African Nationhood

The Dominion of South China issued a note to His Royal Highness King Leopold of Belgium: In view of the imprisonment and humiliation of our citizens by Congo Free State government troops, in order to protect the lives and safety of our citizens, our national defense forces urgently dispatched troops from the Congo Free State to rescue our citizens.

This note was quickly refuted by the King of Belgium and the Belgian government, who believed that the South China Dominion's dispatch of troops was an act of aggression against the Congo Free State.

The cabinet of the South China Dominion ignored the rebuttals of the Belgian King and the Belgian government and left everything to the British Foreign Office.

The British Foreign Office stated that it fully supports the South China Autonomous Territory's actions to rescue trapped nationals, and at the same time requests the South China Autonomous Territory government to take the opportunity to deal with the trapped British journalist Wells Giroux.

The cabinet of the South China Dominion immediately stated that it would accept the request of the British cabinet.

When the South China Autonomous Territory issued the note, Chairman of the South China National Defense Commission Shi Jintang signed an order of the Chairman: ordering Army Commander Qu Sanggan to rescue the Chinese workers who were detained and humiliated by the Congo Free State government as soon as possible, and to militarily occupy the town of Kamina. Follow-up matters are awaiting orders. .

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Lunda Administrative Office, Buka Town (now Bukama Town, Congo).

This is the border between the Lunda Administrative Office and the Congo Free State, and is also the headquarters of the 111th Regiment of the Northern Military Region.

The soldiers stationed here only need to take one step to enter the Congo Free State.

Because this place is closest to the Kamina stronghold in the Congo Free State, the Army Command directly issued an order to the 111th Regiment of the Northern Military Region, ordering them to send troops into the Congo Free State to rescue the detained and humiliated Chinese workers, and to detain the Chinese workers. The strongholds were under military occupation.

The 111th Regiment ordered its subordinate 1123rd Battalion to serve as the vanguard and take the lead in occupying the Kamina stronghold.

At this moment, 1123 soldiers of the 500rd Battalion are standing in the Congo Free State, bidding farewell to their comrades from the 111th Regiment.

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After bidding farewell to their comrades, the officers and soldiers of the 1123rd Battalion turned and headed towards Kamina in the north.

The commander of the 1123rd Battalion, Hao Yinghao, is a 30-year-old man. He was still a toddler when he first arrived in Nanhua. His family was recruited by immigrants who came here earlier and returned to China.

At that time, he was still young and did not know how good Nanhua was overseas, but after boarding the ship, he felt the wealth of Nanhua.

Because he was never hungry again after arriving on the ship, and when they were back home in the Qing Dynasty, their family almost never had enough to eat.

Except for eating some meat during the Chinese New Year, he could only eat corn and sweet potatoes to satisfy his hunger. His grandparents all starved to death.

His mother fled to his father's village in winter because she didn't have enough to eat.

Just because his father's house had a cellar of sweet potatoes that could survive the cold winter, his mother stayed at his father's house.

Who knew that after he was born, the family's situation became worse and worse. In the end, his parents abandoned the family business and were recruited to Nanhua.

After arriving in Nanhua, he received education and was even allocated land, and their family became an ordinary family in Nanhua.

After he joined the army, their family's situation became even better.

He had already married and had children. After having a family, his loyalty to Nanhua became even higher.

He respected Chairman Shi more than anyone else. He believed that Chairman Shi wanted to earn a good place for everyone and future generations to survive.

Therefore, knowing that this was a narrow escape mission, he took it without hesitation.

Not only did he know that this mission was not easy, but the soldiers below also knew that this time was very dangerous.

But no one complained. After all, being a soldier is what you get, and your family's living conditions are much better than ordinary families, so they are content.

If he is lucky enough to survive this time, he can still get a medal when he comes back, which is another amount of income.

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The Kamina stronghold is less than 200 miles away from the town of Buka. According to the standard of emergency march, they can reach it in one day and one night, but it is now the rainy season on the entire Katanga Plateau.

Therefore, they could not march quickly, and they also had to prevent the danger of malaria or other pests.

They brought enough DDT powder this time, with which they can block most of the pests.

But the military doctor told them that this powder was harmful and would damage the body if used too much.

Nowadays, if you want to go deep into the tropics, you don't have to worry about the poison of the powder. You have to worry about your life first.

...After three days of marching, the town of Kamina is already in sight, but the 3rd Battalion has already lost 1123 soldiers.

The health workers accompanying the team could not determine what specific diseases the missing soldiers were suffering from. They only showed symptoms of vomiting and diarrhea, and soon lost their combat effectiveness.

Hao Yinghao had no choice but to leave someone to take care of them and wait for subsequent rescue.

They did not clean up the indigenous people they met along the way. This time the military order was to rescue the trapped Chinese workers.

When they approached the town, they found that the Congolese defenders here were not on alert. Hao Yinghao discussed with the deputy of the camp and issued the order to attack.

The battle order was to keep as many people alive as possible except the Chinese.

The criterion for whether to kill or not depends on whether the opponent can resist or not. If he doesn't resist, he won't kill. If he resists, he will kill.

It is also difficult to define the judgment of all the soldiers on the front line. Everyone is very nervous, and killing one or two more is nothing.

The King of Nanhua and the King of Belgium have not yet broken up with each other, so they cannot kill them all, lest the King of Belgium loses face and makes another dirty move against the Herstal Arsenal.

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Under the leadership of Hao Yinghao, more than 1123 soldiers of the 480rd Battalion dispersed according to the three-by-three system and charged towards the town.

Because there were so many people, the white and black people in the Kamina stronghold were panicked when they appeared.

Hao Yinghao and the others shouted "surrender without killing" in English while charging.

Belgium is a country with French and Dutch as its official languages, so most of the black people here can understand French and their indigenous languages.

It is understandable that they fled in fear when faced with the approaching Nan Hua Army armed with guns.

However, the Nanhua Army did not want such a situation to occur. Once the indigenous people ran around, it would cause chaos.

So they shot and killed them directly. Most of the Belgians here could not understand English, only a few could understand it.

But most people don't want to die. When they can't escape and see that they are being killed while escaping, they very smartly lie down on the ground and wait for treatment.

Sure enough, their non-resistance was forgiven, and those who fled or resisted became corpses.

This offensive operation was not difficult. The 1123th Battalion took control of the entire Kamina stronghold at the cost of only three soldiers being injured.

In this battle, they killed 329 black natives and 48 whites, and captured 781 black natives and 139 whites, of which 89 were white women.

There were more than 1100 Chinese miners. When they learned that the South China Army was coming to rescue them, every one of them burst into tears.
Like a child who has been away from home for a long time and meets his relatives, he pulls Nan Huajun to cry.

Later, under the leadership of their leader, they knelt down and knelt down to the south, praising Chairman Shi for long live, long live!
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Seeing that the situation here was under control, Hao Yinghao summoned the Chinese miner leaders and told them that rescue would be coming soon.

Let him arrange for the Chinese to rest first, and then help the South China Army strengthen the defenses of the entire stronghold.

The Chinese leader told Hao Yinghao that they did not need to rest and only needed to eat enough to help the South China Army strengthen their fortifications.

More than a thousand Chinese miners helped, and the 1123rd Battalion quickly set up defenses.

With the fortifications in place, Hao Yinghao felt relieved, and he took advantage of the situation and handed over the task of guarding the captured white people to the Chinese miners.

As for the indigenous people, they continued to be allowed to dig coal, with the Chinese acting as overseers.

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A railway has been built here at the Kamina stronghold, and the Belgians set up a railway station here.

When the Nanhua Army came in, there happened to be a train loading coal.

Hao Yinghao directly seized the train and asked the captured white people to contact the Congo Free State to inform them that the South Chinese Army had taken military control of the Kamina stronghold.

If they want to return the impounded train, they must send other Chinese workers in Congo to the Kamina stronghold, and at the same time compensate the Chinese workers for the injuries caused.

Otherwise, the Nanhua Army would not have withdrawn from the Kamina stronghold! (End of chapter)