The British obtained new technologies and trade orders, and the Egyptians obtained imported resources and closer relations with their allies. At the same time, they improved their international prestige and established a good national image in the Middle East.
This war in Ethiopia is obviously profitable for both countries, and can even be called a win-win situation.
For the Ethiopians, they are not at a loss. Although they have not completely driven the Italians out of their homeland with the help of the Egyptian army, the war situation is obviously tilting in the direction of the two-Egyptian coalition, and the victory is already visible to the naked eye.
It's a matter of time.
To say that the only ones who have suffered in this matter are the Italians.
As one of the Three Axis Countries, one of the world's most imperialist powers, Italy has failed to invade a small African country twice in a row. This is a huge embarrassment for Italy.
Just like the German Prime Minister Bismarck ridiculed Italy's fragile military strength: "They came to the African continent with a mouth full of cavities and a huge appetite."
The reason why the Italians chose to invade Ethiopia was that, in addition to Ethiopia's strategic location and the ability to connect two colonies already occupied by Italy, another very important factor was that the Italians wanted to avenge their shame.
However, now, not only have the Italians failed to wash away the shame of losing to a small African country, but they have added to the previous shame.
A European country that lost twice to a small African country. This title simply made Italian Prime Minister Mussolini furious and felt extremely humiliated and ashamed.
How could the great Italy, a descendant of the ancient Roman Empire, lose to a group of African slaves?
The angry Mussolini did not sing "I'm coming to the province of Heb" or "I'm so mad at you" like the head of state did, but ordered the Italian army to use poison gas bombs.
In this war, the Italians mobilized 400,000 local troops, plus the North African colonial troops from the colonies of Eritrea and Italian Somaliland, Italian East African colonies, and the local "Ethiopian Path-Leading Party", a total of 68 troops were mobilized.
Thousands of people.
On the Ethiopian side, in addition to the two armored armies supported by Egypt, approximately 350,000 to 760,000 people were mobilized. Although the strength of the two sides was close, most of the Ethiopians were temporarily mobilized, with only a quarter of them mobilized.
Soldiers underwent basic military training.
However, even so, the Italians were beaten badly by the Ethiopians in their original history.
In the original history, Ethiopia did not receive reinforcements from Egypt, but despite the unfavorable situation, the Ethiopians, who burst out with high patriotic enthusiasm, resolutely and tenaciously resisted the Italian aggression.
This forced the Italians to use planes to drop mustard gas, causing heavy casualties to the Ethiopian military and civilians.
According to subsequent statistics, more than 500,000 Ethiopians died in this war.
However, no one in the international community at that time cared about this. Britain and France even condoned the Italian aggression. Although the League of Nations declared Italy an aggressor, it did not impose sanctions on it, nor did it block the Suez Canal, which restricted Italy's urgently needed war supplies and oil.
Carry out an embargo.
However, in this world, due to the assault of Egypt's two modern armored armies, Ethiopia's historically precarious northern defense line received great support and became very stable. Mussolini was so angry that he used poison gas bombs as he did in history.
First they surrendered to the Egyptian army.
It's a pity that in the face of poisonous gas bombs falling from the sky, the Egyptian army took precautions in a very short period of time and did not suffer much damage from the poisonous gas bombs.
Although countries around the world were aware of the dangers of biological and chemical weapons such as poison gas bombs in World War I and signed the Geneva Treaty in 1925 to ban the use of biological and chemical weapons, it is obvious that this treaty has no protective effect on small countries like Ethiopia.
The Italians did not hesitate at all when using mustard gas. In order to better utilize the effect of mustard gas, they even deliberately flew planes at low altitudes to lure the Ethiopian troops hiding in the woods to be exposed, and then dropped poison gas bombs on them.
In order to achieve better killing effect.
But this has no effect on the Egyptian army. After all, Chen Mo holds the technology of the Umbrella Company. Compared with the biochemical weapons in the "biochemical" world, the biochemical technology in the "Egyptian" world is still at a very rudimentary level.
stage.
Therefore, the Egyptian army itself has three defense requirements. Both tanks and ordinary infantry have the ability to withstand biological and chemical weapons attacks.
Therefore, when it was discovered that the Italian army had used poison gas bombs, the Egyptian army quickly took out gas masks, chemical protective suits and other equipment and prepared for the response.
Although mustard gas is a very dangerous and lethal poison gas, its lethality is very limited in the face of complete protective measures.
But even so, the Egyptian army still suffered a certain amount of casualties, and the Ethiopians, who lacked protective measures, paid heavy casualties as they had in history.
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When this incident was reported back to Egypt, it immediately caused an uproar.
Chen Mo did not hesitate to order the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs to make the matter public, declare a comprehensive embargo on Italy, and formally declare war on Italy.
Although Egypt previously provided reinforcements to Ethiopia, it did not formally declare war on Italy.
This can be understood as Egypt sending troops to help Ethiopia resist aggression, rather than going to war with Italy. The level and scale of the war between the two are different.
The former can be understood as limiting the war to Ethiopia, while the latter means a full-scale war between the two countries.
Egypt declared war on Italy, which obviously exceeded everyone's expectations.
Even Britain did not want its allies to go to war with Italy at this time, so on the one hand it actively called on the international community to intervene, and on the other hand it also sent people to meet with Chen Mo to persuade him not to be impulsive.
But unfortunately, Egypt is a country under his complete control, and as an authoritarian monarch with unlimited power, no one can stop him if he wants to go to war.
As a result, Egypt began to mobilize for war, and the country transformed beyond recognition by Chen Mo, as well as the war machine of the empire across the multiverse behind this country, began to operate.
The first force was not the clones Chen Mo transferred from the "biochemical" world, but the undead army that quickly invaded the Italian colonies from Egypt.
Along with the undead army, there was also the Egyptian navy and two aircraft carriers that had just returned home.
