Although Chen Mo declared war on Italy, he did not want to start World War II now.
Moreover, the Italians' military warfare capabilities were too overwhelming. Unless Germany fully intervened in the war and fully supported Italy, the war would only affect Ethiopia and the two surrounding Italian colonies.
After all, Italy and Egypt are separated by the Mediterranean Sea and have no land border.
With the Suez Canal being cut off, Italy wants to support the Ethiopian battlefield from its homeland. Unless they are willing to bypass the entire Africa or traverse the entire Middle East, they will not even be able to set foot on the African continent.
Therefore, Egypt had a considerable advantage in this war.
According to Chen Mo's prediction, in order to defeat the Italian army in Ethiopia, in fact, only the two armored armies that have been tempered by the war, combined with the Ethiopian military and civilians, are fully capable of repelling the Italian invading army in Ethiopia.
But this is obviously not in Chen Mo's interests. What he wants is to achieve an astonishing achievement that will make everyone feel proud and intimidating, rather than being said that the Egyptian and Ethiopian soldiers and civilians made huge sacrifices to drive away the invaders.
Although the Egyptian armored forces have achieved amazing results before, in Chen Mo's view, this is not enough. After all, no matter how high-quality the army is and how advanced the equipment is, without sufficient scale, it is nothing more than self-protection.
Egypt previously had 400,000 troops. The two armies used to support Ethiopia this time accounted for nearly one-third of Egypt's total military strength. This is obviously not shocking enough.
After all, it was said that one-third of the country's troops were mobilized and the invaders were driven away after suffering a large number of casualties, which is far from deterring other countries.
That's why Chen Mo dispatched aircraft carriers and undead legions, and officially declared war on Italy.
In this way, in addition to Chen Mo being able to mobilize the country for war and expand the number of troops, another very important factor is that he can legitimately use the Undead Legion and attack the Italian colonies.
In the final analysis, supporting other countries to resist aggression and directly participating in wars of one's own country are two completely different concepts.
The former can only fight within Ethiopia, while the latter can launch a full-scale attack on all Italian spheres of influence.
This is not just limited to Italy's colonies in Africa. If Chen Mo is willing and the Egyptian navy has sufficient delivery capabilities, he can even directly attack Italy itself.
Of course, Chen Mo has no interest in attacking Italy yet. What he really wants is Italy's two colonies in Africa.
That's why he dispatched his undead army, in order to achieve a quick victory, create enough established facts, and at the same time achieve a shocking enough record.
The dispatch of the Undead Legion did not disappoint Chen Mo's expectations. In less than a week, the Undead Legion captured Eritrea, the Italian colony in North Africa.
And cooperated with the two armored armies in Ethiopia to completely wipe out the Italian army in northern Ethiopia.
After completing the battle against the Italian army on the northern route, the Necromancer Corps did not continue the attack and only occupied Eritrea.
The two armored armies turned around and headed south, cooperating with the Ethiopian army to launch an attack on the Italian army on the southern route, beating them back steadily.
Before the British sent people to mediate the war, the front lines of the two-Egyptian coalition forces had already advanced into Italian Somalia.
It can be said that without the intervention and mediation of other countries, it is a certainty that the Italian troops in North Africa will be wiped out.
Faced with such a terrifying offensive by the Egyptians and the undead army that is still terrifying even though it is stationed in Eritrea, every country in the world is reassessing the threat that Egypt can bring.
At this time, Italy was in a state of disarray. After all, it had invaded a small African country and was beaten to death. It had not yet won a victory despite using poison gas bombs in violation of international conventions. This was enough for everyone to see how powerful the Italian army was.
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Under such a situation, Mussolini made a last ditch effort and sent the navy to attack Egypt itself.
He originally wanted to open the Suez Canal route and send reinforcements, but Mussolini, who did not want to go to war with Britain and France at this time, could only retreat to the next best option and attack Egypt itself to realize his idea of forcing Egypt to surrender.
In Mussolini's view, the Egyptians must have mobilized all their elites to support the Ethiopians in order to achieve such results. At this time, Egypt itself should be extremely empty. The troops he sent could definitely occupy Cairo and force Egypt to surrender.
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However, contrary to everyone's expectations, the fleet dispatched by the Italian Navy disappeared at sea after setting sail.
No one knew what happened. Britain and France sent their fleets to search, but except for a corpse and some floating debris on the sea, nothing was found, not even a single survivor.
While this added another source of discussion for the entire international community, it also made it even more difficult for Mussolini to step down.
At this moment, Italy is simply like a clown. It not only exposes the military strength of its own army, but also makes the rest of the world see the unreliability of the Italians.
After all, the failure to win on land could be said to be because the Egyptian army was too strong and the undead army was too intimidating to the living. However, it was too surprising that an entire fleet disappeared at sea and no news could be spread.
It cannot be said that the Italian fleet encountered a sea monster and the entire fleet was destroyed in an instant, right?
So under such a situation, Mussolini had to accept the mediation of Britain and France, despite his reluctance, hoping to achieve an armistice with Egypt.
In the face of British and French mediation, Chen Mo waited until his army had completely captured Italian Somalia, and then he slowly announced his acceptance of mediation and asked the army to stop attacking.
The subsequent armistice negotiations could be described as a long tug-of-war. The Italians obviously did not want to admit defeat, and used various coercion and inducements to get back at the negotiation table what they had not obtained on the battlefield.
But this was of no use to Chen Mo. His almost completely aloof attitude and insistence on maintaining the existing occupied area made Italy completely powerless against him.
After all, Egypt is now the victor. Although it cannot ask for anything from Italy, it cannot let Italy take away from the negotiation table what it did not get on the battlefield.
In particular, Britain, as an ally of Egypt, did not want to see Italy affect its interests in Africa at this time, and turned to support Egypt, which eventually forced Italy to give up its colonies that had been occupied by Egypt.
