After a hasty battle.
The Zanzibar Army lost its ability to fight. Inside the royal palace, the East African Colony Army captured several hundred men, while the remaining Zanzibar soldiers scattered throughout Dar es Salaam, unable to continue resisting.
Felix led his men into Zanzibar's banquet hall, where the Zanzibar ministers came to meet him.
Three minutes earlier.
"Your Excellency the Governor, ministers, disaster! The Germans have broken in! General Abdullah has already been captured alive, and now the Germans are arresting people everywhere!" A maid ran into the hall in a panic.
"What? How is that possible? How many men do they have? How could they have broken in so quickly? Are the kingdom's troops all stupid donkeys? They couldn't even hold out for ten minutes?" Bargash bin Said's face changed drastically.
According to Bargash bin Said's own plan, he should have gathered the kingdom's troops first, then rooted out the Germans in Tanga, and finally cut off the connection between the East African colony and the sea, forcing the Germans to surrender.
Since it was the first day of the coup, Bargash bin Said had planned to begin conscripting troops from across Zanzibar tomorrow. That was already very fast, after all. He knew that Mlandizi, the closest point in the East African colony to Zanzibar, was over a hundred li away. At the Zanzibar Army's own marching speed, it would take at least two days to arrive.
What was more, if the East African colony wanted to dispatch troops, the people expelled from Dar es Salaam Port would first need time to return and deliver the intelligence, and the army would need time to assemble.
Bargash bin Said had originally estimated that the Germans in East Africa would need at least three and a half days before