With green mountains and green waters, Cheng Xiaoyu, who was walking on the 'official road' in the forest, suddenly heard a bang, and the sound of Italian shouting and killing broke out from far and near in the bushes dozens of meters away.

"Battle formation, free fire on the spot!" Cheng Xiaoyu subconsciously shouted, the battlefield is the best training ground, although he has no culture and can't read a lot of big characters, but frequent battles have already made him develop an instinct.

Sure enough, less than 3 minutes after Cheng Xiaoyu's words fell, the woods on the left and right, which were originally empty, immediately stretched out countless muzzles of guns, and launched a confrontation with the Han army mobilizers who were kneeling or lying on the ground!

Cheng Xiaoyu saw the clothes exposed among the bushes, and immediately judged the identity of the other party - Sicilian guerrillas!

These troops, organized and trained by Sicilian aristocratic officers, such as Italian routs, staunch supporters of nationalism, and local militias, are the greatest obstacle to the Han army's occupation of Sicily on the Italian peninsula today.

After the current king of the Kingdom of Italy was killed by a cannonball in the Battle of Rome, the regular army of the Kingdom of Italy could no longer organize a decent battle, and the remnants of the Italian regular army retreated like a tide to the southern region of the Two Sicilies, let alone organize defense, and it was difficult to even restrain the soldiers.

The chaotic armies of the Italian regular army, militia, and guards who had retreated together also numbered 180,000, but in the retreat, they scattered more than half of themselves without waiting for the Han army to pursue, and the remaining troops were also controlled by various Italian generals and stationed in cities.

Just when the battle was almost settled, General Garibaldi, who had disappeared for many days, suddenly appeared in the city of Messina in Sicily, and publicly announced the establishment of the Sicilian guerrillas, vowing to adhere to the free will of the Italian nation and fight the brutal Han army to the end......

In the beginning, the Sicilian guerrillas established by Garibaldi were not well-known, and the various representatives sent by Garibaldi to the Sicilian Peninsula only raised a few nationalist and enthusiastic young people who yearned for freedom, and the Italian generals stationed in various cities had a dispensable mentality towards the Sicilian guerrillas, providing only a small amount of supplies, and nothing of weapons and ammunition......

Garibaldi was busy expanding his influence in Sicily and establishing his leadership, and did not have many men and weapons to support Sicily, so the initial development of the Sicilian guerrillas was tepid, even if they held high the national banner.

The anti-Han alliance believed that there was no hope of resisting the attack of the Han army in Sicily, so it naturally did not send the limited supplies there for the Han army to capture in vain, but directly to the Garibaldi rebel army who established the National Resistance Front in Sicily!

However, when the Han army swept through the cities of Sicily like autumn leaves, the Italian generals either surrendered or went into exile or were killed......

But the Italian rout, which had no way out and lost its backbone, converged in large numbers to the Sicilian guerrillas who advocated national righteousness.

Although the Italians can't fight, it does not prevent the Italian nation from being full of hot-blooded young people with dreams, and war is the best place to create hatred.

As a result, the Sicilian guerrillas grew stronger and stronger with the overall occupation of the Sicilian Peninsula by the Han army, and they never attacked the big cities, but specially selected small groups of Han troops that were not equipped with heavy weapons (machine guns, grenadiers, and artillery) to attack, and each attack would ensure a superiority of dozens of times......

During the occupation of the cities of the Sicilian Peninsula by the Han army, many Italian generals fled without a fight, and the Italian soldiers who wanted to fight under their hands were unrestrained, so they opened their arsenals and joined the Sicilian guerrillas, which greatly made up for the lack of muskets of the Sicilian guerrillas.

However, even so, the Sicilian partisans mostly used a large number of obsolete flintlock pistols instead of breech-loading pistols, and the Italian army was crushed and surrendered in formation, which also meant that a large number of advanced rifles equipped in the hands of front-line troops were captured by the Han army......

Although the Han army did not look down on this backward firing rifle, it was still good to arm the puppet army, and naturally it would not be allowed to flow out.

Moreover, as the Italian peninsula was gradually conquered, almost all the military industrial bases fell into the hands of Lin Haoda, and the Italians could only rely on the few arms shipments of the anti-Han alliance to resist.

It's just that the development of the Sicilian guerrillas is very large, but the results are very scarce, for example, the ambush war faced by Cheng Xiaoyu.

After seeing the identity of the Sicilian guerrillas on the opposite side, he did not hesitate to give the order to attack!

Cheng Xiaoyu, who had fought many times with the Sicilian guerrillas, knew too well the depth of the combat effectiveness of this group of Sicilian guerrillas, whose organization and discipline were worse than that of the Italian regular army......

To put it simply, the Sicilian partisans are nothing but nationalist!

The small detachment that was ambushed was just a 'fire reconnaissance company' sent by the Han army, and the reason why the word firepower was added was mainly because the work of a reconnaissance company like Cheng Xiaoyu was often to attack and sweep up......

The top brass of the Han army believed that in the face of the Sicilian guerrillas with weak combat effectiveness and the rout of Italy without a climate, one company was enough as an independent combat force......

Cheng Xiaoyu, who has made a lot of meritorious contributions, naturally became the highest commander of this fire reconnaissance company, a lieutenant who is serious!

It's a pity that in the Han army system, the rank of lieutenant is basically the top for Cheng Xiaoyu, if he wants to continue to improve his rank, he can only go there to recognize a puppet army commander or something like that after the formation of the Italian puppet army is completed in the future.

Cheng Xiaoyu didn't know these inside stories, in his simple thinking, the Sicilian guerrillas with more than 1,000 people in front of him were naked military exploits!

Lin Haoda, who plans to restart the concentration camp-style collective farm, is still relatively short of young and strong laborers, and many prisoners of war can swallow it!

Under Cheng Xiaoyu's attack order, one platoon covered the fire, and the other two platoons formed a skirmish line to attack the woods tactically.

The improved Mauser rifle, under the accurate fire of the mobilized soldiers far exceeding the Sicilian guerrillas, quickly suppressed the Sicilian guerrilla musketeers leaning on the trees, and the Mauser rifle was extremely penetrating at this distance, and the ordinary tree trunk could completely penetrate people with bark!

As a result, the mobilized troops quickly narrowed the distance with the Sicilian guerrillas, and amid the roar of rows of grenades, the huge ambush battle came to an end, and the Sicilian guerrillas, who were far outnumbered by the fire reconnaissance company, scrambled to flee......