African Entrepreneurship Records 2

Chapter 331
"Report to the Chief of Staff. A total of 3000 enemies were wiped out and over [-] were captured. Among them, the high-level Ndebele people, including Lobengula, seized [-] guns."

Lobengula was lucky, badly wounded, but survived, waking up while the East Africans were clearing the battlefield.

Wei Te: "Now quickly organize people to take these corpses to be cremated, so as not to cause a plague, and bring Lobengula here."

"Yes, Chief of Staff!"

Soon two East African soldiers carried a stretcher and came to Stewart, on which lay the monarch of the Matabele Kingdom, Lobengula.

Although he did not die, Lobengula suffered five broken ribs. Considering the current medical conditions, his fate is still uncertain.

Stewart: "Are you the king of the Kingdom of Matabele?"

Lying on a stretcher, Lobengula looked at this young white man who was much thinner than himself, and replied weakly: "Yes, I am the 'King of Kings' of the Kingdom of Matabele."

This is not because Lobengula is putting on airs. The indigenous king is also the chief, and many chiefs submit to Lobengula and accept his rule. Isn't that the "king of kings"!

Sitte didn't care about this. No matter how powerful he was, he was also defeated. Before that, he was a vassal state in East Africa. He then asked, "Why did you launch this rebellion?"

Lobengula chuckled and said, "Hahaha, rebellion? The Matabele Kingdom is originally two countries from East Africa, and we are just defending against invaders normally!"

Sitte: "Hehe, how dare you give yourself money. As far as I know, you Ndebele people are just a foreign race that invaded the Matabele Plateau from South Africa decades ago and enslaved the local Shona people."

Lobengula said disdainfully: "They are willing to accept the rule of the great 'King of Kings'. I was chosen by the gods to fight against you white skins."

Sitte is not Caucasian, but from the Far East, but in the eyes of Lobengula, they are all the same, as long as they are whiter than the Zulu, they are all Caucasian.

Stewart no longer tried to correct Lobengula's stubbornness, he said: "Our East African kingdom actually didn't interfere with your administration too much, and let you keep the army, but in exchange for today's results, because you Ndebele The actions of people, and many so-called 'kings of kings' like you, will lose their power next, and all this is because you, by yourself, changed the policy of the East African kingdom towards the natives .”

Lobengula: "There can only be one 'King of Kings', and that is the great Lobengula!"

Stewart interrupted: "Okay, next I want to ask you a question, who provided your guns and gunpowder?"

Sitte's question suddenly awakened Lobengula.

He said with red eyes: "It's all the fault of that bitch Wiggins, you must catch him!"

From Lobengula’s point of view, his fate today was completely caused by Wiggins. They just sold themselves a pile of “scrap iron”. Knowing that the East Africans had more advanced weapons, they encouraged him to test the East African Kingdom for them.

Stewart: "Wiggins!"

Lobengula: "That's right, it's all his fault, the vile Boer."

Sitte said to his subordinates: "Hurry up and find out, where is this Wiggins?"

"Yes, Chief of Staff!"

Soon, under interrogation by the East African army, Wiggins and his Boer advisory group surfaced.

Witt: "He ran away?"

"Yes, Chief of the General Staff, the owner of the inn where they are staying says they left an hour ago, and fled on horseback."

Stewart: "Let our scouts go after them, we can't let them go easily."

"Yes!"

……

At this time, Wiggins and his party had galloped away, escaped from Bulawayo, and headed west at a high speed.

"Finally escaped!" Wiggins said with emotion.

"Mr. Wiggins, if the East Africans know of our existence, will they send people to chase us?"

Wiggins: "What are you afraid of? Even if East Africa knows our existence, it is impossible to catch up with us. The Matabele Kingdom is so big that the possibility of us encountering the East African army is very small. Besides, we will do the opposite. Well, East Africans never expected us to go west."

Wiggins was very smart. Before withdrawing from Bulawayo, he deliberately ran to the east for a certain distance. After running out of the sight of Ndebele civilians, he went west around Bulawayo.

East Africa was indeed caught. They followed the clues provided by Ndebele civilians and pursued eastward. In fact, they were completely different from Wiggins and his party.

But it will be so!

Where Wiggins and others couldn't see, a small East African patrol team was coming in their direction.

This army does not belong to the South Route Army, but the Southwest Army operating in Botswana. The Southwest Army has a very small number of people, but it governs most of the land in Botswana. Several patrols are regularly arranged to check whether there are any suspicious forces in the territory. , and at the same time shoulder the task of surveying the Botswana region.

As for why it appeared in the Matabele Kingdom, it was completely an accident. The Matabele Kingdom has no clear borders, and Lobengula almost took out all the forces in the west of Bulawayo in order to fight against East Africa.

In fact, there are not many Ndebele people west of Bulawayo. After all, the climate in the west is relatively dry, and a little further west will enter the Kalahari Desert.

The Ndebele people supported Bulawayo, resulting in a vacuum in the west, which naturally aroused the vigilance of the Southwest Army patrol team, so they chose to come to find out this anomaly.

The Southwest Army and the South Route Army are not in the same system, so they don't know much about the Ndebele rebellion, and they haven't received the order from Wei Te. The number is too small, and Wei Te is too lazy to mobilize the Southwest Army.

The patrol soon ran into Wiggins and his party.

"Mr. Wiggins! Look, those are East African pursuers. Damn they are faster than us!"

In the distance, the patrol team of the Southwest Army was also on guard against Wiggins and his party. After all, they looked like they were not their own.

Wiggins: "Don't be afraid, there are not many of them, we will act first and kill them."

Because it is a patrol team, there are only seven people, and Wiggins and his party have 13 people, so I have the advantage.

So Wiggins rushed towards the patrol with the Boer instructors.

"Yes, enemy! Get ready for battle!"

Seeing the sudden acceleration of Wiggins and his party, the patrol captain immediately realized that the visitors were not good.

"Put on the saber, don't shoot at the enemy with your gun." The patrol captain immediately ordered.

The enemy is more numerous than you, so you can't be careless. If one fails, the whole army may be wiped out, so decision-making is very important. The patrol leader thinks that the accuracy of shooting on horseback will be greatly reduced. It is very difficult to hit yourself with a gun on horseback, so it is better to use a knife to fight the enemy in melee.

This is a gamble, after all, no one knows how good the riding and shooting skills of Wiggins and others are, but it will soon be known.

"Damn it, these East Africans are running left and right and can't even aim."

"They rushed over!"

"Turn around!"

Unfortunately, it was too late. Just like dealing with the natives, the East African patrol on horseback took advantage of the time when Wiggins and his party were about to turn around, and easily caught up with them.

He kicked the horse's stomach hard, and the spurs made the army horse accelerate instantly, then he raised his saber and slashed at the enemy who was already level.

Instinctively dodging, Wiggins fell straight off his horse and was captured while the other Boers were either hacked to death or captured.

1871 5 Month 28 Day.

The Boer criminal, Wiggins, was arrested, and East Africa has ironclad evidence that the Boers support the Ndebele rebellion.

(End of this chapter)