Start 1861: I Just Inherited the Dutch Throne Chapter 150

After Giuseppe Garibaldi arrived in Nazret, because of the lack of troops, the morale of the troops was low, discipline began to relax, and they did not dare to attack.

The defeat on the battlefield caused unease among the upper echelons in Italy, even the Minister of Finance Marco Mingetti and the Minister of the Interior Urbano Latazzi, who were members of Prime Minister Luigi's cabinet.

In particular Urbano Latazzi, the Minister of the Interior, who was born in Sandria, where he graduated from the University of Turin, studied law, practised as an adult lawyer in 1838, and became the Congress of Sardinia in 1848 MP.

In the following 10 years, he held several ministerial positions in the two Sardinian countries, and because of this, he has a close relationship with the Prime Minister of Sardinia, the Count of Cavour.

Therefore, Latazzi was commissioned by Cavour to establish a moderate party center composed of liberals, which formed a check on the military.

In his early years, he clashed with Garibaldi, one of the three great men of the Italian military, and opposed his military heroism. Many people speculated that he represented the attitude of the then Prime Minister Cavour in order to suppress The restlessness of the military, and now Garibaldi's defeat in Ethiopia has become an excuse for moderates to attack.

Among them are the interior ministers Urbano Latazzi and the finance minister Marco Mingotti, who are now in Luigi's cabinet.

The Italian moderates, headed by these two men, were also privately critical of Prime Minister Luigi and Emmanuel II for waging the war.

Home Secretary Ratazi even thought it was impossible to win the war.

In the face of a worrying situation of war, opposition and dissent from all sides, King Emmanuel II of Italy instructed Italian Prime Minister Luigi to ask him to send Italian ambassadors in Berlin and Amsterdam, Prussia, to the Kingdom of Prussia and the Netherlands. The Kingdom stated that Italy proposed a plan to divide Ethiopia's interior, that is, Ethiopia would turn the eastern Ethiopian territories, such as Jijiga in the north and Amino in the south, into Prussian territory.

And promised to the Netherlands, Italy is willing to recognize Amino from the southeast, north to Goba, west to Awasa, to the east of the Omo River, all belong to the Dutch territory.

The remaining amount belongs to Italy. This plan is to occupy half of Ethiopia and Italy to occupy half of it alone.

This time, it seems that Italy has not paid much.

But both the Prussian and Dutch rulers saw the plan as a threat to Prussian and Dutch interests in East Africa, as it would turn disgruntled Ethiopians toward Prussia and the Netherlands.

This allowed them, who had already obtained some of the benefits ceded by Ethiopia, to open up the Ethiopian domestic market. Neither of the two countries actively responded to Italy's proposal to decompose Ethiopia.

When Luigi tried to break up Ethiopia's plan with European Prussia and the Netherlands and failed, Emmanuel II and Prime Minister Luigi finally understood at this time that the war could only continue, and there was no other choice.

So with the support of Emmanuel II, Prime Minister Luigi stepped up to send new troops to Ethiopia, and at the same time began a large number of conscription in the country, and at the same time, the ships sent to Ethiopia also carried a large number of military weapons and equipment to supplement the army.

On March 1, 1863, the Italian army in Ethiopia was as high as 200,000 people, the number of cannons increased to 600, the army horses increased by 10,000 cannons, and other firearms and ammunition were also supplemented to varying degrees. 20,000 troops were added to the front and 180,000 to the east.

However, Italy has undergone changes in its military deployment for more than a month.

But Ethiopia didn't stop watching either.

Since the failure of the second Italian-Egyptian battle in Harar, the Ethiopian government has stepped up its military expansion. The national regular army has reached 300,000 people. Especially after the northern part of Ethiopia was captured by Italy, many Ethiopian regular troops slowly moved south and gathered up. When it comes to the capital Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital alone has more than 200,000 people.

The remaining 100,000 troops are deployed in Nazret, a satellite city in the east of the capital, with 20,000 troops. Negmot in the west, Motu in the southwest, Jimma and Awasa in the south, and Goba in the southeast have all deployed more than 20,000 troops. 10,000 people, and the remaining 30,000 people were in the northern city of Desai in the Western Front. These 30,000 people blocked the fall of the Western Front.

Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

"Father, are we going to fight Italy with our own 300,000 troops now?"

Menelik suddenly asked Trevordros II.

"Why do you ask that?" This son has been very clever since he was a child, and he has done a good job with this transaction with Prussia and the Netherlands."

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It has made Ethiopia's interests to obtain the tranquility of the east and south, and also obtained the support of the two countries, either explicitly or implicitly, which can be described as hard work.

He could never have imagined that his son Menelik II would later defeat Italy many times, and even played the prestige of the strongest country in Africa, so that while European countries were colonizing all parts of Africa, Ethiopia was an alternative and was not affected by any The country invaded, and his son was also known to be the greatest ruler of Ethiopia.

Menelik said slyly: "At present, our country has stabilized the east and the south, but father, don't forget who is lying in the west."

Twodros II suddenly came to his senses, "You mean that Britain will do us badly?"

Menelik said, "Britain has always been known in Europe for being cunning and cunning. My father taught me to familiarize myself with European politics and history since I was a child. This time we made concessions to Prussia and the Netherlands, but did not make a deal with the United Kingdom. , this may be a form of contempt for the proud British, I don't think they will turn a blind eye to our war with Italy."

Trevordros II said with great interest: "You said that the British would send troops to the west to help Italy."

Menelik shook his head, "Their troops in South Africa have been depleted too much, and they know we're not easy to mess with, so they won't send troops."

Seeing that his father was puzzled, Menelik said, "I'm afraid, I'm afraid. The offshore balancing technique that the British liked in Europe has been used in Ethiopia by scheming."

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Trevordros II was stunned for a moment, then looked at Crown Prince Menelik with great satisfaction, and praised: "You are thoughtful, it seems that Western history and political science are good."

"What is the father going to do?"

"Naturally it won't give Britain a chance, Ethiopia is our father and son's, not a place"

"Father talks a lot"

Just when William IV pointed out the weaknesses of countries such as Italy and Ethiopia in Amsterdam, he did not expect new moves from Ethiopia, which surprised William IV. Ethiopia actually found the hidden problem and solved it.

On March 5, 1863, Tevodros II mobilized 50,000 of the Duke of Muruguieta, 30,000 of the Duke of Imiru, 20,000 of the Duke of Seum and the Duke of Casa. A total of more than 110,000 troops of 20,000 have been assembled in Addis Abel, under the command of Ethiopian Army Minister De Boser.

Only the major dukes formed an army of 110,000 to rush to Desai in the north, where the western front of Italy was disturbed, and only 30,000 were beaten (the original was only 10,000, and it was increased by 30,000 after the increase of troops). Alfon So Ferrero Lamarmora was losing ground.

And this wave of action caused Giuseppe and Garibaldi on the eastern front to follow suit. They originally wanted to chase the Ethiopian team north, but the government army of Addis Yabel was clinging to the eastern front. This unit will not let go.

This made the situation on the Western Front in Italy very urgent. In the end, after receiving multiple letters of help from the Western Front, Giuseppe Garibaldi had to divide his troops of 50,000 people to support the Western Front.

He didn't know that King Tewodros II and the others wanted this consequence.

The Ethiopian army minister, De Boser, took advantage of the familiar terrain and hid 50,000 troops on the way, and the remaining 60,000 troops were led by his deputy to continue to support Germany.

When it was determined that 50,000 people in Italy continued to chase in the direction of Desai.

The Minister of War, De Bocelle, detoured Addis Abel with an army of 50,000 and launched a fierce attack on Nazret's 130,000 people. Giuseppe Garibaldi also faced Ethiopia from behind Addis Abel. During the attack, 350,000 Ethiopian troops were attacked by the front and back, the Italian army was killed 15,000 people, wounded more than 21,000 people~www.mtlnovel.com~ destroyed more than 200 cannons, and seized more than 3,000 horses.

In the face of the sudden attack, Ethiopia's attack was so violent that Giuseppe Garibaldi had to lead the retreat, playing and stopping all the way, and finally stopped at Gota.

At this time, the Italian Eastern Front Army, in addition to the 50,000 troops supporting the Western Front Desai, only had 150,000 troops left in this round. More than 35,000 people died and more than 20,000 wounded were almost damaged by one-third.

The Ethiopian side also suffered a lot of losses. The 50,000 local army suffered the most losses due to the main attack. More than 30,000 people were killed in battle. Among the remaining 10,000 people, 5,000 were disabled for life, 7,000 were slightly injured, and still had combat effectiveness. There are only 8,000 people left.

The government army killed only 3,000 people, seriously injured only 2,000 people, and slightly injured 1,000 people.

Combined, Ethiopia had 33,000 dead, 7,000 seriously injured and 8,000 lightly injured.

The government's 200,000 troops in Addis Abel suffered less than 5,000 casualties. This is bad news for Italy.

Pursuit of victory, whether in the East or the West, is a fine tradition in human genes.

The Ethiopian army was then mobilized and continued to increase its troops on the western front, advancing towards Eritrea.

At the same time, Ethiopia continued to request the Netherlands for the weapons it needed at high prices.

The order exceeded 50,000 guns and 1 million ammunition, which made the Netherlands happy.

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