April 3, 1888.

New Port of Hamburg.

Ever since East Africa was at war, the city of New Hamburg has become a fortified fortress sandwiched between Portugal and England.

All enterprises in the city gave priority to ensuring the supply of troops, and the city and provincial governments actively organized the urban area and surrounding areas to support the front-line war.

At night, the rumbling artillery fire of the north and south lines can even be faintly heard from the city of New Hamburg, and in fact, less than 70 kilometers south from the port of New Hamburg is the front line of the war between East Africa and the British.

"The neighborhood needs to be sealed, and the surrounding area has been transporting food to the city as much as possible, and it is necessary to store enough drinking water and food to fight for the survival of the new port of Hamburg." Hans, the administrator of the Lomwell street, gives orders from the city government to the citizens of his district.

"Director Hans, what's going on at the front? There are quite a few people in our streets who have gone to support the front line. ”

Hans sighed and said: "The situation is not optimistic, as we all know, Britain is the world's first power, we have never fought with such an opponent in East Africa, and I heard from the superiors that the strength of the British colony of Natal, which borders our new Hamburg port city, is not bad in itself, and now a large part of the British army is concentrated in Natal, and the number of troops alone is more than ten times that of our Wehrmacht, and now the northern Portuguese have also intervened, and our new Hamburg port city is in the middle of a two-sided attack." ”

"With such a big gap, can we beat the British and the Portuguese? Both of these countries are among the best in the world! ”

Hans: "At present, the front line is not going to collapse, but under the two-front battle, we must be prepared for the defeat of the front, or even the three-front battle, completely surrounded, and now the enemy's naval forces have not been dispatched, otherwise we may see the enemy's artillery fire into the city of New Hamburg today." ”

I don't know if Hans's crow's beak played a role, but as soon as he finished speaking, he heard the rumbling sound of artillery coming from the direction of the Indian Ocean to the east.

The naval and ground forces of the Port of New Hamburg have exchanged fire with the British Cape Town Navy.

This made the citizens of the Renwell neighborhood suddenly panic, and the scene instantly began to show some signs of chaos out of control.

"The British called?"

"What are we going to do, run for our lives!"

Many East African immigrants come from war-prone areas (Germany and the Far East), so this panic of war is awakened from the marrow by the sound of artillery fire, as if returning to the era of war and chaos.

"Quiet, all quiet!" Hans tried to calm the men, but many couldn't hear what he was saying.

At that moment, "Bang! A gunshot instantly suppressed all the noise.

I saw the Remwell neighborhood vigilante, Anderson holding a pistol, and fired two more shots into the sky.

After seeing that the citizens had "calmed down", he stood on the street and said in an unquestioning voice: "Be quiet, the situation is not so bad, it is our army at the mouth of the sea that is driving out the British warships, the enemy wants to attack our Renwell neighborhood before the time is too early, at least before the north and south lines are breached, the enemy will not be able to directly attack the city from the sea." ”

The city of New Hamburg has two urban districts built on the basis of the port, including commercial and military ports, which are housed in the New Hamburg Bay.

The terrain of New Hamburg Bay (Richard's Bay) is very peculiar, with a small mouth and a large belly, so the British can not even pass the East African batteries by relying on the navy alone, and as long as they enter the channel, they can only become a live target.

So Anderson is sure that the British Navy must be firing at East African coastal defense guns in the Indian Ocean, but I don't know if the Navy has been dispatched now.

Anderson is a retired member of the East African Defence Force, and because he is now part of the police department, there is no need to go to the front line, of course, this has to do with the fact that the city of New Hamburg needs people who understand the military to deploy the city's defenses, and the city of New Hamburg already has measures to deal with the possibility of street fighting, which needs to be guided by professionals.

Of course, war will bring social disorder, so a policeman like Anderson, who was born in the military, is also a deterrent to negative elements, and at the same time can calm people's minds.

Just like now, the citizens of the Renwell neighborhood have been persuaded by Anderson, after all, Anderson has fought and seen people in the world, and what he said is enough to convince the public, and of course, the pistol in his hand is also very convincing.

"Now continue to work, if the war really comes, there is no safer place than the city, the food outside the city has been collected in advance into the city, there are all the daily necessities that can be used here, and the villagers in the countryside have been evacuated to the city."

Generally speaking, in times of war, it is urban dwellers who flee to rural areas to escape the threat of war.

But the reason why the city of New Hamburg is doing the opposite is because the city of New Hamburg and the entire Southern Frontier Province are not the main grain-producing regions of East Africa, but the population is concentrated in towns or mines in the west.

East Africa was designed not to develop industry and agriculture on a large scale in the South, and the Port of New Hamburg is a special example because of its port.

The industry here is relatively sound, but the grain is mainly transported from the eastern or central part of East Africa, and the industrial and agricultural base of the southern frontier province is not bad compared to the Hexingen province.

Therefore, the rural population of the Southern Frontier Province is relatively small, and it can be taken over by the city of New Hamburg, and then the surrounding villages and farmland will be destroyed, and the policy of clearing the wilderness will be implemented.

Of course, in order to ensure the food security of the new port of Hamburg, the East African Railway has begun to send food and other materials to the port city, and together with the city's own reserves, it can meet the needs of the new port of Hamburg for at least three years.

However, the population of the city of New Hamburg is now mainly made up of women, children and children, and men in the eastern part of the province have been assigned to wherever they are needed, to receive military training, or to build positions on the periphery of the city of New Hamburg.

The East African government tried to make the city of Port New Hamburg a large military fortress, which continued to be intimidated by the British and Portuguese forces in eastern and southern Africa.

Of course, this is conditional on the fact that the new port of Hamburg can be self-sufficient, and basically the best of the Southern Frontier Province is concentrated here, except for food, so East Africa must not easily abandon the new port of Hamburg.

The city of New Hamburg is not isolated, even if the surrounding area falls, the Drakens, which is controlled by the East African army in war, can launch a counteroffensive at any time, but now the army in the west is being dragged by the Boer Republic, otherwise the defense pressure of the new Port of Hamburg will not be so great at all.

This is also the status quo in the entire southern part of East Africa, bounded by the Limpopo River, which serves the mining industry and the military.

From the very beginning, the city of New Hamburg had a small grain production, but it had a lot of grain, and the Southern Frontier Province was rich in coal, and the city of New Hamburg was the only outlet to the sea, so there would be no shortage of energy here in the short term.

The most important thing is that the harbor conditions of the port city of New Hamburg are relatively special, if it is directly towards the Indian Ocean like the city of Dar es Salaam, then there is no need for the port of New Hamburg to defend, the cost is too great, and the effect is not good, it is better to retreat directly to the west of the Drakens Mountains, and resist the attack of the coalition forces with the danger of Darcans.

(End of chapter)

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