The Rise of the European Emperor

When he left London, Marin was a showman and started an exaggerated Star Master-style performance. I saw him boarding the ship cursingly. After boarding, facing the audience on the London pier, Marin also publicly pulled out his saber "Frostmourne", cut off a guardrail on the ship, and loudly and publicly shouted—Ma Princess Grete is her daughter-in-law and can only marry her son Caesar. Anyone who dares to snatch it will be cut off...

His performance really bluffed many people. Some English nobles began to worry about a civil war in the country. After all, Marin had 20,000 legions in England. When he was in a hurry, leading troops to rebel was not a problem at all.

Even Marin's performance bluffed the French. Francois I was very happy when he learned that Marin and England were having a bad time. He summoned his trusted aristocrats and secretly discussed the possibility of using Marin to provoke the British Civil War.

After all, if Marin's army provoked a civil war in England, England would be in chaos. At that time, France will have the opportunity to annex England.

According to the inference of Francois I and his cronies-whether Edward wins or Marin wins, France will benefit from it.

Marin is not a weak chicken, but a ruthless person. Even if Edward can win, he must suffer heavy losses. At that time, it will be difficult to resist the invasion of France.

If Marin wins, he is also happy. Because Marin's seizure of England is not justified. At that time, he will be able to seize England in the name of avenging Edward. Maybe, you can also get the response of many English nobles...

It's a pity that Francois I didn't know that these ideas of his were just fantasy. Because, Edward would not be so stupid as to turn his face against Marin. Even the English are ready to capture the Calais fortress...

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Back in Emden Port, Marin also went to the indoor swimming pool at the secret base to watch the divers' training. Divers are a very powerful unit. In later generations, divers in the army are also called frogmen.

Frogmen are very powerful units. They can conduct underwater reconnaissance, and can also dive close to enemy ships and use bombs to blast the bottom of enemy ships. They are very powerful units.

Moreover, in this era, the natural enemies of frogmen, dolphin soldiers and underwater sonar, do not exist. If the frogmen are well trained, they can be used to blast enemy warships.

For example, a frogman can dive under an enemy capital ship. Then, use the suction cup device to absorb the bomb on the bottom of the enemy ship and detonate it.

The boats of this era are all wooden boats, but they cannot withstand the explosion of bombs. Once the bottom of the ship leaks, the European-style sailboat has no watertight compartment design, so it can only sink...

certainly,

In order to achieve the purpose of combat, the North Sea country has to develop a suction cup device to fix the bomb. At the same time, a powerful bomb needs to be developed.

Black powder is too weak to be used to blast ships. Therefore, Marin wanted to develop a more powerful bomb.

In fact, Marin already had smokeless gunpowder. But the performance of this thing is very unstable if it is not passivated, and once it is passivated, the burning speed will slow down, and it is not suitable for explosives. Therefore, Marin had to find another way.

It's a pity that Marin doesn't understand the manufacturing technology of the famous C-4 in later generations, so he can only give up this artifact with regret.

Then, he didn't understand about picric acid. TNT or something, the later books did not make it clear...

Well, then, there is only one option - Nobel Dynamite...

The most classic Knott's dynamite is nitroglycerin and diatomaceous earth. This is easier, that is, the reaction of concentrated nitric acid and glycerin, and then mixed with diatomaceous earth.

But it is said that this thing is super fierce. When Nobel tried it, he killed his own brother.

Marin didn't dare to do this thing himself, so he could only find a few people who were not afraid of death to experiment. As for how to achieve a safe ratio, you can only try with your life. Anyway, he didn't dare to configure the test himself.

If this Knott's explosive research is successful, with the suction cup device and moisture-proof ignition system, then the frogman troops can make the Spanish and Portuguese fleets call their father...

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In fact, for this Calais battle, Marin can also send a diver unit. But considering that it is still spring at this time, the water is still relatively cold. If the diver is frozen, the loss outweighs the gain. If he waited until the summer, Marin might agree that the divers would go into combat.

But time waits for no one. By the summer, the French government and the opposition may stabilize. At that time, if you send troops again, you may be taught to be a man by the French. Therefore, in a hurry, Marin could only count on the iron gate of the sewer to solve Calais' French defense.

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After inspecting the frogman training in the indoor heated swimming pool, Marin originally planned to rush back to Aurich with Angela and Caesar, but a large ship suddenly sailed back from the Emden Naval Port, forcing Marin to stay , Let Angela and Caesar go back first.

What big ship appeared in the military port? It turned out that the shipyard in Long Island, New York, successfully produced a thousand-ton battleship! The ship that sailed into Emden Port is the thousand-ton warship test ship developed by Marin at the New York Shipyard!

As early as a few years ago, Marin issued the task of developing a thousand-ton warship. Initially, this work was carried out at the Emden shipyard. But later, considering confidentiality factors, Marin transferred the main craftsmen involved to the New York shipyard.

In the shipyard on Long Island, New York, there are mountains of timber, all of which are high-quality oaks that are at least hundreds of years old and are mainly red oaks that have been cut down from the North American continent. Moreover, they have been air-dried for more than two years and have reached the standards of shipbuilding.

At the Long Island Shipyard in New York, obtaining qualified shipbuilding lumber is as simple as going to any rain shelter where lumber is stored. Moreover, every log can be used as a keel.

When the local North Sea shipbuilders first came to the New York shipyard, they were ecstatic to see the logs suitable for keels stored in the rainproof shed. But after a long time, because there are logs suitable for keel everywhere, these shipbuilders have become numb. Even if the logs suitable for the keel were cut and disassembled and made into ribs, they would not feel sorry.

Originally, the thousand-ton battleship was designed and planned to start construction. However, Marin suddenly brought back a group of treasure ship craftsmen from Daming. Moreover, he also ordered these craftsmen who know how to build treasure ships to participate in the manufacture of thousand-ton warships, and requested that the watertight compartment technology be applied to the manufacture of new warships...

Then, the manufacture of thousand-ton warships was overthrown and restarted. European shipbuilders are mainly responsible for the design and manufacture of keel structures. The treasure ship craftsmen from Ming Dynasty were mainly responsible for the design and manufacture of watertight compartments. Then, the two fuse together to complete the battleship...

But precisely because of the integration of the two genres, there were many conflicts of ideas at the beginning. Therefore, the cooperation between European craftsmen and Ming craftsmen was not pleasant at first, and many contradictions arose.

For this reason, the progress of shipbuilding has slowed down. It has been dragging on for several years, until the craftsmen of the two sides learned from each other and completed the integration of Eastern and Western technologies, and finally succeeded in manufacturing a thousand-ton warship with a watertight compartment design...

With excitement, Marin came to the confidential military port, boarded the thousand-ton warship that had completed the test, and started the inspection...