"Do you know what I want to express?"
When the ant narrates the story, the language is straightforward and plain, without any emotional color. It is impossible to examine his tendencies, preferences, likes and dislikes from the ups and downs and cadences of the sentences.
Although the protagonist has recognized that the ant opposite him is himself, and he is himself, at this moment, the protagonist really cannot guess the deep meaning hidden in the plain language.
He didn't think much and answered hesitantly: "Is this high technology crushing low technology? Will you be beaten if you fall behind?"
The ant shook its head, and a series of humanized actions were reflected from an ant, which seemed funny and weird, surreal but realistic.
"Let me continue telling the story. This story is over, but you still don't know the people behind it!"
The ant's empty and emotionless language came to mind again. It was as unique as Zhao Zhongxiang's language explaining the animal world. Its characteristic was that it had no emotions and no fluctuations, just like an ancient well with no waves.
"Henry Lauck became a hero and a star because of this battle. In fact, he was originally just a child of a farmer's family in Manchester. Due to the industrialization of Britain, he had too many children with his alcoholic and beating father. , he has not received much education, but he is bold and adventurous, has a combative personality, never retreats and is not afraid of death.
In order to make a living, when he was older, he left the family full of pain and violence, leaving those family members who were destined to rot with the dust. After drifting to London, he joined the British colonial team sent to South Africa. There he joined the local police force and later the colonial army.
The colonial army welcomes this kind of scum from the local area most. They are cheap, have immediate fighting power, and have no worries. Generally speaking, their fate is to die in year after year of war with the indigenous tribes. When the time comes, the superiors will say that he has no relatives and take the withheld military pay and his relics as their own.
However, Henry was born to be an adventurer, and the wild and adventurous world of South Africa was his paradise. He is like a fish in water here because he is brave and cunning, especially because he likes to gamble with other people but his luck and skills are not good at cards, so he can be called a money-giving boy. Therefore, he gained the love of the soldiers here and gradually became a colonial army officer. This was an incredible achievement for a civilian.
After the Shangani River Blockade and the Benbezi River Blockade, he became a tool for the British Empire's internal propaganda, received a knighthood and a medal, and returned to his homeland. But he did not adapt to the upper class circles and was blamed for his rude behavior. He soon died of alcoholism and depression. Only history books and military textbooks will record his deeds - the use of high-tech weapons to massacre Africans. "
At this point, the ant paused for a moment, and then continued:
"The second person's name does not appear in the story. Only in senior history books and military academy textbooks, the name Lobengula is recorded. He is the king of Matabele and a Northern Ngeni.
The Northern Ngeni people and the Zulu people who live in Zululand on the eastern plateau of South Africa belong to the same Bantu language group. After the establishment of the Zulu Kingdom, the Zulu army defeated the army of Ndwandwe, the kingdom of the Ngeni. The Ngeni began to retreat northward. Their migration, like the migration of the Huns, produced dominoes throughout southern and central Africa. effect.
In the first half of the 19th century, the Ngeni people swept across the north and south of the Zambezi River, traveling thousands of kilometers. The entire central Africa entered the Kingdom Age under their stimulation. It can be said that they were the destroyers of southern African civilization. and creator of Central African civilization.
Mzilikazi, the grandson of King Zwede of Ndwandwe who once defected to the Zulu side, became a general under the Zulu King Chaka and made military exploits. Later, he angered Chaka for not turning over enough loot as required. In order to avoid punishment, he led his troops to rebel and crossed the Drakensberg Mountains to Xiyi.
Under the leadership of Mzilikazi, his regiment of the same age established according to the Zuluchaka military system was brave and good at fighting. This Northern Ngeni people entered the Vaal River to establish a base, and then moved west to Mali in the western Transvaal. Co Valley. They conquered the Tswana chiefdoms successively, and the Kunna, Ngwakizi and Rolang people successively claimed vassalage and paid tribute, served the Ndebele people and herded livestock.
Later, Mzilikazi established his capital in Inyati and rebuilt the Matabele Kingdom. He adopted the method of marriage and annexed the local Ngoni tribe. The two Ngoni people merged into one, and the territory of the kingdom expanded.
Mzilikazi died of illness in September 1868, after a serious succession crisis. Lobengula, the most powerful concubine, seized the throne.
Because the kingdom discovered gold, it attracted the covetousness of Europeans, and the civil strife in the Matabele Kingdom greatly weakened the kingdom's strength, finally creating an opportunity for the colonists to invade directly.
After Lobengula succeeded to the throne, he rashly granted mining rights to two British companies that supported him in the struggle for the throne. However, the European colonists later interpreted the granting of land concession rights as a transfer of sovereignty, which made Lobengula furious and aware of the British colonialists' ambitions for the Kingdom of Matabeleland. He sent two indunas (ministers) to London to appeal to Queen Victoria, but to no avail. The Matabele Kingdom is in danger of being annexed.
In January 1890, the first British colonial expeditionary force arrived, intensifying military colonial activities to expand the occupied land eastward. By 1893, the colonial team had sufficient strength and built two railways from Beira and Kimberley to Mashonaland, all of which prepared the South African Company for the annexation of Matabeleland. Rhodes, the leader of the company, announced that he would conquer the Matabele Kingdom by armed force and received the support of Jameson, the colonial governor.
Against this background, in September 1893, the British South Africa Company troops began their march.
Lobengula promptly mobilized the 6,000 troops he had sent out and deployed them to defend important areas in Gyeonggi. However, they failed miserably in the Shangani River Blockade and Benbezi River Blockade.
Lobengula burned the capital and retreated northwest. The British army then entered the burning Bulawayo and pursued Lobengula.
On December 3, Lobengula led his army to a small victory on the banks of the Nyangazi River, annihilating 34 British forward troops.
Lobengula then continued to retreat to the northwest, preparing to regroup and regain his territory. Unfortunately, when he arrived at Mositulia Falls (Victoria Falls), he contracted cholera and died in early 1894. With his death, the prosperous Matabele Kingdom also disappeared. "
