Chapter 484 Training
As a mixed-race country, East Africa faces a very embarrassing problem in the future, that is, it has no historical and cultural heritage.
Historical and cultural heritage is actually very important. For example, the East Asian cultural circle, the Arab cultural circle, the Turkic cultural circle, etc., represent influence and political interests, which are all connected through historical and cultural attributes.
So how should the cultural roots of East Africa be positioned in the future? Can it only lean towards Germany or the Far East in terms of history and culture? This is definitely not what Ernst wanted.
East Africa has its own interests, and will have its own values and core interests in the future. Ernst does have special feelings for Germany and the Far East, but East Africa has in fact become independent from these two civilizations.
As the saying goes, a single tree cannot make a forest. If East Africa wants to expand its historical and cultural influence, it cannot be dominated by the two cultures of Germany and the Far East. So it should take the initiative to expand cultural areas with the same attributes as East Africa.
In Ernst's view, Bosnia and the Republic of Lanfang are two good experimental areas. If these two regions are transformed into regions with similar population and cultural attributes to East Africa, they will naturally be emotionally inclined towards East Africa in the future.
For example, the current Lan Fang Republic is a purely Chinese country. In terms of culture and emotion, it is bound to be biased towards the Far East, rather than East Africa, which is a mixture of German and Chinese. However, if East Africa changes the population attributes of the Lan Fang Republic to be the same as its own, then the Lan Fang Republic will inevitably lean towards East Africa in the future.
East Africa has always regarded the Indian Ocean as its core maritime interest in the future, with the South China Sea being the focus. According to past history, the Far East is likely to be East Africa's competitor or challenger in the future if it can threaten this core interest. The United States and the United Kingdom have deep experience of this.
Similarly, the German region, including Germany and Austria, of course also attaches importance to East Africa, especially at the moment. It is very important for East Africa to have two big brothers in front, but the importance of East Africa to these two countries is not very obvious.
In the eyes of the two countries, the status of East Africa is the same as how the British view Canada and Australia. They really think they are worthy of being compared with the locals!
Therefore, Ernst had a very important purpose in diluting Bosnia, which was to plant a mine within the Austro-Hungarian Empire's sphere of influence (Bosnia did not yet belong to the Austro-Hungarian Empire's territory). This mine was the mixed-race people. If the Austro-Hungarian Empire had no ideas about Bosnia in the future, this mine would never have any effect. Otherwise, the Austro-Hungarian Empire would have a handle in the hands of East Africa.
Even if the Austro-Hungarian Empire really did not fall for Bosnia's sugar-coated bullet, East Africa had planted a nail in the Balkans. The importance of the Balkan Peninsula is self-evident, and it is beneficial to East Africa in any way.
Bosnia and the Republic of Lanfang are just the first step in East Africa. More regions will be transformed by East Africa in the future. Of course, the prerequisite is to pass the test of Britain and France first.
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Maputo.
The Portuguese watched the French training results with great interest. They saw a hundred black people squatting on the ground with their hands on their heads, and their upper clothes were stripped off.
Snap… Snap… Snap…
On the training ground in Maputo, French instructor Wilson whipped the disobedient African soldiers with a whip, whipping them mercilessly, leaving blood marks on the exposed backs of these black men.
"Damn it, do we really have to babysit these niggers so they can learn to obey orders? They can't even learn the simplest way of keeping formation."
Wilson was going crazy. The result of two months of training made him completely collapse. At the beginning, Wilson was full of confidence. As an excellent French instructor, he had led many troublemakers and idiots in France. No matter how difficult the French soldiers were, they would become excellent fighters in his hands within a month.
Then he was sent to Mozambique. According to Wilson's idea, black people are also human beings. No matter how bad they are, they can never be worse than the mules in the army.
Three days later, Wilson found out that he was wrong. A week later, Wilson found out that he might have taken on an extraordinary task. A month later, Wilson gave up and no longer pursued the goal of leading these blacks towards the French army. Now Wilson has completely collapsed.
The French instructors were very angry about the training of black people, because the cultural level of black people was too low, let alone complex training, they could not even do simple training.
However, the French instructors were still too careless. This was a realistic problem faced by the armies in many backward areas. Of course, we also had to admit that the African natives were somewhat too backward.
The black soldiers in the tribal civilization had not yet developed a mature language, so many basic concepts that seem normal to later generations did not exist.
It can be said that they had basically no organizational ability. Of course, to be fair, Ernst said that it was not the blacks' fault, but that the French instructors had got the wrong direction. In fact, the blacks could also fight in coordination, especially the coordination of a few people. The specific manifestation was hunting. A few blacks could rely on primitive bows and spears to leave an indelible shadow on the animals on the grassland.
As for when the number of people is slightly larger, blacks are really not in a good position, because in this era, it is normal for many black tribes to have more than a dozen people. Due to the low level of productivity, one area can only support so many people. Blacks will split themselves up according to the number of prey, just like lions. The vast majority of blacks do not know how to grow crops, and have not developed nomadic attributes.
Therefore, the fact that blacks were able to develop primitive state-form forces would be considered top-level civilized countries in Africa, representing advanced productivity. However, these primitive states were actually not large in scale, and at most were super-large tribes. The core areas of many countries might only have one city or village. As for the large areas that appeared on the map, those were all false marks, as many independent small tribes were included. From Ernst's perspective, these black civilizations remained at the level of the Yanhuang tribe in the Far East thousands of years ago.
The Yanhuang tribe is a tribal alliance, and Yanhuang is equivalent to the overlord of the tribe, but the tribes below can still be seen as independent units. Those African countries actually play the role of tribal overlords. In fact, calling them tribal overlords is an exaggeration. Many of them do not have that appeal. At most, it can be said that their ability to resist risks is stronger than that of ordinary tribes.
When the East African Army was still a colonial army, the mercenaries and the commanders of the Hechingen Military Academy were also quite troubled by the new army formed by immigrants.
It is normal for many people to not be able to distinguish between left and right and have no clear perception of directions. However, it is strange that many people are not sensitive to the left and right directions but can clearly distinguish between east, south, west and north.
Compared with the French expectations for the black troops, East Africa did not have such high requirements for the black legion. After all, many of the natives of East Africa were people who could not be taught even by the Far Eastern instructors in their previous lives. Ernst did not believe that the East African Army had the ability to train the black legion into a normal force.
However, not all blacks are the losers that the French and East Africans face. In fact, the blacks in Abyssinia and North Africa are very capable, so much so that the Arab Empire and Europe have incorporated blacks from North Africa into their armies. Abyssinia was once the overlord of the Red Sea and fought a thousand-year-long war with the Arabs. Nubia in the Sudan region also counterattacked Egypt. Therefore, the atmosphere of competition is conducive to the development of civilization.
In order to enable these blacks to quickly develop combat effectiveness, the education model in East Africa is very simple. They will load the ammunition and pull the trigger, and receive commands to move forward and backward. As for ugly running, ugly movements, and inaccurate aiming, these are not problems.
(End of this chapter)
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