On June 4, 1916, the ambitious Italian fleet sailed on the Adriatic Sea. On this day, the sky was clear and the wind was calm. The Italian naval officers and soldiers were nervous from top to bottom. They were carrying out important tasks: escorting the huge landing forces composed of British, French, Italian, and Greek troops, and covering the landing craft to land.

In the past two years, most of Italy's troops have been fighting against the Austro-Italy border in the northern region. The continuous casualties have long caused dissatisfaction among the people. Strikes and marches occur frequently. Just when the Italian government was in a state of great trouble, the special envoys of Britain, France and Russia came to the door and proposed a combat plan: with the help of the Italian navy, their army was covering the landing on the other side of the Adriatic Sea, and cooperated with the Balkans to fight the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

"This is a good idea!" Italian Prime Minister and King Vittorio Emanuele III both believed that the deadlock of the border war must be broken now. Furthermore, the German navy was blocked by the British. The Austro-Hungarian navy was wiped out by the French-Italy united fleet shortly after the war started. The landing war in Turkey a year ago became the best example.

There is no doubt that the Italian Navy played an important role in the upcoming landing war. In order to show Italy's determination to participate in the battle, in addition to sending the army to participate in the landing, the Navy also moved out all its assets and organized a huge fleet.

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Throughout May, a large barracks were formed in southern Italy. Hundreds of thousands of soldiers from Africa, Greece, Australia, India, Canada, France and Britain came to Italy by boat. These soldiers formed different combat units according to different regions. The large number of people formed divisions, and the small number of people could only form a bayonet, Spring rifle, Lee Enfield rifle, old-fashioned hunting rifle, and soldiers who were really not armed simply tied bayonets or daggers to wooden sticks. In short, this was a chaotic but full of combat ** miscellaneous army.

At the end of May, on the Balkan front, the Serbian army became the vanguard of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The army from generals to soldiers had long been full of anger: the battles over the past two years were almost passive defense, and there were few active attacks. Therefore, when the commander-in-chief Putnik's order to "counterattack on the whole line" was issued, the entire army was excited.

The Serbian army chose Bosnia - this land that should have belonged to Serbia. On May 22, they and the Nairoko army launched an attack. "Boom...Boom......" The Sai army artillery was not hesitant to shells and fired at the Austrian positions in the distance: the military aid of British and French allies over the past year made Serbia completely request the problem of insufficient arms. Now, with high morale and sufficient ammunition, General Putnik believed that his army was invincible!

The Austrian army on the opposite side did not expect the Sai Army to attack, and it was such a large-scale attack. They bent their bodies, held their heads with their hands in their arms, and lie in the trenches and endured the long shelling.

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"Stop?" An Austrian Army sergeant patted the dirt on his head, then shouted loudly, "Machine Gunner is ready!" After saying that, he picked up his rifle and aimed at the front: the Serbs will charge soon...

In just a few minutes, the Austrian army on the entire defense line was ready, and the German-aided Maxim heavy machine guns were evenly distributed on the front line, and the machine gunners were patiently waiting for the target to appear.

"Buzz buzz...buzz buzz...buzz buzz...buzz buzz......" It seems that the sound of the motor of the car, it is wrong, it should be a bigger truck! As time goes by, the answer is revealed.

In the sight of the Austrian army, a large number of "trucks" appeared, followed by cavalry and infantry. The Austrian machine gunners were so shocked that they forgot to fire, while the infantry looked at the strange-looking "trucks" with no window glass, and their bodies were wrapped in black and gray iron plates.

Similarly, in the temporary command room behind the racing army, Commander-in-Chief Putnik and a group of staff also looked at the strange chariots - the "armored Vehicle Corps" provided by Russian allies through the telescope. Putnik put down the telescope and looked at Tukhachevsky beside him and asked, "Old Master, is this the secret weapon you are talking about?"

"Yes, Marshal!" Tukhachevsky looked proud: this army of 189 armored vehicles was the first group to be trained, and he was lucky to be its commander. In addition, the noble Princess Anna also brought a book - "Introduction to Armored Vehicles and Tactics". For half a month, Tukhachevsky has been studying this strange book tirelessly: Yes, the content is very strange! But what surprised him even more was that the words on the book were all handwritten. Could it be that this book was written by His Royal Highness Princess?!

It is very likely! Tukhachevsky knew the strangeness of this princess, otherwise he would not have been promoted from a young lieutenant of the Imperial Guard to a major general.

"Oh, since that's the case, General Tukhachevsky, please introduce it. Not only me, but my staff members are also very curious about this kind of chariot... "Master Putnik asked without shame.

"This is my honor! Dear Lord Marshal, this chariot is equipped with light armor and a machine gun, which can carry 20 soldiers and wheeled armored conveyors. Well, this is its official name. This chariot can not only carry out assaults, but also transport certain forces..."

"Wait... General Tukhachevsky, do you think these chariots are still carrying soldiers? If they are hit by enemy shells or blown up by enemy bags, won't the soldiers there... "Putnik smiled bitterly," in this way, wouldn't the so-called wheeled armored conveyor become a "coffin with wheels"?"

"Yes, yes! Cars are destroyed and people are killed, and this kind of chariot becomes an iron coffin..."

"This is so cruel! The bodies of the brave infantry soldiers will be burned together with the chariots..."

............... The staff of the Sai Army started to discuss. In their eyes, infantrymen who were used to migrating and fighting should not ride in such extremely dangerous chariots, but should pick up their rifles, charge bravely, and strive to assault under the cover of their own artillery!

"Well......" Tukhachevsky didn't expect a good reason. Although the armor of the chariot could protect against small-caliber shells, shell fragments and machine gun bullets, he was powerless to do anything about large-caliber shells and enough grenades. Thinking of this, Tukhachevsky simply chose to remain silent.

"Hahahaha......" Putnik patted the young general on the shoulder, "Then, general, let's see the actual combat effect. How the chariots don't work, our heroic 280,000 soldiers will continue to attack!"

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