African Entrepreneurship Records

Chapter 790 The King’s Flag Falls

"This is our observation map of the entire Shaokwe terrain these days. Although Earl Roberts tried to resist stubbornly with the support of the Limpopo River, yesterday's battle caused the coalition forces to suffer a fatal blow, and when the troops were not rich in the first place, Roberts There are also huge loopholes in the defense system planned by the Count, especially in the western area of ​​​​Shaukwe. The river bend here must have been taken advantage of by Earl Roberts at first, but now he can only retreat to the narrow area in the east, so the west is Now that the coalition forces are at their weakest point, we can concentrate our artillery and troops to storm it and we should be able to completely annihilate Earl Roberts’s department soon.”

  Commander-in-Chief of the Western Military Region, Lederne, told everyone that as Merkel went to the south to command the combat missions in Cape Town and Natal, Lederne is now the top military commander in East Africa in Mozambique.

The Western Military District is also the main force currently fighting against the Mozambican army, especially after the main force in western Mozambique was surrounded by the Western Military District in the São Jorge area.

Now Mozambique has become the meat of East Africa, and the way to solve the Mozambique problem as soon as possible is to get rid of the coalition headquarters headed by Earl Roberts and the Mozambique government, and then recruit and surrender the main force of the western Mozambique coalition.

If this still fails to achieve the goal, then after wiping out Earl Roberts's department, the East African army will move westward and cooperate with the four divisions besieging the main force of the coalition to completely annihilate the enemy forces in Saint-Jorge.

Of course, the most important thing now is to conquer Shaokwe. The terrain of Shaokwe is very conducive to defense. The only pity is that the coalition forces have been operating here for too short a time, so there are very big loopholes, especially at the bend of the Limpopo River in the west.

According to the plan of the coalition forces, the natural river here would be used as part of the city defense of Shaokui. However, unfortunately, due to the lack of manpower and materials, the construction of Shaokui was not completely completed.

As the war progressed, the grassroots order in Mozambique had already collapsed, so it was impossible to recruit soldiers here. The Mozambique colony was originally sparsely populated, and there were many jungles, mountains, and canyons. After the war broke out, many indigenous people They were all hidden, so it was impossible for the Portuguese to go deep into these areas and find them out.

The lack of labor force eventually led to the failure of Count Roberts' plan. However, in this case, Count Roberts could still rely on the old city of Chaukwe to deal with East Africa.

 December 25, 1888.

 Count Roberts's troops, which were shrinking in Saukwe, could not cross the Limpopo River to counterattack the East African troops in the east and north, so they could only be beaten passively, and at this time, in order to prevent the main East African forces from attacking from the west and south.

The British and Portuguese were hiding in the trenches, with dust flying around them. The roar of the artillery shells after they landed made the coalition soldiers very uncomfortable. Although the blood did not flow into rivers, the smell of gunpowder smoke and blood wafted on the position, and occasionally residual remains could be seen. With severed limbs and intact corpses, the entire defense line was like a **** on earth.

There is only a river between the Eastern Military Region and Shaokui. This is not a good place to attack Shaokui from land, but it can more calmly deploy artillery troops to conduct corrective artillery bombardment of the core area of ​​Shaokui on the other side of the river.

Prior to this, the Shaokui garrison could only stay under the fortifications to avoid artillery bombardments from the Eastern East African Military District and the Northern Military District.

  Various units of the East African National Defense Force, major military regions and Guards divisions launched a massive counterattack against Shaukwe under the condition that the General Staff temporarily authorized Delaine as the temporary commander-in-chief of the battlefield.

 The daily training of East African artillery is very strict, so the accuracy of the artillery is very high, and it can basically accurately aim at large targets on the other side.

  Eastern Military Region troops, Western Military Region troops and the Guards Division acted as the main firepower output, concentrating thousands of artillery pieces of various types to bombard the Shaokui ammunition area for half a day.

Earl Roberts had to concentrate most of his only inventory of artillery to deal with the artillery of the Guards Divisions in the Western Military District. However, he could only let the East African troops in the east and north go their own way. He could only wait for the East African troops to show signs of crossing the river before attacking the East African troops. Launch a counterattack.

Under the bombardment of artillery fire, the temporary defenses built in Shaokwe on the other side of the Limpopo River were vulnerable. Due to the rush of time, some of the defenses in Shaokwe were still mainly made of rammed earth. These became a reminder during the war.

At the same time, in the south and west of Shaokui, the coalition forces faced more difficult tests. The artillery fire of the Guards Division and the Western Military District was several times that of the Eastern Military District and the Northern Military District.

Under this intensive artillery attack, the Shaokui fortifications were almost completely destroyed, leaving only a piece of scorched earth.

eight pm. Under the clarion call of the East African charge, the general attack on Shaokui City officially began. Under the cover of artillery and machine guns, the East African infantry advanced step by step towards the Shaokui position and the city head.

At this time, most areas of Shaokui had been bombed into ruins. The East African infantry climbed onto these ruins and then fought with the enemy who came out of nowhere.

The enemy is very tenacious, but this is only a minority. Most of the enemies still surrender after seeing the East African flag. At this time, the opportunity has been completely lost.

The British and black troops were okay, but the Portuguese soldiers and Indians seemed to have met their biological parents, begging for mercy in various ways from the East African soldiers.

And this disharmonious situation has completely torn apart the resistance of the coalition forces. After all, no matter how hard you work, how can you fight this kind of battle without your teammates?

The "demonstration" given by the Portuguese and Indians was eventually transmitted to all the coalition forces. The peripheral coalition forces basically surrendered, and the East African soldiers who tried to fight to the death also made them enter **** in advance.

At this time, Earl Roberts only had less than 3,000 reserve forces left under his command. Earl Roberts looked at the tidal wave of East African troops, his face was as pale as water, his chapped lips were slightly open, his eyes were dull, and his eyes were dull.

 “Vote!”

At this time, a voice came from behind Earl Roberts. It was Bougival, the governor of Mozambique. Bougival also looked very depressed. He looked at Roberts gloomily and said.

"Surrender?" Earl Roberts was mumbling at this time, but he was still in the same miserable situation as before, as if he hadn't come out yet.

"Your Majesty, please wake up! We have no chance. We can no longer let these young lives die in vain. If we continue to resist, we will only add cold numbers to the East Africans' merit books. We have failed, and we have failed completely."

After saying this sentence in an almost roaring voice, Bougival's whole body was drained of energy and energy, and he collapsed to the ground.

 Earl Roberts clenched his fists, and the old skin formed wrinkles full of age on the back of his hands.

"well!"

 …

At nine o'clock in the afternoon East African time, the sky was already gray, but some shadows could still be seen vaguely, and several conspicuous white flags were slowly raised on the top of Sauquene City.

With the surrender of Earl Roberts and the Governor-General of the Mozambique Colony, Dongfang informally captured Chaukwe, and at the same time, another colonial flag of the Kingdom of Portugal in Africa quietly came to an end.

 The glory of the Kingdom of Portugal was completely buried by the Kingdom of East Africa in the dust of history at the end of the 19th century. There were many such wars of the century in the 19th century, but for the Portuguese, this was their last chance.

Without the land and population as a foundation, it is basically impossible for Portugal to rise again in the future, unless their descendants stand on the wind and complete new feats like their ancestors, but that is basically impossible, just like what Ernst knew in his previous life In that way, the two wasters on the Iberian Peninsula have been falling.

 (End of this chapter)