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June 23, Republic 2781 (1940), Ethiopia.

While diplomats were still talking at the League of Nations headquarters in Geneva, four Chinese divisions had crossed the border and headed for the heart of Ethiopia.

The 118th Panzer Division of the Eighteenth Army, as the vanguard, was the first to cross the border, with the exception of fighters of the Army and Air Forces. Two armored regiments, a mechanized infantry regiment, a self-propelled artillery regiment, an anti-aircraft battalion, an anti-armor battalion, an armored reconnaissance battalion, a mechanized chemical battalion...... More than a dozen units, plus 205 armored combat vehicles (tanks) of various types, more than 240 armored vehicles of various types, more than 160 self-propelled artillery pieces of various types, and thousands of vehicles of various functions of the division headquarters were slaughtering to the west.

Brigadier General Wang Yaowu, the commander of the division, poked his head out of the command vehicle with a smug expression on his face. In the sky, the fighters of the Air Force and the Army Air Force covered the sky, and on the ground there was a torrent of steel rolling in. Master Wang felt that the weather today was really good, and even the surrounding barren hills looked so lovely. Even if he had to leave the train just now because the railway bridge was blown up by the rebels, it didn't affect his mood in the slightest.

"Hmph, our division is going to be the first to enter...... Enter the ......" He went in for a long time, but he didn't come in or out, and his old face suddenly turned red, and he was embarrassed to ask Huang Rixuan next to him: "Old Huang, what is that place called?"

"Addis Ababa......" Brigadier General Huang Rixuan's eyes twitched a few times, he took off his glasses, wiped them and put them back on. Brigadier General Huang is the political commissar and chief of staff of the 118th Armored Division, and Mr. Wen thinks that his strategic vision is very vicious, he is scheming, and he is good at training and raising troops, but the specific tactical command is not good, so he appointed him as the political commissar and chief of staff, and he is a partner of Wang Yaowu, who is good at commanding in battle but has a rough style, and the two of them just complement each other.

Well, in another time and space, these two are hostile camps, and it is absolutely impossible to sit in the same command car like now. Of course, history is different now, and they have all become the youngest division-level officers of the new China generation, and they are all less than 40 years old. Although the three-digit serial number of the division is a type B division, it is also a type A division that is "mad" in China, and its number is not less than that of the mainstream in the world. As for the A division, because China currently does not have an establishment at the army level, foreign countries usually regard the A division of the Chinese Army as a "corps" level unit.

"Hey, Lao Huang, you say, why are they so complicated to take this name? This is not deliberately tossing people, so that I can't remember it, if we wait for us to fight, we must change the name of Emperor Zhang Xiaozi to a simple one!" Wang Yaowu complained with a black line in his head.

Lao Huang sighed, rolled his eyes, and ignored him.

Lao Wang is on the rise at this moment, so he wants to find someone to talk to. Seeing that there was no conversation next to him, he changed the topic: "Lao Huang, you say, why did Mr. Wen give this throne to that Zhang boy? Ma Dan, this kid was stunned by a pie! There is also a boss pie, sitting at home and falling off the throne, such a dog ##luck, it's really ......"

......Brigadier General Huang Rixuan gave him a blank look, and said helplessly: "Lao Wang, you have said it eight times! Let him be the emperor of Ethiopia, this is a political necessity ......."

"I know it's a political need, why doesn't Mr. Wen give this throne to his own people? We contributed our efforts and money, but let outsiders take advantage of it in vain, how cost-effective it is......" Wang Yaowu muttered and complained, suddenly his eyes lit up, and when he saw Lieutenant Wen Zecheng on a giant panda in front of him, he immediately had a flash of inspiration and whispered: "Lao Huang, Lao Huang, you see, that one is very suitable." The eldest stays in China, and the second can come to Africa, with our assistance, there is absolutely no problem in dealing with such a country...... The bloodline of our Chinese Son of Heaven is much more noble than that Raush son King Solomon!"

The brain-opening remarks of "......" made Huang Rixuan's face full of black lines. He couldn't help it, and said: "Lao Wang, don't talk nonsense, how can this kind of thing be decided by us? You are all a general, you must pay attention to the influence! If you let your subordinates hear it, how bad it will be......

Afraid that this guy would continue to talk nonsense, Huang Rixuan had to explain patiently: "Hey, this place is different from China, people here only recognize the emperor of that family, and outsiders don't recognize them." Otherwise, do you think the boss will give the throne to that kid?

"Hey, that's a pity, if only Mr. Wen married their empress or princess back then. I just don't worry about foreigners......" Wang Yaowu had to dispel the brain hole just now.

Huang Rixuan smiled: "Don't worry, the top must have considered it." That Zhang boy came to China at the age of two, grew up in China, and now he is a Chinese, which is called Yi into Xia Zexia. I've heard that he doesn't even know how to speak the vernacular here......"

At this time, the voice of Peng Xuefeng, commander of the armored reconnaissance battalion, sounded on the intercom: "Report to the division commander! The party leading the way is coming, no, it is the one who leads the way, and the Ethiopian Labor Party has sent a workers' self-defense force to lead the way......

"Okay, you have to pay attention to discipline and remember that we are the Heavenly # Dynasty King!" Wang Yaowu hurriedly said.

Although the Chinese armed forces now have satellites in space, reconnaissance planes in the sky, global satellite positioning systems are all equipped with platoons, and wireless communications are even more equipped with squads, it is impossible for them to get lost. But it's still much more convenient to have locals to lead the way, at least it's much easier to communicate with the locals.

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Ethiopia is an ancient country with a history of 3,000 years of civilization. The first inhabitants of the area were the Semitic people, who migrated from the southern part of the Arabian Peninsula. In 975 BC Menlinik I became king, and in the 8th century BC, the Kingdom of Nubia was established. This was followed by the Ethiopian Empire, the Axumite Kingdom, and then the Abyssinian Empire, which was established in 1270.

From the 16th century onwards, it was invaded by the Portuguese, Ottoman Empire, England, Sudan and Italy. Ethiopia is rich in mineral resources and agricultural raw materials, which have long been coveted by Italy. In 1888, Italy invaded Ethiopia and occupied all of Eritrea.

In 1889, Menelik II became emperor, unified the country, established Addis Ababa, and laid the foundation for modern Ethiopia. In 1890, Italy invaded further, crowding out British power and declaring Ethiopia a "protectorate". But Italy's combat effectiveness was too inferior, and in 1895, the greedy Italy invaded Ethiopia again, and the first Italo-Egyptian war broke out, but Italy kicked the steel plate again, and suffered a crushing defeat to Menelik II in the Battle of Adwa, losing all the underwear, and had to be forced to recognize Ethiopia's independence.

According to the history of the original time and space, Mussolini will break out the second Italian-Egyptian war after coming to power, probably the fascist combat effectiveness bonus is a little higher, this time Italy used the strength of milk, including the use of poison gas bombs and other means, finally overthrew Ethiopia, until after World War II, the country regained its independence, but the lost Eritrea was divided for too long and caused estrangement, and it didn't take long for it to break up again.

On the plane, however, Ethiopia's luck is much better. Because Italy was on the wrong side in World War I, all its colonies in Africa were blown up by Britain and France. In order to win over Ethiopia against the Allies, Britain and France wanted to use their forces to suppress the colonies, and at the same time to curb China's expansion in Africa, so Britain returned the stolen Eritrea to Ethiopia as a reward.

Ethiopia, which had reclaimed Eritrea and gained access to the sea, thus fell to the British, and although it did not join the Entente, it was almost a quasi-ally. Because the Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie I was a good man, he felt that it was more nourishing to live in harmony with each other than to join a certain group.

However, Selassie I's change of fortune made China's previous work in Ethiopia almost in vain, and a large amount of early investment was wasted, which caused a major setback to China's original expansion and penetration plan in Africa, all of which made Wen Deji very annoyed and very annoyed.

We all know that Wen Desi is a very resentful person, a very resentful person, a very resentful person...... Because it's important, say it three times.

It's just that because China was already too hungry at that time, and the well-fed tiger was always lazy, China, which was busy digesting a large number of new territories, did not react too violently, and Wen Deji just wrote it down in the little black book. In recent years, China's new territory before and after World War I has been almost digested, and it can be freed up, and with the outbreak of World War II, old Europe is fighting vigorously, so Ethiopia's account should be settled.

Therefore, since the year before last, China has vigorously strengthened its support for the Workers' Party of Ethiopia. The Workers' Party was the political force supported by China in Ethiopia at that time, a scientific socialist party, and the only surviving result of the fiasco of the "African infiltration work" in Ethiopia that year. This is also what Selassie I did not dare to offend China too harshly, and deliberately left it behind. Of course, on the other hand, he also has the consideration of balancing national power and political forces.

It's just that Selassie I didn't expect that his set of balance methods is indeed very clever, but it is only suitable for playing in peacetime, once the war starts, who will step on the horse and care if your balance is unbalanced, wouldn't it be better to just flip the table?

The Ethiopian rebellion came so suddenly that it was completely unexpected by China. Originally, according to the estimates of the intelligence services and the Ethiopian line, the coup d'état would not really break out until the end of August or early September at the latest, according to Wen Desi's plan, that is, at the time of the Ethiopian coup, the Workers' Party on his side launched an armed uprising on a nationwide scale at the same time, and then the Chinese army marched in, pushing the government army and the rebel army together with lightning speed, and then a new Ethiopia was established.

The staff officers of the General Staff used mainframe computers to deduce for several months, and finally decided that two and a half armies would be enough to complete the task. Referring to the example of last year's Franco-German war, the task can be completed in no more than a week at the earliest and no more than a month at the slowest in the slowest period. Moreover, out of prudence, Mr. Wen prepared four group armies to do this. Yes, it was originally planned to mobilize four army groups to come over and take office, not the current three. There was also Xu Shuzheng's Sixteenth Army.

Simple, right?

It is indeed very simple, according to the deduction of the General Staff Headquarters, Ethiopia's military strength will not be an obstacle at all, and the biggest obstacle is probably Ethiopia's poor transportation and complex ethnic composition. But now that the coup d'état in Ethiopia broke out more than two months earlier, this is how people are not as good as heaven.

There is no way, because they all use the logic of the Chinese to deduce the thinking of the African people, so this kind of mistake is inevitable. Because the joyful African people never need logic to do things, they do it as soon as their brains are hot. Therefore, a certain master in later generations sighed: "The thinking of the black corn is as unpredictable as Brownian motion." "The Ethiopians are certainly not pure black corn, but at least they are half-black corn, so it's understandable that half of their thinking is in Brownian motion.

Fortunately, China began preparations for this operation in early June, and now that the coup is ahead of schedule, many preparations have not been completed. However, in the usual style of Mr. Wen, any plan must leave enough redundancy. Therefore, although Xu Shuzheng's 16th Group Army has just been embarked in Burma and is still dangling at sea, and half of the three group armies of the Western Indian Ocean Military Region are still on the opposite side of the Red Sea, the current strength is almost enough, at least in the early stage.

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By noon, the 118th Armoured Division had arrived in the Awash region, which was only about 70 kilometers from Addis Ababa, where the later "Awash National Park" would be located, which would later be Ethiopia's oldest and most fully developed wildlife reserve. Of course, this is not a park at present, but a wild land, where warblers fly in the pastures and birds and beasts are infested.

The 118th Panzer Division found a piece of flat land and began to light a fire for cooking, originally according to the plan, they should have rushed directly to Addis Ababa by train, but the rebels of the Confederate faction reacted quickly, and they immediately blew up the railway bridge west of the Dere Dawa station as soon as they got the PLA in. If you just blow up the railway, you can repair it quickly, but if you blow up the bridge, you can't do it in a short time. So they had to go on their own, or they should all go into the city by now.

Even then, it was only a few hours of delay, so everyone was relaxed. They did not encounter much resistance along the way, because the main forces on both sides of the coup d'état were dragged by their respective bigwigs to PK near the capital, and those local garrisons, under the liaison of the Workers' Party, adopted a neutral attitude, pretending not to see the PLA in front of them. Now that the overall situation is unclear, these local powerful factions want to see the limelight before placing bets.

The 118th Panzer Division quickly formed a temporary camping defensive formation in accordance with the order, with armored fighting vehicles in the outer ring, self-propelled guns in the inner ring, and the division headquarters in the innermost layer.

As soon as the command vehicle was put into camping mode, Lieutenant Colonel Peng Xuefeng, commander of the armored reconnaissance battalion, rushed over.

"Division commander, Comrade Ethiopia just took our people to hunt a few hippos, let's have dinner at noon today......" He smiled and pointed to the convoy behind him, only to see that there were two or three round hippos in the cargo bed of those trucks.

", what a fat hippopotamus! I'm afraid there won't be a ton!" Wang Yaowu leaned over to look at it, pinched the hippopotamus again, and said, "What a thick fat!"

"Division commander, we have weighed, this time we hit the smallest one is 950 kilograms, and the largest one is 1970 kilograms, close to 2 tons. It's the last one. This one is 1700 kg ......"

"Xiao Peng, how many did you fight?" asked Huang Rixuan.

Peng Xuefeng said: "Our instructor said that we couldn't fight too much, so we only hit ten. Hey, in fact, this thing is full of pits and valleys, there are at least a few hundred heads in the ditch, and the locals don't eat much, so it's not a matter for us to eat a few heads. ”

"Okay, just enough to eat, don't waste it. It's not that we don't have nothing to eat, this thing is just a fresh ......" Huang Rixuan looked like an experienced man and said: "I see, this thing is so big, the meat must be thick, and it may not be so delicious......"

Huang Rixuan called the secretary and said with a smile: "Xiao Li, notify all battalions and regiments and ask them to send people to divide the meat, just say that Battalion Commander Peng has made rare things, and if you come late, it will be gone......"

"Lao Huang, I think it's better for them to send a chef to bring their belongings here to work directly, and then let them take it back when it's done first......

"Okay, that's it......"

Wang Yaowu immediately called the head chef and began to discuss how to eat. "Lao Wang, how do you think this hippopotamus is delicious? I've been in Africa for two years, and I haven't eaten hippopotamus meat. "This guy is a foodie too.

"Commander, we don't have a hippopotamus in Yanqiu, and I haven't made it either, so I can only try......" The chef looked at the hippopotamus, sniffed it again, pinched it, pinched his chin and thought about it.

As long as it's something that can be eaten, there's no chef in my big foodie empire who can't handle it. After thinking for a few seconds, the head chef said, "This thing is too big, the meat is very thick, I'm afraid it will have to be cooked in a pressure cooker." The fishy smell is heavier than beef, and rice wine is not good, so you have to add soju to get fishy. I think I'm afraid I have to renovate it like beef, add dried red pepper, star anise, dried hawthorn, cinnamon, Sichuan pepper, plus ginger, garlic and green onions, braised it...... Division Commander, this hippopotamus is coarse, but chewy, and strong!"

Wang Yaowu's saliva was about to come out, and he hurriedly said: "Okay, you are an expert, you will command at noon." Let's have a hippopotamus feast today......"

"I'll eat this at noon today, and after eating hippopotamus meat, we'll go to that Yaya in the afternoon...... Ya ......" Wang Yaowu was stuck again halfway through speaking: "Lao Huang, Ya what?"

"Addis Ababa......" Huang Rixuan's eyes twitched.

"Yes, it's the Addis Ababa ......"

However, Lao Wang's idea was soon shattered. The hippopotamus meat was still boiling in the pressure cooker, and the camp was full of meaty aromas, and before the pot could be cooked, the order from above came.

"Let's not go to Addis Ababa and go to Abiyata in the south instead......" Wang Yaowu frowned. "Damn, these East Africans really don't stop, and they actually come to join in the fun. ”

Huang Rixuan shook his head: "It's not from East Africa." According to the intelligence, it is the First Armored Army of East Africa, as far as I know, this unit is a unit with Germans as the backbone, most of the officers and non-commissioned officers are Germans and German-African mixed blood, and the commander is the German Lieutenant General Ludwig Kruvel, who is said to be a very good commander......" Suddenly, he found Wang Yaowu's bitter face, so he said: "Why are you sad? As long as we don't underestimate the enemy, it's no problem to fight them, so what's there to worry about?"

"It's not that I'm worried that I won't be able to fight, I'm worried that the air force and the army will steal the results of the war. Wang Yaowu sighed: "According to the previous exercises, if those grandsons appear, we will only have to clean up the battlefield......"

"Don't worry, this time the upper authorities have the intention to conduct combat tests on the new car, so the Air Force and Army Aviation are only responsible for support, and if we don't call for support, they won't do it, just cover the sky for them......"

"That's good, that's good......" Wang Yaowu was also relieved when he heard this, and scolded with a smile: "I'm like to see how the German knockoffs are." Damn, it's too much to knock off our leopards and Siberian tigers, and they are also called tigers and leopards with the same name. began to discuss how to eat it. "Lao Wang, how do you think this hippopotamus is delicious? I've been in Africa for two years, and I haven't eaten hippopotamus meat. "This guy is a foodie too.

"Commander, we don't have a hippopotamus in Yanqiu, and I haven't made it either, so I can only try......" The chef looked at the hippopotamus, sniffed it again, pinched it, pinched his chin and thought about it.

As long as it's something that can be eaten, there's no chef in my big foodie empire who can't handle it. After thinking for a few seconds, the head chef said, "This thing is too big, the meat is very thick, I'm afraid it will have to be cooked in a pressure cooker." The fishy smell is heavier than beef, and rice wine is not good, so you have to add soju to get fishy. I think I'm afraid I have to renovate it like beef, add dried red pepper, star anise, dried hawthorn, cinnamon, Sichuan pepper, plus ginger, garlic and green onions, braised it...... Division Commander, this hippopotamus is coarse, but chewy, and strong!"

Wang Yaowu's saliva was about to come out, and he hurriedly said: "Okay, you are an expert, you will command at noon." Let's have a hippopotamus feast today......"

"I'll eat this at noon today, and after eating hippopotamus meat, we'll go to that Yaya in the afternoon...... Ya ......" Wang Yaowu was stuck again halfway through speaking: "Lao Huang, Ya what?"

"Addis Ababa......" Huang Rixuan's eyes twitched.

"Yes, it's the Addis Ababa ......"

However, Lao Wang's idea was soon shattered. The hippopotamus meat was still boiling in the pressure cooker, and the camp was full of meaty aromas, and before the pot could be cooked, the order from above came.

"Let's not go to Addis Ababa and go to Abiyata in the south instead......" Wang Yaowu frowned. "Damn, these East Africans really don't stop, and they actually come to join in the fun. ”

Huang Rixuan shook his head: "It's not from East Africa." According to the intelligence, it is the First Armored Army of East Africa, as far as I know, this unit is a unit with Germans as the backbone, most of the officers and non-commissioned officers are Germans and German-African mixed blood, and the commander is the German Lieutenant General Ludwig Kruvel, who is said to be a very good commander......" Suddenly, he found Wang Yaowu's bitter face, so he said: "Why are you sad? As long as we don't underestimate the enemy, it's no problem to fight them, so what's there to worry about?"

"It's not that I'm worried that I won't be able to fight, I'm worried that the air force and the army will steal the results of the war. Wang Yaowu sighed: "According to the previous exercises, if those grandsons appear, we will only have to clean up the battlefield......"

"Don't worry, this time the upper authorities have the intention to conduct combat tests on the new car, so the Air Force and Army Aviation are only responsible for support, and if we don't call for support, they won't do it, just cover the sky for them......"

"That's good, that's good......" Wang Yaowu was also relieved when he heard this, and scolded with a smile: "I'm like to see how the German knockoffs are." Damn, it's too much to knock off our leopards and Siberian tigers, and they are also called tigers and leopards with the same name. ”