Eastern Africa.

Ethiopia.

Tigray Province, the capital of the Makareal Line.

In front of the sandbags and trenches, there are barricades formed by wooden horse piles and wires, a defensive method used by the indigenous people of Ethiopia on the battlefield during the First World War.

It's just that in front of the tanks on the opposite side, these obstacles do nothing for the enemy except to create obstacles for their own cavalry.

It was not the wood and wire that stopped the Italian army, but the bundled grenades that the other side blew up the tanks, and the Colt and Browning heavy machine guns mounted on the sand castles.

There were also brand-new machine guns in the hands of the enemy, and looking through binoculars, General Deboro saw ammunition boxes, supplies, troops and logistics scattered all over the entire front.

"Where did these weapons come from, why did they dig trenches and build sandcastles in just 3 days, what the hell is going on?"

Putting down the binoculars, Deboro still decided to give the order to attack, they had no time to delay, morally untenable undeclared war, once it dragged on, public opinion and army morale would suffer, he wanted to take Makary as soon as possible, and join the other two roads.

"Let the 36th Mechanized Force attack it, I'm going to have a party in the Lord's Mansion tonight, and every soldier can take the girl he likes. ”

Debor's thousand-year-old method of boosting morale with wine and women never disappoints, and there was a tumult of cheers from behind.

The tank is activated, and the motorcycles are the first to move forward, responsible for finding the way and guiding, observing the enemy's movements, while the infantry hides on the sides and behind the tank, waiting to get close to the firing range.

Thundered

The smoky tank is now a fierce steel monster, ready to rush forward to tear apart the enemy's resistance, leaving them crying and begging in despair.

Robbing them of their wealth, women, slaves, everything in this land is theirs.

The Italians smiled cruelly and attacked with excitement.

The main guns of the tank began to play, and shells fell from the sky, and it was naturally not a problem for solid shells to be used to storm the city.

But when used to attack the soldiers hiding in the trenches, it is like an elephant swatting an ant, except for a few unlucky eggs, it does no harm, and the momentum is quite scary.

But what they didn't know was that the determination and the price that the Egyptian army was willing to pay were even more terrible than they imagined.

"What are they going to do, someone rushed out. "When there were still 100 meters to go, someone suddenly rushed out of the trench.

The skinny black man ran towards them like crazy with only gray and yellow rags wrapped around his crotch and hands in his arms.

"Shoot, shoot, don't let them come close. The commander was vaguely uneasy and immediately gave the order to shoot.

Da-da-da-da

The heavy machine gun was like a roaring dragon, and the Browning on the defensive line showed its power, and the bullets rained down so hard that no one dared to take the lead.

The first naked black man rushed to the tank and reflexively went down, exposing what he was holding in his arms to the air.

Homemade cluster bundle grenades, without any hesitation, the blacks pulled down the fuse and put the bundled cluster bombs on the tank tracks.

Boom, boom

A series of explosions sounded, and the tracks of the tanks that were moving forward broke and fell off, except for a few that had not yet come up.

Scrapped tanks emit black smoke and remain motionless no matter how the driver operates.

"Let the tank stop. Looking at the scrapped tanks that formed a barrier, the commander gave the order with a grim face.

Although the tanks in front formed an obstacle, they also provided steel bunkers for the Italian army, and the distance between the two sides was only 80 meters, and the next thing was to see if they could rush through.

"Destroy their heavy firepower and prepare to charge!" Deboro personally ordered the attack.

"Attack..."The grenade fell forward like a dumpling, most of them did not fall into the trench, only a few fell inside and exploded flesh and blood.

The moment the explosion accompanied the smoke of gunpowder, the Italian army rushed out from behind the scrapped tanks and rushed straight into the trench.

Da-da-da-da

The flying bullet nets, the severed limbs, the sound of bullets penetrating **, the painful wails and cries for help before death, the fighting up and down the trenches, there was chaos everywhere.

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Switzerland.

Geneva, Palais des Nations.

On October 7, the day after Italy launched the war, the League of Nations declared Italy an aggressor country and was to impose material and economic sanctions on it.

All countries agreed to declare their support for the sanctions plan, but oil, a strategic material that Italy urgently needs, was not included in the plan, and Britain and France still opened the Suez Canal to Italy.

It was an undisguised conspiracy, in which France wanted to co-opt Italy against Germany, and Britain itself did not want to risk war with Italy, believing that Ethiopia could satisfy Mussolini's ambitions and appetites, and secretly acquiesced in his aggression.

The League of Nations is a ridiculous tragedy, those who have the ability are playing dumb, those who really want to do something for peace but are not, running back and forth and being kicked around like a ball.

After five days of meetings, Marie left on the third day, when the Italian army tore through the Egyptian frontier.

On the plane, Mary sounded her husband's assessment of the League of Nations, "a puppet institution of no use, a conspiracy for the British to balance the countries and maintain their own position." ”

Mary had been disappointed before, but never so utterly desperate as she had been this time.

War in Europe is inevitable, and Germany's political purge, military buildup, frequent troop movements, and frenzied probing will become the next fuse.

The news that Mary was coming back, Li Zitao received it when she boarded the plane, and when she received the call, he was visiting the skunk helicopter and the Universiade.

SH-1A, helicopter gunship, S stands for Skunk, guns can be erected in the cabin, and the maximum range is 1200 km.

The nose has an extended steel tube style barrel at the lower right of the nose and is a 0.50 caliber heavy machine gun, which was specially designed for the SH-1.

Some people jokingly call it the 'Longinus gun.' ’

Just to solve the problem of barrel lengthening, it took the Skunk and Automatic Weapons Laboratory nearly half a year to solve it.

SH-1B, a heavy transport aircraft, reinforced armor and flight altitude, power and fuel reserves, 0.30 caliber heavy machine guns can be mounted on both sides of the cabin, and the maximum range is 1500 km.

The two fortunate ones have roughly the same technology, both are twin-rotor with twin-engine power and can reach a cruising speed of up to 205 km/h.

When the SH-1A is fully loaded, it can carry 5 people with the driver, and 7 people with the weapons and weight removed.

The SH-1B was fully loaded with the driver, with a crew of 8, weapons and loads removed, and a maximum of 11 people.

The aircraft is also equipped with the latest radar system, which strengthens the seat armor surround of the cockpit, taking into account factors such as fall resistance.

But truth be told, this thing is not safe at all, and during the 13 tests, there were 5 forced landings caused by weather factors, and the period was absolutely thrilling.