The Rise of the European Emperor

There is no doubt about the strength of the Ming Dynasty. In this era, I am afraid that there will be no country whose power surpasses that of the Ming Dynasty. Once the Ming court was made aware of the usefulness of oil and mobilized the power of the court to develop oil, it would be a trivial matter to produce hundreds of thousands or even millions of catties a year in the future.

But Marin didn't know that his unintentional method of defrauding oil from the Ming Dynasty also caused major changes in the history of the Ming Dynasty. Because the Ming army fell in love with using incendiary bombs...

In a later battle, the Ming army guarding the city in northern Xinjiang used a large amount of "fierce fire oil" to burn the siege grassland army to the point where they couldn't take care of themselves. Then, history changed...

From then on, if the defenders had enough "fire oil", the enemy would no longer dare to "siege the city with ants". Because, it is clear that it is for the other party to burn! The fire wall created by "Fire Oil" at the root of the city wall is enough to withstand any ferocious siege troops!

However, a large amount of fire oil is used in the defense of the city, which requires a large amount of oil to extract. Therefore, the Ming Dynasty later developed a complete set of technologies for drilling oil wells using Zhuotong well technology, which increased the annual oil production of the Ming Dynasty to more than one million catties.

Later, a wine maker in the Ming Dynasty accidentally discovered the method of distilling and refining gasoline, so he got rid of his dependence on Beihai and began to produce gasoline and kerosene by himself. However, for the remaining "leftovers" such as diesel, I don't know how to use them. Then, Beihai State continued to purchase these "leftovers", took them back to refine diesel, and provided fuel for its own diesel engines...

Of course, that's all in the future. For now, everything is just the beginning.

Da Gama's fleet discovered that after the whole coast of Daming Hujian started martial law, they saw that there was no benefit to take advantage of. In addition, the fleet was plagued by shipworms, and several ships needed major repairs. Therefore, Da Gama ordered the fleet to return to Hong Kong Island temporarily. Then, return to Malacca for a comprehensive repair. When I come next time, I will bring a large number of craftsmen, find a port along the coast of Daming, and build a permanent base and dock, so as to strengthen the fleet's ability to fight for a long time along the coast of Daming.

However, Da Gama didn't know that what awaited him this time was a terrible ending...

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Not to mention the situation in the Far East, a big rescue is also in full swing in the distant Atlantic Ocean...

This big rescue was specially arranged by Marin to rescue the 38 living sailors of the hijacked "Purcell". They were sent by the governor of the Portuguese Azores, Rui Silva, to a sugar cane plantation 10 kilometers west of Port of Heroes to serve as sugar cane slaves.

Marin felt that these unlucky guys should not be ignored. Moreover, rescuing them will also help to win the hearts of the crew and sailors under his command.

Thus, a well-planned rescue was launched across the Atlantic Ocean...

Because he didn't want to turn against the Kingdom of Portugal, Marin did not directly dispatch his own warships, but deliberately modified several British-style Kirk sailboats to pretend to be British pirates to do this. Even, Marin hired a group of real British pirates to participate in this matter to confuse the Portuguese.

Although the Portuguese can definitely guess that he did it, Marin doesn't care. He did this, in addition to avoiding leaving a handle for the Portuguese to catch, it also had a warning meaning-if you play dirty, I will too!

Although the North Sea country has a small seafaring population, there are quite a few in England. Moreover, Marin is also a very large prince in the Kingdom of England, fully capable of mobilizing sailors and pirates in England. If you don't want to be harassed and have no peace in the future,

The Portuguese could only endure it.

Because, on the surface, Marin is the "barefoot" one, while Portugal is the "shoes" nobleman, there is no need for porcelain to smash against broken bricks...

Moreover, Marin also saved face for Portugal. Instead of tearing his face and using warships, he used "English pirates" in a roundabout manner, which also left a step for the Portuguese. As long as you are not a fool, the Portuguese knows how to choose...

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The Azores are not very important to Portugal, because they did not occupy and develop the Brazilian colony with the other side in history, so the Azores have not become a "maritime transportation hub", and they are not of much value. The only value here is probably the sugar cane plantations owned by the great nobles on the archipelago. The Azores is known as an important sugar-producing area in Portugal because of its warm climate and the ability to grow sugar cane.

However, Portugal also has Madeira Island and Sao Tome Island off the coast of West Africa as sugar cane planting bases. Therefore, the relatively remote Azores is not important, but it is not particularly important. Here, Portugal stationed 7 warships, but they were all small warships of one or two hundred tons. However, the English-style Kirk sailing ship that has not been improved to become a Galen ship is still unable to beat the Portuguese carrack sailing ship and caravel sailing ship. After all, for the Portuguese warships of this era, artillery has become an important combat weapon. And the British-style Kirk sailboat is still a ship platform for boarding battles.

Therefore, despite the modification, Marin still does not intend to use the British-style Kirk sailboat to head-to-head with the Portuguese, but intends to use tactics.

This strategy is to attack the east and attack the west, to divert the tiger away from the mountain...

The Azores is an archipelago, but the islands are not particularly concentrated, but scattered on the ocean stretching 640 kilometers long. Among them, Terceira Island, where the capital Hero Port is located, is located in the middle of the archipelago.

In fact, Terceira is not the largest island in the Azores, but the third largest. In front of it are the islands of São Miguel and Pico. However, because it is right in the middle, it is convenient to manage all the nearby islands, and the island is flat and rich in fresh water resources, so it is designated as the location of the capital. The 7 Portuguese warships were all stationed in Port Heroes and were not assigned to other islands. The main reason is that in this era, pirates have not yet emerged, and the defensive pressure on other islands is very light.

And Marin's tactic of attacking the west this time is to send people to attack San Miguel Island, the largest island in the archipelago, and attract warships from Port of Heroes to rescue.

Marin also thought for a long time about sending several pirate ships to attack San Miguel Island. First of all, you can't send less. If only one or two ships were sent to attack San Miguel Island, it is estimated that Port of Heroes would look down on it and would only send two or three warships to rescue, which would not achieve the goal of "turning the tiger away from the mountain".

However, you can't send too much. If too many pirate ships are sent to frighten the Portuguese in Port of Heroes, so that they dare not send ships to rescue, that will not work.

So, after all the calculations, Marin finally decided-send 6 pirate ships to attack San Miguel Island and attract Portuguese warships from Port of Heroes to rescue.

6 ships is a very delicate number. With such a scale, the Portuguese in Port of Heroes dare not underestimate them, and they will not randomly assign two or three ships to rescue. However, don't be too scared. After all, the size of 6 ships is one less than the 7 ships of the Portuguese.

In addition, Marin will deliberately deploy only two or three 6-pound guns on each pirate ship to bombard the towns on San Miguel Island. This kind of firepower can not only make the Portuguese dare not underestimate it, but also not scare the opponent from playing. After all, the number of artillery on Portuguese warships is still considerable, although the caliber is not large...

At about the same time when Da Gama's fleet returned to the temporary base on Hong Kong Island, a pirate fleet composed of 6 Kirk sailing ships also arrived at San Miguel, the largest island in the southeast of the Azores. The waters of the island began to attack the big island...

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