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Chapter 480: A Painful Failure

"After this war is over, I must complete the ultimate mission of killing thousands of people and become the top ace sniper in the army!" With this belief, Longgang began to look for the next target again.

And the special forces of the dragon's tooth and cheetah like him are also trying their best to hunt down officers at all levels of the British army, constantly disintegrating the command system of the British army.

And the British troops, who had lost their command, were like a swarm of headless flies scurrying around, but wherever they hit, they were greeted by a dense barrage of bullets.

The British army, which could only be beaten passively and wanted to counterattack but could not see the enemy, could only swarm towards the outside of Tanta City.

However, when they came to the various passages to escape from the city, the sound of machine guns rang out quickly, and the tongues of fire that burst from the buildings on both sides formed a crossfire, firmly blocking every street leaving Tanta City, sweeping away groups of British soldiers who tried to leave the city.

In the face of the fire blockade of heavy machine guns, the British soldiers with only rifles in their hands could not form a powerful counterattack at all, and even the Snyder Enfield rifles and Martini Henry rifles, which were completely outdated in the hands of the British and Indian divisions, were no different from burning sticks at the moment.

And the small number of heavy machine guns in the British regular army were also named by grenades, and they were blown into a pile of useless parts at the beginning of the war.

At this time, the only artillery regiment of the 10th Army left outside the city also panicked when they looked at the gunfire in Tanta City in the distance.

However, at this moment, they were even more glad to have been dragged down by this heavy artillery and ammunition, otherwise if they also rushed into Tanta City, it is estimated that they would have fallen into the trap carefully prepared by the Egyptians.

"Commander, shall we open fire?" At this time, a soldier hesitated.

"Open the cannon, fire what cannon, don't you know that there are our own soldiers in it?" The bearded regiment commander who was nervous in his heart slapped the back of the soldier's head and said with a curse in his mouth.

At this moment, the bearded white regimental commander knew very well that if he did fire now, he would kill a British soldier, and he would go to court-martial.

For the sake of the rest of his life, even if he loses the war, he can't fire cannons casually, especially if there is no military order.

"So what do we do now?" Although the little soldier was very aggrieved in his heart, he still asked honestly.

"Wait!"

The bearded regimental commander looked at the gunfire and explosions in Tanta City in the distance, puffed out his bull's eyes, gritted his teeth and said.

"Wait?" Xiao Bing was stunned when he heard this, but after seeing the face of his regiment leader Tie Qing, he quickly shrank his head and didn't dare to ask again.

An hour, two hours, three hours, this battle of preparedness against unpreparedness lasted from noon to evening, and the gunfire in the city of Tanta gradually thinned out.

But until now, not a single British soldier has escaped from the city.

And the bearded regimental commander, who saw the bad situation, gave the order to retreat without thinking when he saw the Egyptian soldiers in turbans rushing towards them menacingly.

And he himself turned over and rode on the pack horse used to pull the cannon next to him, and then used the horsewhip in his hand to whip the horse's butt desperately, and then fled directly.

Seeing their commander, fleeing in the desert at this moment, the soldiers of the Tenth Army Artillery Regiment also immediately blew up the pot, and some of them grabbed the pack horse quickly and ran away.

Because the distance between the two sides was not close, when the Egyptian army that came out of the city of Tanta chased after them, these men from the British artillery regiment had already run out of two miles.

"Okay, don't chase it! Get more people, and carry these cannons and shells back to me!" The Egyptian officer who came out of the chase ordered loudly with a happy expression as he looked at the more than forty mighty cannons in front of him.

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"Old Xiao, we have won a big battle this time!"

In the underground command post in Tanta City, Wu Yun, the deputy of the sixth squad of the Dragon's Tooth Special Brigade in a black robe, walked in with joy in his tone.

The sixth squad of the Dragon's Tooth Special Brigade, who is responsible for commanding the defensive operation of Tanta this time, is the ten people of their squad, and the squad leader Xiao Zhan is the commander-in-chief.

"Tell me about it!"

After noticing the joy in Xiao Zhan's eyes, Wu Yun hurriedly said: "In this battle of Tanta, the Tenth Army of the British Egyptian Dispatch Army, from the commander Robert Wattle down, one British division, three British and Indian divisions, a total of 82,345 people, except for an artillery regiment of 3,000 people, because they stayed outside the city and escaped by luck when the war started, there are nearly 80,000 soldiers left, all of whom have been dumpled by us!"

Hearing this, although Xiao Zhan couldn't see his expression with a black cloth on his face, the excited look in his eyes was revealed.

"Great, I finally lived up to the original arrangement of the captain!" Xiao Zhan excitedly paced in the underground headquarters.

"By the way, immediately inform the Cairo General Command of the good news!"

"Hehe, I've already ordered this to go down before!"

After listening to Wu Yun's words, Xiao Zhan smiled in a relaxed tone: "Hehe, every time you guy, you always think about everything in front of me! [,！]！"

"Hehe!" the two of them laughed together.

"By the way, since the war is won, let the troops seize the time to clean up the battlefield. In addition, collect the weapons and equipment of the British, especially the ammunition, although most of them are a little behind, but they are also a gun, and when the time comes, they will be used to fight, and the British will provide ammunition, which will also reduce our logistical pressure.

After listening to Xiao Zhan's words, Wu Yun also nodded in agreement.

"By the way, Lao Xiao, this time we also captured more than 40 artillery pieces from the British, but unfortunately the largest caliber is only 75mm, and there are no heavy guns, but there are a lot of shells, and each cannon has about ten bases, which is enough for us to use for a while."

"Hehe, this is very good, no matter the caliber of the artillery, it is rare to have a cannon in this broken place of Egypt! Now with these captured artillery, there are nearly 100 artillery pieces in our hands! In this way, it is enough for us to fight a big battle!"

"Yes, I'll wait for the Briton to come over on its own! But now that it wants to come again, it won't be as easy as last time!"

"Haha......!"

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Egypt, Alexandria, British Egyptian Dispatch Command.

"Bang!"

A communications staff officer, with a pale face and a panicked look, slammed open the door to the office of Admiral George White, commander of the Egyptian Dispatch Army.

Putting down the pen in his hand, before George White could open his mouth to scold this reckless British officer, he immediately attracted all his attention by the news from his mouth.

"Commander, urgent military situation on the front!"

Hearing this, the attendant officer next to him immediately took over the information from the communications staff and handed it over to George White.

"What?

After reading the contents of the information, George White could no longer keep his composure, and he 'soared' and got up from his seat.

"The Tenth Army, except for the artillery regiment, was ambushed in the city of Tanta, and the whole army was annihilated! The Twelfth Army was ambushed in the city of Mansoura and the whole army was annihilated! How is it possible? How is it possible? This is a 160,000-strong army! Why is it so lost all of a sudden! Is it impossible?"

All of a sudden, George White was also devastated by the terrible news.

Then, after roaring, he vigorously tore the telegram in his hand and smashed it, then bypassed the desk, strode to the front, reached out and grabbed the collar of the communications staff officer, and asked angrily: "If you dare to fake military information, I will kill you!"

Faced with George White's hideous face, the communications staff officer's face turned white with fright.

"Commander, I'm not lying, the communications corps who came back from the front-line troops is in the barracks.

Hearing this, George White stared at the eyes of the communications soldier until more than ten seconds later, and then reached out and pushed him, threw him to the ground, and then said to his attendant: "Hans, you immediately send my order to all the troops, let them gather the troops as quickly as possible, replenish the supplies and weapons and ammunition, and the whole army will go south. This time, I will personally take Tanta and Mansura, and then crush the Egyptian bugs there one by one!"

By the time he said the last few words, George White almost crushed his teeth.

The loss of 160,000 troops was so miserable that George White was heartbroken.

"Commander, if we are all gone, what ...... the defense of Alexandria?"

George White interrupted the adjutant with a wave of his hand, and then said with a resolute and cold expression: "Give it to the navy! Don't they have marines? Let them garrison Alexandria!"

"Yes, Commander!"

With the issuance of George White's military order, the British and Egyptian troops who were still stranded in Alexandria sent 450,000 troops on the left flank and began to move south one after another.

The 400,000 British troops on the right in Port Said, also under the orders of George White, began to attack Mansour along the railroad.

The real battle of the Second Anglo-Egyptian War was about to begin.

After several heavy losses, the British Egyptian army, which had put away its contempt for Egypt's rescue and became more cautious, attacked in the direction of Cairo with a crushing posture completely relying on the superiority of its own forces.

And until the gap in the quality and equipment of the Egyptian army, it completely gave up the idea of fighting a field war with the British, and all the staff shrank in the city, relying on the complex terrain of the city to fight an urban war.

The fighting between the soldiers on both sides became even more brutal.

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