The village of Alem is located on the side of the road leading to Adiquala, which is surrounded by mountains and a small stream called Balal runs through the gap in the surrounding mountains. It is also because of this river that the small basin that surrounds it can be cultivated, and the village of Alem is born.

Alem Village is 24 km from Mara City and 60 km from Adiquara.

Such excellent terrain was ideal for large-scale sieges, so Johannes IV used it as a battlefield for the reinforcement of the Italian army. Therefore, the Abyssinian army is arriving around one after another, and the reason why they did not arrive here directly, and the number of troops is too large, if they are all crowded here, let alone ambushed, it is estimated that the reinforced Italians will be frightened and hurriedly retreat.

After all, it is an army of 110,000, which can be seen from afar with the momentum of gathering together and crowds.

Besides, it is impossible for so many people to gather like this.

Because the commander-in-chief, Johannes IV, ordered that the army should not be allowed to approach the village of Alem.

This is the experience of a veteran soldier, who has been in Alem Village and has left a trail of clues, and in order to avoid being discovered by the enemy, he should not go here at all.

Therefore, when the Abyssinian army arrived here, it could only move around it, and not a single person dared to enter the village.

Of course, the villagers of Alem have long since left their homes, and the fighting between the two countries has made them unable to care about the crops in the fields, and they have already fled far away with the only food and livestock they have.

And when the Abyssinians were arriving around Alem, reinforcements led by Major General Pascal were struggling to get here.

"Ceasefire."

The lead officer ordered his men to stop firing. With the officer's order, all the soldiers lowered their guns.

In their distance, the Abyssinian cavalry had fled, leaving only their backs.

But they didn't leave nothing, and more than two dozen Abyssinian cavalrymen fell to the ground. Among them, there is also a war horse that is trying to arch the fallen owner, trying to wake him up, but it is doomed to be in vain.

And the defending Italian army was not without losses, and the four Italian soldiers in the open space on the side had been put here by their comrades, and they had long since lost their breath. These are young guys, and their lives are ending here. I just don't know what it will be like when their death notices are delivered to their families.

Of course, for the current soldiers, he can't see the future yet, and the immediate urgency is to drive out those Abyssinian cavalry. These Abyssinians on horseback were really clinging to them like kraft candy, and no matter how they were driven, they would soon reappear.

So under the watchful eye of these people, every move of the Italian army was under their watch.

In fact, not only the soldiers were uneasy and irritated about the actions of the Abyssinian cavalry, but also the commander of the team, Major General Pascal, and the commander of the 6th Mountain Brigade, Colonel Zelos, could not do anything about it.

"How many times have you attacked today?"

Standing on the high ground behind the troops, Major General Pascal lowered his binoculars to look at the sun, and asked the officers beside him.

"General, this is the seventh attack of the day."

"It's only been the morning, and we've already been harassed by the seventh attack. It seems that the Abyssinians have made up their minds to embarrass you and me. ”

Major General Pascal said this to Colonel Zelos beside him, and the commander of the 6th Mountain Brigade also lowered his binoculars and said. "There aren't many methods we can use, the enemy is more familiar with the terrain here than we are, and the enemy is basically cavalry, so we don't have a very good way."

Faced with Colonel Zeros' words, Major General Pascal nodded in agreement. "Yes, there are very few methods we can use, and more importantly, everyone knows where we are going, which limits our play, so we can only continue along this road, continue to go down."

In fact, both of them didn't say a word, and they also used methods to drive away these cavalry, but in order to make this operation go smoothly, they couldn't reveal their true situation. Otherwise, the dozens of Maxim machine guns disguised as grain and grass carts would be enough for these Abyssinian cavalrymen to drink a pot.

However, in order to achieve the goal, the soldiers can only cheer up and bear the enemy's attack.

Thinking of this, Major General Pascal did not continue to look on the high ground, he turned around and gave orders.

"Order, let the troops continue to go, we only walked 6 kilometers today, this is too slow, we must speed up."

With Pascal's order, the halted Italian army began to move forward again. Its long line is like a long snake, but the Duke of Harrell knows that this long snake is fierce, and in just three days, he has lost thousands of riders, making him feel distressed to death.

"My lord, Marco is back with someone."

One of the guards ran to the top of the hill and reported to the Duke of Harrell, who was observing the Italian army.

"Let him come up."

After hearing the report of the guards, the Duke of Harrell turned back and spoke.

After a while, a sturdy and swarthy man walked up, and this was the Mako.

"I've seen the Duke."

Facing Marco to salute, the Duke of Harrell stepped forward to personally help the other party. "Marko, how are things going?"

"I'm ready, I've collected more than 300 cows from other princes and tribes. I have taken it out of the valley of Parr, as you commanded. ”

"Very good, so with the more than 300 we brought ourselves, this is more than 700 cows, which is enough."

What does this Duke of Harrell want to do?

In fact, it's nothing, the main thing is that the previous losses were too great, so that the Duke of Harrell wanted to use other methods to replace his cavalry charge.

And the alternative that he thought of was to replace the cavalry with oxen and rush at the Italians.

However, there are also terrain restrictions to use the Ox Rush Formation, that is, it must be in a place where the terrain is narrow. One such place is the Parr Valley, which is surrounded by mountains on both sides and has only one road in it.

Someone may ask why such terrain did not ambush the cavalry, rush down in one fell swoop, and completely crush the Italians. This kind of situation generally appears in the book and the middle, where the terrain is dangerous, everyone knows that it may be dangerous, so in the case of sending people to investigate in advance and sending troops to occupy the high ground on both sides, who will just walk in like this.

Therefore, it is feasible to use the terrain to ambush small troops, but it is unrealistic to ambush large armies. Of course, the encirclement is still possible. After all, in this era, it is impossible for anyone to push the cordon to both sides for more than ten kilometers.

And what this Duke Harrell did, the Italian army did not know. So in the afternoon, everyone felt strange in the face of the enemy cavalry, which had not attacked once.

It's not expensive and weird, it's weird, and those who should be in a hurry still need to be in a hurry.

Soon they arrived at a place with a valley terrain.

"What's the name of this place?"

The commander, Major General Pascal, looked at the valley, where the terrain was very unfavorable to him, and asked the guide beside him. "It's called Parl Valley, and you need to walk here to get to Mara."

Upon hearing the words of the guide, Major General Pascal immediately gave the order. "Send two battalions to occupy the mountains on either side, and then we are passing through."

Following the order of Major General Pascal, the strength of the two battalions ascended the mountain from both sides, but fortunately the two sides were not high, and it took only half an hour.

When the troops on both sides of the mountain did not find anything, Major General Pascal led his troops into the valley, but soon after he entered the valley, he heard a rumbling sound.

"What's that sound?"

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