Chapter 132: Eager to Try
"Report, sir! The city of Kayanza has been captured, and our people are now cleaning up the battlefield." The person in charge said to Alman.
"Very good, everyone has worked hard and achieved a great victory. Everyone will have an extra meal tonight," said Alman.
The Battle of Kayanza was the first major battle in the War to Annex the Northwest. Although the enemy's performance was not satisfactory, which made some warmongers feel unsatisfied, it was still a relief to have such a decent battle in so many days.
Yarman walked on the streets of Kayanza. The streets of Kayanza were in chaos. The things that were still there on the streets were toppled over. The doors of some houses were even stripped away, and there were several corpses lying on both sides of the road.
A careful observation revealed that none of them were killed by bullets. There were muddy footprints on their dark skin, which showed that they had been trampled by fugitives.
Before the East African army entered Kayanza, the natives who were trampled to death were lying all over the streets of Kayanza. The East African soldiers carried the dead to the roadside and stacked them after entering the city.
Kayanza's area is not big by European standards, it is about the size of a town block, so the residents of Kayanza could escape in a short time, but so many people were crowded in such a small city, especially since the city has only four gates, three of which are blocked by East Africa, and only the north gate can be used for escape, so a stampede is inevitable and the entire city of Kayanza is in a mess.
After another inventory of the battlefield, the East African army's results were as follows: the city gate (south) collapsed and crushed seven enemies to death, twelve natives died in the city due to trampling, the East African soldiers killed sixteen people, and captured forty-seven native wounded and children (who did not escape).
The East African army suffered no casualties and captured an empty city, pushing the front line further into the Kingdom of Rwanda, thus completing the mission of expelling the indigenous population of Kayanza.
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After the capture of Kayanza City, the Kingdom of Burundi was basically finished, and the East African army would not encounter any decent resistance in the area of the Kingdom of Burundi.
Only a dozen kilometers north of Kayanza is the border between the Kingdom of Rwanda and the Kingdom of Burundi, so the Battle of Kayanza also means that the Burundi battlefield is basically entering its final stage.
Compared with the Burundi battlefield, the resistance encountered in the neighboring Karawi battlefield was even more insignificant. As the kingdom most harmed by the Eastern Bantu, the Karawi Kingdom even had its king and central government killed by the Eastern Bantu.
The Karawi Kingdom, which was leaderless, could no longer resist the invasion of the Eastern Bantu people. Even many local nobles took the opportunity to leave the Karawi Kingdom and join the Buganda Kingdom and Igala Kingdom in the rear.
However, these two countries really needed manpower to resist the East Bantu, so they readily accepted these nobles who brought their own population and used them to offset the first wave of attacks from the East Bantu.
Therefore, before the East African colonies invaded the Karawi Kingdom, this country was already in name only. The central government collapsed and the border nobles fled. Fortunately, those nobles who could not escape could only fight to the death with the East Bantu people, and with the support of countries such as Buganda, they finally eliminated the invading enemy.
Even so, after the war with the Eastern Bantu ended, the support of various countries for the nobles of the Karavi Kingdom was cut off. This was a disaster for the Karavi Kingdom, which had been concentrating on preparing for war and had left its fertile farmland in a state of desolation.
In fact, even if East Africa had not invaded the Karawi Kingdom, this indigenous country would not have escaped the fate of being destroyed.
If the Eastern Bantu people had not caused huge losses to the northwestern countries, and other countries had not been eager to restore order and production after the war and had not had the time to deal with the Karawi Kingdom, the Buganda Kingdom and other countries would have divided the Karawi Kingdom long ago.
There is no need for Buganda and other countries to take action now. You don’t have the time, but East Africa does. The East African army is driving the indigenous population of the Karawi Kingdom towards the Buganda Kingdom and the Igala Kingdom like driving pigs.
Although most of the population of the Karawi Kingdom and the Burundi Kingdom has been wiped out by the East Bantu, the total number of survivors is probably only about 60,000 to 70,000. Compared with the one million East Bantus at the beginning, 60,000 to 70,000 refugees are nothing, but this is definitely a disaster for those northern countries that want to restore order and production.
"These natives should run north. If they run west, they will end up moving north again. It's a waste of effort." John Joe, the staff officer of the Western Route Army at the Callaway battlefield, said to Ga Ochirbat, the commander-in-chief of the Western Route Army.
"Joe, the natives don't know our combat intentions. They are just fleeing in the opposite direction of our advance. I bet these natives have never seen a map in their lives, so it's no wonder that they are fleeing to the west." said Ga Ochirbat.
"But then again, we didn't encounter any decent enemies along the way, Ochirbat. It seems that you won't have a chance to surpass Felix this time." John Joe joked to Jia Ochirbat.
"Even if we destroy ten of these indigenous kingdoms, it is still not as good as destroying one Sultanate of Zanzibar. So if we want to compete with that guy Felix, we can't just rely on these weak indigenous countries." said Ga Ochirbat.
"I have found a wrestling arena with Felix. In the second stage, Felix will definitely attack the Buganda Kingdom from the north of East Africa. Then we will have a chance to fight him and see who will enter the capital of Buganda first."
The Felix that Ga Ochirbat was thinking of was the one who conquered the Sultanate of Zanzibar alone last time.
Since Felix achieved such great results last time, he was promoted to commander-in-chief of the northern theater of the East African colony, in charge of the entire Kenya colony.
Felix's troops are now stationed in Kisumu, the capital of Western Kenya, so Felix did not catch up with the war against the four countries in the northwest and south.
As the first person in East Africa to have made military achievements by destroying a country, Felix's achievements are of great value. Even though the Sultanate of Zanzibar declined, it was once one of the powerful countries in the Indian Ocean.
Although Felix's victory was accidental, it did not prevent his colleagues from wanting to compete with Felix.
Ga. Ochelbart was one of these people. Ga. Ochelbart and Felix had a special relationship in Germany. Not only were they from the same village, but they also served in the same army in Prussia.
When he was in the Prussian army, Felix's performance was as mediocre as that of Gaelic Ochrebard, just a soldier. But after arriving in East Africa, Felix seemed to have turned on a cheat code and had a brilliant record.
This was a great stimulation to Ga Ochirbat. As a fellow villager, Ga Ochirbat knew Felix inside and out. The two had performed similarly in the army. As a result, after arriving in East Africa, his former colleague showed extraordinary talents. Naturally, Ga Ochirbat could not help but believe it.
So Jia Ochirbat wanted to see whether Felix was just lucky or had some real skills. If you want to see whether a person is capable, of course a comparison is more intuitive.
(End of this chapter)
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