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The Indian Ocean Fleet of the Chinese Navy, sailing westward along the Mediterranean, constantly bombarded the British and French forces fleeing westward with naval artillery, and the British and French forces fled westward on the narrow isthmus between Lake Manzailai and the Mediterranean. Along the way, the soldiers who were killed by the Indian Ocean Fleet of the Chinese Navy with naval guns, I don't know how many!

Many of the soldiers of the Anglo-French army, after narrowly escaping, had a complete mental breakdown, they stopped running away, and surrendered to the squadron that came later!

The pursuit of the Chinese navy continued until nightfall, and the remaining British and French forces were able to escape. However, when they fled back to Damietta, they found that less than 60,000 of the more than 100,000 British and French troops had fled back to Damietta, and the rest had either been killed by the heavy artillery fire of the Chinese Navy or surrendered to the squadron. Among them, the vast majority of them surrendered, and it is estimated that only 10,000 or 20,000 people were actually killed by the navy's naval guns. The most important thing is the power of the navy's large-caliber naval guns, which made the soldiers of the British and French forces lose the courage to continue fighting, and entering the squadron's prisoner of war camp has become their best choice!

After the Anglo-French forces retreated to Damietta, they had lost the ability to attack. There is no longer any possibility for them to attack Port Said again. Field Marshal Roberts, the commander-in-chief of the coalition forces, also gave up his unrealistic illusions. The heavy shelling of the Chinese navy not only destroyed the will of the British and French forces to resist, but also shattered all their hopes.

Having repelled the Anglo-French attack, the Seventh Army immediately sent a telegram to the country. Their victory completely sealed the victory of this war. Hundreds of thousands of Anglo-French troops in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. It has become a turtle in an urn. Next, it's time to reap the win! Britain and France, in this war, suffered heavy losses, and obviously no longer have the ability to continue fighting!

At this moment, in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, hundreds of thousands of British and French expeditionary forces are retreating from two directions. After the capture of the Suez Canal by the Chinese, they were no longer able to get supplies. The original supplies. If you save a little use, you can probably last for about 20 days. However, in order to shorten the logistical supply lines, the commander of the Anglo-French expeditionary forces, Admiral Horatio Herbert Kitchener, gave the order to retreat. They split into two ways. Withdrawn from the central region of the kingdom to the Red Sea coast, ready to wait for rescue from within the country.

The retreat began in late December, and by January 8, the Anglo-French forces had retreated to the Red Sea coast. It's just that all their supplies have almost run out. If it weren't for the fact that the Rashid family still had some influence in the original Hejaz region and had obtained some food from the Arabs. They can't hold on to their roots. Although, during their retreat, the squadron did not launch a pursuit, there was a lack of food. It was enough to defeat the Anglo-French expeditionary force, and Gen didn't need the squadron to do it.

Jeddah, on the shores of the Red Sea, became the largest assembly point of the British and French expeditionary forces. Here, the Anglo-French expeditionary force gathered more than 250,000 men. But. At this moment, these huge forces have become a headache for the top brass of the British and French expeditionary forces. There are many troops. It means that more materials are consumed. And at this moment, the expeditionary force already has not many supplies!

At the headquarters of the Anglo-French Expeditionary Force, Admiral Kitchener was almost desperate after learning that the navy had failed, that it had retreated, and that the coalition attack on Port Said had also suffered a crushing defeat! He summoned the senior officers of the expeditionary force to discuss countermeasures.

"General Brooke, how long will we be able to hold on to our food?" Admiral Kitchener asked. Major General Brooke, is the Quartermaster General of the Expeditionary Force. The Quartermaster General has always been fat. In a large-scale war, as long as you make a little money, you can make a lot of money. But now, Major General Brooke has regretted coming to the expeditionary force as the quartermaster general, these days, he is about to be tortured to madness!

"General, we don't have much food left, and we can hold out for five days at most, and this is already the case of reducing the rations of each soldier to a third. There is plenty of ammunition, but you can't eat it! Major General Brooke replied with a sad face!

"Damn, can you only last five days? What should we do after five days? Admiral Kitchener scolded viciously.

"Your Excellency Ali, the Hashed family, can you get us another batch of food? We're in a very precarious situation right now, you know that. The fate of the Hashed family and our expeditionary force has been tied together, and helping us is equivalent to helping the Hashid family! "Admiral Kitchener has put his hope in the Hashid family, the head of the land.

The patriarch of the Hashid family, Hussein Iari, said with a bitter face: "Your Excellency, because of the war, there are not many people left on the entire Red Sea coast, and it is impossible for us to get food now!" ”

"General, doesn't the country care about us?" Lieutenant General Adri, commander of the 2nd Army, asked. There are hundreds of thousands of people in the expeditionary force, and it is impossible to lose them in the country!

"I want to manage it in China, but there is no way! Yesterday, the Navy was already defeated by the Chinese, two battleships were sunk and one battleship was captured. The rest of the battleships also fled! The coalition forces attacked Port Said yesterday, but were defeated. The Chinese dispatched battleships and bombarded the coalition forces with large-caliber naval guns, and the coalition forces suffered heavy losses. At present, there are only more than 60,000 people left, and they can no longer attack Port Said! Lieutenant General Kitchener said with a gloomy face.

"Those bastards in the navy, they take so much military spending every year, but they can't even beat the yellow-skinned monkeys, it's just a bunch of rice buckets!" Lieutenant General Adri yelled. Previously, the navy of the British Empire was the world hegemon, the navy accounted for most of the military spending every year, and the army had nothing to say. But now, the navy has been repeatedly defeated by the Chinese, which makes the army very resentful!

"General, in other words, we can't get domestic support, this war, we have completely lost, haven't we?" This was stated by the commander of the 3rd Army, Lieutenant General Richard of the French Army.

"If God hadn't appeared, I think we would have lost!" Admiral Kitchener said helplessly.

"General, this is the Middle East, under the jurisdiction of Allah, I think, God will not manifest his spirit!" Lieutenant General Richard said. 、

"So, gentlemen, what shall we do now? In five days, all of us will be hungry, and then, without the need for Chinese to fight, as long as we are trapped for a few days, we will all be able to starve to death! Admiral Kitchener said.

"General, in that case, let's surrender to the Chinese! Anyway, this war has already been lost, and if it continues to fight, we will all starve to death. I think the Chinese must very much like to see this qiē. Like the Chinese, we surrender and at least live. Hundreds of thousands of coalition soldiers will also be able to return to China! Lieutenant General Richard said. The French have always taken life more seriously.

"Surrender?" Admiral Kitchener hesitated. As a general of the British Army, it is quite possible that someone will be promoted to field marshal. If he surrenders, then his military career is probably over. The British Army would not promote a captured man to the rank of field marshal. This made Admiral Kitchener a little unwilling!

"General, the soldiers do not yet know the news that the navy has been defeated and that the coalition forces have failed to open up logistical supply lines. Everyone is still waiting for domestic rescue. If the soldiers knew the truth, there would be a mutiny! Therefore, let's surrender to the Chinese as soon as possible! Lieutenant General Adri also said.

"Give me a moment to think about it!" Admiral Kitchener said.

On January 9, the squadron approached Jeddah. However, instead of attacking Jeddah, they set up positions fifteen kilometers from Jeddah, apparently preparing to besiege the British and French expeditionary forces here for a long time.

On January 10, two heavy cruisers of the Chinese Navy, along with several light cruisers and destroyers, appeared in the Red Sea off Jeddah. These battleships shelled Jeddah for two hours that day, and the British and French expeditionary forces suffered heavy losses under the shelling of the Chinese fleet.

"General, how are you thinking about it? We can't resist anymore. Now there are rumors in the army, and if it drags on any longer, I'm afraid there will be problems! Lieutenant General Edri asked anxiously.

"If we surrender to the Chinese, will they be able to accept it? You know, the supply of hundreds of thousands of people is enough to drag down the logistics supply lines of the Chinese. Admiral Kitchener said with some concern.

"General, this is a matter for the Chinese to consider. If they don't agree, we'll concentrate the last of our forces and attack them, and we'll fight them to the death! Lieutenant General Edri said.

"Well, that's all there is to it!" Admiral Kitchener concluded.

In the afternoon of the same day, Admiral Kitchener, with Lieutenant General Adri, personally went to the squadron's position and expressed his intention to surrender to the squadron. The squadron was immediately dumbfounded, hundreds of thousands of British and French troops were about to surrender to them without firing a single shot.

Lieutenant General Zhou Shun, who was in charge of commanding the squadron operations in the kingdom, could not call the shots and hurriedly reported to the country.

Although it is a big problem to bear the supply of hundreds of thousands of British and French troops, there is no doubt that these prisoners will also become an important bargaining chip in future negotiations, so the Chinese side finally agreed to accept the surrender of the British and French expeditionary forces!