The sky of Egypt was covered with a cloud of war, and the British, French, and Chinese people, including the Ottoman governor of Egypt, were all engulfed in. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info天籁novel.23txt.

The Zhiyuan chose to brave the pass without hesitation, but the two fleets were entangled with each other in the Mediterranean, and the atmosphere was very strange.

Britain transferred five battleships from the mainland, plus three battleships and six frigates of the original Mediterranean Fleet, a total of fourteen warships to form a powerful fleet in the waters south of Crete, and along with him was the French Mediterranean Fleet composed of eight warships.

The two fleets were only a little more than 1,000 meters away from each other, and the two fleets had only one destination, Port Said, Egypt, and both sides had come for one goal, that is, the visiting group from East Asia.

No need to talk nonsense, everyone knows each other's goals, one is to be safely connected to Europe, and the other is to try their best to block Egypt as much as possible to buy time for the preparation of the ** ethnic alliance.

It was clear that they were two hostile fleets, but there was no smell of gunpowder from each other, and the two sides not only saluted each other with flags, but also communicated with each other at night, and the gun doors on the side facing each other were also closed.

The battleship Maranta, the flagship of the French army, was brightly lit, and the battleship with dual power of sails and steam was a new type of battleship that had just been installed for 8 years.

After all, it is still the French home fleet, in addition to the Maranta, there are three other battleships that also use steam and sail power, and the wealthy French have also covered these four battleships with iron armor and painted silver-gray paint, which is really powerful from a distance.

The captain let Arnold not rest, he stood in the command cabin and looked at the British fleet in the distance, frowned, and muttered to himself: "To what extent do these British want to interfere? Where is the bottom line of Benjamin's authorization to them? Will they go to war with us for the sake of the Chinese?"

Over and over again, Captain Arnold kept muttering, and the adjutant next to him handed him a cup of bitter coffee, "Take a break, these Englishmen seem to have received death orders, and they will not stop until they arrive in Port Said......"

"I know, of course I do, but I have to judge the bottom line of their intervention...... To what extent will they intervene? Will they go to war with us?"

The adjutant hesitated for a moment and whispered, "I think that if you expect to analyze these Britons, it is better to analyze Xiao Letian, and I don't know if Consul Ferdinand's plan has any effect, Chinese will really honestly cooperate with the investigation in Dakuhu Lake......"

"Oh...... My child, you are thinking too much, Viscount Ferdinand is an experienced old diplomat, and he has never failed at the diplomatic negotiating table!"

"He promised me that if the ambush was alive, he would be able to hold it for at least three days Chinese...... Is there anything suspicious? If the Yuan of any country is attacked, and even the emperor of the Great Qing State is on it, how can they not stop and study the countermeasures?"

"At the very least, we'll look into the dangers ahead...... And our fleet will arrive in Port Said tomorrow morning, there is still plenty of time, don't worry...... It's the British who are worried!"

The adjutant understood, the captain just pinched his eyes and looked down on these Chinese, in his heart only the British were threatened, Xiao Lotian was completely a dish on the chopping board.

But is this really the case? The adjutant expressed his deep affection, and he muttered in a low voice, "If Xiao Letian was so good at judging, it would not be possible for his power to rise so quickly in such a short period of time...... In the Atlantic, our navy has suffered less?"

"What are you talking about?" "What are you talking about?" a thud made Captain Arnold slam his coffee cup on the table, spilling out a large piece of the coffee bar map "Are you questioning my judgment? What evidence can you show to convince me, or what are you trying to say?"

"Tell me, what are you going to do with me? We're all moving forward, what else can we do? Do you want the fleet to fly over?"

The adjutant blushed and said, "I'm sorry...... I'm not questioning your judgment, I'm just hoping to make more plans, in case Chinese get out of the canal in advance......?

"Alright, alright...... If you're willing to do it, then do it, it's not my problem if you give up the rest yourself......" Jean Arnold looked at his pocket watch, and now the hand was pointing to three o'clock in the morning, and he made a big hache.

"I'm going to sleep for three hours, and since you're willing to work overtime yourself, then work overtime...... Remember to call me ......"

Leaving the bitter adjutant to work overtime alone, Arnold went back to his cabin to drink a glass of sleep, and then snored like thunder.

In the dark night, the command cabin was still snow-white and bright, and the lonely adjutant drank bitter coffee cup after cup, carefully deducing various possibilities, especially after the Zhiyuan rushed out of the canal in advance.

He is not the only one who is working hard, the French light cavalry in the desert is also desperate, the temperature difference between day and night in the desert is very large, the cold wind blows directly on the cavalry, which has almost frozen them, but no one has put on a woolen cloak, they are afraid of adding a trace of resistance.

The war horse was already dying, and ten of the more than 30 light cavalry took the initiative to jump off the war horse and could not move forward, and gave their war horses to other comrades as a replacement back and forth.

Time passed minute by minute, the familiar desert villages passed by the cavalry, frightened groups of natives scattered and fled, and in the direction of the canal in the distance, the cavalry could faintly see the flickering firelight, a little like the stars in the night sky.

"Damn, these Chinese are so fast! Plus, don't be stingy with your horses, and you'll have to rush to Port Said early in the morning when you're tired to death......!"

Not only the French were scrambling for time, but the Combined Fleet was also scrambling for time at the moment, and as the fleet became more familiar with the canal waterways, the ships gradually rose to five, six, and seven knots......

Towns have been left behind, Ismailia, Fedan, Cantara...... The towns along the canals were all stunned by the sudden arrival of the fleet.

Countless employees of the canal management company walked out of the dormitory rubbing their eyes, and when they saw the tall Zhiyuan, they were stunned one by one

"This is? This is the Chinese Zhiyuan...... How could you get here? No...... Go and report to Port Said and Port Suez......"

Unfortunately, everything was in vain, and when they turned on the telegraph, there was no signal at all, and all the telegraph lines outside the town were destroyed.

"It's bad, our plan has failed......" Before they could finish their sighs, they saw a group of wolf-like Chinese 6th fighters holding bright bayonets and forcing them together.

"Shut up...... Everybody go back to the dormitory! No one is allowed to move around, we are searching for the desert bandits who attacked! Whoever dares to act rashly is an accomplice!"

"No, we're not......" They were just ordinary hired workers, who dared to resist the army, and they returned to the dormitory one by one.

Note: Today is the second day of the second month of the lunar calendar! I just realized that today is the fourth anniversary of my codeword!

I still remember that it was the second day of February in the Year of the Snake, the day the dragon raised its head, and I officially got into this hard work, and it has been four years since then!

It's been four years!