At a time when major military breakthroughs were made in both directions in East Africa, the Angolan colonial armies in the west were also in trouble.

However, the problem was not East Africa, but the African environment and the lack of preparation of the Portuguese army itself.

Luaina is a small East African village in the central province of Danube, a small stronghold established during the development of western East Africa.

However, with the implementation of the fortified wilderness in the western part of East Africa, Luaina was already empty, and the East African Defence Forces finally destroyed the village.

A small army from the Angolan colony was the first to discover the area, but when it was discovered that it was an empty village, everyone was disappointed.

"Oldin, damn it, this is another empty village, if you don't see it with your own eyes, you think it's plague, it's not popular at all!"

The climate of Africa is like this, uninhabited will soon be swallowed by nature, it has been two months since the village of Luena was evacuated to the rear, and the ruins of the village are also covered with various weeds, mosses, and various small animals nest here, reflecting the "harmony" between "man and nature".

"Chris Luther, don't complain, it's good to find a place to rest, I don't want to sleep in the wild tonight, at least there are ruins left by East Africans, although it is already very unbearable, but it still has some effect to shelter from the wind and rain." Oldin said to his comrades.

Although it is a ruined wall, it is surrounded by dense rainforest, and the clearing and some ruins in Luaina village are particularly intimate.

Lying on the small half-collapsed dirt slope, Alding stared at the sky with his eyes squinted slightly, and said with a pipe in his mouth: "Look how wonderful the sun is! We've been working with the rainforest for a few months and haven't enjoyed such comfortable sunshine for a long time. ”

Since the Portuguese army entered the Danube province of East Africa, it was very painful, especially in the dark and damp environment of the rainforest, and harassed by various poisonous insects and wild animals.

Waste like the village of Luena already made Oldin, who had suffered two or three months of sin, feel very satisfied.

"Speaking of sunlight, it's true that I haven't seen it for too long, and the roads here are still very difficult to walk, or there are no roads at all, and now I wonder how the East Africans attacked Angola in the first place. Don't they have that problem? Chris Luther asked curiously.

"I've heard the old man say that the last war in East Africa was from the south to attack Angola, and the south was drier than the north, and I heard that there are grasslands and deserts there, so the conditions are much better than ours, and after the last East Portuguese war, the kingdom was forced to cede the land in the south to East Africa," Aldin explained. ”

"Then why don't we take the south back? Anyway, now that they have torn their faces with East Africa, can they still block our army from passing, we rarely encounter East African troops here. Chris Luther said.

"It would be nice if it was so simple, in fact, the south is the province of Letania in East Africa, and we are here in the so-called Danube, the conditions of the province of Leitania are stronger than those of Danube, there is a plateau, it seems to be more livable, so there are a lot of troops in East Africa, although the conditions in Danube are difficult, but there is no war to fight, all in all, there are advantages and disadvantages!"

Although the province of Letania is not very well developed, the economic and demographic conditions in the eastern part of the province of Leitania far exceed that of Danube.

Because Leitania Province is also the main transportation route between East Africa and Southwest Africa, the Kalahari Basin, and the central part of the country.

Therefore, the importance of East Africa in the province of Letania is higher, so this South African war can actually be regarded as a war between the central East African and the allied forces, no matter which direction, is to maintain the industrial belt of the three central provinces as the first goal, but the eastern part of East Africa, except for the naval battle, has not been greatly affected by the war.

However, these are not things that Portuguese soldiers like Ording and Chris Luther can figure out, and at present, the Portuguese military is very confused and does not know the situation in South Africa.

Although Portugal had a long colonial history in Angola, it was far less aware of the situation in the interior of Africa than in East Africa, which was a latecomer.

In the past, Portuguese caravans had traveled through the interior of Africa to open up the trade route from Angola to Mozambique, but they were all ruthless people who "sought wealth and danger", and at the same time were not professional.

These unprofessional merchants, drawing commercial routes, became the only maps available to the Portuguese and allied forces, but the development of East Africa to Africa made these maps obsolete.

Like Olding and Chris Luther's troops, they are busy in the province of Danube, where the northern part of the province has a predominantly tropical rainforest climate and has not been extensively developed at all.

So the Portuguese army had to bite the bullet and look around here for a way to the hinterland of East Africa, and the village of Luena was one of their achievements.

This village of Luaina is not recorded on the ancient Portuguese maps at all, and there is another opposite situation, that is, many of the maps mark the indigenous villages or tribes of Africa, and the kingdom has disappeared from the map.

This is obviously the "credit" of the East Africans, except for the very vague situation of the mountains and rivers, the Portuguese army did not get any valid map information, and even so, the rudimentary map is full of holes, especially errors, and the difference is very large.

All in all, the army on the northern front of the Portuguese colony of Angola, although it had not fought a few major battles, was even more mentally tortured, and it was better to stay here for a long time than to go to the southern front and fight the East Africans.

Just as Oldin and Chris Luther were enjoying the sun, the voice of their comrade-in-arms Mars came to their ears.

"The farmland around the village has also been destroyed by East Africa, and we have found a lot of ashes, there are traces of smoke on the broken walls, and the iron pots on the stove have been taken away by the East Africans, and the East Africans have left nothing." Mars said helplessly.

"Damn, how do East Africans endure this hellish place, the environment in Africa is hell compared to Europe!"

"And now that malaria is rampant in the army, and our non-combat attrition is very strong, why hasn't the kingdom's medicine been delivered to the front line yet?"

"Only a handful of indigenous plantations have quinine, but the price they ask for is too high for us to afford." Oldin explained.

"Bastards, these plantation owners mean that we are fighting in the interests of the front, Angola is nothing more than a colony, without the support of the kingdom, they would have been annexed by East Africa long ago, at this time they should fully support the front, not how to get rich, these greedy bastards." Chris Luther scolded.

"Fortunately, we didn't even have a large-scale infection, otherwise according to the current environment, I am afraid that there would be no treatment at all, and basically there would be no death." Oldin sighed.

The reason why Alding and Chris Luther's unit is special and does not have large-scale malaria infection is not because they have a special constitution, but because they have been in Angola for a long time.

So they were able to survive a long time ago, suffering from the terrible disease of malaria, and at the same time having been in Angola for a long time, they were able to survive the problem.

Of course, this is also thanks to the fact that they came early, it was still peacetime, and medicines and the like were not scarce.

But even so, there are many comrades-in-arms who have died in Africa, like Olding, who are actually lucky people who have been screened by the "environment" once, so they are not easy to be infected again, and they have a certain resistance, and those with poor physique have long been eliminated.

(End of chapter)