Chapter 91: The Battle of Jerusalem
In the Hindustan region, 100,000 Qing army iron cavalry under the command of Devil Six like entering no man's land, attacking the city and pulling out the village like walking on the subway is full of corpses. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
In the Sinai Peninsula, Cixi, who had gathered 500,000 Qing troops, failed to attack and defended it.
The cavalry had already reconnoitred, because the British had already prepared and arranged hundreds of artillery groups on the west bank of the Suez Canal, each of which had hundreds of artillery pieces, and there were more than a dozen mobile artillery groups here to prevent the Qing army from crossing the river.
After arriving in the Sinai Peninsula, Cixi heard that the number of British troops and servant troops on the opposite side had exceeded one million, so she was not in a hurry.
It was true that the British had a difficult time in Egypt, and the supply of the million-strong army depended partly on local requisition in the African colonies, and partly on the requisition of the British world's largest ocean-going fleet from the mainland and colonies around the world.
General Henry, a British Army general in Egypt, is a veteran who has served Britain and his colonies for 45 years in Britain and its colonies. Admiral Henry, who had seen through the situation on several sides, believed that the British army in front of him was more than enough to defend and not to attack enough. Therefore, he insisted on the posture of defending the Suez Canal with heavy troops, and constantly trained soldiers to reserve supplies.
The two sides have been fighting for more than a year in a sit-down battle.
The convoy and frequent battles with the German Mediterranean Fleet, the Italian Mediterranean Fleet, and the Japanese Indian Ocean Fleet, and the delay in the news of victory from the front made the British Royal Navy resentful.
For the British, the navy is their own son, and the army is sent by the phone bill. The royal family, as well as Downing Street, of course, have to respect the opinion of the Navy. In this era, the offensive theory was already in vogue, and there was no way to change the status quo without attacking, and many War Ministers in Downing Street also thought that Henry was too old, too conservative, and had lost the aggressive spirit of his youth.
So Downing Street ordered Prince Edward from Ireland to be appointed as the lieutenant general of the Egyptian commander-in-chief, Henry was transferred back to his country for retirement and retirement, and Prince Edward was to be fully responsible for the attack on the Sinai Peninsula.
When Cixi heard that the British were changing generals, she said to the Empress Dowager Ci'an: "Then the British Zhao Kuo is here." The enemy is waiting for this time. ”
Having said that, Cixi did not attack the British.
After Prince Edward disembarked in Egypt with an Irish opera star in his arms, he began to devote himself to the reorganization of the British army and the cultivation of the offensive spirit of the British army here.
In terms of ability, Prince Edward can only be regarded as a mid-level, and if he can fight on the battlefield for decades without dying, his level may be on par with Henry. In this era, both in Europe and Asia, there is a lack of people who can turn things around.
It took only three months for Prince Edward to scream at the training of the British army in Egypt, and Prince Edward sent a telegram to Downing Street, believing that the opportunity to attack had arrived.
Downing Street has long been looking forward to a big victory, one is to celebrate next year's Queen's birthday, and the other is to stabilize people's hearts. For more than a year, the Qing army led by Su Shun was attacking Canada, but fortunately, Canada was big enough to hold on to the vast land for a while. But the devil has already established the Qing regime in half of Hindustan region, set up counties, sold officials, slaughtered the British, and pro-British princely states, and all the evil things they have done can compile two British dictionaries.
This is not counting the fact that Japan and the Han Chinese supervised the development of Australia, and had already established more than a dozen settlements in Australia, and began to prospect for mining and farming, grazing and raising fish. There are now only 3 million British in Australia and New Zealand, a good number of 700,000 indigenous people who accept or passively accept British rule. There are less than two million pure British people in Australia, how can it be calculated, if this war is not fought in Africa, the British Royal Navy, which always has to escort the ship, will not be able to clean up the Japanese fleet and those Australian settlements.
Although there is still a distance between the current Chinese settlements in Australia and the area around Sydney, where the British are concentrated, the British have long regarded Australia as their backyard, and even if the British are not capable of developing it, they will not allow others to develop it.
So, in December 1968, under the slogan of Prince Edward's "Recovering the Sinai Peninsula for Christmas" and "Celebrating the upcoming Queen's 50th birthday", 600,000 British troops (including 500,000 A-3 servants), 200,000 Egyptians, and 100,000 A-3 Zhuangmen came to ensure the supply line. A total of 900,000 troops, known as a million troops, attacked the Sinai Peninsula from the east bank of the Suez Canal.
At this time, the British army and the Qing army already knew the roots, and even had a way to deal with the Qing army's iron cans, and if there were not so many light artillery, let Ah San take the explosives bag, and use the Qing army's iron cans as mobile pillboxes to blow up - of course, Ah San, who was holding a dozen catties of explosives, would not survive even if he threw away the ignited explosive bag, but the British did not seem to care about Ah San's life or death.
Cixi faced a large attack by the British army, but had no intention of fighting, and steadily retreated, ceding the territory of the Sinai Peninsula to Prince Edward's army little by little.
Prince Edward was immersed in the joy of victory again and again, although he had not yet fought a decisive battle with the enemy's main force, but Prince Edward had also seen the previous battle examples of the Qing army, and when he did not take the initiative to retreat, he took the initiative to fight a decisive battle with the enemy.
Now that the Qing army has taken the initiative to retreat, it shows one thing, the Qing army is afraid of itself. These frequent victories began to swell Prince Edward. began to urge the troops to speed up the pursuit of the Qing army.
Cixi did not plan to retreat all the way to the west, that is, to the former Moscow, and the main force of the Qing army stopped when it reached Jerusalem. It was also a supply station for the Qing army in the Sinai Peninsula.
Under the city of Jerusalem, the two armies confronted each other, and Prince Edward saw what the Qing army looked like, with rows of glittering tin canned cavalry infantry in front of him.
Seeing the appearance of the Qing army's purge, Prince Edward looked at the three servant troops under his command who were stacking Arhats, and was a little disappointed, but he felt that our three armies were energetic, and after the artillery of both sides was in place, the commanders of both sides ordered almost at the same time: "Open the cannon." ”
Solid iron balls flutter in the air, taking away a certain or string of unlucky eggs from time to time. The Qing army has long had experience in dealing with solid bouncing bombs in Europe for so many years, and spread a thick layer of fine sand in front of and on the position, and the shells will definitely not bounce up when they fall on it, and at most they can only raise some sand.
There are also some flowering bombs in the British army, but the effect of flowering bombs at this time is not satisfactory. Although it is called a flowering bomb, the fuse is not stable, first half of it will not explode, the other half will explode, if the explosion point is not good, it is not even as lethal as a solid bullet. The Qing army's flowering shells were all made by captured crooked nuts, and some were made by captured crooked kernel craftsmen, and they had the same problems as the British army's flowering shells -- so both sides invariably used solid shells.