Three days later, Algiers Guard Corps officer Younus led two thousand of their most elite soldiers quietly into Tunisian territory.
Mukrari's remnant force numbered fewer than eight hundred. As long as Younus followed the intelligence and reached his hideout in time, he could wipe them out completely within two or three days, then swiftly withdraw back to Algiers.
The Tunisians had suffered no significant losses, so they presumably would not make a great fuss over such a trivial matter.
However, Younus had never expected that the moment he left the Mount Tousso area, he was already being watched.
At that moment, colonel Zhemile, commander of the French Tunis Legion, was leading four thousand soldiers as they waited at Disera Village near the western border. This was precisely the place where Algerian intelligence claimed Mukrari was hiding.
That intelligence had been deliberately leaked to Kurulu by Zhemile under orders from the General Staff Headquarters.
Even the "Kabylia" who had previously attacked the Algerian army's supply lines were, in fact, Zhemile's soldiers.
For more than a century, Algerians had continually interfered in Tunisian politics and repeatedly sent troops to invade Tunis, so the Tunisians loathed Algiers to the extreme.
Now, with the Kabylia Tribe—of the same ethnicity and language as themselves—being "persecuted" by Algerians, everyone in the Tunis Legion was rubbing their fists and eager for a chance to teach the Algiers Guard Corps a savage lesson.
After Tunis was incorporated into France, these Tunisian Soldiers had been trained according to the General Staff Headquarters' standards. After several years, while their combat strength still could not compare with proper French mainland troops, they were unquestionably first-rate in North Africa.
Let alone Younus's two thousand soldiers—even if Kurulu brought over all fifteen thousand troops of his main force, Zhemile was confident he could