The territory of East Africa is not as exaggerated as that of Tsarist Russia now, but the effect on the map is also quite amazing, like cutting off a small half of Africa.

Fortunately, the countries in the equatorial region will appear relatively small on the map because of the visual effect, so that more than 10 million square kilometers of land in East Africa look about the same size as about 7 million square kilometers of the United States, of course, this is also related to the fact that data measurement in this era is not too accurate, especially in the interior of the African continent, except in East Africa, there are hardly many non-black people involved.

Many Europeans can only guess what is going on in the interior of Africa, and many expeditions describe Africa in a mystical way.

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At a time when the Transvaals were seeking to regain their country, the East African garrison in the Southern Frontier Province had not done nothing in recent years.

Around the Farr River with Fort Winburg as the center, the forward military positions built are basically the same, mainly blockhouses.

East Africa's defensive strategy against the Orange Free State is obviously different from that of Mozambique, and conflicts between Mozambique and East Africa are normal, and although East Africa is the winner, the Portuguese do not hate East Africa too much.

As a former colonial power, Portugal is much stronger at heart than the average country, or like some old empires, it is not aspiring.

The colonies in East Africa to Mozambique were basically obtained through means of war, so the Portuguese had a somewhat rotten mentality in the face of East Africa, and if it were not for the support of the British, some Portuguese people wanted to sell the only two remaining African colonies.

The Transvaal is different, although East Africa also captured the Transvaal through war, but the excuse is very nonsense, in other words, the Transvaal is at fault, but the crime is not death, and East Africa directly destroys it, which is somewhat unreasonable.

Moreover, East Africa has not yet been eradicated, allowing the Transvaals to preserve their vitality, which provides conditions for the Transvaals to fight back.

Of course, the reason why Ernst let the Transvaals go was not kind, the original intention was to keep the Transvaals and let them provoke East Africa at some time in the future, after all, there is a country north of the Orange River, and it is very unpleasant to have a part of the land in the south of East Africa.

Moreover, Ernst did not want to accept the Transvaals as East African nationals, which would cause big trouble, especially the conflict between the political systems of the two countries, most of the land in East Africa was owned by the state, while the land in Orange was owned by large landowners, and Ernst did not intend to implement the system of northern and southern dynasties, so naturally this hidden danger would not be retained.

Finally, Ernst also tried to see if he could divide the Boers, and it seems to have worked well, at least in the Orange Free State, where there are two groups, the Oranges and the Transvaals.

The point of conflict between the two sides is that the Oranges look down on the Transvaals, after all, the Transvaals are the losers, and even their own country has been lost, and the Transvaals have poured into the Orange Free State in large numbers, squeezing out most of the social resources of the original Oranges, acting as eagle dogs for the British, causing the Oranges to lose a lot of rights and interests, and the Oranges oppose the conflict with East Africa.

Attitudes towards Britain and East Africa are the two biggest points of divergence between the two fraternal peoples.

East Africa is well understood, and now that East Africa is strong, the Oranges naturally do not want to offend East Africa, and there is no hatred between the two countries, while the Transvaals are the opposite, and want to drag the Oranges into the water.

The attitude towards Britain is more interesting, when the Transvaal Republic still existed, the Orange Free State had better relations with Britain and implemented a policy of appeasement, while the Transvaal Republic was more anti-British because it was far away from Potton and separated by the Orange Free State.

Now the two are reversed, with the Oranges anti-British, and the Transvaals friendly with the British, because the Transvaals are outsiders to the Oranges, and their status is similar to that of the British.

So the British took advantage of this to rule the Orange Free State, just as the British used a lot of Indian servant armies in Africa in the past, and now the Transvaal Restoration Army is a puppet army among the Boers.

The Transvaal Restoration Army is not to mention stealing chickens and dogs, but also good at evil, just a few months after its establishment, it has completely ruined its reputation in Bloemfontein, and has become a disgusting existence, and the most strange thing is that most of them are from the former Transvaal Republic, so they are still engaged in regional discrimination in Bloemfontein.

This kind of behavior is not an exaggeration to describe it as a white-eyed wolf, it is a copy of the farmer and the snake, so this refugee is not something that can be asked for casually, even if it is a fraternal nation.

The corruption of the military discipline of the Transvaal Restoration Army is not at all abrupt in this era, and it can even be said that it can even be taken for granted, and the East African army is a clear stream or heresy in this era.

A large part of the Transvaal's military expenditure had to be self-financed, the most important of which was taxes, which the Transvaal Provisional Government, with British support, could collect war taxes in the Orange Free State to build up its army.

This did not exist in the former Orange Free State or the Transvaal Republic, which were all in force.

In other words, there is no standing armed force in peacetime, and only in wartime will a large number of troops be conscripted, and there is no standing armed force in peacetime, so naturally there is no need to consider the issue of military discipline.

And now with the standing force of the Transvaal Restoration Army, the Orange Free State has regained its appreciation of what it means to be over-armed.

The Oranges of Bloemfontein were also increasingly dissatisfied with the Transvaals, while the British were happy to see this happen, and reconciled with it, and experienced the joy of the balance of power.

Although the military discipline of the Transvaal Restoration Army is corrupted, East Africa will not despise this reactionary armed force.

Many of the Transvaal Restoration Army are veterans of a hundred battles, who have fought against the Zulus or East Africans, and they still have the courage and audacity, coupled with the systematic training of the British Army and the advanced weapons and equipment provided, the combat effectiveness may be better than expected.

East Africa knows about the existence of the Transvaal Restoration Army, which has to do with East Africa's pervasive intelligence system, and the East African Defense and Security Agency has been infiltrating the Orange Free State all these years.

The Orange Free State is surrounded by East Africa on three sides, so it is easy for professionally trained operatives to infiltrate the Orange Free State, most of them as British or Boers in Cape Town.

In this era, there were not many countries that had established professional spy agencies, especially in a country like the Orange Free State, which was very crudely ruled.

Therefore, it is easy for East Africans to infiltrate the Orange Free State to steal information, but due to the backward transportation and external contact methods of the Orange Free State, the speed of information transmission is not fast.

Even so, both the Transvaal Restoration Army and the Transvaal Interim Government have been known in East Africa, after all, the Transvaal Restoration Army is "extortion" on the streets of Bloemfontein every day like street walkers, and it is difficult not to attract attention, and as for the Transvaal Interim Government, it is also established in an extremely conspicuous position in Bloemfontein.

At every turn, they held "national salvation mobilization meetings" to lobby the whole of the Orange Free State, or asked citizens for "donations" on the streets.

Every move of the Transvaal Interim Government and the Restoration Army can be said to be entirely in the hands of the East African Defence Security Agency.

(End of chapter)