Siege of Kassala



"This is it. Kassala's fate is at stake here. Fegelein and al-Bashir will pay for their crimes against Team RWBY and the Exeron fighters by attempting to destroy them with their power. They both also threatened me a lot. It's time we all take a stand! May Buddha guide us... and if I fail, I will die, yet my legacy will let the Grand Alliance succeed. Rommel will pay for this."

--Su Ji-Hoon, The Wrath of the Nile

The Battle of Kassala is a conflict that has been fought between Team Magic School Bus (except for Tim Jamal and Jyoti Kaur because they were held prisoners by the Nile River Coalition (NRC) and the Nazi Union (under the Afrika Korps); only Keesha Franklin, Dorothy Ann Rourke, Ralphie Tennelli, Wanda Li, Carlos Ramon and Arnold Perlstein; along with NATO, Saudi Arabian, South Korean, Emirati, Turkish, Future Alliance, Israeli, Egyptian, Moroccan, ANZAC, Order and Erathian support and extra support from the Azerbaijani Resistance League, various Polish legions, and the Filipino Militia), the joint defending forces of the Nile River Coalition and the Nazi Union (including support from China, the New Ottoman Empire, North Korea, Qatar, Russia, Syria, Algeria, Vichy France, al-Qaeda, the Redcoat Union and the UCRD) and the ISIS.

It is an extremely high-risk mission to rescue Tim and Jyoti, and when they use the Rah-Rah-Robot once again, and for the first time, for combat (under the codename as Black Wing by Polina Petrov), they would fight the Dardanelles Robot as well.

Also, Teams RWBY and JNPR, including the Preschool Girls and the Sonic Alliance, especially Walovlir Motovov, the Motovov siblings, Peter Högl, Högl Loud, the Axis Loud Siblings, Hermann Markus, Rashid Jibril Hakimi, and their new contact, Ahmed al-Arif, will provide support for Keesha, D.A., Ralphie, Wanda, Carlos and Arnold, including their Rah-Rah-Robot, as well.

This is the first major battle where the Schnee Afrikakorps took action in there.

It was fought in Kassala, the capital of the state of Kassala in eastern Sudan.

Prelude
President Sergio Mattarella of South Italy, after reviving Oreste Baratieri, sought to capture Kassala, so as to forestall NRC attacks on Eritrea. In July 2024, Baratieri and Mattarella saw their moment when the Atbarah River started to rise, and marched his small army of 112 (one-hundred and twelve) worldwide officers, 82 (eighty-two) NCOs (non-commisioned officers), 5,020 askaris,  and 32,000 normal soldiers towards Kassala.

Rah-Rah-Robot Hijacked
"Comrades, we will be working together for comradeship by using our scythes!"

--Walovlir Motovov to Ruby Rose and Red Conscript Rose when they are using scythes together to attack Hakim when he is controlling a hijacked Rah-Rah-Robot

Killing Abasi Hakim
"You don't belong here, Hakim."

--Dorothy Ann Rourke killing Hakim in the Rah-Rah-Robot, The Wrath of the Nile

Victory and Withdrawal to Azerbaijan
"We just won, believe it or not, thanks to Ralphie..."

"And the Rah-Rah-Robot!" An account of the capture of Kassala was published in the New York Times on July 20, 2024:

"Rome, July 19.- ...The attack upon the earthworks of the NRC forces was at once ordered and a fiercely contested battle ensued. The NRC fought desperately, but were finally driven from their position, leaving hundreds of dead and wounded in and about the intrenchments. Being hotly pursued, the NRC scattered under a continuous fire, and many of them in their efforts to escape plunged into the River Atbara, hoping to reach the other side. ...Hundreds of the enemy were drowned, and it is believed that none succeeded in reaching the opposite bank."

Aftermath
The Grand Alliance forces captured two flags and a number of artilleries, in addition, the Italians freed many slaves, including "many white men and about a thousands of the remnants of the former Egyptian garrisons; also a large number from the tribes around, such as the Beni-Amer."

On July 23 the General Oreste Baratieri is hired by the Future Alliance as a henchman to Arnold, Carlos, Wanda, Ralphie, Dorothy Ann, Keesha, Weiss, Motovov and Högl, leaving a garrison of a thousand men with two guns under Colonel Turitto. Three years later, in 2027, the Italians gave back to the British the control of Kassala, returning to their UN-occupied Eritrea, in order to get international recognition of the international territory of Eritrea from the United Nations.