Just now he happened to see black smoke rising from the reeds, and another foreigner came out of it in a panic, so he rowed over to find out, but he did not expect him to discover a shocking secret: there were a large group of royal family members hidden in the reeds by the river, and he estimated that these people must be the ministers who had been driven out of the palace by the Roman army yesterday.

It turns out that they are not dead, they are all hiding here?! Haikui's white eyes rolled a few times, and he swallowed hard and spit, as if he saw a big mountain of gold falling head-on, this time he was going to make a great contribution again, and the bounty was indispensable, he decided to report to the team leader immediately, so he turned the bow of the boat and rowed towards the shore with all his might.

After three days of resistance, the Supreme Commander of the Egyptian Army issued an order to retreat.

That's when the tragedy began. If the army commanders and division commanders received the amnesty order, they rushed out of the city first, and some simply abandoned their troops and fled first.

But the 100,000 officers and soldiers stationed in the capital would have to risk their lives in either direction, because the Romans had now surrounded Cairo in three or four circles and were besieging it fiercely.

100,000 troops who were ordered to retreat fled desperately along the Zhongbei Road, Zhonger Road and Xiaguan. At the estuary gate, the city gate and the side of the road, which must be passed to Xiaguan, the situation is unusual. Everywhere there were rifles, bullets, belts, uniforms, cars, trucks, and more abandoned by the Egyptian army.

Countless vehicles that had been shot were burning, creating patches of fire.

The officers and men who had managed to escape to the Shimonoseki wharf did everything they could, but before they had time to rejoice in their fate, an even more tragic situation was placed in front of them.

Only a few tugboats, dinghies, sailboats, and small sampans remained in the port of Shimonoseki, and the larger ships were all burned out, and thousands of people relied on them to cross the river, and it was still at night.

All passenger ships are overloaded, and according to the regulations, one person can only bring one piece of luggage on board, and more will be heavily fined. Waves of frightened crowds swarmed in from the entrance. Refugees dragged their families and screamed aboard an overwhelmed passenger ship.

When the mountains and rivers were exhausted, in order to survive, some of the officers and soldiers jumped off the Nile with a wooden plank, and when a wave hit, they were swept to the bottom of the river. Some officers hired a boat at a high price, and before he could leave the shore, dozens of people swarmed up and climbed up, and the wooden boat was so crowded that it sank into the middle of the river before it reached the middle of the river.

The shore was even more chaotic, and groups of retreating soldiers carried stretchers and supported the wounded, and noisily rushed in from the entrance. Soon there was the long whistle of another steamer setting sail.

An ambulance approached with a whistle. The already chaotic shore was even more agitated: two bright headlights pierced a path through the dim crowd.

A short, dark-faced lieutenant colonel officer jumped on the pedal of a truck and shouted hoarsely to the crowd: "Don't crowd, let the wounded go first!" Don't squeeze! Don't squeeze! ”

The army and civilians were crowded together, and the roads were completely blocked by people and traffic.

At this moment, two motorcycles opened the road, followed by a black car, breaking through the crowd and noisy crowd.

The crowd blocked the entrance to the pier, and motorcycles and cars honked their horns constantly.

Someone in the crowd shouted: "It looks like the commander-in-chief's car!" ”

"Still so spirited?"

"Leave us Cairo people alone!"

Inside the car, the commander-in-chief raised his wrist and glanced at the luminous watch: 3:30.

Window with sheer curtains can reveal the silhouette of a rioted crowd on the road.

There was a "bang", and a stone fell on the car.

"Bang! Bang! Bang! ......" one after another, all kinds of unidentified heavy objects smashed on various parts of the car.

The driver turned back worriedly and said, "Commander-in-chief, bow your head!" ”

The commander-in-chief was motionless, his mind blank.

A hard object smashed into the window, and the window pane showed a mesh crack.

Motorcycles and sedans were forced to stop. At this time, the lieutenant colonel officer just now raised a charge/forward/gun and fired a shuttle of bullets into the sky, "Dadada, dada......!!! ”

The crowd was stunned by the sound of gunfire. Soon, people automatically moved out of the way, and Tang Shengzhi's motorcade finally got through the human wall and came to the river.

On the dark river, a passenger ship came in the distance with lights on. The ship was docked, and a line of servicemen stood next to the ship's side.

The commander-in-chief, supported by the adjutant, walked up to the bridge, and he turned back and asked the lieutenant colonel officer: "What is your name?" ”

The lieutenant colonel saluted and replied: "Report to the chief, I am the chief staff officer of the teaching corps, Molny. ”

"Very well, aren't you going with my boat?"

"No, sir, I'm going to save the commander and the other commanders."

The commander-in-chief didn't say anything, nodded, and got back on the passenger liner, which sounded its whistle and headed across the river.

Soon after, the passenger ship approached the Pukou wharf on the other side of the river, and the commander-in-chief and several deputy commanders went ashore, hurriedly got into a large truck, and headed straight for another big city.

The night was like ink, and the wind was gusting. In the woods on the hillside, in a temporary command shed made of pine and cypress branches, stood a lieutenant colonel of the Egyptian Egyptian Army with binoculars around his neck, several orderlies, guards, and so on.

A herald hurried up from the bottom of the hill, panting to the lieutenant colonel, and gave a military salute.

The lieutenant colonel asked, "Did you hear anything?" ”

The herald gasped and said, "Indeed...... Withdrawn. ”

The lieutenant colonel asked, "What was withdrawn?" ”

The herald said: "The commander-in-chief has withdrawn from Cairo!" At two o'clock, someone saw his car on the dock, and the windows were smashed by the people. ”

The lieutenant colonel grimaced and remained silent.

The lieutenant colonel muttered: "It is not allowed to disclose the news of the commander-in-chief's retreat to anyone, so as not to discourage the army." Now that the Romans have surrounded us and led a large army to retreat, the goal is too big, gather the guard squad and break through with me at once. Are my stuff ready? ”

The orderly said, "Ready, sir." ”

The lieutenant colonel looked down at a few suitcases and a huge bedding ring. He began to take off his military uniform, and the orderly understood at a glance, and took out a set of civilian clothes for him to change into.

The orderlies and guards changed into civilian clothes.

The guard said, "Regiment commander, we are the first to go first. ”

The lieutenant colonel waved his hand: "Let's go, let's go." ”

The next day, a disastrous day for the people of Cairo, began a bloody massacre.

On this day, the Egyptian army, which had received the order to retreat, had given up resistance, and entire regiments and battalions of soldiers surrendered to the Roman army, and those who did not surrender had collapsed.

Tens of thousands of Roman soldiers with a sense of revenge, with the explosion of **, waiting in the middle gate, front gate, water west gate, middle second gate and other places, with a red signal flare rising into the sky, the Roman army like a hungry wolf hunting, like a tiger down the mountain, crazy rush to the city.

They have lost their humanity, they burn their houses when they see them, they kill people when they see them, and they rape women when they see them. This day was the darkest, bloodiest, saddest, and most tragic day in Egyptian history.

Early that morning, the Roman army attacked the main city of Cairo in six directions. Like a herd of wild beasts, the Romans rushed into the houses to burn and plunder, and the common people panicked and fled in all directions through the narrow streets of Cairo, looking for as many places as they could hide.

Cairo was full of Roman soldiers, with khaki uniforms and white bayonets everywhere. There is no way for the people to escape. As soon as the common people fled to the east, a burst of machine-gun bullets swept across the east, killing and wounding countless people in an instant; As soon as the people fled to the west, there was another sound of slashing and killing from the west, and the people had to run out of the city.

There is no safe place outside the city. Large numbers of refugees fled to the area around Shimonoseki, the dock area, which was one of the most murderous places for the Roman army.

On the various piers along the river, the Romans carried out bloody massacres, and the bodies of the dead were thrown into the Nile, and the river was stained red. At this time, another group of refugees fled northeast along the Dogon Hill area.

The two wings of Roman troops followed the fleeing crowd and soon reached the area of the Jinxiang River in the Dogon Mountains. At the Jinxiang River, the Romans engaged in a battle with the Egyptian army in ambush. The Egyptian army, two regiments of the 88th Division, with about 1,000 men still in formation, fought a fierce battle with the Romans here.

The blue sky is far away, the gulls are soaring, the light boat is chasing the waves, and the water is rippling...... Where am I? Where am I? Richard seemed to be lying on a light boat, only to feel the sun shining brightly and his spirit fluttering.

He struggled to open his eyes, the first thing that caught his eye was the pale sun and the flickering black smoke, and when he looked down, he found his head resting on a corpse, floating in the water, which was a Roman soldier.

Richard shook his head vigorously, trying to break free of some kind of bond, trying to remember what had happened. Am I fighting? Is this a battlefield?

After a while, I remembered that I was engaged in hand-to-hand combat with a group of Roman devils on the city tower, blood splattered flesh, ghosts cried wolf, and a Roman officer pulled the *** on the explosive/medicine bag and threw it over, and he flew off the city tower and jumped down, and then lost consciousness.

Am I still alive?

………… I'm alive.

Richard moved his right hand, and found that his right hand was still holding a large knife, and his left hand was holding a log, and his whole body was floating, his limbs were numb from the cold, and his legs were unconscious. He looked around and saw a tall wall not far away, and he was supposed to be in the moat. Probably after jumping from the tower, he instinctively grabbed the corpse of a Roman soldier and was swept away by the current in a coma.

By this time, it was already dawn, and the city was filled with intermittent gunfire. A cannonball flew head-on with a heart-pounding screech, and the earth was shaken with a violent explosion. The two Egyptian and Roman armies collided head-on on the city walls, and soon they were strangled together, shouting and screaming, screaming, and clashing guns.

Suddenly, everything vanished, and there was a chilling silence.