Chapter 36 Binhai Area
"Attention everyone, the five-kilometer load-bearing cross-country begins!"
The new East African colonial army formed by Chinese immigrants marched forward under heavy loads in the rain.
It was rainy and gloomy in East Africa in April, but the colonial recruits still had to undergo training. As time went by, the current East African colonies had begun to lay out the entire interior.
After the advance team set off, the development of this area originally close to Dar es Salaam will naturally not stagnate. This is the first place where immigrants come. The first town is as its name suggests. Every Chinese immigrant who comes to East Africa They all stay here and are redistributed before being sent to various new bases.
Recently, the East African colonies have begun to plan new villages and towns, mainly the development of the first town to the north. The plains there are relatively vast and are the essence of the coastal plains of Tanzania.
Dar es Salaam belongs to the Sultanate of Zanzibar. With this as its core, it spreads across the entire East African coast from north to south. However, the plain part of the coast to the west near the inland has no population. The main body of the Zanzibar Sultanate is still in Zanzi. Bar Island, and Dar es Salaam opposite, are not much populated elsewhere.
This gave the East African Colonies an opportunity. In order to expand the land as much as possible, the East African Colonies did not plan to set up a stronghold around the first town this time. Instead, they established three new locations in Msolwa, Pungwe and Manda, which are slightly further away. town.
In this way, starting from the first town (Mlandizi), passing through Msolwa, Pungwe, Mandaga and the second town (Ruvo), a huge circle is formed, including the third town (Kitung) in the middle. (Canada) The entire area of almost 3,500 square kilometers of land was included in the bag. With such a large area, the East African colonies decided to establish the East African Colonial Coastal District.
Binhai District temporarily has six towns under its jurisdiction. The first town is the first town where it is governed. It is the first large-scale subdivision in the colony.
Land cannot appear out of thin air, so it is important to drive out the indigenous people on this land. Now, after nearly a year of development, the number of Chinese immigrants in this area has reached more than 18,000, and they are concentrated in three Construction completed around town.
Therefore, the East African colonies decided to mobilize an army of 2,000 people to conduct a dragnet sweep of the indigenous tribes in the coastal area.
The weapons have been prepared in the warehouse for a long time. Now they can be issued to the soldiers after a short training, and then set off to suppress the indigenous tribes.
April is the rainy season, so the training of colonial soldiers often encounters heavy rain, but the German instructors do not care about anything, and everyone must complete the training on time every day.
The recruits crawled forward painfully in the mud, with gunshots heard from time to time, exercising their courage.
The natives that the recruits have to face are not difficult opponents. They are mainly small tribes in the mountains and forests. The larger tribes are in the west. Some of them have hard heads. They have been captured by the Zanzibar Sultanate and sold to Arab countries. country.
The Sultanate of Zanzibar is okay with bullying the natives, but the East African colonies with guns and live ammunition are not easy to mess with, so the two sides have been in peace so far.
The East African colonies usually sell stolen goods through the Zanzibar Sultanate. Now the Zanzibar Sultanate is starting to lie down and sit at home waiting for the East African colonies to deliver slaves and ivory to their doors.
The Sultanate of Zanzibar was responsible for selling these goods overseas through Arab merchants, so the early East African colonial period actually promoted the abnormal prosperity of the Sultanate of Zanzibar.
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A few days later.
Manda, the northernmost part of Marina District.
"Hurry up and chase them. Even if you can't catch them, you can't let them run back and shoot!"
Bang...bang...bang...
The panicked natives could only run away to the north as hard as they could. It must be said that these natives ran really fast and disappeared after a while.
"Okay, let's catch up here! The north is not our target yet. Everyone should take a break for the time being."
"Captain, how could those black guys run so fast and disappear in a blink of an eye!"
"That's because these aborigines make a living by hunting. They chase various animals every day, or are chased by animals. Think about how fast lions, cheetahs and wildebeests can run. If these aborigines can't catch up, or If you can't escape, you will starve to death or be eaten! We are different. For generations in the Far East, we have mainly farmed and put all our energy into the fields, so running away is not as good as those who compete with wild beasts every day. Fast natives."
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The German commander Rorschach is studying the map. Currently, Arman is in charge of the military affairs of the entire East African colony, while Rorschach is in charge of the military affairs of the coastal area. Therefore, he can be regarded as the second-in-command in the colonial military force.
This time the task of driving away the indigenous tribes in the coastal area was led by Rorschach. These recruits were led by German veterans with rich war experience, and some students from the Hechingen Military Academy were mixed in to act as translators.
This coastal operation was the first large-scale coordinated operation, with a total of 2,321 people dispatched.
The completion of the operation means that the plan to use Chinese people for large-scale military purposes is feasible. Among them, the Hechingen Military Academy played an important connecting role.
But this aroused Ernst's vigilance. Although the students at the Hechingen Military Academy were all brainwashed and very loyal to the Hohenzollern family, they still had to be careful about their grouping and dividing with other Germans.
After all, these students of the Hechingen Military Academy could communicate directly with the soldiers of the colonial army, and the German commanders had to rely on the students of the Hechingen Military Academy to act as translators.
From this we can see how much influence the cadets of the Hechingen Military Academy had on the lower-class soldiers of the colony.
For Ernst, any uncontrollable cause must be nipped in the bud. After thinking for a long time, Ernst thought of a good way.
The Hechingen Military Academy should not only have Chinese cadets, but also white cadets. Ernst planned to find some orphans in Europe, especially in Germany, to let him learn German and Chinese, and eventually develop in the colonial army together with the Chinese cadets.
In this way, the two can supervise and restrict each other, and studying in the same school can also allow them to communicate and integrate.
In the future, the colonial army will have white people who can understand the Chinese immigrants. They can understand the immigrants' true thoughts and report to Ernst at all times.
This was a temporary measure. What really needed to be done was to start German education in the colonies. Now that the entire colony spoke German, Ernst could relax a little.
Fortunately, the colony is now small, so Ernst doesn't have to worry about anyone trying to cause trouble. The colony relies heavily on the Hechingen Consortium, which is why Ernst can remotely command the East African colonies.
At the same time, he continued to send his confidants to hold important positions in the East African colonies to divide the senior leaders of the colonies. These measures that were conducive to centralization of power were not given up.