While rumors and rumors were being refuted, an important message was put in front of the people, and that was that the way of naval warfare had been changed......

Previously, in Europe, only the Portuguese, who were the first to equip warships with a large number of artillery, were ahead of the world in this regard. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info and Portugal's neighbor Spain, just on the edge of Portugal, is naturally a kind of imitation of the Portuguese practice. And France, because of the European leadership in artillery technology, also equipped its ships with artillery. However, the French did not attach importance to the sea, and the number of warships was pitiful. Therefore, even if it is equipped with artillery, the Navy will not be able to take the table.

Therefore, at present, in addition to East Friesland, Europe is also equipped with artillery on a large scale in the two maritime powers, Portugal and Spain. Other maritime powers, such as Denmark, the Republic of Venice, or the Hanseatic League, were still in the era of broadside warfare.

And Britain, the later hegemon of the sea, does not have a fleet at the moment. The main thing is that the British king is too poor to have the money to equip the fleet, let alone equip the ships with expensive bronze artillery. It wasn't until Henry VIII took advantage of the Reformation to confiscate Catholic property in England that he had a lot of money and began to build ships with hundreds of guns......

Of course, in the original history, all this happened after the Battle of Diu in 1509. Because the Portuguese shocked the world by defeating the combined Indian fleet with 2,000 large and small warships with only 19 warships equipped with artillery. Since then, European countries have also begun to equip their warships with artillery.

Moreover, the reason why the caliber of the early artillery was not large, and the mainstream was a 6-pounder gun, was not that a larger gun could not be made, but that the cost was too high. Because, at the moment, the price of silver and copper is 1 to 15. A six-pounder cannon also weighs thousands of pounds. Thousands of pounds of copper are worth 66.7 pounds of silver, which is equivalent to 5.56 pounds of gold, or 708 gold coins.

If it is a 12-pound bronze cannon, the cost is doubled. Therefore, countries with poor finances in general cannot afford to equip themselves at all. Moreover, until they see tangible benefits, most countries are reluctant to invest so much.

In fact, the Portuguese had only now tried to promote the 10-pounder cannon and the 12-pounder breech-loading bronze cannon. However, due to financial constraints, it has not been able to be promoted on a large scale. But since Vasco da Gama opened the Indian route, the Portuguese also benefited greatly, earning hundreds of thousands of gold coins. You know, the Portuguese have been trading on the African coast for decades, and they can only bring back half a ton of gold, which is about 140,000 gold coins, every year. And Vasco da Gama's voyage to India was several times more than the trade of the west coast of Africa, which immediately swelled the pockets of grapes and the royal family.

The Portuguese were very dissatisfied with Spain's "grabbing food", and even threatened to annihilate the Spanish fleet. However, the Spanish twin kings are not vegetarians, and they have been broadcast by Marin. Therefore, the two kings of Spain threatened in turn - if you attack my fleet, I will besiege Lisbon from the land, and even destroy Portugal......

So Portugal choked - Nima, can you talk about some rules? I talked to you about the battle for hegemony at sea, why did you talk about land? Isn't that a fool's errand......

However, the Portuguese had no choice but to give in. After all, Portugal is a war wit on land......

To be sure, the Portuguese crown, using the profits from Vasco da Gama's trade in India, replaced the ships with a larger batch of artillery. During the Battle of Diu, these guns played a huge role......

But now it's only 1503, and the Battle of Diu has not yet happened, and in the Battle of Jutland here, Marin first used artillery, and he made extraordinary shots, using more than 300 heavy guns and sinking many Danish ships......

You know, the Danish ships are not the small ships of the Indian Combined Fleet. Many of the small boats of the Indian Combined Fleet were simply large boats rowed by manpower, and even 6-pounder guns could sink them steadily. The Danes' warships, compared to the ships of the Indian Combined Fleet, were large ships and were more difficult to break. Therefore, dozens of ships were sunk at once, which absolutely shocked Europe.

In the past, naval battles in Europe were usually marked by the fact that sailors completely annihilated the enemy on the opponent's ship through broadside combat, or simply burned the opponent's ship with rockets. However, the number of destroyed enemy ships was small. But Marin's East Friesian fleet, as soon as it struck, sank dozens of Danish ships, which was completely unexpected by the Europeans......

As a result, this tactic of using heavy artillery to bombard enemy ships became popular...... The artillery also fired......

Now, many discerning people in the tavern are discussing one thing, that is, whether future naval warfare has fully entered the era of artillery......

Debates unfolded in various taverns, and many drinkers, who knew and didn't know each other, engaged in a heated debate about whether artillery battles would replace broadside battles. Because of drinking, everyone will inevitably get emotional when they argue, and even fight because of different concepts...... After all, it is not so easy for a new thing to replace the old, and there will always be diehards who will resist it......

However, in the Hamburg and Lübeck parliaments, the Hanseatic parliamentarians here agreed that the Hanseatic League would also be heavily armed with artillery in the future......

Because the Hanseatic League developed by trade, maritime trade was their lifeline, especially the "one king and one queen" in the two Hanseatic Leagues of Lübeck and Hamburg.

If, their navy is behind the times, it is easy to be beaten. Once the maritime power is lost, the interests of the maritime trade between the two cities will not be preserved. It is even said that two Hanseatic cities will be in a desperate situation.

Therefore, the two core cities of Hanseatic are the most sensitive to the changes in naval warfare, for fear of falling behind the times. Previously, in fact, the councils of the two cities had also heard the news that the Portuguese were heavily equipped with artillery on their warships. But at that time, people in both cities didn't pay much attention. After all, the Portuguese were equipped with artillery on their ships, but they did not prove that the use of artillery was necessarily superior to traditional methods of naval warfare.

But this time it was different, the Hamburgers saw Marin's East Frisian fleet with their own eyes, using rows of heavy artillery, sinking dozens of Danish warships in the vast sea, giving them a great visual impact.

Therefore, the Hamburg parliament was the first to make a decision - in the future, it was to be massively equipped with artillery on ships. Moreover, in the future construction of warships, the side sides must be strengthened to avoid being easily penetrated by enemy artillery......

As for Lübeck, the relationship with Hamburg is already very close, and they are not far from each other. Upon learning of Hamburg's decision, they quickly made the same decision - gradually adding artillery to the navy and, in the future, strengthening the sides to avoid being easily pierced by shells......

As for how the warships were made, it is clear that the Eastern Friesian Lambean had ready-made experience. Hamburg immediately made a request to Marin, who was still in Glückstadt, the capital of the Duchy of Holstein, to repair and digest the results of the battle, in the name of its allies, for drawings of the ships of the East Friesian Lambean......

Where would Marin give them the battleship drawings? It was the watchman of the East Friesian Navy. So, after much thought, Marin ordered that the design of the 250-class armed merchant ship be handed over to Hamburg. Anyway, this kind of ship is also more advanced than the Kirk sailboat......

In this way, through an earth-shattering naval battle, Marin successfully influenced the choice of the Europeans in the way of naval warfare. Hamburg, which also participated in the Battle of Jutland, was the first to choose change, followed by Lübeck...... Moreover, as the news of naval warfare spreads, more and more European countries will choose to follow suit, developing naval guns and reinforcing the sides of new warships......

History has been changed, and the way Europeans fought naval battles will also be dramatically changed. From now on, artillery will be the first naval battle in which artillery will become the main weapon of naval warfare, and it will change from the Battle of Diu to the Battle of Jutland in which East Friesland, Hamburg, and Denmark participated......