The caliber of the cannon is 82 mm, and the weight of the shells is actually more than 3 pounds, but these guns are still classified as three-pound guns when they are classified.

The caliber of the cannon is not large, but the diameter of this is far more than 30 times, the range is definitely long enough, and the power should not be small.

Bronze texture, well-cast, thanks to the material, after the water to see the preservation of this cannon is also good, the second half of the cannon pattern is like the Dutchman's coat of arms plus a little Zhang Nan can't understand the pattern mark, this may be the mark of the cannon foundry, anyway, it looks very powerful.

"Small cannons, at that time, there were already a lot of big guys weighing two or three tons and dozens of pounds of shells in Europe, and the power was much greater than this.

However, there must be a cargo hold under the armed merchant ship, and there is no room for a large long-barreled cannon, and a naval gun of this level is just right. ”

Zhang Nan is very satisfied that he can pick up such a cannon, this thing is a good decoration, not to mention the manor, it is a good thing to transport to the castle under construction.

As the salvage continued, by the next day, in addition to the discovery of a smaller one-pound deck swing gun, a total of 12 three-pounder guns were found near the wreck.

At that time, compared to the Spanish, British and French warships, the Dutch built ships were lighter and had a shallower draft, all because of the sea conditions around the Netherlands, the water was shallow, and the result was that the Dutch ships had excellent mobility, but they were relatively vulnerable in battle.

12 main cannons, enough.

Armed merchant ships are not warships, and they will not have thickened planks and stiffeners, but such vitality is enough to deal with ordinary small pirates.

In particular, these cannons are large enough, the firing range is definitely not small, and they can be regarded as well-equipped, but they were probably unlucky at the beginning.

Zhang Nan's gang had just fought pirates this time, and they were fishing for ancient merchant ships that might have been sunk by pirates, so it seems that it is still necessary for this cargo ship to be equipped with weapons.

Speaking of this, Captain Philip told the group: "In the past, merchant ships were armed, and in the 19th century, almost all insurance companies required freighters to be equipped with the most basic armament - 6-pound or 9-pound light guns, and only after such armament could they be insured.

Until the end of the 19th century, some well-known cruise ships were equipped with guns for self-defense, such as the first generation of giant cruise ship 'Grand Eastern', which was first put into operation in 1860, and its upper deck was equipped with a number of old-fashioned breech guns, which were like playing against those beggar-like pirates.

Until World War I, cruise ships such as the Titanic could be equipped with some weapons and ammunition for self-defense, unlike now, basically countries do not allow armed merchant ships to enter the port, and even territorial waters cannot pass through harmlessly. ”

Speaking of this, Philip laughed: It's just a regulation on the surface, and people like Zhang Nan don't follow it, for example, the "Big Shark" is actually armed.

Speaking of the armament on this ship, a guy from the Huaxia Navy told everyone: "A few years ago, the ocean-going ships in China were all equipped with weapons, and the crews were all semi-militarized, and each ship must be equipped with a Type 56 or Type 75 14.5 mm single-barreled anti-aircraft machine gun, two Type 56 light machine guns, four Type 56 submachine guns, six to eight Type 56 semi-automatic rifles, and two pistols.

This was the case 83 years ago, when the whole world knew that the merchant ships of China were inviolable!

Don't say anything about pirates, the armed speedboats in Wanwan don't dare to approach our cargo ships!

It's a pity that since 84, all the weapons on this ocean-going ship have been handed in. ”

It's a pity.

Why equip weapons?

It is said that in the 50s, two mainland cargo ships were hijacked by the Wanwan Navy with the assistance of American warships while passing through the Wanwan Strait, and 29 mainland crew members were imprisoned in Wanwan prison, three of whom were killed for rebellion.

Since the cargo ships in Huaxia were equipped with light and heavy weapons, there has never been a hijacking!

There were quite a few American guys on board, and they also knew about the fact that the Huaxia ocean-going freighter had been equipped with weapons for a long time, and they also knew why they had withdrawn their weapons: Huaxia joined the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea at the end of 1982, and this protocol came into force for China on March 17, 1983.

Since joining this agreement, the Chinese ocean-going ships have been no longer equipped with weapons.

There are still countries that have not joined this convention, and the attitude of those countries' cargo ships is: whether you bring weapons or not is your business, and whether you are allowed to come in is my business.

Zhang Nan didn't plan to change the flag of the ships under his company's name, and he couldn't do it: now he was flying the Stars and Stripes, and the ship was "hiring" security contractors that were common to almost the entire Western world.

As for the port of a bunch of Southeast Asian monkeys, who will not be able to get along with their own ships except the Vietnamese side?

Star-Spangled Banner god daddy's ship, they don't dare to check!

If you want a loud throat and a hard waist, you have to have strength, or a strong backer. For example, Andrei Gromyko, who died only the year before last and served as the foreign minister of the Soviet Union for 28 years, has always been notoriously loud in his throat, because he has a motherland behind him that is strong enough and has the world's largest nuclear forces!

It's a pity that the Soviet Union is really about to end, and the strongman who can give half the world a headache with the phrase "I am Andrei Gromyko" has come to a perfect curtain call, and there is no need to see the collapse of the Soviet Union, which can be regarded as a perfect curtain call.

As for Zhang Nan, this will be a typical fox and fake tiger, and we have to beware of whether the super-large, profit-only jaguar of the United States will swallow itself behind its back.

is not like Gromyco to have a strong motherland as a backer, this is Zhang Nan's sorrow, the moment he chooses to change his nationality, he is doomed!

Rely on yourself.

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On June 19, under Zhang Nan's clear instructions that "the intact ones were out of the water and the broken ones were left on the bottom of the sea", the porcelain on the Dutch shipwreck was basically out of the water.

The divers did not resort to the destructive salvage of the few intact porcelain that might have been left behind: the boss was not an insatiable man, nor was he an archaeologist, and he was not interested in the wreckage of the ship itself under the water, and said that he wanted to leave some thoughts for possible latecomers.

After four o'clock in the afternoon, the last batch of porcelain came out of the water, and two of the divers who did the final finishing work felt that it was still early, and carried the sand suction pump into the warehouse that was basically empty, with only wooden shelves and mud at the bottom.

Outcome!

The two divers quickly got out of the water, swam to the sun deck of the yacht as soon as they came out of the water, and shouted to the sailors on deck: "Boss, where's the boss?!"

When Zhang Nan saw the things sent by the divers a minute later, he laughed at the people around him and said, "It turns out that we are the latecomers of those stupid hats!"