"Rush!" It was a shout in English, accompanied by the roar of the cannon, Wu Yingke held the rifle in his hand tightly and bent his head down and rushed forward, the earth was trembling, and in the distance was the smoke and dust rising into the sky and the figures of countless people fighting.

Cannonballs whizzed over his head, and he knew it was his own cannons, who were approaching the Egyptians' hidden batteries, and his mouth was dry, but his palms were full of sweat, and his heart was beating louder than gunfire.

"Boom!" With a loud noise, the earth shuddered, followed by a loud bang.

Shelling! That's the shelling of battleships!!

Wu Yingke pushed the helmet on his head up and looked ahead.

The scene before him could only be described as spectacular: countless shells whizzed in from afar, smashing into the dense ranks of the enemy's infantry, followed by loud noises and fires and falling enemies, fragments of the enemy's corpses flying everywhere, and the screams of the Egyptians resounding throughout the battlefield. In this way, the shells poured death and terror into the enemy group, but Wu Yingke's eyes widened, as if he was enjoying the largest and most wonderful fireworks since he was a child.

The Egyptians were extremely tenacious, and they continued to charge despite the heavy casualties, and in a moment they had already rushed in front of Wu Yingke.

"Fire!" Chen Wei shouted loudly, so everyone pulled the trigger. Wu Yingke fired feverishly, the rifle in his hand spewed tongues of fire, and the Egyptians who rushed up let out heart-rending screams, turning into corpses pierced by bullets, but there were follow-up ones that kept rushing up, so the young men of Qianguo greeted them with more accurate shots. Egyptian soldiers also fired, their rifle bullets "chirping" at the air around Wu Yingke. Fear made his fingers spasm. But he still gritted his teeth. Shooting desperately.

The British 12-pounder (76.2 mm) guns on the ground continued to fire, and shells exploded in the ranks of the Egyptian infantry, and the morale of the Egyptian army finally collapsed, and the soldiers in the back began to turn and flee, while the soldiers in front retreated and fired with rifles.

Wu Yingke's helmet was pierced by a bullet on the left side, and a cool breeze poured in through the crack, making his head hurt a little. The four people behind him are Du Jipeng, Liu Chuanjin, Kong Dache and Mi Zhenrong. The ground was littered with Egyptian corpses and rubble. The Egyptians put up a desperate resistance in the initial battle, but suffered heavy casualties under the indiscriminate bombardment of British naval and camp guns. The Egyptian resistance was now unorganized, but there were still some heroic Egyptian soldiers who were sporadically counterattacking. It is no wonder that Alexandria was a key location for the Egyptian army, and they could not have given it up easily.

Wu Yingke held a gun and carefully searched the pile of corpses. The sickening stench of corpses forced him to breathe through his mouth; The four men in the back looked after each other's dead ends, and slowly advanced towards the artillery positions where the Egyptians had stopped firing.

The ruins of a small temple appeared under the small hill ahead, and the statues of two Egyptian gods on both sides of the half-collapsed gatehouse glared at them. Since it was built. Never bothered by any enemy, in this sacred temple. It should always be the only believers who come and go.

Wu Yingke stepped on the marble floor of the temple, looking at the exquisite sculptures and brilliant murals on the walls of the main hall, although there was a mess of garbage and debris everywhere, the temple was still full of the tension of life and the sense of divine supremacy. Under the cold gaze of the statues of Egyptian gods around the main hall, he felt a terrible sense of cultural rejection and heavy pressure.

He now understood that the temple had been built on a small hill, partly in the interior of the hill, and that the Egyptians had converted the temple into a concealed artillery position.

Wu Yingke once heard the intelligence officer on the "Indomitable" say that the religion practiced by the Egyptians here is the same as that of the Huiwei and other ethnic groups in the western part of the Qianguo. Before he came to Europe, he had heard that people who believed in this religion were particularly rejecting other religions, and that the relics of the ancients were often destroyed, and they had destroyed the original Buddhist temples in the western frontier, and this time Wu Yingke saw this temple that had been converted into a hidden fort by the Egyptians, confirming the rumors he had heard before.

Suddenly, a figure rushed out of the corridor next to him, he was extremely fast, and knocked Wu Yingke to the ground with a sudden blow, and Wu Yingke's rifle was also thrown out two or three meters. Wu Yingke only saw an Egyptian in ancient armor riding on him, holding a bright Egyptian scimitar in his hand, and piercing him in the chest. As soon as he closed his eyes, he was ready for that penetrating coldness, and in an instant he heard the "bang" of the rifles of his comrades behind him, and there were suddenly more than a dozen blood holes on the Egyptian on his body, and warm blood was spurting everywhere.

The Egyptian threw out a mist of blood and fell backwards to the ground. Wu Yingke hurriedly jumped up from the ground and kicked away the scimitar that almost stuck in his chest, but he heard the Egyptian spit out a few muffled Egyptian words from between his blood-soaked teeth, Wu Yingke only understood one word, "Long live...... and then he writhed a few times and stopped moving.

Wu Yingke then got closer to see the Egyptian who almost killed him. It was a man of about forty years of age, whose identity was revealed by the ornate armor he wore on his body, which belonged only to a noble officer of the Egyptian army in the temple. Now he was out of breath, but the blood from the dozen wounds on his body was still slowly flowing outward; His hazel eyes looked at Wu Yingke resentfully, although Wu Yingke had killed many Egyptians face-to-face, and had also seen the eyes of dying people, but the hatred and coldness contained in the eyes of the person in front of him still made him feel a chill in his heart.

After two hours of fierce fighting, the defeat of the Egyptians was already very obvious. Although a considerable part of the Egyptian army has a considerable number of soldiers who are experienced and well equipped, they are very disciplined in fighting, and they will not panic even if they encounter unfavorable situations, but just deal with them calmly, and at the same time find every gap in the British army to counterattack. But after these people were killed and wounded, the remaining Egyptian soldiers, in Li Dingxin's words, "said that they were the army really wronged them." ”

In Wu Yingke's opinion. These people are just ordinary people with weapons in their hands: they lie down as soon as the guns go off. The charge rushed with the courage of the flesh. The retreat was a chaotic retreat, and the officer's command was very dead, nothing more than an attack from the flank before the storm, the same. In terms of equipment, the Egyptians were also equipped with a lot of Enfield-style rifles and guns, and some of the troops were neatly equipped and the quality of the guns was good. But most of the Egyptian army was very disorganized and untidy. Many people don't even have military uniforms, and their weapons are even more varied, including French "snuffbox" rifles (which are part of France's military aid to Egypt, which is not bad), Turkish-made "glorious" rifles (this rifle is very bad, and its performance is comparable to the old shotguns of Qianguo), and some German Mauser rifles, which are of poor quality, and even some old Dutch muskets, probably captured during the first Turkish-Egyptian war. The morale of the Egyptians was not good either. The personnel are uneven, and the old ones are in their 40s. Small 15 and 6 also went to war. Many people can see that they have not received any military training, and they are just fighting indiscriminately, and when they see that the momentum is not good, they immediately throw their guns and run wildly, which can be said to be a complete ragtag army. In the battle just now, Wu Yingke and the others were part of a unit that had almost routed three times as many enemies as themselves, but in fact, most of them were scattered: as soon as the British troops launched a charge, they were scattered. Wu Yingke remembered that he had stopped when he was tired, and stood and chased the Egyptian soldiers who had fled for their lives, basically one shot at a time, and the Egyptians were much more numerous than them, but they couldn't remember to turn around and fight back. He remembered that Kong Dache asked him at that time: "Is this a massacre?" He said vaguely, "Maybe it's counted?" ”

Wu Yingke entered the interior of the Egyptian fort, only to find that Chen Wei and Li Dingxin had already arrived.

Wu Yingke noticed that Chen Wei was carefully watching the cannon discarded by the Egyptian artillery, his face was very solemn, and even worried, and he couldn't help but be very strange.

Haven't you already defeated the enemy?

"The cannons seem to be intact and functional." Li Dingxin also noticed Chen Wei's face, and said on the side, "These are all cannons produced by Armstrong, we can repair them and make use of them." ”

"The problem is that these cannons don't have much damage." Chen Wei looked at everyone and said in a deep voice, "The Egyptians' artillery was not destroyed by the powerful artillery fire of our fleet, they gave up their positions and retreated while the infantry was still desperately defending them. ”

"Why should they abandon their positions when most of these cannons are still usable?" Liu Guanxiong asked on the side. His question can be said to be the question of all the cadres of the Qianguo country.

"It was their spirit that could not bear it, so they abandoned their positions." Chen Wei replied, "If they hold on, we will have to pay a greater price if we capture this place." ”

"That is, the accuracy of our shelling is not enough, and the power of the shells is not strong enough." Wu Yingke suddenly understood and said, "We need to improve and strengthen in this regard. ”

"You're absolutely right, Wu." Chen Wei looked at Wu Yingke, and a look of approval flashed in his eyes.

"Okay, the on-site teaching is over, we continue with the mission, and there is a possibility that the Egyptians will launch a counterattack." Chen Wei said, waved his hand, and led everyone to continue the search and move forward.

Just as Chen Wei said, this originally well-fortified artillery position has now been completely abandoned.

In the following hour, the British fleet swept away the remaining Egyptian artillery positions with artillery fire, and the Egyptian troops retreated into the city, and the British army began to land.

After a fierce battle, the British marines could finally rest for a while, during this time, the results of the battle came up, a total of 5,243 corpses of the Egyptian army were found, 628 wounded and captured soldiers, because some of the artillery positions that could not be attacked by the artillery of the concealed British fleet were abandoned by the Egyptians, and the cannons on these positions became the trophies of the British army, a total of 12 cannons of various kinds. There were also thousands of rifles of various types and hundreds of swords dropped by the Egyptians. Judging from these results, the victory of the British Navy was undoubtedly brilliant, and the price paid was also very small: in this battle, the British army lost a total of 125 killed and 46 wounded, and only two of the heroic young soldiers of Qianguo were wounded, and none of them were killed.

Once the British Army had landed, it began to advance into the city of Alexandria, and the Marines did not join the attacking forces, but went on the defensive. Prevent the Egyptian army from retaking the battery.

Alexandria is located in the tropics. There is no feeling of chill at all. The Marines were all dressed in single clothes and went in and out of position. The British Army, on the other hand, continued to advance, and the reason why it launched an attack so quickly was because it received accurate information: the Egyptian army, which numbered more than 7,500 troops used to defend the coast, was almost completely wiped out in the battle on the morning of the 13th, and the Egyptian army had completely abandoned the coastal positions and moved to the city to defend, and their commander Olabi Pasha. Command the battle in the middle of the city. If Alexandria could be captured as soon as possible and Olabi Pasha could be killed or captured, the Egyptian military rebellion could be quelled in the shortest possible time.

In order to seize the time, the British launched a rare night attack. At 7 p.m., the general attack order was received, followed by the deafening roar of the guns, the flames of the guns reflected the sky red, and the British marines who occupied the coastal artillery positions of the Egyptian army also repaired some of the artillery on the Egyptian batteries and joined the bombardment of the city. Under the heavy shelling, people could clearly see the bursts of fire rising from the Egyptian positions in the city, and the artillery fire was ready to be completed at 7:20. The British army of 10,000 men began to attack Alexandria from the north and south.

The resistance of the Egyptians was fierce. Many of the British Army attacking the city were veterans of battle, but had never encountered such a stubborn enemy. The Egyptians were poorly equipped, though. But they had enough cover and a well-constructed positional system that allowed them to defend themselves in a mobile way to maintain an orderly and layered counterattack. The British suffered far more casualties than expected. The fighting spirit of the Egyptians is admirable: they use 10 to 12 people as a unit, relying on the fortifications they have built to shoot at the British with quite accurate firepower, even if the main position is destroyed and occupied, they do not panic, but continue to fight very calmly, and do not panic in the face of the superior strength of the British army, every soldier is fighting to the death, and the British army did not contain any prisoners of war along the way, and the decisive spirit of the Egyptians is really admirable. For those British soldiers who were fighting for the first time, it was a terrible experience to encounter such a formidable enemy, and many of them never fought again.

After a whole night of fighting, the British broke through the Egyptian defenses, but continued to advance but were stopped by the Egyptians. The Egyptians, gradually recovering from the chaos of the initial command, began to counterattack. They launched a counterattack with a very fierce counterattack, and even recaptured the positions occupied by the British in one or two places. Although many of the British had combat experience, only half of them entered the position because of the temporary change of battle plan, and they were immediately bombarded by Egyptian artillery. The British forward command post began to be set up in a pillbox 300 meters from the forefront, and by 3 p.m. it was directly hit by two heavy shells, when a colonel commander named Aubrey was observing the enemy's position with a telescope, and immediately lay down after hearing the whistling of shells, and finally did not get hit by the flying shrapnel and rubble, but his deputy, Major Gale, was not so lucky, he was cut off half of his head by a piece of shrapnel. Half of the command was killed by these two shells, and this was only the beginning of a nightmare for five consecutive days.

The British soldiers rushed to repair the fortifications under heavy Egyptian fire, and finally stabilized the battle line by the next day. That night, the Egyptian army launched a fierce charge against the British, and the British officers and soldiers could only see a large number of figures dressed in various colors rushing towards them, and then various firing points began to fire, knocking down a large number on the spot, but more people rushed forward more violently, accompanied by the chaotic sound and fierce fire of the various rifles of the Egyptians. Completely ignoring their own casualties, the Egyptians rushed into the British position. Fortunately, the British commander indicated the target with signal rockets in time, called for the support fire of the British Navy, and finally under the heavy bombardment of the fleet's heavy artillery, the Egyptians were repelled by the British in three consecutive waves of onslaught, but the British casualties were also amazing. Some infantry companies were completely wiped out, and not a single one survived. Casualties among the troops on the remaining fronts were also heavy. The British commander ordered all the troops to resist the danger and hold out, and while sending the wounded down the mountain, they urgently replenished ammunition. The corpses of the Egyptians were piled up in front of the British positions, and the corpses soon began to decompose in the tropics, and the strong stench was disgusting. The British soldiers persevered in this environment, and although the casualties were heavy and the conditions were very difficult, they did not complain.

On 15 September, an Egyptian sneak attack force suddenly penetrated the British rearguard from behind, but was quickly routed due to insufficient preparation by the British army, under the fierce counterattack of the British army. They were surrounded on a lonely hill, surrounded on all sides by British troops, and the navy launched artillery bombardment on them, but to little avail, and when the Egyptians scattered and hid in caves, the power of the cannons was greatly reduced. In order to pull out this nail, the British army had to send an elite unit to attack, and after a desperate battle, all the enemies were eliminated, but the British army also paid a lot of casualties. (To be continued.) )

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