Whether Nelson will be able to make it to Alexandria tomorrow, no one knows. What is certain, however, is that the news of the Battle of Alexandria will reach every corner of Europe as quickly as possible.

You must know that the Ottoman Empire, which has not yet completely declined, has dressed up itself well through the victory of the Sixth Russo-Turkish War, which is an absolute world power and recognized by the entire monotheistic world.

Although the key to the end of the Sixth Russo-Turkish War was China's absolute victory over Russia on the Eastern Front, the fact that the Ottoman Empire fought against Russia and Austria alone for two or three years is undeniable.

Official public opinion in China puts the Ottoman Empire on a par with the five European powers, and no Europeans in China can argue with it.

This is the current status of the Ottoman Empire.

The French had just defeated Austria, and what kind of spirit of death was the spirit of death when they let their rival John Bull go, turn around and rush into the Ottomans. The Ottomans were not only big themselves, but they were also close allies of China. France provoked the Ottoman Empire, not only the heavenly world, but also the eastern world.

Coupled with the fact that the Gallic rooster's younger brother, the Big Plate Duck, is also fighting the Chinese in the Americas, I believe that after the news of the Battle of Alexandria reaches Europe, many countries will be convinced of the broken friendship between China and France.

It is no longer possible for these two countries to maintain an unofficial private friendship, they have truly stood against each other.

When they first learned that the Chinese visiting fleet was transporting materials to France, the hearts of the European countries were so shocked, and how comfortable the hearts of the ruling classes of various countries were at this moment.

One of the biggest turning points in Napoleon's life was the Northern Italian Campaign, how this young man hooked up with Ballas, how to quickly stabilize the morale and fighting spirit of the Italian legion, and the Chinese were Napoleon's biggest investors before he succeeded. Now these hateful Chinese are going to reap the consequences.

The object of his own vigorous funding, with thousands of troops to fight himself, this is not a good feeling, right?

But one fact cannot be ignored either.

Throughout the battle in Alexandria, the French skirmishers attacked more and more frequently, and a quick-reloading rifled gun did appear in the French army.

The two new weapons exposed by the Chinese in the Americas, muskets and hexagonal cannons, which are very far and accurate, and have a fast reloading speed, have been seen by the whole of Europe.

Napoleon had less than 30,000 men in his hands [deducting 4,000 Maltese soldiers], he couldn't fight with Ilam, Ilam gathered his army, not 50,000 but also 30,000 or 40,000, these are all serious Ottoman regular troops, elite Ilam regiments, and their combat effectiveness has been tested by the Russians and Austrians. And that's not counting the local Mamluk feudal cavalry in Egypt, plus the troops sent by Istanbul, there were more than twice as many marines in Egypt as Napoleon.

Therefore, this little treasure in Napoleon's hands was used.

In terms of tactics, there is no spare hand, and the offensive column of hunters + skirmishers is interspersed, divided, and outflanked. It seems to be an ordinary command, but it is really not easy to put it on the soldiers of the current era, because the soldiers of this era are familiar with front-loading smoothbore guns.

Skirmish + front-loading smoothbore gun, it's ridiculous.

Therefore, many officers know that gathering soldiers together on a large scale is to send them to death, but when they shoot, they still like to find an opportunity to gather the surrounding soldiers to form a small queue of two or three rows, squat, stand on their own, and then row up their guns to shoot.

All just because of the performance of the musket too lo!

Historically, the French revolutionary soldiers [in the early stage] because of their quality, they were a little blind to shoot platoons on the frontal battlefield, and they were all playing column charges when they were fighting, forming a tradition, and after the military literacy went up, the battlefield often used a deep combat formation, that is, a formation that combined the scattered formation of the shooters with the column of the infantry. And Napoleon was the one who carried forward this tactic in history. Now he has an extra Mini rifle in his hand, and at the same time, the battlefield is limited by rockets, which not only pose a great threat to the soldiers, but also have a large damage to the rocket group, which makes Napoleon more plunged into the sea of 'columns'.

Take the battle of Alexandria, for example.

When the Chinese and British warships were silent in Alexandria Harbor, when the rough waves and fierce winds on the sea were ignored by Napoleon, when the French Mediterranean naval commander Bruyers advocated a few more days of landing for the sake of safety, he asserted that Nelson would not turn back within a few days, but after Napoleon's stern refusal, God and God could not prevent the French army led by Napoleon from landing.

Napoleon said: "Time is pressing, fate has given me only three or five days, and if I do not make the most of it, we will fail." "Bruès had to give the signal for a general landing.

It took only two days from sending a small number of soldiers to land, gnawing at the fortifications of the Elam Army at the mouth of the Nile, to completely sweeping away the 'enemy army' at the mouth of the Nile with a large French force.

Zhu Mian never waited for Nelson's arrival, his warships and warships were all wiped out, and Nelson was still nowhere to be found.

Later, after the experience of this battle was sent to Chen Ming's hands, Emperor Chen's respect for Nelson was greatly reduced.

Large forces of Napoleon's Seventh Army began to land, but the process was difficult. Did the Ottomans have been prepared for a long time?

On the front of Alexandria, the beach was literally littered with corpses.

Napoleon used all his means, and he himself led 9,000 troops to land at the eastern end of Alexandria - because the defenders had no warships, the Nile was open, and even if they had tens of thousands of Mamluk cavalry, there was no use for birds. Napoleon led two divisions and three cavalry regiments to land under the cover of naval artillery, and then outflanked the positions of the Elama regiment on land, during which he was attacked several times by the Mamluk cavalry.

And left the most realistic evaluation of the Mamluk cavalry: two Mamluk cavalry could easily deal with three French cavalry, because they were better equipped, better horses, and better trained. They had two pairs of pistols, a large-caliber short gun, a carbine, helmets with shades and chain mail. Each of them had several horses, as well as attendants who served the horses.

But a hundred French cuirassiers would not have feared a hundred Mamluks. Three hundred can defeat the same number. A thousand French cavalry could easily crush one thousand and a half hundred Mamluks. Tactics, discipline and formations play such a big role.

When two Napoleonic cavalry generals, LaSalle and Leclerc, fought against the Mamluks, they arranged their troops in multiple columns. When the Mamluk cavalry was about to crush the first line, the second line assisted from the left and right. The Mamluks then stopped and began to turn against the new front on the flanks. This moment was always seized by the French cavalry, who charged it in time, and then the Mamluk cavalry was routed without exception.

But several encounters between the French and the Mamluk cavalry were not large in number. As Napoleon himself said, a thousand!

Napoleon's command and the combat skills and tactical habits of the French army made the Eelam regiment very uncomfortable.

The concentration of infantry and cavalry, supported by artillery, to give the enemy a heavy blow to the offensive, was the basic method of Napoleon's combat operations. At the same time, Napoleon also carried out extensive heavy maneuvers - interspersing, dividing and outflanking in small areas, Napoleon was faced with only Alexandria, and the French soldiers, under Napoleon's command and control, created a favorable situation for the battle and guaranteed superiority over the enemy in the main directions.

At the same time, Napoleon also liked to hold a reserve of heavy troops in his hands, and the decisive word was made at a critical moment.

French columns were often deployed in depth to enhance the infantry's assault power in battle, allowing the army to maneuver more widely on the battlefield.

Tactical maladaptation and failure to deal with it, as well as the difference in the morale of the soldiers on both sides, as well as the small calculations in the heart of Ilam himself, so that the Elam legion, which was not weak in combat, actually only blocked Napoleon for two days, and Ilam withdrew from the Nile estuary position with the assembled Mamluk cavalry.

"Just two days?"

Chen Zhan's shocked eyes were about to fall. The Elam Legion isn't that weak, is it? Moreover, Dong He also sent someone to tell him that the Elam Legion gathered 20,000 troops in Alexandria, 20,000 Elamic Legions, and 10,000 Mamluk cavalry, at least 20% of them obeyed Ilam's orders.

"What is this horned wood Jiao trying to do?"

King Jieyang, whose IQ is not inferior, turned his mind and immediately thought of another possibility. Will the Ilam consume the Mamluk cavalry? Or what forces in Alexandria will be struck? He did not really lose the battle, but wanted to abandon Alexandria and lure the French into marching to Cairo.

"Alexandria doesn't have a lot of Mamluk influence, but a lot of Istanbul's magnates are involved there. It is one of the most famous commercial ports in the Mediterranean, and it is the world of merchants. Ilam himself has huge interests there as well. "It can even be said that it is the focus of Elam over the years.

"It's just that it's summer, the hottest season of the year in Egypt, and it's incredibly hot." After Dong Huan finished reading the other letter in his hand, his serious face eased a lot.

"The decisive battle in Ilam was Cairo. This is his intention, and it is reasonable. ”

More than 100 miles from Alexandria to Cairo, the desert of Haohan is scorched under the direct sun, making water the most precious thing in the world.

Ilam decided to clear the wilderness and evacuate all the inhabitants to Cairo, poisoning the wells or covering up the springs as he left. The French army did not prepare tropical clothing, not even water bottles, and the troops would be thirsty, but along the way, Elam would leave them with nothing but disgusting saltwater pools to quench their thirst.

There are many poisonous insects in the desert, and the scorching light of the yellow sand will weaken the eyesight of most people, and those who can see it will even lose their sight because of it.

Ilam was reluctant to fight the French to the death, as he did not want to over-deplete his military power. He had evacuated all his personnel in Alexandria to Cairo, and he had also greeted the rest of the people, and it was their choice whether they would evacuate or stay where they were. No matter how much Alexandria lost then, it was also the loss of Istanbul's guys who had a share of the Sino-Austrian trade. Elam is going to open the door and let the French break in in stride.

Then they tortured their bodies with the scorching heat, the vast desert, and the water more precious than olive oil, draining their fighting spirit, and finally defeated them in one fell swoop in Cairo.

Ilam was well aware of Napoleon's reputation, and through the Chinese he knew Napoleon's great achievements over the past year or so. It was a star that shone all over Europe, and the British, Spaniards, Italians, and Austrians all suffered under him. If Ilam could defeat him in Cairo in one fell swoop, it would be like stepping on Napoleon's shoulders and Ilam would have achieved great fame.

If you want to become famous in the military in one fell swoop, isn't it just that the new 'famous general' will fight the old 'famous general'?

It's just that in this battle of the Nile Estuary, the Elam army only supported it for two days and then couldn't withstand it, which is not necessarily all because Ilam himself wants to preserve his strength and lure the enemy deeper, right?

Napoleon was still very capable of fighting. Elam don't force a woman to be if she can't do it......