The arrival of Vontrota brought a noticeable change in the morale of the Tanganykard army.

It has to be said that the pressure brought by Nyasaland to Tanganyika is too great, and the previous top brass of the Tanganyika German army has been exhausted in the face of the pressure from Nyasaland, and is simply unable to organize an effective counterattack.

However, as a white man, the Germans also have their own pride, although Germany is still weak for Britain as a whole, but for Nyasaland, which is mainly composed of Chinese, the Tanganyika army has extremely mixed emotions up and down, and the British Empire is an old empire, but Nyasaland has not been a barony of Nyasaland for a long time, so why is Nyasaland getting better and better now, but Tanganyika has been standing still.

It's not fair!

This was especially felt when Vontrotta observed the city of Xuanwu.

Xuanwu City, as the outpost of Roque to develop northern Nyasaland, has always been the most important city in northern Nyasaland, after the establishment of the Northern Rhodesia Division, Xuanwu City became the headquarters of the Northern Rhodesia Division, and Roque carried out a new round of development of Xuanwu City.

Although the current Xuanwu City is not large, it is very neatly planned, like all other cities in Nyasaland, the road standards are very high, the width of the city's main roads is more than 50 meters, the road trees, green belts, and sidewalks are in good order, and the contrast with the roads in Tanganyika is really stark.

In Tanganyika, even in the center of Usombra, there are no road traffic conditions like Xuanwu City.

Vontrotta would certainly not think that this was Nyasaland in order to disgust the Tanganyika people, and deliberately built the roads of Xuanwu City so well.

Having had experience in German South-West Africa, the first thing Vontrotta did when he arrived in Tanganyika was to set up a blockade on the border between Tanganyika and Nyasaland, prohibiting any movement of people between Nyasaland and Tanganyika.

Vontrotta then made a register of the Téterans in Tanganyika and requested assistance from Germany proper, in order to counter Nyasaland's growing superiority in the North Sea.

There are about 30,000 Teteras in Tanganyika.

Previously, the reason why he Tanganyika took in these Teteras was to cause trouble for the Congo Free State.

Now that the Congo Free State has become a Belgian Congo, Nyasaland's strong intervention has turned Tanganyika's expansion in Lake Tanganyika into a total defense, and the importance of those Tétera is declining.

Tanganyika once tried to use the Tetera people to cause trouble for Nyasaland, but unfortunately it failed to do so, and added a lot of free labor for Nyasaland in vain, so registration is only the first step, Vontrotta will not waste Tanganyika's human resources at will, these Teterans can play a greater role.

For example, construction in Tanganyika.

Vontrotta can also be regarded as a bold move, preparing to build a pure military city in Tanganyika, opposite Xuanwu City, and confront Xuanwu City-for-tat.

However, construction requires a lot of money, and Tanganyika does not have such a strong capital force as Nyasaland, so it can only ask for assistance from Germany itself.

The crux of the matter is that Germany itself simply simply cannot afford to provide sufficient assistance to Tanganyika.

With the strength of Britain, it was still stretched thin by the arms race, let alone Germany, which had only been unified for a few years.

Although Germany now also has some overseas colonies, most of these overseas colonies have not produced profits, and only German Southwest Africa exported more than it imported last year, and Tanganyika needs German assistance every year to maintain Germany's colonization in Tanganyika.

In other words, Germany had been given these colonies for too short a time, and now they are all losing money, and they are simply unable to effectively transfuse blood for Germany itself.

Therefore, Vontrota's reply was very disappointing, and the German government not only could not give enough help to Tanganyika, but asked Vontrotta to maintain Tanganyika's posture as much as possible, and to provide Germany with a large amount of steel and other resources needed to build dreadnoughts in the shortest possible time.

Vontrotta finally realized the situation facing Tanganyika, there were no steel plants in Tanganyika, there was even only one steel plant in the whole of Africa, that is, the Favart steel plant in the Transvaal, and it was absolutely impossible for Tanganyika to send ore to Favart for smelting, so Vontrotta had to think of other ways.

Fontrota's solution had not yet been figured out, and new frictions arose on the border between Nyasaland and Tanganyika.

This time it's either in the North Sea, or near the city of Xuanwu on the shores of Lake Niasa.

As mentioned earlier, there is no clear dividing line between Nyasaland and Tanganyika near Xuanwu City, and the default dividing line is an unknown river.

The problem is that it is a seasonal river, which is semi-dry during the dry season and overflows during the rainy season and is often diverted.

In mid-July, it rained for a week in Xuanwu City, and the river, which was the boundary line, was diverted again and moved nearly a hundred meters north.

This also means that the border line of Nyasaland has been pushed forward by another 100 meters.

A distance of 100 meters is nothing compared to the land area of hundreds of thousands of square kilometers, but although the land area is large, not an inch is superfluous, so this 100 meters immediately became the focus of attention of the Nyasaland and Tanganyika military.

The Northern Rhodesian Division reacted the fastest, as soon as the river was diverted and the rain had not stopped, the officers and men of the Northern Rhodesian Division immediately crossed the original river and began to patrol, and also hired workers to repair the river, clearly assuming that the current river should be the dividing line between Nyasaland and Tanganyika.

Of course, the Tanganyika military did not recognize the current boundary river, so the patrol forces of the two sides frequently clashed physically.

Fortunately, both sides still exercised restraint, neither of them took the initiative to use weapons, and the friction was limited to a certain extent.

This level of "friendly exchanges" was actually more beneficial to the northern Rhodesian division.

With the arrival of Gurkha mercenaries, now the northern division of Rhodesia also has a force composed of Gurkha mercenaries, and at the beginning of this year, the northern division of Rhodesia accepted nearly 2,000 Gurkha mercenaries to form a new fourth regiment, which is stationed in Xuanwu City.

These Gurkha mercenaries had only been in Nyasaland for a short time, and they were still afraid of the white German officers and soldiers in Tanganyika, and had not established enough psychological advantages, so they could not let go of their hands and feet when communicating.

However, after two or three friendly exchanges, the Gurkha mercenaries finally realized that the white people were strong and middle-handed, and they were gradually able to correct their mentality when facing the whites.

In several exchanges at the end of July, the northern Rhodesian division won a complete victory, the patrol units of the 2nd Tanganyika Division had blue noses and swollen faces, and there were again serious incidents of "loss" of military horses.

The loss of military horses was absolutely unacceptable to Vontrota, so the 2nd Tanganyika Division elaborated a plan of retaliation.

Nyasaland is indeed very strong in terms of infrastructure, and the diversion of the boundary river has only been short, and the reinforcement of the river has been completed on the Nyasaland side.

Of course, the reinforcement is limited to the river channel on the Nyasaland side, and Nyasaland on the Tanganyika side will definitely not care, so that if the boundary river is diverted again in the future, it will still advance northward, so that Nyasaland can expand logically.

This is simply God, his old man gives face.

Due to the recent rains, the cavalry of the Northern Rhodesian Division habitually wore raincoats when patrolling.

The raincoat issued by the Northern Rhodesia Division is a wide cloak raincoat, the cost of this raincoat is a little higher, but the effect is very good, not only easy to use, outstanding protection ability, but also beautiful style, beautiful and generous, the officers and soldiers of the Northern Rhodesia Division are very fond of it.

The officers and soldiers of the Northern Rhodesia Division were also too arrogant during this time, and there were two cavalrymen riding horses with the brand of the Tanganyika military on their buttocks, and it was obvious that this was the military horse that the Tanganyika cavalry "lost" a few days ago.

And one of the Tanganyika cavalrymen was also wearing a raincoat that was only issued by the Northern Rhodesian Division, which simply made the patrol of the Northern Rhodesian Division red-eyed.

Needless to say, the raincoats on the Tanganyika cavalry were also "accidentally lost" by the northern division of Rhodesia.

It's normal to have a fight, there are losses and wins, but if you use it blatantly like this, it's an obvious provocation.

So it was just a few glances that staggered, and the conflict broke out again.

The training of the northern Rhodesian division in peacetime attaches great importance to cooperation, and the small cooperation between two or three people is very skillful, the Germans are fighting separately, and the Nyasaland is a group to form a team advantage, and one is put down in three or two seconds, and one side is immediately down on the spot.

The squad leader of the cavalry squad did not even get off the horse, and watched his men beat the Germans to the ground, and the confidence of the troops was slowly built up.

Usually at this time, the victory and defeat have been divided, and the two sides will stop very tacitly, and then go back to their respective homes to find their own mothers.

Today's Germans are tenacious, and even if the situation is completely one-sided, they have no intention of stopping.

The squad leader was about to call a halt, when a dense sound of horses' hooves suddenly sounded in the distance.

The squad leader immediately understood that this was a trap, and even if the Germans came to support, they would not come so quickly.

"Stop, stop, withdraw—" The squad leader beckoned, and he was still fighting with the men of the Tanganyika cavalry.

There was no way to leave, and the Germans, who were covered in mud, even if they had a blue nose and swollen face, had to hold on to the Nyasaland cavalry and not let the Nyasaland cavalry get out.

A Nyasaland cavalryman managed to get rid of a German cavalryman, and just as he struggled to get up from the mud, he was directly knocked away by a galloping war horse.

"Stop! it—" The squad leader instantly red-eyed, took out a pistol from the quick-draw holster on his chest, and was about to fire a warning shot, but was knocked down by a German soldier who was oversecreted by adrenal glands and carried away.

This shot completely shattered all the achievements of Bilov's visit to Nyasaland.