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At the same time as the bustle on the side of Czechoslovakia, Italy, Germany's steel ally, began to start their operations in Africa.

The 300,000 Italian colonial troops in Africa launched a surprise attack on Ethiopia by three routes, divided into Eritrea and Italian Somalia, without declaring war.

That's right, Italy is a surprise attack, a modern country against a backward African country......

Well, this may be explained by the lion fighting the rabbit with all his might.

Regardless of the start, Italy have finally re-established themselves in the land that once brought them shame.

Yes, this is not the first time Italy has made a move against Ethiopia.

The last Italo-Egyptian war took place in 1895, when 17,000 well-armed Italian expeditionary forces joined the wave of colonization of Africa against Ethiopian "natives" armed with a small number of rifles and a large number of spears and iron swords.

This war was supposed to be a one-sided situation in which Italy violently beat the "natives", and the situation was indeed one-sided, but it was a pity that it was the "natives" of Russia and Cyprus who beat the Italian expeditionary force.

Except for the beginning, after Italy won eight consecutive battles against tribal chiefs in various places, Italy began to lose consecutive battles.

Finally, on March 1, 1896, a humiliating day, the elite Italian expeditionary force was misguided by a guide into a depression and surrounded by the Egyptian army, which dispatched 82,000 infantry armed with rifles and swords, 20,000 spearmen and 8,000 cavalry to rush out of the valley. After a fierce battle, 7,000 Italian troops were killed, 1,500 were wounded, and 3,000 were captured, including 252 officers below the brigadier general.

In this war, the Italian expeditionary force suffered 11,000 casualties and 4,000 prisoners, which can be described as the total annihilation.

And the poorly equipped Russian-Serbian army suffered between 4,000-5,000 dead and 6,000-10,000 wounded.

After the war, Bismarck, then German Chancellor, mocked Italy: "They came to the African continent with a mouth full of tooth decay and a great appetite. ”

So in order to wash away the shame of the last time, Italy can be described as menacing this time, they are equipped with a total of 164 aircraft, 157 tanks, 703 new artillery, 5,800 machine guns, 5,550 cars and 42,900 camels and donkeys.

With such a huge modern force, no one thinks that Russia can resist the Italian offensive.

Mussolini, of course, thought so, and even sent his two sons and a son-in-law to the front-line air force units to gild.

And why did you choose to put it in an air force unit that looks dangerous? Because the Russians couldn't get off the plane, they didn't even have a gun in their hands that could shoot far away.

At the beginning of the war, the situation turned out to be as expected, and the Italian army successfully captured Adigrat, then Agua, and nine days later Axum.

Just as Mussolini was triumphantly preparing for the celebration feast, he suddenly realized that he had missed a little bit of his calculations - he was under a group of Italian soldiers, and the Italian soldiers were not playing with you.

Sure enough, the Russians, who were stunned by the raid, reacted quickly, and under the leadership of their king, Haile Selassie, united like never before, and organized an army of 200,000 on the first day after the fall of Akhimsu to go to the front line to support the 350,000 Egyptian troops who were fighting.

In the ensuing Battle of Tigray, the Italian army encountered stubborn resistance from the supported Egyptian army and suffered heavy losses.

Such a ruthless blow directly to the commander-in-chief of the Italian army, De Bono, stationed his troops in place and cowered.

Mussolini, who was behind him, saw that De Bono was cowardly, and angrily jumped to his feet and cursed, urging De Bono to attack quickly.

De Bono heard the leader's urging, and he was also in a hurry, but he couldn't beat it, so he could only change his strategy and use another method.

He began to present his forces as liberators of the Ethiopian people, in a vain attempt to disintegrate the enemy from within.

But the Italians are stupid, the Ethiopians are not stupid, you hit me so badly, and if you can't beat me, you say that you are here to liberate me, why are you as stupid as you are?

So, he couldn't deceive and deceive, and Debono, who was urged by the leader to fight if he wanted to, had to reorganize his army and fight again.

The result is still the same, how can the Italian literary and artistic youth with a combat strength of five beat the fierce Uncle Neobia of Russia? De Bono was beaten up again.

Mussolini at home was in a hurry, thinking that my 300,000 well-armed Italian warriors could not defeat your group of African natives with sticks and javelins, isn't this a joke for other countries to see?

So, he directly dismissed De Bono and let Badoglio, who had been recommended by Mao Sui, be the new commander.

However, when Badoglio first came into play, due to the lack of supplies, he did not dare to launch a rash attack, but was taken advantage of the opportunity by the Ethiopian army to counterattack and regain a large part of the lost territory.

Seeing that Italy was about to repeat the mistakes of the previous one, Mussolini was inspired to think of the poison gas that the Germans had pioneered in the last war.

So he secretly gave orders to the troops on the southern front, instructing them to use poison gas to attack.

The following year, the Italian army on the Southern Front used poison gas on the battlefield for the first time during the campaign against Dolo.

High-tech weapons are worthy of high-tech, allowing Italy to successfully eliminate a large number of Russian-Cypriot "natives" whose combat effectiveness is N orders of magnitude higher than its own in the Battle of Dolo, and successfully occupy Dolo.

And Badoglio in the north was taken aback when he saw it,, poison gas is so easy to use? So he also began to use poison gas.

On 20 January, Badogglio launched the First Battle of Tambien, on 10 February the Battle of Ndelta, on 27 February the Second Battle of Tambion, and on 29 February the Battle of Silai.

In all four battles, Badoglio used poison gas, relying on the powerful power of poison gas, which killed hundreds of thousands of Russian-Serbian soldiers and civilians, and the Italian army finally reversed the defeat and won four battles, while the Egyptian army was forced to shrink to Lake Assianti and prepare for the final decisive battle with the Italian army.

On the eve of the decisive battle, Lyon's promise to Mussolini's aircraft carrier support fleet was finally "long overdue". (Actually, Leon couldn't afford to lose that man, so he deliberately let Raeder lead the fleet for a long drive outside, avoiding the stage of being beaten in the early stage and the use of poison gas in violation of the Geneva Conventions in the middle stage, and then went to Tajoura Bay, outside British Somalia, to support the Italian army in the battle.) ）

And the "belated" Raeder also has a request for support, that is, Badoglio is not allowed to use poison gas, otherwise he will not take off a plane even if he is here to watch the scenery.

Badoglio silently weighed the poison gas and the power of the German army, and then decisively chose the latter.