Chapter 88 Conflict Escalates
Nzella.
Colonial border post in East Africa.
Mainly responsible for monitoring the movements of the exiled indigenous tribes and preventing the return of the indigenous people.
From the current perspective, the effect of this "purge" campaign has generally achieved what the East African colonial government expected.
The Northwest had become a mess, and war always results in casualties, so the colony's plan to eliminate the local indigenous population was achieved.
It’s not that there are no indigenous tribes who want to return to the East. The East African colonial government has established dozens of military outposts of various sizes in the areas bordering the northwestern countries.
A one-way valve was formed, allowing the natives to leave but not enter.
Nzera is one such military stronghold.
The northwest defense of the East African colonies was mainly a straight line between the southwest corner of the Great Lake (Lake Victoria) and the northeast corner of Lake Solon (Lake Tanganyika).
There are about 300 kilometers of it, with a military outpost set up every 20 to 30 kilometers. Patrol personnel are arranged between these outposts to patrol the border area continuously.
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The northwestern countries, which had suffered greatly from the scourge of the Eastern Bantu tribes, began to cooperate and connect with each other.
Although the East Bantu people caught other countries off guard and the domestic situation in each country was relatively turbulent, a lean camel is still bigger than a horse.
As the central government of an indigenous country, it still has some strength. At least the royal family has an army directly under its command.
Even though many places were temporarily separated from the kingdom due to transportation and enemy obstructions, the central government still occupied the largest area.
Faced with the aggressive Eastern Bantu tribes, the northwestern countries that had been dealing with them for many years put aside their past hatreds and prepared to join forces to suppress and clear out the barbarians.
The size of the Eastern Bantu tribes also began to expand with the arrival of subsequent refugees. After all, the indigenous people driven out by the East African colonial government were not all large tribes of hundreds or thousands of people. There were also small tribes of dozens or even a few people, and some scattered indigenous people.
These small tribes and individuals were incorporated into the larger tribes within the Eastern Bantu tribes, strengthening the strength of the Eastern Bantu tribes.
As a result, the scale of the war escalated, and the nobles who originally lived here formed an alliance to jointly attack the Eastern Bantu tribes.
After the Eastern Bantu tribes received population replenishment, their strength increased greatly and they were no longer afraid. The two sides started fighting in the area west of the Great Lake (Lake Victoria).
As a result of the war, the social order of the northwestern countries was disrupted. The slaves who were originally used to develop agriculture took advantage of the chaos to join the warring camps or escape into the wilderness.
The original nobles, in order to fight against the Eastern Bantu people, naturally had to recruit a large number of slaves to serve as cannon fodder, which further aggravated the situation of land abandonment.
The land was abandoned and food production decreased, making the already poor families even worse off. In order to compete for the remaining resources, the two sides fought even more fiercely.
Facts have proved that when the nobles of the northwestern countries get serious, they do have more advantages than the scattered tribes such as the Eastern Bantu people.
As the region with the most advanced indigenous productivity in East Africa, the northwestern countries not only have a more advanced social system and organizational capabilities than the Eastern Bantu tribes, but also have more advanced iron forging capabilities.
The advantage of the Eastern Bantu tribes over the northwestern countries lies in their powerful destructive power. After all, as civilized countries, the northwestern countries still have constructive attributes, while the Eastern Bantu tribes, who are still in primitive society, only know how to compete for resources.
Fortunately, the military forces of the nobles of the northwestern countries are not abandoned. Due to the narrow land area between the west of the Great Lake (Lake Victoria) and the Great Rift Valley of East Africa, "friendly matches" are often held between the countries.
Moreover, as a slave-owning civilization, the nobles of the northwestern countries naturally monopolized military force and were responsible for suppressing the slaves in their respective jurisdictions.
In other words, these nobles were actually primitive military nobles.
In contrast, the Eastern Bantu tribes did not have aristocrats, and mainly elected the strongest men in the tribe as chiefs.
The Eastern Bantu tribes had no choice but to plunder the northwestern countries. After being driven out by the East African colonies, they lost their hunting grounds, and the animals on the grasslands were their main source of food.
In addition, having traveled a long distance from the east and being hungry, the Eastern Bantu tribes could only rely on robbing the lords of the northwestern countries in order to survive.
The northwestern nobles, who had the advantage of iron tools and strong organizational skills, quickly gained an advantage over the Eastern Bantu tribes after uniting as one.
The balance of victory in the war slowly tilted towards the northwestern countries. The nobles of the northwestern countries, who hated the Eastern Bantu tribes, refused to accept their surrender and executed any captives immediately.
The Eastern Bantu tribes, who were at a disadvantage, saw that there was no way to survive if they surrendered, so they also launched a fatal attack on the northwestern countries.
The hatred between the two sides is getting higher and higher, the war is getting bloodier and bloodier, and both sides will make killing their opponents the only goal of the war.
The winner lives, the loser dies. There are no fancy operations, the goal is to eliminate the last person of the opponent.
The battle lasted for more than three months and ended with the victory of the northwestern countries.
Of course, all the Eastern Bantu tribes could not be killed, but only some old, weak, sick and disabled people were left, and were taken as slaves by the northwestern countries to make up for the labor loss caused by the war.
This war, which is not remembered by the world, caused at least millions of killings, and many areas in the entire northwestern countries were in a situation where nine out of ten houses were deserted.
What’s worse is that after the war, the corpses of both sides were not dealt with effectively. In the past, when wars were small in scale, wild animals could take care of the corpses that no one cared about.
The large scale of this war, coupled with the hatred of the northwestern countries towards the Eastern Bantu tribes, resulted in a large number of corpses being exposed in the wilderness.
Even nature did not have time to decompose so many corpses, and a terrible plague began to spread among the northwestern countries.
The tragic conditions in the northwestern countries were reported to the government by East African colonial soldiers on the border. In order to prevent the plague from affecting the colonies, the East African colonial government strengthened the blockade of the entire northwestern countries.
This time even Kenya, which borders the Buganda Kingdom, was heavily guarded.
In tropical regions, diseases are inherently terrifying. Many people in the East African colonies are infected every year. This is based on the premise that the East African colonies attach great importance to hygiene.
In order to prevent the plague from being brought into the East African colonies, the East African colonial government ordered the soldiers guarding the borders between the East African colonies and the northwestern countries not to let any living creatures pass through.
Even if it is a rat or a snake, it must be shot immediately.
At the same time, the East African colonial government urgently ordered a large amount of disinfectants and bactericidal agents from Europe to carry out large-scale disinfection work on the borders of the East African colonies and northwestern countries.
With strict defense, the East African colonies successfully blocked the spread of the plague within the East African colonies.
The northwestern countries were completely deserted, and the further south a country was, the worse it was. On the contrary, the northern part of the Buganda Kingdom, the Turou Kingdom and the Gitala Kingdom were the least affected.
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