Chapter 1827： "Wartime Neutrality"

Because of the short time, Kong Tai can only let Hadover help the Ming Dynasty build the two forts that block the Pearl River estuary. However, this is enough.

For Marin, he did not want Daming to hang Portugal, but not to be hanged by Portugal. If Daming's overall defeat and the belligerent virtue in power are likely to set off a wave of naval development, this is what Malin does not want to see.

And to help Daming build the fort, this approach can produce fire suppression in Portugal in the area where the fort is located. Then, let Daming see the hope of victory.

In other words, Marin hinted at the Ming Dynasty in this way-if you want to defeat the Folang man, you should overhaul the fort instead of developing the navy!

As long as the two forts guarding the Pearl River estuary achieved good results, the Ming Dynasty would be led by Marin and embarked on the road of overhauling the fort instead of developing the navy.

Besides, the cost of building fort is low and the effect is good. With the character of those famous ministers who are unwilling to cause trouble, they must choose to build fortifications in key areas instead of making warships to die with the enemy. After all, the cost of the Zheng Hebao fleet has kept them scrupulous. Moreover, the method of repairing the fort was also consistent with the national policy of the Ming Dynasty to ban the sea ...

In other words, the most fundamental purpose of Marin helping the Ming Dynasty to repair the fort was not to help the Ming Dynasty abuse Portugal, but to fear that the Ming Dynasty would embark on the road of naval development because of the Portuguese attack!

The Ming Dynasty was a real sleeping lion, not a fake lion that had been spine-drained by enslavement education like the Qing Dynasty. Once the Ming Empire awakened its consciousness of the ocean, not to mention being able to participate in the world's voyages, at least in the waters of East Asia and Southeast Asia, no one else could interfere. This is not in line with Marin's strategic interests.

Therefore, in order to hinder the Ming Dynasty from sailing, Marin specially offered a way to repair the fort, helping the Ming Dynasty to deal with Portugal effortlessly, spend the least money, and do things. Then, the following Ming Dynasty will follow this example and vigorously develop coastal forts. As for the warships participating in the battle for hegemony at sea, it will naturally disappear.

The cost gap between repairing a turret and building a warship is huge. Regardless of the cost of building a ship, the daily maintenance of a warship is a huge expense. You know, because of the maggots, the sea battleship needs to be overhauled. Moreover, warships are prone to sink and sink on the sea. Overall, the cost of battleships is huge. Moreover, the Ming Dynasty currently lacks professional naval personnel.

But the repair of the fort is different. As long as a strong fort is built in the coastal area, and a cannon is mounted, the channel can be blocked and it is very cost-effective against foreign invasion.

Moreover, it is not difficult. After all, it's a matter of building a fortress with stones and then setting up a few cannons. This is not only difficult to build, but also has a good battle effect!

After all, the fort has a stone wall cover that can withstand the shells of enemy warships. In turn, the wooden ship of the enemy ship is not as strong as the stone structure of the fort, and it is easy to be injured or even sunk.

In order to allow the Ming people to approve the fort, Marin took out all the skills of the fort in future generations. The solution is simple-it is to install a pair of cylindrical ears in the middle of the artillery.

Then, a stone platform was built with grooves for the gun body and lateral grooves for the cylindrical ears. However, the groove of the gun body is deeper, so that the gun body can move up and down with the cylindrical cannon as the middle axis. However, because the gun ears are located in the middle of the gun body, the center of gravity of the artillery is in the second half. All up and down angle adjustments can be done at the rear 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 a maximum angle of 30 degrees, and the minimum is naturally a zero angle.

That is to say, the tail of the artillery is completely put down, which is a 30 degree shooting angle. If you put something on the rear of the gun body, you can let the gun body shoot straight forward. However, due to gravity, the muzzle will be slightly adjusted to a shooting angle of 5 to 10 degrees to meet the shooting needs.

In addition, since it is the technology of the North Sea State, the tail of the gun body can naturally be installed to look at the mountain, which can facilitate shooting.

Although the caliber of the 12-pound gun used on the turret was a little too small, in this era, the 12-pound gun was already considered a heavy gun. As for the North Sea country with larger caliber artillery, it is still in secrecy and unwilling to provide larger caliber artillery to the outside world ...

Under the guidance of Hadover, the Ming dynasty craftsmen used stone in Weiyuan Fort and Dingyuan Fort in Jiuwangmiao Village on the other side. Named by the official), two stone-resistant fortresses were first made of stone. Then, each left 10 craters, you can shoot out.

The stone platform on which the artillery is installed is a fixed gun mount that can be adjusted up and down along the gun ears by Marin. During the bombardment, the recoil of the artillery was transmitted to the ear of the gun and then to the stone platform. However, Shitai is very firm and heavy, and is basically not affected by recoil. Therefore, after the end of the shelling, there is no need to reset the artillery, and it can shoot continuously and fixedly. Of course, the fixed gun body has bad consequences, because it is difficult to load the gun. Fortunately, the 12-pound Napoleon gun is not very big, and loading is not troublesome. Moreover, because the barrel is not long, the muzzle is still in the stack, which also facilitates the gunners to load ammunition.

In fact, the 10 12-pound guns on the left and right are a bit small, and the power is not enough. Fortunately, this year, the Portuguese did not have a professional battleship like the Galen ship of the 17th century. The Karak sailboats and Caravel sailboats they currently use are actually not very professional. The most important thing is that the side ships of the mainstream European warships are relatively thin, and they have not been reinforced as later.

After all, artillery battles have just begun to gain popularity in this era, and everyone has not realized the need to thicken the side rails to prevent them from being penetrated. In the previous naval battles, the bed crossbows and stone throwers were mainly used to protect the enemy ships, and the sideboards naturally need not be too thick. To wait for the loss, European talents will choose to reinforce the hull side.

But obviously, the Portuguese haven't eaten a big loss yet, and haven't yet known to thicken the hull. Unlike the Beihai Kingdom, because Marin is a traverser, he has long known the trend of future naval warfare and thickened the side wing of the armed merchant ships of the Beihai Kingdom. As for the regular warships of the North Sea country, the side flank is thicker and more difficult to penetrate.

The fort built by Hadover for the Ming dynasty happened to have one thing in each. The Portuguese warship wanted to cross the blockade line north to Huangpu Port in Guangzhou, and it will definitely expose the sideboard to the range of the fort. Therefore, this time the Portuguese are set to suffer a loss ...

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Of course, although it is cloudy in Portugal, Marin will never admit it. Marin had already ordered Kong Tai-once he found that Dagama ’s fleet arrived at the Pearl River estuary, Kong Tai would send a boat to "dincerely" tell Dagama that we did not know in advance that your country was going to attack the Ming Dynasty, so we had helped them repair the "Fortress of Artillery", I hope Dhaka treats it cautiously ...

However, the Portuguese's arrogant self-esteem, coupled with the smooth winds of these years, is estimated to not be persuaded. However, as long as Kongtai ’s people had persuaded Dagama and then the Portuguese would suffer a big loss, it would have nothing to do with the Beihai Kingdom—if there is no advice, what can be done?

In addition, once the Ming Dynasty and Portugal fight, Conte will declare "wartime neutrality" to Portugal in accordance with Marin's order.

What is "wartime neutrality"? In fact, it means that the two do not help each other. When the two countries are at war, a third country that declares "wartime neutrality" will not support either side of the war. At the same time, the military and warships of the warring parties will not be allowed to dock at the port of the neutral country ~ www.novelhall.com ~ Even, the arms embargo will be imposed on the warring parties at the same time. In the early days of World War II, the United States indulged Japan and declared "wartime neutrality", which simultaneously imposed an arms embargo on Japan and Chiang Bald. But at that time Japan's own industry was much more developed than that of China. It had a complete military industry, and Jiang Bald basically had no military industry. Moreover, the United States has not stopped exporting raw materials such as steel and steel for weapons. Therefore, people think that the United States was actually partial to Japan.

In the same way, Marin asked Kong Tai to declare "wartime neutrality", it seems that the two are not helping each other, but Beihai has already handed the casting technology of the 12-pound Napoleon gun to the Ming Dynasty, and has also helped repair the fort North Korean weapon support.

At this time, it would be meaningless to declare "wartime neutrality". Moreover, once the North Sea State engages in "wartime neutrality", it means that Portugal cannot use the ports of the North Sea State on Taiwan Island for supply and ship maintenance. Once the Portuguese warships suffered damage or insufficient supplies, they could not use the ports on the island. In the surrounding area, there is no supply port for Portuguese allies. If you want to supply and repair the ship, you can only return to the port of Malacca.

However, the port of Malacca is close to 3,000 kilometers from Guangzhou, and the road is extremely remote. The Portuguese warships are not allowed to use the Taiwan island port, which seems neutral, but in fact the **** has been crooked far to Daming. However, even if the Portuguese knew it, they couldn't make it difficult. Because, what people say makes sense. Moreover, the Ming Dynasty warships were not docked for supply ...