"Captain, we seem to be surrounded by the natives."

An expedition in South Africa was trapped by local tribes, and people appeared outside the camp surrounded by four-wheeled trucks, and thousands of black shadows appeared. These natives held one or two slender wooden javelins in their left hand and a solid cowhide shield in their right hand.

As the captain of the expedition team, he needs to make a choice to protect the safety of his group.

A strange land on the east coast of South Africa is unknown here, and many tribes living here are even isolated from the world.

The Zulu Kingdom, which should have been somewhat famous, was still an unknown small tribe at this time.

After the new route was opened, slave traders, whaling ships, pirates and merchants occasionally appeared here.

However, Europeans are only active by the sea, and there are rare explorers who go deep into the hinterland.

What blocked their deep into the hinterland was not how powerful the local tribes were, but the raging diseases, malaria, typhoid fever, and yellow fever that were banished by the explorers.

An expedition from the East came from the sea to the Zuluran area on the east coast of South Africa, which is a coastal plain.

They carried some new drugs, such as quinine and saline, to build a new transit station and a stronghold for invading the hinterland in this ancient and strange continent.

A long time ago, the Kyushu Army had built a stronghold called Cape Town near the Cape of Good Hope, which serves as a transit station for African routes.

Because of the opening of the Suez Canal, the Cape Town transit station, which has just improved, may face a period of loneliness.

The purpose of this expedition team is not to transfer stations, but to look for gold.

In Chu Yun's impression, South Africa has a huge gold production.

Gold is a hard currency, and Chu Yun will not let go of places that produce gold. He is also accumulating wealth while building projects in various places.

The expedition team had about 1,000 people, and they were brought by four large sailing boats, of which about 500 were from Indian states. They would participate in the conquest of the East Coast of South Africa as servants.

To establish an effective colony on a strange continent, it requires sufficient population. The losses of the first colonists are generally serious and people need to be used as coolies. Some Indian natives who have been tamed are the best choice.

After landing in South Africa, they began to search for the legendary world's largest gold mine, the Rand Gold Mine Area.

They tried to establish a colony in the Zuluran region as a bridgehead for further invasion of South Africa's hinterland to find gold.

The Rand Gold Mine is 500,600 km from the east coast of South Africa.

Although the distance of 500 kilometers is nothing to China, this is Africa with tropical diseases and there is no road. It is no easier to walk 500 kilometers here than to hike from Guangxi to the capital.

The expedition team's plan is to establish a port in the coastal areas, which can be connected with Indian colonies at any time and obtain supplies.

They built a earth and stone fortress in a simple port and stationed a team of 70 people, and then gradually conquered the local tribes inside, and at the same time competed for prey with some surrounding tribes, causing friction.

In the future, to mine the Rand Gold Mine, you also need to obtain local labor, so conquest is necessary.

The expedition team left the coast 60 kilometers away, and they were surrounded by the local Bantu tribe coalition forces.

There was no powerful kingdom in the area. These tribes joined forces temporarily. Their warriors had almost no armor on them, only primitive weapons such as javelins and leather shields.

In front of thousands of indigenous sieges, the members of the expedition did not feel fear because they believed in the Mauser rifle they held.

The Mauser rifle is also a rear-mounted rifle, but the Dresser rifle has improved a lot, and there is no problem with the killing at a distance of several hundred meters.

"The short-handled javelin they used should have two functions. One is to throw at a short distance, with a throwing distance of about 50 meters, and the other is to perform close-range assassination. If they break through the defense line and fall into hand-to-hand combat, it would be bad. Put the machine guns and artillery out, and we will defeat them at a long distance." As the captain of the expedition team, he asked someone to take out the heavy weapons, and he wanted to leave a psychological shadow on this group of uncivilized tribes in order to reduce future conflicts.

"Please pay attention to replenishing ammunition. The queue cannot cease fire at any time until the enemy retreats!" He then added.

The expedition team has firearms that are far more than the natives. The disadvantage is that they have too few people and must ensure that they can reduce losses through strict order.

Four-wheeled trucks formed an outer position, two Gatling machine guns were deployed on the front, and two guns were also added.

The machine guns and artillery are too bulky and have to carry a lot of ammunition. They can only carry two machine guns and two artillery pieces of artillery for 1,000 of them, which is quite difficult.

If you carry more machine guns and artillery, you cannot provide them with ammunition, which is equivalent to a pile of broken copper and iron.

The Chinese and Indian Tumen on the expedition team held the muskets in their hands tightly. The muskets they used ranged from Mauser rifles, Deleiser rifles to Type 1777 standard rifles, which can be said to be diverse. These three generations of rifles represent the changes in the use of weapons by infantry in the Kyushu Army over the past 30 years.

In order to prevent the betrayal of the Indian Turkish soldiers, the rifles equipped with them have always been the relatively backward 1777 standard rifle, which is nearly 100 years away from the most advanced Mauser 1871 rifle.

Because the Chinese explorers and Indian people have a small number, they use four-wheeled trucks as their defense line and line up in two rows, and can only perform two rows of volleys.

"These indigenous people may not even have seen muskets... They will only see muskets unless they meet European sailors on the beach. I hope they can retreat after seeing the power of artillery and muskets, and do not cause unnecessary casualties in vain. Our ammunition is also used a little less before we get supplies."

The captain of the expedition team used a telescope to observe the indigenous coalition forces. In the telescope, he saw a group of indigenous soldiers who were quite orderly, and they formed a very simple square formation. Obviously, there were conflicts between tribes on this land, and different tribes and chiefs were exploring the battle formation.

However, their weapons were too backward, without cavalry, and their formation could not be played in any way. In the eyes of the expedition captain, this indigenous coalition composed of javelin soldiers and a small number of archers, the opponent only had the advantage in number and terrain.

"They started attacking!" The members of the expedition team exclaimed.
Chapter completed!