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eighteen, east africa

The "Africa Justice" cargo ship to which Elia Shipping, which is a "two crown flags", slowly passed the Suez Canal and started to sail to its final destination, the port of Dar es Salaam in East Africa, Germany. During the remaining voyage, it will no longer dock at any port.

They need to bypass the British blockade before the war begins.

Time is extremely urgent for Colonel Bolojevic and Lieutenant Colonel Mayer. Soon the British will make a big march towards Transvaal in three directions. It seems that the Boers' situation is in jeopardy. The "African Justice" carried more than 1,200 volunteers recruited from the Grand Duke of Istria from the Netherlands and Belgium for the Boers, who will command the team to fight the British. There are also 150,000 rifles, 400 Maxim machine guns and 300 artillery pieces, and they also need to sell these things for diamonds and gold.

"I don't understand why the Grand Duke chose to go against the British?" Bolojevic said.

"It's just a business, a business with a big profit." Mayer smiled. "Just like you did in Abyssinia, you sold a total of 230,000 rifles, machine guns and cannons for the Duke. How much reward did the Duke give you?"

"Well, it's a total of 500,000 kroners." Bolojevic said hesitantly. Mayer was responsible for cargo transportation during the Abyssinian War, and he could probably guess the amount.

"This is right, 500,000 kroner, which is only a small part of the profit. The arms business is always the most profitable industry, and some people don't even want their lives for it. But Isleia does not have much risk. There is a powerful empire behind it." Mayer said, "In addition, it is the hostility that the Grand Duke has always possessed towards the British."

"I'm also very surprised that Mr. Grand Duke never expressed his favor for the British," said Bolojevic.

"Maybe... it's because they are so powerful that they make people jealous and angry," Mayer said.

"This mission should be very difficult, and the British are much harder to deal with than the Italians."

"We will also receive subsequent reinforcements. As long as the Boers are willing to pay, there will be a continuous stream of Dutch people sent to Africa, which is enough to give the British a headache," Mayer said.

"Guerrilla warfare? I have never quite understood that giving up those important towns may mean the failure of the war."

"According to my understanding, this is a kind of destruction, which prevents the enemy from gaining benefits, and may give up the war because it cannot bear huge losses." Mayer said, "As for what kind of tactics it is, only by slowly understanding and applying it, is the purpose of the Grand Duke sending us."

"Will the Boers listen to us?" Bolojevic said, "it's hard."

“Yes, but we might be a model for them,” Mayer said. “As long as we achieve some results, they will learn very quickly.”

This has to speed up, and in Delancivania, the situation of the war has quickly developed to a critical period that has brought the country into a crucial critical period. The ongoing war between the Boers and the British seemed to be deciding soon, and the time left for them seemed to be very little...even it was almost over.

They think so, in fact, this just-breaking war will last for another three years.

During the Napoleonic War, the British snatched Cape Town from the Dutch people. The descendants of the Dutch colonists living in Cape Town were forced to migrate north because they could tolerate British exploitation and oppression, and fought with the indigenous Africans all the way, and eventually established three Boer countries in southern Africa. Of course, the descendants of those Dutch people claimed to be the "South Afrika people", and the orange stripes symbolizing the Orange family in the Netherlands in their national flags indicate that their ancestors were Dutch.

This is the Transvaal Republic, the Republic of Natalia and the Free State of Orange established by Dutch immigrants.

During the First Boer War, the defeated British recognized the independence of Transvaal and Orange. The Boer countries living in desolate and barren lands were not worthy of the British Empire's great struggle. Poverty and desolation made these two countries lucky to be preserved.

But the huge wealth discovered subsequently made the British jealous.

Just a few months after Transvaal signed the London Agreement to recognize their independence with the United Kingdom, two prospecting engineers discovered the world's largest Westwatersland gold mine on a desolate pasture between the Transvaal capital Pretoria and the Val Valley, which produces 40% of the world's gold every year.

The greed for wealth made the British finally tacitly tear the London Agreement. In 18.95, Joseph Chamberlain, who publicly claimed to implement colonial policies in South Africa, became British colonial ministers, and at the same time, Cecil Rhodes, who was constantly filthy with the Transvaal government, took office as prime minister of the Cape of Good Hope colony. The two people's arrival made the British foreigners in Johannesburg seem to see the dawn coming from the Cape of Good Hope and London, and were ready to use force to obtain what they could not get through verbal disputes.

In 18.97, Britain sent Alfred Milner, a fanatical colonialist, as the commissioner of South Africa. Their three troikas to conquer the Boer countries: Chamberlain Milner Rhodes was already ready, and war was inevitable. At the same time, Devasland was also stepping up its preparations, and the weapons of the Isleia Company were continuously transported to the hands of the Boers in South Africa from this time.

After taking office, Milner claimed that the British had never agreed to Transvaal's independence, and that it was still a colony of the British Empire, and announced that he would regain the Boers' autonomy.

This is equivalent to a declaration of war.

Rhodesbane walked between London and Berlin, on the condition that Britain supported Germany in purchasing Spanish colonies and building the Baghdad Railway, in exchange for William II's acquiescent to Britain's actions in South Africa. William II was confused, and the British proposed the idea of ​​an alliance between Britain and Germany, which was just an idea. However, the German emperor abandoned the Boers because of this and did not hesitate to offend the Russians for some reason.

The war in South Africa started to fight like this, and it was about to enter the 20th century.

Now, Dar es Salaam has arrived.

Colonel Bolojevic and Lieutenant Colonel Meyer had to lead their "volunteer troops" here for a week. The equipment at the port was too poor, and the "African Justice" needed a long time to unload the goods.

According to the plan, they had to transport the goods from the road to Mahengki near the Neassa Lake, where Lee Haydn obtained a large area of ​​land from William II to open up rubber, sisal, peanut and cotton plantations. These manors were nominally under Princess Erin's name.

This batch of weapons will be exchanged for a large amount of diamonds and gold, and the "volunteer army" led by Boloevich and others will also use Mahenki's Irene Manor as a base to conduct adaptation training first.

At the right time, they will cross Rhodesia and enter Devasland.
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