"What is that?" A knight could already see the pyramids and the city walls of Cairo on the war horse.

The other soldiers in the expeditionary army then saw the top of the pyramid as high as a hill in the distance. There was a stir in the crowd and stopped to watch. Almost no one of them had seen the pyramid.

"Prepare to arrange the array! We are not here to visit this time, the enemy will appear soon!" Sun Chuanting commanded the soldiers in front to start the array.

Cairo City is the capital of the Egyptian province, and the enemy will definitely concentrate their troops in Cairo City. At this time, they saw the pyramids and the city walls of Cairo City, which means that the battle to expedition to Egypt will soon begin.

The people of Venice and the Pope were also rectifying their troops. They realized that they had already entered the hinterland of Egypt, and it would be difficult for them to escape if they were defeated in this battle. If they failed, they would be chased by the Mamluk cavalry hundreds of miles away.

The 16,000 Expeditionary Force set up a formation outside Cairo City where you can see the pyramid. They divided them into nine square formations according to their respective forces.

The infantry, British militia and Malta knights led by Sun Chuanting were located in the middle and formed a large array.

The troops of the Pope formed two square formations, the Sicilian army formed two square formations, and the Venetians formed four square formations, a total of eight square formations. The two staggered columns of the Pope and the Sicilian army were deployed on the left wing of the Great Square formation, close to the Nile River, with a total of 5,000 people. The Venetian square formations were also deployed on the right wing of the Great Square formation, with a total of 7,000 people. The pressure they were under was much greater than that of the left wing.

Although there are only 4,000 people in the middle, since they use hollow square arrays, a large square array looks similar to the four small square arrays on the left and right wings.

The Expeditionary Force hurriedly deployed their own square formations, and several commanders gathered in the middle of the large square formation, discussing the surrounding terrain and what might happen.

"According to reason, we should have encountered the opponent's defenders before we arrived in Cairo, but they have not appeared until now, which means they are still summoning the army. Since we have arrived here, we will come out to fight us regardless of whether they are ready or not. The fortifications of Cairo City are still in the backward mode of medieval times, that is, as long as we defeat their main force in the battle, there will be no problem in taking Cairo City."

"They may not attack our formation from the middle, but attack the right wing from the side, and the Venetian square must resist. If they attack from the right wing, the square between us will move forward, and their flanks will be exposed to the attack of our square."

"There are our ships on the Nile, and they are unlikely to attack the left wing, otherwise they will face artillery attacks on our ships."

According to the deployment of each square array, Sun Chuanting drew a simple array diagram on the ground: "Where are your artillery deployed?"

"We put it here, here, and here..." Konal marked the location of the cannon on his phalanx.

The key to winning this time is the use of artillery. When the enemy's cavalry appears, the artillery will cause a huge psychological blow to the enemy.

The shallow water fleet on the Nile broke down and the commander was Capelo, a veteran of Venice. As for Sun Xu, he stayed in Alexandria, and the sailing ships and ironclad ships were not convenient to enter the Nile, and they also had to prevent the remnants of the Ottoman Empire from assembling again.

"Be prepared for the battle, they rely on the transportation of the Nile River, and there will definitely be an inland fleet." Capelo ordered.

They brought more than a dozen shallow water gunboats to provide logistics for the troops.

Everyone was nervously preparing for the battle. The hot sun hung in the air, and almost all the soldiers' foreheads were covered with sweat.

Hannah stood in the middle of the hollow square formation, and she stayed with the knights of the Knights of the Hospital, beside her a war horse.

When the situation is unfavorable, their cavalry team will emerge from the square like thunder to turn the situation around.

But when you really want to use the heavy cavalry of the Knights of the Hospital, it means that the situation is already very bad.

"Let's go, during the Crusade Expedition, our ancestors fought on this land like us. After that, follow me and move forward bravely. Never stop, otherwise you will be surrounded by enemies." Castella said.

His war horse was dressed in costume, and he had not put on his armor to maintain his strength.

"I will fight hard!" Hannah said.

An artillery group composed of more than a dozen soldiers pushed the artillery into the square array, and the hollow square array was facing the column in the direction of Cairo, revealing eight light field guns.

"Two machine guns are placed in these two positions to form cross fire, and the remaining two machine guns are placed on both wings."

The soldiers of the machine gun team pushed two machine guns forward.

The front with the strongest firepower of the hollow square array was deployed with eight light field guns and two hand-cranked Gatling machine guns.

Sun Chuanting lacked infantry, so every two Chinese soldiers were paired with a British militia and a Maltese soldier. The weapons used ranged from the Dereser rifle to the contrailer, and the firepower formed was sufficient.

The Venetian soldiers who were entrusted with important tasks used 32 light artillery to deploy in their own square formations. In contrast, their mesh guns were not very reliable. They relied on heavy artillery to attack, and Greek spearmen defended.

"What kind of cannon looks like a cannon? Why have you never seen it?"

This was the first time that a mobile machine gun appeared on the Mediterranean battlefield. Before the expedition came here, the four machine guns were covered with canvas like field artillery, so that everyone thought it was just an ordinary artillery.

However, when the battle was about to begin, the machine gun revealed its hideous face from under the canvas.

The British officer who had never seen a machine gun hidden in the ammunition depot of the Iron Armored Ship noticed this strange weapon and took the initiative to ask Sun Chuanting.

"This kind of thing is not artillery, but machine guns, which is equivalent to connecting several muskets together in parallel, and is more useful against cavalry than artillery. A machine gun is equivalent to dozens or even hundreds of infantry." Sun Chuanting said for granted.

"Machine gun? A firearm that is more useful than artillery?" Earl of Stratford couldn't believe it, "We will see how powerful it is later."

"The Mamluk cavalry appeared!"

Suddenly, a sentry standing on a high place to observe was shouting.

Everyone looked forward together and saw that the outlines of the pyramids and Cairo City on the horizon were replaced by dense army.
Chapter completed!