Chapter 563: Spiral (6)
"The vanguard has already blocked the rear of the Italians under the guidance of reconnaissance troops......"
"The main forces have entered the area where they are stationed......
"Artillery is already in place......"
"The attack camp has been arranged......"
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The offensive of the coalition forces was in full swing, and the Italians did not yet know that a catastrophe was coming. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info Wei Kun was not surprised even if he was not on the front line, and now that Europe has begun to have airplanes, that kind of toy is completely incomparable with the reconnaissance planes that are flying higher and higher in the Republic of China. Even so, the latest aircraft of the Republic of China finally exceeded the 3,500-meter ceiling and barely flew over the Ethiopian plateau.
The war thousands of miles away was not something Wei Kun could control, and the system also required Wei Kun not to interfere. Wei Kun asked calmly: "What kind of conditions do you think Ethiopian agents should have in the future?" ”
"Future surrogate?" All the young people showed surprised expressions, and the commander of the military region asked in surprise, "Is there anything wrong with the current old emperor?" ”
"The problem with the old emperor is that he will die." Wei Kun replied calmly. It can be seen from everyone's expressions that everyone is stunned. Wei Kun continued to say calmly: "The current old emperor is firmly opposed to foreign aggression, and his leadership is very much needed in the war at this stage. However, our doctors believe that this old emperor has a maximum of ten years to live, and everyone will not think that this war will be fought for 10 years. ”
No matter how unpleasant Wei Kun said was, Wei Kun directly pointed out the crux of the problem, and the comrades had no other way but to accept it, and the young people participated in the discussion one by one.
Everyone knows that it is in the best interest of the East African administrative region for Ethiopia to become a socialist country. However, he had to admit that those comrades who insisted that Ethiopia could become a socialist country in the short term were either idealistic or idealistic, and in general could probably be classified as infantile diseases of the left. There are also slightly younger comrades who say stupid things about the invisible colonization of Ethiopia like their uncles.
Just when Wei Kun felt that he was gradually losing patience, a comrade from the Ministry of Civil Affairs spoke: "Why do we have to use how to control Ethiopia as the goal? Even if it's control, even if it's plunder, we just want Ethiopian labor. We don't need their territory, we don't need their fake labor, we just need Ethiopian labor. If we can meet this point, we might as well consider supporting him. ”
Wei Kun's eyes lit up, the young comrade's point of view was very accurate, and Wei Kun decided that this comrade would be in charge of the exchange work with Ethiopia. Of course, the process of the system still has to go, and Wei Kun can't say anything. What's more, the discussion is still ongoing, and this issue must be discussed to the end.
In the course of the discussions, a telegram was received that the coalition forces had begun an onslaught on Asmara, the capital of Eritrea. The comrades simply listened and continued their discussion on the conditions needed for the next Ethiopian leader, which lasted for one day and continued the next day. When the exhaustive method was almost exhausted, and everyone had to admit that the extraction of labor power was the most fundamental and correct extraction, a new telegram came. After a day and a night of fierce fighting, 50,000 allied troops annihilated 10,000 Italian troops. The telegram mentions the Italian army's determination to fight during the battle, but the inferiority in strength and equipment made it impossible for the Italians to win from the start.
The victory in the war delighted the comrades of the East African administrative region, but only with joy. In the eyes of the Republic of China, Italy was a weak chicken. In fact, after settling the United States, the Republic of China believed that there was no one in Europe who was not a weak chicken. As for how weak Europe is, the Min Dynasty is too lazy to test their quality one by one. In addition, the comrades in East Africa are more suspicious that this is only the first stage, and what will happen to France and Italy next, whether they will be annoyed and angry, and there is no bottom in their hearts.
At this time, Asmara was thunderous with joy, and among the 70,000 Ethiopian coalition troops, the green, yellow and red tricolor flags were waved like crazy by the soldiers. The Ethiopian flag, printed on silk by the East African Administrative Region, stands out with its flowing posture and bright colors.
The Italian legion, which had 10,000 men a day ago, was now only a few hundred men, and everyone was trembling with fear. The first black troops engaged in a firepower battle with them, and after a series of battles, they tore through the Italian defenses, and hand-to-hand combat troops armed with spears, swords, and pikes swarmed through the gap, killing the Italian army to the crying father and mother. Most of the Italian troops were killed by this fierce hand-to-hand combat unit, and only the lucky few hundred survived.
The Ethiopian army had the men take up the flags and flags of the Italian army and surrender to the Ethiopian Emperor Menelik II in front of a makeshift platform. There were several black men with several cameras on their shoulders, and several black men with cameras on their shoulders.
With intense fear and humiliation, Italian prisoners of war lined up in front of the platform to present the red, white and green tricolor flags of Italy to the table where Ethiopian Emperor Menelik II stood. At the end of the procession, the Italian servicemen carried several stretchers, which were covered with white cloth. When they got to the stage, the stretcher stopped. Peeling back the white cloth, below are the commanders of this Italian legion. They were all killed by the hot-blooded Ethiopian soldiers.
At the end of the surrender ceremony, the Ethiopian emperor made a speech to the 70,000 troops on the platform. The whole process of surrender took more than an hour, and the precious photos and movie information were quickly printed and sorted out. The filming of the aftermath of the Battle of Asmara, plus the part that had already been filmed, was produced in a month with an Ethiopian perspective and a documentary about the Battle of Asmara, "Plateau Empire". More than a dozen copies were sent to Europe, along with promotional materials with English, French and German pronunciations.
As expected, news of Asmara's defeat reached Rome, and the Italian Prime Minister and Cabinet immediately announced their resignation. Under the sudden change in the situation, the French were also confused. Both Germany and Austria announced that they would send official envoys to Ethiopia to discuss the establishment of formal diplomatic relations at the ambassadorial level, and Hungary sent a telegram praising Ethiopia for its just victory in the war against aggression.
The Ethiopian craze soon appeared in boring Europe, and the film "Plateau Empire" just let the European people full of curiosity see an Ethiopia. Knowing that Ethiopia is not an emirate in Africa, but a Christian country with a history of 3,000 years of civilization recorded in the Bible, the mood of the European people towards Ethiopia has become completely different.
The researchers of the Republic of China have done their homework in place, and the movie is dedicated to the division of religious denominations by the Holy See several times. Ethiopia has a long history of Eastern denominations, and although they are not considered orthodox by the Holy See, they are truly older Christian denominations than the Holy See. Even the Holy See did not consider the old Eastern sects to be heretical.
For the upper echelons of Europe, massacres between Christian denominations were a normal occurrence. For the European people, for the first time, they knew that Ethiopia was a genuine Christian country, and Ethiopia immediately became 'their own people' in the eyes of these Europeans, or at least a distant relative.
In the days that followed, some people deliberately guided, some people simply followed the trend, and some people wanted to earn manuscript fees, and the discussion of Ethiopia, a Christian country, occupied many pages. There were also envoys from various countries and a group of travelers and explorers who went to Ethiopia.
Ordinary Europeans discovered a distant religious cousin Ethiopia and were thrilled by it. After a few years, the Hungarian people also discovered that they had a distant relative named China in distant Asia, and they were equally moved. Of course, the future Republic of China will officially settle in the new land of Crete, and the distance from Hungary will not necessarily be greater than that of Europe and Ethiopia, a distant Christian relative.
It was at this chaotic time that the second emperor of Germany convened a pre-imperial meeting. Not only a number of high-ranking officials attended the meeting, but also Marx?? Several experts, including Weber, were also summoned to the Imperial Front. Wilhelm II got straight to the point, "Ladies and gentlemen, can our intelligence system be sure that it was the blacks who defeated the Italians?" ”
In the eyes of the second emperor, there were only blacks in Africa. Even Ethiopia, which has been proven to be a man from southern Arabia thousands of years ago, could not change the emperor. The eyes of the ministers were on the foreign secretary. Although the foreign secretary did not agree with Wilhelm II's statement, his mind was quite settled. As soon as he received the news of Italy's defeat, he immediately sent diplomatic personnel to the Ottoman Empire, only to arrive at Asmara before the Ethiopian emperor withdrew, and met with Emperor Menelik II and a swarthy army of 70,000. Even when the Ethiopians drove the prisoners of war to dig graves and bury nearly 10,000 Italian war dead, they gave these Italians a bunch of flowers picked casually. And took a photo to commemorate it.
"The blacks did wipe out the Italian army in the siege." The Foreign Secretary presents the facts in an objective way.
Wilhelm II withdrew his gaze from the Foreign Secretary and turned to the crowd at the Imperial Council, "I have read the report that the Ethiopian army is not as well trained and equipped as our black troops in the African colonies. In the next few years, we have the potential to gather more than two hundred thousand black troops, and our population in Africa will exceed half a million, if not more. If war breaks out in Africa, it will not be a problem for France to be unable to take care of Africa. If this black army could reach the Mediterranean coast of North Africa, would the French sit idly by? They will definitely be forced to divide their forces......"
A group of ministers and experts sat back and listened to the emperor's views, and some tried to oppose it, but the opposition was not accepted by the emperor Wilhelm II. The emperor used the persistence characteristic of the second disease to tell how correct his judgment of the future was. There was no consideration of how far the German colonies in Africa were from the Mediterranean region of North Africa.
After much controversy and controversy, when Wilhelm II made it clear that he would not invest more resources in the African colonies, the people in the court turned their attention to Marx, who was responsible for formulating the African colonial system. Professor Webb et al. The other professors bowed their heads after listening to Wilhelm II's request, expecting the Africans to defeat the Africans within the acceptable range, but the second emperor only knew about a war, and immediately had the idea of letting the Africans defeat the Europeans, and insisted on it. The emperor could insist on such a whimsical idea, but the professors would not.
Ignoring the expressions of his colleagues, Marx?? Professor Webb said loudly: "Your Majesty, I think that if the system is adjusted, there is a chance to raise 300,000 troops to launch an attack on the surrounding French colonies and even British colonies. ”
Even if it did not meet Wilhelm II's expectations, the second emperor was still impressed, and there were too few scholars to support his proposal so bluntly.