In the end, the 20 Venetian warships escaped only 4 gunboats and 2 old-fashioned galleys, which could be said to be a complete defeat.
Moreover, what made the Venetians depressed was that if it weren't for the drag of the Indian princes' teammates' fleet, they wouldn't have had it so miserable. If it weren't for being blocked by hundreds of small Indian warships, the Venetian warships could have been able to maneuver to avoid the Spanish shells.
But history has no ifs, and the Venetians would not have expected that the fleet of Indian princes would be so frustrated. Not only could they not help, but they also helped. But to be fair, even if the fleet of Indian princes dragged their legs, the Venetians would not win.
On the surface, the Venetians had 20 warships. However, those 10 old-fashioned galleys were not very useful. In the final stage of the naval battle, Gillioni suffered a great loss when he took five galleys to fight traditional platoon battles with the Spaniards.
First of all, Dacosta was a coward. He was afraid of platoon battles, so he ordered the warships to maneuver back and avoid platoon battles. At the same time, he allowed the fleet to fan and surround and shell several old-fashioned galleys in Venice. This practice was unintentional, but it happened to fit the trend of naval battles, which caused Gillioni's old-fashioned galley fleet to suffer a great loss.
Moreover, it was not that the Venetian galleys leaned on the enemy ships, but after getting through the exam, the Venetian sailors failed to jump into the ship. Why? They were beaten into the sea by the Spanish muskets...
It’s a coincidence that the Dacosta family is a famous musket manufacturing family in Spain. The famous Mushket musket is the fist product of the Dacosta family. Because of the emergence of the Marin square array and the Spanish, the Dacosta family also set up a square array, resulting in constant orders and good business.
After bribing Shangguan to get the position of fleet commander, Dacosta took advantage of his position to order the fleet to purchase a large number of meshket guns. Of course, it was not heavy muskets like Mushket, but miniaturized meshket guns for convenience for sailors.
It should be pointed out that in the 16th century, military commanders had the right to decide what weapons the army purchased. Most commanders would use their power for personal gain and purchase weapons from arms dealers who were close to them, rather than selecting the best weapons.
Among them, the most classic case is the promotion of the French flintlock rifle. At that time, with the support of Henry IV, the Frenchman Mahan took the lead in inventing the practical flintlock rifle, and Henry IV also planned to promote it in the French army.
However, this is not in the interests of the French generals. After all, the generals of each army have their own stable arms suppliers and will not be replaced casually. In fact, some army arms suppliers are the generals' own family or the generals themselves have a shareholding in it. Therefore, Henry IV's promotion of flintlock rifles was blocked. After Henry IV was assassinated, Mahan and the flintlock rifles he invented were directly rejected by the bigwigs of the French military. It was not until the Thirty Years' War that the flintlock rifles shone in the Gustav Line Formation in Sweden, and they gained attention from the French again...
It was precisely with the reduced version of the Mushket mesh gun that Dacosta accidentally promoted that the Spanish sailors successfully repelled the Venetian sailors' decisive counterattack. Most of the Venetian sailors who jumped into the ship gang were shot down by muskets, and a small number of the Venetian sailors who jumped onto the Spanish ship were also killed by the Spanish sailors...
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As for Pinamonti's seven gunboats, the tactics are actually somewhat contradictory. Because the sailors on the ship are not very adapted to the naval battle tactics of shelling each other with enemy ships at sea.
The Venetian gunners were actually drawn from the army or shore defense turrets, and they were still operating the unfamiliar Turkish artillery. Fired on land and fired on ships are different things. After all, the cannons on land are fixed. The cannons on land are swinging with the ship and are very difficult to aim.
Therefore, it was purely accidental that the Venetian gunboat could sink two Spanish warships this time, and it was a blind accident.
Why do you say that? Because those two Spanish warships have actually had problems with each other for a long time and need to be overhauled. What is the problem? The bottom of the ship was severely eroded by shipworms, and the wooden boards at the bottom of the ship need to be replaced...
After all, the Spanish-Portugal United and the fleet had been cruising in the Indian Ocean for too long, and it was time to overhaul. The Venetian shells happened to hit the bottom of the waterline of the two Spanish warships, and the part that was more severely eroded by shipworms. Then, of course, the side of the two Spanish warships was penetrated into the water and then sank...
In other words, if the Spanish fleet had not maintained their own ships, the Venetians would have had no results. But because of this coincidental result, the Venetians finally admitted that gunboats were more suitable for modern naval warfare than old galleys...
During the voyage back to Egypt, Pinamonti and Gilioni jointly wrote about the naval battle. The two said that artillery battles are indeed the mainstream of future naval battles, but the platoon war also needs to be retained. Otherwise, once someone jumps into the ship and helps, the gunner may be hacked to death by the enemy. In addition, muskets seem to be able to be introduced to the platoon war...
Also, Pinamonti suggested to train a group of artillery specialized in naval combat. Because this naval battle showed that artillery on land could not adapt to warship artillery shooting. Therefore, special warship gunners were needed. The training method was naturally to send artillery officers to study in Beihai Kingdom. After all, the Jutland naval battle fought by Marin and the Hamburg fleet and the Danish fleet was the first naval battle to win by artillery. That naval battle completely ended Denmark. Therefore, the naval navy of the Beihai Kingdom must have rich experience in naval artillery battles and can send people to learn...
In addition, the Venetians have no other choice...
At present, the Navy has only three major countries that vigorously promote artillery - Spain, Portugal and the North Sea (in fact, Hamburg and Lübeck also partially promoted artillery, but the scale is not large). However, Spain and Portugal are obviously the enemy of Venice because of the Indian spice trade. Therefore, Venice can only choose to learn from the North Sea, which has a good relationship with it...
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In fact, Pinamonti and Gillioni didn't know that they had escaped too much...
Because, shortly after they escaped, the Portuguese fleet returning from Guangzhou returned to Calicat.
The Portuguese Foreign Minister Ricardo, who returned to India, was full of anger. This trip to the East was too failed. He wanted to annex Malacca, but he was beaten back. He failed to trade with the Ming Dynasty, and he turned against him and was beaten back...
During the two wars, although the Portuguese did not lose warships, they lost thousands of sailors, almost half of the fleet.
If it weren't for snatching back three Southeast Asian merchant ships from the Ming Dynasty's tribute trade, Ricardo would probably not dare to return to Portugal. Because he was afraid that Manuel I would peel him off.
Ricardo was full of anger. When he heard that a sea war occurred at sea, he took 22 Portuguese warships to sea without saying a word. But when he arrived at the battlefield, he found that the naval battle was over. Spanish commander Da Costa was proudly showing off his great achievements to him.
Ricardo didn't say anything, and ordered 22 Portuguese warships to chase the remnants of the combined fleet of the Indian princes and the Dukes, and chased them for a few days. Not only did they destroy all the pitiful ragged fleets of the Indian princes, but they also took the opportunity to capture Diu.
After conquering Diu, Ricardo ordered the city to vent his anger. After plundering Diu's wealth, he burned Diu's city.
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After returning to Kalikat, a news from the local merchants almost made Ricardo jump up in anger. It turned out that Ricardo learned from the spice merchants that the batch of guns guarding the city of the Kingdom of Malacca were actually given to the other party by Columbus of the North Sea...
In other words, Portugal suffered a great loss this time, which was entirely due to Columbus and the North Sea...
Ricardo was full of anger, but secretly happy. Why? He found an excuse for his defeat - you see, it was because the Beihai Kingdom provided those guns and cannons that I was defeated. I can't blame me...
Then, Ricardo, who found the excuse, returned home with 10 warships, leaving 12 warships to continue the mission of blocking the Arabian Sea.
Chapter completed!