Chapter 484 Training
As a mixed-race country, East Africa will face a very embarrassing problem in the future, that is, it has no historical and cultural heritage.
Historical and cultural heritage is actually very important, such as the East Asian cultural circle, the Arab cultural circle, the Turkic cultural circle, etc., which represent influence and political interests, and these are all connected through historical and cultural attributes.
So how should the cultural roots of East Africa be positioned in the future? Can we only turn to Germany or the Far East in terms of history and culture? This was certainly not what Ernst wanted.
East Africa has its own interests, and will have its own values and core interests in the future. Ernst does have special feelings for Germany and the Far East, but East Africa is actually independent from these two civilizations.
As the saying goes, a single tree cannot make a forest. If East Africa wants to expand its historical and cultural influence, it cannot be dominated by the two cultures of Germany and the Far East. So now it should take the initiative to expand cultural areas with the same attributes as East Africa.
Bosnia and Lanfang Republic are two good experimental zones in Ernst’s opinion. If these two areas are transformed into similar population and cultural attributes as East Africa, then they will also be emotionally different in the future. It will naturally gravitate towards East Africa.
For example, the current Lanfang Republic is a purely Chinese country. Its culture and emotions are inevitably biased toward the Far East, rather than East Africa, which is both German and Chinese. However, if East Africa changes the population attributes of the Lanfang Republic into those of itself, Likewise, the Lanfang Republic will inevitably fall to East Africa in the future.
East Africa has always regarded the direction of the Indian Ocean as its core maritime interest in the future, of which the South Ocean is the focus. And what can threaten this core interest, according to the past history, the Far East is likely to be East Africa's competitor or competitor in the future. Challengers, the United States and the United Kingdom have experienced this deeply.
In the same way, the German region, including Germany and Austria, and East Africa also attach great importance to it, especially now. It is very important for East Africa to have two big brothers in front, and East Africa is important to these two countries. Sex is not very obvious.
In the eyes of the two countries, East Africa's status is the same as the British's view of Canada and Australia. They really think they are worthy of being compared with the locals!
So Ernst had a very important purpose in adding water to Bosnia, which was to plant a mine within the sphere of influence of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (Bosnia was not yet part of the territory of the Austro-Hungarian Empire). This mine Even if they are of mixed race, if the Austro-Hungarian Empire has no idea about Bosnia in the future, this mine will never be effective. On the contrary, the Austro-Hungarian Empire will have leverage in East Africa.
Even if the Austro-Hungarian Empire really does not accept the sugar-coated bullet of Bosnia, East Africa can still be considered as planting a nail in the Balkans. The importance of the Balkan Peninsula is self-evident, and it is beneficial to East Africa no matter what.
Bosnia and Lanfang Republic are just the first step in East Africa. More areas will be transformed by East Africa in the future. Of course, the premise is that the British and French barriers must be passed first.
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Maputo.
The Portuguese looked at the French's training results with great interest, and saw a hundred black people squatting on the ground in the open space with their heads in their hands, their upper body clothes stripped off.
Pah...pah...pah...
On the Maputo training ground, French instructor Wilson used a pointer to beat the disobedient African soldiers hard without mercy. The whipping caused blood marks to appear on the naked backs of these black men.
“Damn it, do niggas like us really need to be nannies to learn to obey orders? We can’t even learn the simplest thing of keeping a formation.” Wilson was going crazy. The result of two months of training, Allowing himself to completely collapse, Wilson could be said to be full of confidence at first. As an excellent French instructor, he had led many thorns and fools in France. No matter how difficult the French soldiers were to deal with, within a month of being in his hands, they would all be defeated. Is an excellent warrior.
Then he was sent to Mozambique. According to Wilson's idea, black people are also human beings. No matter how bad they are, they can never be worse than the mules in the army.
Three days later, Wilson discovered that he was wrong. A week later, Wilson discovered that he might have taken over an incredible task. A month later, Wilson lay down and no longer pursued the pursuit of turning these black people towards the French army. Direction was the goal, and now Wilson was completely devastated.
The French instructors were quite angry about training black people, because the cultural level of black people was so low that they could not even do simple training, not to mention complicated training.
However, the French instructors are still too careless. This is a practical problem faced by many armies in backward areas. Of course, we have to admit that the African natives are a bit too backward.
For black soldiers in tribal civilization, because of the degree of civilization development and even the language that is not mature, many basic concepts that are normal in the eyes of later generations do not exist.
It can be said that the organizational ability is basically non-existent. Of course, Ernst has to be fair. This does not blame the black people, but the French instructors got the wrong direction. In fact, the black people can also fight together, especially a small number of people. The specific expression of human cooperation is hunting. A few black people can leave an everlasting shadow on the animals on the grassland with their primitive bows, arrows and spears.
As for the slightly larger number of people, black people are really not good at it, because in this era, it is normal for many black tribes to have more than a dozen people. The reason for the low productivity level is that there are only so many people that can be supported in an area, and black people will be with Lions also divide themselves according to the number of prey. The vast majority of black people do not know how to farm, and they have not developed nomadic attributes.
So black people can develop primitive state power, which is considered a top civilized country in Africa, representing advanced productivity. However, these primitive countries are actually not large in scale, at most they are super large. Tribes, the core area of many countries may only be a city or village. As for the large area on the map, it is just a virtual mark. Many independent small tribes are included. From Ernst's perspective, these black civilizations Stay at the level of the Yanhuang tribe in the Far East thousands of years ago.
The Yanhuang tribe is a tribal alliance. The Yanhuang tribe is equivalent to the overlord of the tribe, but the tribes below can still be regarded as independent units. Those countries in Africa actually play the role of tribal overlords. In fact, they are called tribal overlords. They are all praised, but many of them do not have that appeal. At most, their ability to resist risks is stronger than that of ordinary tribes.
When the East African Army was still a colonial army, mercenaries and commanders at the Hechingen Military Academy also had a headache for the new army formed by immigrants.
It is normal for many people to be unable to tell the difference between left and right, and have no clear perception of direction. But strangely enough, many people are not sensitive to the left and right directions, but they can clearly distinguish between southeast, northwest and northwest.
Compared with the French’s expectations for the black troops, East Africa does not have such high requirements for the black troops. After all, many of the natives in East Africa were beings that the Far Eastern instructors in the previous life could not teach. Ernst did not believe it at all. The East African Army has the ability to train black regiments into normal troops.
However, black people are not all the dishonest people faced by the French and East Africans. In fact, the black people in Abyssinia and North Africa are very fighting, so much so that the Arab Empire and Europe regarded the black people in North Africa as It has been incorporated into the army. Abyssinia was the former overlord of the Red Sea and fought a thousand-year war with the Arabs. In the past, Nubia in the Sudan also counterattacked Egypt, so the atmosphere of competition is conducive to the development of civilization. .
In order for these black people to quickly develop combat effectiveness, the education model in East Africa is very simple. They will fill the ammunition, pull the trigger, and accept instructions to move forward and retreat. As for ugly running, ugly movements, and inaccurate aim, it is not a problem.
(End of this chapter)