Vienna, Schönbrunn Palace.

News of the victories in Alexandria and Beirut reached Vienna, and Franz was curious as to why Muhammad Ali had not surrendered.

If the fight continues, not to mention that the government of Muhammad Ali cannot be saved, even the whole of Egypt may be annexed by the Ottoman Empire.

Of course, this is not that Ali refused to surrender, but that the British did not want the Egyptians to surrender, and they wanted to weaken Ali's power as much as possible, and it was better to raise a puppet loyal to them.

In this way, French investment would be lost and it would be excluded from the ranks of the Near East hegemony.

Theoretically, this is fine, but there is a minor problem, and that is that Egypt, which is too weak, may re-enter the Ottoman territory instead of being a vassal state.

This was naturally no problem for the British, but for Austria and France it was a big problem.

Franz felt that Tripoli and Tunisia were very suitable for Austrian colonies because of their proximity and great development potential.

But once the Ottoman Empire recovered Egypt, the two borders of Tripoli and Tunisia were bound to return to the Ottoman sphere of influence.

If Austria had forcibly colonized these two regions, or had established some kind of relationship with these two lands through the upper echelons, would Britain have another Turkish-Egyptian war under the pretext of preserving the territorial integrity of the Ottomans?

The concerns of the French were similar to those of the Austrians, and Algeria in their hands was also the territory of the Ottoman Empire in the past.

Moreover, the French also had ambitions in Tunisia, and in Egypt huge interests, and if the Ottomans outlawed the government of Muhammad Ali, then the French would lose all their investment, which was not acceptable in any case.

Syrian battlefield.

With the melodious grenadier march, Redwood Army A went up.

General Gabrinz, seeing the British attacking, also ordered the Austrians to begin to play music and prepare for the attack. How to say it, Austria is a country of art, and there are several kinds of military music.

The soldiers, to the beat of the drums, began to move forward.

The scattered men of the coalition forces quickly took out the light infantry of the Egyptian army, and the main line infantry of both sides finally came to face.

But in the face of the coalition forces, which had the advantage of artillery fire and skirmishers, the Egyptian ranks were incomplete from the beginning. After entering the platoon stage, this disadvantage is even more obvious, and the soldiers of the coalition forces are of higher quality and better equipment.

On the other hand, the Egyptian line, fearful of being fired, fired the first shot, and then the Egyptian line, which was still two hundred meters away from the coalition column, began to fire.

There was no doubt that the lethality of such a shot was extremely limited, and only a crackling puff of white smoke could be heard, and only a few extremely unlucky soldiers in the coalition column were knocked down, but their positions would be immediately filled by their comrades in the back.

The commander of the Egyptian line had to order the soldiers to quickly reload the bullets while continuing to shoot, looking at the approaching coalition line, the Egyptian officer simply broke the jar and gave the order "Free fire!" ”

Colonel Carter saw the stupid ways of fighting the Egyptians, and he knew that the battle was won. So he asked the soldiers to bring tables and chairs and coffee.

"Dear General Gabrinz, do you need a cup of coffee?"

At that time, many of the officers were nobles, and it was not uncommon for commanders to take their mistresses to lunch with such front-line desperate work.

"Thanks, please give me a drink."

Colonel Carter asked after pouring a cup of coffee for Gabrentz.

"Do you need to add sugar?"

Then he found himself doing something stupid, and Gabrinz was putting the candy cube directly in his mouth, and the two sides looked at each other in embarrassment.

Finally, the soldiers of the coalition army reached a distance of 50 paces under the rain of bullets. (The Austrians stopped at 70 paces, when the style of European countries was different, and the commanders were not the same.) ）

"Ready!"

The muzzle of the black hole of the coalition soldier was instantly pointed at the Egyptian soldiers who were desperately reloading their bullets.

"Aim!"

"Shoot!"

The ranks of the coalition forces flashed for a while, the gunfire was continuous, and after the smoke passed, a layer of Egyptian soldiers was directly emptied.

The Egyptian army's first few lines collapsed directly, because hundreds or thousands of people were killed at the same time, and the effect was too shocking.

However, the allied firing did not end, the first row of volleys immediately gave way to the second row, and the second row continued to fire, again with another round of guns, this time the Egyptians fell more.

The Egyptian army behind was already choked by the shells, and seeing the front team being emptied row by row, fear had already enveloped them, if it weren't for the overseers behind who kept killing people, these people would have fled a long time ago.

After the second salvo was over, the coalition soldiers who had just fired collectively crouched down to reload, and the soldiers behind continued to shoot.

After three volleys, there was no one left in the Egyptian line that had initially encountered the coalition forces, and the Egyptian troops, who were still hundreds of meters away from the coalition forces, began to shoot again.

In terms of the accuracy of the smoothbore guns and the level of training of the Egyptians, the coalition soldiers could leisurely load their bullets.

Another cycle resumed, and Ibrahim wiped the beads of sweat from his forehead, his most elite troops being harvested like immobile scarecrows.

Although he was unwilling to accept this reality, he had to think for himself that if he continued to fight with the coalition forces, he himself might be captured.

So Ibrahim rode his beloved camel and led the charge, while he gave the order to retreat. Although Ibrahim's order was to retreat, the retreat quickly turned into a rout.

At this time, the 600 hussars brought by Gabrinz were finally able to do their job, and the cavalry fought out from the flank, ready to cut off the fleeing enemy.

Keep in mind that the infantry in formation is the nemesis of the cavalry, but the fleeing infantry is almost 0 threatening to the cavalry.

The hollow phalanx even put an end to the era of cavalry domination of the battlefield, but it was difficult for infantry with rifles alone to hit high-speed cavalry without formation.

Not to mention, most of the bullets in the Egyptian infantry guns were empty, and they were caught up by the hussars before they even had time to load their bayonets.

These hussars are born butchers, especially when faced with such infantry who do not even have bayonets.

The cavalry raised their sabers on their horses and harvested the poor Egyptian soldiers with inertia. However, most Egyptian soldiers chose not to resist, but to find a way to run past those around them, and they seemed to feel safe doing so.

But they seem to have forgotten one thing, and that is that horses have four legs, and they only have two. The cavalry repeatedly charged in the camp of the Egyptian army, and the allied infantry also loaded their bayonets and began to charge.

Everyone must have heard that "a bullet is a fool, a bayonet is a hero." This famous quote from the famous Russian military commander Suvorov.

However, many people don't know that he once said, "To fight a bayonet, you have to keep bullets, and if you don't have bullets, you can't even be stupid." ”

The coalition soldiers launched a cluster charge with bayonets, and at this time, the Egyptian army, which was bombarded by artillery fire, named by stragglers, subjected to several rounds of guns, and protruded by cavalry, had long had no morale at all.

The coalition soldiers did not fight with bayonets, as long as they did not kneel down and throw away their weapons, they would go up with one or two knives. Even those Egyptian soldiers who surrendered with their weapons were inevitably hit with the butt of a rifle.

Treat prisoners of war well? Inexistent! In this era, there are not even the Geneva Conventions, and it is entirely up to the soldiers to stay behind or not.

(End of chapter)