Tong! Tom! Beautiful fireworks bloom in the starry night sky, and the tranquil Nile River is set against the backdrop of colorful fireworks! At this moment, it seemed that all the people were obsessed, and they even stopped dancing, as the immediate interests of the British Empire, living in the clouds of luxury every day became their everything.

Rumble! Rumble! Rumble!

At the same time, on the sea about twenty nautical miles east of Maeston, a single-mast patrol express ship equivalent to a seventh-class cruiser belonging to the Mediterranean Fleet was destroyed, and the Metep, which was sailing slowly with half sails, was "reviewed" with artillery fire from the Zhenyuan, Dingyuan, Taishan, and Huashan, which sailed at full speed from its flanks!

The alarm bell had sounded on the patrol ship Metep, which was having dinner for all the crew, but it had become a death knell!

The mast, along with the entire upper bridge and deck gun emplacements, was completely erased and became a campfire floating on the sea.

It is difficult to imagine what it would be like for two ironclad ships in the standard sense of the word, together with two battleships of the third rank, to surprise a light patrol ship without the slightest preparation in the form of a battle line?

If I have to describe it, I can only say that it is a kind of destruction, a kind of complete destruction.

After the engagement, Lin Haijiang's nerves have been in extreme tension, the Taishan followed behind the Zhenyuan commanded by him, and the Huashan followed behind the Dingyuan commanded by Lawrence, and the two ships Zhenyuan and Dingyuan were about 300 meters apart and sailed towards each other.

It wasn't until a week later that Lin Haijiang's heart was completely relieved when he was taking the first break and replenishment at the port of Vicinnan Island in the Canary Islands, which belonged to Spain, and he had been worried that if he was bitten by the British fleet, it would be difficult for him to get out, and the ports along the way would never dare to take in a fleet wanted by the British.

Now it seems that he is too worried, in fact, Lin Haijiang does not know, their luck can be said to be very good, the Metrop patrol ship was only at sea for three days before they were sunk, according to the cruise route and date of the Metrop patrol ship, the replacement of this ship will not arrive in at least 20 days or so.

That is to say, it will take at least 20 days for the Mediterranean Fleet of the British Royal Navy to realize that they have lost a ship, and judging by the backward communication methods of this era, it is estimated that he has arrived in Southeast Asia, and the British may not be able to investigate the reason here.

From the turquoise Mediterranean Sea to the deep blue Atlantic, it can be said that the most exciting person in the entire fleet is Lin Haijiang, once upon a time he also had such a dream, he commanded a world-class fleet to roam between the blue sea and blue sky.

is in a good mood, everything is naturally good, and the spirit is also full, compared to those technicians who are very reluctant, and many even cry and wipe tears all day long, Lin Haijiang's performance is very heartless! Not only did he not comfort everyone, but he often ran to stimulate people, making many people want to cry without tears.

However, Lin Haijiang's lively life was a big disaster for the entire fleet, and he and Lawrence joined hands and began to torture these poor sailors, and more than fifty guys who were deliberately trained to become officers suffered a lot.

For this batch of officers who were promoted, Lin Haijiang distributed them in the proportion of 50% of whites, 40% of Chinese, and 10% of black slaves.

Because they were pirates before, and they dressed up a rabble of pirates like the Royal Navy? Lin Haijiang would definitely not make such a high-profile and low-level mistake.

But only if the fleet leaves the Mediterranean, this uniform can play the role of a kind of camouflage protection of the line of sight! A beautiful and straight uniform will undoubtedly increase the sense of honor of the soldiers, so that the vast majority of people can easily have a sense of belonging.

The uniform issued was designed by Lin Haijiang himself and commissioned Miss Jenny to order the ready-to-wear, whether it was a sailor's or gunner's cylinder hat or an officer's beret, it was all dark blue, a simple tweed suit with a stand-up collar lined with a white crewneck shirt, straight breeches with calfskin boots, and a large wide cowhide belt with oblique shoulders through the epaulettes on the shoulders.

All the clothing is divided into large, medium and small three number segments, each number segment is divided into three different sizes of A\B\C, Lin Haijiang with the help of the later generations of military uniforms of the law of customization, so that almost everyone can find more suitable clothes for themselves.

The rank symbols representing the professional arms are custom-made, and the epaulettes of the most common engineers are two crossed wrenches made of bronze.

The epaulette of a sailor of the second class was a bronze anchor marker, the epaulette of a sailor of the first class was a bronze sail and anchor, the epaulette of a boatswain was a silver sail and anchor, the gunner's was a cannon under the anchor, and the Marines were two rifles with a bayonet cross under the anchor.

The difference is that the professional epaulettes of the gun commander and the marine sergeant are distinguished by a silver texture.

All the officers used silver pentagram and anchor, Lawrence was very surprised by Lin Haijiang's design, he liked the style of the costume very much, especially the dark blue berets, the only drawback was that the number of the calfskin boots issued seemed to be a little small?

No matter how Lin Haijiang persuaded him to say that we would find a place to make a new pair when we were supplied next time, Lawrence insisted on not listening, and would rather endure the pain every day and walk around the ship in small shoes, and finally his feet were ground up several times, so he had to stay in the cabin to raise them.

Lin Haijiang also abolished the hating and kneeling salutes that the Chinese always liked to use unconsciously, changed the title of all subordinates to chief, and the rest of the officers were addressed according to their positions, and selected a few capable young men from the Chinese to be their adjutants and guards.

Lin Haijiang's little life is very moist, and he still has a little apology for letting Miss Jenny's pigeon Lin Haijiang feel, because until now, he is worried about Miss Jenny's father, James. It was still a speculation that General William would kill his own group, but for the sake of this frenetizing speculation, they had already sunk a patrol ship of the Mediterranean Fleet.

Obviously, there is no turning back arrow from the bow, and no matter whether the original judgment is right or wrong, Lin Haijiang must go down this road with his miscellaneous army of the United States.

The long journey home and the homesickness of the wanderer are incomprehensible to ordinary people, and it is far from enough to describe Lin Haijiang's mood at this moment with his heart like an arrow, the reason is very simple, because Lin Haijiang can't go according to his planned voyage at all.

Although the Padino boiler steam engine installed on the Zhenyuan and Dingyuan second ships is already the best that Lin Haijiang knows, as a new product, it still often has small problems of one kind and another, and every time the technicians make every effort to solve them, they must record these small problems and put forward improvement measures.

Of course, all this cannot be done on a ship, in Lin Haijiang's opinion, inventors are important, but in his eyes, these technicians and mechanics who constantly transform and improve the functions of new inventions are also more important.

Because the two sail battleships needed to wait for the monsoon at the Cape of Good Hope, Lin Haijiang's originally planned voyage of three or four months was increased to five months! During the voyage, the first speed of the two ironclad ships for which he had great hopes could only be maintained for about three hours.

Referring to the data of the new internal combustion engine in the mid-to-late nineteenth century, Lin Haijiang still had a headache, how to maintain his technological superiority in the era of the world's naval development from 1855 to 1865? Lin Haijiang still doesn't have a definite idea.

In this era, China was truly poor and white, and the corrupt Manchu officials vigorously rejected all new things out of the protection of their inherent interests.

However, Lin Haijiang is also stained with the light of backwardness in science and technology, if it were not for the serious lag in information, his adventure is likely to fall short and evolve into an outlaw.

The invention of the practical electromagnetic telegraph in Lin Haijiang's memory is mainly due to the British scientists Cook and Wheatstone and the American scientist Morse.

In 1836, Cook made an electromagnetic telegraph and applied for the first telegraph patent the following year. Wheatstone was Cook's collaborator, Morse was originally a first-class painter in the United States, out of interest, he developed a prototype of the electromagnetic telegraph in 1835, and later invented the 'Morse code' composed of dots and strokes in 1838 according to the two signals of electric current, electric spark and no electric spark when it is broken. Morse was not the creator of the telegraph principle, but he was the first to put it into practice.

But by 1853, the so-called cable telegraph network in Europe was not as widespread as later declarations, and most of the British aristocracy still strongly disapproved of the so-called ' Like the military, they do not want the content of their letters to be known by others, and in bad weather such as rain and thunderstorms, a large number of electrostatic ions floating in the air will interfere with the lack of sealed and isolated lines, and the telegram is prone to missing codes in reception, so that it cannot accurately convey the full meaning, and more ordinary people cannot afford to use this almost expensive way to convey their little news of the value itself.

Inadvertently, Lin Haijiang remembered the names of a group of scientists or inventors he had prescribed to Miller that he thought had great potential in this era, but they were very unsatisfactory, and he didn't know how many talents Miller could get for himself? For Millerin, Haijiang can only hope for the greatest and plan for the worst.

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