In the sixth lunar month of the 34th year of Chengtian, the wind was beautiful, and two large ocean-going merchant ships under the banner of the British sailed ten nautical miles from the port of Key West, and their sails were damaged and needed to be repaired slightly. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The Spanish warships outside the harbor boarded and did a rough inspection, and then the two large British ocean-going merchant ships were slightly replenished with some water, wine, and fruit in the port of Key West, and they could stay on the sea ten nautical miles outside the harbor in the open.

The Spaniards did not doubt the ownership of the two British merchant ships at all, and the Englishmen on deck, with their skillful English accents, made them easily believe in the identity of the merchant ships. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the last thing the Spaniards can afford to offend at the moment.

In the war against France on European soil, the Spaniards relied on the British for their material and military expenses.

After Arthur Welles' army of 10,000 troops landed in Portugal, the British successively mobilized 20,000 lobster soldiers to land in Portugal under the leadership of John Moore, and Napoleon was under great pressure. He was going to recruit two more batches of 80,000 recruits each. Then put 200,000 battle-tested old

Troops were drawn from Germany and Italy to reinforce Spain, while new recruits were used to supplement the German and Italian military camps.

The pain of the Spanish war, Napoleon had just experienced.

But Napoleon's suffering did not stop the two British merchant ships from doing anything. These crew members who 'work' on board are really 'working'. The salary is quite high, not to mention the ordinary crew, even Chen Han's domestic stage celebrities, the performance is not as much as their salary.

Leopoldo Calvo-Sotello stood at the bow, eagle-sharp eyes watching every move on deck. As a Cleolo, Leopoldo Calvo-Sotello, a descendant of Spanish, had a deep hatred for the Spanish colonial government that could not be washed away even if he had exhausted all the rivers and lakes.

He was once a hero of Spain, for whom he shed blood and sweat, but Spain made him shed blood and tears.

During the last war between the West and Central America, a group of 'defeated soldiers' who had escaped from Mexico City ransacked the Sotlo family's estate, killing all his relatives.

Moreover, the Sotello family's manor is more than 200 miles away from Mexico City, and the defeated soldiers fled so quickly, and Calvo-Sotro's servants rode back to report the news, but they were not as fast as the two legs of the 'defeated soldiers'. It was an obvious loophole, but the local colonial government, police and garrison turned a blind eye and came to a very rash conclusion about the case.

Calvo Sotlo should be glad that his servant was a truly loyal servant, otherwise Calvo Sotlo would not have known the news of his family death immediately, and if he was really lucky enough to survive until after the war, some of the truth might have been drowned out by time.

His servants knew that Mexico City had fallen, and that their masters had either been killed or captured, and that there was a high probability of death. But the man resolutely returned to Mexico City, and then luckily found Calvo Sotlo, who had just woken up from a coma. The sudden bad news nearly destroyed Calvo Sotello's mind, leaving him dead in his hospital bed. But the desire for revenge kept Calvo Sotello going. He then became a trump card for Chen Han's activities in the Spanish colonies.

Now this special operation against the Port of Key West, Calvo Sotlo is one of the two deputy commanders-in-chief. He was deeply trusted by Chen Han to control the 'self-defense ability' of a merchant ship on the surface. And in control of the 'self-defense capability' on another merchant ship was Jerome, the former French lieutenant naval officer recruited by the European fleet led by Zhu Wu.

The Spaniards would suspect a Frenchman on a British merchant ship, but they would never suspect a French nobleman on a British merchant ship. It has been twenty years since the Revolution, and there are not too many down-and-out French aristocrats like Jerome.

Dusk came, the sea was full, shining under the setting sun, the waves jumped like naughty children, and the water was full of golden light.

Not far away, in the port of Key West, a few white sails, like a few snow-white feathers, drifted and drifted on the golden sea of the water and sky.

Ye Tingyang got out of the cabin of Aircraft Carrier No. 1 and waved his hand, "Get started!" ”

The foreigners, who had been busy on the deck before, began to work in real fashion, and the upper deck of the left side of the ship was lifted up piece by piece, and it turned out that this place could be moved. The hooks of the ship's heavy crane were lowered from the 'opening' on the deck.

It's easy to say, but it's time-consuming to do. When a three-foot-long, four-foot-high cylinder was lifted out of the cabin by a crane and lowered into the water from the middle of the left side of the ship, the time had already reached seven o'clock.

The setting sun had completely disappeared over the sea level, and the sky was still gray.

A strange cylinder the size of a shark floated near Carrier One, and when the bright moon rose and the cold moonlight shone on the sea, a second cylinder of the same size fell to the sea, followed by a third and a fourth......

Jerome stood excitedly on top of one of the cylinders, a submarine full of the efforts of the Chen Han Ship Research Institute. It's much more advanced than David Bushnell of Yale University, the lighthouse.

These submarines are also artificially used as the forward power, the speed is relatively slow, the underwater speed is less than two knots per hour, but the surface speed can reach three knots to five knots per hour, artificial power, to consider the current and wind direction. But the most important thing about submarines is diving, they can sink ten meters and can dive for an hour and a half to two hours. If the snorkel is activated, which is based on the snorkel on the Lighthouse Nation Turtle, a movable valve is used to prevent seawater from entering during the dive. This device, called a snorkel, allows the submarine to get oxygen underwater.

At the same time, the submarine is also equipped with a periscope, but this thing is not the same as a snorkel, and it is possible to leak when the periscope is raised under water.

Submarines have absorbed some of the good designs of the Lighthouse Nation, or in this day and age, some designs can only be left like this.

The entire submarine team consisted of eight people, seven of whom were responsible for turning the hand-cranked crankshaft to drive the propellers to move the boat forward, while eight were responsible for maneuvering the submarine's steering and floating. In addition, the submarine designed by Chen Han also has a real pressurized water tank, located at the bow and stern ends, which can open the valve to let the water flow in from the outside to let the submarine sink, or use a hand-cranked pump to pump the water in the cabin to make the submarine float. In addition to this, the submarine has additional iron ballast, which is screwed to the bottom of the hull, and when necessary, the crew can release the ballast from the cabin by loosening the exposed bilge nuts to obtain additional buoyancy for emergency afloat.

And the armament of the submarine was neither a guide rod explosive pack, nor a torpedo. There are two types of weapons used by submarines, one is a timed explosive barrel that is secretly infiltrated, and the other is a heavy rocket that is carried out with an open flame. It's just that because of the load, the ammunition load of this submarine is very limited.

Four and two 'aircraft carriers' were laid on one large ship, which is a full eight submarines.

Jerome applied to follow, and Ye Tingyang agreed to his look. As a former major officer in the French Navy, Jerome has been away from the sea for several years. After returning from Europe to Asia, he initially worked in Hydebara and later joined the navy of Siam, but within a few days he was sent to India and then to the Americas. It was this operation that brought him back to sea.

It was only after Jerome came to the 'aircraft carrier' fleet that he really saw submarines.

Chen Ming likes to pour some strange weapons, from airships in the sky to submarines in the sea, and steam warships, Chen Ming has all been poured upside down. For example, this submarine is a large toy, and it has no actual combat value at all.

For example, right now, if the two 'aircraft carriers' don't send them to the port of Key West first, with the speed of these submarines, they can reach the Port of Key West from the Florida Peninsula in the year of the monkey.

Even if the Lighthouse State first created the Turtle, they also used submarines in actual combat for the first time in history in the South American War, and the Southern Army blew up and sank a warship of the Northern Army. But to wait until the submarine really wields, it is still necessary to wait until the start of the First World War. It wasn't until World War II that it was truly glorious.

Chen Ming upgraded the submarine to 'standardization' a hundred years in advance, and its purpose was nothing more than to quietly infiltrate the enemy's harbor so that it could carry out close killing. The powder keg was in charge of the frogman on the submarine, and the rockets were placed directly on the top of the submarine, in a square, connected from end to end, exactly four.

Although the bomb load is pitiful, the eight submarines are enough to completely destroy the port of Key West.

Just as the aircraft carrier was being dispatched from the Gulf of Mexico, the Chen Han American Fleet and a regiment of marines on the Florida Peninsula had already set off for the Mizhou port [Miami]. Four hundred miles, that is, a hundred nautical miles, according to the speed of the fleet, should have reached a short distance from Key Vista Island by now.

Tomorrow morning, no matter how effective the sneak attack can be tonight, they will launch the heaviest bombardment of Key West.

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In the city of Nanjing, Chen Ming looked at the protest letter on the ground of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and smiled.

Protests from the Lighthouse Nation? The lighthouse country has Mao to protest? The spearhead of Chen Han's army pointed to the south to the big plate duck, and did not point to the lighthouse country to the west? And the current protest in the lighthouse country, is it a protest?

A small and weak country, the protest is not a fart. This is not the time for 'humanity,' and there is no United Nations for them to beep around.

"Your Majesty, the war on the European continent, and the continuous immigration of a large number of Westerners to the lighthouse country over the years, have caused the latter's population to continue to increase dramatically, and now it is six million." Gao Yanming saw that Chen Ming was unimpressed, so he said.

The lighthouse country with a population of 6 million can mobilize at least 200,000 troops, and if it is at odds with China and has a relationship with the Spaniards, it will also make Chen Han passive.

The Portuguese have all 'turned enemies into friends' with the Spaniards because of Chen Han's southward movement, and the people of the Lighthouse Country are not stupid, and of course they can also feel the great threat that Chen Han has. They are showing their value, and they are probably testing something.

Now, the lighthouse nations are protesting against Chen's blockade of the Caribbean, saying that it has affected their normal commerce. Chen Han's North American fleet not only inspected American merchant ships, but also detained more than one American merchant ship.

Although the American merchant ships were carrying military supplies, many of them were even outright munitions.

Gao Yanming didn't know that a familiar feeling had already emerged in Chen Ming's heart at this time, and the more it surrounded him, the more Chen Ming wanted to laugh. The fact that the lighthouse country is an excuse makes him feel like a rush to the second war between the United States and Britain.