Angola's border with East Africa.

Brunzino, a soldier of the Angolan Colonial Army's Border Patrol, has been mobilized from the mainland to Angola for three months.

Brunzino was a young man who joined the "defense of the country" without hesitation, especially in the two remaining large colonies of the kingdom, Angola and Mozambique, which faced the threat of East Africa, a rapidly rising barbarian state.

Brunzino, on the other hand, was assigned to the border between the Angolan colony and the province of Letania in East Africa.

The Portuguese still know a lot about East Africa, and Brunzino is no exception, because the country that has been described most in Portuguese newspapers in the past few years is East Africa, which is currently the biggest threat to Portugal.

According to the Portuguese newspaper propaganda, East Africa is naturally a barbarian country, an evil force ruled by the "tyrant" Constantine, with endless greed.

As the monarch of East Africa, Constantine lay down his guns on a daily basis, but the achievements of East Africa's construction also fell to Constantine, the titular ruler of the country, especially the descriptions of the two cities of Mombasa and Dar es Salaam by merchants from various countries.

As the window of East Africa's economic development, these cities are the most dazzling "pearls" in East Africa, known as the twin stars of the Indian Ocean, and the Indian metropolis of Mumbai.

In sub-Saharan Africa, the only place to compare with East African cities is Cape Town, and other places with small white populations are not in this range.

Therefore, the Portuguese have to "condole" the East African family when they go out in the morning to express their "gratitude".

In the eyes of the Portuguese, the wealth of East Africa was achieved entirely through the plundering of the Portuguese colonies of Mozambique and Angola.

Originally, Portugal was the most powerful power in the entire South African region (according to the current distribution of East Africa, it is more appropriate for East Africa to be called South Africa, but because of the history of East African expansion, most countries in the world are habitually called East Africa, but in fact, the official name of the Kingdom of East Africa is the "Kingdom of Hexingen") is the most powerful power, sitting on an area of millions of square kilometers of sphere of influence.

If Portugal had expanded into South Africa more than twenty years earlier, there would have been nothing to do with the Kingdom of East Africa! At that time, Portugal could establish a large colony comparable to Brazil.

The Portuguese are not bold enough to conjecture, East Africa is now twice the size of Brazil, both in terms of population and size.

If Portugal had really paid attention to Africa before, it would have really built a huge colony similar to East Africa, dominating the southern part of the entire African continent, because in fifty or sixty years, quinine had already appeared, and the colonization of Africa was in a window period.

At that time, Portugal as a whole was in a period of decline, in fact, in the past hundred years, Portugal has been in decline, but the impact of Brazil's secession on Portugal is too great, and the whole Portugal has lost the spirit of a great power.

They were no longer as adventurous and conquering as their pirate predecessors, which was a major reason for the slow expansion of Portugal's colonies in Africa.

However, the Portuguese were in a continuous downward trend in the country's fortunes, and there was no time to think about these problems, and the Portuguese government had not made much progress for so many years, so it was difficult to solve all problems, let alone open up colonies.

It was not very difficult to open up colonies in Africa, especially for Portugal before it, because the two Portuguese colonies were almost connected together, with caravans passing through them, but this process was interrupted by the expansion of East Africa.

Before Ernst colonized Africa, the only competitive area in the whole of sub-Saharan Africa was the coast of the Gulf of Guinea.

For example, Central and South Africa is basically unattended, except for the Portuguese, and only Cape Town, the southernmost transportation center.

Therefore, as long as the Portuguese government was willing to pay for it, it could get a huge colony in Africa with no competitors.

As for the indigenous Africans, they are not necessarily stronger than the Indians, so the threat is not great, the only thing that needs to be paid attention to is Zanzibar, which belongs to the Arab civilization, but in the fifties and sixties, the Sultanate of Zanzibar happened to be in a period of decline, especially after the separation from the Omani Empire, its strength has long collapsed.

The Portuguese did not grasp this, and they did not have an advantage in the centuries-long competition with the Arab civilization on the coast of East Africa, so they missed the opportunity in the sixties, and East Africa took the lead, and then East Africa exploded against Zanzibar, the former hegemon of the East African coastal region.

In any case, the better East Africa develops, the greater the stimulus for the Portuguese, after all, in the eyes of the Portuguese, any achievements in East Africa should have belonged to the Portuguese.

As for how East Africa developed, in the eyes of the Portuguese, it was natural to plunder the wealth of Africa, after all, tens of millions of square kilometers of countries are developed enough to sell minerals.

Brunzino thought the same thing, so after arriving in Angola from the mainland, Brenzino vowed to regain the lost land for his homeland.

But after spending a few months in Angola, Brenzino was disappointed because the East Africa he saw looked a little different from what was advertised in Portuguese newspapers.

"This is our border with East Africa, and it doesn't look as exaggerated as they described before, it's not just a vast primeval forest and grassland, and you can't see any modernity at all!" Brunzino said to his companion in disappointment.

"I've heard about how the East African kingdom is built, but since I came to Angola, I really haven't seen any decent buildings and agricultural facilities on the other side, but I've heard that the population of East Africa is mainly concentrated in the east, maybe the rapid development in the country refers to the border between the Mozambican colony and East Africa, and Angola can't see this kind of scene." Brenzino's comrade-in-arms explained.

"So how did we lose the Kingdom of Portugal to an original German prince? The desolate scene on the other side is completely different from East Africa, which has been described as a land of abundance in recent years! "Brenzino felt shamelessly deceived.

"Brunzino, the East Africans just didn't develop this place, if you go to the Indian Ocean coast, or meet East African cities, you won't say the same, they are not the kind of barbarians who drink blood, but are well-armed and numerous.

One of the main reasons why southern Angola was annexed before was that thousands of East African Army troops were killed from the east, and I was one of those who experienced it, so I can say that the East African Army looks completely no different from the regular professional soldiers in Europe.

At that time, the army of our Angolan colony looked no different from the militia, not even uniform clothing, and at the same time lacked heavy weapons support.

The East Africans on the opposite side were armed with machine guns and artillery, which was almost fatal for the Angolan colonies at that time.

Because we did not have the ability to face the attack of the East Africans, after all, the Portuguese had encountered natives with stone spears and bows and arrows, as if overnight they had become more professional soldiers than our own locals. ”

At that time, there was a generational gap between Angola and Mozambique and East Africa, which was directly ahead of the Portuguese colonies by one era, and if it were not for the intervention of the British, Angola and Mozambique would have basically died in a war.

(End of chapter)