The classic style of "Captain Jack" and the funny lines left a deep impression on the Portuguese sailors. These legends later spread in Portugal and became legends. However, the Portuguese sailors are still in shock at the moment, and they have to return to Portugal first.
At the same time, the Beihai Kingdom also began to prepare for the war. This time, although the "Captain Jack" was sent to make up for its own losses. However, God knows how the Portuguese, who were too confident, would do whatever it takes. Showing their power at sea for many years has made Portugal forget that they are just a small country, and their confidence has expanded.
Therefore, Marin once again began to promote the two powerful forts at the mouth of the Ames River and promote its "invincible". At the same time, the 20 500-ton warships of the North Sea Kingdom made public appearances at the mouth of the Ames River for the first time, causing a huge sensation.
"Oh my God, I always thought that there were only 10 warships like the Beihai Kingdom, but I didn't expect that there were 20!" Some foreign merchants who came to Beihai Kingdom to do business in Emden exclaimed. Of course, many of them were spies.
However, in this era, there were no professional spies in other countries. The spies among these merchants were actually part-time and not professional. They were usually merchants, and were then secretly hired by their states to inquire about the intelligence of the target country. Therefore, they were not professional spies, but just merchants who inquire about the news.
Spy of this level is naturally not good enough in front of full-time spies in Beihai Country. Therefore, what they can find is usually what Marin wants them to know, or information that cannot be concealed.
However, in this era, we cannot ask for more. After all, it is already very good for people to think of using businessmen who do business abroad to act as spies. And truly professional spies are generally subordinate to the army in this era. In other words, they are simply spies of the army, not full-time spies. Spy in the army rarely goes abroad to disguise themselves as civilians to find out the news unless a war is about to break out in that area.
In addition to the Beihai Kingdom, there was probably only the Ming Dynasty in this era, which had a professional spy - the Jinyiwei. However, because of the privilege, the Jinyiwei acted a bit high-profile and domineering, and instead lost the forbearance of the spy.
Moreover, the Jinyiwei is also an army organization, and most of the members are illiterate big soldiers. The common means of inquiring about intelligence are to directly recruit gangs and obtain intelligence from the "inquiry" in the market, rather than to personally obtain intelligence like 007.
Therefore, although the Jinyiwei is more advanced than the intelligence organizations of other countries in the same era, it still cannot escape the shackles of the times. Because there are not many educated members, their professional level is actually that way. Of course, there are only secret spies in the Jinyiwei, who are very smart, but very few.
The spies in Beihai Kingdom are different from those of this era. The spies in Beihai Kingdom are all trained by schools and are all educated spies. Moreover, they have received professional reconnaissance, anti-reconnaissance, as well as modern spies such as torture, shorthand, disguise and makeup. They can even master a variety of foreign languages ​​and are the top talents. If intelligence work is not very important, these spies are more than enough to be used as local officials.
In addition to the 20 main warships, Marin also asked 20 level 250 armed merchant ships to follow the main warships and demonstrated a huge fleet of 40 warship formations as a deterrent.
In order to show his force, Marin asked the huge fleet to swing a few laps at the Estuary of the Ames River. Then, he left the Estuary of the Ames River and went to Antwerp, the Netherlands for a "friendly visit".
Why did the fleet go to Antwerp? Because Antwerp is the main distribution center for the Portuguese to sell Indian spices in Northwest Europe, there are many local Portuguese merchants. Similarly, there are also many Portuguese merchants who work part-time spies.
Marin asked the fleet to run to Antwerp, which was clearly intended to let the Portuguese merchants who worked part-time spies see it so that they could send the news back to Portugal.
At the same time, Marin also asked the fleet to acquire private saltpeter in Antwerp and made a preparatory attitude. In short, all this preparation was to tell the Portuguese that I was ready to face the challenge!
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At the same time, the 20 lizard monster guns purchased from Venice also arrived. After the arrival, the Emden Shipyard of the North Sea Kingdom modified 20 Class 250 armed merchant ships and installed the 7,000-pound lizard monster guns on the bow as the main gun. At the same time, it also strengthened the hull, and added paddles to the side side to convert the ship into a sailboat. Among them, five modified Class 250 armed merchant ships were equipped with a row of single-cylinder diesel engines, so that they had the ability to move without wind.
In fact, Marin originally wanted to install a row of single-cylinder diesel engines on all 20 ships. Unfortunately, the manufacturing level of Beihai Guo single-cylinder diesel engines is too bad. In addition to the original 10 12-horsepower single-cylinder diesel engines, in a few months, only 30 qualified and durable 12-horsepower single-cylinder diesel engines were built.
There is no way. Due to the limited technological level, Beihaiguo's single-cylinder diesel engines are all hand-made, time-consuming and labor-intensive, and the defective rate is very high. As a result, more than 160 new single-cylinder diesel engines were manufactured, and only 30 of them were more resistant to manufacturing and can be used for a long time. Others are either unqualified from the beginning, or they are always broken after running for a period of time and cannot be used for a long time.
But these are not problems. At least, Marin saw progress. At the beginning, the Beihai country's craftsmen made more than 10, and only 10 were qualified. Now, more than 160 units have 30 units passed, which is a great progress. However, it is foreseeable that in a few years, the Beihai country's craftsmen will make more and more progress, and the yield rate of single-cylinder diesel engine manufacturing will also be further improved. When several masters like "level 8 technicians" emerge, the output and quality of diesel engines will be guaranteed in the future.
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! Subsequently, five "Dover ships" with diesel power were tested at sea. The test results show that if the gun is placed on the bow and fired in the front, it has more advantages than the side gun. Among them, the biggest advantage is that if the bow gun is bombarded in front, the swaying of the ship has less impact on its shooting.
When the side gun shaking left and right on the hull, the accuracy of the head is very poor. Because a little change in the shooting angle will lead to a major change in shooting accuracy.
However, if the bow gun is arranged on the central axis and fired flatly, it will be less affected by the swaying of the ship.
However, the Venetian lizard cannon is not a flat-fire cannon, but a curved short-bore mortar cannon. Although the angle has been lowered as much as possible, the firing angle of the cannon is still more than 10 degrees. Therefore, the hull shake still has a little impact on its shooting. However, it has a much smaller impact than the side gun.
Moreover, the gunners of Beihai Country are not vegetarians. They will choose to fire at the moment when the hull is the most upright, and try to minimize the impact of sea conditions.
The test results of these five "Dover ships" were very good. In order to observe the actual combat effect, Marin specially bought two Calavell sailboats with an expiration as target ships, and asked the five Dover ships to bombard them hard. Then, because the shells were powerful and the side side of the warships of this era had not yet been strengthened, the two Calavell sailboats were quickly sunk...
Seeing that the effect was so good, Marin also increased his confidence and ordered the production of single-cylinder diesel engines to make the diesel-powered Dover ships larger in scale and stronger lethality.
However, the row of diesel engines behind the "Dover ship" are too cool and inevitably attracts covetousness. Moreover, if the single-cylinder diesel engine is exposed outside and unfortunately hit by enemy shells, it will easily break.
Chapter completed!