Colonel Wang Ding reported Li Ao's search for him to the Governor of Xiaoer.

The Governor of the Second Junior was very satisfied with Colonel Wang Ding's correct answer.

The situation has changed a little, and Li Ao, whom he originally wanted to borrow, has turned around to serve the Kingdom of Scotland for the sake of his so-called friendship.

Chancellor of the Exchequer and Commerce?

He had to think of Gu Jianshan and Guo Ziren on the main island------ they were all educated by the lords for many years like himself to take on the current affairs------ how could a small arms dealer do such a job?!

But for the time being, this relationship is only good for the Federal Empire, especially for Liberty Island.

The Kingdom of Scotland sent 3,000 young laborers at once, which completely solved the needs of Liberty Island, and in another year's development and construction, Liberty Island will reach a new level.

The Governor said:

"Now that we have just built a new business district in the London area, it is not appropriate to develop relations with the Kingdom of Scotland as a federal empire------ it is better to have direct contact with the people of the federal empire."

"And we are in contact with the Kingdom of England? They numbered four million people, and their economy seemed far larger than that of the Kingdom of Scotland.

If Li Ao hadn't intervened, they might have quelled the Scottish revolt long ago. ”

The Governor pondered for a moment and said, "The situation is beyond our expectations, but the result is not too bad------ we can't develop relations with the Kingdom of England as a federal empire, and we can also maintain people-to-people contacts." ”

Colonel Wang Ding said: "The Imperial Navy is now busy suppressing pirates------ I would like to draw 500 men from those 3,000 laborers for a certain amount of military training, and treat them as auxiliaries on land and sea------ hoping to get approval, some of those laborers have been rebels, and should be easy to train." ”

In the past two years, the Imperial Navy has been busy in the surrounding seas, and they can reach as far as the eastern seas of the Mediterranean!

There are many pirates around the Mediterranean.

The Imperial Army, on the other hand, only conducted military training on the island, and at most boarded warships to help the Imperial Marines land for war------

It was a successful landing battle!

On the Barbary coast, the bandit sea gathering area where European merchants were most troubled, they once dispatched 300 naval and army soldiers to wipe out a town of 10,000 people!

Earlier, the pirate boss of this large town had attacked a three-masted merchant ship that was moored in a small port at night!

They had an internal response in that small port, and by the darkness of the night, they sneaked into the sea ship, and not only seized the sea ship, but also took all the more than 20 people on board as hostages!

They let only one sailor go, and told him to go back and tell the people of Liberty Island that one man wanted five hundred dinars of silver, or the equivalent of Oriental goods.

These pirates also couldn't figure out that the Oriental goods were obviously going to be shipped from the East, and who knew that there were also Oriental goods sold on the Liberty Island in the west!

The next day, they forced the hostage sailors to steer the three-masted ships and swaggered out of the small port, and none of the original guards on the port dared to show their faces!

This pirate tribe has been rampant in the nearby seas for more than a decade, and no navy can defeat them!

Later, when the news came back to Liberty Island, Colonel Wang Ding was simply mad, he thought that because of the distance, he could be safe with the Barbary pirates, and they had warned the merchants in advance not to trade in the surrounding waters there, especially not to dock there.

At first, it was quite good, nothing like this happened------ but finally a small merchant coveted an order from a strange "big businessman", and even became a merchant himself.

Under the coordination of Colonel Wang Ding, the Imperial Army and Navy jointly planned a rescue battle.

They first asked Said, who had taken refuge in them a long time ago, to ransom them with some silk, cotton, and spices that served as ransom.

They docked at the seashore, twenty miles away.

After ransoming those grizzled fellows, they also got the basic information of the big town.

Said is a kind of guy with a heart, and he has made a general observation of the basic situation there.

Then, they dropped down 300 army and navy soldiers, and also took advantage of the darkness of the night to sneak into the periphery of the big town under the guidance of Said and his men.

Most of the buildings are made of broken wood and stone, which can hardly be called houses, and there are some tattered tents.

The people of the town were mostly pirates, who robbed the oriental merchants from the west, got expensive goods, and received expensive ransoms!

Haha, the whole town was littered with torches that night, and the pirates were partying all night------ a big catch in decades!

The pirate leader led his cronies in a slightly larger room to watch the Hui Maidens and the White Maidens dance to them, drinking delicious red wine from Genoa and eating large pieces of roast lamb.

For pirates, this is the best time of life.

Those goods from the East could be exchanged for whatever they needed in any port on the Mediterranean coast!

Ji Zhi can recruit craftsmen to rebuild the town!

The music unique to the Hui people is mournful and long, full of rhythm.

The pirates may have forgotten that a great harvest that has never been there may bring a great tribulation that has never been achieved before!

The most painful thing may come when you are at your happiest.

The battle was personally commanded by Colonel Wang Ding, who observed it from a sand dune on the outskirts of the town, and decided that it was not worth using mortars or rockets, which might destroy the merchant's goods.

A grenade will kill them completely!

They waited quietly for the revelry in the town to finish------ and sure enough, around four o'clock in the morning, the torches in the town began to be extinguished one by one------ even the most profligate pirates could not help but go to sleep.

At this time, the sky was bright.

The fighters went into action.

They picked a few large buildings, kicked open the broken wooden doors, threw a few grenades in them, and stood in the streets, waiting for them to explode.

I wanted to wait for someone to get out, but they were disappointed, the grenades were too explosive, or their buildings were too bad!

After the grenades exploded one after another, the entire building collapsed, and no one could escape!!

Well, the battle was much simpler, and in some of the huts, the people in the broken tents began to run around like headless flies!

For them, the sound of the explosion was something they had never heard before, and they had never been attacked by night------ their power was one of the best on the Barbary Coast, and no other pirate had ever dared to attack them!

Three hundred warriors with rifles loaded with bayonets were waiting for them, and anyone with a weapon shot or stabbed to death.

Those who did not carry weapons were knocked unconscious with the butts of their guns or ordered to kneel with their knees.

Said jumped up and down at this point, brandishing Damascus knives and shouting for the pirates to kneel and surrender.

The situation in the town gradually came under control, and except for a few clever guys who fled directly into the desert, the rest were either killed or knelt on the ground.

Colonel Wang Ding took out his pocket watch and looked at it, it was not bad, in less than twenty minutes, they cleared the town of nearly 10,000 people.

The most important thing is that not a single fighter was injured!

He put away his revolver and had the prisoners counted while opening the pirates' warehouse.

The Caucasian and Uighur maidens and their musicians were kept in a small wooden house, and the pirates tied the door with hemp ropes.

This time I went ashore to suppress the pirates, and the gains were great.