Yu Xier asked, "How do you know that the Spanish Navy will go to Hele Island?" ”

Liu Daming also asked: "Yes, Lao Lin, how do you know?" Have you learned to tell fortunes? ”

This matter is history for Lin Fei, of course Lin Fei knows, this is also Lin Fei's advantage as a traverser - he is familiar with historical events, can find favorable opportunities in historical events, and do what is most beneficial to himself.

Lin Fei didn't tell the truth, but said: "I heard about these things from the Bazahai Sultan, let me tell you what's going on." ”

Lin Fei cleared his throat and said: "The place where Hele Island is located is the Sulu Islands, there is a Sulu Sultanate on the Sulu Islands, this Sulu Sultanate is a Muslim country, similar to the tribes of the Bazahai Sultan, but the development of this Sulu Sultanate is much faster than that of the Bazahai Sultan. ”

"The Sultanate of Sulu flourished in the fifteenth century, but was invaded by the Spaniards and gradually declined, and in the early nineteenth century, the Sultan of Sulu lost the will to resist and agreed to sign a treaty with Spain and became a country under Spanish protection."

"From then on, the Spaniards intervened in the abolition of the Sultan, and fourteen years ago, when the old Sultan of the Sultanate of Sulu died, the Spaniards supported the Governor of Harun, who was close to Spain, as the new Sultan, and it was the Sultan of Yagurur who was supposed to succeed the Sultan, but of course he did not agree, so the two sides began a fierce battle, and the battle has been fought until now."

"Because Governor Harun is unpopular, so there are many people who oppose him in the country, at this time on Hele Island, the Sultan of Yagurul is leading the troops to besiege the Governor of Harun, and the Spaniards will naturally not sit idly by, so they decided to send troops to attack the Sultan of Yagurul, which is just our opportunity."

Yu Xier shook his head and said: "Those Muslim warriors are poorly equipped, the Spaniards will not send their main warships at all, and we will not be able to hit their main warships if we go." ”

Lin Fei shook his head and smiled: "When we were in Mindanao, we fought with the flying arrow warships of Muslim warriors, and the Sulu Sultanate also has such warships, and there are many Chinese skilled craftsmen in the Sulu Sultanate, who are good at shipbuilding, and their ships are better than the ships of the Bazahay tribe, and they often use this kind of small boat to attack the Spanish transport ships, so the Spaniards dare not send warships to protect them." ”

Liu Daming and Yu Xier suddenly realized and nodded again and again.

Lin Fei continued: "We take this opportunity to fish in troubled waters Another great advantage, that is, if we defeat the capital ship of the Spaniards, they must think that the Sultanate of Sulu did it, so they will send more troops to attack the Sultanate of Sulu, and the probability of finding us is even lower." ”

Yu Xier shook his head lightly and said: "The Nuwa ship is already an old warship, I analyzed the navigation log on the ship and learned that this warship was commissioned in 1887, and the age of the ship is about the same as that of the Zhiyuan ship, and the Zhiyuan ship has a lot of problems in the battle with the Japanese, because of the aging of the hull equipment, and the Nuwa ship will definitely have problems in the battle, and the battle with the capital ship is an evenly matched contest, but it is not like fighting those plank ships, I am worried that the Nuwa ship is not an opponent." ”

Lin Fei said with a smile: "Lao Yu, you don't have to worry, the age of the Nuwa ship is as high as seven years, and the age of other Spanish warships is not short, if there is a problem, everyone will come out together, there is nothing to be afraid of, and we also have killer weapons." ”

Yu Xier was taken aback and said, "Isn't there a trinitrotoluene explosive and a stereo rangefinder?" And the killer weapon? ”

Lin Fei laughed and asked, "Lao Yu, do you remember what I told you about the major upgrade of naval weapons before I went to Mindanao?" Trinitrotoluene explosives and stereo rangefinders are only a small part of the weapons upgrades, I have other weapons upgrades planned, these weapons are being manufactured, and the entry into service is a matter of the past few days. ”

Liu Daming said suddenly: "I remember, before leaving, Ling Xue took the craftsmen of the Construction Bureau to take away a batch of armor-piercing shells on the Nuwa ship, did they take them to upgrade their weapons?" ”

Lin Fei nodded and smiled: "That's right, armor-piercing shells are indeed an important part of improvement, how to improve them, you will know in a few days." ”

The next day, Lin Fei sent out the news that "the Chinese Empire was established, and Lin Fei was officially proclaimed emperor", and this news was transmitted to the Surigao region of Samar Island, Leyte Island and Mindanao, and Lin Fei's assimilation education had another content, that is, to make Filipinos and Muslims identify as subjects of the Chinese Empire.

A grand founding ceremony was held in Yanhuang City, and the Chinese were excited about having their own country, and the assimilated Filipinos were also excited.

Lin Fei came to the Nuwa ship after participating in the founding ceremony, preparing to go on the expedition, at six o'clock the next morning, the whole ship sounded the whistle to get up, Lin Fei got up, and began to follow the crew out of the morning exercise, the amount of training in the morning exercise was not large, everyone just ran around the open space twice, just after running and preparing to have breakfast, a group of people came in the distance, this group of people also pushed a lot of small cars made of wood.

Lin Fei stepped forward, and saw that the person leading the team was Ling Xue, and the person pushing the cart behind him was a worker from the logistics department, Ling Xue smiled when she saw Lin Fei: "City Lord, our craftsmen have already modified the shells, please accept it." ”

Liu Daming also walked over at this time, smiled at Ling Xue, then walked to the side of the car, stretched out his hand to lift the tarpaulin on the car, glanced at the contents and exclaimed, "Eh! Why is there an extra hat-like thing in front of our armor-piercing shells? ”

Lin Fei walked over and said with a smile: "This is my modified armor-piercing bullet, the same thing as the front hat is the steel that is added, I call it 'quilt cap', and this kind of armor-piercing bullet I call 'quilt armor-piercing bullet'." ”

Liu Daming was stunned for a moment and asked, "Armor-piercing bullet by cap?" Is there anything special about this? ”

Lin Fei said with a smile: "The armor-piercing projectile penetrates the armor to cause damage to the enemy ship, and at the moment when the shell hits the armor, it will be subjected to a great impact force, which can shatter the shell in an instant, so that the shell cannot penetrate the armor, and now I have added a quilt cap in front of the armor-piercing shell, and the broken thing will become a quilt cap, and the projectile body will not be damaged, and it can continue to penetrate the target, so that the armor-piercing efficiency will be greatly improved." ”

Liu Daming had a burst of surprise in his eyes and gave a thumbs up, Lin Fei turned his head to Ling Xue and smiled, "Hurry up and transport the shells into the ammunition compartment." ”

Ling Xue then beckoned the soldiers of the logistics department to send the armor-piercing shells into the ammunition compartment, and the Nuwa ship also put a wide and long wooden plank on the ground, so that the people on the shore could use small carts to send the shells to the Nuwa ship.

Everyone was busy transporting the shells, Lin Fei turned his head and smiled at Liu Daming: "Old Liu, let's go up to the mast and have a look." ”

Liu Daming asked puzzledly: "What's beautiful on the mast?" ”

Lin Fei smiled slightly, did not answer, the two went up to the signal cabin of the mast, and Ma Chengfeng, the signalman on the Zhiyuan ship, was here, he saw Lin Fei and Liu Daming coming up and hurriedly got up and said, "Captain, Liu First Officer, why are you here?" ”

Lin Fei laughed and asked, "Is the place where the new equipment is installed ready to come out?" ”

Ma Chengfeng pointed to a piece of open space and said with a smile: "It's ready, it's there, and when the new equipment is delivered, install it there." ”

Lin Fei walked to the open space and looked at it, nodded with satisfaction, Liu Daming on the side was confused, and asked, "What new equipment?" ”

Lin Fei smiled and said, "Something that can make our shells hit more accurately." ”

Liu Daming still shook his head, and Lin Fei said a noun with a smile: "Fire control computer." ”

Liu Daming laughed dryly twice and said, "Forget it, I won't ask, I definitely won't understand!" With that, he walked down the mast.

The new shells that Ling Xue brought were not only modified, but also homemade, and the manufacture of these shells used almost all the industrial departments of Yanhuang City.

The shells were transported for a full morning, and after replenishment, each emplacement, carried 150 shells, including 60 high-explosive shells filled with trinitrotoluene explosives and 90 armor-piercing shells. The soldiers of the whole ship looked at the ammunition compartment full of cannonballs, and they all felt extremely down-to-earth, and the sailors on the Zhiyuan ship were thinking, just follow Lin Fei to do it, what is the shell of the Zhiyuan ship so sufficient?

In the afternoon, Chen Jingui, the minister of logistics, led Wang Zhengbin, a glass manufacturing expert, and Zhou Mu, a fitter expert, came to the ship, and the fitter was particularly good at using hand-held simple tools to manufacture exquisite small equipment, Zhou Mu was one of the leaders, he could manually process gears, worm gears and other parts with high precision.

Zhou Mu, a fitter technician, smiled at Lin Fei and said, "City Lord, we have already built the fire control computer you want!" Take a look. ”

Liu Daming and the others had never heard of the "computer" thing, and they all looked at it curiously, only to see Zhou Mu take out a large disc, the plate was full of squares, like a chessboard of Go, there were numbers on the side of the squares, and there were several long and short poles on the chessboard, and the poles were still connected to each other, and everyone exclaimed: "Is this thing a fire control computer?" It looks so weird! ”

Lin Feilang laughed loudly: "That's right, it is the fire control computer, which can calculate the target position at a certain time in the future according to the current position and speed state of the target ship, do you see the rod and scale?" They're just the things that are used to calculate. ”

Everyone looked at the disc in amazement, unable to say a word, the fire control computer designed by Lin Fei was actually the most primitive model of the fire control system of his time, born from the famous Demerrick calculator in the history of the fire control system, this kind of fire control computer can only be roughly calculated manually, after all, there is no suitable power supply now, and automatic calculation cannot be carried out.

Lin Fei installed fire control computers in the mast and various gun emplacements, and Wang Zhengbin brought a newly made telescope to use with the fire control computer.

Now that the Nuwa ship has a cap-piercing bullet and a fire control computer, its combat effectiveness has risen to a new level, and in the next day, Lin Fei conducted a test of new equipment on the high seas, and then led the Nuwa ship to Hele Island, hoping to relieve the threat of the Spanish Navy with this battle.

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