There is a saying that if you don't suffer from a few but suffer unevenly, Europe is like that now, Britain and France are suffering from the economic crisis, but Portugal has not suffered much because of the small losses in the world war and the continuous resources from West Africa, and the economy has not been greatly affected.

What does this make Britain and France, which are struggling with the economic crisis, think?

Together with Britain, France and Germany, they fought to the death, smashed most of their family funds and maintained world peace, but in the end, Portugal, which did not contribute much in the world war, gained the greatest benefits, which is not scientific!

Britain and France still owe loans to southern Africa, and they have to pay off a certain percentage of government revenue every year to repay their debts, and on the issue of West Africa, Britain and France will not have too many restrictions on southern Africa, otherwise southern Africa has a way to counteract the British government and the French government.

"The best way is to support, but not to support the locals, but to support our own people, which is more beneficial to us." Roque was in a bad mood, and just last month, the Republic of Congo contacted the United States to set up an arsenal in Boma.

This is a very bad sign, the Nyasaland military industry, originally started from two bullet production lines, all the way to the current scale, Roque is very concerned about this aspect, absolutely not allow these countries around southern Africa to appear bad signs.

These countries around southern Africa are very dependent on southern Africa industrially, and the weapons and ammunition needed by the army need to be supplied by southern Africa.

The countries surrounding southern Africa, the Kingdom of Congo and the Kingdom of Mozambique, are predominantly African, while the Republic of Congo is predominantly white born in the Congo Free State.

In general, the leadership of the Republic of the Congo is quite capable, and of course there are a lot of ideas, the arsenal is an attempt, and if Southern Africa does not react much, then the Republic of the Congo is expected to make even greater moves next.

"Where are our people in West Africa?" Henry did not know much about the specifics of West Africa.

Roque and Martin laughed and said nothing, as they had not done before.

Now—

In the air!

Just as Roque was deciding the fate of West Africa with Henry and Martin, Falta's and Duren's forces encountered the West African colonial servants who were heading to Kameia to quell the rebellion in Banga, 200 kilometers from Luanda.

The battle ended quickly almost as soon as it began, with the mercenaries led by Falta using general-purpose machine guns to build a strong defensive line, and Durham led the troops to outflank them in a roundabout way.

Before the outflanking troops could be put in place, the West African colonial servant army quickly collapsed.

After the baptism of the world war, the tactics of the mercenaries became more and more sharp, as soon as the battle began, the front-line commanders of the colonial servant army were killed by precision marksmen, the soldiers lost command and fell into chaos, the officers were greedy for life and afraid of death and fled, the troops of 12,000 people, less than 500 were killed in the battle, and more than 2,000 fell to death, drowned, and were accidentally injured by their own people when they fled, and Durham's troops easily captured nearly 6,000 prisoners, and the battle took only two and a half hours from the beginning to the end.

In Chu Yunfei's words, even if it was 12,000 pigs, it wouldn't be able to catch them in two and a half hours.

It was very simple to take prisoners, as soon as one surrendered, a large number of them surrendered immediately.

It should be noted that this colonial servant army was mainly composed of West African natives, and the structure was similar to that of an umbrella, with whites serving as officers and soldiers being Africans.

The same structure, but the combat effectiveness is very different, when Luanda was seriously injured, the scene that happened to the rebels was repeated on the side of the colonial servant army, and there was no sense of disobedience.

"Send people to send all these prisoners of war back to the Kameya Railway, and we continue our advance towards Luanda." Falta is not proud, and defeating an army of colonial servants has nothing to be proud of.

"The physical fitness of these captives is still good, we can co-opt some of them." Durham has an idea, the physical condition of these colonial servant soldiers is still good, and the weapons and equipment are a bit poor, basically single-shot rifles that have been eliminated.

That's right, don't think that the weapons in southern Africa are being replaced so quickly, just think that other countries also have this strength, the colonial government in West Africa obviously does not pay attention to the weapons and equipment of the troops, and the 12,000-strong troops are even only equipped with 12 machine guns, which is still the old-fashioned Maxim, and this level of equipment is similar to that before the outbreak of the world war.

Before the outbreak of the World War, European countries paid serious attention to machine guns, and even in Britain and Germany, a regular infantry division was only equipped with a dozen or twenty heavy machine guns.

After the Battle of the Somme, European countries began to pay attention to the power of heavy machine guns, and by the last year of the world war, a British division was equipped with more than 200 machine guns.

The British army here, excluding the Southern African forces, which from the very beginning attached great importance to automatic weapons, and in the last year of the world war, a division of the Southern African Expeditionary Force was equipped with more than 400 general-purpose machine guns.

"We don't have time to digest slowly, and we need to occupy Luanda as soon as possible." Falta knew that time was of the essence and could not give the colonial government of West Africa a respite.

"It doesn't take much time, one class will put two prisoners in, and when Luanda is occupied, it will be almost digested." Durham himself is an African and understands the habits of these African soldiers all too well.

To put it mildly, African-American soldiers, if they have milk, they don't care who they serve, they don't care whether they kneel or stand, whether they are alive, they don't shudder.

"Then do it, you are responsible for what goes wrong." Falta's decentralization, whoever asserts is responsible, this is the rule of southern Africa.

200 km, in exchange for a colonial servant army, it will take at least ten days to arrive.

Replaced by professional mercenaries, the time was directly cut in half, and it only took five days for the troops led by Falta to approach the outskirts of Luanda.

Luanda is the largest city in West Africa, but also the center of Portuguese rule in West Africa, in 1576, the Portuguese Dias came to Luanda to open a port to build a city, is the first Portuguese stronghold in West Africa, the Portuguese is through Luanda, the African slaves are sold to all over the world.

After more than 300 years of construction, the size and level of construction of Luanda city is not far behind that of Cape Town, where the white population of West Africa is mainly concentrated in Luanda and the surrounding areas, in 1866, Luanda had only 15,000 inhabitants, and now the population of Luanda has increased tenfold, almost 150,000.

By the time Falca forces approached Luanda, Luanda had fallen into complete chaos, capable whites had fled, and Africans living in Luanda took the opportunity to make trouble.

At this time, Luanda actually had a colonial servant army, and the governor of Portuguese West Africa also temporarily organized the white people of Luanda to form a militia force to try to resist.

However, just before the battle began, the governor of Portuguese West Africa left Luanda by boat for São Tomé and Principe, and after the news broke, the defensive line of colonial servants and militias quickly collapsed, and Falta occupied Luanda almost bloodlessly, with unimaginable success.

"That's it?" Xiao Si couldn't believe it when he knew the news, from the Kameiya rebellion to the occupation of Luanda, it took less than two months, and Portugal's 350-year colonial rule in West Africa completely collapsed, although the Portuguese government is trying to form an expeditionary force, but everyone knows that this is a bluff, and the expeditionary force will most likely not appear.

"How solid do you think Portuguese colonial rule is? More than 200,000 people have to rule over a million square kilometers, and they have to face five or six million Africans who have been oppressed for hundreds of years, and think about how the Portuguese treated those Africans, who did not eat them all alive is humane. "Roque knows the roots of European countries, that is, there was no unified organization for Africans before, otherwise it was impossible for European colonizers to colonize Africa.

"Locke, I only now understand why you are moving Africans out of southern Africa-" Xiao Si finally understood why Roque was so insistent on the issue of Africans, thinking about southern Africa before, there were more than 10 million Africans, less than a million whites, in case Africans in southern Africa were the same as Africans in West Africa.

Xiao Si Lingling shuddered, didn't dare to think, didn't dare to think.

"Let's not talk about West Africa, now the more important issue is in the Republic of Congo." Roque distinguishes priorities, and problems must be solved one by one.

"What's wrong with the Republic of Congo?" Xiao Si has no concern for the Republic of Congo, this attitude is incorrect, and Xiao Si also has a share in the mineral resources of Haut-Katanga.

"The Republic of Congo wants to set up an arsenal—" Roque said succinctly.

"Dreaming!" Xiao Si is equally concise and to the point.

"It's not a dream, the Republic of Congo has already purchased machines from the United States, and now the machines are already being loaded in New York and are being sent to the Republic of Congo." Roque's expression was gloomy, the Republic of the Congo is dying, Roque's consistent attitude is still, if you are willing to die, I will be willing to bury.

"Is it Isaiah Chamberlain, or Isaac Pansy?" When the Republic of the Congo was founded, the president was Isaiah Chamberlain and the prime minister was Isaac Pancy.

The current president of the Republic of the Congo is Isaac Pansi, and the prime minister is Isaiah Chamberlain, just like *** and Medvedev, the president and the prime minister come in turn.

"It's not clear yet, anyone can do it." Roque didn't pay enough attention to the Republic of Congo before, but he didn't expect Isaiah Chamberlain and Isaac Pansy to be so bold.

"Then replace them all, or just kill them." Xiao Si is simple and rude, the subject country must have the consciousness of the subject country, and the tool man does not need to have thoughts.