Just when Lin Haijiang commanded the battleship to sail into the port of Dolin on Dolin Island, which was a five-day voyage from Alexandria, to repair the ship!

Far away in the tea hall on the second floor of the Cairo Governor's Palace, two red-faced middle-aged men were arguing fiercely, and the tall and burly Governor of Cambenin was arguing with the thin and withered Duke Marquein, and the focus of their argument was on Duke Marquein's previous proposal for quiet transportation.

But the Duke of Marclane blindly blamed the Governor of Cambein for not letting James. William's daughter returned to London by sail.

Duke Marquein's triangular eyes made the Governor of Cambenin very uncomfortable, it can be said that Marquein is the 11th heir to the throne, and it is almost a miracle that he can become the heir of the Duke in the eyes of everyone, the Governor of Cambein knows some of the secrets of the year, although the two sides are in a cooperative relationship, but he still looks down on this guy who made his fortune by robbing tombs from the bottom of his bones.

In fact, there are only more than 200 surname families in the British high society, and for hundreds of years, these families and surnames have been marrying constantly in order to consolidate their status and interests, so that almost all of the British high society is more or less related, and this is also the entrance ticket of the high society.

The Governor of Cambenin took a deep breath and said, "I'll explain to you one last time, let James. General William's daughter, Jenny. Miss William on a boat with the Duke of Marklein you agree because that's the only way James. William, that guy won't search the Hope. ”

Cambenin paused and continued: "Just in the waters that you yourself promised to be absolutely safe, our ship was hijacked, do you have anything else to say, Duke Marquein?" I don't think it's time for us to look at responsibility, but to immediately recover that money and weapons and eliminate all those in the know. ”

Mark Klein glared at Cambenin with triangular eyes and said, "I know this better than you, and I have already ordered it!" ”

Seeing Markline leaving, Cambenin snorted coldly: "Although we are in the same camp, I still think that James. General William's character is incomparable to you. ”

"You bastard!" Duke Maclain gritted his teeth for a long time, and finally this sentence stayed in his throat, and finally he could only slam the door angrily.

During the five days of repairing the ship in Dolin Harbor, Lin Haijiang gave the crew a big holiday in batches, and he gave each person ten pounds of pocket money, and all the external logos of the Royal Navy on the Phoenix were removed, and the original dark brown exterior was painted with a layer of gray covert paint, and the original tonal mainsail was also dyed gray.

The powder kegs in the reserve of Dolin Port were almost all bought out, because Lin Haijiang clearly realized that this would be the last time the Phoenix entered the port to replenish in an open manner, and the next time it was likely to sweep a small port or rob merchant ships for replenishment.

Became a pirate yourself? Looking at the sunset in Western Xia, a hunchbacked old man on the dock was lighting oil lamps one by one, and the craftsmen on the ship were also starting to call it a day, as well as the sailors who were excited to try their hand because they were about to go ashore.

All of this is still so dreamy in Lin Haijiang? Like a mirage?

Jenny. Miss William and Adjutant Miller have been gone for a week, and in this era of very underdeveloped communications, Lin Haijiang is very depressed, after all, anxious waiting is a kind of torment for anyone.

For Lin Haijiang, if once Jenny. If Miss William breaks her promise, then she can only dismiss the personnel on the Phoenix, find a way to return to China, and when the time comes, she will send a letter to the housekeeper Lao Zhao and ask them to return to China directly.

Alas! Lin Haijiang sighed slightly, but an armed merchant ship entering the port caught his attention, because this was not an armed merchant ship at all, but a standard sloop five-sail cruiser with 24 guns, because the main pier of Dolin Harbor was docked with the behemoth Phoenix, so the remaining two cruisers had to linger outside the port.

Dollip, dressed in bronze skin, stood on the bridge and looked at the behemoth in the night, just from the appearance he could judge the level of the battleship docked at the dock, Dollip knew that the third class battleship was the capital ship of the British Royal Navy, and the ship in front of him that could not see the bow image and mainsail mark clearly belonged to the Mediterranean Fleet or the Home Fleet He did not know?

When the ship came to a standstill, Dolip decided to pay a visit and inquire about the Doport pirates!

When Dolip saw Lin Haijiang, he was slightly stunned, he didn't expect that there were foreign commanders in the Royal Navy?

Lin Haijiang smiled calmly and said: "This is the Dartmouth Naval School training ship, we were attacked by pirates before, so we are here to repair the ship and replenish supplies and prepare to return home." ”

"A pirate attack?" Dollip now has an almost allergic reaction to the word pirate, and according to the clues of the so-called insider, the only pirates who are most likely to attack the Hope are Doport's gang.

However, Lin Haijiang's following words made Dolip's hope lost, because Lin Haijiang told him very helplessly that the fog filled the sea when he was attacked, and there was chaos on the ship after being attacked, and there was a slight grounding on the way to retreat.

Dollip despised the Dartmouth Naval School fiercely in his heart, he was very glad that he met a non-hypocritical guy today, otherwise if he really ran into those commanders who wanted to save face, he would not have been misled to go around at sea for a month?

After leaving the opposing ship, Dolip glanced at the behemoth, he knew that if there were no accidents, his extravagant hope of commanding a battleship would probably always be a dream, and in the battleships of the British Royal Navy, it was not your ability that mattered, but your origin!

Quietly sighing, Dolip beckoned his subordinates to go to the bar in Dorin Harbor to inquire about the news, and it turned out that the more dragons and snakes there were, the more valuable the news.

Lin Haijiang, who was idle, accidentally noticed the rifles seized from the pirates, and he was so bored that he ordered someone to pry open the box and take a few for himself to play with.

But to be honest, Lin Haijiang is very loveless for the breech rifle of this era, but when the rifle was sent to the captain's room, Lin Haijiang was completely shocked! With Lin Haijiang's knowledge of ordnance, he could not accurately judge the model of the weapon in his hand.

Lin Haijiang clearly remembers that in 1852, Hores . Smith (Horacesmith) and Daniel. Daniel Wesson founded Smith & Wesson, and two years later the company bought the patent for a new repeater from Jennings, began producing bead rifles and pistols, and improved the rocketball with a fire cap at the bottom of the bullet, the world's first rifle to fire a full caseless round.

Historically, in 1855, due to poor economic conditions, the company brought in a number of new investors, the most important of which was Oliver. Oliver (oliverwww.xstxt.orgspany), in 1860 it was renamed the Newport Arms Company, which was the predecessor of the famous Winchester Company. The founders, Smith and Wesson, soon left to form a new Smith & Wesson company, which is known today as SW, the Smith & Wesson Arms Manufacturing Company.

And in fact this connecting rifle in 1850, Mold. Henry had already started manufacturing it in Spain, but it didn't have to be as cumbersome to reload as the early Winchester rifles, using a pre-loaded 10-round 'cartridge stick' that was loaded from the butt at a time, rather than a one-shot compression.

Since the metal shells used by Winchester were edge-firing shells, 44 caliber with an overall length of 34 mm, the cartridge case was 22.2 mm long, with a warhead of 13 grams and a propellant of 1.8 grams. A normal trained shooter can effectively hit a single target at a distance of only 200 yards, and it has low power and low penetration.

However, although the Henry Link rifle was excellent, its unit price of 57 pounds per unit, plus a 5 pound holster, and a price of 10 pounds per thousand rounds of ammunition, it can be said that even the wealthy British Empire could not afford it.

Moreover, the countries of Europe were now busy expanding overseas, and in the hands of well-trained soldiers and mercenaries, it was clear that well-made rifled breech guns were sufficient to deal with the backward African natives.

However, Lin Haijiang also understands very well that advanced weapons do not mean everything, and there must be personnel of corresponding quality to use them; during the 'Qing Dynasty' Korean War, the Hunan army's individual weapons and artillery were stronger than those of the Yue army, but it was still a thousand miles away, and Lin Haijiang also knew very well that the four words "people-oriented" were very easy to say, but there were many obstacles to really implement them.

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