Surprise Inspection

In eastern Matabele Province, East Africa was actively constructing a new Eastern Defense Line to safeguard the strategic security of the entire province.

As East Africa's most important industrial province, Matabele Province ranked second only to Central Province in status, standing a tier above Eastern Province, which was dominated by a single city—Mombasa.

The Eastern Defense Line was a military defensive line built along the border between Matabele Province and Hechingen Province to guard against Mozambique.

The entire line stretched over 1,300 kilometers, extending from Tete City in what had been Mozambique in his previous life all the way into the Swaziland Republic.

Faced with such an extensive border, East Africa naturally could not establish defenses everywhere. However, it had built numerous fortifications along key military routes and vital transportation nodes.

Making full use of East Africa's terrain advantages, it had deployed troops in river valleys, mountain passes, and the gently merging stretches between plateaus and plains.

At that moment, East Africa's specially appointed military inspector, Glaide, was leading men in an inspection of the construction of the entire Eastern Defense Line, ensuring no one was merely going through the motions.

Glaide had already arrived at Zipinga Fortress. This had once been an important commercial route through which Portuguese merchants in Mozambique traded with the indigenous peoples of Africa's interior. There had originally been a commercial outpost here, but after East Africa drove out the local Portuguese merchants, it took over their nest like a magpie claiming a cuckoo's home. It gradually evolved into a military fortress afterward.

Even today, it remained an important commercial port. Merchants pursued profit, and although East Africa had offended them before, it could offer them greater gains. In particular, East Africa's development had further increased productivity in Africa's interior, reducing the cost of their