The Second War of French Agression

French Forces Outside Het War, 1730 AD:

The Pharoah's Own Cavalry regiments quickly used Egypt's rail network for transportation to the front, where they easily captured Lubeck before wheeling around and destroying a number of French stragglers.  Near Het War, Egyptian cavalry used their battlefield observations from the First War to good use, destroying the front ranks of the French assault almost to a man.
 
On the diplomatic front, Egyptian ambassadors used centuries of peaceful trade links with the world to influence the minds of world leaders, enticing every other nation in the world to declare war on France[2].  Rome and the Iroquois quickly declared peace and focused on defeating France.

The World Coalition Against France:

A vicious naval war began, with all countries against the massive naval might of the French fleet.  French zeppelin[3] forces conducted terror raids against cities near the front, destroying hard to replace railroads but otherwise causing little damage.  French cavalry forces ignored the frontline cities, penetrating farther into Egypt where they were destroyed in vicious hill fighting near Qefnu.  A force of stragglers near the capitol of Sebti was likewise severely reduced by Egyptian cavalry and artillery units.
 
The Egyptian Intelligence Service contacted its spies in the French capitol, who responded with an accurate count of French units.  Unfortunately for Egypt, the French military was advanced.  Napoleon's air force in particular was larger than Egypt's, with 14 zeppelin squadrons to Egypt's 1.  France's 98 infantry regiments were more than twice the number of Egyptian infantry regiments, and the French navy had over 30 ships, whereas Egypt had no ships.  Fortunately for the Egyptians, the rest of the world had ready-built navies capable of destroying the French fleet, and Egypt had the advantage of 30 cavalry regiments to France's 9.  In addition, Egypt could use its massive rail network to good advantage, ferrying troops to whatever front they were needed on at dizzying speed.  This speed, declared Egyptian strategists, is what would win the war for the Egyptians.
 
1740 saw the elimination of stragglers around Sebti by Egyptian cavalry, and the first Egyptian retaliation raids by Zeppelins on French coal supplies.  Near Ptenetou, Egyptian spice supplies changed hands multiple times, with Egyptian infantry garrisons attempting to hold out against massive French bombardment[4].  The Southern Front stabilized for the moment in favor of Egypt, after massed artillary bombardment and infantry charges cleared out a column heading for Het War, and severely damaged another heading for Quatchai.  Young Egyptians continued to volunteer in droves for the Army, and the people celebrated the wise leadership of the Immortal Hapshetsut (may she be praised!)[5] by completing her opulent palace in Sebti.  Despite continuing Zeppelin raids, Egyptian morale remained high.  Thutmose, the famous war correspondent, published his book Photographs From the Front in this year.  Among the fare within: The 231st "Gutenberg" Infantry Regiment parading past the Palace of the Immortal Hapshetsut (may she be praised!) in Sebti during the first days of the war; Egyptian artillerymen, grimy and exhausted, manning their guns during the battles around Het War; A collapsed French trench near Het War, looking like a moonscape from constant artillery bombardment; Dejected-looking French prisoners of war being marched to containment camps near Men Nefer; and the once again defining photograph of the war: The "Gutenberg" Regiment going "over the top" near Quatchai.

The Southern Front, 1740 AD:

By 1745, French occupation forces in Egypt were all but gone.  Scattered fighting persisted around Ebout in the east, but Egyptian forces had all but cleared out the French, and were even advancing on the city of Rennes.  On the seas, French naval power was falling to the combined navies of the world almost everywhere.  In the air, Egyptian zeppelins began their own raids, hitting French coal and spice supplies.
 
By 1750, it seemed as if the tide had turned radically in favor of Egypt.  Scientists at the Gutenberg Institute perfected the internal combustion engine, allowing for the motorized transportation of infantry and artillery weapons[6].  What's more, this allowed for the development of armored "tanks", armored behemoths with large cannons capable of destroying anything in their path.  The Immortal Hapshetsut (may she be praised!) ordered a crash development program, and later in the same year, the first Osiris tanks[7] were rolling off production lines all over Egypt.
 
These armored units were instrumental in the quickly launched Operation Revival[8], the invasion of France.  Rennes quickly fell to combined infantry, cavalry, and armored forces, and armored spearheads raced towards Avignon in the west and Amiens in the east.

France at the Beginning of Operation Revival: