While the Ottoman Navy, which had not arrived for a long time, was still struggling in the Eastern Mediterranean, the trilateral coalition had already launched an attack on the fortress.

The infantry captured the periphery fortifications, and the cannon was pushed up to aim directly at the section of the shelling bastion. The engineers approached the bastion along the trench and used explosives to blast!

The sound of artillery and louder explosions came one after another, making everyone on the battlefield frightened!

Even if there are cumbersome fortifications such as 2-meter thick chest walls, bastions, trenches, concave forts, and middle embankments, even if there are 10 bronze cannons on the front to fight back, the pirates all have pale faces and are resisting powerlessly.

The bronze cannon is shooting at the engineers and artillery near the bastion, but the trench effectively hides the troops, and the cannon cannot effectively kill the engineers who are using explosives to blast!

The art of war is vividly displayed at this moment. The solid fortress, the cold sound of gunfire, and the violent explosives roll the soil into the sky! The earth is trembling, and the bastion is shaking!

"No! This cannot be the amount of gunpowder that an army with less than 5,000 people should have!" Murat did not dare to climb to the bastion himself to supervise the battle. He listened to the continuous explosions in the fortress, and felt that the ground was about to be blown up!

Almost all the pirate leaders were scared by the opponent's gunpowder. They could not break out of the fortress to prevent the opponent's trench from advancing. When the trench reached below the trench, they found that a nightmare had come, and boxes of black gunpowder were moved to the tunnel in the front to explode the trench!

There are many blasters among the army coming from the far east, specializing in the European bastion at this time. If you don’t accept it, you will be detonated by inserting the fuse!

"Their ships must have a lot of gunpowder, and it will be difficult for us to defend the fortress..." Amur and other pirate leaders were almost crying.

What kind of monsters did they provoke? Black gunpowder was used to explode the castle just like money.

"They didn't need to dig the trenches under our basin for ten days. Our reinforcements have been almost two months without news. Our basin may not be able to hold on for 7 days in their offensive. Let's have a peace talk with them. I am willing to hand over half of my property in the fortress and let them withdraw their troops!" A pirate leader could not withstand the continuous explosions, and his defense line collapsed.

"Mr. Pasha, we are also willing to hand over half of our property in exchange for the enemy's retreat!" The other pirate leaders asked for their orders at the same time.

Murat showed a worry. He had sent Amur to negotiate with the other party twice in a row. The first time he was willing to compensate 100,000 taels of silver, and the second time he was willing to compensate 200,000 taels of silver. However, the other party insisted on compensation of 1 million taels of silver, which made Murat feel as if he was the pirate leader here, he could not take out 1 million taels of silver at a time. This was dozens of tons of silver.

"We raise the white flag and negotiate with them again. This time we are willing to compensate 300,000 taels of silver." Murat's mouth twitched when he said 300,000 taels of silver.

"It's only an increase of 100,000 taels from the last time. The other party may not be willing to withdraw its troops. It's better to directly increase the compensation to 500,000 taels of silver." Amur was worried.

The opponent had launched a devastating attack, and soon the Fortress of Penion was about to fall. He believed that it was necessary to pay enough to satisfy the enemy to give up on the attack when he gained the upper hand.

As long as you pay a reward that satisfies the other party, the other party will definitely withdraw. War is originally for both parties to bargain chips at the negotiating table.

"500,000 taels..." Murat felt that it was not because his heart was cut, but because a bomb exploded in his mind, which was 500,000 taels of silver!

"If you are still Pasha of Algiers, Algiers is still in our hands, we will be able to plunder taxes from pirates every year in the future. If you are captured by the other side, we will not only lose all our property, but also Algiers. They are far away in Britain, 1,000 nautical miles away from here, and even if they conquer Algiers, they will not be able to occupy this place for a long time. Sooner or later, this will be our kingdom!" Amur said.

This was the third time he encouraged Pasha to negotiate. He didn't want to add 100,000 taels of silver every time, and then be humiliated by the other party.

500,000 taels of cash silver have reached the limit for the pirates in Algiers. Pirates also have to spend money, they need to build ships, buy food, recruit subordinates, and may be surrounded by warships and compete in other pirate ports...

"Okay! As you said, we will pay 500,000 taels of silver to exchange for peace!" Murat completely gave up and had to cut his flesh if he wanted to retreat.

Boom! A small section of the earthen wall of the castle collapsed!

The explosion continued, and the trembling loud noise made the Britons and the members of the Malta Knights who were watching the battle closed their eyes like conditioned reflexes and their necks shrank.

"When did you Britons cooperate with such a terrible Eastern Empire? Their gunpowder was carried from warships in buckets, and gunpowder was as common as sand to them. Such fierce attacks could not reach their attacks." Castella, the commander of the Knights of Malta, wiped the sweat from his forehead with a handkerchief.

"How did we think that their military abilities were extraordinary? The Ottoman Empire had already trained soldiers very strictly, but not only were the soldiers well trained, but the firearms and tactics they used were unheard of and unprecedented." Earl of Strafforg saw the dust in the bastion, and a gap of several meters appeared, and was stunned.

It is not a miracle to be able to blow up a gap in the castle, but it seems terrifying to blow up the castle's wall in such a short time at a relatively small price!

Earl of Stratford and others used the month as the unit of time to capture a fortress, but Sun Chuanting and others used the sky to calculate it!

"We should be glad that we are not enemies yet. They are impeccable, both the army and the navy. Next time we send an ambassador to the East, we should send officers to learn their tactics." Sir Greenville said.

He has witnessed many siege battles on the Netherlands battlefield, and he is definitely not as powerful as it is.

Having professional and skilled engineers, fierce artillery, muskets, and explosives all accelerated the unbalanced battle to the forefront.

"We in Britain should first set up our own standing army, and then send a group of young talents to the East to study their tactics and firearms." Earl of Straffor nodded.

The people of the Knights of Malta also learned a lot from the battle to siege Algiers and the fortress, but they were helpless. The members of their Knights were at most a few thousand people, and most of them were surrounded by the enemy, and there was almost no possibility of siegeing other people's fortresses.
Chapter completed!