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Chapter four hundred and fifteen, victory

The delegation of the French Academy of Sciences with Joseph as the core was warmly welcomed at all Italian universities, especially Joseph's lectures, and each session was full. In this era, scientists seemed to have the same traffic as entertainment stars. If you are a person, you will always have some vanity, and even Joseph is not immune to the vulgarity. Although he kept saying to himself in his mind, "Don't be vain" and "You are actually fooled by Napoleon and the bad things from the Paris High Master. What's so proud of?", but the surrounding and praise of everyone was still "very fragrant", especially when he was in the limelight, the little girl clapped her hands and shouted "Dad is so amazing".

In addition, through his own way, Joseph also obtained Napoleon's paper that was rated as "extremely important" and "extremely popular".

Joseph looked carefully several times and confirmed that this must have been the writers of the high-ranking masters in Paris. The structure is rigorous, the argument is rigorous and sufficient, and there is almost no loophole. Of course, it must be said that there is no problem at all. For example, some derivations are a bit too complicated, so they appear to be bulky and lack aesthetics. However, this is not a mistake after all. In general, this paper is indeed worthy of those two adjectives.

Not to mention Joseph's publicly paid travel takeaway in Italy, since Napoleon became an academician of the Academy of Sciences, he naturally had to prepare to fulfill his promise. That is, he wanted to choose a queen for himself among the relatives of the High Master of Paris.

However, Napoleon immediately discovered: "Laplace's niece is so ugly, Mengge's granddaughter is not good-looking, Lagrang's granddaughter is okay, but unfortunately his waist is too thick, and he catches up with his sister-in-law... Still no one can compare to..."

However, Napoleon was still a very trustworthy person in general, and he now chose a queen rather than a mistress, as long as he was dignified, it was enough. Besides, isn’t the waist not thin enough? Strictly speaking, this is the legacy of Romans. Look at the goddesses in the sculptures left by the Roman era, who meets the current standards of thin waists? As the Roman emperor, how could he not appreciate Roman women, but bees who were influenced by the barbarians and like thin waists?

After thinking about it this way, Napoleon discovered that Lagrangian's granddaughter was actually quite cute. Although he was not as good as his mistress in terms of appearance and demeanor, he was also considered a middle-class and superior, at least not like Laplace's niece. In addition, the little girl loved Napoleon very much, which made Napoleon feel good, so Napoleon began to date this girl named Lola frequently.

Joseph continued to travel in Italy. When he arrived at the last stop of this trip, Naples, new news came, saying that the French army won a decisive victory in Morocco and captured the port of Dalbeda. (The previous article was wrong, the city did not have an alias for Casablanca at this time)

The capture of Dalbeda also means that the war is basically over. France suffered very limited losses in this war, especially few people died. The main ones who died in the war were the enemies. In addition to the enemies, the Turks were the main ones who died on their own side. As for the French, not many people died.

But this is not a French cheating teammates. At least, the Turks can't say such things. For example, when the attack was first started, the Turks found that Morocco's preparations for anti-landing were much more sufficient than those in the first two places, and they learned from the lessons learned from the first two places and comprehensively upgraded the port's defense.

Obstacles and mines were set up in ports and nearby areas that were convenient for landing. If the French had not invested in the nearest minesweeper, just these mines would have caused huge losses to the Joint Fleet, and most of these losses were paid by the Turks.

The French minesweeper was actually quite simple. This is a kind of flatbed. At sea, the flatbed has not very good resistance to wind and waves, but relatively speaking, the draft is much shallower, which makes this kind of ship less likely to hit mines, especially at high tides.

This ship also has a special device - a relatively primitive magnetic detector. When there are metal objects in the water, and these metal objects are within a certain distance, this thing can issue a warning.

Then there is the minesweeping machine of this kind of ship. This kind of ship can put down something similar to the trawl of later generations. However, the two cables are not pulling a net, but a large blade similar to a sickle.

This thing drags along the depth close to the seabed. If there is an anchor thunder below, the scythe will cut off the cable under the anchor thunder, and then the anchor thunder will float to the surface. Once the anchor thunder floats to the surface, it will be easier to deal with it.

Of course, even if you sweep a few rounds like this, you cannot guarantee that there will be no fish that missed the net. For example, during this attack, there were still several Turkish warships hitting mines and sank. But considering the more mines the French swept out, the Turks also understood that without the support of French allies, their losses would be much greater.

During the attack operation after landing near the port, the French Marines helped the Turks open up a safe passage in the minefield. When the Turkish offensive troops were defeated and the enemy took the opportunity to launch a counterattack, they blocked the enemy's counterattack and caused huge damage to the enemy.

Finally, the French Navy artillery used expensive high-explosive bombs to destroy a crucial bastion on the hill near Dalbert, allowing the offensive to make breakthrough progress. After that, the French used temporary ports to send some cannons to the shore and transported them into the fortress, and then continued to bombard the city. This defeated the defensive power in the city and played a decisive role in the Turks' final occupation of the city.

With these real contributions, the Turks naturally could not say that the French were dead and fellow Taoists would not die. They even had to transfer more interests to the French according to the newly signed terms. After Barbary gained these footholds, although France's control over the Mediterranean was not comparable to that of the Roman Empire at that time, it was much stronger than Athens or Carthage at its heyday.

With such a major victory easily and liberated so many Christians, the Holy See even planned to sanctify Napoleon. However, a sudden incident interrupted the process.
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