African Nationhood

On February 2, Vorbeck led his East African Liberation Force into the territory of the Ugandan Protectorate.

British Prime Minister of the Uganda Protectorate Stanley Tomkins and colonial official John Turpin led 5000 colonial troops to fight, but were scattered with one blow.

Vorbeck's men directly captured two white officials, and then summoned the heads of the local Bunyoro and Buganda kingdoms as well as the Karamoja tribe, promising that he would lead everyone to resist British colonial rule.

He also promised that after the war, he would fight for independence opportunities for various indigenous kingdoms.

If you are unwilling to resist the British, you are an enemy of all those who strive for independence and liberation.

Vorbeck was very eloquent and his brainwashing was very successful. More and more indigenous people followed him.

The power is growing and will soon gather more than 5 people. Such a powerful indigenous team continues to absorb the surrounding indigenous people and hunt down the local British.

On February 2, 10 British colonial troops in Sudan rushed to Uganda first.

Vorbeck was informed by local indigenous intelligence, and then the colonial troops who came to support were annihilated first.

The British officer who led the team, Tarry Dickens, died in the chaos.

The scope of unrest in East Africa was getting larger and larger. After Lin Baiguang received overseas intelligence, he had to urgently send electricity to the local area to quickly dispatch troops to prevent Vorbeck from returning to Tanga, East Africa.

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The fighting in East Africa did not affect preparations for war in the Balkans of southern Europe.

The entry of Nanhua's army had long been detected by the Bulgarian army on the north bank of Hubei, but the Bulgarian side did not know what kind of weapons Nanhua had prepared.

2月18日，100门105mm野炮，100门120mm口径野炮、100辆装甲车，在湖南岸准备就绪。

Four French divisions, two British divisions, and five Serbian divisions gathered at the border of Lake Doilan. After the artillery bombardment and aircraft bombing were completed, the ground troops would launch an assault.

At 8 o'clock in the morning, the Nanhua 120mm field gun took the lead in firing the first shot.

"Boom~"

Cannons bombarded one after another, layers of snow foam continued to rise on the ground, and brass bullet casings began to fall randomly on the ground.

The artillerymen loaded nervously, and shells weighing 20 to 30 kilograms each were continuously filled into the barrels, creating huge craters on the north shore of the lake.

Bulgarian soldiers on the north shore of the lake hid in trenches to avoid the splash and explosion damage of artillery shells. As battlefield veterans, they had long been accustomed to artillery bombings.

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After receiving the order to take off, Major Lu Ping of the Nanhua Air Force and his pilots ran onto the plane and got into the cockpit.

With the assistance of ground personnel, the DY-1915 aircraft flew into the sky towards the north of the city. The two flying groups behind him also took off one after another and flew towards the north shore of Lake Doylan.

More than ten minutes later, their plane arrived at the battlefield. They looked at the messy position below and the artillerymen busy running behind the trenches. This was their bombing target.

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Because Nanhua controls the sales channels and imitation licenses for biplanes, there are no aircraft in Bulgaria, and even if there are, they are only from the Germans or the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Of course, Bulgaria may also have pilots trained by pilots from Germany and Austria, so there cannot be many pilots in Bulgaria.

Nanhua's monoplane did not encounter enemy aircraft in the air. On the contrary, the sound of anti-aircraft cannons was heard from time to time in the trenches below. This showed that there were no aircraft on the Bulgarian side.

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This was the first time that a single-wing, all-metal fuselage aircraft appeared on the European battlefield. The machine gun fire from this high-speed aircraft when it swooped down caused great casualties to the Bulgarian army.

Air strikes from aircraft were not the first for the Bulgarian army, which also deployed anti-aircraft cannons.

However, the high speed of the monoplane made it difficult for the gunner to find the rhythm during the attack.

Artillery shelling and bombing were carried out simultaneously in order to suppress the opponent's ground troops in a short period of time and prevent them from launching defenses on their positions. The British, French and Serbian armies here were divided into three parts and launched an assault. Most of the soldiers on the east and west sides of Doilan Lake followed the armored vehicles in the charge.

In the middle direction, they take a motorboat or landing craft to charge towards the shore of Hubei.

When the charge is in place, the bombardment will basically stop, but the bombing by aircraft will not stop.

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The shelling started at 8 o'clock and stopped first at 8:42.

The monoplane flies at low altitude, looking for enemy soldiers who intend to organize a defensive counterattack.

For example, the heavy machine gun points on the Hubei shore are the key targets of aircraft.

Dive shooting and drop bombs at low altitude can not only destroy the enemy's will to resist, but also buy time for large forces to attack.

The British, French and Serbian armies, which had long been prepared for an assault, were not slow in their assault.

When most of the troops enter the main battlefield, the aircraft will no longer play a role in the battlefield.

They need to keep an eye around the battlefield to see if there is a large gathering of enemy troops or new artillery positions.

At 12 o'clock at noon, the battle at Lake Doylan ended.

Britain, France and Serbia lost a total of more than 1500 people, while the Bulgarian side lost more than 7000 people and took 2.2 prisoners.

In this battle, the coalition forces obtained more than 400 75mm-caliber field guns and a large amount of ammunition and baggage.

After capturing Lake Doilan, the coalition's momentum increased greatly, and the passage to the interior of Serbia was finally opened.

There were differences among the coalition forces about the next step of their march. The British and French forces wanted to move eastward into Bulgaria.

The South China Army must advance to support the first expeditionary force that broke into Sarajevo.

After discussion, the South China Expeditionary Force and the Serbian Army continued to advance. The British and French forces attacked Bulgaria eastward, waiting for an opportunity to invade the Ottoman Turkish Empire.

On February 2, the Chinese and Serbian coalition forces quickly marched 24 kilometers and captured Skopje (now the capital of North Macedonia), an important city on the railway line.

After the war, the Serbian garrison was in charge of the Austro-Hungarian Empire's Sixth and Fifth Army. The Sixth Army was transferred away because of the Italians.

Serbia's defense was very empty. When the South China Army moved north last year, the Sixth Army Headquarters thought that South China was going to join the Italians. They waited for a long time but found that the South China Army was stuck in Sarajevo and refused to leave.

After the Sixth Army sent a small force to test, they found that the South China Expeditionary Force had no intention of continuing the attack.

In addition, the Austro-Hungarian Empire wanted to engage in a large-scale battle in the Caporetto area, so it no longer paid attention to the South China Expeditionary Force in Sarajevo.

Unexpectedly, the South China Expeditionary Force actually broke through Serbia again. Field Marshal Svetozar Borojevich, who had just been promoted not long after receiving a report from his subordinates, led his regiment from the Piave River on the Austria-Hungary border towards Belgrade.

The small number of troops stationed in Serbia waited for the Sixth Army to rush back to assemble their troops and set up defense lines along the city of Niš and Pristina in the interior of Skopje and Serbia, with the intention of blocking the advance speed of the Warsaw-Serbia coalition.

With favorable geographical location and people, as well as railway lines and aircraft, the Chinese and Serbian coalition forces advanced very quickly.

After the coalition forces broke through Pristina's defenses on March 3, they continued to advance towards Belgrade.

The Shihong United Headquarters in Sarajevo also led his troops to march towards Belgrade.

Suddenly, the situation in Serbia has undergone earth-shaking changes.

This worried Emperor Karl, the commander-in-chief of the Austro-Hungarian Army, and ordered Marshal Svetozar Borojevich to gather troops to block the attack of the Warsaw-Serbia Allied Forces.

On April 4, Svetozar Borojevich led his army back to Belgrade and actively formed a defense line, waiting for the arrival of the Warsaw-Serbia coalition.

On April 4th, Hua and Saima came to Belgrade without stopping. (End of chapter)