I Am the Crown Prince in France

Chapter 428 "Tribal Warriors"

At the same time, in the Kasir Palace in Tunisia, Tunisia's intelligence director Ishak was also discussing the same topic with his subordinates.

"Yes, there must be tribes that are willing to take risks to get some money." Ishak sneered, "In fact, we need such 'examples'."

"Need?" The intelligence officer next to him was surprised, "What do you mean?"

"The Palace of Versailles has issued an order that if a serious case of the murder of a sheriff occurs, the tribe in charge will face severe punishment." Ishak said, "If the tribe leader takes the initiative to take responsibility, all the high-level tribes will be arrested. If no one stands up, then the adults of the entire tribe will become coolies!"

"Will this cause a backlash from other tribes?"

"Don't worry." The intelligence director waved his hand calmly, "This is a serious crime of killing a sheriff, and other tribes will definitely not sympathize with them. Even the tribe where the sheriff came from will thank the military for avenging their people.

"As long as one or two tribes set an 'example' for everyone, other tribes will become very respectful of the sheriff. "

...

Algiers.

Annaba.

Kahele, commander of the Algiers Guard, rolled up the secret letter in despair. His hands were shaking, and he repeated it five or six times before he put the roll of paper into the mailbox.

The letter had just been sent from Mitiga. The content could be summed up in one sentence - the British had cut off all aid.

From funds to weapons, from intelligence to military advisers, everything disappeared overnight.

In other words, Algiers now had to face the wrath of France alone...

Lord Dai ordered him to hold on to Annaba until the Algiers ambassador completed the armistice negotiations with the French.

However, Kahele knew very well that even if The elite guards he commanded before could not resist the powerful French at all - he had confirmed this last year.

And the so-called guards in his hands now were just a mob that had been put together and trained for less than a year.

He estimated that he only needed 3,000 French troops to launch a charge, no, even just a few rounds of artillery fire, and his defense line would collapse.

No, he still had the Moroccan Black Guards. Kehler suddenly had an idea. As long as the Moroccans helped, he should be able to defend Annaba for a month or two.

He hurriedly waved to his attendants and said, "Quick, prepare a heavy gift, I'm going to see Said Pasha!"

...

Tamiray, a small town on the border of Tunisia.

Lefebvre looked east with a telescope for the 30th time today, and there was still only wasteland in his field of vision.

He said to the staff impatiently, "Haven't those guys arrived yet? My wife takes the children on an outing faster than them! "

"Uh, yes, Lieutenant Colonel, they are already two days behind schedule..."

"Two days and seven hours!" Lefebvre roared.

Originally, he was extremely dissatisfied with being sent to Tunisia - except for him, most of the Guards went to Silesia to fight the Prussians head-on. And he can only play with the weak North African "natives" here! Even if he wins, there will be nothing to show off to others in the future.

Just a month ago, the war in the Southern Netherlands was coming to an end. After the Prussian withdrawal, General Leo led the Austrian army to attack the rebels in Brussels.

The main force of the Southern Netherlands rebels had suffered serious losses before, and most of the defenders were new recruits. In addition, because Hanover and Prussia withdrew their troops one after another, Morale was extremely low.

So Leo, with the help of Lefebvre's Corps, quickly entered Brussels, and the Southern Netherlands Parliament was dissolved.

Van der Nott fled to the Netherlands with some core members of the Brabant uprising. Most of the other rebels surrendered.

So far, except for Wallonia, the Southern Netherlands has returned to Austria.

Joseph ordered the Guards Corps to rest for a month before going to Silesia to fight.

As for Tunisia, in fact, the 20,000 people of Scherer's Corps alone were enough to capture Annaba, but in order to have a sufficient deterrent effect on the tribes of Tunisia, Joseph still transferred Lefebvre. Lefebvre led 4,000 Guards to assist in the battle.

If Joseph had not asked Lefebvre to wait for the arrival of the "tribal warriors" and take them to the front line, Lefebvre might have captured Annaba a week ago.

Finally, at about 4 p.m. that day, nearly 5,000 tribal troops arrived in Tamiray one after another. Until noon the next day, the tail of the team was still outside the town. In addition, hundreds of people were missing because they fell behind.

Lefebvre was already impatient and immediately ordered the tribal army to rush to the front line. The Guards were ready to attack at any time.

Ignorance is fearless, the "tribal warriors" Everyone was ready to fight, thinking about killing a few Algiers and taking some military merit back.

The next morning, the morning breeze blew away the mist. Kehler saw the solemn French army formation through the telescope, and his heart twitched.

Soon, a melodious trumpet sounded from the French army, and then he saw a team of nearly 5,000 French soldiers lined up in... a very messy three-layer line formation, uh, that could barely be considered a line formation, slowly approaching him.

Kehler did not dare to be careless at all, thinking that it was a new tactic of the French army, or a skirmisher formation, and immediately ordered the entire army to be on alert, and at the same time notified the Moroccan Guards to cooperate in defense.

About 50 minutes later, the French "skirmish formation" finally reached a position 400 steps away from the Algiers defense line - during this period, the formation was separated twice, and the officers had to stop and reorganize.

Kehler looked at this strange French army with a telescope in confusion, until the attendant reminded him, he remembered that he should fire.

With a roar from the Algiers army, several iron balls fell in front of the French army with a sharp whistle. The formation, which was already a little scattered before, suddenly stagnated.

Less than a minute later, the fire of the cannon flashed again. This time, the Algiers artillery had good luck, and three British 6-pound cannon shells drilled into the crowd of "tribal warriors".

Suddenly, a series of slight "clicks" sounded, and three gullies composed of limbs and blood foam appeared in the tribal army in an instant.

After a moment of silence, those "tribal warriors" let out wails one after another. The officers were completely unable to restrain themselves, and hundreds of them turned and fled.

When the third round of bombardment came, the entire tribal army completely collapsed - thousands of people desperately ran away, and they did not stop until they were face to face with the vanguard of the Guards.

Lefebvre's face was gloomy, watching his soldiers point their bayonets forward, and finally forced the fleeing soldiers to scatter to both sides.

Kehler was even more stunned on the spot - did he successfully defend it?