The Rise of the European Emperor

Just as rumors and rumours were spreading, an important message was presented to people, that is-the way of naval warfare was changed ...

Before, in Europe, only the Portuguese were the first to equip a large number of artillery on the warships, and walked ahead of the world in this regard. And Portugal's neighboring country, Spain, is on the edge of Portugal. Naturally, there is a way of copying and copying the Portuguese. And France, because of its advanced artillery technology in Europe, is also equipped with artillery on warships. However, the French did not value the ocean, and the number of warships was pitifully small. Therefore, even if equipped with artillery, the navy can not get on the table.

Therefore, in addition to East Friesland, Europe is now equipped with artillery on two large maritime powers, Portugal and Spain. Other maritime powers, such as Denmark, such as the Republic of Venice, or the Hanseatic League, are still in the era of side-by-side battles.

And Britain, the later maritime overlord, has no fleet yet. The main thing is that the King is too poor to afford a fleet, let alone expensive bronze artillery on board. It was not until Henry VIII took the opportunity of the Reformation to confiscate the Catholic property in the United Kingdom that he had a lot of money and began to build a large warship equipped with hundreds of artillery ...

Of course, in the original history, all of this happened after the War of Diwu in 1509. Because the Portuguese used only 19 artillery-equipped warships to defeat the Indian combined fleet of 2,000 warships, which shocked the world. Since then, European countries have also begun to equip artillery on warships.

Moreover, the reason why the early artillery was not large was that the mainstream was a 6-pound gun. It was not because it could not make a larger gun, but because the cost was too high. Because the ratio of silver to copper is now 1:15. A six-pound gun has a total weight of thousands of pounds. Thousands of pounds of copper are worth 66.7 pounds of silver, which is equivalent to 5.56 pounds of gold, or 708 gold coins.

If it is a 12-pound bronze gun, the cost is doubled. Therefore, countries with poor finances cannot afford them. Moreover, before seeing tangible benefits, ordinary countries are not willing to invest so much.

In fact, the Portuguese have now only tried to promote the 10-pound gun and 12-pound bronze gun. However, due to financial constraints, it has not been able to promote on a large scale. But since Dagama opened the Indian route, the Portuguese also benefited greatly, earning hundreds of thousands of gold coins. You know, the Portuguese have been trading on the African coast for decades, but only half a ton of gold can be shipped back each year, which is about 140,000 gold coins. And the profit of Da Gama's Indian voyage was several times that of the West Bank trade in Africa, which immediately swelled the grape and royal money bags.

The Spanish were very dissatisfied with Spain ’s “robbing” behavior, and even threatened to wipe out the Spanish fleet. However, the Spanish Kings are not vegetarian and have been ordered by Marin. Therefore, the Spanish kings threatened in turn-if you hit my fleet, I would surround Lisbon from the land, and even destroy Portugal ...

So Portugal choked-Nima, can you tell me some rules? I talk to you about hegemony at sea, why did you talk about going up on land? Isn't that ridiculous ...

However, the Portuguese have no choice but to give in. After all, Portugal is a scumbag on land ...

Can be sure that the Portuguese royal family, using the profits of the Dagama Indian trade, replaced a larger batch of artillery on the battleship. During the Battle of the Diwu Sea, these artillery pieces played a huge role ...

But now it's only 1503, the Diwu Sea War has not yet happened. In the Jutland Sea battle here, Marin used artillery first, and his shot was extraordinary. ferry……

Know that Danish warships are not the boats of the Indian Union Fleet. Many small boats of the Indian Joint Fleet are basically large boats with human movements, and even a 6-pound gun can sink them steadily. The Danish warships, compared with the ships of the Indian Union Fleet, are all big ships and are more difficult to destroy. Therefore, dozens of ships were sunk at once, absolutely shocking Europe.

Before, the naval battle in Europe, the sign of victory, was generally that the sailors wiped out the enemy on the opponent's ship through the side-to-side battle, or simply burned the opponent's ship with a rocket. However, the number of enemy ships destroyed is very small. But the East Frisian Fleet of Marin, as soon as he shot, sank dozens of Danish warships, completely beyond European expectations ...

So, this tactic of using heavy artillery to bombard enemy ships fired ... the artillery also fired ...

Now, many discerning people in the tavern are discussing one thing, that is-whether the future naval battle has fully entered the era of artillery ...

A debate started in various taverns, and many people who knew and didn't know had fiercely debated whether the artillery battle would replace the side battle. Because of drinking, everyone is inevitably excited when they argue, and even because of different concepts, there is a fight ... After all, a new thing wants to replace the old thing, it is not so easy, there are always die-hards who will resist ...

However, in the Hamburg Parliament and the Lübeck Parliament, the Hanseatic parliamentarians here have reached agreement-the Hanseatic League will also be equipped with a large number of artillery in the future ...

Because the Hanseatic League is developed by trade, maritime trade is their lifeline, especially the "one king and one queen" in the two Hanseatic alliances of Lübeck and Hamburg.

If their navy is behind the times, it is easy to be beaten. Once the maritime power is lost, the benefits of the maritime trade between the two cities cannot be maintained. It even said that the two Hanseatic cities would be in despair.

Therefore, the two Hanseatic core cities are the most sensitive to the changes in naval warfare and are afraid to lag behind the times. Before, in fact, the parliaments of the two cities had also heard that the Portuguese were equipped with a large number of artillery on the warships. But at that time, people in both cities didn't care much. After all, the Portuguese equipped artillery on warships, but they did not prove that the use of artillery must be better than traditional naval warfare methods.

But this time was different. The Hamburgers saw Marin ’s East Frisian Fleet with their own eyes, using rows of heavy artillery ~ www.ltnovel.com ~ Dens dozens of Danish warships on the vast sea and gave them Great visual impact.

Therefore, the Hamburg parliament took the lead in making a decision-to equip artillery to ships on a large scale in the future. Moreover, when manufacturing warships in the future, the sides must be reinforced to avoid being easily penetrated by enemy artillery ...

As far as Lübeck is concerned, the relationship with Hamburg is very close, and they are not far from each other. After they learned that Hamburg had made such a decision, they quickly made the same decision—gradually installing artillery in the navy, and in the future new warship manufacturing, focusing on strengthening the side wing to avoid being easily hit by shells wear……

As for how to build warships, it is obvious that East Frisian Lambert has ready-made experience. As a result, Hamburg immediately requested, in the name of an ally, Marin, who still stays in the capital of the Principality of Holstein, to trim and digest the results-hoping to obtain a drawing of the East Frisian Lambert ... …

Where did Marin give them the battleship drawings? That was the housekeeper of the East Frisian Navy. So, after thinking over and over again, Marin ordered-to hand over the design drawings of the class 250 armed merchant ship to Hamburg. Anyway, this kind of boat is also more advanced than the Kirk sailing ship ...

In this way, through an earth-shattering sea battle, Marin successfully influenced the choice of European naval warfare. Hamburg, which also participated in the Battle of Jutland, was the first to choose change, and Lübeck followed closely ... Moreover, as the news of the naval war spread, more and more European countries would choose to follow closely. Develop naval guns and new warships with reinforced sideboards ...

History has been changed, and the European way of naval warfare will also be greatly changed. From now on, artillery becomes the first naval battle example of the main weapon of naval warfare. It will change from the naval battle to the sea battle in Jutland involving the East Friesland, Hamburg and Denmark ...