Folkslester.

This awkward name was inherited from the Boers in East Africa, and Falksledster was not strictly the territory of the original Transvaal Republic.

Rather, it was the meeting place of the Boers and the Zulu kingdoms, or rather the "battlefield" where the two clashed, and which was firmly controlled by East Africa.

At the same time, Forkslester is the transport hub of the region and an important link to the port of New Hamburg, through which the Central Railway of East Africa passes.

With the military movement of the Southern Military District, more than 27,000 troops in total are ready to cooperate with the defenders of the port of New Hamburg to retake the Southern Frontier Province.

This also made the Folksledster station busy, where the troops of the Southern Military District were to assemble and then pass through the passes of the Drakens Mountains.

East Africa controlled large and small passages, and although there were occasional outbreaks of British troops to open the way westward, East Africa was quickly recaptured.

Of course, although the Drankens Mountains have a certain defensive function, they cannot ensure that they are foolproof, as long as the British army uses all their strength, there is still a chance to break through the natural dangers of the Drankens Mountains.

However, even then, it was a difficult task for the British, first of all, the lack of detailed knowledge of the Drakens.

After all, the British arrived too late, and by the time the British wanted to show their skills in South Africa, both the Transvaal Republic and the Zulu Kingdom had already been destroyed in East Africa.

In addition, East Africa does not open up trade to the outside world, and even restricts the entry and exit of the population, so it is very difficult to obtain information in East Africa.

Most of the information available to the British came from expeditions, and the term "explorer" was arguably the most notorious existence in the 19th century, and the term corresponding to "navigator" was the vanguard of colonialism.

Of course, in the past, there were similar official organizations in East Africa, but now they have been replaced by various types of scientific expeditions or foreign professional espionage agencies.

The Drakensian Mountains are so big, and East Africa is vast and sparsely populated, so even if East Africa wants to engage in the "closed country" system, it cannot completely prevent "explorers" from all over the world from entering East Africa.

This is especially true in the southern provinces of East Africa, which together have more than one million square kilometers and a population of less than one million in the army.

The only difference is that the number of troops in the south of East Africa is almost one-eighth of the population of the Boer Republic.

Of course, with the outbreak of the South African War, the Allied forces in South Africa also increased rapidly and surpassed the East African armies, although most of the contribution to the superiority in numbers came from Indian soldiers.

If only the original population of the Boer Republic and Cape Town is added, even if the two Portuguese colonies in the east and west are added, without the support of the mainland, it is not difficult for East Africa to pick up four at all, and it can even be pushed flat.

……

In Folkest, the military commanders of the 511th, 513th, and 514th Divisions, which had just ended the fighting in the Boer Republic, met to discuss how to recover the lost territory in the Southern Frontier Province.

In addition to these three units, there was also the 512th Division, which is now the defenders of the city of New Hamburg, the main force of which was besieged in New Hamburg, but the headquarters of the 512th Division was in the Dejarr area near the Drankens Mountains.

Therefore, there are a total of four participating troops in East Africa this time, which is basically the majority of the Southern Military Region.

"The British army now has more than 20,000 troops on the outskirts of New Hamburg, twice as many as in New Hamburg, and the number of coalition troops in the entire Southern Frontier should be more than 40,000, and most of the remaining forces are confronting us on the eastern side of the Drakens." Kaylar said to the friendly commanders who had come to their aid

The commander of the 511th Division, Pripyat, said: "That is, the British army that is now in the Southern Frontier Province is not the main force? ”

Kailar: "The main force of the British army is now in the north, that is, in Mozambique, and as for the British troops in the southern frontier provinces, they did try to break the deployment of our division in the Drankens Mountains in the month before the start of the war, but they were all repulsed by our troops, and then the enemy and us fell into a tug-of-war near the Drankens, which has been delayed until now. ”

As the former supreme military commander in the eastern part of the Southern Frontier Province, the 512th Division led by Khalal and several times the British army have fought many major battles in recent months, including the very famous Battle of the Tuguela River at the beginning of the war.

However, now the 512th Division was divided into two parts by the enemy, and now the troops in the east, centered on the city of New Hamburg, were mainly under the command of Aristotle.

After the siege of the city of New Hamburg, in order to unify the command of the defenders of the port of New Hamburg, the Southern Military Region temporarily reorganized Aristotle's 9th Brigade and the 3rd Brigade withdrawn from the northern front into the New Port of Hamburg Mixed Division.

So now Kailar can actually command only one-third of the original 512 divisions, but even so, the strength of four and a half divisions in the eastern battlefield of East Africa in the eastern battlefield of the Southern Frontier Province can reach more than 40,000, which is more than twice the British army.

"Our railroad to the city of New Hamburg has been completely cut off, as has the telegraph line, and communication with the new mixed division can only be transited through the General Staff. ”

This was an important reason why Arridotus was given independent command, and although he was nominally subordinate to the Southern Military District, he was in fact directly under the command of the General Staff.

Of course, the most bitter in his heart is still Kiral, his original subordinates are now running ahead of him, commanding more troops than himself, how can this be reasonable!

Of course, this was a special situation under the war, and in the face of the British army, which was several times larger than the 512th Division, even other East African troops could not be said to have done better than Kelar in this situation.

Although Arridotus shone in the war, it cannot be denied that the military deployment and commander of the entire Southern Frontier Province at the beginning of the war was Khalal.

So after the war, Kaylal's credit is indispensable, but it is even more enviable that he has already divided his colleagues.

Several other main forces of the Southern Frontier Province participated in the war against the Boer Republic, and although East Africa was suspected of bullying the less, after the war, the war against the Boer Republic was definitely a war of annihilation.

In this regard, Kailar is quite envious, although the Boer Republic is small in size, small in population, and weak in national strength, but the war of annihilation sounds imposing.

Of course, Khairal actually participated in this kind of war of annihilation, and that was when the Transvaal Republic was destroyed in East Africa.

With the exception of the Transvaal Republic, many countries in East Africa have perished, but most of them have little gold except for Zanzibar.

After all, the African chiefs who hold backward weapons and dominate Africa are not worth mentioning in the history of East African warfare, and this kind of kingdom has been destroyed in at least hundreds, if even large tribes are counted, I am afraid that there are thousands.

For Xiao Jiujiu in Kailar's heart, the commanders of several other divisions have no feelings, although the 512th Division is now divided into two troops, but in their eyes there is no difference, after all, whether the strength of the mixed division has increased out of thin air, it is still the old team of the original 512th Division.

As for bullying the "Boers", it may not be more exciting to confront the British army head-on, unlike Ernst, who values the Boers, but the goal of most officers in East Africa is certainly not the "mediocre" Boers, but one of the "most" powerful armies in the world - the British Army.

(End of chapter)