Staring at an enemy that seemed very powerful and should indeed be very powerful, they were but a hulking figure who toppled over with a mere nudge.
The paradox was too great, the psychological gap too wide, Gao Guang found it hard to accept for a moment.
Everyone knew that the people on this side of Africa couldn't fight, and as a military enthusiast, how could one not know those jokes? But when ants outnumber elephants, even the most incompetent team, when massed to a certain scale, could still blind-fire and suppress a small squad.
What was crucial was that, in Gao Guang's mind, those who couldn't fight were disorganized stragglers, blind drifters who couldn't even clean a rifle, yet he was now facing the Ethiopian National Defense Forces, the regular army, the regular army, the regular army!
Ethiopia fought two wars against Italy, the first in 1895, during which Ethiopia defeated Italy.