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Chapter 1307 The surprise attack team arrives
"One million taels of silver! Don't bully people too much! There are more than 100 pirates in the city who are good at fighting. They cross the Mediterranean Sea. Even if the fort is captured by you, we will still stick to the fortress until the imperial reinforcements and the cold winter come. When the time comes, you You can’t even get 20000 silver taels!”

Amur heard the United Fleet's seemingly difficult conditions, and the centipede-like knife marks on his face seemed to squirm.

The United Fleet is simply sitting on the ground and raising prices!Before the war, it was only 10 taels of compensation, but after the war started, it increased by 10 times!
"If you find it unacceptable, then please go back and tell your Master Pasha to prepare his army for battle. We will storm the fort in the near future, and let us have a decisive battle in an upright manner." Sun Xu issued an ultimatum to Amur .

Amur's pupils shrank slightly. He didn't expect the other party to be so confident, and directly confessed his plan to attack the fort.

Then the next step is the competition of firepower and soldier quality between the two sides.

"Our Lord Pasha will never agree to your harsh demands. All our pirates in Algiers will fight to the last man, and you will have to pay a terrible price!" Amur threatened when he left.

"Please." Sun Xu asked Amur to leave generously.

Algiers is at your fingertips, the battle has gone to such a point, and a frigate has been lost, the Fourth Fleet has no intention of peace talks now.

Before the war, after the war, and after the victory, the spoils you get are different!

"Show them our intention to storm the fort. They will deploy more artillery and troops near the fort. At that time, our surprise attack team will attack from behind..."

"Once the surprise attack team launches an attack according to the agreed time, under the cover of the firepower of the capital ship and the shallow water gunboat, we will form a 800-man beachhead force and take advantage of the high tide to attack the South Fort with a dozen Maltese warships and pirate ships. This time it is a real last stand, even if the tide ebbs, we cannot retreat, everyone can only survive if we fight hard to capture the fort!"

The United Fleet is making final arrangements for its troops. The beach-rushing force consists of 200 people each from the Fourth Fleet, the Far West Expeditionary Force, the Royal Fleet, and the Knights of Malta, forming four teams to attack the South Fort.

"They dare to demand 100 million taels of silver from us pirates!"

When Murat Pasha learned of the harsh requirements of the United Fleet, his face was very ugly.

He has always led the Barbary pirates to threaten others and ask them to hand over the ransom. When is it their turn to be threatened by others to pay the ransom?

The other pirate leaders were also dissatisfied with the proposal of the United Fleet. There were 20000 pirates trapped in Algiers. If the original compensation was 10 taels of silver, it would be about 5 taels of silver per capita. Now the compensation has been raised to 100 million taels For silver, 50 taels of silver should be compensated per capita!
"We will swear to the death to resist the enemy's offensive and defend our Algiers!" The pirate chiefs who were frightened by the huge compensation had no intention of peace talks.

About ten miles to the west of Algiers, the castles and houses on the Algiers hills can already be seen from a high place.

A surprise attack team consisting of 300 Chinese expeditionary troops and 500 Arab and Berber mercenaries is hiding here.

They arrived two days earlier than planned, and according to plan, they launched the surprise attack on Algiers two days later.

More than 100 camels were resting on the ground, and mercenaries were looking for water sources to replenish their empty water bladders.

Marching in North Africa is a painful thing. People here trade more in important strongholds through the Mediterranean Sea, and rarely have teams of hundreds of people trade across deserts and mountains from land.

However, the surprise attack team led by the strange combination of Sun Chuanting, Prince Rupert, the one-eyed pirate Jansson, and the Dutch businessman Reuter successfully arrived in Algeria from Morocco along the road opened by the ancient Arab imperial army and merchants. Suburbs.

Sun Chuanting wears Arab costumes, which are more suitable for the local climate, and after claiming to be an Arab general, their troops will not be attacked by villages along the way, and they can even get guidance from the natives. Arrived in Algiers two days earlier than the agreed date.

"If there is no accident, [-]% of the pirates' troops and artillery have been transferred to the coastline and coastal forts and city walls. The defensive forces in the city are meager. This is our opportunity!" Sun Chuanting gathered several important people, Discuss together the battle plan for the surprise attack on Algiers two days later.

"This is their pasha's palace, which is located in the middle of the west, while the north is the Penon Fortress left by the Spaniards. Pashas of all generations will let the captured European city defense experts strengthen the Penon Fortress, It is easy to defend and difficult to attack, even with artillery. In my opinion, we need a siege of up to several months to capture the fortress. And our surprise team did not even carry a single artillery for the rapid march. Even if the defenders of the fortress are not prepared, it will be very difficult to capture. Why don't we take the first step to capture the pasha's palace and occupy the west city, maybe we can capture their pasha and force the defenders of the fortress to surrender." The one-eyed pirate Jansson was excited Confidently lay out his plans on the map.

As a pirate leader who is also active in the Mediterranean Sea, he is very familiar with Algiers, an important pirate port, because he sometimes goes here to trade slaves.

Just relying on his memory, he was able to draw a brief map of Algiers, especially the distribution of several important strongholds.

He is very keen on killing the Pasha of Algiers appointed by the Emperor of the Ottoman Empire. For a pirate leader like him, this is simply a legendary adventure!

"I have no objection to the plan to capture the Pasha's palace, but before entering the west of the city, they have to cross their walls. This may be a fierce battle." Sun Chuanting made arrangements based on the map provided by Jansong, "I When I went to investigate with the scouts, I found that the city walls built by Algiers on land were not very tall, and most of them were earth walls. There is a section of the earth wall that we can climb over on the back of a camel. At that time, we will arrange two mercenaries , each with 100 men, launched a feint attack in the other two directions at the same time to attract the enemy's forces and cause panic, our main force climbed over the earthen wall and drove straight in!"

"What if we didn't catch each other's pasha at the palace?" Prince Rupert asked.

"Regardless of whether we have caught the opponent's Pasha or not, once we capture the palace, their soldiers stationed in the forts and seaside fortresses will frantically return to the defense for fear that the city will be lost. We will ambush them when they come back and pass through the town. Eliminate the main force of the pirates." Sun Chuanting said.

(End of this chapter)