Chapter 264: The End of the Cavalry

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The British cavalry was greeted by a grand suicide.

Originally, they thought that they were only dealing with the colonial armies of France and Germany, a group of weak people who had no power to resist. However, what awaited the British cavalry was not a clumsy artillery corps, but two infantry divisions of the well-trained French elite that had been transferred from the previous Rhine Corps.

Wolseley abandoned the most important function of cavalry in order to achieve his goal quickly, covering the flanks and raids. However, the mistake of intelligence made him think that the French had only planted a group of artillery to hold the position, and he would never have thought that Napoleon had actually planted an infantry division for further attacks.

He made the same mistake as Arabi and believed in the promises of imperialism, and the British thought that France would not be so quick to do so if they had an idea, but he did it faster than he could have imagined.

It was too late to rein in the precipice, and the loaded bullets were aimed at the cavalry that rushed to charge, and the British generals were doomed to pay for their recklessness.

The machine guns were in full swing, and the galloping cavalry was swept to the ground directly by the dense fire, and blood was splattered everywhere.

The charge was nothing but a futile suicide, and the reformers represented by Wolseley had not foreseen the changes of future warfare, an era without cavalry, steel cannons and Mark steel chariots replaced the original line infantry and cavalry charges, and dense machine gun formations became the new Grim Reaper.

The Industrial Revolution forged the machine of war and harvested the souls of the vanquished.

French industry fired the first shot of modern warfare, and those who did not have time to change will remain in the past forever and become the dust of history.

The dust was flying, and in this scorching land, countless young lives fell here.

The corpses fell one after another, and no matter how long the straggler line of the cavalry stretched, the Maxim in the trenches had formed a net of fire, which smashed all over the British, and the last glory of those proud horses did not leap across the barbed wire under the horses' hooves, and deep trenches.

Charging forward awaits its itself with bullets, and ...... backwards There is no turning back.

Their admired individual qualities, noble and heroic cavalry charge, did not save lives that were lost to them because of stupidity.

Eventually, the cavalry camp fell to the ground, and the British infantry divisions did not have time to keep up with them. The raid on the Eastern Front turned into a war of encirclement - not even a siege, they were almost always slaughtered, a senseless charge to the positions of the French.

The British officers proved one thing with their stupidity, the cavalry was no longer fit for the pace of the present war.

After the smoke was over, the battlefield was left with a mess of dead bodies. and the groans of pain from those who are not yet dead.

The horses stood bewildered, arching their master's corpse with their nostrils, but received no response.

The British infantry division, which had been marching rapidly, did not arrive at the scene until after a short engagement, and the cavalry regiment, which had lost more than half of its troops, retreated, and when they saw the cavalry team with heavy losses, they knew that the raid had failed.

The French may have been waiting for them to fall into the trap, but the British were still proud to think they were unnoticed.

Who would have thought that the arms that occupied an important advantage in the Franco-Prussian War would only end up being beaten by the French.

Condebell patrolled the battlefield, the French army did not pay much price, and the British cavalry carried out a senseless suicidal attack, although their courage deserves to be applauded. However, the outcome was no different from the previous Crimean War.

Stupid and incompetent commanders, chaotic ways of fighting, Napoleon slapped them hard when the British thought that the entire European army was in the same bad situation as the Russians.

"The British have declared war on us."

Con Robert showed no mercy, and he ordered his soldiers to quickly clear the battlefield and strengthen the defenses.

"Now they are ready to start a conflict with us over the colonies, and France has a fair reason to fight back. But before I can do that, I have to negotiate with the Cairo side. Gain the trust of Arabi and the others, and as long as the vast majority of their forces are still consumed in the British colonies, we will have a chance to drive straight ahead and cut off the other party's retreat. ”

The British base camp had just received the news that they had suffered heavy losses in the war with the French, and that they had lost nearly half of their men before the attack had even begun.

This is definitely ominous news for Wolseley.

Before the herald had time to catch his breath, he reported the news directly to the British Provisional Command.

Gladstone's pen fell straight to the ground.

The bad news came as a surprise.

He couldn't believe that the cavalry regiment sent out would be wiped out, or in such an embarrassing form.

"How is that possible? Our intelligence clearly shows that they have only deployed some artillery that is far less mobile than cavalry, why is this the end? ”

Wolseley stood up in surprise, he thought it was something wrong, but after repeated confirmation he found that the cavalry had been routed and the two infantry divisions had made no further move. The Eastern Front became an unbridgeable chasm that lay in front of the British army.

Wolseley thought about it for a moment, and he felt that the current situation was no longer a colonial war that 20,000 soldiers could control, and with the French being in the way, it was necessary to continue to increase the number of troops in the colonies.

"I will report to London that France has declared war on Britain."

The expressions of everyone in the command were grim, and no one wanted to accept the current situation, but from the gloomy expression of Wolseley, it was clear that they were going to fight the legendary French Imperial Legion as a last resort.

Some of the people present laughed at the Transvaal's embarrassing battle loss ratio and the commander who was being pointed at behind everyone's back.

He said that the French were far ahead of their time, but no one wanted to believe his words, and they thought that they were just a clumsy excuse to avoid accusations, and now it seems that his words may have been a prophecy of this war.

"Now the war is no longer a contest between Egypt and England, even the French and Germans are involved."

Wolsley muttered to himself, "I'm afraid that the conflict and friction will intensify." It is not clear that this piece of Egypt will eventually become the front line of the conflict between the three military powers. ”

A key question haunts everyone's minds: will Egypt be at the forefront of the war conflict between the imperialist powers of Europe?

Everyone is waiting for the final decision from the London side.