Maj. Gen. Pascal's concerns were accurate.

On the top of the mountain, Colonel Zelos of the 6th Mountain Brigade looked at the steady stream of Abyssinians with ugly faces, and they took all kinds of weapons and rushed towards the hill where the 6th Mountain Brigade was entrenched.

And behind these Abyssinians, there were also people pushing artillery, which made Colonel Zelos's face even more ugly. On this unsheltered hill, his 6th Mountain Brigade had no fortifications. If you are fired by artillery, everyone can understand the sourness.

Thankfully, after repelling the enemy's cavalry attack, the machine guns and artillery were finally able to support them. Of course, if you want them to support, you still need the officers and men of the 6th Mountain Brigade to work hard to block the enemy.

Seeing the enemy getting closer, Zeros, the brigade commander, roared, "Fire, drive these Abyssinians down!" ”

Following his order, the officers and men of the 6th Mountain Brigade, relying on the terrain to cover themselves, raised their guns in their hands and put the Abyssinian soldiers into the crosshairs.

"呯呯呯~"

The 6th Mountain Brigade was an elite unit from the northern mountains, and the accuracy of its rifles was praised, and the attacking Abyssinians were held back by the fire from the mountains.

Here, an Abyssinian soldier who was trying to climb a mountain reached out and grabbed a rock, but there was no follow-up.

A young Abyssinian soldier was lying on the ground, his buttocks raised above his head, he raised his rifle in his hand, trembled and stretched out in the direction of the hill, and pulled the trigger with his eyes closed.

Of course, these scenes are just a corner of the battlefield, and most of the Abyssinian soldiers are more at a loss in the face of such a rain of bullets. Lacking in training, they simply don't know how to deal with this situation.

One might ask, what about their officers?

Speaking of which, there is not much difference from them, many of these officers were just soldiers before, and the frantic expansion of the army allowed these soldiers who only knew orders to get promoted opportunities and become the basic officers who led the soldiers. However, in the face of such an unsmooth situation, these basic officers set their sights on their own commanders again.

"Look at what I'm doing, attack and rush forward."

Not long after the transformation from a junior officer to a mid-level officer, their superiors angrily issued their own orders.

However, his order was very wrong, and the 6th Mountain Brigade gave enough respect to this wave of Abyssinian soldiers who suddenly dared to continue the attack, so he let them know more firepower that it was best not to use this method unless they had a fearless heart.

And in the face of the attack did not go well, Emperor Johannes IV, who was watching the battle from behind, was anxious. The news of the previous failed cavalry raid made him want to vomit blood, and the elite cavalry unit had always been the most powerful force in his hands with other princes and nobles.

This time he was hit hard by the enemy, how could he not be angry. More critically, the cavalry did not achieve the goal of destroying the enemy's artillery, and also lost 6,000 men and horses.

Who knows how difficult the firepower of the Italian army is.

But now for Johannes IV, he is already riding a tiger. Suffering such a great loss, if he can't get a victory, then his position as emperor will be shaken. Even if the Italians don't fight, the other princes and nobles won't let them go.

Therefore, he had no way to retreat, and could only hope to use ten times the enemy's superior forces to take down these Italians. As long as he can take this Italian army, then he will still be the wise and martial emperor, and he will still be respected by the princes and nobles.

"Order the artillery to open fire and give me a hard shot at the Italians."

Seeing that the artillery was ready, Johannes IV looked at the fierce battle that was raging ahead and gave his first order when he arrived at the battlefield.

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble!! ”

The artillery, which had been sent by the British and French efforts, finally fulfilled their wish and carried out a heavy artillery bombardment on the defending 6th Mountain Brigade.

Although these urgently trained artillery skills are scum, the accuracy of the shells is not high, and they fall on their own people as much as the enemy's. But it did suppress the firepower of the 6th Brigade and make the attacking soldiers ready to attack again, which of course required ignoring the greetings from friendly forces that might fall on their heads.

"Attack! Quick, all up and attack! ”

The officer leading the team shouted and ordered the soldiers to get up and attack.

The officers finally got up their feet, and they took a gun of all kinds from Britain and France, and attacked the hill.

"Quick, take the enemy offensive!"

The Italian officers defending on the hill, after seeing that the enemy was about to move again, hurriedly ordered the soldiers to increase the output of firepower, and they must suppress the enemy's momentum.

For them, if they go into a white-knuckle battle, it will represent a defeat. Look at the number of enemies under the mountain, look at your own numbers, if you really want to engage in white-knuckle combat, then the result will be self-evident.

So for the sake of their own honor, and for their own lives, the Italian officers and soldiers had to stop the enemy from the enemy's ideas.

However, although the Italian troops tried desperately to hold the enemy back, the enemy shelling did interfere with their firing. After all, it is indeed a bit difficult for these officers and soldiers to withstand the danger of shells exploding around them, and still be able to calmly and calmly shoot at the incoming enemy.

Fortunately, however, the support firepower from Major General Pascal's order, which had just finished the duel with the cavalry, finally caught up.

"Dada~"

The Maxim machine gun was a defensive weapon, and although there were not many machine guns brought up this time, its ferocious firepower immediately knocked down the momentum of the attacking Abyssinian soldiers.

In the face of the enemy's machine guns, the Abyssinian artillery under the mountain, of course, would not let go, and immediately concentrated their fire on these emerging machine guns.

Well, the cannon is indeed the nemesis of the machine gun, and in the face of enemy artillery fire, the machine gun, which was still menacing just now, withered all at once. Although the level of Abyssinian artillery is not enough, as an artillery gun, it has a long range than a machine gun, and how to fight this kind of battle that cannot fight back.

But just as they were scurrying around, the artillery of the Italian side, which had been carried up the mountain with great difficulty, arrived. Although this is only some light artillery, it is still more dangerous to the enemy due to the terrain advantage.

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble!! ”

The shelling from the top of the hill brought the unscrupulous opponent back to him.

The high level of shelling from Europe taught the Abyssinians a good lesson for beginners.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!! ”

A shell fell into the Abyssinian artillery position, and the violent explosion caused a chain reaction, in which several cannons were destroyed. Such a result frightened the Abyssinian artillery and hastened to shift their positions.

They are no better than Italy, these guns need to be imported at a cost, but they are expensive.

As machine guns and artillery rose up the hill, the Abyssinians launched several attacks, all of which were repulsed.

Johannes IV looked at the top of the mountain, which was still firmly in the hands of the Italians, and he knew that his desire to take it in one fell swoop was shattered. But then, he needs to overwhelm his opponent with a sea of people.

I'm in a good mood