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Therefore, at the beginning of the decision to retreat, George White had already made up his mind to abandon all the servant divisions and let them continue to hold back the Egyptian attack and ensure the safety of the white troops and officers of the five most elite native British divisions. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

And these troops were the basis for George White's counterattack again.

At this moment, George White's words put the other senior officers of the servant division at ease.

"Okay, the order has been understood, now go back and organize the troops to act according to the plan!"

"Yes, Commander!"

After seeing them leave, George White walked out of the military tent, turned to look at the battlefield in the distance, and the ruined Tanta City in the rear, and couldn't help but grit his teeth secretly.

"I will definitely come back!"

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Five regular divisions of the British army, nearly 100,000 people, they were the main force to resist Egypt's rescue. It was also the cornerstone that allowed the British army to stabilize from the initial attack! It was precisely because they stabilized their position that the other more than 200,000 British and Indian divisions and black servant divisions gradually settled down from the initial chaos. And gradually, under the command of the British ** officer, he began to build obstacles, and fought with the Egyptian army on the opposite side.

Since most of Tanta's Egyptian army is also a recruit who has just been trained for three months, there are not too many veterans, so after the beginning of Yu Yong. After the offensive slowly weakened, the two sides fought a Qihu parity.

And at this moment, five regular divisions of the British army in the center of the entire battlefield. Under the pretext of 'resting', they gradually retreated, while the Anglo-Indian divisions on the left and right, under the leadership of their respective commanders, began to make up for the gaps in their departures.

At this time, the soldiers of the Anglo-Indian division did not have suspicions.

After all, five British divisions fought for more than seven hours and withstood the onslaught offensive that the Egyptians had just begun. The losses were relatively heavy, and now it is also appropriate to withdraw to the rear for a short rest. However, in one breath, the withdrawal of all five divisions still made a few people wonder in their hearts.

However, the military order has been issued. Even if the soldiers of the Anglo-Indian division were a little suspicious, they strictly carried out the military order.

But after only half an hour, they realized that something was wrong, because the white officer who had been directing their resistance. All of a sudden, they were all gone. And before you know it, you don't have much ammunition at hand.

"Those damn British bastards. They threw us off and ran away!"

At this time, the roar of the train attracted most of the attention of the Anglo-Indian army and the black servant army who were resisting the Egyptian army in front.

Looking at the British ** officers who were different from their own skin colors and were still directing their attack before, all the British and Indian soldiers who saw this scene were in an uproar.

The will to resist, which was not very strong, collapsed immediately. First of all, the troops in the rear dropped their guns and began to chase the starting train, trying to leave safely on the train, like the officers.

Subsequently. More and more people realized that it was not good, and they also began to run backwards.

As more and more soldiers join the ranks. A massive rout took place on a two-kilometre-wide front outside Tanta.

At this time, the Egyptian army took advantage of the situation to attack, and chased after the retreating Anglo-Indian soldiers and black servant soldiers.

Looking at the British and Indian soldiers who were powerless to resist under the pursuit of Egyptian soldiers from a distance through the car window, George White, who was standing on the train, sighed deeply, closed his eyes with twitching corners of his mouth, and collapsed on the forehead seat next to him.

The defeat in the Tanta War completely knocked out the arrogance in George White's heart and made him begin to face up to his opponent.

"I won't fail next time!"

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And at this moment, seeing that Tanta's victory was certain, Longgang, who was ambushed in the rear, also took out the silencer from his backpack and loaded it on the sniper rifle in his hand.

Then he slowly aimed at the figure who was riding his horse and raising his sword, commanding the troops to fight. The expression on his face slowly became cold, and the sharpness in his eyes became sharper.

"Smack!"

With a low gunshot, Muhammad Muwei, the commander of the Egyptian Eighth Army, who was in the midst of the heavy guards in the distance, fell in response.

Soon after, the other deputy commanders, as well as some division commanders under the command of the Eighth Army, also fell one by one. Although some confusion inevitably occurred in the Egyptian army on the battlefield because of their sudden death, the impact of this confusion was minimized in the context of victory.

Moreover, all laid their deaths on the heads of the British, and no one doubted that these people died under the guns of those mysterious chiefs.

There was only one person who had a vague guess about all this.

Gamal Abdul Nasser hunched over and clutched the reins of the horse beneath him, nervous and hoping that the sniper hiding in the darkness would not aim at him.

As for escaping, he didn't think about it at all, because from three years ago to now, he had never seen those Egyptian soldiers who wanted to overthrow the commanders in chief have a fate that could escape death.

He didn't think he could get away with it, but more importantly, he didn't participate in Muhammad Muwei's secret organization, but instead made a name for himself. This was the basis for Nasser's peace of mind.

Despite this, but at this moment, watching his colleagues fall under the gun, the threat of death made Nasser feel that his whole body muscles were frozen, and it was not until half an hour later that he exhaled softly, although his entire back was wet with cold sweat, and his body was soft and did not feel the slightest strength, but Nasser did not care about it, he knew that this threat of death, he had passed it safely.

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On June 28, 1885, due to the destruction of the Damanhur logistics warehouse and railway station, George White's 22nd division and 360,000 troops, which had lost their logistical supplies, were defeated by 180,000 Egyptian troops under the city of Tanta.

In the end, except for five British divisions of more than 70,000 men, and 20,000 scattered British and Indian troops, they retreated safely to Damanhur and regained their position. The rest of the nearly 270,000 troops were all annihilated, and none of them survived!

The defeat of the British army on the West Road by George White also affected the British Army on the East Road. After four days of fighting, but still unable to take the 320,000 British troops on the east road of Mansura, in order not to repeat the mistakes of the British army on the west road, they hurriedly withdrew from the northern city of Mansura, which had been occupied, retreated five kilometers, and mobilized a division again to re-strengthen the defense of Dumyat, the logistics base of the British army on the east road, and then rested for three days before resuming the attack on Mansura.

However, less than half a month after the start of the Second Egyptian War, the news of the successive defeats and the loss of nearly 400,000 soldiers reached the British government, causing an uproar throughout the country.

If it is said that the last Cairo defeat can be used to be careless and fall into the trap carefully arranged by Egypt to save **. With this successive defeats, it is clear that it is no longer possible to use mistakes to cover up the failure of command of the Egyptian Dispatch Command.

Of course, it is precisely because of the successive defeats that the British began to gradually face up to the military strength of Egypt and make efforts to study the command and combat methods of the Egyptian army.

Guerrilla warfare, a way of fighting that seriously threatened the logistical supply lines of the British army and firmly held back a large number of British soldiers, was also taken seriously by senior officials of the War Office for the first time. And soon found a solution.

And George White, who had saved a large number of the lives of the British troops on his own, was not dismissed from his post as commander of the British Egyptian Dispatch Army.

At the same time as receiving the new military order, George White, who hated these annoying Egyptian guerrillas, began to follow the orders of the War Department, and attacked heavily to clean up the Egyptian villages, and then imprisoned them in concentration camps, and were slaughtered at the slightest resistance.

Soon, all the Egyptian villages and towns in northern Egypt that had fallen to the British were plunged into a bloody storm. Although the brutality of the British forced more and more Egyptians to join the revolt, the British did achieve their goal.

The guerrillas active in northern Egypt were wiped out in large numbers because they lost the cover of the local Egyptians and had no food and other supplies. The momentum is fading.

But over Egypt, the determination to resist the British invasion and massacre became more and more firm.

And this is also what Huo Jiajun expects. The population of Egypt as a whole was close to fifteen million, making it one of the highest among all the colonies in Africa. So, as the Egyptian people's resistance to the British invasion grew, the dragon's teeth and cheetahs took the opportunity to expand, borrowing weapons from the British, and once again raised an army of 600,000 people, although these Egyptians only had an outdated rifle in their hands and not many bullets, but they had weapons.

Therefore, with the re-invasion of the British army, the resistance of the whole Egypt became more and more fierce.

In order to conquer this land close to the Suez Canal and the geographical location is extremely critical, the British were not to be outdone, and began to send a steady stream of soldiers from major colonies to join the Egyptian battlefield.

Because of the low military expenses of the servant soldiers, this time the British also completely let go of their hands and feet.

All of a sudden, the Indian Ocean from India to Egypt was covered with various types of transport ships of different tonnages, and the transporters on them were all dazed, ragged Indian men, who were transported to Egypt in batches like African black slaves in the Age of Discovery.

According to incomplete statistics, in the Second Anglo-Egyptian War, Britain transferred a total of 10 million adult men from India, and except for more than 800,000 who died at sea for various reasons, all the rest reached Egypt. (To be continued.) )