"Hello, I'm Montro, Commander of the Spanish Far East Colonial Fleet,"

"Hello, I'm Barsarola, a member of the Spanish House of Lords,"

Several foreigners wearing blue double-breasted coats, Spanish ship-shaped sailing hats, flintlock pistols pinned to their waists, and command knives hanging from their waists, were tall, blonde and blue-eyed, and had a sense of rhythm in their actions, and there was an arrogant atmosphere outside the Jinling Fu Military Academy The former Navy Division Headquarters Residence appeared, followed by a group of people wearing cowboy hats, wearing black tuxedos, with a wide figure, and at the same time tall, blonde and blue-eyed foreigners, Standing in front of the steps to greet them as Director of the Navy returned from Southeast Asia, Ruan Tien.

A few people exchanged a few words, and the translator took out a handkerchief and wiped the sweat on his forehead after laboriously translating for them, these Spaniards were aggressive, and Ruan Tian was calm and relaxed here, and he was able to deal with it with ease, through the translation, maybe Ruan Tian couldn't feel the aggressive momentum of the Spaniards, and the translator could, so the translator had to try to find some translation answers that were satisfactory to both parties to introduce to both sides.

Ruan Tian slowly coped, he was not in a hurry, he understood the situation of the Spaniards, for although they occupied the Bengal region and owned the port, they lost almost all the fleet, and there was already a lot of scolding in Spain, the army captain had been withdrawn, and there were fifteen backward sailing ships, which were more anxious than him in the face of the huge strength of the British sail warship fleet of more than 3,000 tons from the west, with a total of seventy ships.

The foundation was originally unstable, the battle was already lost, and the strength was not as good as the enemy, and now only a dozen old sail warships were sent over in the country, although they seemed to be huge, they were all giant warships of more than 3,000 tons with a hundred cannons at every turn, and the displacement reached 5,000 tons, but whether it was the Spanish sailors in Bengal or the fleet of the Chinese Empire, they all laughed and said nothing, that kind of thing may still be useful in Western Europe, but in the East, it has been a long, long time behind.

The kind of battle distance is only three or four hundred meters, and the cannons of the giant ships with solid bullets flying around, the various natives overseas before the top can still deal with the fast steam warships of the Chinese Empire, or ironclad warships, maybe within one hundred and eighty meters of the encirclement, the warships of the Huaxia Empire will definitely not be able to beat them, but the warships of the Huaxia Empire are running far away on the sea, not to mention the distance of one thousand meters, how can one annihilate more than a dozen such warships.

Although the frigate only has twenty-four guns, and the really important guns are only two on the deck of the ship, but these two guns, over time, can also kill more than a dozen such sail battleships, which are backward to the Eastern Chinese Empire.

I don't know what the group of aristocratic parliamentarians in Spain think, the tonnage sent over is relatively large, the artillery is relatively large, and the displacement is relatively large, where they belong to the first-class battleships, do they feel that they are sure to win?

The British, on the other hand, were pragmatic, not only sent two ironclad battleships with sails and steam engines, but also big guys with a displacement of more than 3,000 tons, and if you add the two big guys who stayed here, a sail warship with a small sample of steam engines, just this small team, can easily destroy the fifteen giant ships and cannon fleets sent by the Spaniards again.

Put away some contempt, Ruan Tian difficult to negotiate with these Spanish visitors, argue, and then report, then argue, and then use their brains to suppress, it took almost a month to reach an agreement, the Spanish used about 10 million Chinese yuan of Spanish gold coins and Spanish trade agreements, to allow the Spanish port to be open to the merchants of the Chinese Empire, and to allow the Chinese merchants to go to the Spanish colonies to stop for supplies, and where to do business, to do business in Spain, they provide translation and guidance, and other conditionsin exchange for the Chinese Empire's agreement to sell their warships.

Ten years of sail warships, wooden, thirty, with a displacement of about 1,000 tons, were used by the Spaniards to do business with the Chinese Empire, to deliver news, or to defend the coastal coast of the colony.

The eight-year-old iron sail battleship, the main body is wood, but the armament must catch up with the current era, such as the installation of the Chinese Empire's turret-type artillery twelve-pounder light gun in the bow, one stern, the others remain the same, and those that remain unchanged are solid shell artillery almost the same as the Spanish artillery, but much more advanced than what they brought this time.

At least the distance of engagement was about 800 meters, the shortest distance was 300 meters, and the slightly less moderate was between 700 meters and 550 meters, and the guns ranged from 12 to 34 pounders, or the kind of battleship with a bottom gun door similar to the battle line salvo fired by a platoon of guns.

There were about thirty-five of these warships, which could be used to guard the islands and cover the main fleet, to guard the perimeter, and to transport troops and fight.

Five years of installation of the British developed steam engine sample of the Chinese Empire's retired 2,000-ton sail ironclad warships, thirty, enough of the British losses, the Spaniards obtained the British steam engine sample, that is, equivalent to a simple boiler with a rudimentary propeller blades, the kind that can be disassembled, these things need to be manufactured in the Chinese Empire, after seeing and listening to the introduction, the researchers of the Chinese Empire will soon improve the horsepower is not large, A 1,000-horsepower steam engine, which was equivalent to a later tank, was built, and then improved and installed on the ships of the Chinese Imperial Fleet owned by its own retired coastal naval divisions.

The steam engine can burn charcoal or coal, and the power of burning charcoal is only more than 300 horsepower, and the speed of the sail warship can be increased by one or two knots, which is higher than the speed of the thirty-five warships that the Spaniards used to fight the British in the decisive battle, and the speed of the British warships that fought with them is the same, which is equivalent to a little higher than the British steam engine sample battleship, and the speed of the British warship, and the speed of the 1,000 horsepower is three or four knots faster, and it can also ensure more flexible steering at sea.

This sample of the steam engine was faster and more flexible than the Chinese Empire's offshore paddle steamer steam engine to transport merchant ships, so it was quickly adopted by the Chinese Empire, and a large number of steam pailer ships were sold to the Spaniards for the transportation of materials on the inland rivers and coastal coasts of Bengal, about 500 were sold, and more than 100 were included in this purchase.

Then there are more than 30 large ironclad warships that have been decommissioned in the past year or two by the Chinese Empire, and the experimental steam engine battleships were sold to the Spaniards, these experimental warships are only transitional warships of the Chinese Empire, and the offshore sea is almost usable in the South China Sea, which is too far, one is unfavorable for supply, and the other is unfavorable for repair, because of the high failure rate, although it has been reduced a lot, but there are still problems, so more than 30 ships were given to the Spaniards at a low price.

After that, the Spaniards selected more than 30 decommissioned 3,000-ton sail ironclad battleships, and they fancied the guns on these battleships of the Chinese Empire, the kind of turret artillery, with large caliber and long range, which can be at a distance of 1,200 meters, but only 3 to 4 percent of the hit rate, if the sea conditions are good, the number of operators can maintain a 5 to 7 percent hit rate, this kind of artillery hit the British or the Spaniards with wood and iron, or iron, and the iron-bone battleship is simply a shot, and the destructive power is huge. Hit below the waterline, you can hit the enemy with one shot.

(End of chapter)