African Entrepreneurship Chronicles
Chapter 88

Conflict Escalates

1,383 words•5 min read•3 views
1mo ago•
Next

Enzela.

East African colony border post.

Mainly responsible for monitoring the movements of the exiled indigenous tribes and preventing the return of the indigenous tribes.

So far, the results of this "purge" campaign have generally met East African Colonial Government's expectations.

The northwest has been turned into a pot of porridge. War always kills people. The colonial plan to eliminate the local indigenous population has been achieved.

It is not that there are no indigenous tribes who want to return to the East. East African Colonial Government has established dozens of large and small ones in places bordering the northwest countries. Military outpost.

A one-way valve is formed, allowing only the natives to exit and not enter.

Enzela is one such Military outpost.

East African colony's defense in the northwest is mainly a straight line from the southwest corner of the big lake (Lake Victoria) to the northeast corner of Lake Tanganyika (Lake Tanganyika).

There are about more than 300 kilometers, and a Military outpost is set up every 20 to 30 kilometers. Patrol personnel are arranged between these strongholds to patrol the border areas continuously.

The northwest countries, which were deeply harmed by Eastern Bantu tribes tribes, began to cooperate with each other.

Although Eastern Bantu tribes caught all countries by surprise and the domestic situation in each country is relatively turbulent, a skinny camel is bigger than a horse.

As the center of an indigenous country, it still has some strength. At least the royal family still has an army directly under its control.

Even though many places, blocked by traffic and enemies, were temporarily separated from the kingdom, the center still occupied the largest land area.

Facing the menacing Eastern Bantu tribes tribes, the northwest countries that had been dealing with each other for many years put aside their past hatred and prepared to join forces to suppress and clean out the barbarians first.

With the arrival of subsequent refugees, the Eastern Bantu tribes tribes began to expand in scale. After all, the indigenous people driven out by East African Colonial Government were not all large tribes with hundreds or thousands of people, but there were also some small tribes with dozens or even a few people, and some scattered indigenous people.

These small tribes and individuals were merged into the large tribes of the Eastern Bantu tribes tribes, strengthening the strength of the Eastern Bantu tribes tribes.

As a result, the scale of the war escalated, and the nobles who originally lived here formed an alliance to jointly attack the Eastern Bantu tribes tribes.

After the Eastern Bantu tribes tribes gained population replenishment, their strength increased greatly, and they were not afraid. The two sides started fighting in the area west of the Great Lake (Lake Victoria).

As a result of the war, the social order of the northwest countries was disrupted. The slaves who were originally used for development and cultivation took advantage of the chaos to join both sides of the war, or fled into the wilderness.

When the original nobles wanted to fight Eastern Bantu tribes, they naturally had to recruit a large number of slaves to serve as cannon fodder, which further aggravated the situation of land abandonment.

The land was abandoned and food production was reduced. Families who were not already wealthy were even worse. In order to compete for the remaining resources, the two sides fought more vigorously.

Facts have proved that when the nobles of the northwest countries get serious, they indeed have an advantage over scattered tribes like Eastern Bantu tribes.

As the region with the most advanced indigenous productivity in East Africa, the northwest countries not only possess more advanced social systems and organizational capabilities than the Eastern Bantu tribes tribes, but also possess more advanced iron forging capabilities.

As for the Eastern Bantu tribes tribes, their advantage over the northwest countries lies in their powerful destructive power. After all, as civilized countries, the northwest countries also have construction attributes, while the Eastern Bantu tribes tribes who are still in primitive society only know how to compete for resources.

Fortunately, the aristocratic forces of the northwest countries are not desolate. Due to the narrow land area between the west of the Great Lake (Lake Victoria) and East African Rift Valley, "friendly matches" are often held between countries.

Moreover, as a slavery civilization, the nobles of the northwest countries naturally had a monopoly on force and were responsible for suppressing the slaves in their respective jurisdictions.

In other words, these nobles are actually the original Military nobility.

In contrast, Eastern Bantu tribes tribes do not have nobility. They mainly elect the strong men in the tribe as chiefs.

Eastern Bantu tribes tribes plundered the northwest countries, but there was actually no way. After being driven away by East African colony, they lost their hunting grounds, and animals on the grasslands were their main source of food.

In addition, coming all the way from the east, traveling long distances and having an empty stomach, in order to survive, the Eastern Bantu tribes tribes could only live by robbing the lords of the northwest countries.

The northwest aristocrats, who had the advantage of iron weapons and strong organizational skills, quickly gained an advantage over the Eastern Bantu tribes tribes after uniting as one.

The balance of victory in the war slowly tilted towards the northwest countries. The nobles of the northwest countries who hated the Eastern Bantu tribes tribes refused to accept their surrender, as long as the captives were executed immediately.

The Eastern Bantu tribes tribes, who were at a disadvantage, saw that there was no way to survive if they surrendered, and they also took deadly action against the northwest countries.

The hatred value of both sides is getting fuller and fuller, and the bloodiness of the war is getting stronger and stronger. Both sides will put their opponents to death as the only goal of the war.

The winner lives, the loser dies. There are no fancy operations, the goal is to eliminate the last person on the opponent's side.

This battle lasted for more than three months and finally ended with the victory of the northwest countries.

Eastern Bantu tribes tribes can naturally kill all of them, but there are only some old, weak, sick and disabled people left, who are made into slaves by the northwest countries to supplement the loss of labor force caused by the war.

This war, which is not remembered by the world, caused at least millions of vendettas. The entire northwest countries and many regions fell into a state of chaos.

What's even worse is that after the war, the corpses of both sides were not effectively disposed of. In the past, when the war was small-scale, wild animals could get rid of the unnoticed corpses.

The scale of this war, coupled with the hatred of the northwest countries towards the Eastern Bantu tribes tribes, resulted in a large number of corpses being exposed in the wilderness.

Even nature had no time to decompose so many corpses, and the horrific plague began to spread in the northwest countries.

The tragic situation of the northwest countries was reported to the government by East African colony soldiers at the border. In order to prevent the plague from affecting the colonies, East African Colonial Government strengthened the blockade of the entire northwest countries.

This time, even Kenya, which borders Kingdom of Buganda, was heavily guarded.

In the tropics, diseases are quite terrifying. Every year, many people in the East African colonies are infected. This is based on the premise that the East African colonies attach great importance to health.

In order to prevent the plague from being brought into the territory of East African colony, East African Colonial Government ordered the soldiers guarding the borders of East African colony and the northwest countries not to let a single living thing pass.

Even if it is a mouse or a snake, it must be shot immediately.

At the same time, East African Colonial Government urgently ordered a large number of disinfection and bactericidal agents from Europe to carry out large-scale disinfection work on the borders between East African colony and the northwest countries.

Under strict precautions, East African colony successfully blocked the spread of the plague to East African colony's territory.

The northwest countries have completely turned into a land of ten houses and nine empty spaces. The farther south the country is, the worse it is. On the contrary, the north of Kingdom of Buganda, Kingdom of Turu and Kingdom of Kitara are the least affected.

End of Chapter
Prev
NovelSummaries
Next

Comments