LIGHTNOVELONLINE Chapter 95: Naval departure
The trimming time of one month was about to pass. The East Frisian Fleet, Hamburg Fleet and Lübeck Fleet were all ready to wipe out the Danish Fleet in World War I.
So, the three fleets gathered at their respective ports, preparing to travel to Copenhagen to destroy the remaining 80s of the Danish warships.
Emden Military Port, the fleet commander Kidd, led 8 battleships, 14 armed merchant ships and 17 artillery-equipped Clark sailboats, ready to sail.
On the pier, the marching band played the same song from "Conquering the Ocean" in "Conquering Paradise". The sailors followed the lead singer and sang together in Latin:
"Ideal makes us strong
Break through the dark barrier
Ideal makes us strong
Never give up hope
Can see through tears
Twinkling starlight
Through wind and rain
Follow the light of life "
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Then, the lead singer from the church took everyone again and sang loudly in German and Frisian like English.
In the majestic music, the sailors are full of blood and their eyes are full of firmness and hope ...
Columbus, who came to see him off, also sang aloud with the sailors, and his tears were already flowing to his face. Because, he knew that this song was clearly in praise of his feat of discovering the wild continent and exploring India.
This time, Kidd did not bring Columbus. Because, Kidd knew that Columbus had other important things and could not be injured in the naval battle. Otherwise, Marin's plan is destroyed.
It happened that after a month of training, the sailors and gunners were also familiar with the performance of the 17 Clark sailboats bought from Spain. Kidd himself knew how to command these Clark sailboats. So, he left Columbus and took the fleet with him to join the Hamburg fleet.
In Hamburg ’s outer port Cuxhaven, the East Frisian Fleet was warmly welcomed. Rolf, the commander of the Hamburg Fleet, directly brought the 100 warships ready to go with the East Frisian Fleet.
Originally, Hamburg had only 90 warships, and it also lost 19 warships in the naval battle. However, because more than 80 Danish warships were seized at once, the East Frisian Fleet did not demand a split. Therefore, Hamburg picked a batch from the Danish warships and added them to the fleet to make up 100 warships. Had it not been for the lack of sailors familiar with naval battles, Hamburg would even like to gather more warships out.
The Hamburgers are very confident about the eradication of the Danish fleet. Because, last time, 120 Danish warships were annihilated. Are you afraid of the remaining 80? Moreover, this time, Hamburg not only has 100 warships, but also 110 warships in Lübeck and 39 warships in East Friesland. 249 warships hit 80, three hit one, there is no chance of victory.
Therefore, in Cuxhaven, a crowd of people, many Hamburgers came to bid farewell to the fleet, and looked forward to the joint fleet to wipe out the Danish navy.
Because, in recent years, the Danes have found too much for the Hanseatic League. Moreover, any Hanseatic city is not a rival of Denmark. And to unite, the second-largest Hamburg fleet in the league could not break through the Danish waters and merge with the boss of Lubeck.
Like the last naval battle, I heard that the Fleet of Hamburg was going to join the Fleet of Lübeck, and the Danes would definitely try to block it. Moreover, most of them will treat the Hamburg fleet as a soft persimmon, and pinch it first ...
Fortunately, in the last naval battle, the East Frisian Fleet appeared insignificantly on the side of the Danish Fleet, and used a terrible heavy artillery to sink many Danish warships, forcing the Danish Fleet to surrender.
In fact, it was a fluke that the naval battle ended so soon. If the commander of the Danish fleet, Alkinson, happened to be killed, the morale of the Danes would not collapse. Even if defeated, it will cause the combined fleet to die.
Unfortunately, the unlucky Alkinson was killed with a musket. As soon as he died, the captain and sailors of the Danish fleet immediately lost control. Seeing someone take the lead in hanging a white flag, there are examples.
If it were n’t Alkinson ’s brain damage, he had to fight hard with the East Frisian Fleet, and the naval battle would not end so quickly. In fact, if the Danish fleet rushed into the Hamburg fleet, and the Hamburgers battled together, the East Frisian fleet might throw a taboo. Because, if you fire the gun carelessly, you may hurt the Hamburg fleet.
But Alkinson doesn't understand. He had never fought naval battles with a fleet with artillery as the main weapon, so he hurriedly took some warships to get closer to the East Frisian fleet covered with heavy artillery, and it was obviously tired ...
In order to test the new tactics in this naval battle, the Hamburgers also moved the expensive 8 18-pound bronze guns last time ordered from Marin to the battleship. During the naval battle, they used gunfire and Fight against enemy ships.
Seeing the behavior of the Hamburgers, Kidd could not bear to laugh. Because he knew very well that the guns on the East Frisian battleship, except for the 17 Clark ships bought from Spain, were equipped with bronze guns sold by the Spaniards, and all the other self-produced warships were cast iron guns. It's just that the wise Lord Earl painted the cannon with copper paint, which made people look like a bronze gun. However, the cost of the two is a world of difference ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ In fact, Kidd did not know, because Marin instructed the craftsmen of the second foundry factory to use the "Rodman Inner Film Cooling Method" The success rate of the 18-pound heavy artillery of the second foundry factory has increased from less than 20% to more than 80%, which has increased by more than four times, and it has also saved a lot of costs.
And in this era, the price ratio of copper and iron in Europe reached 1 to 10. This is still the case of high iron prices in Europe. But in fact, in East Friesland, which uses blast furnaces and coking coal, the cost price of iron is less than one-twentieth of that of copper, which is half of the market price.
Therefore, the cost of a 18-pound bronze cannon in Hamburg, East Friesland can cast 20 cast iron. A 250-class armed merchant ship can only be equipped with 20 doors. That is to say, the cost of the Hamburgers to equip an 18-pound gun, the East Frisians can equip a ship.
Of course, Kidd couldn't say it. This was Marlin's strict order to keep it secret. As an ally, Kidd also enthusiastically dispatched a group of experienced artillery to the Hamburg ship to command how the Hamburg artillery used 18-pound artillery in the naval battle, which made the Hamburgers extremely happy.
However, when sending artillery to the Hamburg ship, Kidd specially selected the gunner with a door in his mouth, so as not to expose the core military secret of "East Frisian naval guns are cast iron" ...
In a friendly atmosphere, 39 warships in East Friesland, and 100 warships in Hamburg, slowly departed from Hamburg ’s Cuxhaven and sailed towards the Danish waters ...
At the same time, the Lubeck port on the Baltic Sea, the 110 ships of the Lubeck people are also ready to go, preparing to go north, planning to meet with the Allied fleet in the Öre Strait, and then attack the military port of Copenhagen, Denmark, and strive to destroy the Danish navy. The last family ...