Red Alert Somalia

Chapter 512-Ethiopia

In the northeast and southeast directions of Addis Ababa, the fronts of the 1st Armored Brigade and the 2nd Armored Brigade formed a ninety-degree angle of attack. 50 kilometers behind the two fronts, The heavy artillery brigade and shotgun long-range rocket artillery regiment have placed a powerful long-range fire strike network.

The self-propelled howitzer supports the ground operations of the armored force, and the long-range rocket launcher system strikes high-value targets that have long been marked in the fire control center.As the capital of Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, a famous metropolis in Africa, is the headquarters of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa and the African Union.According to the local Tigray language, Addis Ababa means "fresh flower", but now the flower is no longer fresh, showing a scene of withering.

Today Addis Ababa is already a prosperous modern city with wide and neat streets and many high-rise office buildings and apartments nearby.Not far from the square, there is the former palace.On both sides of a garden-like boulevard nearby, famous buildings such as the Parliament Building, government ministries, museums, African Building, Addis Ababa University and the Great Parliament are arranged in an orderly manner.On the square of Menelik II Avenue, there stands a tall bronze statue of Menelik II with a war horse.There is a municipal hall in the southwest corner of the square.The main street connecting the city hall and the railway station is slanted from north to south, lined with shops and busy traffic, which is spectacular.

And under countless artillery fire, countless landmark buildings in the city built over a hundred years have been completely annihilated.The bronze statue of Menelik II has now collapsed, and the entire bronze statue has been blown into twists, completely invisible.

The parliament building and government ministries are on the list of first targets, except for museums, African buildings, and universities, other famous buildings.Basically nothing is spared.

Today, this Ethiopian economic center has more than half of the country’s enterprises concentrated in the southwest of the city, and the southern suburbs are industrial areas.There is a coffee trade center in the city.It is a highway and railway transportation hub, with flights connecting domestic cities and countries in Africa, Europe and Asia.The city is built on the hill, and can be divided into upper and lower cities according to the terrain.Uptown is dominated by residential and commercial functions.Xiacheng is the distribution area of ​​government offices, international airports and large hotels.Many modern high-rise buildings.

When the smoke clears, these have long since ceased to exist. Industry, that is also a key target of strikes, and highway hubs are also an important tactical target of destruction, just like government agencies.The blow will come harder.

War is ruthless and cruel, and striking the core point must be the key and weakness of the opponent.There is no more effective deterrent effect than hitting the capital of a country.

Moreover, this kind of attack did not come from the air, but from the ground, facing the Somali armored forces that suddenly appeared.The only thing the Ethiopian side can do is to dispatch all available soldiers to encircle it in a state of incomparable shock.Once the Somali army is allowed to enter Addis Ababa, Ethiopia will suffer political, prestige, and economic decline.

Even if the city, known as the "Permanent Capital", is retaken in the future, it is likely to be in ruins, and a century of construction will be wiped out.

however.The Ethiopian Defence Force, which has already fought against the Somali army several times, has not received any expectations. From small soldiers to the president, they have not reported any hope.

At this moment, just like Gilma’s order, perhaps there is only a national war, and human lives will be used to pile up this victory, otherwise there will be no tomorrow in Ethiopia.

After the shelling ended, the nearly three million residents of Addis Ababa were finally able to broadcast in every corner of the city when they were slightly relieved.It started to ring.

"All the citizens of Addis Ababa are listening, your country and your beliefs have been challenged like never before at this moment. The dignity of every Ethiopian will be completely lost at this moment. The enemy has thrown at our homeland. After bombs, their fighter planes are still roaring over our heads. Their shells are being loaded. Perhaps the next second, a bombardment such as the one just now will come.

If you can hear this voice, it shows that you are lucky, because no one knows what we will lose in the next shelling.They have destroyed the presidential palace, destroyed every government office, destroyed our television station, destroyed our church, and destroyed our network and communications.But no matter what enemy it is, it cannot destroy the flame of vengeance in every Ethiopian.

The mouth of a lion, the tooth of a viper, the resistance of Ethiopians.Unite everything, fight the enemy, destroy the enemy, and victory will ultimately belong to us.

When slavery comes again, do you intend to be a slave or choose your own way of resisting?When death comes, are you willing to wait for death, or die on the road of resistance?

Now, an emergency order is issued to the Presidential Palace. All retired soldiers under the age of 40 should gather at the nearest military station. You will once again take up arms to defend this country and the homeland shared by all.

Outside Addis Ababa, the enemy’s wheels are only a hundred kilometers away from us. If we are still cowardly, then this civilization that has lasted for thousands of years will completely disappear under the enemy’s iron hoof in the long river of history. Faith, everything about you will be nothing..."

During the broadcast, the same shouts were repeated over and over again.

In the streets and lanes, countless Ethiopians began to gather. Some militants had already followed the shouting truck to the military station.

After the decision of the National War, according to the Ethiopian military service system, soldiers who have retired in the last two decades must retake their weapons. Once the number of these retired soldiers is fully assembled, more than one million troops can be armed. .

This is already the limit of Ethiopia. If there are too many people, there will not be so many weapons available for these soldiers who have served in the military.There are also problems with ammunition supply.

However, according to the recall ratio, it is not easy to be able to arm an army of 200,000 in a short time in the metropolitan area.

And such an army will directly face a very important issue, and that is the quality of soldiers. Those retired soldiers who have been away from the army for more than ten years, even if they are re-assembled, are not much better than armed civilians.But it is better than nothing, at least in terms of military discipline, it is not comparable to civilians.

All the weapons arsenals in Addis Ababa were opened. Boxes of rifles filled with gun oil smell were carried out of the underground munitions warehouse, and tons of yellow-orange-orange bullets were pulled out of the arsenal.

A rifle, a magazine, that is the equipment of a retired soldier, no uniform, no grenades, and no heavy weapons.This is their only equipment.

It is not easy for Ethiopia to store this batch of weapons. As for other things, don't think about it. This country does not have that much money to prepare.

The war outside the city has become more and more prosperous, and the troops in Addis Ababa are also armed against time.Every thousand more people will be sent out of the city immediately. Everything is to block the Somali army as much as possible, and to buy all the time before the reinforcements from other regions arrive.It also provides more time for the transfer of various financial items within the city.

Otherwise, once the several major Ethiopian banks in the city have not transferred the gold, diamonds, silver and US dollar banknotes in the city, once they are occupied by the Somali army, everything is Somali, and it has absolutely nothing to do with Ethiopia.

In particular, the National Bank of Ethiopia still has nearly 500 million U.S. dollars in it. These U.S. dollars were all aided by U.S. dollars at the beginning and have never been willing to use it.

Those ATMs, securities centers, and insurance companies are all Ethiopian property, and nothing can be left to Somalia.If all these things are looted by Somalia, Ethiopia will have no place to cry.

The artillery fire outside the city became clearer and clearer, and there was not much time left for Ethiopia.

A large number of retired soldiers who had just picked up their weapons seemed to be thrown into the battlefield outside the city like a bottomless pit. In the end, no trucks could be found in the entire city, and the subsequent soldiers could only be used on foot.With a team of thousands of people, under the leadership of officers on active duty, march towards becoming.

Of course, Addis Ababa was not peaceful at this time. Countless people with bad intentions began to appear, burned, killed and looted, and even the police were on the battlefield. Who has time to take care of these things.

In this world, there has never been a shortage of people who take the opportunity to make a fortune, no matter which race it is. When there are more people, there will be all kinds of birds.

Compared to earning a little salary from hard work every day, just knocking on the door of any store is enough to keep many people eating and drinking for years.Especially in those bustling commercial streets, many premeditated robberies continue to be staged.

Panic started from the war, and the grievances that were originally disharmonious among the various races also broke out at this moment.When the Ethiopian National Defense Forces sent regular troops to maintain order, they were already in vain.

When several large shopping malls and jewelry stores in Ethiopia were robbed, even the soldiers of the Ethiopian Defense Forces began to take off their uniforms and join the robbery.Everything is for their own pockets to be more enthusiastic. This is what some people think. No matter who rules the country, it has nothing to do with them. As long as you have money, you are a master.

This kind of thing, no matter which Ethiopian high-level person has thought about, the inferiority of race is fully displayed at this moment.

Rather than those retired soldiers who continue to spontaneously travel to the battlefield, these people should be sent to the front to block the Somali army’s guns.Of course, no matter who is blocking it, there will be no change in the war. The Somali army is still advancing towards Addis Ababa.