The Ismailia Barracks should be the largest barracks that the Chinese army has encountered along the way, with the strength of a company, while the other towns are more in ranked units. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Even in a town that existed to guard a water source, the French army had only one squad of soldiers stationed, and a small garrison like this was impossible to put up effective resistance.

Ma Hui and the others, who had completed the task of clearing and suppressing, returned to the river embankment and continued to escort the battleship forward, but the doubts in their hearts always existed, and they did not get an answer until General Luo Huo, who was directly under the commander's special operations second battalion, got off the ship to inspect.

"What do you say, why don't the French resist? hahaha...... Phew!" Luo Huo pinched the cigar in the corner of his mouth, and spat at the canal.

"Do you think that the European armies are very powerful? One by one, just like the French army we met in Naha, landing and attacking again and again, and the Russian soldiers in Vladivostok, fighting to the last soldier and not surrendering?"

"Children, you are frightened by the cruel war that preceded it, and it was not all real......"

"The Führer once said that it is human beings who are greedy for life and afraid of death, which is the innate nature of human beings, and children will be startled by cats and dogs that suddenly jump out of the grass as soon as they can walk......"

"Not to mention war, most people are not trained, and when faced with an enemy armed to the teeth, most people still choose to retreat, because they know that they can't fight, and they can't resist the momentum of the other side......"

"That's why the ancient Spartans said that warriors are trained, not born!"

"The French army is indeed very strong, but it is not so strong that it is invincible, you have to think carefully, the composition of a country's army will never be a bowl of water!"

"The army has a regular army, a miscellaneous army, a short-term military service, a veterans who serve for life, an iron army built by high military spending, and a garrison force that eats and waits for death......"

"There are elites who have experienced countless bloody battles and crawled out of the sea of corpses and blood, and of course there will be rookies who have never seen blood, isn't it very common?"

"Armies with different combat effectiveness should be placed in different positions, such as the Crimean War, France and Britain plus the Ottoman Empire, in order to fight against Tsarist Russia, sent the most elite army ...... in China"

"And when the Anglo-French alliance attacked the Qing Kingdom, did you think that any army could pull out an expedition? Those are all veterans who have fought for many years, and they are all battle-hardened trump cards......

"Actually, the reason is very simple, to throw troops half the world away, do you say that the quality ......of this soldier can be wrong?

The surrounding marines all laughed, and Luo Huo continued, "According to the summary of countless overseas intelligence, in fact, in this world, backward nations have a sense of fear of Westerners from their souls......

"In India, six or seven British soldiers can take hundreds of locals to prison, and no one even dares to rebel even on the execution ground...... Here in Egypt, the strength of the French can intimidate a large tribe of thousands of people with a single squad of troops!"

"The problems here are very complicated, one is to be scared, and the other is that due to the huge gap in science and technology, the indigenous people have a god-like illusion of higher civilization...... That's right, the technology is too bad, so the weak nation really looks at the strong nation like a god......"

"Coupled with the fact that France has taken control of the economic lifeline here, and all Bedouins have to rely on the economic circle of the canal to make a living, do you think they still dare to confront the French?"

"So it's not unusual for a squad, a platoon, to be able to control a town of thousands of people!"

"It is precisely because it is very easy to control that the French will not send elite soldiers here, and the limited soldiers will be concentrated in the places where the threat is greatest, such as Cairo, Port Said, Port Suez and other places......"

"Of course, the biggest threat to the French now is Prussia...... The elite legions of the colonies around the world are concentrating on the country, and the soldiers who remain here are of course getting more and more rubbish!"

"Alright, cheer up...... In just over half an hour, the sky will be at dawn! Let's have breakfast in Port Said today!"

Port Said, Egypt's most famous port, controls the Mediterranean entrance to the Suez Canal, which is not only Egypt's most prosperous commercial town, but also a place of spies, just like Casablanca during World War II.

In the tavern late at night, the gas lamp outside the door to solicit customers has been extinguished, indicating that the owner has closed, but in the corner of the hall, several men with gloomy faces are talking in low voices.

These were the Prussian intelligence officers stationed in Egypt, who were analyzing the current situation, and everyone was extremely nervous, because someone had just sent information that the French telegraph network in the canal had been completely paralyzed.

"Okay, the situation has been explained very clearly, the current location of the Zhiyuan should be in the Great Bitter Lake, we don't know whether it has entered the canal, but it is certain that the French spies have abnormal movements, and they will have a ...... of action in many aspects."

"Yes, and I can deduce that these French are using new pawns that we are completely unaware of, so we don't have a sense of the vein...... But the sabotage of the telegraph line reminds us that something must have happened on the other side of the Great Bitter Lake?"

"Yes, the canal company in the harbor was lit up all night, and they must have been discussing something......

Just when everyone was at a loss, there was a rhythmic knock at the back door of the tavern, and after the code was met, a fourteen or fifteen-year-old local child ran in, "Out of the city...... A group of French cavalry came from outside the city...... They all came from the south, and they were all exhausted...... They're all in the Canal Company!"

The indigenous child gasped for air, then snatched a glass of soda from the table and drank it all dry.

Before everyone could ask questions, a local eyeliner came running from the back door, "The French broken merchant ship Bacchus and the Dover suddenly turned on the lights, and many sailors were busy, and it looked like they were about to set sail......"

"Broken...... What did the French want to do? Those two wrecked ships had not been repaired at all, and they could not go to sea at all, so why did they set sail?"

"Do you still need to ask...... Ninety percent of the time it's likely to enter the canal, and the shipwreck will block the river, and if you don't believe it, those two boats must be full of sandbags......"

"Let's go, let's go!" the spies slapped two gold coins on the table, and the two little eyeliners quickly grabbed their hands, and all of them couldn't see the smiling eyes.

Prussian spies are in action, although they can't have all the information, but one thing is certain, those two ships must not be allowed to enter the canal, no matter how strong the Zhiyuan is, let these two merchant ships full of sand sink into the river, he will not be able to rush through.

"Fire prevention! Drive our boat, hit it, and definitely stop them......"

Before the group of Prussian spies could make a move, a cloud of smoke and flames suddenly rose into the air from the distant warehouse area, followed by the chaotic roar of the crowd.

"Oh my God, who did it, someone did it before us......

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