Italy's ambitions for Abyssinia had been clearly exposed, and the creation of incidents was only a pretext for large-scale aggression, and Mussolini frequently threatened in Rome to teach Abyssinia a lesson, and to let these African barbarians taste the power of Italy.

Compared with Italy, Abyssinia, which still retains serfdom, is indeed only a very backward country, and the emperors who now rule Abyssinia are Haile and Selassie, who once visited Europe and brought zebras and lions with him, which greatly attracted the attention of Europeans and became a joke.

In fact, the Chinese high-level did not look down on such a country, including Jiang Baili and others, who believed that the Italian army could turn Abyssinia into its own colony as long as it passed, and China really did not need to offend Italy for such a country.

You must know that Italy is still recognized as a great power, there is no shortage of aircraft, artillery, tanks and warships, and even chemical weapons, and there is also an important factor that Italy is too close to Abyssinia, although China dares to compete with any country in the Far East, the main reason is that China occupies the home advantage, and Abyssinian is located in East Africa, 108,000 miles away from China, and it is too difficult for China to intervene.

However, Qiao Yu definitely doesn't see it that way, Qiao Yu, who is familiar with history, knows very well that the country of Italy is a typical silver-like pewter spearhead, a useless character, and Abyssinia's confrontation is beyond the imagination of the world, this war that was originally no suspense has been fought for seven months.

In the end, although the Italians occupied Addis Ababa, the capital of Abyssinia, there were still a large number of guerrillas, which constantly consumed the Italians' combat effectiveness.

For Qiao Yu, as long as the country still knows how to resist, it is not hopeless, and it is definitely worth helping, but this time Qiao Yu's old assistant Jiang Baili is extremely opposed.

"President, Italy has no colonial interests in the Far East, there is no direct conflict with us, and there is really no need for us to make too many enemies; And Abyssinia did not even have a regular army. Most of the weapons are broadswords and spears. How much wealth will it cost to arm them, how many tanks and artillery will we need, and how many weapons will need to be transported through the Strait of Malacca to Africa, will the British agree? Even if we transport it, will Abyssinia have enough people to manipulate it, and will we still send army volunteers? ”

China has sent volunteers in Vietnam and other places, in fact, China's regular army has been forcibly discharged. Participating in the Vietnamese army under the banner of volunteers, Jiang Baili undoubtedly supports this in China's surrounding areas, because China is also plotting these lands, as for crossing the ocean and spilling the blood of soldiers in Africa, Jiang Baili is absolutely unwilling!

"Brother Baili. This time you are wrong, I never intended to arm the Abyssinian army with advanced weapons, which would have no value except to spend a lot of money in vain, and besides, as you analyzed, it will be difficult for us to pass the restrictions of the Strait of Malacca, and China will indeed not spend a lot of money for an unrelated country. ”

Hearing Qiao Yu say this, Jiang Baili was also relieved. The president is indeed not hot-headed. But then he had even greater questions.

"President, how can we fight against the Italian army if we don't arm them? You can't just rely on a statement! ”

"Brother Baili. You are smart and confused for a while, when will I have to confront the Italian army head-on, I am not expecting them to win against the Italians, but to make them hold on, we are going to fight an asymmetrical war! ”

Before World War II, countries went straight to each other, and whoever had a big fist would make sense, except for Europe and the United States, most of the other regions were colonies, semi-colonies, and they were completely at the mercy of others, without any room for resistance.

After World War II, the situation changed abruptly, with a nuclear sword hanging over the heads of all countries, and with the rise of nationalism, even the most powerful countries in the world could not easily expand their territory, and other powers were bound to use various means to hold back.

Qiao Yu is very clear about the strength comparison between Italy and Abyssinia, in addition to this, the gap between the quality of personnel between the two countries is unimaginable, although Italy is a waste among the powers, but it is enough to bully Abyssinia in a semi-primitive state.

In this case, why does Qiao Yu want to support the doomed Abyssinia, in fact, the secret lies in the fight, as long as Abyssinia insists on fighting, the Italians will not be able to get out of the war, they will continue to consume arms and wealth, they will continue to sacrifice soldiers, and they will be absolutely passive in international morality, and they will continue to persevere, and sooner or later there will be a day when Italy cannot afford it.

This method has been repeatedly proven in later generations, and the Red Empire was not also dragged down by a small Afghanistan!

"Brother Baili, the key to the so-called asymmetric war is that we use relatively simple weapons to make the Italians pay a greater price, for example, we don't have to give the Abyssinians tanks, but we can give them mines, and we have to teach them to make mines by local methods, we don't have to send them guns and artillery on a large scale, but we can provide them with a small number of sniper rifles, select a small number of elites from their army, and after training, they can inflict continuous losses on the Italians, We don't have to teach them to fight head-on, but we can give them the power to destroy the water and poison them......"

Qiao Yu said what he thought in his heart, Jiang Baili also figured it out in an instant, he is not a stupid person, in history Jiang Baili put forward the theory of national defense, in which the core of dealing with the Japanese is also three words, as long as you don't surrender, there will be a day when the Japanese will be dragged down, for the weak, this is indeed a very good way.

"President, what you said is a good idea, but do the Abyssinians have such a strong determination to resist? I'm worried that they will collapse at the first touch, and they can't help Adou at all! ”

"This is up to you to assess, and if the Abyssinian people are available, we might as well make this a trap for the Italians to fall into!"

There are an astonishing number of resources buried under the rich continent of Africa, and in the process of China's industrialization, Africa's resources are absolutely indispensable, but now that Africa has long been carved up, it has become extremely difficult for China to intervene, so this opportunity in front of him is something that Qiao Yu absolutely does not want to miss. China only helped Abyssinia resist Italian aggression. China has succeeded in establishing a strong foothold in East Africa.

The Chinese intelligence services also conducted detailed investigations, and finally concluded that Abyssinia was more tenacious than expected, and that the emperors Haier and Selassie were also strong leaders, and after determining all this, the Chinese side quickly finalized the policy of aiding Abyssinia.

This is the scene where the Chinese representative strongly condemned Italy in Geneva, and China's attitude surprised Britain, France, and other countries. In fact, Britain and France and other countries also predicted war, but the painful memories of the First World War made them dare not face war at all, and the current international order is also very beneficial to them.

Therefore, they only condemned Italy's expansionist actions, and no matter how nice they said, the top leaders of these two countries were already frightened by the war. They did not dare to face the challenge of war.

Selassie, who had some hopes for international justice, hoped that Britain and France would administer justice, and he personally went to Geneva to seek support, but it backfired, and Britain and France were only willing to provide some help without any expense, and nothing else at all.

It was at this time that China stood up and adopted a strong attitude of condemnation of Italy, while at the same time expressing its willingness to support Abyssinia's just struggle. This is for Selassie. It was undoubtedly great news that the two countries reached an agreement quickly.

China sent a corps of less than 100 officers to train the Abyssinian army. At the same time, it also transported a large number of mines through secret channels, and China also sent some military experts to teach them to produce bombs and gunpowder using local methods.

Mussolini is definitely a rare megalomaniac and did not take China's warnings seriously, China's strength has been improving in recent years, and Britain and France have suffered losses in China's hands, but in Mussolini's view, this is just the cowardice and incompetence of Britain and France, and Italy will definitely not be frightened by the yellow-skinned monkey.

In particular, the Italians did not find out that China was supplying weapons to Abyssinia, so he was even more relieved, and the Italians made careful preparations for this invasion, concentrating a total of 300,000 troops to attack Abyssinia from the north, east, and south.

At this time, Abyssinian mobilized more than 400,000 troops, but ninety or five of them were improvised militiamen, who were brave and inexperienced, and the equipment was even worse, a considerable number of soldiers did not have their own rifles, and artillery was even more scarce.

In the initial battle, Selassie insisted on fighting a regular war with the Italians, and after a few days, although the Afghan army fought bravely and gave the Italians great losses, the Italians were well-equipped, and the militia suffered even heavier losses, and patches of corpses were scattered all over the battlefield.

At this time, Selassie deserved to take the advice of the Chinese side, decisively shifted the focus of the war, and focused on the sabotage war, and the focus of the attack became the logistics line of the Italians, and at the same time, the Argentine army also adopted a scorched earth strategy, destroying wells and poisoning streams when retreating.

You must know that Abyssinia is located in the highlands of East Africa, and the water source is already very scarce, and now it is destroyed, and the situation in Italy will suddenly become worse, and these Italians will have no water even if they want to cook noodles!

In addition, the mines secretly sent by China played an incomparable role, at the beginning of the war, the Italians had more than 20 tanks destroyed by mines, especially the Italians' tank defense capabilities are indeed not very good, many tanks directly turned into a pile of scrap metal, and even burned and exploded, giving Italy a headache.

They tried to use sappers for mine clearance, but the Chinese side will definitely not let them have a good time, under the anti-tank mines, often also arrange anti-infantry to jump mines, some major intersections will even make a large string, often the sappers rush to dig out the mines, waiting for them is a series of violent explosions, instantly the bones are gone, become the tank substitute ghost! (To be continued.) )