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Chapter 1293 Arrogant
boom!boom!The artillery on the port side of the battleship fired violently, and white smoke filled the air. The gunners skillfully cleaned the gun bores and reloaded the shells.

The north fort of Algiers was attacked by the combined fleet's fierce artillery, and the howling shells fell near the fort, making the pirates guarding the fort terrified.They tried to use the bronze artillery on the turret to fight back, shelling each other with the combined fleet at sea.

The fort located on the mainland is not in danger of being sunk, but with the relatively backward artillery on the fort, it is not at all easy to sink a warship that is fluctuating on the sea.

The United Fleet is still very restrained and has not yet launched a strong attack, but it has formed a sense of oppression against the pirates in the city.

The combined fleet's bombardment of Algiers made the atmosphere in Algiers extremely depressing, and the sound of the artillery was like a giant beating a giant drum.

Li Jinde, who was the protagonist of the blockade of Algiers, also heard the roar of artillery.

Working as a coolie at Pennion Fortress, he saw warships appearing on the sea in the distance. At first, he didn't know that this was the joint fleet formed by the Fourth Fleet and the British Royal Navy.

Even the Fourth Fleet, how could it know that he was in Algiers, and how could it be so mobilizing?
However, Pasha Murat ordered Li Jinde to be transferred to the prison of Penion Fortress to be held alone, and even the food has improved a lot.

All kinds of abnormal behaviors made Li Jinde realize that the strange fleet that was shelling the Algiers fort at this time might have a close relationship with him.

Could it be the Fourth Fleet?But how do they know I'm here?
Li Jinde saw that the pasha sent a fairly sumptuous meal, and he could hear the sound of warships bombarding the port in his ears, thinking in his heart that it might be his own fleet that went out of the city to bombard Algiers.

"Your men are attacking Algiers."

A hooded and luxuriously dressed man entered the prison surrounded by pirates.A slave was conveying to Li Jinde the meaning of the visitor in English.

"This is a villager captured by my men on the coast of Britain. Coincidentally, you can also speak the language of Britain, so our communication will be much smoother. Among the people here, there is no one who can speak Chinese. I , the supreme ruler of Algiers, you may call me Murat Pasha."

The person who arrived was Murat, the pirate chieftain, the governor of the Ottoman Empire in Algiers.

He looked at the Chinese businessman in front of him who had become pale and emaciated due to overwork and lack of food. He never thought that kidnapping him on a temporary basis would lead to a catastrophe for the United Fleet to attack Algiers.

"It was you who kidnapped me here at the beginning!" Li Jinde's eyes widened, almost bursting with anger.

It was the person in front of him who kidnapped him here and made him suffer for a period of time.

"Your eastern empire executed my son who was going to trade in the Spice Islands. This feud is settled. Of course, I will not let any Chinese people I caught." Murat said.

Li Jinde did not think that his arrest was related to the government of the Nanyang Province. He thought for a while and said, "The government of the Spice Islands will not execute a foreign businessman for no reason... unless your son is engaged in smuggling activities or colluding with pirates there." Murder and arson... If he violated our eastern laws in the east, then he should be executed by the government..."

"Shut up! That's my only son, who will inherit my position and become the Pasha of Algiers in the future! But now he is killed by your people! Don't think that your fleet will be able to rescue you! Several generations of us Pasha built castles and city walls in Algiers, and deployed the looted and purchased artillery in various important fortifications. This is an iron wall! We can't defeat them on the open sea, but they don't want to risk two forts Cross-fire comes ashore!" Murat said angrily.

Hearing this, Li Jinde smiled and said, "If you really have a plan in mind, why are you so irritable?"

He saw the uneasiness in Murat.Many fortresses that are theoretically indestructible can only be tested when they are actually attacked.

After all, Murat is a great pirate who has been in the western Mediterranean for many years. He accidentally exposed his inner anxiety to Li Jinde, and quickly adjusted his mentality: "You are a smart man, who are you? The east sent a fleet to rescue you? Prince? Or what kind of duke?"

Li Jinde was stupid when asked this time, what kind of prince and duke is he?He also didn't know why the Fourth Fleet would all come to question the pirate Xingshi!

"I'm just an ordinary businessman." Li Jinde replied.

"Do you think I'm an idiot, would you believe your words? How could an ordinary businessman let a fleet travel thousands of miles to ask for someone?! My son was executed by your officials, and I didn't even lead the pirate fleet to expedition to the East Plan!" Murat resisted his anger and said to Li Jinde.

"I'm really just a businessman. If there is anything special, I lead the fleet to station in the city of London for trade. I really don't know why our fleet came to rescue me. That's it, believe it or not " Li Jinde shrugged helplessly, and cleaned the food on the table like a wolf.

He had not had such a good meal since being a coolie.

Murat originally wanted to come over to find out Li Jinde's identity, but he is still not sure what Li Jinde is.

Judging by common sense, the people who can let the fleets of the two countries come to rescue will not be ordinary people, and sometimes even the princes are not treated like this.

Either Li Jinde lied, or the combined fleet bombarded Algiers for other purposes.

Even a local hero like Murat couldn't tell the intricacies of things like this.

Li Jinde is not an ordinary businessman, he has a certain network of contacts who will help him when he has an accident.In addition, the purpose of the United Fleet is not so simple. They want to establish their prestige by attacking the pirates in Algiers, and at the same time knock a sum of compensation from the pirates in Algiers, so as to eat black with black.

Murat couldn't figure out the connection, so he didn't continue the interrogation, but got up to leave.

"Also, after your son died, you didn't lead the pirate fleet to expedition to the East, just because you didn't have that kind of strength, right? But unfortunately, our fleet has the strength to expedition to the West." Li Jinde taunted while gobbling.

Murat was furious after hearing the translator's message. If there were no battleships outside the city threatening the city of Algiers, he would have liked to strangle this arrogant Chinese man to death immediately.

(End of this chapter)