In the rainy season, Ethiopia has humid and fresh air, and the life of the locals may seem poor and backward in the eyes of people in developed countries, but it is a land that has been passed down from generation to generation by their ancestors, and represents the belonging of the "homeland". No matter how powerful the robbers who come to invade are, they must not be brought to their knees!

Since the start of the war, the total strength of the Egyptian army has swelled to 800,000, and although these troops are poorly equipped and untrained, their morale has been strong. On the other hand, the invading Italian army, when the advantage of equipment could not be effectively used due to the rainy season, the morale of the army was like a deliberately walled sand dune, which was washed down by heavy rain.

Upon his arrival at the front, Marshal Badogglio first issued a circular to the whole army, commending all the officers and men for their heroic performance in battle, personally thanking them for all that they had done for Italy, and remembering the memory of those who died in a foreign land. Then he changed his mind and issued a new combat order.

Give full play to your own firepower advantage, weaken the enemy's forces with tons of shells and bombs, and then use armored machines and infantry to launch a surprise attack on the whole line. Ignoring the stragglers of the enemy, they advanced in a straight line towards Addis Ababa, and by occupying the capital of the other side, they dealt a heavy blow to the morale of the Egyptian army.

In terms of conventional warfare, Marshal Badogglio decided to make the most of his strengths and avoid his weaknesses as much as possible, and to attack with the main force against the main force, and to pick the opponent's large number of people. On the "unconventional" side, Italian bombers will carry out air strikes on all major cities behind enemy lines, including Addis Ababa, and mustard gas, which can be effectively protected by gas surfaces, will be used in areas near the front line.

The first round of air strikes began on the third day of Badoglio's arrival at the front line, with several groups of bombers, under the cover of escort fighters, flying towards all intended targets.

Marshal Badogrio, who personally gave the order to attack, watched the distant bombers disappear from sight, and he knew that his reputation for future generations had already taken off from these planes, and he would forever bear the infamy of "executioner". Unless Italy can conquer the whole world in the future, but that kind of future will never be possible for him to think about with his ass.

"Hurry up and end this damn war! Don't let this kind of victory without honor! ”

The desire to make meritorious contributions is the pursuit of every soldier, but at the same time, they are also taboo to bring about the infamy brought by "victory without force".

After the Italian bombers took to the air, they swaggered towards the target city. In the skies of Ethiopia, no one can stop them, and every combat mission is as simple as possible, even easier than daily practice. Until now, the Italian Air Force has suffered the fewest casualties, and of course, this is directly related to the fact that one of the destroyers in the Navy was struck down by a mine.

A few hours later, the bombers arrived over the target cities, which were undefended in front of them, and the soldiers on the ground had nothing to do with the planes except for the piercing air raid sirens.

Helplessly watching the bombers hovering overhead slowly open their magazines, the Egyptian soldiers commanded the evacuation of the ground personnel while staring at the robbers who were showing off their might in their homes with hatred. But soon some of the people who saw it noticed that the bomb dropped this time seemed to be different from the previous one, and it looked much smaller.

Some people secretly breathed a sigh of relief, but there were also some people with a keen sixth sense who felt a strong sense of unease.

These free-falling bombs quickly touched the ground, fell to the ground with a "bang", and shattered in an instant, but there was no expected explosion, these things were like vases that someone accidentally touched, only "clear water" splashed on the ground. Some of the soldiers pretended to be bold enough to try to get closer, but before they could get closer, the people in the front row noticed something unusual.

Suddenly my body became heavy and sluggish, and my breathing was accompanied by an increasingly intense tingling pain!

"Poison ...... Gas!!! ”

The first person to react was a junior officer who had read a book, and after shouting these words, he only took a few steps back, and his entire body was completely crystallized, turning into a crystal sculpture. The colorless and odorless crystal dust gas spread rapidly with the breeze of the plateau, and no one was spared everywhere it passed, and the whole city seemed to have suffered a "frozen" magic, and life was frozen in pieces!

At this time, it was not only the Ethiopians scattered on the ground who were frightened, but also the Italians in the air who were stunned by the horrific sight before them. An Italian fighter plane flying at a low altitude deliberately was so shocked for a while that it forgot to raise the plane after witnessing the tragic situation below. By the time he sensed something was wrong, his hands and feet were covered in crystals, and the plane, like many birds, fell headlong to the ground......

Each target city is dropped eight cans of "crystal dust", a highly diffuse colorless gas that can spread up to 50 meters above the ground. With that hapless companion as a negative example, the Italian escort fighters all climbed into the air in horror, and the sight on the ground caused indelible fear to many pilots.

"Oh God! What the hell did we do!? ”

Some pilots, who still have a conscience at heart, begin to repent of their actions, while others fall into excitement and madness. The radio channel of the Italian army became chaotic for a while, until the captain of the flight group in charge of commanding at the front roared angrily in the channel, "Shut up Lao Tzu", the pilots fell silent, and then silently returned home.

The "Crystal Dust" was put into actual combat for the first time, and the results achieved were extremely rich. With the exception of the bomber formation that flew to Addis Ababa, which was called back halfway, the remaining six Ethiopian cities were devastated, and the defenders and residents of the cities were almost completely wiped out, and only a few escaped.

In just one morning, six "ghost towns" have been added to Ethiopia, and hundreds of thousands of Ethiopian soldiers and civilians have become crystal sculptures. Marshal Badogglio ordered the location of the six cities to be highlighted on the map, and it was forbidden for any Italian ground troops to approach these places of death until the end of the war. After all, no one can guarantee that these terrible crystalline dust gases will not decompose naturally within 48 hours, as those scientists promised.

Whether others believe it or not, Badoglio himself doesn't believe it anyway!

"A telegram was sent to the emperor of Ethiopia, ordering them to surrender unconditionally within 24 hours. In addition, the offensive on the front line will not stop during this period, I will make the opponent feel unprecedented pressure, and press him until he collapses! ”

After Badoglio's telegram was sent, it took less than half an hour to receive a reply from Selassie I. There was only one sentence on the reply letter, which was full of the other party's infinite anger.

"Let's fight to the death! Intruder! ”

PS: "Crystal dust" is actually a medical gas......