The Rise of the European Emperor

Once the Pexan Cannon is produced, not to mention being invincible, land siege will also be very useful. Most of the city walls in Europe can hardly withstand the continuous smashing of 68-pound iron balls. Unless it is a particularly thick city wall, it can barely resist it.

Although the Pexan cannon has a huge caliber, its weight is not very heavy because of the shortened barrel design. According to Marin's memory, the length of the Pexan cannon seems to be only 2.84 meters, which is less than the 3 meters long of the 18-pound Hongyi cannon. Therefore, although the pound weight is 3.77 times that of the Hongyi cannon, the total weight of the Pexan cannon is only 3.4 tons. This weight is much lighter than those heavy artillery during World War I. With a few more horses, it can still be pulled under the enemy's city wall.

It just so happened that Marin's ranch is now fully cultivating tall and strong Sharma. This kind of heavy horse is naturally suitable for pulling heavy artillery. At that time, Sharma will be handed over to the Lapaksan cannon to the enemy's city wall.

However, this super heavy gun with a caliber of up to 220 mm seems to have a very large recoil. Even the largest 500-ton warship in the Beihai Kingdom, it is estimated that it will be difficult to withstand its huge recoil.

You know, in the mid-19th century when the Pexan gun appeared, the main wooden battleship at that time had a tonnage of three to four thousand tons. For example, the "Victory", a battleship at the end of the 18th century, had a displacement of more than 3,500 tons.

Moreover, the battleships at that time, in order to adapt to the strong recoil of large-caliber artillery, had their hulls reinforced. Especially the keel part, to prevent the battleship itself from being shaken apart by the recoil during the artillery battle.

Therefore, even with the Pexan cannon, Marin must have a solid battleship to equip it. Therefore, Marin had to order—to mobilize the best group of designers in the shipbuilding industry of Beihai State to design the strongest warship. Moreover, the displacement is required to reach more than 1,000 tons. Otherwise, it would be difficult to adapt to the recoil of a heavy artillery such as the Pexan gun. If the ship is too small, even if the structure is reinforced, it will be useless. The huge recoil of the Pexan cannon can cause the hull to roll over...

In short, neither the development of the Pexan cannon nor the development of a thousand-ton warship can be achieved in a short period of time, and it may take ten or eight years.

But Marin can afford to wait, and is willing to wait. Because, when this ultimate weapon and battleship are produced, Dahai will be named Ma. Get a few more warships like this, and Marin can only learn from Deng Chao and sing "How Lonely Invincibility" at home...

At that time, Marin decided to send such an invincible fleet to besiege Lisbon, the capital of Portugal, and sink all the Portuguese warships in Lisbon. Then, force Portugal to sign an unequal treaty. Like ceding South Africa to him or something...

Marin doesn't have much interest in Africa, but he can't ignore the tens of thousands of tons of gold in South Africa. Therefore, once the big bombing is forced out, going to the port of Lisbon, Portugal to clean up the land is what Marin will definitely do. Moreover, Marin also intends to frighten Spain by beating Portugal in order to maintain maritime hegemony.

But now, Marin can only think about it... The dozen or so 500-ton warships in the Beihai Kingdom are very powerful, but the scale is too small after all. Even if the Portuguese fleet is inferior in quality, it can still win by virtue of its quantitative advantage. Therefore, Marin can only pretend to be a transparent person silently so as not to be taught to be a human being...

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For the sake of research and development and confidentiality, Marin ordered that the research and development team that developed the Pexan cannon and the thousand-ton warship be relocated to New York Port in America. In this way, it will be difficult for other European countries to learn any news about it.

Moreover, it is very convenient to develop warships in America. Because, in the New York colony, too many red oaks suitable for shipbuilding have accumulated, and they have been air-dried for more than two years. In the past, the research and development team only needed to direct the shipbuilders over there to make big ships. It doesn't matter even if the wood is wasted, because there are red oak logs tens of meters long everywhere. Local red oak logs suitable for building large ships were thrown everywhere. Even if it is used as firewood, there is no need to worry about wasting it. Because, the place is full of towering trees like this...

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When Marin was thinking about how to dance and sing "How Lonely Is Invincible" in the future,

Information came from Italy——John Lafite asked Marin for help, and he needed to offer advice to Louis XII to solve the current predicament...

Speaking of which, Marin's previous plan has now failed. For example, Marin originally planned to let the Spanish army and the French army fight on the Italian peninsula.

But the problem is that the famous Spanish general Gonzalo de Cordoba is too careful and too wretched. People don't want to attack the city desperately at all, they only know how to dig ditches to besiege the city, and they are very patient.

The French originally expected the Spaniards to storm the city of Naples, and even sent people to Spain to use aggressive methods for this reason. However, Gonzalo de Cordoba found a way to use French farmers as cannon fodder to make an attack, and cracked the French strategy.

Now, seeing the French soldiers hurting French farmers on the city wall every day, Louis XII was so depressed that he wanted to vomit blood. Unfortunately, there was nothing he could do. The previous "returning the carbine" tactic was very useful, and it wiped out tens of thousands of Spanish troops in one go. However, it can only be used once. At the beginning of the second time, the Spaniards took out their chariots to guard against cavalry charges...

Therefore, the French are now in a dilemma and don't know what to do. Because of the outstanding performance before, Louis XII now trusts John Lafite very much and asks him for advice every day. But John Lafite had a bitter self-knowledge—how could he be a resourceful person? The strategies he presented were all taught by Marin...

In desperation, he could only release the pigeons back in the middle of the night and ask Marin for advice...

"It really can't be like this anymore, it's not in line with my idea to be so stalemate all the time!" Marin also has a headache about the current situation. So, he decided to change all that...

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After thinking about it, Marin discovered that the biggest cause of the current stalemate is Gonzalo de Cordoba, a famous Spanish player.

This guy is old and mature, and he doesn't care about honor and face at all. As long as he is there, it will be difficult for the Spanish army to attack the strong city foolishly.

Therefore, if you want France and Spain to play their heads, you must transfer this old guy...

And how to transfer such a famous general? Marin immediately thought of the famous "Battle of Changping"...

At that time, Lian Po, the famous general of Zhao State, was the same as Gonzalo de Cordoba.

Later, the State of Qin adopted countermeasures and spread rumors that Lian Po was no good, and that Zhao Kuo, who only knows how to talk, was very powerful. Wang Zhaokuo caused the defeat of Zhao State and lost 400,000 strong men. Since then, his vitality has been severely injured, and he can no longer fight against Qin State alone...

Marin decided to draw on the gourd and come up with a countermeasure to make Spain's domestic side dissatisfied with Gonzalo de Cordoba and transfer him away. Then, the two sides have the possibility of a decisive battle...

Marin thought about it all night, wrote a lot of measures, and replied to John Laffey with a carrier pigeon. He wrote it in Morse code, not that the spies couldn't understand it at all, but he was not afraid that the carrier pigeon would be intercepted. These anti-indirect measures were quickly sent to John Lafite, and then dedicated to Louis XII. Then, mainland France also moved, and a large number of orders were sent to Spain. Because, as a neighboring country and rival, France has many spies in Spain, which is very suitable for this matter...

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