In addition to the textile industry being affected, the foreign trade in the coastal areas has basically been affected to varying degrees.

Fortunately, the British did not do everything absolutely, otherwise it would definitely be enough for East Africa to drink a pot, of course, the reason for this situation is naturally the embodiment of East Africa's own strength.

East Africa fears that its own trade will be affected, and the United Kingdom has similar anxieties, just as Egypt and Somaliland are also threatened by East Africa, and the East African Navy will have a hard time defending itself against British naval attacks in the east and north.

Similarly, the British colonies of India shared such anxieties, especially as the East African navy still existed.

Britain was able to choke East Africa's foreign trade lanes, and East Africa was able to cut off communication between Britain and India, which made both sides jealous.

Therefore, the war in South Africa is generally within the control of the two countries, and it is also a temptation, and the outbreak of a larger conflict and war is not the best option.

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Mangu City.

As the terminus of the western section of the Central Railway, it is an important hub for East Africa's counteroffensive against Angola, and the original population of Mangu City was only 3,000, but now a large number of troops are assembled here every day to open up the western battlefield.

The army of the Angolan counteroffensive is mainly composed of reserves, and the framework is composed of retired soldiers and campaign soldiers.

Naturally, such an army has no war experience to speak of, and this is an important reason why East Africa chose Angola for its major counteroffensive.

Compared with the British army, the Portuguese army is a soft persimmon in the eyes of East Africa, which can effectively achieve the purpose of training.

"Don't be afraid when you encounter the Portuguese, the fighting consciousness of the Portuguese, to be honest, is not as good as even some natives, and their army has a low level of education, weak coordination, poor weapons and equipment, and when you see the Portuguese, you will give full play to the firepower advantage of our army."

An East African veteran who has been re-drafted and re-drafted into the army, Heled, instills his combat experience in these children.

"Mr. Helled, is it true that the Portuguese are worse than the natives?"

"Of course I won't lie to you, this is all my personal experience, although Portugal is a relatively famous country in the world, and its strength was not weak before, but now Portugal has long lost the blood of its ancestors."

"Let's not talk about it far away, let's just say that in the last East Portuguese War, we only used two divisions of troops to fight the Portuguese at that time, and they didn't even have the slightest resistance at all, even if there has been some progress over the years, I'm afraid it's not much."

"Why?" Someone asked Heled curiously.

"Because of the lack of money, the economy of the Kingdom of Portugal has been completely rotten, so their soldiers themselves are a very poorly paid profession, and the last time we fought against the Portuguese, they still used weapons that had long been obsolete, and even antique firearms from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries."

"This kind of country that cannot even meet the needs of weapons and equipment is naturally unable to compete with other countries, which can also be seen from the clothing of the Portuguese army."

"At the beginning of the Age of Discovery, the Portuguese army was very well equipped, and now the clothing of the Portuguese army, especially the colonial army, is even more rudimentary than the old East African uniform."

"I'm sure you've seen the old version of the East African military uniform, which is a simplified version of the German military uniform, and the Portuguese can't even unify this simple version of the military uniform, and the troop formation is also very chaotic."

"Based on my previous experience, with just one charge, the Portuguese will break up, and I don't know if they have improved in recent years."

In fact, the most important factor for the combat effectiveness of the army is the treatment of the army, and the Portuguese army has long been rotten from the roots.

In the case of the Angolan army, although conditions have improved, they are a drop in the bucket and with the course of the war.

The more war-weariness the Portuguese soldiers grew, and even desertion had already begun.

In the early stages of the war, Portugal could barely afford to pay for its soldiers, but the Portuguese army was too numerous.

Portugal's own population is only a few hundred thousand, while the armies of Angola and Mozambique have reached more than 100,000, and this is not counting the black servant army, for Portugal, military spending is a heavy burden.

By the middle of the war, Portugal had already begun to experience delays in the payment of military funds, and at this time the Portuguese soldiers could still afford it.

By now, the Portuguese government has begun to mess up, and can only give empty promises to soldiers, the most important of which is to go to East Africa to "kill, burn and loot".

However, there is still a slim possibility that the empty promises will be realized, and the goal of going to East Africa to feed the war with war and making war profits has not been achieved.

Because East Africa took the initiative to implement the "fortified wall clearing", it was impossible for the Portuguese soldiers to generate additional income, and even the basic food and clothing problems could not be solved.

In this case, the mentality of the Portuguese grassroots soldiers naturally "exploded" directly, so that in the middle of the period, the Angolan colonial army began to swing in a rotten mode, which was also an important reason for the slow progress of Portugal.

Now the Portuguese soldiers were completely prostituted by the Portuguese government, and this result was a complete surprise for East Africa.

Early August 1888.

The ready-to-go East African army officially began a full-scale counteroffensive towards Angola, and East Africa attacked Angola simultaneously from three directions: northern, central and southern.

As expected in East Africa, the Portuguese army was indeed the lower limit of the Allied combat effectiveness, and the black servant army was in disarray before the war began.

The ensuing "no money" shelling in East Africa caused the Negro Servant Army to have a nervous breakdown, and the Portuguese did not do much better.

Many Portuguese soldiers resisted passively and simply fired their guns into the sky, and even some of the troops surrendered directly to East Africa as a whole.

This was a big surprise in East Africa, and the reason for the surrender of the Portuguese troops was that the food was too poor.

East Africa has achieved tremendous results on all three fronts, advancing more than 50 kilometers in a week.

And what really hindered the progress of the East African army was not the Portuguese army, but the sequelae of East Africa's "strong walls and clear fields".

The clear field of East Africa's fortified walls has been so effective against the enemy that it has now become a stumbling block on the road to East Africa's annexation of Angola.

East Africa's fortified wilderness, which includes the destruction of infrastructure such as roads, bridges and settlements, is now being attacked and defended.

The East African Defence Forces had to dismantle the mines they had planted themselves, which greatly delayed the pace of the march.

However, compared with the troubles encountered in East Africa, the Portuguese side is really embattled, especially the northern front of East Africa, the troops of the Nile Military Region in East Africa, which directly arrived at the Kinshasa front along the Ubangi River.

Kinshasa was the closest military town to Portugal in East Africa, just over 300 miles from the heart of the Portuguese colony of Angola.

Moreover, the main forces of the Angolan colony were mainly distributed in the central and southern regions, and there were not many troops in the north to resist the southward movement of the troops of the Nile Military Region.

This is also a sequel of the last war, during the First East Portuguese War, East Africa was directly from the central and southern parts of the country into the heart of Angola, and directly threatened the security of Benguela and Luanda.

So this time Portugal deployed heavy troops in the east and west, thus ignoring the water transport conditions of the Congo River.

Of course, this is no wonder to the Portuguese, after all, most of the Congo River is in the hands of East Africa, and the Portuguese have no channels to understand.

(End of chapter)