Chapter 378： have their own way

Chapter 378 has its own way

According to the plan he designed, Samuel calmly performed surgery on the Abyssinian Empire, trying to take advantage of the split situation of the Abyssinian Empire to transfer about 60,000 to 70,000 square kilometers of land in the southeastern region from Abyssinian Empire. Pry away from the territory of the Nian Empire.

This area contains about a quarter of the high-quality arable land in Ethiopia in the past, but it is not developed at all now.

"General! This is a telegram from China."

The messenger sent the telegram from the mainland to Desai by boat from Egypt and handed it to Samuel.

Samuel read the telegram with a frown the whole time.

Rubatino company boss Sapeto noticed Samuel's expression, so he asked: "Your Excellency, General! What order did the government issue?"

Samuel shook his head and said: "That's not true, but some people in the country think that my current actions are too timid and not active enough to deal with indigenous countries like the Abyssinian Empire."

Sapeto was a little nervous, he said: "Don't they know how much military expenditure they have deducted? It took us two or three months just to ensure the food supply of the troops with limited funds, but now we are afraid !"

Samuel: "This is not a big deal. I have long expected that some people in the country will be restless, especially after we get the city of Desai."

Although Samuel gained a firm foothold in the Abyssinian Empire after occupying Desai, the large tract of land between Assab Port and Desai, including the land north of the Great Rift Valley in East Africa (the south belongs to the East African German Dava Military Town) has been incorporated into the territory of the Kingdom of Italy. These lands are mainly deserts and a small amount of grasslands, but the area has reached more than 50,000 square kilometers.

Now the Kingdom of Italy covers an area of ​​just over 200,000 square kilometers. The number of areas occupied by Samuel alone is enough to inspire most people, although many of them are barren lands that are not suitable for human habitation.

Sapeto: "It seems that they have forgotten the lessons of the Italian-Austrian War, and went to war rashly without knowing the trend of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. In the end, they encountered the elite troops of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The Abyssinian Empire is terrible. It is not an existence that can be crushed with one blow in their eyes."

In the past few months, Zapeto followed Samuel, and he has gained a lot of knowledge. He knows how difficult it is to deal with soldiers armed with Arabic teachings, and the more difficult it is for the Arabs in backward areas. Fortunately, General Samuel has strategized and handled it properly. Every decision-making can predict the movement of the natives, crush the plots of the natives one by one, engage in sneak attacks, and guerrilla warfare. Samuel didn't care about the resistance army or the good people, he only knew that the soil on which the guerrillas depended for survival was these villages rooted in the desert.

Although the Abyssinian Empire is dominated by the Orthodox Church, it must be not weak to be able to fight the Arabs for so many years. The Ottoman Empire in its heyday had nothing to do with the split Abyssinian Empire.

Samuel: "There is no other way. The news I got is that the future kingdom may send troops to attack the Abyssinian Empire from the north. They have already negotiated with Egypt, and with the guarantee of the British, they will send troops from Eritrea (Latin) , the Red Sea, so the Italians called the area (meaning the land along the Red Sea) north to attack the Abyssinian Empire."

Zapeto laughed directly: "They want to directly attack the Tigray area!"

Samuel was also infected and laughed, jokingly said: "Maybe they don't even know where Tigray is."

As the core of Abyssinia, the Tigray region has always been the most economically developed and armed region of the Abyssinian Empire. The capital Axum is also located here. Johannes IV was in charge when he was the commander-in-chief of the northern fortress. Northern defense, dealing with the Egyptian army all the year round.

So Tigray concentrated a large number of people and troops of the Abyssinian Empire, which is why Samuel avoided the richer north and bet on the south.

The biggest threat to Samuel is the Kingdom of Shaoa on the south bank of Lake Tana (the largest lake in the Ethiopian plateau) in the Western Abyssinian Empire. So choose passive defense.    In history, the Kingdom of Saua was originally an ally of the Kingdom of Italy. Menelik II was able to unify the country smoothly, and Italy made great efforts. In the end, Menelik II gave Italy a disastrous defeat, which made Italy lose face in Europe.

But in this plane, the Kingdom of Shaoa has no such opportunity. Italy came to grab the land. With a clear goal, it is impossible to support its enemies.

Now the Kingdom of Shaoa or Menelik II's attitude towards the Italian invaders is that no one will attack me, and I will not attack anyone. Of course, it would be even better if Italy could fight Johannes IV's northern army, and he could reap the benefits of a fisherman, and finally unify the entire Abyssinian Empire, drive the Italians out by the way, and restore the glory of the empire.

However, when Menelik II met Samuel, his plan was doomed to fail. Samuel would not fight Johannes IV foolishly. Looking at any opponent, even if you want to solve the opponent, you should adopt the method of first easy and then difficult, so his victories can find one thing in common, that is, every defeat of the Austro-Hungarian army started with the Hungarian army.

The most accessible part of the entire Abyssinian Empire is the southeast region, where the forces are mixed and there is no strong warlord, which means that there is no faction that can knead the local Abyssinians into a ball, and then cut off the local and The connection in the north has completely become a place where the dragons have no leader.

Samuel said to Sapeto: "No matter who the kingdom wants to send to the Abyssinian Empire next, we don't need to bother. Since the kingdom chooses to open a new battlefield in the north, it has nothing to do with us." Contact, we can ignore any non-local calls."

Samuel is also angry. He is too aware of the disposition of those noble bureaucrats, and now he thinks that he has achieved a little bit and feels okay.

Samuel then speculated: "The commander of the Kingdom's new army must be a guy with a background. This kind of person is the easiest to use chicken feathers as arrows. We'd better ignore them and find various reasons to prevaricate them. Anyway, in terms of our strength It is normal for the Abyssinian Empire, which is heavily defended in the north of Desai, to make trouble, and the kingdom can't find any reason to say that we are not doing our best."

Sapeto agreed with his face, and now he agrees with Samuel 10,000 times, because Samuel is always "correct".

It can’t be said that Samuel was doing everything in his favor. He also suffered a lot during the Italian-Austrian War. He was often deceived by his immediate superiors and colleagues. The chief led the team and ran away long ago, and his colleagues often refused to save them, and they were as immovable as a mountain.

After several experiences, Samuel understood a truth, that is, one cannot trust a word of the words of the officers and colleagues, even if the cake is good, one must find a reason to shirk it.

The consequence of this is that Samuel was very out of touch with his colleagues during the war, and he was not seen by his immediate superiors, but he also avoided being led into the pit by his pig teammates.

The strength of the troops led by Samuel has also been preserved, and occasionally they can fight back against the Austro-Hungarian Empire. When the war is over and Italy searches the entire army, they can only find Samuel, the only undefeated general. Pinching his nose and shaping Samuel into a rising star in the army, Samuel can only say that he is all set off by his peers.

So this time the kingdom opened up a new battlefield, and Samuel didn't plan to participate. Even Samuel was already planning to collect taxes in his jurisdiction and recruit Italian immigrants to supplement his army.

According to his experience, if he doesn't cooperate with his colleagues, they will definitely wear small shoes for him. Although the colleagues are very good, but they have good fathers, and they are still in the same group.

In this case, I am afraid that I will not see a penny of the military expenses that have been deducted in the first place. I have encountered this situation when I was in Italy. Fortunately, I can replenish my troops on the spot when I am fighting in Italy. Donated by the Hungarian friendly army next door.

In the Abyssinian Empire, where he was unfamiliar, he had to rely on himself. From the day Samuel rose up, he could say without any burden that his success was the result of his own hard work.

(end of this chapter)