Ernst did not know that Cape Town was already preparing to intervene in East Africa, and was ready to start with Germany, but before the war Ernst knew whether East Africa and Cape Town would be good, but it was just wishful thinking on the part of the British to intervene in East Africa from Germany.

The strategic goal of East Africa this time is to occupy some easily defensible places as the boundary of mountains and rivers, and to occupy the mining areas of South Africa as their own. The mountains and rivers of South Africa have British influence in many places, the typical is the Republic of Grigualand, but the Republic of Grigaland is north of the Orange River.

If the Republic of Grigualand is south of the Orange River, then East Africa is estimated not to annex the Republic of Grigualand, after all, it is difficult to defend and easy to become a bloodletting trough.

The second is the border between the Zulu Kingdom and the colony of Natal, where there is no clear boundary, which is understandable, after all, the British used to think that they were the dominant party, and there was no opponent in Africa, at least South Africa, if they signed a border treaty with these natives, not to mention whether these natives were qualified enough, it would also hinder their expansion advantage.

As a result, the Kingdom of East Africa, like the United Kingdom, does not pay attention to this point in East Africa, and from the colonial era to the present, East Africa has only signed a border treaty with Egypt.

The first is that Egypt has an important strategic location and a long history, and all major powers are closely watching. The second is that the border between Egypt and East Africa is Sudan, which has a predominantly desert climate, and only a little arable land exists in the Jezira Plain, which is not conducive to the advance of the troops. The third is that Egypt itself is not weak.

At least East Africa thinks that Egypt has the strength to sit at the negotiating table, but even so, in the end, Egypt and East Africa signed a treaty that was a losing party, ceding some of Sudan's oil-carrying "rotten land" to East Africa.

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Not long after the 123rd Division supported Felix's war against the Zulu Kingdom, the 514th Division, which had been resting for a few days, was dispatched again, this time to the Kingdom of Basutoland, which was the Kingdom of Lesotho in the previous life.

In South Africa now, it can be said that dogs will be slapped twice in East Africa, and the Kingdom of Lesotho will inherit the slap in East Africa.

The reason why East Africa beats Lesotho is quite simple, Lesotho is the highest country on the South African plateau, and it is also the water tower of South Africa, where many rivers in South Africa originate, such as the Orange River, some tributaries of the Fall River, and the Tuguela River that flows into the Indian Ocean.

In the past, the Kingdom of Lesotho and South Africa had a well-known water diversion project, which was to divert water from Lesotho to solve the industrial water problem in Pretoria and Johannesburg, South Africa.

At the same time, the kingdom of Basutolan happened to be the watershed between the Orange River and the Tuguera River, so Ernst intended to swallow the northern part of the kingdom of Basutolan.

This will help East Africa to build a defense line centered on the Kingdom of Lesotho, with the Tuguela River, the Fite River (a tributary of the Orange River), Champagne Castle Hill, the Fall River, and the Orange River as the backbone.

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Ernst called this line the Southern Line, and the main object of the Southern Line was the Cape Colony.

East Africa has offended all the powers of South Africa, including the Boers, Eswatini, Zulus, Basutolans, Grigalan (Boers), the British.

But East Africa must restrain its ambitions and not be too rough with Cape Town, so far the contradiction between East Africa and Cape Town is at best a conflict, and if it is really against Cape Town, it will not be a conflict, but a declaration of war with Britain.

Although the Republic of Grigualand was part of the colony of Cape Town, the Republic of Grigualand was not important, and Basutoland was also a British protectorate, but East Africa did not intend to erase it from the map, but chose to keep half of it.

These two major conflict areas were subordinate to the Cape Colony and were not the main part of Cape Town, with only the Natal Colony to the southeast being one of the core colonies.

The Kingdom of East Africa is the son of the United Kingdom, and these two are the grandsons, and the British mainland does not have control over these two regions, and it is mainly Cape Town that is responsible for the administration.

The Cape Town Colony can actually be regarded as an independent country, although it is part of the British Empire, but it has a certain degree of autonomy, its main authority is the Cape Town National Assembly, composed of natives, but the head is the Queen of England, the actual chief executive is the British Commissioner of South Africa and the Governor of Cape Town, that is, Henry Buckley, plus the British garrison in Cape Town, the British can now firmly control South Africa.

This configuration is actually similar to that of Australia, and slightly worse than Canada, because in 1867 the British Parliament passed the British North America Act, which made Canada a British Dominion that was close to an independent sovereign state.

In fact, without the intervention of the Kingdom of East Africa, the whites of the Cape colony would have been able to achieve autonomy this year, and then they could have set up a cabinet responsible to parliament to achieve autonomy in the true sense.

Now, the whites of Cape Town will have to reconsider the need for autonomy, which is itself a right that the white people of Cape Town want more, with fewer obligations, and the importance of the Cape Town's colony to force concessions from the British mainland.

But when the enemy of East Africa came, the contradiction between the whites in Cape Town shifted from central London and Cape Town to the contradiction between Cape Town and East Africa.

Without the protection of the British Empire, how could the Cape Town colony defend itself against the militarily stronger East African kingdoms, so the white local powers in the Cape Town colony now need to bow to London, which is not necessarily a bad thing for the British government.

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The war between the Kingdom of East Africa and the Kingdom of the Zulu was fought almost simultaneously with Lesotho, and the Kingdom of the Zulu was the most difficult place to fight, but the situation improved greatly when the cavalry divisions of East Africa joined the battle.

In the open area, the cavalry division can take control of the Zulu kingdom at any time, and the Zulu kingdom wants to withdraw to the complex terrain but cannot get rid of the pursuit of the East African mountain division.

This is a great headache for the Zulu Kingdom, which can fight back and forth with the Boers, and the terrain advantage accounts for a large part.

But the East African Mountain Division's men were all from the mountains, which gave them an advantage over the Zulu people who lived in the Drakensian Mountains.

The Zulu Kingdom actually arrived here a few decades ago and established a kingdom, and the Khoisan people lived here before, and the whole of South Africa was the territory of the Khosani people before, and now the Khosani people are mainly distributed in Cape Town and the East African Kingdom, as well as Namibia in the previous life, and there are about 100,000 people left.

The Khoisan are a separate group with a yellowish skin color, and because the Bantu people moved south (including the Zulu people), the Khoisan people in eastern South Africa are of mixed race (the matrilineal Khoisan is a Khoisan), so they are darker than the natives of the Dutch East Indies.

It can be said that in the current land of South Africa, except for the Khoisans, all are invaders, and the Zulu people are no exception, and even the history of the Zulu people in South Africa is almost the same period as the Boers.

In addition, the Zulus are also nomadic people, and they don't often run up the mountains, so their knowledge of the terrain is like that.

The Zulus, who were surrounded by the East African army, had to continue to flee to the more complex mountainous areas, because although the East African mountain divisions were difficult to deal with, the cavalry units were even more difficult to deal with, and they were basically dead end in the plains.

On 8 June 1872, the last rebellious Zulu army was forced into Champagne Castle Hill on the left side of the Tugueira Valley by the East African Army, but the East African Army continued the pursuit until the Zulu Kingdom entered the Natal colony from Champagne Castle Hill and the Zulu Kingdom fell.

On June 12, 1872, East Africa raided Maseru (located on the south side of the Tuguela Valley), the capital of the Kingdom of Basutoland (Lesotho), and the Kingdom of Basotoland was forced to move its capital to Guting on the south side of the Orange River Valley, and the Kingdom of Basotoland turned to the British for help.

On 14 June 1872, the government-in-exile of the Transvaal Republic arrived in Cape Town, and little Pretorius sought to restore the country.

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