Before the tide receded, the Turks retreated, and their losses were quite severe, at least, the French had rarely seen such great losses on their side in all these years. However, the Turkish commander Tayyip Pasha was not too concerned about this. Tayyip Pasha had fought in the Balkans with the Russians, as well as with the Austrians, and he had seen far more dead Turks than that. In his opinion, today's losses are nothing more than a drizzle. Well, although the specific numbers have not yet been counted, the approximate figures have already come out, and Tayyip Pasha lost less than a thousand people. You see, not even a thousand people, isn't this a drizzle?

Of course, Tayyip Pasha still had some grievances with his French allies. The effect of the French's high-explosive bombs, he also saw on the warships, if the French also bombarded the port of Tripoli with such shells in today's attack, then the Turks could completely occupy an area, and then rely on the superiority of troops and firepower to expand the occupied area little by little, and finally seize the whole of Tripoli.

Therefore, after the end of the offensive operation on this day, when the generals of the two armies came to the conference room of the "Imperator" again to discuss the follow-up battle plan, Tayip Pasha immediately proposed that the French strengthen fire support and support the Turkish army with "that kind of explosive shells".

But the French did not hesitate to refuse him.

"Honorable Pasha, forgive me for having to refuse your request, we can support you with firepower, but not the kind of high-explosive bombs that will explode." Admiral Trevil immediately refused, "This kind of shell is difficult to produce, expensive, and the production is limited, and we don't have much with us." Today, a small half of the stock has been removed. We have several cities behind us that need to be attacked, and we must save these shells for that time. However, if you agree, we can still provide you with the same effective fire support. ”

"My friend, what are your plans, let's discuss them......"

The next day, the Turks and French again made an offensive posture and waited for the high tide outside the port of Tripoli. The Barbary pirates were also ready to resist the Turkish landing.

This time, the French fleet remained at a great distance as it had been yesterday - it was clear that the Turks would be responsible for such a matter as a direct landing operation, which could suffer great losses, and perhaps the French would join in after the Turks had seized a relatively firm foothold.

The French army, especially the French Army, has been so powerful over the years that even the Barbary pirates have heard of it. The Barbary pirates had also had some skirmishes with the army of the Kingdom of Sardinia when they had been on the board of Italy a few years earlier. Even the army of the Kingdom of Sardinia was no longer something that the Barbary pirates could fight. So how powerful should the French Army, which was far superior to them, be?

Therefore, Yusuf Pasha thought that the Turks must not be allowed to come ashore easily, and they must not be allowed to control a stable territory, otherwise, when the French army comes ashore, things will really be difficult to handle. But yesterday the French attacked the battery with high-explosive shells and made the battery almost completely finished. Most of the artillery on the battery was damaged, and more importantly, all the artillery on the battery died. So now, no one wants to go to the fort anymore. So the defense of the battery has not yet been restored. However, due to the time limit of the tide, as long as the pirates could hold for two hours, the enemy army would have to retreat. So Yusuf Pasha felt that he should be able to hold on for a while.

The tide gradually rose, and the Turkish ships approached again with the tide.

There was no more fire on the battery, and the Turkish warships smoothly approached the port. The pirates also came to the iron cannons placed in the harbor and prepared for the landing. At this time, the French warships behind them also formed an artillery formation, and then began to launch an artillery bombardment towards the port.

Although the French did not use high-explosive shells in this shelling, the power of the shells fired by the French was even more powerful than that of high-explosive shells, because this time the French warships fired white phosphorus incendiary shells.

The production of white phosphorus is not very high, but when used as an incendiary bomb, its fuse is relatively simple, and it can basically use the set of shrapnel. Just throw the tinder out.

The port of Tripoli is one of the bases of the pirates, their buildings are quite chaotic, the distance between the buildings is very close, although the buildings themselves are a lot of stones, adobe and walls, but the roof is a wooden structure, and then piled with bark and weeds, which is the most suitable for arson. Now the pirates are all here to resist, and a fire has burned them.

Yesterday evening, when Admiral Tréville had his staff officer explain to Tayyip Pasha how to attack the enemy with incendiary bombs, Tayyip Pasha was quite in agreement.

"Such a rebellion should be burned like this, otherwise, how can they be willing to submit to us?" Tayyip Pasha said.

"Just doing this will cause a lot of damage to the port, and a lot of people will die, many of whom may be peaceful residents. This can cause a lot of accidental injury. And, in the future, they will also be your subjects of the Pasha. Admiral Treville said.

When Tayyip Pasha heard this, he laughed and said, "Thank you for your kindness, but this port is a pirate port, where are there many peaceful residents?" If there is a man in this port, he is a male pirate; If it's a woman, it's a pirate; If it's a child, it's a little pirate. These people have always been arrogant and strong, and they do not accept the king. They only recognize force, if you don't beat them hard, no matter how good you are to them, they only think that you are afraid of them, if you want to rule them well, you can only kill them fiercely, kill them one by one, and they will really understand your tolerance and kindness to them.

Besides, we still have several cities to take down behind us. If you really fight slowly one by one, how much time will it take and how many people will die? It's better to let them die happily here, and in the future, in those ports behind, we just need to go over and set up the cannons, and we can make them kneel down and surrender. ”

Since people who are going to be Pasha here in the future are not worried about killing too many people, then why should Admiral Trevel worry about him? Of course, this fire will cause no small amount of damage to the port. But in the future, after France gained control of the port, it was also necessary to carry out a major renovation of the port. These messy buildings were supposed to be demolished.

The year before, Bonaparte's government widened and rebuilt some of the streets of Paris, and as a result, the demolition costs alone were quite large. Of course, here, demolition is certainly cheaper than Paris, but France is a country governed by the rule of law, and it is a place where the law is spoken. According to the Civil Code, France protects private property, which is sacred and inviolable. If the owners of these buildings are still alive, then France must first obtain their consent to demolish these buildings, after all, the French are reasonable and law-oriented. Therefore, in order to facilitate the demolition in the future, it is better for these buildings to become ownerless ruins first. Who is it that we French people are reasonable?

Of course, this is just a boastful statement of the French, and if the British were replaced, they would definitely say this: "The most important characteristic of the French is that they are unreasonable, and if they have the opportunity to be unreasonable, they will definitely be unreasonable." If they reason once in a while, it must be because the situation is unfavorable and they have to be reasonable. ”

In short, since the burning of Tripoli has so many benefits, it is really sorry not to set it on fire. So just as the pirates came to their gun positions and prepared to resist the landing, the French warships began to bombard.

One after another, the shells erupted from the barrels of the French, but instead of landing on the front line, they flew directly behind the pirates, and then exploded in the air, turning into hundreds of flames with white smoke, falling down like a rain of fire.

The tinder crackled and fell on the streets, on the rooftops. Coupled with the fact that the sea breeze was blowing, almost in the blink of an eye, those roofs were ignited by these tinder.

If these pirates had been a little more sensitive when the fire had just fallen, they would have left everything behind and turned around and ran, perhaps they could have escaped from the fire while the fire had not yet completely burned. But how did these pirates think of the ferocity of this weapon when they saw it for the first time, and how could they react right away? Therefore, this time to escape was missed all of a sudden. In the blink of an eye, behind them, the fire was blazing.

The wooden roof, with all kinds of flammable materials on it, and a strong sea breeze. The fire quickly spiraled out of control. The red flames rose more than ten meters high, forming an impenetrable wall of fire, and burned towards the place where the pirates had stood.

The fire wasn't approaching yet, but the heat from the flames was too much for the pirates to bear. They ran towards the bay, trying to jump into the water to escape the flames. But by this time the ships of the Turks were already approaching. The Turks showed no mercy to the pirates who shared their beliefs, and their ships opened heavy fire on the pirates who had fled into the sea. The sailors on the ship also stood on the side of the ship with guns in hand, and kept firing at the pirates who had jumped into the sea.

If it's just one or two shots, the pirates won't be afraid. Take a deep breath, and then stab yourself down. If you pierce it deeper, it won't be easy for any bullet to get into the water. But the problem is that people are not fish after all, they can't really sink in the water and not come out, and once they float up to breathe, bullets will immediately fly towards you. As long as you pant a little slower and dive a little slower, you will die in no time.

The Turkish soldiers on those ships were very relaxed, and they were constantly shooting at the pirates on the side of the ships, which was a bit like a game called whack-a-mole in later generations. On the surface of the sea, every now and then, a head pops out, and then they shoot it. Sometimes, those heads shrank down all at once, and they didn't hit. Sometimes, the head was hit by several bullets at the same time, and it immediately exploded like a watermelon. The blood also immediately stained the surrounding sea red.

In the beginning, the sea was almost full of human heads. But with the constant shooting, soon there were not many gophers left at sea to fight.

At this time, the fire also burned to the shore, and the fire became bigger and bigger, and the flames rose dozens of meters high, because the hot air rose rapidly, and the surrounding cold air quickly flowed into the fire with a large amount of oxygen. The wind fueled the fire, and the intense heat and surging whirlwind currents sucked in a large amount of burning debris and formed a convergence with the influx of flammable gases, igniting the spinning and rising fire dragon. There was even a terrible spectacle on the fire ground - a fire tornado.

This is a tornado of flames, it is a constantly writhing fiery funnel, straight up hundreds of meters high, throwing all kinds of burning things in all directions. At this time, the sea near the fire began to boil, and even the Turkish warships had to retreat, otherwise they might have been caught up in the fire.

But perhaps they were so happy with the whack-a-mole that they didn't notice that the tide had receded quite a bit.

In fact, it's not that no one noticed this, but everyone who left didn't expect that the fire would burn so badly, and everyone originally thought that with the distance between their ships and the fire, safety should have been guaranteed. But now, just the light of the fire on their faces already made them feel a tingle. And the fire tornado, which was hundreds of meters high, threw a large number of burning fires far away, and even threw one of them not far from the Turkish warship.

The Turks' warships were still sail ships, and now some sparks had fallen on their sails. Although the flames caused by these fires were quickly extinguished, the courage of the situation forced them to constantly retreat. Until- "Boom! ”

With a violent explosion, a Turkish warship began to sink rapidly - as the tide receded, the water level dropped, and the pirate mines finally began to work.

But even at the risk of hitting mines, the Turkish warships did not dare to stay so close to the sea of fire any longer. They continued to retreat, and after paying the price of two more ships being struck and sunk, they finally withdrew from the harbor.

The power of this fire was beyond the imagination of Tayyip Pasha, and even beyond Admiral Tréville's expectations. The whole of Tripoli was engulfed in the fire.

"That's really...... Even if the London fire of that year was no more terrible, right? Looking at the burning city, Admiral Trevel couldn't help but say this.