Without waiting for Shangguan Huaiyuan to finish his report, Li Ruishi clapped his hands and smiled bitterly: "No wonder, a train station has lasted so long...... Anyway, a division is a division, and it will be eaten quickly! On a hot day, we ran more than 300 kilometers in one breath on this kind of dilapidated mountain road, from chariots to motorcycles, bursting cylinders, lying nests, barely moving, and the fuel tanks are almost bottoming out. ”

Shangguan Huaiyuan was a little worried: "Once you enter the city, it will be difficult for the chariot to be used, we have few infantry, and there is no heavy artillery, so I am afraid that we will not be able to eat it for a while." www.)”

Li Ruishi was confident: "The other party should not know the strength of our army, so we will bluff, even if we can't eat it, we will scare them away." ”

Shangguan Huaiyuan was still worried: "Commander, is it really necessary to be in such a hurry?" Even if we capture the Dredawa, we will have to wait for the gasoline and spare parts to be transported from the rear before we can continue to advance, not to mention that there are still more than 400 kilometers from the Dre Dawa to Addis Ababa, as the commander said, the road conditions are so bad, and the weather is so hot, it is better to modify the plan slightly......

Li Ruishi said with a smile: "The soldiers are very fast, we must chase and fight fiercely, we can't let them relax, as you said, our infantry is small and has no heavy artillery, once the enemy discovers, the battle behind will be even more difficult to fight." Besides, we have a political mission: the sooner the government-in-exile of Empress Zorditu and Regent Maconnan returns to the capital, the sooner the authority of the new government can be established, and the easier it will be for us to gain the support of the local population, and the more likely it is that the feudal princely states of Abyssinia and the colonial indigenous forces established by the suzerains will defect to us. ”

"What the commander said is true, but it's just ......"

Seeing that Shangguan Huaiyuan still refused to give up, Li Ruishi interrupted him mercilessly: "Call 97ks.net call Qiu Yipeng over, it's time for him to come out." ”

"The commander means ......"

"I intend to organize a sabotage detachment based on an armored reconnaissance company. Divert behind enemy lines, intercept traffic, and confuse the enemy's troops. I will also send a telegram to the army group headquarters requesting that planes be sent to bomb the city of Dre Dawa. Further reduce the morale of the enemy's troops, and at the same time airdrop gasoline and spare parts for our troops, and restore the mobility of our troops as much as possible...... When the morale of the enemy army is sharply reduced, and our army's vehicles are filled with fuel and replaced with parts, we will attack in many ways with great fanfare, scare away if we can, and eat as much as we can! ”

Li Ruishi finished speaking. Seeing that Shangguan Huaiyuan was still in Zhiwu, he grabbed the microphone impatiently, and at this moment, another phone 97ks.net in the corner rang urgently, and Shangguan Huaiyuan hurriedly picked it up.

"I'm the front finger...... What did you say? Do you confirm again? Okay, I know the way - Commander, the enemy at the railway station has raised the white flag. ~Yo bsp; Li Ruishi raised his hand to look at his watch, and then raised his binoculars to confirm it with his own eyes. But he couldn't be happy: "It took twenty minutes, ten minutes more than the original plan, and it seems that we will have to continue to improve the tactics in the future - to give orders to the front." Clean up the battlefield as soon as possible, count the results and losses and report them to the front command. ”

"Yes, then Qiu Yipeng's ......"

Shangguan Huaiyuan obviously still had the intention of admonishing, but Li Ruishi had already made up his mind, and put the microphone back stiffly: "Didn't you hear what I just said?" Call him over! ”

"Yes, immediately order-"

Li Ruishi looked at the map spread on the slope of the trench with an expressionless face, but sighed secretly in his heart: "Brother Shangguan, I am very clear about your concerns, but this time, thanks to the emperor's grace, the elimination of public opinion gave me this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. If you can't make miraculous achievements, you will inevitably be criticized, so how can you have the face to go back to see the emperor? If you can't win this battle quickly, you'll lose, so no matter how risky it is, I'm going to try it hard. Even if you don't understand my intentions, at least I hope you will do your duty and stick with me to the end......"

……

London, 10 Downing Street, Prime Minister's Residence.

"So it's only a matter of time before the Djibouti and Aden fortifications are lost."

Having just listened to the report of Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill, Prime Minister Lloyd George could not help but sigh that the chandelier hanging from the ceiling illuminated his slightly gray beard, making the fifty-four-year-old leader of the radical wing of the Free Party look a little older than usual.

Churchill bowed his head and said: "Unfortunately, there is a lack of reliable land lines of communication around the theater of operations, and the enemy's Indian Ocean fleet is too strong, and it is difficult for our army to approach the theater of operations by sea, and there are no extra troops to send for the time being, so we can only watch these two fortresses being besieged to the end." ”

Lloyd-George flicked his pipe on a crystal ashtray carved with a sphinx in Cairo and asked in a modest tone: "What are the serious consequences of the loss of these two fortresses, in addition to causing the Suez Canal to be ineffective?" ”

Churchill smiled bitterly: "If this continues, it will inevitably trigger a chain reaction throughout the Middle East and Black Africa: the Turks may resume their resistance because they see hope, the Arabs who rebelled against the Ottoman Empire may reconsider their cooperation, and the African peoples may take this opportunity to advance their national independence - in this way, we will not be able to effectively use the human and material resources of the Middle East and Africa, and at the same time, a large number of valuable troops will be held back on the new front, unable to move......"

Churchill paused for a moment and emphasized: "Worse still, such a situation must also encourage the Germans to put forward excessive conditions that we must never accept in possible peace negotiations." ”

"In that case, we have to do something."

The prime minister seemed very unwilling.

Churchill folded his arms and smacked his lips helplessly: "It seems that we can only accept the proposal of the Americans to exchange the fleet for the army." ”

Lloyd-George frowned: "Didn't Lansing say that those American divisions can only be used on the Mediterranean and Black Sea coasts?" Besides, after the main forces of the Mediterranean Fleet are transferred, what will we use to fight the Indian Ocean Fleet of the Chinese people? Aren't the sea lines of communication more dangerous and difficult on the East African side? ”

Churchill patiently explained: "Your Excellency Prime Minister, this group of American troops can replace some of our troops in Asia Minor, Syria and Palestine, so that it is possible to use these replaced troops to strengthen the defenses of Egypt and East Africa, and even strengthen the offensive strength of our troops on the Balkan front." ”

"As for our Mediterranean Fleet, it is not enough to confront the enemy's Indian Ocean Fleet head-on, but if we can secretly sail to the Pacific Ocean to participate in the US counteroffensive before the enemy detects it, we can form a greater strength advantage over the enemy's Pacific Fleet in a short period of time, and the enemy, after perceiving this situation, will inevitably draw key forces from the Indian Ocean Fleet to reinforce the Pacific side, thus reducing the pressure on our East African sea lines of communication......

…… To be continued

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