The arrival of von Trotta brought significant changes to the morale of the Tanganyikad army.
It has to be said that the pressure that Nyasaland brought to Tanganyika was too great. The previous senior Tanganyika German army officials were already overwhelmed by the pressure from Nyasaland and were unable to organize an effective counterattack.
However, as white people, the Germans also have their own pride. Although Germany is still in a weak position vis-à-vis Britain as a whole, the German army in Nyasaland and Tanganyika, which is mainly composed of Chinese, has extremely complicated emotions.
Even if it is an old empire, Nyasaland has become the Barony of Nyasaland not long ago, so why is it that Nyasaland is getting better and better now, while Tanganyika has remained stagnant.
It's not fair!
This was particularly profound when Von Trotta observed Xuanwu City.
As an outpost of Rock's development of northern Nyasaland, Xuanwu City has always been the most important city in northern Nyasaland. After the establishment of the Northern Rhodesia Division, Xuanwu City became the headquarters of the Northern Rhodesia Division, and Rock's
Xuanwu City has undergone a new round of development.
Although the current Xuanwu City is not big, it is very neatly planned. Like all other cities in Nyasaland, the road standards are very high. The main roads in the city are more than fifty meters wide, with trees, green belts, and sidewalks in order.
, the contrast with the roads in Tanganyika is really sharp.
In Tanganyika, even the city center of Usombula does not have the same road traffic conditions as Xuanwu City.
Von Trotta would definitely not think that Nyasaland deliberately built the roads in Xuanwu City so well in order to disgust the Tanganyika people.
With experience in German Southwest Africa, the first thing von Trotta did after arriving in Tanganyika was to set up a blockade on the border between Tanganyika and Nyasaland, prohibiting Nyasaland from entering the country.
Any movement of persons between Guernica.
Then Von Trotta registered the Tetera people in Tanganyika and requested assistance from the German mainland to counter Nyasaland's increasingly obvious advantage in the North Sea.
There are approximately 30,000 Tetera people in Tanganyika.
The reason why Tanganyika took in these Tetera people before was to cause trouble for the Congo Free State.
Now that the Congo Free State has become the Belgian Congo, Nyasaland's strong intervention has turned Tanganyika's expansion in Lake Tanganyika into an overall defense. The importance of the Tetera people continues to grow.
decline.
Tanganyika once tried to use the Tetera people to cause trouble to Nyasaland, but unfortunately it failed. It added a lot of free labor to Nyasaland in vain, so registration was only the first step. Von Trotta is now
Tanganyika's human resources will not be wasted carelessly. These Tetera people can definitely play a greater role.
Such as the construction in Tanganyika.
Von Trotta also took a drastic step and planned to build a pure military city in Tanganyika, opposite Xuanwu City, to compete tit-for-tat with Xuanwu City.
However, construction requires a large amount of funds. Tanganyika does not have the strong capital power of Nyasaland, so it can only ask for assistance from Germany.
The crux of the problem is that Germany itself is simply unable to provide sufficient assistance to Tanganyika.
With the strength of the United Kingdom, it is still struggling to cope with the arms race, let alone Germany, which has only just been unified for a few years.
Although Germany now has some overseas colonies, most of these overseas colonies have not produced benefits. Only German Southwest Africa's exports exceeded its imports last year. Tanganyika needs assistance from Germany every year.
In order to maintain the German colony in Tanganyika.
In other words, Germany acquired these colonies for too short a time, and now all of them are money-losing goods, unable to effectively provide blood transfusions to the German mainland.
Therefore, the German government's reply disappointed von Trotta. Not only could the German government not provide enough help to Tanganyika, but it asked von Trotta to maintain Tanganyika's situation as much as possible, and to do so in the shortest possible time.
, providing Germany with a large amount of steel and other resources needed to build dreadnoughts.
Von Trotta finally realized the situation facing Tanganyika. There was no steel plant in Tanganyika. There was even only one steel plant in the whole of Africa, the Fawalt Steel Plant in the Transvaal, and Tanganyika was
It was absolutely impossible for Kabuto to send the ore to Favart for smelting, so von Trotta had to find other ways.
Before von Trotta could figure out a solution, new frictions occurred on the border between Nyasaland and Tanganyika.
This time it was either in the North Sea or near Xuanwu City on the shores of Lake Nyasa.
As mentioned before, there is no obvious dividing line between Nyasaland and Tanganyika near Xuanwu City. The default dividing line is an unknown river.
The problem is that this is a seasonal river. During the dry season, the river is semi-dry. During the rainy season, the river floods and often changes its course.
In mid-July, Xuanwu City experienced continuous rainfall for a week, and the river as the boundary changed its course again, moving nearly 100 meters north.
This also means that the border line of Nyasaland has been pushed forward another hundred meters.
The distance of one hundred meters is nothing compared to the land area of hundreds of thousands of square kilometers. However, although the land area is large, not an inch is redundant, so this one hundred meters will immediately become a vital area for the Nyasaland military.
and the focus of military attention in Tanganyika.
The Northern Rhodesian Division responded the fastest. The river had just changed its course and the rain had not stopped yet. The officers and soldiers of the Northern Rhodesian Division immediately crossed the original river channel and began patrolling. They also hired workers to repair the river channel. It was obvious that they were planning to
Consider the current river as the dividing line between Nyasaland and Tanganyika.
Of course, the Tanganyika military did not recognize the current boundary river, so patrol troops from both sides frequently had physical conflicts.
Fortunately, both sides showed restraint, and no one took the initiative to use weapons, so the friction was limited to a certain level.
This level of "friendly exchanges" is actually more beneficial to the Northern Rhodesian Division.
With the arrival of Gurkha mercenaries, a unit of Gurkha mercenaries has also appeared in the Northern Rhodesia Division. At the beginning of this year, the Northern Rhodesia Division accepted nearly 2,000 Gorkha mercenaries to form a new
The fourth regiment is based in Xuanwu City.
These Gorkha mercenaries had only been in Nyasaland for a short time, and were still afraid of the white German officers and soldiers in Tanganyika. They had not established enough psychological advantages, so they were quite reluctant to communicate with each other.
However, after two or three friendly exchanges, the Gurkha mercenaries finally realized that the whites were strong on the outside and capable on the inside, and they gradually were able to correct their mentality when facing the whites.
In several exchanges at the end of July, the Northern Rhodesian Division won a complete victory. The patrol troops of the Second Tanganyika Division were bruised and bruised, and there was another serious incident of "lost" horses.
The loss of troops and horses was absolutely unacceptable to von Trotta, so the 2nd Tanganyika Division carefully formulated a revenge plan.
Nyasaland is indeed very strong in terms of infrastructure construction. The boundary river has just been rerouted, and the reinforcement of the river channel has been completed in Nyasaland.
Of course, the reinforcement is only limited to the river on the Nyasaland side. Nyasaland will definitely not care about the Tanganyika side. In this way, if the boundary river changes its course again in the future, it will still push northward, and Nyasaland will again
Able to expand naturally.
This is simply God and the old man giving him face.
Since it has rained frequently recently, the cavalry of the Northern Rhodesian Division habitually wore raincoats when patrolling.
The raincoats distributed by the Northern Rhodesian Division are large cloak-style raincoats. The cost of this type of raincoat is a bit high, but it is very effective. It is not only easy to use, has outstanding protective capabilities, but also has a beautiful style and elegant appearance. Rhodes
The officers and soldiers of the Northern Division of West Asia liked it very much.
The officers and soldiers of the Northern Rhodesian Division were too arrogant during this period. There were two cavalrymen riding horses with Tanganyika military marks on their butts. It was obvious that these were the Tanganyika cavalry "lost" a few days ago.
"The military horse.
A Tanganyika cavalryman was also wearing a raincoat that was only issued by the Northern Rhodesian Division. This simply made the patrol team of the Northern Rhodesian Division red-eyed.
Needless to say, the raincoats worn by the Tanganyika cavalry were also "accidentally lost" by the Northern Rhodesian Division.
In a fight, it is normal to lose and win, but to use it openly like this is an obvious provocation.
So just a few glances crossed, and the conflict broke out again.
The Northern Rhodesian Division attaches great importance to cooperation in its usual training. Small cooperation between two or three people is very proficient. The Germans fight individually, while the Nyasaland people form a team advantage in small groups. They can knock down one in three or two seconds.
, the scene immediately became one-sided.
The squad leader of the cavalry squad did not even dismount his horse. He watched his men beat the Germans to pieces. This is how the confidence of the troops was slowly built up.
Usually at this time, when the outcome is decided, both parties will stop fighting with a tacit understanding, and then go back to their respective homes to find their respective mothers.
The Germans today are very tenacious and have no intention of stopping even if the situation is completely one-sided.
The squad leader was about to call a halt when the sound of horse hooves suddenly came from the distance.
The squad leader immediately understood that this was a trap. Even if the Germans came to support, they would not come so quickly.
"Stop, stop, withdraw -" the squad leader called to his subordinates who were still fighting with the Tanganyika cavalry.
There was no way to escape. Even if the Germans were covered in mud and were bruised and bruised, they still had to hold on to the Nyasaland cavalry and prevent them from getting away.
A Nyasaland cavalryman finally got rid of a German cavalryman. As soon as he struggled to stand up from the mud, he was directly hit by a galloping horse.
"Stop! Damn it -" The squad leader's eyes turned red instantly, he took out his pistol from the quick-draw holster on his chest, and was about to fire a warning shot when a German soldier who was in a state of overproduction of adrenaline and got carried away shot him.
Shot down.
This shot completely shattered all the achievements established by Birov's visit to Nyasaland.
