Chapter 131 Conquering Kayanza
Kayanza is located in the northwest of Burundi.
The capital of the Kingdom of Burundi is located in Gitega, which is the geographical center of the Kingdom of Burundi and the hinterland of the Central Plateau (Burundi).
During peacetime, Gitega, as the center of the country, can naturally better strengthen the radiation of the Kingdom of Burundi to its surrounding areas.
But when the Eastern Bantu tribes flooded in from the south like a tide, Gitega, which had no danger to defend, became precarious.
If it was only a small-scale impact, the Kingdom of Burundi could still handle it, but the Eastern Bantu tribes were driven to this narrow area in the northwest by millions of indigenous people in the entire East African colony.
Even if everyone stood there motionless, it would take a long time to shoot with a machine gun, let alone the Kingdom of Burundi, where even the iron weapons were relatively primitive.
So the central government of Burundi, after being attacked by the Eastern Bantu tribes, fled northwestward after trying to resist to no avail.
Kayanza, about 60 kilometers away from Gitega, has a slightly complicated terrain and is easy to defend, so it became the temporary capital of the Kingdom of Burundi.
However, the Kingdom of Burundi, together with other kingdoms, wiped out the forces of the Eastern Bantu tribes. Before returning to the old capital, they encountered menacing Germans.
In order to resist the Eastern Bantus, the Kingdom of Burundi built a large number of fortifications here, and at the same time a large number of people were temporarily relocated here.
This is also one of the reasons why the population in the south of the Kingdom of Burundi is very small. Without a certain number of people, it is impossible to fight against the turbulent crowds of the Eastern Bantu tribes. Therefore, many nobles choose to stay warm with the central government.
Anyway, the fertility of the land in the northwest region is almost the same, and the rain conditions are basically the same. A large number of Burundian nobles migrated to Kayanza with food and population.
Kayanza lived up to expectations, blocked the invasion of the Eastern Bantus, and preserved the vitality of the Kingdom of Burundi.
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"In front is Kayanza, the temporary capital of the Burundians. We estimate that the city's population has reached at least 15,000 people. It should be the most difficult bone in Burundi." Larry Antonio introduced to Yarman Look at the Kayanza situation.
Yarman took a telescope and carefully observed Kayanza's fortifications.
As a city that has been expanded in a short period of time, Kayanza's urban construction is very rough, and its city walls are built with many irregular rocks, far inferior to Gitega, which has fallen into the hands of the East African colonies.
Most of the stones in Gitega have been simply polished, and the city looks neat, but after being looted by the Eastern Bantus, it was no longer prosperous. Later, the East African colonies counted the number of people in Gitega, and only 23 people were found.
Kayanza is different. Standing on the high ground and looking out, the surrounding fields alone are not small. There are many shacks where the poor live outside the city, and the population in the city is estimated to be larger.
In addition to stones, Kayanza also used a lot of rammed earth and wooden strips to reinforce the city wall. The city wall reached about two meters, and the city was twice the size of Gitega, which has been in operation for many years.
"It seems that we need to prepare more manpower. It is still difficult to deal with so many indigenous people with our small number of people. If they run around, we don't know which direction to choose first to catch people." Yarman said.
The East African army in front of Kayanza has only more than 500 people. It is possible to block one side. If you want to drive the aborigines to the north, you have to block the east and west directions.
"In this way, Larry Antonio, you go and mobilize another 600 people from the other troops on the east and west sides, and say that it is my order." Yarman ordered.
"It's sir!" Larry Antonio.
The total number of people dispatched in the East African colonies this time was only more than 10,000, but the front line was nearly 400 kilometers long, so only two to three hundred people could be allocated every ten kilometers.
In this way, there will definitely be fish that slip through the net and escape from the long snake formation in East Africa, but the colonial government of East Africa has already made follow-up arrangements, and when the new immigrants arrive, they will reorganize the occupied areas.
A big city in Burundi like Kayanza is worthy of Yarman's temporary transfer of manpower from other regions. A big city with a population of more than 10,000 people is rare in the whole of Africa, at least it can be ranked in the second line.
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With the arrival of the manpower, Yarman is ready to attack.
The Burundian soldiers in the city looked at the army led by Yarman vigilantly. Due to the impact of the Eastern Bantus, the Kingdom of Burundi was actually in a state of paralysis in exchanging information, so that the East African army arrived, and the Burundian central government knew.
However, the Burundians do not know the details of the East African colonies, especially the complexion of the East African colonists is too fair, and the clothes are very gorgeous.
It is quite similar to the Arabs, but the Arabs' clothing, which the nobles know, is completely different from this group of people.
As for the European explorers, they are rare animals, only a very small number of northwest nobles have seen them, and the high-level officials of the Kingdom of Burundi are these few people.
Not European explorers, even the East African colonies visited these indigenous nobles in the early days, mainly for the purpose of surveying and mapping the local terrain.
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"Ulu, what do you think these weird people are doing?" Mopu said, lying on the city wall of Kayanza, looking at the Germans digging simple fortifications in the distance.
Although, digging fortifications is somewhat redundant for the East African army. After all, these indigenous people have no longer-range weapons other than bows and arrows and throwing objects to shoot at East Africa. Standing a little farther away can avoid the attack of the indigenous people.
"I feel that they are in the same group as those southern barbarians (Eastern Bantus), and they are definitely not good guys. They followed after they solved the southern barbarians, obviously not for peace." Ulu responded.
"But they obviously look different from the barbarians in the south! And the fabrics they wear are very good. The barbarians in the south are very poor and want to rob us of everything, but the people outside the city are obviously much richer than us. We used to have only The chief’s family can only afford so much cloth, but the whole body on the other side is like this, everyone has a share, they must be very rich.” Mopp pointed to the two Prussian military uniforms in East Africa in the distance.
"Anyway, Priest Abra said just now that the opposite side is not good, especially the fire stick that looks useless. I heard that someone has cast magic on it. As long as it makes a loud noise, it will absorb people's souls, so you still stay away from it." Stay far away from the city, and if your soul is taken away by the opposite side, you will die." Wulu said.
"I don't believe it. The priest Yaha of our tribe has already given us to drink the secret holy water. The priest Yaha told me that as long as he sees the opponent rushing over, he can shoot the opponent with a bow and arrow, and the opponent can't hurt us at all." Mo Pu Said proudly.
It's as if two people are more powerful than the priest behind them. It is obvious that Mopu's priest is better. Not only can he break the evil law of the Germans, but he can also fight back, but the priest of the Ulu tribe can't do anything, which makes Mopu I feel that I have a lot of face in front of new friends.
Ulu and Mopu are people from two different tribes in Burundi. Last time, because of the invasion of the Eastern Bantus, they were taken to Kayanza by their leaders. Because the two tribes were placed near the same line of defense, Ulu knew each other. Mopp.
"I don't know about the others, but I know that luckily it hasn't rained these days, otherwise the mud pit on the opposite side would have turned into a pool." Ulu said lazily leaning against the city wall with a piece of grass in his mouth.
"Look! What is that? Uru." Mopu suddenly shouted at Ulu.
"What?" Ulu stood up slowly, stretched himself, and turned to look at what Mo Pu said.
There are also many sharp-eyed natives who discovered the movements on the East African army positions.
In the past two days, the natives have been very curious about the East African army outside the city, but the generals of the kingdom and the leaders of their own tribes have ordered the city gates to be closed and not to take the initiative to attack.
The aborigines on the city wall had to watch what the East African army was going to do. They didn't dig a hole, and it seemed that they hadn't made any big moves.
Today, something new suddenly appeared that the aborigines had never seen before. The aborigines on the city wall poked their heads to see the new gadgets pushed to the open space ahead by the East African army.
I saw that this thing was completely black, with a black hole as thick as a bowl, and large circles like the sun growing on both sides.
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"Laurd, is your skill good enough? You won't miss it! We only have three shells, so save some for me," Yarman said.
"Don't worry! Yarman, I was born as an artilleryman. How could it not be good for eating things back then? Besides, the opposite party doesn't even have the ability to interfere with us. Some of them are kung fu calibrations. Just wait for me to blast the city gate open." !” Lauder said.
The novelty that Mo Pu saw was a cannon. It was only newly arrived in the East African colony this month, and Yarman transferred one from the port.
After all, the indigenous bows and arrows are not for nothing, and they still have the city wall as a shelter. Arman is afraid that the rifle will not be effective against the indigenous people.
In fact, you can use local wood to build a large siege vehicle, push it to the lower part of the city, and bury it with explosives, so that it can prevent the bow and arrow from the opposite side, and also prevent falling rocks.
However, Yarman just wanted to have a cannon for fun, so he applied for it with the East African colony. Since there are not many artillery in East Africa, only one was approved.
"Okay, we've aimed. As long as we hit it, we'll definitely shock the natives on the opposite side." Lauder said to Yarman.
"Okay, everyone listen, cover your ears, we are going to fire!" Arman and his men said.
After everyone was ready, Arman drew out his saber and shouted at the gate of Kayanza: "Get ready!..."
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Ulu stood on the top of the wall and said to Mo Pu: "Look at that black thing standing next to a man, he pointed at us with a knife."
"He should be the priest on the opposite side! Can he cast spells at such a long distance?" Mo Pu wondered.
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"Let go." Arman ordered.
Everyone on the East African front covered their ears, and Lauder lit the fuze.
Boom...
Uru and Mopu only heard the black thing roar loudly, and a white flame flashed through the hole.
Boom...
The city of Kayanza was shaken for a while. The city gate, which was intact just now, was blasted into a large hole together with the bricks and stones, and half of it collapsed directly. The unlucky ones on the city gate were also buried in the ruins.
"The wrath of the gods, the gods are angry..."
The panicked natives shouted in all directions, Ulu and Mopu were very close to the city gate. Although they did not become the unlucky ones who died together with the city gate, their ears were still roaring now.
The two were stunned by the bombing, and it took a while to recover. The two were too scared to speak, and immediately fell on the ground to make atonement to the god.
The East African army has stepped out of the trenches and rushed towards the place where the city wall collapsed, while aiming their guns at the indigenous people who can still stand on the city wall.
bang... bang... bang...
The intermittent gunshots woke up the natives who were still praying to the gods. Now they don't care about anything, and they ran down the city. Everyone crowded together at the passage, and the panicked native soldiers shouted as they ran: "The devil is here, the gods sent the devil to punish the Kingdom of Burundi, run away!"
The streets were in chaos. After several months of living in fear, the civilians suffered from this. Anyway, even the army of the kingdom collapsed, something terrible must have happened.
The natives who had the foresight even packed up all their belongings and fled away. Everyone in the city fled to the north amidst rumors and panic.
The king and nobles in the temporary palace of Kayanza had a bad feeling when they heard the huge gunfire, plus the gunshots from the East African army and the screams of the people in the city, they decided to run away immediately without even thinking about it.
Ordinary people don’t know what the Germans are holding, but the most knowledgeable people in the Kingdom of Burundi still know it. Anyway, if you let the high-level officials of the Kingdom of Burundi think for themselves, they don’t think that warriors can defeat firearms. After all, the Arab slave traders have let them I have seen it.
With the experience of running the road last time, all the residents of Kayanza City, Kingdom of Burundi, can be said to be familiar with the road this time.
Adults, children, kings, nobles, chiefs, priests, commoners, slaves...
It seems that the scene of the Eastern Bantu invasion has reappeared, but this time behind the Burundians there are no "black" East Bantus, but bursts of gunshots.
For the Burundians who are keen on "superstition", it is a hundred times more terrifying than the Eastern Bantus, especially the soul-stirring weapons that the priests said that the Germans held in their hands.
So every Burundian (except the nobles) is convinced that the loud noise piercing the sky is the scream of the devil, and if caught by the devil, he will never be reborn forever.
In the city of Kayanza, serious chaos occurred, with frequent stampedes and robberies, but everyone ignored these details and fled to the north in the direction of Rwanda. If possible, the Burundians would like to give birth to a pair of legs and leave This is a place of right and wrong.
(end of this chapter)