Chapter 36 Binhai District
“Attention everyone, the five-kilometer load-bearing cross-country begins!.”
The new East African colonial army formed by Chinese immigrants marched forward in the rain with loads.
It was rainy and gloomy in East Africa in April, but the colonial recruits still had to undergo training. As time went by, the East African colonies today have begun to spread out across the 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. Chinese immigrants who came to East Africa had to stay here and were redistributed before being sent to various new strongholds.
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 East African coast from north to south. However, the plain part of the coast to the west and close to the inland has no population. The Sultan of Zanzibar The main body of the country is still on the island of Zanzibar and Dar es Salaam opposite, and the other areas are not very populated.
This gave the East African Colonies an opportunity. In order to expand the land as much as possible, this time the East African Colonies did not plan to set up strongholds around the first town, but in Msolwa, Pungwe, a little further away. Three new towns were established in Manda.
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 entire third town (Kitunga) with an area of almost 3,500 square kilometers 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 administrative seat. 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.
So the East African colonies decided to pull out 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 climbed 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 living 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 generally sell stolen goods through the Zanzibar Sultanate. Now the Zanzibar Sultanate is starting to lie down, sitting at home and 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 days of the East African colonies 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 They could only run away to the north as hard as they could. It had to be said that these natives ran really fast, and they disappeared after a while.
"Okay, let's catch up here! The north is not our target right now. Everyone, please take a break."
"Captain, how come those black things are running so fast, and they are gone 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. These aborigines If you can't catch up or escape, then Either we 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 we cannot run as fast as those natives who compete with wild beasts every day. "
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The German commander Rorschach is studying the map. Currently, Yaman is in charge of the military affairs of the entire East African colony, and Rorschach is in charge of the military affairs of the coastal area. Therefore, In the colonial military force, he can be regarded as the second in command.
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 operation in Binhai District 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 have been brainwashed and are very loyal to the Hohenzollern family, they still have to be careful about their grouping and fighting. Other Germans divided.
After all, these students of the Hechingen Military Academy can communicate directly with the soldiers of the colonial army, and the German commanders must 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 students, but also white students. Ernst planned to find some orphans in Europe, especially in Germany, and let him learn German and Chinese, and finally join the Chinese students in the military academy. developed in the colonial army.
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.
The army in the future colonies 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 not large now, so Ernst does not 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 his centralization were not given up.
(End of this chapter)