Because time was rushed, Kong Tai could only ask Hadoff to help the Ming Dynasty build two forts that blocked the estuary of the Pearl River. However, this was enough.
For Marin, what he wanted was not the Ming Dynasty to beat Portugal, but not to be beaten by Portugal. If the Ming Dynasty was defeated in an all-out war and the warlike Zhengde ruled, it would likely set off a wave of naval development, which Marin did not want to see.
Helping the Ming Dynasty build a fortress can create firepower suppression on Portugal in the area where the fortress is located. Then, let the Ming Dynasty see hope for victory.
In other words, Marin used this method to imply that the Ming Dynasty - if you want to defeat the Folang Jiren, you should repair the fort rather than develop the navy!
As long as the two turrets guarding the estuary of the Pearl River achieved good results, the Ming Dynasty would be led by Marin and embarked on the road of overhauling the fortress instead of taking the route of developing the navy.
Besides, the cost of building a fort is low and the effect is good. With the personality of those famous civil officials who are unwilling to cause trouble, they must have chosen to build a fort in key areas rather than building warships to fight the enemy to the death. After all, the expenses of Zheng Hebao's fleet have always been scruples. Moreover, the practice of repairing a fort is consistent with the national policy of banning the sea in the Ming Dynasty...
In other words, the most fundamental purpose of Marin helping the Ming Dynasty to repair the fortress was not to help the Ming Dynasty abuse Portugal, but to be afraid that the Ming Dynasty would embark on the road to developing the navy due to Portugal's attack!
The Ming Empire was a real sleeping lion, not a fake lion who was enslaved and educated to drain the backbone like the Qing Dynasty. Once the Ming Empire awakened its ocean consciousness, it would not be possible to participate in the world's voyage, at least in the East and Southeast Asian waters, others could not interfere. This was not in line with Marin's strategic interests.
Therefore, in order to hinder the Ming Dynasty from sailing, Marin specially introduced a method of repairing the fort, helping the Ming Dynasty to save effort to deal with Portugal, spending the least money to accomplish things. Then, the Ming Dynasty would follow this example and vigorously develop coastal forts. As for the warships participating in the maritime battle for hegemony, it would naturally be left alone.
The cost gap between repairing a turret and building a warship is huge. Not to mention the cost of building a warship, the daily maintenance of a warship is a huge expense. You should know that sea warships need to be overhauled due to shipworms. Moreover, warships are prone to sinking or sinking on the sea. In general, the cost of warships is huge. Moreover, the Ming Dynasty currently lacked professional naval combat talents.
The construction of a fort is different. As long as you build a solid fortress on important coastal areas and install cannons, you can block the waterway and fight against foreign invasions, which is very cost-effective.
Moreover, it is not difficult. After all, it is just about building a fortress with stones and then erecting a few cannons. This is not only difficult to build, but also has good combat effectiveness!
After all, the turret has the cover of stone walls, which can withstand the shells of enemy warships. Conversely, the wooden ships of enemy ships are not as strong as the stone structure of the turret, and are easily injured or even sunk.
In order to make the Ming Dynasty recognize the fort, Malin took out all the techniques of the later forts. The method was very simple - to install a pair of cylindrical gun ears in the middle of the artillery.
Then, a stone platform was built with grooves for placing the gun body and horizontal grooves for placing cylindrical gun ears. However, the grooves on the gun body were deeper, so that the gun body could move up and down with the cylindrical gun ears as the intermediate axis. However, because the gun ears were placed in the front position in the middle of the gun body, the center of gravity of the gun was in the second half. All up and down angles could be adjusted at the tail of the gun body.
In this way, the firing angle of the artillery is no longer fixed, but can be adjusted up and down. The adjustment range given by Marin is the maximum 30-degree angle, the minimum, and naturally the zero-degree angle.
In other words, if the tail of the cannon is completely lowered, it is a 30-degree shooting angle. If something is placed on the tail of the cannon, the cannon body can be shot horizontally forward. However, due to gravity, the muzzle will generally be slightly raised to a firing angle of 5 degrees to 10 degrees to meet the shooting needs.
In addition, since it is Beihai Guo technology, the gun body and tail can naturally be equipped with aiming Wangshan, which can be convenient for shooting.
Although the 12-pound cannon is a bit smaller when using a caliber on the turret, in this era, the 12-pound cannon is considered a heavy artillery. As for the Beihai Kingdom, which has a larger caliber artillery, it is still confidential and is unwilling to provide a larger caliber artillery to the outside world...
Under the guidance of Hadowfer, the Ming Dynasty craftsmen used stones to build two stones to build a stone fortress in Weiyuan Fortress and the Dingyuan Fortress in Jiuwangmiao Village on the other side (Weiyuan Fortress was proposed by Kong Tai according to Marin's intention, and the Dingyuan Fortress was named by Ming Dynasty officials). They first built two stone fortresses with stones. Then, 10 mercerations were left each, and guns could be installed to shoot out.
The stone platform for installing artillery is a fixed gun mount that Marin copied from later generations that can adjust the up and down angles along the gun ear. During artillery fire, the artillery recoil is transmitted to the gun ear and then transmitted to the stone platform. However, the stone platform is very solid and heavy, and is basically not affected by the recoil. Therefore, after the artillery fire is over, the artillery can be reset and can be continuously fixed. Of course, the fixed gun body brings bad consequences, which is that the artillery loading is difficult. Fortunately, the 12-pound Napoleon cannon is not very large, so it is not troublesome to load. Moreover, because the barrel is not long and the muzzle is still in the mercedes, it is convenient for the gunners to load ammunition.
In fact, there are a little 10 12-pound cannons on both sides, and they are not powerful enough. But fortunately, in this day, the Portuguese did not have professional warships like the Galen ships of the 17th century. The Carac sailing ships and Caravel sailing ships they use now are actually not very professional. The most important thing is that the side side of mainstream European warships are currently thinner and not as reinforced as they did later.
After all, artillery wars were just beginning to become popular in this era, and people did not realize that the side side needed to be thickened to prevent the side side from being penetrated. In the past, naval battles were mainly guarding against the enemy's crossbows and stone throwers, so the side side naturally did not need to be too thick. Only after suffering losses would Europeans choose to reinforce the side side of the hull.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content below! But obviously, the Portuguese have not suffered any major losses and have not yet known to thicken the hull. Unlike the Beihai Kingdom, because Marin is a time traveler, he has long known the trend of future naval warfare and thickened the side side of the Beihai Kingdom's armed merchant ships early. As for the Beihai Kingdom's regular warships, the side side thickness is higher and more difficult to penetrate.
The fort built by Hadoff for the Ming Dynasty happened to be one of the things. If the Portuguese warship wanted to cross the blockade line to go north to Huangpu Port in Guangzhou, it would definitely expose the sideways to the range of the fort. Therefore, the Portuguese suffered a loss this time...
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Of course, although Portugal was undermined, Marin would never admit it. Marin had already instructed Conte - once it was discovered that Dagama's fleet arrived at the estuary of the Pearl River, Conte would send a ship to tell Dagama "respectfully" that we did not know that your country was going to attack the Ming Dynasty in advance, so we had helped them build a "fortress with artillery" and hoped that Dagama would treat it carefully...
But with the Portuguese's arrogance and the smooth sailing years, I probably won't listen to advice. However, as long as Conte's people persuaded Dagama and the Portuguese suffered a great loss later, it has nothing to do with the Beihai Kingdom - if you don't listen to advice, what can I do?
In addition, once the Ming Dynasty and Portugal started fighting, Conte would declare "wartime neutrality" to Portugal according to Marin's order.
What is "wartime neutrality"? In fact, it means that two people are not helping each other. When the two countries are at war, the third country that declares "wartime neutrality" will not support either side of the war. At the same time, the army and warships of both sides will not be allowed to dock at the ports of neutral countries. They will even impose an "arms embargo" on both sides of the war. In the early days of World War II, the United States condoned Japan and declared "wartime neutrality" and implemented an arms embargo on Japan and Baldy Chiang at the same time. However, at that time, Japan's own industry was much more developed than China and had a complete military industry, while Baldy Chiang had basically no military industry. Moreover, the United States did not stop exporting steel and other raw materials for making weapons to Japan. Therefore, people believe that the United States was actually favoring Japan at that time.
By the same token, Marin asked Conte to declare "war neutrality", which seemed to be unsuccessful, but the Beihai Kingdom had handed over the casting technology of the 12-pound Napoleon cannon to the Ming Dynasty, and also helped to repair the fort, which had completed weapons support for the Ming Dynasty.
At this time, it is meaningless to announce "wartime neutrality" again, but it is actually not worth announcing it. Moreover, once the Beihai Kingdom engages in "wartime neutrality", it means that Portugal cannot use the Beihai Kingdom port on Taiwan for supply and ship repairs. Once Portuguese warships are damaged or insufficient supply, they will not be able to use the port on Taiwan. There are no supply ports for Portugal's allies in the surrounding areas. If you want to supply and ship repairs, you can only return to the Port of Malacca.
Chapter completed!