Chapter 1881: Violently
The strength of the Ming Dynasty is undoubtedly, in this era, I am afraid that no national power can be surpassed the Ming Dynasty. Once the Ming court was made aware of the use of oil and mobilized the power of the court to develop oil, the annual output of hundreds of thousands of catties or even millions of catties would be a small matter.
And Marin did not know that his inadvertent means of cheating oil from the Ming Dynasty also caused a major change in the history of the Ming Dynasty. Because Ming Jun fell in love with incendiary bombs ...
In one of the later battles, the Ming army guarding the northern border city used a lot of "fierce fire oil" to burn the prairie army that had attacked the city so that they could not take care of themselves. Then, history changed ...
From now on, if the soldiers defending the city have enough "fierce fire oil", the enemy will never dare to "attack the city". Because, this is clearly given to the other party to burn! The fierce fire wall made at the root of the city wall is enough to resist any ferocious siege troops!
However, a large amount of fierce oil is used in the castle, and a large amount of oil is required to extract it. Therefore, the Ming dynasty later developed a complete set of technology for drilling oil wells using Zhuojing technology, which increased the annual oil production of the Ming dynasty to more than one million catties.
Later, the steaming master of Ming Dynasty accidentally discovered the method of distilling and refining gasoline, got rid of the dependence on Beihai, and started to produce gasoline and kerosene by himself. However, I don't know how to use the leftovers such as diesel. Then, Beihai continued to purchase these "wastes" and took it back to refine diesel fuel to provide fuel for its own diesel engine ...
Of course, that will be the future. At present, everything is just the beginning.
Dagama ’s fleet discovered that the coastal area of Daming Hu Jian began martial law throughout the country, and saw that there was no benefit to add. In addition, the fleet was troubled by maggots, and several ships needed overhaul. So Dhaka ordered the fleet to return to Hong Kong Island temporarily. Then, go back to Malacca and make a full repair. When he comes next time, he will bring a large number of craftsmen to find a port on the coast of Daming, and establish a permanent base and dock to strengthen the fleet's ability to fight on the coast of Daming.
It's just that Dagama didn't know that this time he went back, waiting for him was a terrible ending ...
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Not to mention the situation in the Far East, on the distant Atlantic Ocean, a large rescue is also in full swing ...
This big rescue is the 38 lively sailors arranged by Malint to rescue the robbed "Sail". They were sent by the governor of Portugal's Azores, Rui Silva, to be sent to a sugar cane plantation 10 kilometers west of Heroes' Port to serve as sugar cane slaves.
Marin felt that these unlucky eggs should not be ignored. Moreover, rescuing them also helps to win over the hearts of the crew and sailors.
So, a well-planned rescue was launched on the Atlantic ...
Because he did not want to turn his face with the Kingdom of Portugal, Marin did not directly dispatch his own warship, but deliberately modified several British-style Kirk sailboats to impersonate British pirates to do this. Even Marin hired a group of real British pirates to join in this matter to confuse the Portuguese.
Although the Portuguese can surely guess that he did it, Marin does not care. He did this, in addition to avoiding leaving the handle for the Portuguese to catch, it also means a warning-playing with Yin, I will too!
Although the North Sea country has a small nautical population, there are many in England. Moreover, Marin is also a very large prince of the Kingdom of England, fully capable of calling sailors and pirates in England. If they do not want to be harassed by others in the future, the Portuguese can only bear it.
Because, on the surface, Marin is the "barefoot", while Portugal is the "shoe-wearing" elite, porcelain is not necessary to die with broken bricks ...
Moreover, Marin also left Portugal with a face. Instead of tearing his face and using a warship, he turned around and used the "Pirates of England" and left a step for the Portuguese. As long as he is not a fool, the Portuguese know how to choose ...
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The Azores are not very important to Portugal. Because they did not occupy and develop the Brazilian colonies over there in history, the Azores did not become a "maritime transportation hub", so there is little value. The only value here is probably the sugar cane plantations under the names of the big nobles on the archipelago. The Azores is known as an important sugar-producing region in Portugal because of its warm climate and the ability to grow sugar cane.
However, Portugal also has Madeira Islands and Sao Tome Island off the coast of West Africa as sugar cane cultivation bases. Therefore, the relatively remote Azores is not important, but it is not particularly important. Here, Portugal has seven warships stationed, but all are small warships of one or two hundred tons. However, the British Kirk sailboat that has not been improved to become the Galen ship still can't beat the Portuguese Karak sailboat and Caravel sailboat. After all, in the Portuguese warships of this era, artillery has become an important combat weapon. The British-style Kirk sailboat is still a ship platform for side-by-side battles.
So, despite the modification, Marin did not intend to use the English-style Kirk sailing against the Portuguese, but planned to use tricks.
This strategy is to attack the west and tune the tiger away from the mountain ...
The Azores is an archipelago, but the islands are not particularly concentrated, but scattered on the ocean surface that stretches for 640 kilometers. Among them, Terceira Island, where the capital of Heroes is located, is located in the middle of the archipelago.
In fact, Terceira Island is not the largest island of the Azores, but the third largest island. In front of it, there are San Miguel Island and Pico Island. Only because it is right in the middle, which is convenient for the management of all nearby islands, and because the island is flat and rich in freshwater resources, it was determined to be the capital. The Portuguese's seven warships were all stationed in Port of Heroes and were not assigned to other islands. Mainly, in this era, pirates have not yet emerged, and the defensive pressure on other islands is very light.
And this time Marin's tactics of attacking the east and west were sending people to attack the island of San Miguel, the largest island of the archipelago, to attract the ships of Heroes to rescue.
Has also thought about sending several pirate ships to attack San Miguel Island ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ Marin. First of all, there is less to send. If only one or two ships are sent to attack São Miguel Island, it is estimated that Heroes ’Port will also despise it, and only two or three warships will be sent to rescue, and the purpose of" adjusting the tiger from the mountain "cannot be achieved.
However, you can't send too much. If there are too many pirate ships sent to scare the Portuguese in Heroes Port, so that they dare not send ships to rescue, then it will not work.
So, after all, Marin finally decided to send six pirate ships to attack Sao Miguel Island and attract Portuguese ships in the port of Heroes to rescue.
6 ships is a very delicate number. This scale makes the Portuguese in Heroes of Portugal dare not despise it, and will not randomly divide two or three ships to rescue. However, it will not be too scared. After all, the scale of 6 ships is one less than the 7 battleships of the Portuguese.
In addition, Marin deliberately deployed only two or three 6-pound guns on each pirate ship to bomb the town on San Miguel Island. This kind of firepower can not only make the Portuguese dare not underestimate, but also not scare the other party to dare to fight. After all, the number of artillery on the Portuguese warships is still considerable, although the caliber is not large ...
Almost at the same time that Dagama ’s fleet returned to the temporary base on Hong Kong Island, a pirate fleet of 6 Kirk sailing ships also arrived in San Miguel, the largest island in the southeast of the Azores The island ’s waters began to attack this big island ...
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