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Heaven is a good reincarnation, and the Ali family was able to make a fortune in Egypt with the help of Napoleon's invasion of Egypt, and then fought with France for a long time in North Africa, but I didn't expect Egypt to confront the French so soon.

Ismail knew how many pounds he had, he graduated from the Army Staff College in France, and after returning home, he also led troops to quell rebellions in Sudan and other places, but the army he commanded never exceeded 30,000 men, and the standing army of Egypt rarely maintained more than 100,000 men.

Before he took office, Egypt's foreign debt was only more than 3 million pounds, and during his administration, he continued to carry out large-scale construction, the finances became worse and worse, the interest rate became higher and higher, and he continued to borrow new debts to pay off old debts, and the debts were piled up to one billion pounds under the rolling interest.

Customs, postal and other important institutions have been taken over by foreign powers, and it can be said that Egypt is becoming less and less like a country.

Now after the war, he is still unable to expand his army, and the military service system based on Nile yeoman farmers in the Ali era has collapsed, and the current system of conscription is in force, and the money is used to recruit soldiers.

If you have money, you can do it if you have money, but he just doesn't have money, otherwise he wouldn't have hoped for a loan from a European company in order to redeem British and French assets.

Now that Egypt is in the war and is in the same trench as China, Ismail feels that China should be able to provide a military aid to expand his army to 300,000 men, otherwise he would be too unsure.

But who knows that the Chinese diplomat said that Egypt does not need to form a huge army to fight the French in a real way, and the Indian troops of the African company will deal with the French, just like they did with the British before.

Ismael expressed concern when he alerted the Chinese consul to the fact that the French army had advanced so fast on the empty Cyrenanian Plateau that it could enter Egypt within a month.

In fact, a big reason why Ismail wants to get assistance to expand the army is that after the Indian army entered Syria, it was unable to help Egypt for a long time, not to mention that it was still gradually occupying important places along the railway. This worries Ismail that the Chinese have impure intentions, intend to control the railway from Syria to Egypt, and even have ambitions for these territories.

China's attitude is even more worrying to him, which shows that China does not want Egypt to really join the war, does not want Egypt to have military strength that can confront Britain and France, and they are guarding against Egypt.

This could not help but make Ismail worry about the past of the Ottoman Empire, abandoned by its allies and divided by its enemies.

But he had no choice, at least for now, as he approached China that he did not want China to control Egypt's railway network, but the Chinese consul said it was a necessary measure for African companies, fearing that the French would hire local hostile elements to sabotage the railway and affect its operation.

The Chinese in the rear are seizing the railway, the French on the front are advancing rapidly, Ismael has no choice, the Chinese control the railway, at most the previous state, replacing the French control of the Egyptian railway, but if France invades Egypt, it will crisis its own rule.

When the Chinese refused to help with military expenses, Ismail could only raise funds through various means, recruit soldiers, and block the French army.

But the Egyptian army was too weak, and it was easy to suppress the black Sudanese tribes in the south who didn't even like to wear clothes, but they were almost immediately defeated by the French army.

The local tribes did not support Egypt, and the French hired them, and these tribes on the Cyrenaica Plateau used their camels and pack horses to help the French army transport supplies, so that the French army could quickly advance in this unfamiliar area. The Egyptian army, on the other hand, was ostracized by them and refused to provide all kinds of resources.

In addition, the combat effectiveness is indeed inferior, although Ismael continues to form new armies, it is still unable to stop the advance of the French army.

The French army easily advanced to Cyrenaica and captured small ports and fishing villages such as Tobruk, while Indian reinforcements were still in control of the railroad and were responsible for repairing some damaged railway lines, and there were signs that they would not be able to participate in the war anytime soon.

However, the victorious French army did not like to fight the Egyptians, not because they loved the Egyptians, but because they hated the climate of North Africa too much.

And their commander-in-chief, in particular, did not like it here, he considered himself to be treated unfairly, for which he even shouted at the French president and quarreled.

The reason why he dared to quarrel with the president, and after the quarrel, he could continue to serve as military commander and be responsible for the operation of the attack on Egypt was because he and his army did not belong to the French army, they belonged to the Quebec volunteers, but they preferred to be Napoleon's volunteers.

Their commander's name is Jerome Napoleon, this name is the same name as Napoleon's younger brother, and they also have the same surname, in fact they do have a connection, Jerome is Jerome Napoleon's grandson, own grandson, eldest grandson. But he was neither French nor Quebec, but an American by and out.

The lineage of the Napoleonic family was very complex, and Jerome Napoleon was not recognized in France, because Napoleon never recognized his lineage.

In 1803, 19-year-old Jerome Napoleon traveled to the United States, and the young Napoleon's younger brother fell in love with a beautiful Irish immigrant girl Elizabeth Patterson who he met during the trip and then married without permission, which made Napoleon very unhappy, when Napoleon was already in power in France, smashed the anti-French alliance, and was in full swing in France, and had decided to establish an empire and ascend the throne as emperor. At the same time, his family will also marry with the royal families of other countries in the same way as traditional European royal families.

But his brother actually married a commoner, still an American, which made Napoleon very unhappy, and demanded that Jerome return to his country, and forbade him to bring his wife back. Jerome tried to persuade Napoleon to accept his beautiful American wife, but he was persuaded by Napoleon, because Napoleon took out a crown, the title of king of the kingdom of Westphalia, Jerome was passionate, hedonistic, and owed a lot of debt, where is there any firm concept of love in this kind of character, under the impact of the title of king, he decisively sent away his American wife, and he also knew that his wife was pregnant.

Elizabeth returned to the United States alone, leaving Jerome's son and raising her alone. The son later gave birth to a grandson, and Europeans always liked to inherit names from generation to generation, so this son married the name of his grandfather, Jerome.

Growing up in the United States, Jerome did not live like an American, and although Napoleon did not realize this branch of American civilians throughout his life, Napoleon II, the king of Rome, after Napoleon's death, publicly recognized Jerome's identity and status, and gave Jerome the title of baron.

Jerome didn't live in Quebec, because he was in school and went to West Point in the United States. After graduating, he went to the Kingdom of Quebec, where he rose through the ranks and soon became a colonel. Jerome was passionate and aggressive, and seemed to really have the blood of the Napoleonic family, and he had no chance of fighting in Quebec. When the American Civil War broke out, he thought that he was born in the United States and was also an American, so he went to the United States Military Department to report and asked to fight as a volunteer. His status was special, and the Americans did not dare to really let him be a volunteer, but recognized his rank of colonel and let him lead a brigade to fight.

After a few years of mixing in the Civil War, he did not have any outstanding achievements, but he also climbed to the level of division commander and led tens of thousands of regular troops to fight, in fact, the biggest victory was to survive that cruel war.

After the war, he returned to the Kingdom of Quebec, where he was promoted to lieutenant general a few years later and joined the Army of the Kingdom of Quebec.

After the outbreak of the Franco-German War, under the lobbying of the French government and the British government, Jerome persuaded Napoleon III, the king of Quebec, to allow him to form volunteers to support France.

He raised the banner of Napoleon and formed the Napoleonic Volunteer Army, which attracted 120,000 participants, and later he went to France, and the number continued to increase, and finally a total of 150,000 people ran from the Americas to follow him.

Jerome's 150,000 men are not all rabble, of course, there are a large number of passionate and romantic Quebec farm boys, but there are also a large number of veterans who fought bloody battles on the battlefields of the American Civil War, most of them French, some of them are old subordinates who have followed him in the United States, some are hot-blooded Frenchmen, or those who have been in trouble after the war and are disheartened after bankruptcy and plan to change their lives.

In short, this is not a complete rabble, a third of them have combat experience, even the Americans, after the hair, after formal training, and then fight the Germans on the battlefield, they are all veterans.

However, this volunteer soldier with Napoleon as the banner has always caused headaches for the French government. The situation was tense, the French army was depleted, and they called for French people to join the army all over the world, no longer caring about the influence of the Napoleonic family.

Of course, in this era, Napoleon's appeal was no longer able to subvert the French Republic, after all, Napoleon's eldest grandson was driven away by the French people themselves.

But given enough time, the French are always neurotic and will recall Napoleon over and over again. And the volunteers led by Jerome are really good, in terms of quality, the big boys from the North American farms are generally half a head than the French, in combat, these people are quite fanatical, brave in battle, and have experience in American wars, in fact, they fought quite well. As a result, Jerome's army, which carried the Napoleonic family coat of arms and even held high the flag used by Napoleon during his campaigns, became more and more famous in France. But if that's all there is to it, that's it. After all, there were only about 100,000 troops, and as the battle progressed, their numbers became smaller and smaller. Volunteer soldiers from the Americas are far from being able to replenish the losses, after all, fanatical young people are always in the minority.

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