Madagascar is an island made of volcanic rocks. As the largest island in Africa and the fourth largest island in the world, it once prospered because it could become one of the relay stations from Europe to Asia before the Suez Canal was opened.
After the opening of the Suez Canal, Madagascar's status plummeted, its status in the modern world has been repeatedly marginalized, and now it has gradually declined to the point where no one cares about it.
France is an exception. France began trying to colonize Madagascar more than half a century ago, which aroused strong opposition from the Malagasy people. Until now, although Madagascar has finally become a French colony since 1896, Madagascar has
Human resistance never stops.
From the perspective of human reproduction, it is difficult to understand the resistance of the Malagasy people to the French. You must know that before the French arrived in Madagascar, Madagascar could not even be self-sufficient in food. If there is a disaster, there will be a large number of people.
Many Malagasy people died of famine. The purpose of the French occupation of Madagascar was for Madagascar’s mineral deposits, but at the same time they also brought enough food to the Madagascar people. At least in the year of disaster, the Madagascar people would not die in large numbers, and the French also
Products that have brought modern lifestyles and industrial civilization have objectively promoted the development of Madagascar.
But from a Malagasy perspective, this issue may not be understood in this way.
Around the 110th century AD, Indonesians and Arabs migrated to Madagascar one after another and intermarried with the locals, forming the Malagasy people. So far, the residents living in Madagascar are mainly Imelina Behemi.
The Zalaka, Bejillo, etc., these three groups account for more than half of the people in Madagascar.
For the Malagasy people, although their life is poor and their economy is backward, they enjoy it and do not feel inferior. When the French colonists arrived, it seemed that the French did bring a more advanced way of life.
But it also means that Malagasy people have become second-class citizens, which is unacceptable to Malagasy people.
At the same time, many Malagasy people's resistance to the French stems from fear of the unknown.
In Madagascar, although a unified country was established decades ago, only a small number of people have received modern education. About 99% of the nearly 1.2 million people in Madagascar are illiterate. They cannot
Understand that the products of industrial civilization brought by the French, whether they are guns or electric lights, many Malagasy people believe that these are the products of the devil, and they are afraid of them.
This became even more obvious when Huang Li and Wu Qing led the exploration convoy to Manantenina.
The unit led by Huang Li and Wu Qing was taken from the Lanfang active army. As an active army, it must be fully equipped. The iconic equipment is a large number of military vehicles represented by bulldogs, which gave Madagascar
People are greatly shocked.
Although the French have colonized Madagascar for more than 20 years, due to the resistance of the Malagasy people, the French have limited their footprints to the west and north of Madagascar. The French have rarely set foot in the southeast of Madagascar, including Manantenina.
When the exploration convoy arrived at Manantenina, it was still purely primitive, with almost no traces of modern civilization. Although the entire Manantenina was marked on the map with the size of a city, in Huang Li's view, Manantenina was
Nina is at most a small town, far from the concept of a city. There is not even a decent pier in the entire Manantenina. The cruise ship on which the exploration escort team is riding cannot dock at all, and can only rely on lifeboats to go there one by one.
Transport personnel to shore.
Before it came, Huang Li had been prepared to face difficulties, but he did not expect that the difficulties were so great that Huang Li felt that he had no way to start.
There is a popular saying among Lan Fang's army: If there are conditions, go ahead; if there are no conditions, create conditions and go ahead.
Therefore, Huang Li did not back down and had no intention of waiting. Even if he used lifeboats to transport people one by one, Huang Li would resolutely implement the military orders issued by the military headquarters.
There were not many lifeboats. The cruise ship on which the exploration convoy was traveling only had eight lifeboats in total. Even if it was running at full speed, it could only send one company ashore at a time, and the lifeboats could only go back and forth every half an hour. Landing was still quite difficult.
As the captain, Huang Li, who already wears the rank of major general, must lead the way, so he went ashore with the first batch of exploration team members.
A major general commands a battalion, which is considered a high standard.
Accompanying Huang Li and others ashore was Huang Li's car, an improved bulldog. It was this car that triggered the first conflict between the exploration team and the locals.
This is Manantenina. It’s too desolate. Just after landing, Huang Li was stunned at the scene in front of him.
In fact, June is the time when water plants are in bloom. Thanks to the fact that Manantenina has not yet undergone any development, the mangroves on the seaside are actually well preserved. Large trees that require several people to hug can be seen everywhere. These are high-quality wood.
Just transport it back to Lanfang and you can turn it into money.
Next to the lush mangroves, several narrow and dilapidated thatched houses caught Huang Li's attention. The houses were indeed too small and dilapidated. If it weren't for the cows grazing leisurely near the houses, Huang Li would definitely not think so.
It is a place where people live.
There is a piece of cultivated land next to the thatched house. The few crops that are extremely sparse are growing listlessly. It is probably that no one has taken care of them since they were planted. This is a standard dependence on the weather.
There were still people around, but two naked children ran out of the woods in a hurry, plunged into the thatched house and never came out again.
Huang Li clearly saw that one of them was a woman, and she was not too young. Such a girl didn't even have any clothes, which showed how poor this ghost place was.
It's good to be desolate. The more desolate it is, the more room we have to maneuver. Hurry up, I don't want to stay in this ghost place for the rest of my life. Wu Qing, who also wears the rank of major general, is more optimistic.
Huang Li and Wu Qing are old partners. They have always been the best candidates to do dirty work in Lanfang's army. This time coming to Madagascar is a hard job, and Huang Li and Wu Qing are naturally not immune.
Hurry up, we will build a simple camp here before dark, and this will be our base from now on. Huang Li cheered up and urged the soldiers to speed up their actions.
A dozen soldiers over there had already pulled the bulldog ashore. The driver went up and fiddled with it a few times. The bulldog puffed out a few puffs of black smoke and roared suddenly, causing a panic in the thatched houses.
call.
Although he has a special mission to deal with the residents of Madagascar, Huang Li is still unwilling to break out into conflict with the residents of Madagascar now. There must be a solid base here before Huang Li will start to implement the orders of the military, so Huang Li raised his hand and called over
A soldier asked him to communicate with the residents of those thatched houses to avoid any misunderstanding.
If you don't speak the same language, what effect will your communication have? Wu Qing sneered at Huang Li's decision.
Language is not a problem. Some things are connected. It doesn't matter if there is no language. Huang Li doesn't care and asks the soldiers to bring some food to the people in those thatched huts. It doesn't matter if there is communication or not, as long as they can express goodwill.
The soldier took the order and went to the logistics officer to get a few pieces of chocolate and a few boxes of cans, and happily walked towards the thatched house.
Almost everyone is optimistic, relying on strong force to face a group of indigenous people who are still in a primitive state. Huang Li, including Huang Li, has no concept of defense at all. No one thinks that these indigenous people with no clothes will use force to resist.
These soldiers were armed to the teeth, and the soldier's rifle was still slung on his shoulder without even taking it off.
Just when the soldier was about to approach the thatched hut, a cold arrow suddenly shot out from the woods nearby and hit the soldier in the throat.
Before being hit by the arrow, the soldier had a smile on his face and was about to say hello, so he was unprepared for the flying arrow and was directly shot to the ground.
Someone immediately warned of the enemy attack.
Entering combat mode, Huang Li and his soldiers were extremely proficient. Before the squad platoon leader gave the order, soldiers were already holding rifles and setting up defensive positions on the spot. Others jumped on bulldogs to operate machine guns to establish defensive fulcrums. The artillery team also quickly launched
Mortars were prepared for fire support, and a simple position was formed immediately.
Get the person back and pay careful attention. Although he has gone through hundreds of battles, Huang Li still blames himself. If he hadn't been careless, this kind of loss could have been avoided.
Several soldiers covered each other and left their positions, carefully moving towards the fallen soldiers.
The firepower covered me and forced out those bugs. Huang Li did not want to incur unnecessary losses, so he issued the first combat order after landing.
This command of fire coverage is aimed at enemy snipers. Faced with snipers, Lanfang soldiers have no patience to carry out counter-sniper operations, so fire coverage is always the first choice.
The sound of the mortars being fired was unusually brisk, and in an instant there were three rounds of firepower. The shells fired by eight 80mm mortars were enough to cover the grove where the arrows had just been fired.
The heavy machine gun on the bulldog began to roar, and the target was not the grove, but the thatched houses.
Since we have already met each other at war, we will show no mercy.
