My Italian Chapter 140

The village of Alem sits on the road to Adiquala, surrounded by mountains, and a small stream called Balal runs through a gap in the surrounding mountains. It is also because of this river that the small basin surrounded by it can be cultivated, and the village of Alem has come into being.

The village of Alem is at a distance of 24 km from Mara City and 60 km from Adiquara.

Such excellent terrain was very suitable for a large-scale siege, so Johannes IV used it as a battlefield for reinforcements of the Italian army. Therefore, the Abyssinian army is gradually arriving around. There is no reason for them to arrive here directly. There are also too many troops. If they are crowded here, let alone ambush, it is estimated that the Italian reinforcements will be scared. Retreat quickly.

After all, it is an army of 110,000 people. This is because the momentum of gathering together, the crowd of people can be seen from far away.

Besides, it is impossible for so many people to gather like this.

Because of the order of Johannes IV, the commander-in-chief, the army was not allowed to approach the village of Alem.

This is the experience of being an old soldier. As long as you stay in Alem Village, you will leave clues. In order to avoid being discovered by the enemy, don't go here at all.

Therefore, after the Abyssinian army arrived here, they could only move around it, and no one dared to enter the village.

Of course, the villagers in Alem have long since left their homes. The war between the two countries has made them forget about the crops in the fields, and they have run far away with the only food and livestock at home.

As the Abyssinians arrived around Alem one after another, as their target, the reinforcements led by Major General Pascal were struggling to get here.

"Cease fire."

The leading officer ordered his soldiers to stop firing. Following the officer's order, all the soldiers put down their guns.

In the distance, the Abyssinian cavalry had fled, leaving only their backs.

However, they did not leave anything behind, and more than twenty Abyssinian cavalry fell to the ground. Among them, there is also a war horse that is trying hard to arch the master who fell to the ground, trying to wake him up, but it is destined to be futile.

And the defending Italian army is not without losses. Four Italian soldiers have been placed here by their comrades in the open space on the side, and they have long been out of breath. These are young lads whose slightly young lives ended here. I just don't know what it will be like when their death notices are sent to their families.

Of course, for the current soldiers, he can't see the future, and the immediate priority is to drive away those Abyssinian cavalry. These horse-riding Abyssinians are really sticking to them like candy, and no matter how hard they are driven, these people can quickly reappear.

So under the surveillance of these people, every move of the Italian army is under their eyes.

In fact, not only the soldiers felt uneasy and irritable about the actions of the Abyssinian cavalry, but also the commander, Major General Pascal, and the commander of the Sixth Mountain Brigade, Colonel Zelos, could not do anything about it.

"Is this the first attack today?"

Standing on the high ground behind the troops, Major General Pascal put down his telescope and looked at the sun, and asked the officers around him.

"General, this is the seventh harassment we have encountered today."

"It's only one morning, and it's already been harassed for the seventh time. It seems that the Abyssinians are determined to embarrass you and me."

Major General Pascal said this to Colonel Zelos beside him, and the brigade commander of the Sixth Mountain Brigade also put down his telescope and said. "There are not many ways we can use. The enemy is more familiar with the terrain here than us. In addition, the enemy is basically cavalry. We don't have a good way."

Facing the words of Colonel Zelos, Major General Pascal nodded in agreement. "Yeah, there are very few ways we can use, and more importantly, everyone knows where we are going, which limits our performance, and we can only continue to follow this road and continue down. ."

In fact, the two of them didn't say a word, and they also used methods to drive away these cavalry, but for the sake of the smooth operation this time, they could not reveal their true situation. Otherwise, the dozens of Maxim machine guns disguised as forage carts would be enough for these Abyssinian cavalrymen to drink a pot.

However, in order to achieve the goal, the soldiers can only cheer up and bear the harassment of the enemy.

Thinking of this, Major General Pascal didn't continue to watch on the high ground, he turned around and gave an order.

"Order, let the troops continue to set off, we only walked 6 kilometers today, this is too slow, we must speed up."

Following Pascal's orders, the Italian army, which had stopped, began to move forward again. Its long line looks like a long snake, but Duke Harrell knows that this long snake is fierce. In just three days, he has lost thousands of riders, and he is distressed to death.

"My lord, Mako came back with someone."

A guard ran to the top of the mountain and reported to Duke Harrell, who was watching the Italian army.

"Let him come up."

After hearing the report of the guard, Duke Harrell turned his head and spoke.

After a while, a strong and dark man came up, this is the Ma Ke.

"I have seen the Duke."

Facing Marco and saluting, Duke Harrell stepped forward to help him up. "Mako, how are things going?"

"It's ready. I have collected more than 300 cows from other princes and tribes. I have taken them to the outside of the Pal Valley as you ordered."

"Very good, so plus the more than 300 we brought ourselves, there are more than 700 cattle, which is enough."

What does the Duke of Harrell want to do?

In fact, it's nothing, mainly because the previous losses were too great, so that the Duke of Harrell wanted to use other methods to replace his cavalry.

The alternative he thought of was to replace the cavalry with cattle and rush to the Italians.

However, there are terrain restrictions to use the bull rushing array, that is, the terrain must be narrow. Pal Valley is one such place, with mountains on both sides and only one road in it.

Some people may ask why the cavalry did not ambush the cavalry in such a terrain, rush down in one fell swoop, and completely defeat the Italians. This kind of situation usually occurs in the script and the middle, where the terrain is dangerous, and everyone knows that it may be dangerous, so when someone is sent to investigate clearly in advance, and soldiers are sent to occupy the high ground on both sides, who will walk in like this bluntly .

Therefore, it is feasible to use the terrain to ambush a small-scale team, but it is very unrealistic to ambush a large-scale army. Of course, in the case of the encirclement, it is still possible. After all, in this era, it is impossible for anyone to push the cordon more than ten kilometers on both sides.

And the practice of the Duke of Harel ~ www.mtlnovel.com ~ the Italian army did not know. So in the afternoon, facing the enemy cavalry who never attacked and disturbed, everyone felt strange.

It's not expensive to be weird, but the one who should hurry up still needs to hurry.

Soon they arrived at a place with valley terrain.

"What's the name here?"

Commander Major General Pascal looked at the valley where the terrain was very unfavorable to him and asked the guide beside him. "This place is called the Pal Valley. If you need to go to Mara, you need to walk here."

After hearing the guide's words, Major General Pascal immediately gave an order. "Send two battalions to occupy the hills on either side, and we're going through."

Following the orders of Major General Pascal, the troops of the two battalions climbed the mountain from both sides. Fortunately, the mountains on both sides were not high, and it only took half an hour.

After the troops climbing on both sides found nothing, Major General Pascal led the troops into the valley, but soon after he entered the valley, he immediately heard a rumbling sound.

"What's that sound?"

Chapter end