African Entrepreneurship Records 2

Chapter 1220 Rhine People

At this time, Ali Dinar in the city felt wronged! No one could agree to such unreasonable demands from the East Africans. He had shown great courage and worked hard to fight the British, but the East Africans took advantage of him and asked him to surrender. Where is Allah? Is Allah unfair?

While Farsen was waiting for the Darfurians' response, the Darfurian leaders throughout the city of El Fasher were also discussing countermeasures. It was obvious that the Darfurians were still hoping for a fight with the East Africans in the end.

“Boom…Bang…”

“Bang, bang…”

East African mortars and grenade launchers kept firing at the city of El Fasher, and soon completely destroyed the simple city walls of El Fasher, and part of the block was completely reduced to ruins.

Grenade launchers are still used by some units of the East African Army, especially as squad fire support. Of course, the main reason they have not been completely eliminated by the East African Army is that there is no pressure.

In the past, East Africa produced a large number of grenade launchers because its military industrial capacity was weak and its resources were not effectively developed. Even though East Africa was rich in resources, it could only watch helplessly.

So Ernst took out the grenade launcher as a combat weapon and used it specifically to bully the indigenous people of the African continent.

The deterrent significance of the early grenade launchers was far greater than their practical combat significance. After all, grenade launchers were also "cannons" that could give the natives a great shock. A few grenade launchers would be enough to overwhelm any native with a strong will to resist.

Of course, the grenade launcher's ease of portability and disassembly also attracted the attention of early East African soldiers. After all, East Africa did not have the current transportation infrastructure at that time.

Although the military industry and economy of East Africa are not bad now, the army still needs to save money and spend money, especially after investing heavily in armored forces, aviation forces, etc.

This has led to an extremely unbalanced military construction in East Africa, with some troops' equipment still stuck in the South African War era, while others are at the forefront of the world.

Even so, compared with the United States, the development of the East African army is relatively happy. Canada and Mexico next to the United States are not small countries, while there are no decent opponents around East Africa.

"retreat!"

"Damn it, the firepower of the East Africans is too strong. We can't deal with it at all. The British don't have such strong firepower either."

"How can we fight this battle? Let's run away!"

"Someone please save me, my legs are trapped."

The entire western part of the city of El Fasher has been turned into a complete mess. No matter whether they are soldiers or civilians, they have no thought of resisting under the artillery fire from East Africa. They all wish they could grow eight legs and escape from this horrible place.

The construction quality of the main Fasher is too poor, which greatly increases the power of East African artillery and looks quite intimidating.

Captain Farsen held a telescope in his hand, observing the changes in the city of Fasher. After confirming that the enemy's morale was in chaos, he decisively ordered his troops to attack.

The East African officers and soldiers armed with Mauser rifles successfully advanced into the city through the gap in El Fasher without encountering any resistance, and successfully advanced to the center of El Fasher.

It was only at this time that Ali Dinar suddenly realized what was happening and prepared to run away with his people, but it was too late.

"Surrender your weapons and we won't kill you!" East African soldiers suddenly appeared and surrounded Ali Dinar and his group.

Although the language that the East African soldiers temporarily learned from the translator was a bit strange, Ali Dinar and others still chose to lay down their weapons decisively.

The East Africans were too much. With such firepower, Ali Dinar dared to attack Khartoum. As a result, the East Africans did not take advantage of the fact that Britain was deeply involved in the European war to attack the banks of the Nile River. Instead, they came to attack a small figure like him. This made Ali Dinar feel very aggrieved.

"I want to speak to your superior!"

Although he lost the war, Ali Dinar was still very unconvinced and wanted to find out the intentions of the East African government.

"Be quiet and wait until our leader comes." said the East African soldier who was tying the rope to the Ali dinar. Although I don't know what this Darfur official who speaks in a bird language is saying, it's always better to be vigilant.

Soon, Captain Farsen came to Ali Dinar with a group of officers and translators.

“Are you the Sultan Ali Dinar?”

"It's me, you East Africans, why did you invade our Darfur? We haven't offended you, have we?"

"I won't tell you about this. After all, this is the strategy of our empire, and we are just small people responsible for its execution."

"Humph, even if you really catch me, what can you do? You should also know that we in Darfur have offended the British, and we are nominally a subsidiary of the British. When the British come, you will not be able to occupy this place."

In Ali Dinar's opinion, as the world's number one superpower, East Africa should be quite wary of Britain.

As expected, his words caused Captain Farsen to laugh loudly, and he asked in return: "Hahaha... Mr. Ali Dinar, since the British are so powerful in your eyes, how dare you offend the British?"

Ali Dinar said: "Of course I know that the British are powerful, but isn't Britain now at war with that Germany... the Germans of Europe! So naturally we have to seize the opportunity to break away from British control."

As an area where Arabism radiates, the people of Darfur are not as ignorant as black Africans. They do have some knowledge of international news, but due to the long distance, the news is transmitted to Darfur relatively slowly.

This can be seen from Ali Dinar's words. He not only knew about the outbreak of World War I in Europe and the news that Britain, Germany and other countries had gone to war, but he could also clearly distinguish the difference between Germany and East Africa.

I have to say a little more here. In the early days of colonization in Africa, East Africans always regarded themselves as Germans. At that time, the East African countries had not yet been formed, so the word "Germany" was widely circulated on the African continent.

Only after the establishment of the East African Kingdom were the East Africans able to expand under the name of the East African Kingdom, but by this time the term "Germany" had already penetrated into the hearts of the African natives.

What's more, the East African Kingdom was just a transitional country name. Later, East Africa became the Rhine Empire. Therefore, the changes in national propaganda could easily confuse the African natives who did not know what was going on. It is most appropriate to use German to refer to the East African force.

But in fact, Germany is the real Germany, and this is repeated at this time. However, it is generally difficult for African natives to come into contact with both German and East African forces at the same time.

There are currently two ways to name East Africa abroad: East Africans and Rhine people.

There is no doubt that the former is named according to historical inertia, continuing the name of the early East African colonies or East African kingdoms, while the latter is called by the current name of the East African country.

Rhine people, just as the Far Eastern Empire called American citizens Americans, or Americans.

After all, the United States is generally regarded as an Anglo-Saxon country with the same origin as the United Kingdom, although there are a large number of immigrants from other countries and regions in the United States.

The term "American" makes it easy to distinguish the two, and the same goes for Canadians and Australians.

Or there is also this name in Germany, such as Prussians, Bavarians, and Swabians, all of whom are actually Germans.

So in this way, more and more countries and regions in the international community now choose to call the Germans of the Rhine Empire Rhine people.

Of course, the term East Africans has not disappeared from the stage of history. At least the Germans like to call them that.

On the one hand, many Germans do not think that East Africans belong to the same ethnic group as them, or that the bloodline of East Africans is not pure. On the other hand, this is actually a derogatory term.

After all, Africa used to be synonymous with backwardness and barbarism in Europe, so the neutral term East Africa would naturally be implicated. At least among some Germans, the term East Africa is not considered a good name, which also reflects the arrogant attitude of many Germans towards East Africa.

(End of this chapter)