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Faster than in another time and space, in just seven days, the Italians attacking from Eritrea marched hundreds of kilometers to the city of Macare, the capital of Tigray Province. The "positional warfare" insisted on by Selassie I not only failed to effectively stop the Italian offensive, but also allowed the opponent to give full play to its firepower superiority. Many soldiers did not even see the face of the enemy, and were blown up into real cannon fodder by overwhelming artillery fire.

In this asymmetrical war, the Italians had absolute air superiority, their planes flew over Ethiopia unscrupulously, and the limited anti-aircraft artillery of the Egyptian side was still scattered and used, and the thin firepower could not provide effective air defense for the troops, and was quickly destroyed by fighters one by one.

In fact, with the backward performance of Ethiopia's anti-aircraft guns, even if they are really used intensively, the effect may not be much better, and if they are dispersed, they can at least bring some psychological comfort to the soldiers around them. In addition to the threat from the air, the Ethiopians on the ground also had to bite the bullet and use their flesh and blood to fend off the enemy's armored forces.

Just like during the First World War, the giant soldiers of various countries watched the whole process, there were two giant god soldiers in Italy, and the Emerald Star of Egypt did not dare to leave the capital half a step. But for ordinary soldiers on the front line, whether it is a "tall" giant god soldier or a "short and poor" armored machine soldier, it is just as difficult to deal with!

To be honest, Zhao Jian was not optimistic about the armored machine at first, not to mention the giant god soldiers belonging to the "super department", this flashy humanoid mecha did not seem to be enough to replace the position of the tank in his cognition, and the human race would definitely return to the "right path" of turret and track, but soon he found out that he was wrong......

The British "Mark I" was the world's first armored machine to be put into actual combat, but it was not the first imitation of the Titan soldiers.

As early as the Renaissance in Europe, the great inventor Leonardo da Vinci, who was extremely obsessed with the technology of ancient people, once made a wooden "giant god soldier" with his own hands. In Asia, Luban's various "puppets" and Zhuge Liang's "wooden oxen and flowing horses" appeared even earlier.

Leonardo da Vinci's 12-meter-tall man-made machine looks like a bloated fat man, and the driver needs to help someone to tie himself to the control frame of the cab, so that the giant can make the same movements as himself.

However, in the strict sense of the word, this replica is not the same as the construction of the real thing. The operation of the giant god soldier belongs to nerve conduction, and the driver can rely on small movements and "brain supplements" to control the body. Imitations, on the other hand, rely on mechanical transmissions, and all movements are done by guò gears and conveyor belts.

It's worth mentioning that this knock-off is powered by a giant clockwork mechanism that can be screwed for 90 seconds, and it can be seen as an oversized clockwork**. Although the gear mechanism has a certain "reaction delay" caused by mechanical transmission in operation, the action is not clumsy at all. This magical system was called the "Da Vinci Mechanism" by later generations, and the British Mark I was based on this mechanism and modernized and improved.

Ironically, as a descendant of Leonardo da Vinci, Italy had a very poor level of technology in armored machinery, and among the countries that could make armored aircraft, they may be slightly better than Japan.

At this time, the main force of the Italian invading army was the Fiat 3000B light mecha, which was a copycat from the French Renault FT-1 light mecha, with a body height of 6.5 meters and a total weight of 6 tons, and the thickest part of the armor was the cockpit of the chest, but only 16mm steel plates may not even be able to carry large-caliber machine guns, and they can be used to bully the Ethiopians who lack heavy firepower.

"Young master, this is not far from the front line, is it not safe for us to run here?"

"Do you think it's safe to stay behind and get bombed?"

Three days ago, Zhao Jian and his entourage left Addis Ababa and went to the northern front line to observe the battlefield. It's not that Zhao Jian has the intention to die, but the capital that has been battered by air raids is really about to be unable to stay. The Italians, who had air supremacy, sent bombers to walk twice a day, the first to drop leaflets and the second to drop bombs. Zhao Jian has passed by the 50-pound "Grim Reaper" several times!

In fact, not only them, but also the Germans could not stand it!

Addis Ababa, which enjoys the most important attention, is now even the palace of Selassie I has been bombed to the ground. Several German armed cargo ships did not dare to continue to dock on the artificial lake, and relied on their ability to fly, so they moved en masse to a nearby ravine, and at the same time they took the Pinnau with them quite righteously. Taking advantage of the time of ship repair, Zhao Jian decided to go to the front line to observe, the focus was to see the combat methods of the armored aircraft.

I don't know if it's my own fate, or if I have my own "auspicious" aura and a teammate. As soon as Zhao and the others arrived near the northern front, Macarre was lost, and the Italian troops were chasing the defeated army and advancing inland. The successive tailwind battles made them feel that their opponents were nothing more than that, and all the troops were playing the game of "chasing rabbits" unscrupulously.

As the so-called "poor people do not chase", the Italians obviously do not understand or do not care about this set, coupled with the rudimentary problem of the command system, the Italian troops are unsurprisingly chaotic. The battalion and regimental commanders were the first to notice this problem and tried to gather the troops on the spot, but the generals above them could not understand the chaos on the front line from the sand table, so they mistakenly gave the order to "continue the offensive", which made the front line even more chaotic!

In the eyes of the Italian commanders, as long as there was no foreign intervention in this war, victory could be said to be theirs. For the sake of military merit, some lower-ranking officers led their troops to go deep alone without authorization when they lost contact with the command headquarters, and one of the armored detachments happened to meet Zhao Jian and them on a narrow road.

The first to spot the enemy was Wangcai, and when he climbed up the hillside to pick wild fruits, he happened to see dust flying not far ahead, so he hurriedly ran back to report. Although Wangcai is a little stupid, he is not purely mentally retarded, he can distinguish what danger is, thanks to his timely warning, Zhao Jian and others can take the first step to hide.

The lone Italian detachment had 5 Fiat and 2 wheeled armored vehicles for reconnaissance, and the other party was originally chasing more than 200 remnants, but these fleeing soldiers scattered more and more, and in the end, their enemy did not kill much, not to mention, and they lost themselves.

The lieutenant in command of this armored detachment was named Anthony Corradi, a young man from Milan. Like many young Italians of his age, he lost his job during the financial turmoil of the previous period, when the Italian Army was recruiting for armored troops, and Antony was chosen because of his sturdy frame and short stature.

This war was very important for Antony, not because it was about the national fortunes of Italy, but for the sake of greater love! In order to be promoted to captain at the end of the war, Anthony showed great bravery in battle, but it was this bravery that allowed him to lead his squad into a dangerous mountain pass.

The shortcomings of the Fiat light mecha are not only its weak armor and unbearable firepower, but also the unreasonable design also makes its internal driving space too narrow, the engine is almost attached to the driver's back, and the driving time is more than 30 minutes, and the temperature inside will exceed 50 °C, so it is complained by the pilots as "Fiat toaster".

After two hours of continuous fighting, Anthony and his comrades felt more and more that the biggest enemy was not the Ethiopian soldiers with backward weapons, but their own light armor. Seeing that there was no trace of the enemy around, they simply found a shade tree, lifted the cockpit canopy, and prepared to rest in place for a while.

"Lieutenant, do you think we can just hit Addis Ababa in one go?"

"And then be lightly bombarded by their Emerald Star? Don't forget, that's the only weapon they have that counts as good. ”

"Don't worry, that rag will definitely not be the opponent of 'Caesar' and 'Nero', we will win this war."

Smiling at his teammates, Anthony didn't deny what the other party said. The overwhelming military power made them not think they would repeat the mistakes of the past, and the vast majority of them believed that they would take all of Ethiopia with minimal casualties. But none of these soldiers can guarantee that they will not become part of that "small group".

PS: The part involving black technology is the least disobedient to the "technology nerds" like Luban and Da Vinci!