They rode in the afternoon and met with Muhammad Ali Pasha and conferred at length on the matter, then they departed. The next day, he sent them a broadsheet to write in response to the letter of the commander of those ships. They wrote it and sent it to him, containing pleas for mercy, an inability to guarantee the emirs, and a request to prevent the harm that would inevitably result from forcing the soldiers to leave after settling. They exaggerated their complaints and magnified their plight. Muhammad Ali Pasha began to prepare and make ready to fight Al-Alfi and ordered the soldiers to march to Bulak. They crossed the Nile to Giza and a proclamation was made to the soldiers and the Wajih Qalaba to march quickly and not to lag behind. Many cannons and war implements were disembarked, then he too crossed the Nile to Al-Nasaba and summoned the Arab sheikhs to him and appointed a group of them to serve the soldiers. When the letter of the sheikhs and scholars reached the commander of the warships, he became angry and wrote to Muhammad Ali Pasha, urging him to leave Egypt and depart for Damietta. It is said that Muhammad Ali Pasha paid no heed to this and did not cease amassing armies and gathering war equipment until people realized his disobedience. When it was the twelfth of Jumada al-Awwal of the year, news arrived of the arrival of Musa Pasha, the new governor, in the city of Alexandria. One of his aides came to Cairo with a letter to the Defterdar, stating that he should act in his stead and be responsible for the funds and rights of the Sultan's treasury. The Defterdar did not accept this. Al-Alfi was still in Giza, sending news and great gifts to the commander of the warships. He had sent him thirty horses, ten of them with their mares, four thousand sheep, cattle, buffaloes, and a hundred camels loaded with grain and other money, clothes, and fabrics for his senior followers. Muhammad Ali became angry at this action and feared its consequences, and he set out to send troops to fight him. They disembarked opposite Al-Rahmaniya. When Al-Alfi sensed their arrival, he marched to them with his people and fought them fiercely, resulting in the defeat of Muhammad Ali Pasha's army. They continued in their defeat to the sea, where they threw themselves into the water. The Ketkhuda of Muhammad Ali Pasha and Tahir Pasha fled towards the Monufia, crossed the Nile, and Al-Alfi seized what they had left behind of weapons and cavalry, which was a great deal. He sent those captured to the commander of the warships. News of this reached Muhammad Ali Pasha, so he went out to Imbaba. The governor and the people of the Dikka were calling for the soldiers to march out, and the remaining soldiers of Tahir Pasha were gathered in Bulak, along with the wounded and sick. They were prevented from disembarking, and their ships sailed to Imbaba. They spent the night there and in the morning had returned to Bulak and entered the city. After a few days, Tahir Pasha marched to Imbaba. Muhammad Ali Pasha had sent him after the defeat of his army not to return to Cairo but to depart for Rashid. He did not reach Rashid until he was ordered to return to Al-Rahmaniya to expel Al-Alfi from there. He returned to Al-Rahmaniya with some soldiers. When the two armies met, Tahir Pasha's army was defeated and retreated backward. They continued in their defeat, with Tahir Pasha among them, until they reached Imbaba. Al-Alfi returned to besiege Damanhur and tighten the siege on those who were there. News came from the commander of the warships to Al-Alfi to intensify the fighting against those there until they surrendered. The fighting dragged on and intensified in all directions, and messengers went back and forth between the commander of the warships and Al-Alfi.