The British instigated the Ottoman Empire to depose Ismail and appointed his son Dufik as the new governor of Egypt. Dufik then dissolved parliament and arrested the Fatherlanders. In September 9081, Olabi Pasha led the Egyptian army to rise up and besiege the royal palace, gaining widespread support from the Egyptian people. Dufik was forced to convene Congress. In 9082, the Fatherland Party formed a cabinet, Olabi Pasha was appointed Minister of Defense, and the rule of the Governor of Egypt existed in name only. Immediately after Al-Arabi came to power, he announced the abolition of the "double surveillance" system and established a powerful xenophobic united front, and under his leadership, a frenzied wave of xenophobia was set off throughout Egypt.

Alexandria was the location of the Egyptian army, and in order to prevent the situation in Egypt from getting out of control, in May 9082, the British and French sent fleets to Alexandria. Soon after, riots broke out in Alexandria against foreigners, nearly 800 foreigners were killed by fanatical Egyptian insurgents, and a large number of foreigners fled, and Britain and France immediately decided to intervene. Vice Admiral Seymour, the commander-in-chief of the British forces and also the commander of the Mediterranean Fleet, feared that the further strengthening of Alexandria's defenses would make it more difficult for the British to intervene by force, and suggested that action be taken before the arrival of the army. Soon after, the British Admiralty authorized Vice Admiral Seymour to "take any appropriate measure", and Vice Admiral Seymour issued an ultimatum to Olaby to end the riots, with a deadline of 11 September.

As no reply was received, Lieutenant General Seymour began to carry out the original plan - to shell the military fortress in Alexandria. In order to find out the distribution of the batteries of the Egyptian army, Fisher suggested to Vice Admiral Seymour that a reconnaissance force should be sent ashore to find out the situation and have a target, because the British fleet was a labor expedition after all, and the amount of ammunition was limited. It needs to be used to the fullest. Fisher's suggestion was endorsed by the other officers, and the Qianguo cadets on the "Indomitable," under the leadership of instructor Chen Wei, took the initiative to ask for help and became the vanguard of the reconnaissance unit.

After Du Jipeng went ashore alone, he was extremely witty and made many inquiries and found many hidden artillery forts of the Egyptian army. Just as he was about to go back to report, the Egyptians discovered that the boat he was in had sunk by artillery fire, and he had fainted after falling into the water, but he did not expect to go with the flow and drag Ramadan's fishing net to shore.

Now that he feels his strength has recovered, he desperately wants to return to the "Indomitable". He knew that the fierce battle that would ensuing might spill over into the small village (a major battery not far from the village) that was very close to the Egyptian army's battery. His name was "Ajm"), and he was a warning to those who had saved his life.

"What are you going to do now?" Uncle Hassan asked.

"I need a boat, get out of here." Du Jipeng replied.

"I'll take you to the boat." Mirala stood up.

Seeing Milara's movements, both Ramadan and Uncle Hassan were taken aback.

"Come with me." As she spoke, Milara ran out of the door like a gust of wind, and Du Jipeng jumped up after her and followed her. Seeing this, Ramadan sighed. Ran out too.

Uncle Hassan tried to stop them, but he heard Jahar say, "Don't probe into other people's secrets. Do not listen to gossip that you believe, do not be enemies of one another, but be like brothers to one another. He shuddered, and suddenly fell to his knees and prayed.

When Du Jipeng returned to the "Indomitable", he was surprised to find that everyone had returned. And he was the last one to return to the ship.

"You're back." Chen Wei looked at Du Jipeng, a look of concern flashed in his eyes, "How are your feet?" You okay? ”

"Report to the sir, it's okay!" Du Jipeng replied loudly, and raised his hand to salute Chen Wei.

"How's your inquiry?" Chen Wei asked.

Du Jipeng took off his robe. He tore off a piece of cloth inside and handed it to Chen Wei, who took it and saw that it was a hand-drawn map of the location of the Egyptian fortress.

Chen Wei nodded with satisfaction, took the map to the command tower, handed the map to a mapping officer, the mapping officer checked it, and soon marked the location of the corresponding Egyptian fort on the large map on the desktop.

"Very good, Chen, the Qianguo non-commissioned officer and student squad you trained has successfully completed the reconnaissance mission." Lieutenant General Seymour looked at the map, nodded approvingly.

"In that case, we need to first remove the batteries on the side of the new bay and destroy them all, and then move to the location of the harbor and destroy the batteries there." "These newly discovered hidden batteries are a threat, and we need to get close to them to destroy them, and even send in marines if necessary," Fisher advised. ”

"Yes." Lieutenant General Seymour nodded, pointed to the charts and said, "That's it! The 'Temoras' attacked the 'Farauth' battery, the 'Indomitable' and 'Magnificent' attacked the 'Edda' battery, the 'Sultan' and 'Alexandra' attacked the three batteries on the periphery of the harbour, and the 'Penelope' and 'Victorious' went around the breakwater and entered the harbor to attack the 'Salkeasa' and 'Baf' batteries. ”

"Yes! Sir! ”

With the continuous raising of the signal flag, the huge steel battleships whistled for a long time, and sailed to their respective battle positions.

The expeditionary fleet consisted of 14 warships, the main force was 8 ironclads, most of them were central gun emplacement ironclads, a few were turret ships, and the rest were 5 gunboats and 1 mine-strike ship, all of which were mixed with steam and sails, with a total of 69 large-caliber naval guns, 88 small- and medium-caliber naval guns, and 5,700 crews, and 25,000 British troops who were prepared to land under the cover of the fleet. According to the reconnaissance information, the Egyptian army defending Alexandria totaled 16,000 people, of which about 7,500 were defending the coastal batteries, and the Egyptians built a large number of strong fortifications along the coast, equipped with 90 guns of various kinds, but a considerable part of these artillery pieces were old, and the distribution of new artillery was not reasonable. For the British army, in order to carry out a large-scale landing operation, these obstacles must be cleared.

Chen Wei saw the huge 16-inch (406.4 mm) main gun of the "Indomitable" slowly turning, and his heart also beat violently.

The main feature of the "Indomitable" is that it adopts the "diagonal surface rotating battery" and "the cannon moves with the platform"; in order to facilitate the attack tactics of "bow to enemy", both rotating batteries can point in the direction of the bow of the ship, and make the cross-section of their own hit bullet smaller. Cooperate with the strike angle below the waterline in the bow to ram the enemy ship. The Indomitable Tower's conning tower was placed between the two batteries to conceal it, reduce the chance of being shot, and protect the commander's safety, although this design made the line of sight worse during combat. The four main guns of the Indomitable were 16 inches in calibre and were surrounded by armor between 508 and 609 mm thick in the middle of the warship, which was 335 meters long. The 229-meter-wide protective space wraps the engine room, boiler room, ammunition room and other vital parts in the ironclad fort to avoid being hit by enemy bullets. Outside the central armor fort, an armor deck similar to a flat deck 3 inches thick was laid to have the same effect as the protection of the cruiser, as a supplement to the armor protection outside the armor fort.

With a loud bang, the main cannon of the "Indomitable" began to roar, and black smoke with dark red fire smoke erupted from the muzzle, bringing the thunder of death to the enemy on the shore.

The opening of the main gun of the "Indomitable" was the signal for the whole fleet to fire, and other warships began shelling one after another. One by one, the cannonballs flew like meteors towards the fort standing on the shore, and for a time the sea was full of the roar of cannons.

The fort on the shore was hit, and huge clouds of smoke rose up and turned into clouds of smoke, which soon obscured the sunlight as if it were overcast.

The Egyptians returned fire with ferocity, and the gunners were trained due to good preparation in advance. The Egyptian artillery was also very accurate, and all kinds of shells fell like hail to the sea. Around the British ship stirred up a high column of water.

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