The Ming Dynasty did not revolutionize

Chapter 159: I'll Get Used to Panic
Baba Mohammed, ruler of Algiers and Algeria, watches the battle on the dock through a telescope from a tower in the Algiers Citadel.

His mood slowly changed from expectation to disappointment and panic:
"The Ming Dynasty really has... a rifle with an extremely terrifying range, accuracy, and rate of fire..."

“And it’s definitely not just a few hundred!”

"Oh my god, are there really thousands... tens of thousands?"

"That horrible shrapnel is just like what those things that escaped said. It is simply the power of the devil!"

"There's no way this fight can continue!"

"Trenches and bunkers are completely useless. The performance of weapons is too different. There is no way to close the gap with bunkers."

Baba Mohammed muttered for a long time, and then suddenly seemed to think of something, and immediately shouted:

"Call Friedman over here!"

The guards around Baba Mohammed immediately went to look for someone.

But soon he ran back in a panic:

"Day, Friedman is not at his residence..."

The original meaning of Dey in Arabic is uncle, which is the name given by the pirates in Algiers to leaders such as Baba Mohammed.

After being transliterated into other languages, it was understood to mean governor.

Although the guards had no way of confirming whether the other party had escaped, the person suddenly disappeared at such a critical moment, and there was no other speculation except that he had escaped.

Baba Mohammed also immediately became extremely angry:
"Damn Judas, we really can't trust these things. He made us put up a pointless resistance here, but he himself has already escaped."

The guard also asked angrily:

"Dai, what should we do? Go get this thing back?"

When Baba Mohammed heard this question, he seemed to suddenly think of the situation he was facing, and he suddenly felt particularly empty.

Then he sat down on the chair beside him in a somewhat decadent manner:

"Go find him. If you find him, kill him. Don't worry about any reasons or excuses he gives..."

The guards immediately took the order and left. Baba Muhammad slumped in his chair and waited, listening to the explosions and shouts outside getting closer and closer.

More than two hours later, Baba Mohammed's castle was breached.

A Japanese regiment patrolled the tower and found Baba Mohammed, who had given up resistance.

The fighting in the city of Algiers was largely over by the evening of that day.

The fleet responsible for escorting and transporting the army, after deploying all the soldiers, immediately turned back to the sea to support their companions in fighting the pirate fleet.

The fighting around the city and at sea was basically over in the next two days.

In the end, more than a third of the pirate ships were captured, and nearly a third were basically destroyed, but a considerable number of pirate ships also escaped the battlefield.

When the news of the capture of Algiers was sent to Tripoli, all the civil and military officials of the Ming Dynasty were quite delighted.

Spanish Prime Minister Redondo remained in Tripoli in the name of liaison, information exchange and joint command.

After receiving the relevant news, Redondo immediately found Liu Quanzhi and said excitedly:
"Great! The North African pirates who have wreaked havoc in the Mediterranean for three hundred years have finally been completely wiped out by us.

“This is an event that will be remembered forever by the entire human civilization.

"We should now report to the Emperor and King of both sides and hold a joint celebration."

Liu Quanzhi felt that Redondo's proposal was a bit baffling:
“With all due respect, now is not the time to celebrate.

"We should continue to work hard to take down the two remaining important pirate forces in North Africa, Tunisia and Morocco.

“And clear out other small pirate lairs in North Africa.

“We need to properly resettle the people who have been ruled and coerced by pirates, and prevent the local environment from breeding pirates again.

“That’s when it’s time to celebrate.”

Redondo immediately said with a smile:

"The ministers of the Ming Dynasty really consider things carefully and prudently.

“I agree with Minister Liu’s future arrangements. We should indeed prevent pirates from re-emerging.

“But Tunisia and Morocco cannot be considered pirate powers.

“There are only pirate activities in the area, but both places have normal industries and normal commercial trade activities.

“There is no need to fight them directly as in the attack on Algiers.

"We just need to invite them to sign an agreement requiring them to control piracy within their borders."

Liu Quanzhi decisively rejected this plan:

“Piracy must be eradicated completely, and there must be no leniency.

“Since there are pirate activities in Tunisia and Morocco, and the current local rulers have not taken the initiative to restrict pirates, they are the protectors of local pirates.

"These people are more evil than just pirates.

"At the same time, Morocco also rejected the request of His Royal Highness the King of Wu of the Ming Dynasty and His Majesty the King of America, and refused to release our king's people. "It is impossible for the Ming Dynasty to allow such a traitor to continue to rule the local area."

Redondo wanted to continue persuading:

"Minister Liu...Aren't we short of ammunition?"

Liu Quanzhi took the initiative to reach out and stop him:
"You don't have to talk nonsense. I know what you really think. You just don't want the Ming Dynasty to control the entire North African coastline.

"But this matter is non-negotiable, the evil must be eradicated completely, and the weeds must be rooted out.

"We can wait for a while for the lack of ammunition. Once the Suez Railway is completed, we will have a steady supply of ammunition."

Redondo was suddenly embarrassed:
"This... Your Excellency, if all of North Africa is controlled by the Ming Dynasty, it will definitely cause panic in all European countries."

Liu Quanzhi immediately asked back:
"Why didn't you panic when the Caliphate occupied all of North Africa? Why didn't you panic when the Ottomans occupied all of North Africa?
"When the entire North African coastline was full of pirates, you didn't panic and unite to wipe them out?

"Now that the Ming Dynasty is going to control the North African coast by suppressing pirates, you are panicking?

"This shows that you are not panicking enough. If you panic for a few decades or hundreds of years, you will get used to it!"

Redondo felt Liu Quanzhi's determination and knew that there was no room for negotiation on this matter. Tunisia and Morocco must die.

We can only change our perspective and strive for other conditions:

“If the Ming Dynasty must control North Africa, I hope that the Ming Dynasty can always ban North African pirates.

“At the same time, Tunisia’s location is too important, and I hope that Ming Dynasty can make it a free city.

“Allow them to manage their own local affairs and allow all countries to trade.”

Liu Quanzhi waved his hand again, but his attitude was not so tough:

"I have no say in this matter. You can write down your thoughts and I can send someone to deliver them to our king on your behalf."

Redondo reluctantly agreed:

"Okay, I will write a letter as soon as possible and ask the minister to forward it to me when the time comes."

After Liu Quanzhi sent Lei Dongduo away, he began to discuss the next battle plan with civil and military officials such as Cao Zhendong, Xu Qing, and Li Anbang.

Cao Zhendong first said with regret:
“Now the ammunition supply is really running out. If we continue to attack Tunisia, we can only use ordinary smoothbore soldiers to fight, and the rifled soldiers can only assist.

"We also need to reload as much ammunition as possible, pick up as many bullets as possible from the battlefield, and if necessary, dig them out from the enemy's corpses.

"Wait another month, at most another month, and the temporary railway in Suez will be completed. By then, the ammunition supply will be sufficient."

When Xu Qing heard this, he took the initiative to provide some information:
“Tunisia should be relatively easy to conquer now.

“According to the information we collected before, about three years ago, a large-scale plague broke out in Tunisia and lasted for nearly a year.

"During that period, a merchant ship flying the Venetian flag docked in Malta carrying Tunisian goods.

“When Malta discovered there were infected people on board, they simply burned the entire ship and its cargo.

“Because Venice was responsible for transporting the goods, Tunisia later asked Venice to compensate for the loss of the goods.

“But Venice believed that the plague was their own problem and refused to pay compensation.

"Tunisia then declared war on Venice, and Venice immediately organized a fleet to attack the ports of Tunisia.

“The two sides have been fighting intermittently for more than two years. It cannot be said that the fighting has completely stopped now, but the intensity of the fighting has been very low.

“Not much more intense than Spain and Algiers.

“However, among this group of opponents, the relatively strong one is Venice, which is weaker than Spain.

"Tunisia's combat capability is weaker than the previous ones...

“The port of Tunisia was badly damaged, and the Tunisian fleet was stuck in the port and destroyed a lot.

"But Venice lacked an army and had no way of landing and occupying Tunisia.

"The admiral in charge of attacking the port of Tunisia suggested that the Venetian Parliament recruit an army of 10,000 men to attack and occupy Tunisia.

“But the Venetian Senate did not want to maintain an army.

"Most of their parliamentarians believed that they only needed to use naval strikes against the enemy to force Tunisia to stop attacking their merchant ships.

“So the landing and occupation plan was not implemented in the end.

"If we go there now, we can almost go with the flow. Even ordinary musket soldiers can take it down."

After listening to this, Li Anbang had a new idea:
"Then let the Japanese army and the North American Continental Army attack Tunisia, and the riflemen use the accumulated ammunition to attack Morocco?"

Cao Zhendong said rather tangledly:
“It depends on whether we want to pursue stability or continue to pursue speed.

"If we want speed, we can split up our operations and attack Tunisia and Morocco at the same time.

“After the Suez Railway is completed, we will split up and clean up other small pirate strongholds.

"If you want to be safe, you should concentrate on occupying Tunisia first.

"After the railway is completed, we will attack Morocco."

(End of this chapter)