defect to the United Kingdom.

But Ernst preferred that the Boers would have been at odds with the British, as they had been in the previous life, and that there would be a conflict in the end, which was inevitable, because the only valuable diamond mine in Orange was in the hands of the British, unless the British, like the Boers in East Africa drove out of the Transvaal Republic, and the Boers drove them out of the Orange Free State, but the British could not do that.

Finally, the annexation of the Transvaal Republic by East Africa can also ensure its strategic security, because the gold mining area falls into the hands of East Africa, and Britain cannot implement the 2C plan as in the previous life, in addition to the lack of interest attraction, in terms of strength, even the South African colonies after the annexation of the Orange Free State are unable to compete with the Kingdom of East Africa, the main economic body of South Africa in the previous life was in the northeast, and now it is the territory of East Africa.

Not only the 2C plan, but even the 2S plan of the French is completely impossible to exist, and the first mountain to be defeated by the great powers to carve up Africa is the East African kingdom, which has completely gained a foothold in Africa.

It is impossible to deal with the centralized emerging countries of the Kingdom of East Africa by virtue of the power of Britain and France alone, unless they dare to devote their energy to dealing with other countries on the European continent on the Kingdom of East Africa.

The kingdom of East Africa is not dead, and it can also win over the second brother of Germany (Germany and Austria) to balance Britain and France, which is nothing more than the transfer of some more interests to the Hexingen royal family.

Besides, with the relationship between Britain and France, unless it is a world war, it will not be able to pee in a pot at all, and even the relationship between the two countries in Africa may be very bad.

With the existence of the Kingdom of East Africa, there are not many blue oceans left in East and South Africa to explore, and the only area in Africa that currently has large territories and favorable conditions is West Africa.

As long as the development of the kingdom of East Africa is stable and strong enough, then after 1880, countries can only fight in West Africa, and the competitive pressure in West Africa will be unprecedentedly strong, and it just so happens that Britain and France now have colonies in West Africa, and it is logical to attack West Africa, and it is foreseeable that other regions in the future, South America, Southeast Asia, the Middle East and other places will also face more violent colonial storms.

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