The Rise of the European Emperor

In fact, Lu Feng's tactic of fire attack and destroying the enemy's stern rudder in advance is an upgraded version of Zheng Zhilong's "Liaoluo Bay Naval Battle" against the Dutch. In the "Naval Battle of Liaoluo Bay", because Liu Xiang's fleet carried the main attack, and Zheng Zhilong was not familiar with Western ships, he did not send people to do anything, resulting in the loss of 3 of the 8 warships of the Dutch, and the remaining 5 warships. All were wounded and fled.

And this upgraded version of the fire attack method developed by Marin also comes with the means of letting the water ghost destroy the enemy's tail rudder. In this way, when the Portuguese found that the fire ship was coming, even if they boarded the ship and raised the sails in time to escape, they would not be able to turn and run in time because of the failure of the rudder. As long as it is stuck by the fire boat, it will definitely not end well.

In addition, in the plan made by Marin, there is also the tactic of letting the water ghost carry the "fire oil bottle". The so-called "kerosene bottle" is actually putting kerosene into an ordinary porcelain bottle, which is carried by the water ghost. When the fire ship rushed nearby, the water ghost threw the kerosene bottle onto the deck of the enemy ship. The porcelain bottle was fragile, and when it hit the deck, kerosene flowed all over the deck. At this time, when the fire boat came up again, it was easy to ignite the deck. As for the water ghost, there is nothing wrong with it. They are good at water and can easily avoid fireship range. Even if the body is on fire, and a bored person dives into the water, the fire can be extinguished by the bored person.

After Lu Feng introduced the "fire oil bottles", he asked the servants who accompanied him to take out dozens of "fire oil bottles"—these are gasoline extracted from the oil produced in the Chusulkeng oil well in Miaoli Mixture with kerosene, very flammable.

Although the current output of the Chusulkeng oil well is very low, the daily output is currently only a few tens of catties. However, it is still no problem to refine dozens of bottles of "fire oil".

In fact, the Ming Dynasty also had fierce fire oil, which was also extracted from oil. Petroleum has been recorded in the Song Dynasty, and its application in ancient China was relatively early.

However, the use of oil in ancient China was relatively primitive, that is, oil was directly used as a weapon for arson, and the intensity of burning was far inferior to the mixture of refined gasoline and kerosene. After all, oil is mixed with too much diesel and lubricating oil that is difficult to ignite with an open flame. However, the mixture of gasoline and kerosene extracted by Marin in a still is very easy to burn, and it burns extremely quickly and is difficult to extinguish.

This was the result of Marin's suppression. He asked the craftsmen to deliberately increase the distillation temperature, and the obtained gasoline was doped with a large amount of kerosene with a higher ignition point. If it was all gasoline, it would be even scarier and more dangerous to burn.

In order to prove the power of this "fire oil", Lu Feng asked someone to find damp firewood and spread it on the ground. Then he took out a porcelain vase filled with kerosene and threw it on it, so that the kerosene soaked the wet wood.

Later, Lu Feng asked for a torch and threw it on it. Then, the "fire oil" burned violently, and the fire was extremely fierce. Then, the wet wood under the kerosene was also burned by the raging fire to emit bursts of white gas-that is the evaporated water vapor. When the water vapor is dried, the wet wood will dry up, and then it will also burn in the fierce fire. After a short time, it will be burned to ashes...

"This... is really violent! Lu Sheng, do you still have this kind of fierce oil in your hand? I need a lot of it!" Wang Hong said excitedly.

He has also seen the world, seen ordinary kerosene. However, although ordinary kerosene is easy to burn, it is not so fierce. When this mixture of gasoline and kerosene burns, the flames rise up suddenly, unlike ordinary combustion, where the flame rises slowly. This kind of burning is most suitable for setting fire to the ship.

Lu Feng shook his head and said:

"This is Kong Tai, the chief steward of Dongfan Island when the students were studying in Dongfan Island (Kong Tai is called the Governor in Beihai State,

But here in the Ming Dynasty, you can’t be called the governor, but only the big steward, who handles affairs on behalf of Marin, who can’t be permanent, and gave away dozens of bottles. It is said that this fierce oil was extracted from oil by Western alchemists. He doesn't have much oil in his hands, otherwise he could produce more..."

Wang Hung's eyes lit up immediately, and he asked:

"Is this product refined from petroleum? What is the yield rate?" Wang Hong knew about petroleum. He had also read Shen Kuo's "Mengxi Bi Tan", and he knew that this product was produced in that corner of northern Shaanxi and was widely used as kerosene by the Ming army. However, the power of the fierce fire oil in front of him was beyond his imagination, and it was the most suitable sharp weapon for fire attack. If it is produced in energy, it will definitely increase the combat power of the Daming Navy!

Lu Feng followed Kong Tai's instructions, "honestly" said:

"I heard from the steward of Kongda that only a great alchemist from their Beihai country can refine this kind of fierce fire oil, and the yield is very low. One catty of fierce fire oil can only produce less than one tael." The one tael here is not 10 catties. One tael of two, but one tael of sixteen taels per catty, which is about 37.3 grams, which is one sixteenth of a catty.

But in fact, even if the refining methods are backward and there is no means of cracking and hydrogenation, the total ratio of gasoline and kerosene extracted using ordinary stills has reached about 20%, that is, 20%.

But Kong Tai deliberately reported one-sixteenth to Wang Hong, which is 6.25%, because of an order from Marin—he wanted to deceive Daming about its oil resources...

As a history student, Marin remembers that although the Ming Dynasty did not drill the first oil well in Jiazhou, Sichuan and Sichuan until 1521, and it was buried soon, oil was collected a long time ago in ancient China.

Of course, those oils are oil seedlings that emerge from the surface by themselves, and the output is not much, and the ancients did not specifically drill wells to extract oil. And the oil well in Jiazhou, Sichuan, Sichuan, was drilled by accident when people used Zhuotong’s drilling method to drill a salt well. However, because the local people do not know enough about oil, it is not the brine well they need, so this artificially dug deep oil well was buried, which is a pity. The oil in northern Shaanxi and other places is the oil that comes out of hand-made shallow wells a few meters deep dug by local people. The output of a well is similar to that of the sulfur pit, and the daily output is only a few tens of catties.

But the Ming Dynasty was so big, not one or two earthen oil wells. One bite here, one bite there, the total annual output is tens of thousands of catties. However, these tens of thousands of catties of oil were simply and rudely used directly as kerosene for fire attack without further processing.

What Marin meant was that he wanted to take the opportunity of helping the Ming Dynasty process more powerful gasoline and kerosene blended oil to cheat more oil from Daming. At that time, even if I send back 6.25% mixed oil to Daming, I will still have more than 13% gasoline and kerosene left. What's more, more than 20% of diesel can be obtained to provide fuel for diesel engines in Beihai. The oil left over from refining gasoline, kerosene, and diesel can also be used to refine mineral lubricants, which can serve multiple purposes.

The mixed oil of gasoline and kerosene has super firepower. After the Ming Dynasty realized the power of this "fierce fire oil", it would definitely find a way to expand its production. At that time, send more oil to Marin, even if gasoline and kerosene are sent back to Daming, the saved diesel will make Marin a fortune.

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