Iron crusade Lettow-Vorbeck marches south.

Lettow-Vorbeck marches south.

Military action

1922
23/1
1922
14/4

With the Entente presence on the African front growing, Colonel Lettow-Vorbeck decided to change tactics.


The situation for colonel Lettow-Vorbeck forces was precarious. His mission to keep as many Entente soldiers busy as possible was proceeding quite well, He seemed to have also been undergoing an Awakening of sorts, albeit slowly, which only improved his ability to remain a thorn in the Entente's side. However, his casualties were slowly growing. The enemy had an almost infinite ammount of reserves. It was only a matter of time.   But... he also gathered a lot of weaponry after the failed Operation Lionhunt. Many times more than he could use. He needed more recruits to use them. And there was one place where he could find them.   He marched south, surprising and overwhelming (or simply marching around) the local Entente garrison. Soon he reached the area of the former Boers republics, a place of brief (and failed) anti-Entente insurgency during first years of the Great War. There he found recruits... and even managed to reignite the revolt with the use of surplus weaponry. Further cementing himself as the Entente's boogeyman, and becoming an even deeper thorn in their side.

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