Chapter 696: Battles in the South and North

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The so-called big plan of the Dalit workers was to march south, and thousands of them began to attack the Ngoni Kingdom.

Although Ngoni was called a kingdom, it was actually an alliance of hundreds of tribes, so when the Dalit workers launched the attack, there was a strange scene of one side in trouble and all sides watching.

When the Dalit army invaded a certain tribal territory and began to kill and rob everywhere, the other Ngoni tribes were waiting for the attackers to leave so that they could grab some things.

In this way, the Dalit army wiped out more than a dozen tribes in a row, killing the northern border of the Ngoni Kingdom in a mess, and the Elders Council got the news.

At this time, there was a disagreement within the Elders Council. Some people advocated the elimination of the invaders, some advocated giving up the northern territory, and some advocated peace.

The chiefs of the Ngoni Elders Council quarreled endlessly, and finally everyone slapped their heads and decided to do their own things.

On one hand, the remaining tribes in the north fled in panic, and on the other hand, the hastily formed Ngoni army went to the front line to prepare for a decisive battle with the Dalit invaders. A group of people took a boat to Bagamoyo to negotiate with the Austrians.

In fact, due to the previous wars, almost all the Ngoni chiefs did not think they could defeat the Austrian army. After all, the most powerful Wegin Kingdom only lasted less than a week, or more precisely, three days.

But that was Frederick's Marine Corps, which was considered elite even in Europe. The Tanzanian colonial army, except for those from Austria, did not have much combat effectiveness.

By the way, the Ngoni Kingdom actually had a musketeer team. But the level of firearms of these guys was far inferior to that of the Indians in the neighboring American continent.

Africans think that guns are witchcraft, and whether they hit or not depends entirely on faith. So when the two sides met, the following scene appeared:

The two sides were five or six hundred meters away, and the black soldiers of Ngoni started the first round of shooting. About two minutes later, the natives started the second round of shooting, and after another two minutes, the black natives fled after the third round of shooting.

How many people did the Dalit army lose after three rounds of shooting by hundreds of people? The answer is almost none. Because the guns sold to the natives by the Dutch and the Austrians were the oldest and most broken garbage.

Moreover, the black natives lacked training, and what was even more terrible was that they did not aim at all, and it was a miracle that they could hit the target at a distance of several hundred meters.

Most of the tribes in the Ngoni Kingdom who went to fight the Dalits were from the south, so they were not familiar with the situation in the north, and were often ambushed by the Dalits on the attacking side.

In close combat, the advantage of the old-fashioned matchlock gun was not obvious, and sometimes it was not as good as a shovel.

Then as the war continued, the Dalits seized more and more firearms, and even formed a firepower advantage over the army of the Ngoni Kingdom in turn.

Dalima Port.

Benny Erbin pushed open a door, which was full of leftover bones. From this, he was sure that the wanderers he had just eliminated were actually a cannibal tribe.

The villagers of Mzizima did not escape, but were "consumed".

But the problem arises again. This kind of terrifying cannibal tribe usually does not come to the seaside. They mostly live inland or in the rainforest.

What brought them to the territory of the Tanzanian Governor's District?

Benny Erbin suddenly had a bad premonition. Either the Kingdom of Malawi in the south will march north again, or a tribe more terrifying than the white people has appeared in the inland area.

Thinking of this, he decided to write a letter to Franz first, and then transfer more reinforcements from Bagamoyo. After all, if the Kingdom of Malawi is marching north, then Dar es Salaam will be the front line.

Benny Erbin expressed great doubts about the combat effectiveness of the colonial army. He hoped that Archduke Frederick could come again with his fleet.

Even if the army of the Kingdom of Malawi is powerful, it will disappear in front of that "invincible" army.

In fact, Benny Erbin overestimated the Kingdom of Malawi. At this time, the Kingdom of Malawi was just a shell, completely supported by the Portuguese. Their so-called royal family did not even have a person in charge.

Let alone the northern expedition to Tanzania, they would be conquered by the British with a piece of paper in a few years.

However, a proud child of heaven did appear in the inland area of ​​East Africa. A chief unified the prairie inland of East Africa through bloody conquests and called himself "the king of the East Bantu people".

Idi Das, the proud child of the prairie, was ready to start his hegemony of unifying East Africa after the rainy season ended. At this time, his priests were frantically looking for sacrifices.

And the refugees of the defeated tribes and the barbaric cannibal tribes who refused to surrender naturally became the target of Idi Das.

However, Benny Erbin was not aware of this. He was still studying the construction of Dar es Salaam. After all, building a city was not that simple.

A port in this era could be built in 2-3 years, but a city would take at least ten years to start. Especially when Franz used the word "most important", Benny Erbin felt more pressure.

Why were the ports and cities in the 19th century built faster than modern ports and cities? The answer is that the requirements were low. In this era, not to mention super freighters of hundreds of thousands of tons, even ships of tens of thousands of tons were hard to find.

Basically, only warships were built over 3,000 tons, and the remaining super-large armed cargo ships were all famous in history, such as the Great Britain (British freighter) and the Great Western (British freighter).

As for the definition of a city, it is even more broad, but as the capital of the future Tanzanian colony, Dar es Salaam may not be fooled, after all, the governor at this time is personally served by Archduke Franz.

About a month later, Bagamoyo finally figured it out that it was the Dalit laborers who were attacking the Ngoni Kingdom.

So Hendri van der Meer sent another 20,000 Dalit laborers and 3,000 colonial soldiers (by sea) to the Ngoni area.

In this era, there was really not much credibility between the colonists and the natives, especially when Hendri van der Meer found that the Dalits were being transported from the sea in an endless stream, which fueled his ambition.

In fact, in addition to the reputation of expanding territory, there is also an economic factor here, that is, when you are strong enough, it is more convenient and more cost-effective to grab the ready-made land than to open up wasteland yourself.

In addition to the Tanzanian colonial army, the Oman Empire also sent troops to support. Although it was under the banner of supporting allies, in fact, the target of these Arabs was black slaves.

As for why the Arabs didn't learn from Austria and go to India to "slave" the Dalits for free? Because Americans didn't recognize these short "black slaves" and they thought these blacks were impure.

Other slave importing countries such as France, Spain, Brazil and Argentina also didn't like these "defective products".

Therefore, the Dalits, who lacked commercial value, avoided being sold to the whole world by Arab merchants, and in India they were not even qualified to be slaves of the British.

After all, the noble Kshatriyas had their loyal Vaishyas and Shudras.