Chapter Eighty-Five: Senseless Resistance

On the fertile soil of Angola, the smoke of war did not end completely with the collapse of the colonial regime of the Kingdom of Portugal, even if East Africa destroyed Luanda, the spiritual pillar of Angola.

Because compared with Luanda, there are still a group of "real" owners in the land of Angola, and their most real interests are not the so-called "patriotism", but the land and rich products of Angola.

The plantations and mines of Angola, these "Portuguese" who really lived in Angola, their resistance to East Africa, did not end with the fall of Portuguese rule.

East Africa did not have the time to manage these plantation owners or mine owners during the war against Luanda, and now that the frontal war is over, East Africa has to launch a new round of military operations in order to obtain Angolan land.

En heat.

Enheat is located 267 kilometers from Luanda, a Portuguese plantation, where a company of the 416th Division was fighting against the plantation guards.

Gunfire rang out in the ditch to the left of the Enheat plantation, and the grenadiers fell on the ground in puffs of black smoke that smeared the green fields.

"The old grenadiers still use black powder, but this power is not as good as smokeless gunpowder, but the smell of gunsmoke at the mouth of the cannon barrel makes people feel more intoxicated!" Company Commander Parker said with great satisfaction in the makeshift trench.

As a newly formed unit, Parker's unit has not yet come and updated a lot of equipment, and it is old goods that have been moved from East African defense warehouses.

Smokeless gunpowder is a great invention, but unfortunately the time when smokeless gunpowder can be produced in East Africa is too close to the South African war, so even before the war, not all troops can be replaced with new equipment and new ammunition.

For Parker, these weapons, although they have some shortcomings, are enough to deal with the Portuguese plantations that don't even have enough weapons.

"Commander Parker, these Portuguese really don't know what to do, their main forces have been annihilated by us, why don't you give up resistance? With rudimentary weapons, and the black slaves with weak will to fight, they try to fight against us in vain! ”

Parker said, "Man dies for money, and birds die for food." For these plantation owners, the land is their foundation, and it must be difficult to accept the result of having traveled thousands of miles from Europe to here, and now that hundreds of years of accumulation have been looted because of the incompetence of the state. ”

Of course, this is just an exaggeration, after all, there are only a few rich people who can really live in Angola, and after accumulating considerable wealth here, they still have to return to the glitz and glamour of Europe.

Even though Portugal is a little unpopular among European countries, it was once a great country that the Portuguese should be missed.

During the colonial era, the former glory of the Portuguese Empire was a passport for the Portuguese to accept the status of "civilized people" in peace.

Of course, behind the extravagance and decency of the European gentlemen and capitalists is the tragic sacrifice of countless countries and civilians in Asia, Africa and Latin America.

As long as a country's strength is in place, it is easy for him to be "respected" by other countries, Portugal is not good now, but the glory of the "pirate" ancestors will not make anyone really despise this country, after all, what if, maybe, maybe Portugal once again did the same pioneering thing as at the beginning of the Age of Discovery?

However, these have nothing to do with the East African warriors, just like Parker, for him, the current "mere" Portugal is just a stepping stone for the great Hexingen Kingdom to stand on top of the world, and East Africa will definitely be no worse than any country in the world in the future.

Just like now, the black slaves on the Portuguese plantations opposite, they don't even have basic freedom, and they are only cannon fodder for the plantation owners in the face of war, and Parker no longer feels interested in this kind of powerful opponent.

Parker said: "From the moment of victory in the Luanda War, Portuguese rule in Angola came to an end, but these plantation owners, with thousands of acres of plantations, lost the ability to be sheltered by the Kingdom of Portugal, and these are their private property, so they must be dissatisfied with our East Africa, after all, our actions are detrimental to their real interests, but the 19th century is the era of strength." ”

"If it is we who are defeated, I think we are not facing a much better situation than Angola is now, so for the sake of the kingdom, for the sake of Germany, we must fight the Portuguese and win, this is a completely just war of self-defense."

Of course, Parker's righteousness is awe-inspiring, and this does not change the fact that East Africa is now depriving Portuguese "civilians" of Angolan soil, which is better than a few months ago when this war was a great patriotic war.

The current East African army, like Napoleon back then, is defined from a hero of the country to an "aggressor".

However, the East African soldiers did not have any burden in their hearts, first of all, the situation in the 19th century, that is, whoever has the big fist has the final say, Portugal lost this war, so it is completely reasonable for East Africa, as the victor, to get all the spoils.

Second, the East African soldiers had little sympathy for such large private plantations, since they were not big plantation owners themselves.

In East Africa, the nationalization of land was carried out, and although nationalization could not make the East African people rich, it could be without worrying about food and clothing, which was a very happy thing for the East African people in this era, after all, and at the end of the 19th century, East Africa was simply "paradise" compared to the misery of the people of most countries.

Moreover, land privatization is actually derogatory in the eyes of most East Africans in this era, especially in the case of Angola, where a plantation is owned by the plantation owner, and the laborers under him do not benefit at all.

Although East Africa also practices "exploitation" of its citizens to a certain extent, this is an inevitable thing, and international competition requires the industriousness of East African citizens.

After all, there is no way to compare the heritage of East Africa with the vast majority of countries, and this disadvantage can only be created by "hard work".

Of course, the only pity is that the rulers of East Africa are the Heixingen royal family, otherwise it is really possible for East Africa to take a different path and become the forerunner of this era.

Of course, now under Ernst's governance, East Africa's performance is basically qualified, which is very much in line with the psychological expectations of the East African people, in fact, even if Ernst does nothing now, Ernst will become one of the "greatest" people in East African history in the future.

Because now Ernst is tantamount to fabricating a new nation, although it is a shell of Germany, but everyone knows that it is only a shell.

No matter which direction East Africa develops in the future, it will not change the history of Ernst creating this nation and state.

Unless, one day, the East Africans will be completely exterminated, as the American Indians did, or the state will cease to exist as a ruling institution, and the world will be united.

The 19th century was a turbulent era, but as long as Ernst lived long enough, East Africa would have the opportunity to survive the dangerous period, which was the prerogative of the founding monarch, of course, the founding king of East Africa was Konstantin, which was special, but who made the former Heixingen royal family thin!

(End of chapter)