The subsequent struggle by the East African Army against the Kingdom of Rwanda and the Kingdom of Igara was utterly unremarkable. They encountered virtually no resistance; in some areas, the natives had already fled before the East African Army arrived.
Having learned from the fate of the princes and nobles of the Kingdom of Burundi, Rwanda and Igara chose not to fight the East African colony to the death, but to relocate and start afresh elsewhere.
The nobles of Burundi and Kalavi now looked like homeless dogs. All the way into the territories of the Kingdom of Rwanda and the Kingdom of Igara, more than half the servants at their sides had run off, taking plenty of property with them.
Given the Kingdom of Rwanda and the Kingdom of Igara's current state, their upper ranks simply had no confidence in resisting the East African colony's offensive. The East African colony likely would not accept their surrender either, so it was better to flee elsewhere while they still could.
By voluntarily giving up this land now, they could preserve their strength and retain the elite forces of both kingdoms. Then they could head to Central and West Africa and show the natives there what the iron fist of civilization looked like.
Just as the northwestern states faced a civilizational gap when confronting the East African colony's firearms, those northwestern states likewise held a civilizational advantage over the native tribes.
Their ironmaking and organizational capabilities were beyond comparison with those nomadic tribes. Moreover, the northwestern states had not completely entered agrarian civilization, and their martial spirit remained abundant. Facing opponents on the same level, they felt no fear.
What was more, the northwestern states were not reckless fools with courage but no strategy like the Eastern Bantu tribes. Had the Eastern Bantu