"Mr. Kevin, please be considerate, we are not murderers... This is a national war, an inevitable national war. We are building blocks for the final victory..."
"Put away the untimely compassion in your heart. I know you have noble morals and you are proud of your aristocratic spirit, but don't you want Prussia to avenge its shame? You don't care about the shame of Jena. …”
"Oh, we understand. You are just like those pedantic and hypocritical Confucian scholars in the Qing Dynasty. While shouting that a gentleman should stay away from the cook, you shout that you can't bear to see the cattle and sheep die, and at the same time you shout that you will not eat meat if it is not righteous..."
"Hypocrisy, I understand it. You just want to get the glory of Prussia's victory, but you are not willing to soil the blood of the enemy with your own hands..."
A group of young officers on the Zhiyuan are trying to persuade the engineer and deputy captain Kevin. This stubborn Prussian aristocrat is really difficult to serve. When they first dealt with a French ship in the Marshall Islands, they had to go through a lot of efforts to persuade him. It rained for an hour.
It took a lot of effort to open his heart, but later he became very angry because of the British merchant ship. Twelve of the thirteen merchant ships were French ships, and the other one was an unlucky British ship.
It is impossible for only French ships to travel on the Atlantic Golden Route. Merchant ships from various European countries can pass freely, so the Zhiyuan is very cautious on its way south.
Five clipper ships were stretched out into a large herringbone shape five nautical miles apart, and the Zhiyuan was hidden among them. The clipper ships sometimes flew the American flag, sometimes the British, French and even Dutch and Portuguese flags.
When encountering Prussian merchant ships, the fleet will try their best to purchase some supplies and require them to keep them strictly confidential. If they encounter ships from other neutral countries, such as the United States, Italy and other countries with harmonious relations, they will also purchase some supplies appropriately. But the Chinese will never be allowed to show up.
If it encounters ships from Britain, Norway, Sweden, Russia, the Netherlands and other countries, the fleet will immediately distance itself without any contact.
Only French merchant ships are fat sheep for military training, and God is obviously blessing the Zhiyuan now. There are indeed a lot of French merchant ships encountered along the way.
The British merchant ship Wudu was a very unlucky guy. Originally, the Zhiyuan did not want to attack this merchant ship, but coincidentally, when Wudu broke into everyone's sight, the Zhiyuan was carrying out a massacre at sea and was killed. The merchant ship destroyed by Zhiyuan's main gun has sunk, with wreckage and dead bodies floating on the sea. The sailors are shooting survivors one by one with rifles.
Although it is cruel, in order to keep confidentiality, these are the last resort choices.
When the Fog City saw this situation, it was so frightened that it turned around and ran away. How could the Zhiyuan let him escape? It chased him westward under the water.
The distance between the Zhiyuan and the Wudu is a full five kilometers. This is a rare live-fire exercise of long-distance firing of the main gun. The longest range of the Zhiyuan's main gun is eight kilometers, but in fact, the cannonballs are more than four kilometers long. It is already difficult to guarantee accuracy.
Now is an opportunity to accumulate long-range shooting experience. The Zhiyuan controlled its speed and started long-range shooting training at a distance of five kilometers.
Boom boom boom... The monotonous main gun fire sounded across the Atlantic Ocean, and the Fog City ran helplessly like a frightened little girl being pursued by perverts.
Sometimes the exploding water splash is very close at hand, only thirty or forty meters away from the side of the ship. Sometimes the exploding water splash is three to four hundred meters away.
Lin Zhen is the gunner on the Zhiyuan, and all the weapon systems are under his command. Of course, he has to collect these first-hand parameters. But while everyone was busy, Kevin, an old-fashioned guy, started to lose his temper again.
He kept saying that Britain is not an enemy country so it must not attack the other side. Well, since you insist on attacking, please don't hurt those sailors.
This is really the kindness of a woman. Now Britain is the maritime hegemon on the earth. The Royal Navy is invincible in the world. It is difficult for any country in the world to value its navy as much as it does.
Why did this British ship desperately want to escape? He wanted to send first-hand information about the Zhiyuan back to the country. All citizens in the UK, even a beggar, knew the importance of the navy to the entire country.
Without a navy, there would be no empire on which the sun never sets. Any budding threats to the Royal Navy must be killed early. Now everyone on the Twist, from the captain to the sailors, has forgotten their transportation mission, and the precious cargo has been thrown into the sea. Going inside, they tried every means to increase the speed.
The captain of the Fog City had also served in the navy. He could see at a glance the powerful combat effectiveness of the Zhiyuan and the power to break tradition. It is very likely that this is a brand-new ship that is about to change the mode of human naval warfare. Battleship, this information must be sent back to the country.
Expensive cigars, rum, coffee... goods worth hundreds of thousands of pounds were thrown into the sea, rolling up and down with the waves.
After throwing it around, the Zhiyuan even saw that the British ship even started to throw out the cargo for ballast. Sailboats must have cargo for ballast when sailing. Ancient sailors even directly put ballast stones. It is to increase the stability of sea-going ships and make them less likely to sink when encountering wind and waves.
In the Age of Discovery that followed, merchants were smarter and used every inch of space on merchant ships to make money. From then on, they were no longer filled with worthless things such as stones and sand, but instead were filled with various ballast cargoes. .
The best ballast cargo on the China route is of course porcelain. The most common ballast cargo on the North American route is mechanically packed wool and cotton blocks. Don’t think that wool and cotton are very light. Wool blocks are compacted and bundled with mechanical force. Weighing as much as a stone, it is definitely the first choice for ballast.
This treasure was thrown into the sea. Xiang Ying and the others knew that they could not play anymore. Facing such a madman, they would have many dreams at night.
The Zhiyuan's boiler was pressurized, and the four underwater propellers began to rotate faster. The battleship's speed soon increased to 16 knots. When the distance between the two ships was less than three kilometers, a single shot of the Zhiyuan's main gun directly hit the Wudu's poop. The captain's room and the underwater rudder were all blown to pieces.
From that moment on, Kevin got excited again and actually adopted the attitude of non-violence and non-cooperation like the Indians.
Strike, Kevin chose to strike from that moment on. If the attack on French ships was to prepare for the Franco-Prussian War in the near future, France is Prussia's century-old enemy, which makes some sense.
But how to explain the attack on British merchant ships? Will Prussia still have a war with Britain? This is really a joke.
The fleet sailed all the way to the Cape Verde Islands, but the stubborn engineer still did not resume work. As a last resort, Xiang Ying could only come up with the last trump card.
"Mr. Kevin, even if you are a stone, you should be warmed up after we have been explaining this for so long. If I can prove that Prussia will definitely have a bloody war with Britain in the future, will you still go on strike?"
"Are you kidding? I won't believe you... If Prussia really has a plan to go to war with Britain, then of course your behavior is forgivable, but I will never believe your lies." The book was first published by , watch genuine content for the first time!
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