Oct. 3rd, 1935
Gondar, Begemdir, Ethiopia
Ras Abebe Aregai strode into the center of the camp of the rank-and-file infantry of the 1st Imperial Guards Company as he called out, "Comrades!" to which the men stood to attention at and listened as he called out, "It's great to see you here! But it will even be better to see you soon breaking through the Europeans' line! Then we'll teach these European dogs how to FIGHT!" At these last lines, the soldiers shouted their approval as the Ras waited for them to calm down before continuing his speech.
"They thought they could bully us into submission! They'd thought we'd give way and fall!"
While he said this, Abebe could hear a bit of booing as he climbed onto the top of a Japanese tank to stand to full attention to the soldiers under his command.
"But today, we'll show them that the Ethiopian Army bows to no one!"
As he said this, he made grand sweeping gestures with his arms in his appeal to the mass of infantrymen aroused by his rhetoric and shouting nationalistic slogans that had been ingrained into them by Tekle's regime.
"TODAY, WE'LL SHOW THEM THE MIGHT OF THE ETHIOPIAN EMPIRE!"
The sound of engines quickly approaching their position caused the Ras to look up, with a bit of fear as he remembered his days in the deserts of Egypt during the World War, but was relieved when he saw they were the biplanes of the Imperial Ethiopian Air Force heading towards their targets at the border and turned his head back to the infantrymen in front of him.
Ras Abebe Aregai shouted, "Get into formation! WE GO TO WAR!" as he jumped off the tank, smirking at the prospect of liberating his fellow Africans from the oppression of the European Empires.
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This particular excerpt was inspired by the opening cinematic from World In Conflict and I don't claim credit from those behind the writing of that aforementioned cinematic (i.e. belongs to Massive Entertainment).