Alem Village is located on the road leading to Adi Kwara. It is surrounded by mountains. A small stream called Balal passes through the gap in the surrounding mountains. Because of this river, the small basin is surrounded by
Only in this way can we farm, and this is how the village of Alem came into being.
Alem Village is 24 km from Mara City and 60 km from Adi Kwala.
Such excellent terrain is very suitable for large-scale sieges, so Johannes IV used this place as a battlefield for reinforcements of the Italian army. Therefore, the Abyssinian army is arriving in the surrounding area one after another. There is no reason why they did not arrive directly here.
, and there are too many troops. If they are all crowded here, let alone ambushes, the Italian reinforcements will probably be frightened into retreating quickly.
After all, it is an army of 110,000 people. The momentum of gathering together and a sea of people can be seen from a long distance away.
Besides, it's impossible for so many people to gather like this.
Because as the commander-in-chief, Johannes IV issued an order not to allow the army to approach the village of Alem.
This is my experience as a veteran soldier. As long as you stay in Alem Village, you will leave clues. To avoid being discovered by the enemy, you should not go here at all.
Therefore, after the Abyssinian army arrived here, they could only move around it, and no one dared to enter this village.
Of course, the villagers of Alem have already 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 they have at home.
While the Abyssinians were arriving around Alem one after another, the reinforcements led by Major General Pascal were struggling to reach their target.
"Ceasefire."
The leading officer ordered his soldiers to stop firing. Following the officer's order, all the soldiers lowered their guns.
Far away from them, the Abyssinian cavalry had fled, leaving only their backs.
But they didn't leave nothing behind. More than twenty Abyssinian cavalry fell to the ground. Among them, there was also a war horse that was trying to lift its owner who fell to the ground, trying to wake him up, but it was destined to
It's a futile move.
The defending Italian army was not without losses. Four Italian soldiers had been put here by their comrades in the open space. They had already lost their breath. These were young and awesome guys, and their lives were ended when they were still slightly young.
Therefore, I just don’t know what it will be like when their death notices are delivered to their families.
Of course, for the current soldiers, they cannot see the future scene yet. The immediate priority is to drive away those Abyssinian cavalry. These Abyssinians on horses really stick to them like brown candy.
, no matter how you drive them away, these people will appear again soon.
So under the surveillance of these people, every move of the Italian army was under their eyes.
In fact, not only the soldiers felt uneasy and irritable about the actions of the Abyssinian cavalry, but also the commander of the team, Major General Pascal, and the commander of the 6th Mountain Brigade, Colonel Zelos, were unable to do anything about it.
"How many times is this the attack today?"
Standing on the high ground behind the troops, Major General Pascal put down his binoculars, looked at the sun, and asked the officers around him.
"General, this is the seventh time we have been harassed today."
"This is only the morning, and we have already been harassed for the seventh time. It seems that the Abyssinians are determined to make things difficult for you and me."
Major General Pascal said this to Colonel Zelos beside him, and the commander of the 6th 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 we are. In addition, the enemy
They are basically cavalry, so we don’t have a good solution.”
Facing Colonel Zelos's words, Major General Pascal nodded in agreement. "Yes, there are very few methods we can use. More importantly, everyone knows where we are going, which limits our performance.
You can continue along this road and continue going down."
In fact, both of them did not say a word and tried their best to drive away these cavalry. However, in order for this operation to go smoothly, they could not reveal their true situation. Otherwise, the dozens of Maxim machine guns disguised as grain trucks would
, enough for these Abyssinian cavalry to drink a pot.
However, in order to achieve the goal, the soldiers could only cheer up and endure the enemy's harassment.
Thinking of this, Major General Pascal stopped looking at the high ground. He turned around and gave the order.
"Order, let the troops continue to leave. We have only walked 6 kilometers today. This is too slow. We must speed up."
Following Pascal's order, the stalled Italian army began to move forward again. Its long line looked like a long snake, but Duke Harar knew that this long snake was dangerous. In just three days,
I lost thousands of riders, which made me feel heartbroken.
"Sir, Marco is back with his people."
One of the guards ran to the top of the mountain and reported to Duke Harar, who was observing the Italian army.
"Let him come up."
After hearing the report from the personal guard, Duke Harar turned around and spoke.
After a while, a muscular and dark man walked up. This was Marco.
"I have met the Duke."
Facing Marco and saluting, Duke Harar stepped forward to help him up personally. "Marco, how did things go?"
"It's ready. I have collected more than 300 cows from other princes and tribes. I have taken them outside the Pal Valley as you ordered."
"Very good. Together with the more than 300 we brought, we have more than 700 cattle, which is enough."
What does this Duke of Harar want to do?
In fact, it was nothing. The main reason was that the previous losses were too great, which made the Duke of Harar want to use other methods to replace his cavalry in the battle.
The alternative he came up with was to use oxen instead of cavalry and charge at the Italians.
However, there are terrain restrictions when using the Niu Rushing Formation, that is, it must be in a place with narrow terrain. The Pal Valley is such a place, with mountains on both sides and only one road in it.
Some people may want to ask why the cavalry were not ambushed in such terrain and rushed down in one fell swoop to completely defeat the Italians. Situations like this usually appear in storybooks and novels. Everyone knows that the terrain is dangerous, so when sending troops
If people had investigated clearly in advance and sent troops to occupy the high ground on both sides, who would just walk in like this?
Therefore, it is feasible to use the terrain to ambush a small team, but it is unrealistic to ambush a large army. Of course, the situation of encirclement is still possible. After all, in this era, no one can push the cordon to more than ten kilometers on both sides.
The Italian army was unaware of what the Duke of Harar was doing. So in the afternoon, everyone felt strange when facing the enemy cavalry who had not attacked once.
It's not expensive to be weird, but it's still weird. What needs to be rushed still needs to be rushed.
Soon they arrived at a valley terrain.
"What's the name here?"
The commander, Major General Pascal, looked at the valley whose terrain was very unfavorable to him, and asked the guide beside him. "This is called the Pal Valley. If you need to go to Marathon, you need to walk here."
After hearing the guide's words, Major General Pascal immediately issued an order. "Send two battalions to occupy the mountains on both sides, and then we will pass."
Following Major General Pascal's order, the troops of the two battalions climbed up the mountain from both sides. Fortunately, the mountains on both sides were not high, so it only took half an hour.
After the troops climbing on both sides found nothing, Major General Pascal led his troops into the valley. However, not long after he entered the valley, he immediately heard a rumbling sound.
