At the end of 1871, the cold winds of winter were not very cold for the Mediterranean countries, and the soft climate of the Italian Peninsula made the people here live more leisurely, and the excellent geographical location, suitable climate, coupled with the distance from the center of the European continent, created a tradition of affluence and war-weariness of the people of the Italian Peninsula.

The glory of the Romans has long been lost under the long dark Middle Ages, but unfortunately, the Italians did not have the ability of the Romans to fight well, but they fantasized about recreating the glory of Rome all day long......

The reunification of the Italian peninsula, the free ride of the Franco-Prussian War, Garibaldi's ridiculous Liberation of the Thousand People, can be regarded by the Italian people as a heroic army, in the eyes of the European powers, the war in which an adult child bullied a rotten old man, was praised by the Italians for a long time and remembered in the glory of history......

It can be seen from this that the people of the Italian peninsula not only do not like to fight, but also lack embarrassing insights in their perception of war!

Of course, there is also the factor that Italians like vanity and self-confidence.

It's just that Lin Haoda knows the foundation of the Italian army very well, but the Han army mobilized soldiers who advanced to the front line to fight do not know the glorious history of Italy.

Cheng Xiaoyu, a very mediocre-looking mobilized soldier, was promoted to the rank of second lieutenant after the war because he rushed to the front line to kill the enemy bravely in the battle with the Prussian army, and became one of the few serious officers who rose from the grassroots level, with a platoon of dozens of people.

Although these mobilized soldiers have sufficient combat quality, they lack the necessary officer knowledge, so this kind of soldier officers who have been promoted from the grassroots level will be sent to the first line of the offensive sequence in every battle, and they will always play the role of the vanguard.

After all, officers are a valuable resource for Lin Haoda, he does not have a so-called military school, and he cannot re-educate and advance the knowledge of officers who have just been promoted, so he can only let the officers with old qualifications teach them by word and deed in their free time during the war to popularize some common sense among soldiers and officers.

However, although the effect of this is there, it is far less useful than that of officers from the system, and of course, the troops led by these soldiers and officers have become the vanguard with the highest death rate, but fortunately, the loyalty of the mobilized soldiers produced by the all-out war system is enough, and every time ordinary people are placed on the front line of the battle, I am afraid that resentment has already risen in their hearts.

Cheng Xiaoyu was eating a piece of air-dried meat that had just been snatched from an Italian farmer's house, holding a Mauser rifle and looking at the Italian army line in the distance from time to time.

The Kingdom of Italy, ruled by the Sardinian royal family, immediately gathered elite troops from all over the country and deployed them on the front line of Aosta after receiving the news that Lin Haoda led an expedition to the Italian peninsula.

In order to have enough time to lay out the defensive line and mobilize troops, the Italian crown even withdrew all the regular troops in the Savoy region, and ceded to the Han army a territory comparable to half of the provinces of China in later generations......

In order to alleviate the pressure of grain transportation and supply, most of the mobilized infantry queues such as Cheng Xiaoyu were released to supply on the spot.

The food standard of the mobilized soldiers was the lowest in the Han army, and it was far less good than that of other technical arms such as grenadiers, machine gunners, and artillery.

After eating and drinking, Cheng Xiaoyu patted his stomach and burped with satisfaction, without the slightest guilt of killing a woman and three children with a bayonet when he robbed these white civilians of their rations before......

As instilled in the Total War system, in the eyes of these conscripts, white civilians are mere two-legged cattle who punch and kick white civilians in peacetime over some verbal squabbles, let alone wartime.

If those white civilians obediently sent it during the food looting, mobilized soldiers like Cheng Xiaoyu would naturally not be free to kill, but as long as the white civilians pulled and cried without opening their eyes, in order to save trouble, these mobilized soldiers would often clean their entire family.

With the order of the superior officer, Cheng Xiaoyu got up from the trench and slapped the soldiers under him one by one.

Due to the abundance of troops in the Kingdom of Italy, several deep and spacious defensive lines were raised, and in order to concentrate the artillery in order to achieve the maximum breakthrough effect, the mobilized troops in many areas attacked the positions without the slightest artillery support.

Not only did there be no artillery, but even grenadiers and Maxine heavy machine guns were not attached, and compared to 100,000 mobilized soldiers, a mere 100 Maxine heavy machine guns was too little......

Therefore, the only weapons used by Cheng Xiaoyu's mobilized soldiers to attack were the improved Mauser rifle in their hands, the grenade attached to the individual soldier, and a Mitsubishi bayonet......

Of course, Lin Haoda did not ask the mobilized troops in these secondary offensive areas to really take the opposite position, although the combat effectiveness of the Italians was not good, but the Kingdom of Italy had money and an industrial base, before the war of the country, the Sardinian royal family took out all the family funds, and deployed a large number of early Gatling machine guns on the front line.

These Gatling guns are not the famous Vulcan cannons in later generations, but the first actual combat model of machine guns invented by the Americans, which have the 'advantages' of jamming, short range, inconvenient movement, low accuracy, etc., basically in addition to the rate of fire, there is no advantage over the firing pin rifle......

This is also the reason why the Gatling machine gun did not become popular, but the Han army's record of massacring Prussian soldiers with a large number of Maxine heavy machine guns in the war against the Prussian army made European countries redefine the true value of machine guns as rapid-fire weapons!

The countries of Europe are not fools, and naturally they can see the enormous potential of such rapid-fire weapons for future wars.

Therefore, the Gatling machine gun, which has a low penetration rate in history, has been copied by a large number of European countries, and even improved research and development, with the industrial production capacity of the European continental powers, as long as the improvement is successful, the popularization of machine guns is only a matter of money.

Lin Haoda doesn't pay attention to it doesn't mean that Cheng Xiaoyu's mobilized soldiers can sleep in the trench with a rifle, the necessary feints and troop containment are still needed, the firepower projection capabilities of European countries in this era are far inferior to those during World War I, rushing up to shoot guns is not a difficult task for the mobilized soldiers, at most they have to pay a few casualties.