Poison gas, it is not difficult to imagine the horrific impact this tactic had on the barefoot Abyssinians. The Abyssinians asserted that if Italy did not have this weapon, with the complex terrain of the Ethiopian plateau, they would have been able to infinitely
The League of Nations made a strong protest against Italy's violation of the 1925 Protocol prohibiting the use of poison gas. Italy's representative to the League of Nations, Pompeo Aloisi, fiercely and sharply rebutted it, but he could only ask why the League of Nations responded to "the atrocities in Ethiopia"
Without saying a word, it is impossible to deny that Italy used poison gas
Although Italian soldiers all wore cheap and comfortable Qin Liberation Shoes, the drinking water was poisonous and a large number of people had to dig new wells. However, Italy did not give in. Although there are now far fewer planes than Italians, the Afghan army is planning
In the new round of attacks, the Qin State also provided a large number of poison gas bombs to the Abyssinian army. At that time, Qin State representatives spent a long time convincing Abyssinia to purchase poison gas bombs.
But now they have all surrendered to Qin, especially Haier, Selassie I and the military. The people of Qin are very thorough in their work and have thought of all possible things. No wonder Wang Jiuling only spent four years to build a powerful
country, but Abyssinia does not. This incident illustrates the problem. If the people of Abyssinia were like the people of Qin, then Abyssinia would also become a world power.
Haier; Selassie I decided to send a large number of people to study in Qin after the war was over.
The Italians never thought that the Abyssinians also had poison gas bombs, so although they had gas masks, they never brought them with them. The Qin Army's advisory group's combat plan provided a guarantee. I believe that these hundreds of poison gas bombs
If it explodes, more than half of the Italians will suffer casualties. Of course, the Afghan army will definitely take advantage of the chaos and put on gas masks to attack the Italian army. The Italians will eventually pay the price for their indiscriminate use of gas bombs.
The Italians are very well prepared this time. They have stationed 100,000 troops in Eritrea, 70,000 of which have moved into Abyssinia and are now advancing towards Amhara in Tigray and northern Afar.
The southwest and central part of Abyssinia is full of mountains and complex terrain, which is more conducive for the Afghan army to fight guerrillas and annihilate the Italian army, while the east and north are plains, which are conducive to the attack of the Italian army's mechanized troops. If the Albanian army and Italy are in these areas,
If the local area is desperate, the Afghan army will soon be defeated. Although Abyssinia has trained 100,000 elite soldiers, more than 10,000 were lost last time. The other armies of the Afghan army are very unbearable and cannot be counted on.
Therefore, the Afghan army only put up a little resistance in the plains and then moved into the mountains. The plains map was handed over to local militia groups and a small number of troops who were good at guerrilla warfare were left behind to harass the Italian army's transportation troops, and the Italian army had to send additional personnel to escort the transportation supplies.
, the guerrillas attacked very frequently, it seemed that there was a certain problem with the supply of the Italian army, and the Italian soldiers seemed exhausted. The Albanian army's strategy of disturbing the enemy worked, and the next step was to encircle and annihilate the Italian army.
On March 20, after more than half a month of depleting the strength and morale of the Italian army, the Italian army, in addition to dividing their forces to occupy areas along the way, finally arrived at the Haig area in the northwest of Desi in Amhara region. The famous Haig Lake here is
, there are more than 50,000 Italian troops here, and the Italian troops will attack the capital of Abyssinia from here.
Entering Desi, it is already a mountain and canyon area with complex terrain. The Afghan army has laid out a huge encirclement waiting for them, and the Afghan air force is also dispatched at this time to sneak in and attack the Italian army or the Italian army's airport.
Because of their previous victories and the crazy blows they suffered from the Afghan army, the Italian generals only regarded it as the last counterattack of the Afghan army and made a desperate struggle. The Italian army did not think that the Italian army was already waving to them.
When the Italians closed the net and surrounded the Italian army on March 21, it was already past 5 pm. The reason why they chose this time was to avoid Italian aircraft attacks. The Afghan air force was too weak to
Control the air to provide powerful support to the Afghan army
At 5:30 in the afternoon, the Afghan army had surrounded the Italian army, and then slowly compressed the Italian army's activity space. It has to be said that in this kind of canyon, especially the use of modern weapons, if the weapons of the surrounded side are not much different,
Then even if the surrounded party succeeds in breaking through, it will definitely suffer heavy casualties. However, the Afghan army is more advanced than the Italian army in terms of small arms. The Italian rifles are not comparable to the Qin's formal rifles, and the Italian air force cannot play its role.
It was after six o'clock and it was getting dark. There was no more Italian air force support. The Afghan army began to take action. The Italian army was further compressed in various canyons. Although Italy still had tanks and powerful artillery to support the battle, the Afghan army had no plan at all.
In a forceful attack, what they have to do is to compress the Italian army into a relatively small space to facilitate the use of poison gas bombs.
They are no longer afraid of the Italian gas retaliation, because Italian gas bombs have been thrown everywhere, so the Afghan army has nothing to worry about.
At 7:30 in the evening, the night was very good, and the moonlight was not round but still bright and clear. The Afghan army fired hundreds of poison gas shells into the canyon where the Italian army was, while they, who were wearing masks, were observing the reaction of the Italian army in front.
Others stayed back to avoid being poisoned
The Italian artillery suffered first. The poisonous gas bombs of the Italian army first penetrated into the area where the artillery was located, causing retaliation from the Italian artillery fire. Then they penetrated into the Italian barracks and trenches. The poisonous gas slowly spread, and the Italian army did not know it at first.
What happened, I just saw a lot of smoking things falling into their camp
I don’t know if they didn’t think about the poisonous gas bombs in Ajun or something else. These people looked at the smoking things and couldn’t react at first. Soon they asked, the fruity smell of apples, bananas, and oranges, and then
They fell to the ground one by one, foaming at the mouth.
The people who reacted shouted that it was poison gas bombs and wore gas masks. However, the Italian army did not have that thing on them at all. They had no intention of using it when they came. As the poison gas spread rapidly, more people were poisoned.
, the whole canyon was full of wailing, crying for father and mother, the Italian military command quickly reported the situation to Italy. After receiving the telegram, Italy felt bad and immediately informed Britain and France of the matter. Abyssini
Abyssinia's poison gas bombs caused quite a stir in Europe. Italy strongly demanded sanctions against Abyssinia. However, they were already notorious for using poison gas bombs in the first place, and they dared to accuse others, which made small European countries boo.