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Chapter 1300 Morocco, surprise attack
"My lords, besides borrowing a ship from the Spaniards, I have an idea. I can capture Algiers by avoiding the coastal defense forts heavily guarded by pirates." When a group of naval officers were discussing how to borrow a ship from the Spaniards, the Netherlands Merchant Luyter interrupted suddenly.

Many officers looked at this seemingly ordinary-looking Dutchman, wondering how he could solve the siege problem that both the Fourth Fleet and the Royal Fleet found difficult.

"Now it is estimated that [-]% of the pirates in Algiers are deployed on the coastline and coastal defense forts. Even if you transport troops to the shallow water ships borrowed from the Spaniards, you still have to risk thousands of pirates to defend the forts. Attack, the casualties may be more severe." Luit said.

"Then what is your method?" Sun Xu, Zheng Zhibao and the others realized that they seemed to have underestimated this Dutch businessman.

"I know a Barbary pirate. He was originally the captain of a privateer in the Netherlands. He specialized in plundering Spanish treasure ships and merchant ships. Later, he had more and more men, and he also robbed ships of other kingdoms, so Find refuge in the Ottoman emperor, who has considerable influence in Morocco," said Luyter.

"The pirate who brought you into Algiers?" Sun Xu asked.

"Yes, as long as he is willing to cooperate with you, he can find a port in Morocco for you to land, and he can even recruit local mercenaries for you," Luit said.

"Morocco!" Everyone knew what Luit meant.

Morocco is on the west side of Algiers. If you land from Morocco, you can go straight to the city of Algiers by land!
Now that Algiers has a large number of troops dispatched to guard the port, there are hardly many troops in the city. If a surprise attack is landed from Morocco, it may have a miraculous effect.

"However, Morocco is hundreds of kilometers away from Algiers, and it needs to march from west to east along the rugged Taylor Atlas Mountains... This move is too difficult and long..." Zheng Zhibao roughly measured the distance on the map, thinking To surprise Algiers overland from Morocco was a daring military venture.

"Wait, it might work!" Sun Xu thought for a while, then asked Earl Stratford, "How long will it take to borrow a boat from the Spaniards?"

"It will take at least half a month from here to the port of Spain, to negotiate with their local governor, and to organize the crew to come," said the Earl of Stratford.

"Half a month... is it enough to rush from Morocco to Algiers? If, as Luiter said, we borrow a ship from the Spaniards on the one hand, and send an infantry detachment to land in Morocco on the other hand, by then We advance both land and water and capture Algiers in one fell swoop. Even if there is a problem with either side, we still have a backup plan. It is best to be able to borrow warships from the Spaniards. Attack in the city." Sun Xu finalized his idea.

"If we give our infantry a month, we should be able to arrive in Algiers on time and launch a surprise attack." Sun Chuanting said.

Dozens of his subordinates died because of storming the fort, and the far west dispatched army and the pirates had already started to fight.

"Then we will select a team of 300 people to go to Morocco to negotiate with the pirates you mentioned. Our people will carry a large amount of gold, silver and supplies, and recruit 500 Moroccan mercenaries locally to launch a surprise attack on Algiers. Sun Chuanting will be in charge The commander of this operation, you serve as the adjutant." Sun Xu said directly to the Dutch businessman Leuter as if ordering.

"My lord, I'm just a businessman. I don't want to get involved in the battle. I can take you to find the Moroccan pirate Janson. The adjutant is not required. I won't charge forward after the death of the warrior, my little one." Life is very important." Luyter waved his hands hastily.

He had been forcibly brought into battle by the Fourth Fleet, bound to the same ship.

"Don't worry, you don't need to fight, you just need to be a think tank. Without the status of an adjutant, the pirates you mentioned will not trust us easily." Sun Xu said.

Luyter hesitated, but finally agreed.

Facing the coastline and forts that the Algiers pirates were desperately defending, the United Fleet temporarily gave up its plan to attack. On the one hand, the Earl of Stratford personally took the Dauphin battleship to Spain to borrow in order to help Charles I win the war. Boat.

The Fourth Fleet organized an expeditionary force of 300 people to land in Morocco and attack Algiers from land along the Taylor Atlas Mountains.

"I will lead the German knights to participate in this expedition!" The young Prince Rupert asked again to fight.

He is full of interest in this very bold military operation!
The expeditionary force of 300 people will hire 500 Moroccan mercenaries after arriving in Morocco, and the number of expeditionary troops will reach 800 people.

Morocco was also rampant with pirates at this time. Although these pirates were also loyal to the Ottoman Empire and used the Ottoman Empire as a shield to plunder merchant ships in the Mediterranean and Atlantic Oceans, they were not under the jurisdiction of the Pasha of Algiers, and they were even in a competitive situation. There are many opportunities to take advantage of.

"This operation needs to march hundreds of miles. Your Royal Highness, you must not take the risk lightly." Sir Greenville stopped Prince Rupert who had repeatedly challenged him.

"I can do nothing in the battle on the sea, but if it is a battle on land, I will give the enemy a fatal blow with a musket and a knight's sword!" The young prince was not afraid of tigers as a newborn calf, and repeatedly asked to fight.

The prince from the Holy Roman Empire's electorate family seems to be full of fanaticism for war.

"Then let him and a few German mercenaries act together with your expeditionary force as non-staff personnel." Seeing that Prince Rupert insisted repeatedly, Sun Xu asked Sun Chuanting to take him with him.

"Yes." Sun Chuanting was not very familiar with Prince Rupert, and only regarded him as an observer, and didn't expect him to perform well in the battle, as long as he didn't hold back.

"Bring gold and silver, and tea for that pirate. He helped us. According to the previous agreement, we should sell them a batch of tea at a low price." Sun Xu said.

The 300-person expeditionary force used a troop carrier and a supply ship, and needed to provide this expeditionary force with supplies for a month, as well as the gold and silver needed to hire soldiers locally in Morocco.

This time the operation can be said to be extremely risky. The expeditionary force is going to carry out an amazing surprise attack. They need to walk along the northern foothills of the Taylor Atlas Mountains to surprise Algiers, and the pirates in Algiers will not Thinking that the enemy on the opposite side of them will fall from heaven.

(End of this chapter)