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Chapter 1310 Looting Pirates
The pirate flag was pulled out, and replaced by the flaming yellow dragon flag erected on the fort.In addition, the rice character military flag and the octagonal cross flag were erected.

Hundreds of corpses were scattered all over the fort, most of them were pirates.

After the beachhead troops of the United Fleet killed the fort, the pirates who had no intention of fighting broke up and fled back to the city.

"Their marksmanship is really accurate, compared to our lack of marksmanship."

Castella wiped the blood of the pirates on his face, and was impressed by the Chinese army who also rushed to land on the beach.

For the first time, the Knights of Malta joined hands with the Eastern army. For the well-trained Eastern soldiers who used breech-loading rifles, Castella experienced their horror in the joint battle.

Eastern soldiers are not only good at finding cover, but also their hit rate and reloading speed are astonishing. Castella thought to himself that the average number of pirates shot by the opponent is several times that of their Knights of Malta.

After the capture of the South Fort, ships in shallow water went back and forth between the fleet and the coast to transport the follow-up soldiers to the coast.

A total of 1200 soldiers boarded the fort, and in addition to leaving 200 soldiers to defend the fort, the remaining 1000 rushed to the town to attack the north fort from the land across the town.

The pirates stationed at the North Fort saw that the South Fort was captured, and another enemy was attacking the city, and the flames of war were everywhere. They realized that they were alone in defending the North Fort!

When the 1000-man coalition army appeared under the North Fort holding muskets, the pirates defending the fort just symbolically fired the bullets in a row of muskets before surrendering.

The fall of the two forts in the south and the north means that the harbor has become an undefended area. The large ships of the combined fleet can sail into the harbor and capture hundreds of large and small pirate ships moored in the harbor.

The two frigates were testing the water situation ahead, and the artillery of the ironclad ship was able to cover the coastal urban areas at this time.

The surprise attack team led by Sun Chuanting in the urban area successfully ambushed the returning team. Hundreds of pirates fell under the muskets and bayonets of the surprise attack team, even more sacrificed than the pirates defending the fort.

Blood and corpses were strewn across the streets, and the smell of blood was pungent. Undisciplined North African mercenaries were looting pirates everywhere, and some of them would be killed by counterattacking pirates.The mighty pirate port of Algiers, like any other fallen city, was plundered by the attackers.

Only Sun Chuanting led 300 Huaxia soldiers to continue to fight off Pasha's guards. As for the life and death of the mercenaries recruited from Morocco, he didn't care at all.When these mercenaries robbed the pirates of their property, they also had to pay the price of blood—they were killed by pirates who were also fierce and armed when they looted the pirates.

The British militia and the Knights of Malta who soon captured the North and South Forts also joined in the looting of the pirates in the city. In their view, this is a natural reward after hard work in capturing the city. Otherwise, no one is willing to take the risk of sacrifice to attack a strong fortress.

Only the soldiers of the Fourth Fleet and the Far West Dispatch Army remained unmoved. Although it was tempting to participate in the looting, they did not dare to rob like other allies without the order of the commander.

Seeing that the situation was deteriorating, Murat, Amur, and a group of major pirate leaders had no choice but to hide in the Penon Fortress on the top of the mountain with the remnants of the soldiers, relying on the fortress to defend to the death, all the important streets in the city were occupied by the coalition forces, and they were in a mess.

The tavern where the pirates often gathered was looted, the wine and women were taken away, and the wooden tables were overturned.

Sun Xu and Zheng Zhibao led the fleet to destroy the pirate ships trying to resist in the port, and then even the navy soldiers went ashore to control the entire city.

Sun Xu, Sun Chuanting and the others did not stop the looting in the city. Whether it was mercenaries or their allies, if they could not satisfy their desires, there would probably be side issues.

The rebels looted the pirate city for a day, and Sun Chuanting and others led the soldiers to gradually restore order to the city.

After the mercenaries, the Knights of Malta, and the British militia were satisfied, the outskirts of the city had been reduced to ruins, and some of the streets occupied by the Fourth Fleet and the Far West Expedition could remain intact, and the pirates in other places were robbed by the invaders. So many pirates broke into the streets occupied by the Fourth Fleet and the Far West Expeditionary Force to seek shelter.

The Fourth Fleet and the Far West Expeditionary Force are not benevolent either. They collect protection fees from all pirates to ensure their personal safety after they hand over their gold and silver.

In the entire city, only the Fortress of Penon on the top of the mountain remained intact, and most of the wealth was transferred to the fortress in advance by Pasha and the pirate leader.

The treasures of the pirates in the Pennion Fortress were the target of Sun Chuanting and the others this time. As for the pirates who robbed the bottom, they could only eat soup, not meat.

Some low-level pirates were even used to satisfy the plundering desires of mercenaries, the Knights of Malta, and the British militia.

"Their army is too serious, so serious that it makes people feel terrible." After Sir Pennington led the Royal Navy soldiers to the land of Algiers, his officers and soldiers set fire and looted everywhere in the city. The way the Royal Army should look.

Many of these soldiers didn't have much training at ordinary times, and most of them were militiamen in cities and villages. After defeating the pirates, of course they had to vent their anger through looting. Such behavior also brought them income other than military pay.

But an admiral like Sir Pennington felt more and more that British soldiers could not go on like this after witnessing the rigor of the Eastern army.

The big difference between mercenaries and standing troops made Britain's senior officers and nobles feel a lot, and they whispered to each other in private.

As far as Constantinople in the Eastern Mediterranean, the imperial capital of the Ottoman Empire, the emperor knew that the British and Chinese fleets blocked Algiers. After challenging his authority, he ordered the whole country to mobilize the navy to support Algiers.

The Prime Minister Grand Vizier judged that the Spanish Empire and the Kingdom of France were at war. Even if the Ottoman Navy appeared in the Western Mediterranean, as long as they did not intervene in the war between the two countries, the two countries would not intervene in the war in Algiers.

So a huge troop of galleys gathered in the Golden Horn near Constantinople. There were as many as 100 galleys gathered in the Golden Horn alone. There were also ships from Mesopotamia, North Africa, and Egypt. Conscripted, they will join the huge fleet of imperial galleys halfway in response to the provocation of the combined fleet against the empire!
(End of this chapter)