At 9 p.m. that day, the Egyptians launched another night attack. At that time, Chen Wei was looking at the map, trying to find the place where the Egyptians might be hiding, when suddenly there was a loud gunfire outside, and then Li Dingxin rushed in and shouted: "Enemy! The enemy is coming! "He came from the front line, and he was on night duty that night, and when he found the enemy, he hurried back to report it. Chen Wei's first reaction was to pick up the gun next to him, and the cat waist rushed out of the tent.

After a night of bitter fighting, when the east was slightly white, the Egyptians were finally unable to support themselves under the stubborn resistance of the marines and the constant bombardment of the British fleet at sea, and retreated, leaving only many corpses scattered on the ground.

Wu Yingke sat in a corner of the trench, staring blankly at the sun on the edge of the sky that showed half of his face, while trying to take a deep breath. A fresh sea breeze blew from the sea, sweeping away the foul air on the battlefield that was full of gunsmoke and blood.

The Egyptians were almost wiped out in the night's fierce fighting. Wu Yingke was not injured, perhaps it was his innate instinct that allowed him to once again successfully escape the entanglement of death - of course, there were many people who were not able to escape, and now two British sailors fell beside him, letting the warm sea breeze blow their cold bodies.

How many people did I kill last night? And how many people tried to kill me? The night's battle seemed like a nightmare, and it seemed like a strange hallucination, but it did happen, in a trance, the barrel of the rifle in Wu Yingke's hand was still hot, and the corpses around him were still there to remind him of the cruelty of this battle with their strange postures.

In September 9082, the British army showed extraordinary courage and superb fighting qualities in the battle for Alexandria. In particular, the assault on Alexandria for the first 5 days and 4 nights was the most intense. After a hard battle. A total of 11,000 Egyptian defenders and militias were annihilated.

Victory in the Battle of Alexandria. The foundations of the victory of the British army were laid, and the passage to Cairo, the capital of Egypt, was opened. At the same time, this was the first large-scale official confrontation between the British army and the main army of Egypt, and the Egyptian army, although valiantly fighting, was ultimately defeated, and the casualties of the Egyptian army and civilians were far greater than the British army.

After this battle, the morale of the Egyptian army was greatly damaged, and the British showed it to the whole world. As a world-class military force, the British army is still active in the world military arena. Britain also showed the world that the Egyptian ruling clique's attempt to exclude foreign powers in Egypt had failed horribly. While the Egyptians continued to resist, the Egyptian government, which had retreated to Cairo, had begun to shake the tide of the war.

Olabi Pasha, who had escaped Alexander, had lost almost all of his army, but he was not discouraged and still had a large number of supporters. Immediately after the fall of Alexander, the Egyptian Fatherland Party issued a "Letter to the Egyptian People," declaring "an incompatible war between the Egyptian nation and the British," promising the peasants "to abolish all debts owed to foreigners," and calling on the Egyptian people to take up arms. Join the army to fight against the British. A large number of Egyptian peasants responded to the call of the Fatherland Party and joined the Egyptian army. The Egyptian army was rapidly expanded to 100,000 troops, and morale was restored to some extent in an atmosphere of ethnic war and religious fanaticism, and in this situation, large-scale xenophobic actions broke out in large cities such as Cairo, and many foreign merchants were brutally killed.

Upon learning of the news, the British army quickly launched an operation and decided to capture Cairo and rescue the foreigners who had been massacred there. The Egyptian military and civilians, under the leadership of Olabi Pasha, focused on strengthening the northern front in Cairo. On September 28, 9082, the Egyptian army inflicted a setback on the British in the battle at the village of Dawar. Over the next three weeks, the Egyptian army repelled several British attacks in quick succession, preventing the British from attacking Cairo from the north. These victories raised the morale of the Egyptian army, and the Egyptian army immediately formed three cavalry regiments with a total of more than 45,000 people, with these cavalry units as the main force, launched a large-scale counterattack, hoping to directly change the balance of power between the two sides in the form of a decisive battle of the main force, and then affect the course of the war. At the same time, the Egyptian government also recruited a large number of Bedouyin tribesmen who were allied with Egypt to directly support the Egyptian army's offensive operations.

Although the number of Egyptian cavalry troops is large, and the morale is also quite high, but the weapons and equipment are poor, lack of heavy artillery and rapid-fire weapons, many cavalry only have spears and scimitars, and the British army, which is inferior in numbers but is equipped with advanced ammunition, has shown extremely strong combat effectiveness in the battle, and on the first day of the battle, it used Gatling machine guns in the open area without casualties to completely annihilate a 3,000-strong Egyptian cavalry, which dealt an extremely heavy blow to the morale of the Egyptian army.

The Egyptian army launched a full-scale offensive the next day, but due to the heavy British artillery bombardment and the fierce strafing of the Gatling guns, the Egyptian cavalry suffered heavy casualties and "advanced like a mountain", leaving tens of thousands of corpses on the battlefield and then all dispersed, and the large-scale counterattack of the Egyptian army was completely defeated.

After realizing that he could not win by relying on the cavalry charge, Olabi Pasha gathered the defeated troops and decided to delay the British attack with defensive operations, he mobilized 100,000 Egyptian soldiers and civilians to defend Cairo, and built several defensive lines in the city, due to the rush of time and the lack of heavy weapons, Olabi Pasha only had time to strengthen the defense line in northern Egypt, and for the eastern defense line near the Suez Canal Zone, he only sent some additional troops to strengthen the defense. Some Egyptian officers pointed to the lack of defenses in the east, but Olabi Pasha believed that Western countries would abide by the neutrality treaty of the Suez Canal Zone and would not attack from the east.

After careful reconnaissance of the Egyptian army's defenses, the British set a breakthrough in Cairo on the Suez Canal. In October, the British landed in the Canal Zone, occupied Port Said and other important places in the Canal Zone on the 20th, and then launched a fierce attack on Cairo, and in November, near Tel Kebir, near Cairo, the two sides fought a decisive battle. The Egyptian soldiers and civilians fought bravely under the fierce attack of the British army, fought bloodily, and held their positions for two weeks. The British assault was thwarted. Nearly 2,000 people were killed or wounded. Forced to stop the offensive.

Despite withstanding the attack of the British army. However, the Egyptian military and civilians also paid a huge price in casualties, with more than 23,000 lives killed on the battlefield, and the British army had no intention of retreating, and many nomadic chiefs and Egyptian nobles began to fear the devastation of the war and frustrated the prospect of the war. The British learned of this situation in time, so they bought off the noble chieftains of the nomadic tribes with a large amount of money, especially the Bedou Indian chieftains who participated in the Egyptian army's war against the British. Outcome. The British attacked again on 13 November, breaking through the eastern defenses in one fell swoop, and the Egyptian army was forced to retreat to Cairo.

After the loss of the eastern defensive line, Olabi Pasha tried to take advantage of the flooding Nile, relying on the natural danger of the Nile to defend against the British army, and withdraw the troops of the northern defensive line, while mobilizing 200,000 soldiers and civilians in Cairo to defend the capital. However, by this time, the Egyptian nobles and government officials in Cairo, as well as some officers of the Egyptian army, had already wavered and decided to surrender to the British, taking advantage of the fact that Olabi Pasha commanded the Egyptian army and civilians to build a defensive line on the outskirts of the city. The gates of Cairo were opened, and the British army was guided into the city. November 15, 9082. Cairo, the capital of Egypt, falls. Olabi Pasha and many Egyptian officers were captured by their men and handed over to the British.

After the capture of Cairo by the British, the Egyptians were no longer able to resist, and the British quickly occupied all of Egypt in a short time, and the war ended in the complete defeat of Egypt.

Alexandria, field hospital.

At the beginning of the morning, the flies were in a commotion, and the long wound on Du Jipeng's neck and eyes became the target of public criticism. To wake up a man, a yard full of roosters can't compare to the buzzing of the wings and the touch of the legs and feet of these flies. Du Jipeng opened his eyes and ushered in a new day in the ward. Waving his hand to drive away the swarm of flies, he looked beyond the foot of the bed to the open three-story floor-to-ceiling window. Usually, you can see the loess road and palm trees outside the window, as well as the low earthen walls. Beyond, an open field and woods stretching out to the western sky. The hospital is built on the only high slope as far as the eye can see, and the view from here is far from the plain. But it was too early to look out of the window, and the window was gray, as if it had been painted.

If it wasn't too dark, Du Jipeng could have read a book to pass the time until breakfast. The book he's reading is quite soothing. However, last night he couldn't sleep, he read by candle and night, and he had burned out the last candle; There is a shortage of lamp oil in hospitals, and it must not be just for recreation. In desperation, Du Jipeng had to get up and get dressed, sit in a ladder chair, and leave the room full of beds and the wounded and sick behind. He waved his arms away the flies again, staring at the first rays of dawn in the morning mist, waiting for the world outside the window to emerge in distinct outlines.

The windows are as high as doors. In his imagination, he stepped out of there many times and entered another world. During the first few weeks in his hospital, he could barely move his head, only looking out the window, sketching the familiar green fields of his hometown, those places of his childhood, from memory. damp creek banks with orchids; Every autumn, a corner of the meadow favored by the black and brown caterpillars; A thick branch of the hickory tree stretched diagonally into the path, and he often climbed to see his father drive the cattle from the sunset, past his feet, to the cowshed; He would close his eyes and listen to the popping of the hooves of the oxen trampling the dust, which would fade until he was lost to the cries of the gnats and frogs. Obviously, that window would only bring his thoughts back to the past, which was exactly what Du Jipeng wanted. Because he has seen the terrible iron face of the times, the future, in his imagination, can only be a world in which everything he thinks is important is rejected or voluntarily turned away.

The window is alone, and it has been through the whole summer. The air was unusually muggy. Du Jipeng thought, after staring at it for a long time, this gray long window is afraid that he has finally finished saying everything he has to say. But that morning, he was surprised again, and a long-forgotten memory came flooding through the window. Sitting in the classroom, Du Jipeng was beside a similar long window, and beyond the grass outside the window, the low green ridges in the distance were cascading, rising higher and higher, and directly rising majestically from the main vein of the Majiao Mountain. It was September. The grass on the opposite side of the dirt playground is waist-high, and the ears of grass are yellow, and it should be harvested. The teacher was a short, stocky, bald, Frenchman. All he had was a shabby suit and an oversized pair of old boots, the toes of which were upturned and the heels were sharpened as thin as a blade, looking like a wedge. He stood at the front of the classroom, his body swaying, and spent the morning talking about history, telling older students about the great wars that took place all over Europe.

After being deaf for a while, the young Du Jipeng took out his hat from under the table. Pinch the brim. A flick of the wrist. The hat spun out of the window, was lifted by a rising current, flew far away, over the playground, and landed on the edge of the grass, black, like the shadow of the crow perched on the ground. The teacher saw Du Jipeng's small movements and told him to take his hat back. And then wait to be beaten. This man has a big ruler, and he is happy to be able to use it. Du Jipeng really didn't know what he was fascinated by at this moment, he walked out of the door, dashingly buttoned his hat obliquely towards his head, stepped forward, and never came back.

As dawn approached, the windows lit up and memories faded. The man next to Du Jipeng's bed sat up, moved to the window on crutches as usual, and coughed thick phlegm out of the window. until the lungs are emptied. He combed his hair, his straight chestnut hair hanging down to his chin. Cut around the neck in a neat circle. He tucked the long hair in front of him behind his ears, and even in the twilight of the morning light, he still did not forget to put on his brown glasses. His eyes were too weak to stand the slightest light. Then, while still in his pajamas, he sat down at the table, faced the pile of paper, and began to work. This man is silent and rarely speaks more than one or two words.

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