Chapter 820: Hard to Guard Against

Andreas Pretorius knew very well that he could not resist the invasion of the British. He had been to Europe and seen the strength of Britain, so he knew very well that even if the Boers fought to the last man, they could not defeat this powerful enemy.

However, Andreas Pretorius retreated again and again, while the British advanced again and again. The Boers had to pay blood and sweat for every piece of land they developed and every grassland they conquered.

The migration road was never an easy thing. On the road, they had to face all kinds of poisonous insects, beasts, and terrible malaria.

Many Boers lost their lives on the road, and not all land was suitable for development, at least not at the level of technology at that time.

The land was too barren to feed a large population and livestock, and famine soon occurred. As people and livestock starved to death and the plague arrived as expected, they were forced to give up the land they had just acquired and continue to migrate inland.

Among them, Louis Trica's experience was the most representative. At first, there were nearly two hundred people when they left the Cape Colony.

In order to avoid the British and the natives, they chose a relatively remote land. Louis Trika and other Boers worked hard for a year, but when the harvest season came, many wheat ears did not produce.

So they could only rely on hunting wild animals for a living, and soon animals became scarce. At the same time, an epidemic called "sleeping sickness" began to break out among livestock.

Cattle were the most valuable assets of the Boers, so they had to migrate again. As a result, there was a problem with the route and they deviated from the original route.

First it was Louis Trika's father, then his wife, and then his two children. When his team came to the Portuguese Mozambique colony, he was the only one left in his family of more than a dozen people.

The indigenous people also caused great trouble to the migrating Boers. Under the influence of Black Lives Matter, the Boers' Blood River War was portrayed as a massacre.

But in fact, before that, the Boer leader Retief negotiated with the Zulus, who claimed that as long as the Boers could help them find their lost herds, they would allow the former to settle here and give them some land for grazing.

So Retief went to fight another tribe with great enthusiasm and took back the herd.

When Retief took the herd and his army (less than a hundred people) to the Zulus to fulfill his promise, the Zulu leader Gundin asked the Boers to lay down their weapons and wait in the shed according to Zulu tradition.

So Retief laid down his weapons and took his men to the shed (similar to the tribal meeting hall), and then a group of Zulu warriors rushed in and executed all the unarmed Boers.

Smashing the head with a stick or a stone hammer seemed to be related to some kind of taboo ritual. In the end, after Andreas Pretorius won the Battle of Blood River, he could only identify the identity of the dead from their clothes and belongings.

It was because of these blood, tears and sweat that the Boers were unwilling to give up their hard-earned land. Andreas Pretorius accidentally heard about Luxembourg.

He thought that he also spoke German, so was he also a German? As a result, Pretorius went to find the Dutch merchant again, and it just so happened that the latter happened to be a Dutch merchant who was actually a Luxembourger and an extreme nationalist.

Under his instigation, Pretorius decided to go to Vienna, but he didn't know where Austria was, so he could only take a ship to the Netherlands first.

King William II of the Netherlands was not interested in such non-Dutch colonies. In fact, no one was willing to introduce Pretorius because he didn't have enough money to pay bribes.

After twists and turns, he arrived in Luxembourg. His deeds moved the Luxembourgers and even donated a sum of money to him. The speaker of the parliament, the little Couder, personally took him to Vienna to attend the German Confederation Conference.

However, due to the land division, the little Couder temporarily put Pretorius's affairs aside.

Pretorius also had a good look at the charm of Vienna, the most prosperous city in the German Confederation.

In his eyes, this place is much better than the gloomy London, and national sentiment is very contagious. It just so happens that the German Confederation Congress is held here and all kinds of nationalists gather here.

Then there are continuous victories. The streets and alleys of Vienna are constantly bombarded with various good news. The streets and alleys are full of propaganda and people talking about these things everywhere. Old Pretorius has also been successfully brainwashed into a German nationalist.

When the harvested little Kuldre thought of the old Pretorius, the Vienna Conference had ended, the monarchs of various states had left, and the only thing to be held was the routine meeting of the German Confederation.

But the latter's emotions at this time did not diminish, but a strong sense of national pride arose spontaneously. He had never been so proud in his life.

So old Pretorius made an impassioned speech and shouted loudly at the German Confederation Congress. The scalp of Count Pilesdorf, the representative of the Austrian Empire, was blown up, but he was just angry.

Looking at the silent meeting place, Count Pilesdorfer heaved a sigh of relief. Fortunately, Lance was exiled to California, otherwise who knows what kind of trouble would happen.

If the young man gets angry and says something nonsense, you have to know that they are the British, the world hegemon. The most important thing is that the Austrian Empire has no navy, and the damn Boers live on the other side of the world.

If a war breaks out between Austria and Britain, then the good days of the Austrians will be over. As a senior government official, Count Pilesdorff is well aware of how much benefit the colonies will provide to Austria every year.

In addition, the Austrian Empire's overseas trade has been rising in recent years, and the market has expanded to all parts of the world.

All of these require smooth sea routes, otherwise resources cannot be transported in, domestic goods cannot be transported out, and overseas markets and colonies will be lost sooner or later.

The British rose on the corpses of the Spanish and French, and Count Pilesdorff did not want Austria to be the next one.

At this time, he found that the young man he led had unusual movements, as if there was a kind of primitive power running around in his body.

Fortunately, Count Pilesdorff was quick to hold down the young man beside him. He hated this policy of old-to-new interns.

Some young people always can't control their hands and mouths, but fortunately there is a mature and steady diplomat like him.

However, he miscalculated, and the situation that Franz least wanted to see happened. One "Lence" fell down, and thousands of "Lence" stood up.

The original Confederation Congress turned into a feast for nationalists, with young people in the audience shouting "Down with the British, save our African compatriots, long live Germany!"

German nationalists made a scene at the German Confederation Congress and demanded troops to be sent to Orange, casting a shadow on the original victory of the Vienna Conference.