East Africa's actions in the west were bottoming out, but Count Roberts, who was far away in Mozambique, had not yet received the news.

The command between the coalition forces was divided into three parts in East Africa, and the Boer Republic was able to send the results to Mozambique in time through the Cape Town line of contact in the event of defeat.

Angola does not have this opportunity at all, after all, without the consent of East Africa, the land telegraph line cannot be built at all, and the coast has to pass through the skeleton coast of southwest Africa, and laying such a telegraph line is doomed to lose money, so there is no capital willing to invest here.

Mozambique was special because of the pre-war needs of the British army, and there was only a small port of New Hamburg between the colony of Natal and Mozambique, which was not a long distance.

Therefore, the incoherence of intelligence further gave East Africa an advantage in the war.

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First Town City.

The information returned from various fronts made Ernst feel a lot happier, and at present, in addition to the territory of the Boer Republic, where the Boers are still stubbornly resisting, the other two key counteroffensive places can be said to be very smooth.

In comparison, the Portuguese performance is the worst, which is very much in line with Ernst's impression of the Portuguese army, Portugal's combat effectiveness is the same as its national fortunes, it has been in a state of decline, so you never know the bottom line of the Portuguese.

At this time, von der Leyen suggested to the crown prince: "The current situation shows that the situation has developed in a good direction, so we should be more proactive in participating in it and solve the negative impact of the war on East Africa as soon as possible." ”

On the one hand, the military industry in East Africa was integrated and further optimized during the war, while the railway and communication systems and logistics systems were tested, and at the same time, the war also brought an increase in demand, and the production capacity of various factories in East Africa was more than doubled compared with before the war.

Of course, before the start of the war, factories in East Africa had already begun to increase production capacity, after all, this war was the result of the two-way rush of East African and allied forces, and everyone was prepared before the war.

However, the demand during this war was only short-lived, and the main difficulty in the East African economy was the foreign economic exchanges, and now the merchant ships flying the East African flag no longer exist, and can only swim in the ocean under the banner of various countries.

At the same time, the war is uncertain, and now that the strength of the coalition forces has been determined, it is not suitable to delay any longer, and the longer it goes, the more likely it will be to change.

At the same time, the battlefield is to kill people, and although the current population of East Africa is not as scarce as it was at the beginning, it is also a valuable asset, especially the young and strong labor force who join the army, which is relatively scarce.

Witt also thinks so, he said: "The current situation on the battlefield is developing in our favor, especially after the completion of reserve training, we can now supplement or even expand the front-line army, and win the war in one fell swoop with superior forces." ”

Since the beginning of the war, East Africa has been fighting with the three countries with only half the strength of the allied forces, and the reservists have received military training in the rear.

Now East Africa is not only stronger than the coalition army in terms of quality, but also in terms of quantity, although it may not be possible to mobilize as many troops as the coalition army, but the gap between the two sides should not be too big, and at this time another 200,000 troops are still within the scope of East Africa.

Ernst asked: "Does the staff have a detailed plan?" ”

"We plan to invest 50,000 troops on the Western Front, and the Portuguese are the weakest of the three countries in terms of combat effectiveness, so it is easiest to deal with the Portuguese army in Angola first, as long as we solve the Portuguese army in Angola, we can also threaten the supply lines of the British army in the South Atlantic," Witt said. ”

"At the same time, the Nile Military Region will also cooperate with the actions of the Western Military District, and at present, Belgium should not participate in the South African battlefield, in this case, we can let the Nile Military Region's troops in the northwest move south along the Ubangi River to support Kinshasa and pose a threat to the northeast of Angola."

"In this way, we can launch a general battle of 100,000 people in the west, annihilate the Angolan colony of the Portuguese in one fell swoop, and defuse the military pressure in the western region, and the new soldiers on the battlefield can be put into the main battlefield in the east again after being tempered by the Portuguese.

Persimmon picks the soft pinch first, this is the plan of the East African Defense Forces, with the current war data of the Wehrmacht, the Portuguese have lived up to expectations and become the "weakest link" of the coalition forces.

As for the Boers, although they were routed by East Africa on the front line, the Boers' will to fight and their ability to resist were beyond the expectations of East Africa.

During the civil war, the facilities built between the Transvaals and the Oranges for war came into play, effectively delaying the movement of East African armies and causing a lot of trouble for East Africa.

So much so that the main forces of the Wehrmacht in the south could not get out at present, and were forced to play "clearance and counter-clearance" with the Transvaals.

In order to ensure that there would be no accidents, Ernst did not order the Wehrmacht to reduce its manpower to support the eastern theater, but ordered his troops to fight steadily and steadily to wipe out the Boer resistance step by step.

Of course, this is related to the national policy of East Africa to annex the Boer Republic, and the demand of East Africa is to "want land and not people", after all, the Boers and East Africa are now at odds with each other.

Not to mention the Transvaals, even the Orange people also have a strong resistance mentality, so leaving this land in East Africa must be cleared of all hidden dangers.

And war is a very effective means, when the Boers went north, it was to escape the British, and now East Africa is just doing what the British have done again.

And this requires a huge amount of energy and time, and if there are fewer people, it is possible to overturn, and the application of 50,000 main troops in East Africa to the Boer Republic, which has a population of only more than 300,000, is already a recognition of the strength of this small country.

"In the territory of the Boer Republic, according to your request of the crown prince, we mainly focus on attrition, and we have dispersed the Boers, and at present we have migrated more than 4,000 people from the territory of the Boer Republic, plus more than 20,000 prisoners, which is almost one-fortieth of the population of the Boers, and a large number of Boers fled in the direction of Cape Town to escape the fighting."

"The soil on which the enemy relied to carry out guerrilla tactics was also rapidly compressed, and at this pace, the Boer ethnic group could probably only exist in Britain in the future."

Against the Boers, it was mainly to deal with the Transvaal guerrillas, this time the Transvaals were not like the last time, unprepared, after being massively armed by the British, plus many years of sufficient experience in warfare, plus familiarity with the terrain and other advantages.

The front-line soldiers of East Africa suffered a lot, and the effective way for East Africa to deal with them was to physically exterminate the local population.

Of course, East Africa is not yet a Holocaust, with the looting of the Boer population on the one hand, and the destruction of Boer villages and the forced migration.

In this way, the Boer guerrillas lost the ground for resistance, and of course the Boer plight could be solved if the British could support them effectively.

But it is a pity that Britain has now fallen into the point of sweeping the snow in front of its own door and ignoring the frost on the tiles of others.

(End of chapter)