However, these follow-up matters do not need to be worried about Admiral Tréville and Tayyip Pasha, for them, the most important thing now is to "chase the poor with the remaining courage", and immediately go to Tunisia and Morocco to strive for greater victories and more benefits.

However, after all, it took a lot of time in Tripoli, so the effect of the raid naturally could not be achieved. And when they came to Tunisia, they found that something seemed to have happened to the port of Tunis, as if it had just been burned by a fire.

Ahdi Pasha of Tunisia had seen the fugitive Yusuf Pasha and learned from him the terrible weapons of heavenly fire used by the evil heretics, and the terrible fires it caused. The news also worried Ahdi Pasha.

"My friend, you are saying that the batteries are completely unable to stop them, and that the placement of troops in the harbor will be attacked by fire...... This, how to fight this battle! It's completely unbeatable. There wasn't much around him, and Ahdi Pasha wasn't afraid of demoralizing or anything, so he just said that.

"How many mines have you bought?" Yusuf Pasha asked.

Ahdi Pasha was stunned for a moment, and after a long time he said, "My friend, you know, those British are asking for a very high price, and they are completely slaughtering us like fat sheep, so I ...... I don't know if it's too late to order from them urgently? ”

"What a god!" Yusuf was also startled and said, "You bought very little?" ”

"I'd like to buy a few less, but those English pagans, really...... As soon as they heard that I was going to reduce the quantity of the order, they immediately increased the unit price, and as a result, as soon as I got angry, I ......"

"What?"

"I didn't buy any of them!" Ahdi Pasha said with a sad face.

"Are those British merchants still there?"

"Yes, yes. I'm going to go to them right now and buy them all that they have. Ahdi Pasha quickly stood up.

"My friend, don't worry, now find out, where is their goods? Is it near our port? If their goods are in Gibraltar, or even in the UK mainland. Then even if he doesn't give you a penny, it makes no sense. The Turks and the French will not give us so much time. In addition, I estimate that they will be more expensive, but in any case, mines are considered to be the weapons that pose the greatest threat to our enemies in previous operations. ”

"Okay, I'll have someone do it right away. My friend, if ...... I mean, if those British mines are still in Gibraltar, - then what should I do? ”

"My friend, mines have a role, but they are not entirely useful, and they can use high tides to avoid the danger of mines. Of course, this also limits the amount of time they can spend attacking each day. Now the most important thing for us is how to deal with their kind of fire and rain. I have an idea......"

Yusuf Pasha believes that the reason why such a large fire broke out in Tripoli was entirely due to the fact that there were too many wooden houses and wooden roofs. Therefore, in order to avoid the fire, Yusuf Pasha suggested that all the roofs and other flammable materials in the houses in the port area should be removed immediately. to avoid being attacked by the opponent.

But it's too much work to clean up. So it's been slow. But soon news also came about what the Turks were doing, as well as the French, in Tripoli. This news immediately strengthened the determination of the Barbary pirates to resist to the end.

"It is impossible for us to negotiate with them, let alone surrender to them. Selim III, the tyrant, needs a lot of land to buy his followers, and who else can he get land from but from us? Do you see, of all the farmers who remained in Tripoli, have kept their property and their heads? We can't give what they want, because they want everything from us, including our heads. So we have no other way but to resist to the end! After receiving the exact information, Ahdi Pasha gathered his officers and said this to them.

So the speed of demolition was accelerated a little, but at this speed, it was still impossible to complete the entire fire demolition work before the arrival of the Turks and French. Eventually, an officer had an idea and came up with a better solution.

"Venerable Pasha," said the officer, "I think why don't we set a fire ourselves?" In this way, all flammable materials can be removed in half a day at most. ”

Near the port were the houses of the poor, and they would not be distressed if they were burned, so Ahdi Pasha thought about it and thought it was a good idea, so he gave the order and the soldiers sprang into action, drove the poor people out of their houses, and then lit a fire for themselves.

However, perhaps because the clean-up work was not done properly, many residents were already burning before they were evicted out. As a result, many civilians were burned to death, and even some soldiers in charge of arson were trapped in the fire and burned to death due to poor coordination.

So now, when the combined fleet of France and Turkey appears off the coast of Tunisia, Tunisia in front of them becomes like this.

The first round of the coalition operation, of course, was a tentative attack by the Turkish fleet, the first was to see if it could lure the battery to open fire, and then the French used high-explosive shells to sweep away the artillery and artillery on the battery in one go. The second is to see if the rebels have laid a lot of mines outside the port.

As a result, only one cannon was firing on the most obvious battery of the Barbary pirates, and the French, believing that it was too wasteful to use high-explosive shells for the sake of one cannon, insisted on not firing for it. And in the process of approaching the port, there were no mines.

The Englishmen told Ahdi Pasha that their mines were on the ships outside the port, and that they could be brought into the port as soon as they paid a deposit, and then paid for them and delivered them with the other.

Ahdi Pasha's men followed the British into their ships outside the harbor, where they saw the mines. Then, a deposit was paid, and the British sold the mines to them with one hand and one hand for delivery. It's just that the British secretly replaced the concentrated sulfuric acid in the fuse with distilled water. There is a replacement of the nitrated starch in the mine body with real starch - half a month ago, the British government had already informed them that they were not allowed to sell mines to the Barbary pirates.

The Barbary pirates, who lacked scientific knowledge, couldn't see the trick in this. Then the British took the money and went home.

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