Chapter 1117： Blame Columbus

In the end, the 20 Venetian warships only fled back to 4 gunboats and 2 old-style paddle sailboats, which can be said to be defeated.

Moreover, what makes the Venetians depressed is that if it was not the drag of the fleet of pig mates of the Indian prince, they would not have been so miserable. If it were not blocked by hundreds of small Indian warships, the Venetian warships could completely maneuver from the Spanish shells.

But there is no history, and the Venetians did not think that the Indian prince's fleet would be so frustrated. Not only can't help, but also help down. To be fair, even without the Indian prince's fleet, the Venetians can't win.

On the surface, the Venetian has 20 battleships. However, those 10 old-fashioned paddle sailboats are actually not very useful. In the final stage of the naval battle, Gillioni took a big oar when he wanted to fight the Spaniards in a traditional port war.

First of all, Da Costa is a counsel. He was afraid of the side-to-side battle, so he ordered the warship to move back and avoid the side-to-side battle. At the same time, let the fleet fan-frame and shell several old-fashioned paddle sailboats in Venice. This practice was unintentional, but it happened to be in line with the trend of naval warfare, which made Gillioni's old paddle sailing fleet suffer a big loss.

Moreover, it is not without Venetian paddle sailboats that rely on enemy ships, but after taking the exam, the Venetian sailors jumped the boat and failed. Why? They were beaten into the sea by the Spanish guns ...

It's also a coincidence that Da Costa's family is a famous musket manufacturing family in Spain. The famous Musquette musket is the fist product of the Da Costa family. Because of the emergence of the Marin phalanx and the Spaniards also started the phalanx, which led to the continuous order of Da Costa ’s family and good business.

After bribing Shangguan to get the post of commander of the fleet, Da Costa took advantage of his post and ordered the fleet to purchase a large number of matchlocks. Of course, it is not a heavy musket like the Musquette musket, but a miniaturized musket to facilitate the use of sailors.

It should be pointed out that in the 16th century, the army commander had the right to decide which weapons the army purchased. Most commanders also use power for personal gains and purchase weapons from arms dealers who are closely related to them, rather than picking the best weapons.

Among them, the most classic case is the promotion of the French flintlock. At the beginning, with the support of Henry IV, Frenchman Mahan first invented the practical flintlock, and Henry IV also intended to promote it in the French army.

However, this is not in the interest of the French generals. After all, the generals of the various armies have their own stable arms suppliers and will not be replaced randomly. Even some of the military ’s arms suppliers are the general ’s own family, or the general himself in the shares. Therefore, Henry IV's promotion of flintlock was blocked. After Henry IV was assassinated, Mahan and the flintlock he invented were directly rejected by the French military gangsters. It wasn't until the Thirty Years' War that the Flintlock fired into the Gustav Line in Sweden, and it won the attention of the French again ...

It was with the reduced version of the Musquette musket that Da Costa inadvertently promoted that the Spanish sailors successfully repelled the Venetian sailors' decisive counterattack. Most of the Venetian sailors of the jetty gang were shot down by muskets, and a small number of the Venetian sailors who luckily jumped on the Spanish boat were also hacked to death by Spanish sailors ...

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As for the seven gunboats in Pinamonti, the tactics are actually somewhat contradictory. Because the sailors on the ship were not well adapted to the naval tactics of shelling with enemy ships at sea.

In fact, the Venetian gunners were originally transferred from the army or coastal defense turrets, and they still operated the Turkish artillery that was not very familiar. Shooting on land and shooting on board are two different things. After all, artillery on land is fixed. The put-on artillery was swaying with the ship, and it was very difficult to aim.

Therefore, this time the Venetian gunboat was able to sink two Spanish battleships, which was purely accidental and blind.

Why do you say that? Because those two Spanish warships actually had problems themselves and needed major repairs. What's the problem? The bottom of the ship is badly eroded by the maggots of the ship, and the wooden board under the waterline needs to be replaced ...

After all, the West Portuguese League and the fleet have spent too long in the Indian Ocean and should be overhauled. The Venetian shells happened to hit the lower part of the waterline of the two Spanish warships, and was more eroded by the maggots. Then, of course, the sides of these two Spanish warships were penetrated into the water, and then sank ...

That is to say, if it is not the Spanish fleet's own ships that are not well maintained, the Venetians are likely to have no results. But because of this coincidence, the Venetian finally admitted that the gunboat is more suitable for modern naval warfare than the old paddle sailboat ...

On the way back to Egypt, Pinamonti and Gilioni co-authored the experience of the naval battle. The two said that artillery battle is indeed the mainstream of the future naval battle, but the battle of side by side also needs to be retained. Otherwise, the gunner might be chopped to death by the enemy if no one can resist it once he was helped by the jump. In addition, it seems that muskets can also be used for side-by-side warfare ...

There is also, Pinamonti suggested-to train a group of artillery dedicated to naval warfare. Because this naval battle showed that artillery on land cannot adapt to the gunfire of warships. Therefore, it is necessary to train specialized warship gunners. The training method is naturally to send artillery officers to study in Beihai. After all, the Jutland Great Battle between Marin and the Hamburg Fleet and the Danish Fleet was the first big battle to win with artillery. That naval battle brought Denmark's maritime power to a close. Therefore, the navy of the North Sea country must have a wealth of experience in naval artillery, and can send people to learn ...

In addition, the Venetians have no other choice ...

At present, the navy is vigorously promoting artillery mainly in three countries-Spain, Portugal and the North Sea (actually, Hamburg and Lübeck have also partially promoted artillery, but the scale is not large). But Spain and Portugal are obviously enemies of Venice because of the competition for the Indian spice trade. Therefore, Venice can only choose to learn from Beihai, which has a good relationship with itself ...

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In fact, Pinamonti and Gillioni did not know that they had escaped too much ...

Because, shortly after they fled, the Portuguese fleet returning from Guangzhou returned to Calicut.

The Portuguese Foreign Minister Ricardo returned to India full of anger, and this trip to the East was a failure. He wanted to annex Malacca and was beaten back. Wanting to fail to communicate with the Ming Dynasty, he was beaten back after turning over ...

In the two wars, although the Portuguese did not lose their warships, they lost thousands of sailors, almost half of the fleet.

Ricardo would not dare to go back to Portugal if he seized three Southeast Asian merchant ships that returned from the Ming tributary trade. Because, he was afraid that Manuel I would steal his skin ~ www.novelhall.com ~ Ricardo was full of anger. When he heard that there was a sea battle at sea, he took 22 Portuguese warships without a word. Go to sea. But when he arrived on the battlefield, he found that the naval battle was over. And Spanish commander Da Costa is proudly showing off his heroic feats to him.

Ricardo said nothing, and directly ordered 22 Portuguese warships to pursue the remnants of the joint fleet of the Indian prince, and pursued them directly for several days. Not only wiped out the poor and ruined fleets of the Indian princes, but also seized the opportunity to capture Diu.

After capturing Diu, Ricardo directly ordered the city to vent his anger. After searching for Diu's wealth, he also burned Diu.

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After returning to Calicut, Ricardo almost jumped with anger from a local businessman. It turned out that Ricardo learned from the spice merchants that the guns of the Malacca Kingdom were fortified. The cannon was actually given to him by Columbus of the North Sea ...

In other words, Portugal suffered a big loss this time, thanks to Columbus and the North Sea ...

Ricardo was filled with anger, but secretly rejoiced. Why? He made an excuse for his defeat-you see, it was because the Beihai Kingdom provided the batch of guns, I was defeated, don't blame me ...

Then, Ricardo found an excuse to return home with 10 warships, leaving 12 warships to continue the task of blocking the Arabian Sea.

Shortly after Marin left Lisbon, Ricardo also returned to Lisbon. While bringing back three silks and porcelains, he also explained to Manuel I the reason for the failure to seize the Malacca Kingdom-all blame Columbus, who asked him to send a batch of guns to the Malacca Kingdom ...

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