African Entrepreneurship Records

Chapter 1024 Surveillance

 Police station in Luanda.

Director Finlka: "Let our people pay close attention, especially in areas where Russian soldiers are densely populated, and deploy more personnel to prevent accidents!"

When the Russian sailors came ashore and entered Luanda, the East African government naturally had to send people to keep an eye on them. After all, the Russian navy was not a well-disciplined force. The Luanda City Police Department, National Defense and Security Bureau and other departments began to increase their vigilance.

The situation was better than the Luanda city government expected. Except for some drunkards, basically nothing major happened. After dragging a few drunkards sleeping on the streets of Luanda and handing them over to Russian military personnel.

Director Finerka said to the Russian naval officer who came to contact him: "These should be your people. They must have drunk too much during the day, so they were sleeping on the streets of Luanda. Our police officers found them. Fortunately, they are here." Not St. Petersburg, otherwise, you might be stiff the next day.”

The Russian officer in charge of the docking turned green. After all, it would be uncomfortable for anyone to be in such a humiliating situation abroad.

"Thank you all, these people may have been suffocating at sea, so they didn't restrain themselves while drinking. I think they will be taught a lesson in the future," the Russian officer said.

Finka just smiled and handed over these Russian drunkards to the Russians.

On the way back, Finlka said to his subordinates: "The performance of the Russians today is without discipline and organization at all, just like a swarm of flies entering our beautiful city, so what is the combat effectiveness of this group of Russians?" I'm very skeptical."

Deputy Director Boda nodded in agreement: "I had a few words with a Russian sailor today. Corruption is very serious within the Russian army. They often withhold wages and food from lower-level soldiers. The war is approaching, but when they were in St. Petersburg, they only Can eat spoiled bread.”

"There are also Russian junior officers. Many have fat heads and big ears. Their clothes are quite gorgeous, but their faces and hands are very delicate, and there are no traces of training at all. I just don't know what the situation of the Japanese navy is like. Otherwise, the Russian navy will be afraid of this ocean trip. It will overturn."

Finlka sighed: "On the outside, there is gold and jade, but within it there are failures. However, the Russian navy has a great cause. Even if it loses the war, it will probably be able to recover. And this is not a bad thing for Russia. They haven't fought a decent war for a long time. The most elite Baltic fleet is like this, and other Russian naval forces may not be much better. "

Boda: "Now Russia should only have the Baltic Fleet and the Black Sea Fleet. The newspapers said a while ago that the Russian Pacific Fleet is basically finished. This is also a big blow to the Russian Navy. Although the Pacific Fleet is still there Russia’s three major naval fleets are the weakest.”

The East African government always paid attention to the trends of the Russo-Japanese War, including wars at both the sea and land levels, because the Russo-Japanese War was the most modern large-scale war. Although the Spanish-American War was very close, Spain was too weak, especially the colonial army. The equipment is too different from that of the United States, so it does not have a strong reference value.

The Russo-Japanese War was different. In terms of naval warfare, the warships of both sides were top-notch configurations. In terms of land warfare, it was also infinitely close to the South African War. Modern warfare offensive and defensive means such as cement bunkers, trenches, machine guns, and barbed wire appeared on the battlefield.

The scale of the war is also larger than that of the South African War. Both sides currently mobilized hundreds of thousands of troops to participate in the war. Although the total number of participants in the South African War reached one million, many of the British and Portuguese troops were composed of Indians, blacks or Boers. Rechargeable.

On the other hand, in the Russo-Japanese War, the soldiers and civilians of the country participated in the war. Now, the number of troops invested by both sides in the Russo-Japanese War is close to less than one million, and it is still growing.

According to the East African military's inference, the intensity of the Russo-Japanese War has now exceeded that of the South African War. The main reason is that both warring parties cannot tolerate the cost of losing the war.

In the final analysis, the South African War was a colonial war. Although Britain and Portugal invested heavily, they did not have a strong desire to fight.

As for Japan and Russia, Japan regards this war as a battle for national destiny, and Russia cannot tolerate losing to Japan, a "small country" in East Asia. This will be a huge blow to Russia's national self-esteem.

In fact, most people in Russia are pessimistic about the war. In recent months, there have been almost no results to show, so the Second Pacific Fleet is the last straw for Russia in this war. Finka: "The Russians will stay for another day, so we must continue to monitor Russia tomorrow and there must be no mistakes."

According to the agreement between the two countries, the Russian Navy can only stay in the Port of Luanda for two days. After all, the Russian side has to hurry up and get on its way. The last happy time for the Russian Navy will be when they arrive in Mombasa.

Although there is Pontianak Port later for temporary rest, the basic conditions of Pontianak Port are far inferior to those of local cities in East Africa.

The two days almost ended in the blink of an eye for the Russian Navy. There were still many Russian Navy people who were reluctant to leave Luanda before departure.

However, the war situation cannot allow the Russian fleet to stay in the comfort zone of Luanda for too long, and it has to merge with the Russian navy taking the Mediterranean route.

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Rhine city.

"The current situation in Russia is very bad. The original Pacific Fleet has basically been destroyed. According to our observation ship survey in the Far East, no Russian warships have been observed in the Far East waters. At the same time, combined with the intelligence sent back from Lushun, the two countries have already broken out in Lushun. In a fierce land war, the Russian army in Lushun has exchanged fire with Japanese troops. "

"As for the temporarily formed Second Pacific Fleet, it just left Luanda yesterday. Among them, the Russian troops on the Mediterranean route have not yet arrived in Mogadishu. This shows that the situation of the Russian Navy in the Mediterranean is quite unsatisfactory. We are in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. According to intelligence sources, British ships have been following and provoking the Russian navy entering the Mediterranean. It is estimated that the British will make things difficult for the Russians in the Suez Canal.”

Ernst listened to the reports from the military and intelligence agencies, and then said: "This is basically the same as the judgment we made before. If the Russian Navy all chose the west coast route, the results might be much better. Unfortunately, they did not do so, but this After all, it is the Russians’ own choice, and they will naturally have to bear the consequences.”

"The current Russo-Japanese War is an extremely beneficial real case for us to deduce the development direction of future wars. Japan is an emerging power in East Asia, while Russia is an established power. The strength of the two countries in the Far Eastern Empire is not much different, far from what it was before. The Spanish-American War can be compared.”

"So the military must pay attention to the details of this war, so as to discover the similarities and differences between foreign military development and our country, and actively adjust and optimize our country's military development route, especially how to deal with some modern wars, modern tactics, and modern military equipment."

"The weapons and equipment used by the Japanese and Russian armies are almost at the world's first-class level, and the scale of investment is unprecedented. Under such circumstances, the Russo-Japanese War is a good preview of the development of future wars."

Military reforms in East Africa have been ongoing, but because of this, East Africa must also pay more attention to foreign military developments.

And if nothing unexpected happens, the Russo-Japanese War may be the last large-scale modern war before World War I. After all, the Russo-Japanese War in the previous life was called a "quasi-world war". The weapons used in the war between the two countries were basically based on their own tactics. It was also widely used in World War I.

"Especially in the naval department, the development path of our country's navy is basically the same as that of foreign countries. In the Russo-Japanese War, both navies were the most advanced at the moment. We must pay special attention to the differences in the details of the two navies during the war. Summary The advantages and disadvantages will guide the future development direction of our country's naval tactics, equipment and ships," Ernst said emphatically to the naval department.

It can be said that the Dreadnought in the previous life was born out of the Russo-Japanese War. The Bagamoyo built in East Africa already has the shadow of a Dreadnought. However, what a real Dreadnought should be, the Russo-Japanese War still needs to point out the direction. If you don’t grasp it, At this opportunity, East Africa can only wait for the British to build the dreadnought and then reverse engineer it.

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