September 20, 1888.

The main forces of the Southern East African Military District, assembled at Falsklester, began to attack the British forces in the eastern part of the Southern Frontier Province, relying on the strongholds and passes of the former 512th Division in the Transkens Mountains.

At the same time, under the command of the General Staff, the defenders of the port of New Hamburg also began to attack the British troops outside the city.

With the reopening of the Port of New Hamburg, the new mixed division at this time had actually completed the expansion of personnel and the replenishment of equipment and materials.

East Africa launched an offensive against the British from both the east and the west, and the British army, already exhausted, was simply unable to resist, and worst of all, they were simply not in danger to defend.

The only city that could act as a barrier, the Port of New Hamburg, was overcome, and the direction of the Drakensberg Mountains was firmly locked in by East Africa.

At this time, unless the main British army in Mozambique was supported, the entire Southern Frontier Province was afraid to return to the hands of East Africans.

However, although the British army in the Southern Frontier Province waited for the support of Count Roberts, it was a drop in the bucket and could not change the tide of the war at all.

Because at the same time as the reconquest of the Southern Frontier Province began, a new round of large-scale offensives began in East Africa from the north and west, and Count Roberts had to withstand the pressure to prevent the collapse of the entire defensive line, and in this case, there were simply no spare troops to support the south.

This was after the Mozambican coalition forces contracted their defensive lines again a month ago, and the pressure on the British defence was somewhat reduced.

The armies of East Africa continued to march from the Drakens Mountains to the east, and the more than 10,000 British troops in the west could not compete with East Africa in terms of numbers and morale.

Coupled with the attack on the port of New Hamburg, the British army did not dare to divide part of the 20,000 British troops in the east to support the western front.

After all, after a few months of war, the British army's perception of the defenders of the new Hamburg port city is that of a "tiger in a cage".

The Southern East African Military District now did not care about the British army's ideas, and in order to completely annihilate the remaining British troops in the Southern Frontier Province, the 513th Division marched along the railway line to the port of New Hamburg.

The 514th Division blocked the British retreat to the Natal colony along the Tuguela River, while the 511th Division advanced from the plains and confronted the 512th Division head-to-head with the main British force on the Western Front.

Under the multi-pronged approach, the British army was simply unable to fully resist the offensive in East Africa, and the worst thing was that the Western Military Region of East Africa seized the opportunity to increase reinforcements from the northwest to hold back the British troops from Mozambique.

The Western Military District controlled the southernmost point of the Eastern Line, the territory of the former Kingdom of Eswatini, which had a geographical advantage for the whole of Eastern and Southern Africa, and a regiment of the 412th Division was directly inserted diagonally from the northwest into the Maputo reinforcements.

Although it did not stop the British reinforcements from moving south, it greatly delayed the speed of the troops' march and bought precious time for the Southern Military Region to eliminate the local British troops.

Taking advantage of this gap, the 513th Division and the newly mixed division of the New Hamburg Port successfully joined up and launched a full-scale counteroffensive against the 20,000 British troops on the outskirts of the New Hamburg Port City.

By the time British reinforcements arrived on September 27, 1888, the city of New Hamburg had been completely relieved.

The British army had more than 20,000 troops in the south, which was already drawn from Mozambique by the Earl of Roberts.

But they had to face the 30,000 main East African forces that had just won the victory, and the morale was high, and the worst thing was that now the British army had no danger to defend at all, and there was nothing to do, so the British commander decisively gave up the task of rescuing the British troops in the southern frontier province and fled in the direction of Mozambique.

September 30.

The East unofficially recovered the entire territory of the Southern Frontier Province, and captured more than 18,000 British troops in the two battles, including more than 3,000 British, and the rest were mainly Indians.

At the time of the reconquest of the Southern Frontier Province in East Africa, the battlefield on the Western Front also underwent great changes, and at this time, most of Angola's forces were basically completely defeated by East Africa.

The 414th Division and the rest of the division broke through the Portuguese lines head-on, and then began to advance towards Luanda and other important Angolan military towns.

As a result of a series of military victories, a large number of Portuguese soldiers were captured, totaling more than 40,000, while a large number of black servants were captured or fled in East Africa.

However, these blacks who fled with "advanced" weapons seemed quite dangerous in East Africa, so the entire Western Front began to encircle and suppress black deserters throughout the territory.

After all, these weapons are very likely to become a "trouble" for East Africa to open up the Angolan region in the future, and it is indeed not easy to find tens of thousands of black deserters in the more than 300,000 square kilometers of Angolan colonies at present.

In addition to the collapse of the frontal battlefield, the important city of Cabinda in northern Angola was also defeated by East Africa, so that only Luanda and Benguela had several coastal military strongholds in Benguela were still under the control of the Portuguese.

Luanda has held out in this war until now, because the Portuguese and British governments have access to the South Atlantic maritime superiority, and Luanda has been able to obtain sufficient supplies and troops.

A brigade from the Portuguese mainland had arrived in Luanda a week earlier, but the city's morale was declining.

East Africa's presence in Luanda has been increasing, and at the same time various artillery reinforcements have been sent here, and the fall of Luanda is only a matter of time.

The same problem is Benguela, but Benguela is slightly better luck than Luanda, the second brigade of the 421st Division lacks siege equipment and heavy firepower, so that the city can survive, but the new 419th Division in East Africa is coming in the direction of Benguela, and when the 419th Division is in position, it is basically certain that the defenders of Benguela are powerless.

Now the main resources of the mainland are mainly inclined to Luanda, so Benguela receives a very small share of materials, and the second brigade alone has already stretched Benguela's firepower, and when the 419th Division arrives, Benguela will not be able to cope with the fire suppression of an integrated division in East Africa.

October 7, 1888.

With the cooperation of the 419th and 421st Divisions, Benguela, the second largest city in Portugal, fell, and the top brass of Benguela fled to Luanda by sea, and the troops in the city surrendered to East Africa.

At this time, the western battlefield also came to an end, and the whole of Angola, except for the isolated island of Luanda, was controlled by East Africa.

The new army in the western theater of East Africa has also grown rapidly and formed combat effectiveness after being tempered by this period of war.

End of October 1888.

After a general clearance of Angolan territory, East Africa began an all-out offensive against Luanda.

East Africa concentrated one hundred and three artillery pieces and fired an angry cry at Luanda, a coastal fortress in the South Atlantic second only to Cape Town.

The Portuguese could never have imagined that they would enjoy the treatment that only European theaters could enjoy in backward Africa, and this was the first time in the whole of sub-Saharan Africa that a single battle had reached hundreds of artillery pieces.

Although Luanda has been built by the Portuguese for hundreds of years, the Portuguese certainly did not envision that Luanda would one day suffer such treatment.

At 4 p.m. on the last day of October 1888, after more than an hour of artillery fire in East Africa, a white flag was raised over the ruins of Luanda, announcing the end of centuries of Portuguese rule in Angola.

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