I Build an Aircraft Carrier in the Ming Dynasty

There was silence in the living room. Carlos and Francisco didn't speak for a long time. They didn't know what to say.

It was such a coincidence that their previous efforts had come to nothing.

"Lord Governor, what are you going to do next?"

After a long time, Carlos asked.

No matter how wrong Francisco was wrong, they were always together.

Therefore, Carlos is still thinking about Francisco at this time.

"As of now, they can only ask for domestic support. On the other hand, they can ask Dahua for peace. If they want to keep the Ceuta stronghold, they can only go to the negotiating table with us to solve it."

Francisco said.

In the Philippines, their strength is not worth mentioning in front of Dahua.

However, in Ceuta, Spain's strength can also crush Dahua's stronghold.

Francisco wants to take advantage of this to make Dahua have scruples.

"No, no, Lord Governor, this time you can't involve the mainland, you are responsible for everything yourself. You don't understand Dahua's national conditions. If we dare to attack Ceuta, they may officially declare war on us.

With a single Dahua, perhaps we can still resist by distance. But if Dahua colludes with the French, we will face extinction.

Now that the contradiction between the mainland and France is getting deeper and deeper, it is no longer possible to make enemies at this time. "

Carlos firmly opposed Francisco's proposal to threaten Dahua with Ceuta. Today's Spain is not the Spain of the past.

Being bullied by England at sea and being bullied by France on land, it is impossible to provoke another great man at such a time.

Carlos's words disappointed Francisco. They colonized abroad and continued to deliver wealth such as raw materials to the local area, hoping that the local area would provide some support when they encountered difficulties.

But now, when encountering a strong enemy, the mainland actually wants to clear the relationship.

In this case, why do you still recognize the Spanish royal family?

The atmosphere was awkward for a time. In the end, in order to appease Francisco's emotions, Carlos said that he would try his best to go to Nanjing to help deal with it.

After the unhappy breakup, Carlos began to return.

He is going to make a final attempt, which is really impossible, and he has to distance Francesco from Spain.

Western European countries are not stupid and attach great importance to their relationship with Dahua.

On the one hand, they want to maintain trade and make money together.

On the other hand, I also want to have a good relationship with Dahua, and then obtain Dahua's advanced technology.

In short, it is absolutely impossible for Spain to have a bad relationship with Dahua for a Philippine colony.

Like the Philippines, there are dozens of them in the world, not to mention Spain.

When Carlos returned to Nanjing, the people who escaped from the Philippines also reported the situation in the Philippines.

So far, no one has paid attention to Carlos.

If Carlos hadn't clarified in time, saying that Francisco's personal behavior had nothing to do with Spain, Spain would not intervene, and Dahua would have expelled Carlos.

However, even if he is not expelled, his future will not be easy.

The British embassy in Nanjing, the French embassy, ​​and the Dutch embassy were all giggling, and even soaring in the middle, jumping up and down.

In mid-July, the Dahua Navy set off from Shanghai and headed straight for the Philippines.

As for Francisco's request for peace, Dahua directly ignored it because of his lack of sincerity.

It's not that easy to spend a little money to quell Dahua's public anger.

With a strong strength to support, the current big Chinese also appear to be very belligerent.

Not to mention the military, they are eager to have wars every day, so that they can get all kinds of additional funds and opportunities for military merit.

The number of main battleships in this expedition fleet is not many, only ten, of which six are semi-iron armored ships, and the rest are wooden ships.

Divided by type, there are four Hong-class battleships, three Huang-class cruisers, and three Huang-class frigates.

The battleship is the main battleship, with a large tonnage, a lot of artillery, and a very strong firepower.

The two main guns used the technology of cannons and could fire armor-piercing projectiles.

To deal with wooden boats, it can basically be solved with one shot.

However, these battleships were slow, very coal-hungry, and had poor endurance.

That is to say, they are only used in decisive battles, and they are not used in normal times.

Therefore, after the Dahua Navy had battleships, it built some cruisers.

The tonnage of these cruisers is much smaller than that of the battleships, basically about 500 tons, and the firepower on them is relatively poor, with only some small-caliber artillery.

This type of cruiser is generally used for some secondary missions.

For example, in normal maritime patrols, cruisers are used.

No way, the construction of the navy needs to consider a cost issue.

The cost of a battleship is equal to four or five cruisers. If all the more powerful battleships were built, the military expenditure would not be able to build many ships at all.

And Dahua's coastline is so long, there are many places where warships need to be used, and a sufficient number of ships must be guaranteed.

In Dahua's navy, there are far more cruisers than battleships.

The frigate, compared with the cruiser, there is not much difference in firepower, but the endurance is poor and the speed is faster.

This kind of warship is not suitable for patrolling, but it is suitable for driving away the enemy

, as well as reconnaissance, pursuit and other tasks.

According to the needs of various maritime missions, Dahua has now evolved these three main battleships.

All other ships are auxiliary ships.

Only among the main battleships, some are semi-iron armored ships, and some are wooden ships.

And those auxiliary ships are all made of wood.

Although there were only ten warships in this battle, there were more than thirty auxiliary ships.

Among them, there are ten troop transport ships, five coal transport ships, ten equipment and material transport ships, and several other small ships such as communication and warning ships.

These ships specially used for transportation, in order to maximize the transportation capacity, have almost no artillery installed and need to rely on the protection of warships.

Without the protection of warships, they are some fat sheep.

A total of more than 40 ships, with a total tonnage of about 20,000 tons, formed a fleet with independent combat capabilities.

This fully equipped fleet is capable of almost any maritime mission.

And like this kind of fleet, Dahua has a total of three.

One in Shanghai, one in Zhoushan, and one in Hong Kong.

Any one of them can easily flatten an agricultural country with a population of one million, and defeat an agricultural country with a population of five million.

This is not bragging, after all, in addition to being invincible on the sea, the fleet is also equipped with a marine corps of 5,000 people.

Equipped with new rifles, machine guns and mortars, these Marines are basically hard to beat.