Chapter 750: Complaints of Portuguese Soldiers

While major military breakthroughs were being made in two directions in East Africa, the Angolan colonial army in the west also encountered trouble.

However, the trouble did not come from East Africa, but from the African environment and the Portuguese army's own lack of preparation.

Luaina is a small East African village in the central Danube Province. It is a small stronghold established during the development of western East Africa.

However, as East Africa implemented the policy of clearing the western region, Luaina had long been deserted, and finally the East African Defense Force destroyed the village.

A small force from the Angolan colony was the first to discover this place, but everyone was greatly disappointed when they found out it was an empty village.

"Olding, damn it, this is another empty village. If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I would have thought it was plagued by a plague. There is no life at all!"

This is the climate in Africa. If no one lives here, it will soon be swallowed up by nature. It has been two months since the Luaina village was evacuated to the rear. The ruins of the village are covered with weeds and mosses, and various small animals build nests here, reflecting the "harmony" between "man and nature".

"Chrislude, stop complaining. It's good enough that we can find a place to rest. I don't want to sleep in the wild tonight. At least there are the ruins left by the East Africans here. Although they are in a very shabby state, they are still effective in sheltering from the wind and rain." Ording said to his comrades.

Although there are only ruins, the open space and ruins in Luaina Village seem particularly friendly given the dense rainforest surrounding it.

Ordin was lying on a half-collapsed dirt slope, staring at the sky with his eyes narrowed, holding a pipe in his mouth and saying, "Look how wonderful the sunshine is! We have been dealing with the rain forest for the past few months, and we haven't enjoyed such comfortable sunshine for a long time."

The Portuguese army has been suffering greatly since entering the Danube Province in East Africa, especially the dark and humid environment of the rainforest, and the harassment from various poisonous insects and wild beasts.

A waste like Luena Village was enough to satisfy Ordin, who had suffered for two or three months.

"Speaking of sunshine, I haven't seen it for a long time. The roads here are still very difficult to walk on, or there are no roads at all. Now I really want to know how the East Africans attacked Angola? Didn't they have such troubles?" Chris Luther asked curiously.

Ordin explained, "I heard from the old people here that the last war in East Africa was fought from the south to attack Angola. The south is drier than the north. I heard that it's all grasslands and deserts, so the conditions there are much better than here. After the last East-Portuguese War, the kingdom was forced to cede the southern land to East Africa."

"Then why don't we take back the south? Anyway, we have already torn our relations with East Africa. Can they still block our troops from passing? We rarely encounter East African troops here." Chris Luther said.

"If only it were that simple. In fact, the southern part is the East African province of Letania, and we are in the so-called Danube Province. The conditions in Letania Province are better than those in Danube Province. It is a plateau and seems to be more livable, so East Africa has a lot of troops there. Although the conditions in Danube Province are difficult, there are no battles to fight. In short, there are pros and cons!"

Although the development of Leithania Province is not very strong, the economic and population conditions in the eastern part of Leithania Province are far superior to those of Danube Province.

Because the province of Lethania is also an important transportation route connecting East Africa with Southwest Africa, the Kalahari Basin, and Central Africa.

Therefore, more attention is paid to East Africa in the province of Lethania. Therefore, the South African War can actually be seen as a war between the coalition forces with central East Africa as the core. No matter which direction, the first goal is to maintain the industrial areas of the three central provinces. On the contrary, the eastern part of East Africa, except for the naval battle, has not been greatly affected by the war.

However, these are not things that Portuguese soldiers like Olding and Chris Road can figure out. Currently, even the Portuguese military is very confused and cannot figure out the situation in South Africa.

Although Portugal has a long colonial history in Angola, it is not as familiar with the situation in inland Africa as the latecomer in East Africa.

In the past, Portuguese caravans had traveled through the interior of Africa, thus opening up a trade route from Angola to Mozambique, but those caravans were all ruthless people who sought wealth and fame at the cost of danger, and they were not professional at all.

The trade routes drawn by these unprofessional merchants became the only maps available to Portugal and the Allied Forces. However, the development of Africa by East Africa made these maps outdated.

Just like the troops that Ording and Chrislud are in, they are busy in the Danube Province. The northern part of the Danube Province is dominated by tropical rainforest climate and has not been developed on a large scale at all.

Therefore, the Portuguese army had no choice but to look for a road leading to the heart of East Africa. The village of Luaina was one of their achievements.

The village of Luena is not recorded at all on the ancient Portuguese maps. At the same time, there is another opposite situation: many African indigenous villages or tribes and kingdoms marked on the maps have disappeared from the maps.

This was obviously the "credit" of the East Africans. Apart from the very vague terrain of mountains and rivers, the Portuguese army could not obtain any effective map information. Even so, the simple map was full of loopholes, especially the errors, which were very different.

In short, although the troops on the northern front of the Portuguese colony of Angola did not fight many major battles, they suffered even greater mental torture. The more they stayed here for a long time, the better it would be to go to the southern front and fight the East Africans.

Just as Olding and Chrislud were enjoying the sunshine, the voice of their comrade Mars came to their ears.

"The farmlands around the village were also destroyed by East Africans. We also found a lot of ashes and traces of smoke on the broken walls. The iron pots on the stove were taken away by the East Africans. They left nothing behind." Mars said helplessly.

"Damn it, how do the East Africans endure this damn place? Compared to Europe, the environment in Africa is simply hell!"

"Moreover, malaria is rampant in the army right now, and our non-combat casualties are very severe. Why haven't the kingdom's medicines been delivered to the front line yet?"

"Only a few local plantations have quinine, but the price they charge is too high and we simply can't afford it," explained Olding.

"Damn it, these plantation owners mean that for whose interests are we fighting on the front line? Angola is just a colony. Without the support of the kingdom, they would have been annexed by East Africa long ago. At this time, they should fully support the front line instead of thinking about how to make money, these greedy bastards." Chris Luther cursed.

"Fortunately, there is no large-scale infection in our company. Otherwise, under the current environment, I'm afraid we won't be able to get treatment at all, and there's basically no chance of survival," said Ording.

The reason why the troops that Olding and Chrislud belong to are special and have not been infected with malaria on a large scale is not because of their special physique, but because they have been in Angola for a long time.

So they had been infected with this terrible disease, malaria, a long time ago, and at the same time, after having lived in Angola for a long time, they had gotten rid of the problem of acclimatization, so they were able to survive.

Of course, this is also thanks to the fact that they arrived early. It was still a peacetime period and medicines and the like were not scarce.

But even so, many comrades died in Africa. People like Olding were actually lucky ones who had been selected by the "environment" once, so they were not easily infected again and had a certain resistance. As for those with poor physical fitness, they had been eliminated long ago.

(End of this chapter)