At this moment, there is nothing to say goodbye, soldiers have a way of saying goodbye to soldiers, a handshake, a "take care", is enough.

The thousand-year-old country in the Horn of East Africa is about to usher in a new era of baptism of blood and fire......

Ten days later, on August 24, Adua, a major town in northern Ethiopia.

Tigray's Governor Mangahya, led 7,000 regular troops from the northern frontier and 10,000 private militia in his territory, had been fighting here against the Italian Army's 9th "Ram" Infantry Division for three days and three nights.

Early in the morning, the overwhelming artillery fire smashed into the Egyptian positions again.

The city of Adwa was built on a raised hill and was surrounded by a group of low walls, watchtowers, and bunkers. After the governor of Mangasa led his army into the station, under the guidance of the Chinese advisers, in addition to reinforcing the city wall, he also dug two trenches outside the wall, and outside the trenches were deer and traps, and a criss-cross communication trench was dug between the city wall and the trenches. Artillery and machine-gun positions were carefully arranged, with 24 cannons, 16 small mortars, and 26 light and heavy machine guns forming a tight network of crossfire, and successively repelled the Italian army's tidal wave attacks over the past three days, killing and wounding no less than 3,000 enemy troops, and its own side also suffered thousands of casualties in the fierce battle.

On this day, the Italian army deployed 84 cannons (including 24 heavy guns of more than 100 mm) on the north, west and east sides of Adwa, and did not hesitate to fire, fire, and fire again.

I saw that one after another Egyptian artillery positions, machine gun firing points, pillboxes, and infantry bunkers were accurately covered by enemy bullets, earth and rocks were flying, flesh and blood were flying, and the earth was boiling everywhere the artillery fire passed......

When the governor of Mangasa was dug out of the collapsed bunker by his men, although he was bleeding profusely, he still had a breath.

"Reinforcements...... Haven't the reinforcements arrived yet? ”

The subordinate replied in the negative.

"Tigray's beard," Mangasia, lamented: "Twelve years ago, O Menelik of Shoa, I knelt down to you on my slate and confessed that you are the unique king of Abyssinia, and together we have defeated the Italians and witnessed the glory of Adua. Now, will God and you forsake me? ”

No one answered the governor, only one of his subordinates signaled Mangaxia to look up to the sky: "The big bird of the Chinese is coming." ”

"No, I saw the cross flying in the sky, it was a miracle of God, God is coming to save me, and the King of kings will not dare to disobey God's will." Mangasha smiled, accepted the bandage, and reverently recited the prayer.

The "big bird of the Chinese" over Adwa was indeed controlled by the Chinese at this time, and Lieutenant Huang Yan, adviser and deputy leader of the Royal Ethiopian Flying Team, flew the No. 03 FJZ-4 "Fire Wind" reconnaissance plane from Hauzen, 35 kilometers away, to bring good news to Mangaxia.

At this time, the shelling continued, the smoke of gunpowder was filled, the cannon was rumbling, Huang Yan could not find a place where he could land safely, and he did not plan to brave the dense artillery fire and fly over the Egyptian positions at an ultra-low altitude - to drop the iron cylinder containing the warrant of the Duke of Katema, the commander of the First Army.

Huang Yan noticed that three ovoid hot air balloons were suspended in the sky above the Italian position.

"Sergeant, do you see those three balloons?" Huang Yan called out to the observer Dalaisi in the back seat through the pipe.

"Yes, sir." Dalaisi replied that he and Huang Yan had been partners for more than half a year, and he was a capable black boy.

"Let's go kill it."

"Yes."

No. 03 "Fire Wind" made a clumsy arc through the air, flying first towards the balloon to the east

Chinese The balloon is about 200 meters above the ground, tied to a steel cable on the ground, and the gondola under the balloon carries an artillery observer, who can correct its own artillery fire or conduct reconnaissance at any time through a wired telephone connected to the ground.

Huang Yan lowered the plane to the same altitude as the balloon, found the right angle, and began to circle around the selected balloon so that Sergeant Dalaisi in the back seat could operate the machine gun mounted on the tail of the plane to shoot the balloon from the side.

The plane circled around at a speed of sixty kilometers per hour or less, and the gunfire went away with the wind, and Dalaisi quickly ran out of a 50-round drum, and when he switched to a second one, the upper side of the balloon began to deflat.

The Italians on the ground began to turn the winch in an attempt to retract the balloon, but no one expected to take up arms and shoot into the air – and they – or rather—Europeans other than the Russians had apparently encountered such a situation for the first time.

"Sergeant, shoot at the gondola." Huang Yan ordered, he could already clearly see the frightened expression of the hapless observer in the hanging basket.

"Yes, sir."

Dalaisi quickly ran out of the second drum, and Huang Yan saw the Italian in the hanging basket lying sideways on the edge of the hanging basket, his hands hanging out of the hanging basket softly, his sleeves soaked with bright red blood, and nodded with satisfaction, ending this bloody dance with balloons as dance partners and the sky as the stage.

The second and third dances were also carried out quite smoothly, and at the climax of the third dance, the poor Italian in the hanging basket jumped out of the basket in spite of everything, and made several somersaults in the course of a natural fall of one hundred and fifty meters - a delightful performance for the eyes.

Without the guidance of the balloon, the Italian artillery fire was also much less accurate, Huang Yan found a blind spot that was difficult for the opponent to hit without air guidance, and skillfully landed on a flat grass in the south of the city.

A small group of Egyptian cavalry immediately rushed from the city, and as soon as the officer at the head rushed to the plane, he shouted: "On the orders of the Governor of Mangaxia, I have come to meet you!" ”

"Please give this to the Governor of Mangashi." Huang Yan threw the iron cylinder over, and the officer grabbed it.

At this time, the dust was flying in the distance, and the pennant of the Italian cavalry on the top of the spear was faintly visible, and Huang Yan hurriedly urged the officer: "Hurry up, leave us alone." ”

"For the Emperor!" The officer saluted and led his team to move away.

Here, Dalaisi was already clutching a propeller in front of the nose.

"One, two, three, turn!"

Following Huang Yan's command, Dalaisi threw down the propeller blades that were high above his head with all his might, and with a few muffled sounds of the exposed engine, the propellers spun rapidly, braving the strong wind of the pulp blades, Dalaisi jumped into the rear cockpit with the agility of a monkey.

"Sergeant, prepare the bombs, we're going to give those Italians some color to see."

"Yes, my sir." Dalaisi was eager to take the plunge.

After gliding gently for dozens of meters on the slightly yellowed dry-season grass, the plane took off, and Dalaisi removed eight 60-mm mortar shells from the additional pylons on the right side of the cockpit one by one, put seven fuses on them and put them back in place, and one tail pinched the tail in his hand, and half of his body leaned out of the cabin, ready to carry out his first actual combat bombing.

The plane turned at an altitude of 200 meters and flew at a gentle oblique angle towards the overly curious Italian cavalry. As the planes approached, the Italian cavalry froze and reined in their horses, and there was a commotion in the ranks.

150 meters, 50 meters、......

Getting lower, getting closer, seeing those frightened faces and horses' heads?

"Sergeant, here, I'm going to do it!" Huang Yan shouted excitedly.

Flying less than twenty meters above sea and made of canvas, wood and steel wire, the plane seemed to fly past the heads of dozens of cavalrymen, and although he failed to lift a few military caps, Dalaisi accurately dropped the 60mm mortar shell with the instantaneous fuse, and then retracted his body into the cockpit with conditional firing.

The bomb didn't bloom brightly in the crowd - when Dalaisi poked his head out again, he could faintly see several overturned horsemen, a group of startled horses running around, and the helpless Italians on their horses, in addition to a cloud of expanding gray smoke mixed with dust.

"Well done, now play with them with a machine gun." Huang Yan ordered again.

"That's exactly what I thought, sir."

"How many boxes of bullets are there?"

"Four boxes."

"Let's do it!"

"Firewind" swept over the poor Italians several times in succession, dropping two bombs and emptying two boxes of ammunition until half of them lay to the ground, and the other half raised their white underwear......

"Sergeant, did you say we were going down to accept their surrender?" Huang Yan wanted to laugh but couldn't.

"As you please, sir."

"Forget it, I don't want to go down and smell their panties, let's go to the battlefield and see what else can be done."

"History will remember this date, on August 24, 1908, the precedent in the history of warfare for the surrender of infantry to aircraft was set by the glorious Italian Army at Adua, but alas, the pilots of the Abyssinian Army contemptuously rejected the surrender of the Italians......"

—The New York Times

Let's say that after the governor of Mangaxia opened the iron cylinder sent by Huang Yan, when he saw the warrant of the Duke of Katema, he clenched the cross in his hand excitedly: "God, I know that you are here, you have seen me, you have saved me......

Then he ordered: "The order is given, the army of the Duke of Katema has detoured to the enemy's flank, the enemy is about to be surrounded, hold the position, and the victory will definitely be ours!" ”

After the order was issued, the Egyptian troops on the position immediately rejoiced and their morale was high.

At this time, under the cover of artillery fire and machine guns, the Italian infantry launched an unprecedented charge against Adwa from the north, east and west, and the Egyptian artillery and machine gun positions had suffered huge losses and greatly reduced fire density due to the accurate coverage of the enemy's artillery......