"I'm this monkey!"

King Philip said viciously at the Lisbon Palace that the arrival of the general officer Fu Yuan of the Ming Dynasty brought him an unprecedented experience.

"They divided the fleet into two brigades, each of which was led by three Chihai-class warships, one brigade patrolling twenty ligas at sea, one brigade patrolling the offshore, and one brigade resting in the port, completely blocking the offshore forty ligas."

The Portuguese nobles in Philip's court restored Fu Yuan's fleet defense and finally concluded that if this fleet came to attack Portugal, once the Marquis of Santa Cruz led the Naples fleet to leave, the local warships could not defend at all.

The bald king frowned and narrowed his eyes, with a strong unwilling look on his face. This feeling was very bad. He obviously did not want to provide supplies to the Ming army, but he still had to make such a decision. He said: "Prepare supplies for them as soon as possible and let them leave before Antonio comes back."

Like sending a plague god.

In Philip's eyes, Fu Yuan was indeed no different from the plague god. The only difference was that his naval commander also learned the offshore defense of the Ming army from Fu Yuan's arrangement. This offshore defense system originated from the patrol equipment of the Qianhu Institute of Xiangshan when defending the entire Guangdong coast in the early years. Later, he entered the Guangzhou Prefecture Martial Arts Hall textbook, which became a common case in Fujian and Guangxi provinces.

When the Eryang Military Prefecture in the North and South was established, such a naval formation would be taken to all parts of the world. Especially under the veteran Fu Yuan, a veteran of Qianhusuo in Xiangshan, he would definitely form such a formation of the fleet, ensuring that the fleets at sea could not only disperse their width, but also maintain contact between the teams to the greatest extent.

Spanish Navy Commander Marquis Bazin felt nervous since the landing of the Ming fleet, but his nervous starting point was different from King Philip's concerns. He did not think that Fu Yuan was in Lisbon to compete with the Spaniards for control of Portugal.

At least the Ming army and the squadron have been staying in the port, which means they have no intention of attacking.

No one would put the offensive power in the port. Bazan's explanation to the king in the report was nothing more than that the Ming army was used to being domineering and had to take the initiative wherever they went.

Despite this, Philip transferred the Naples fleet, which was cruising around the sea, to Lisbon, and even in order to maintain local advantages, he transferred the six warships stationed in Gibraltar. Even so, he could only get enough thirty-four warships and divide them into two teams to follow the Ming army squadron to watch and cruise on the sea.

The Spanish Navy needs to be under the jurisdiction of too wide a sea surface. Even in the most urgent situations, two fleets still need to be arranged in the Mediterranean. Each port also needs a garrison squadron, so that the number of warships that can be assembled is not large and the quality is uneven.

The Fu Yuan fleet brought great pressure to Spain, just as the Ming army's uniform uniforms and military equipment brought pressure to the New Spanish army, the Ming army had very few types of warships, but you only need to look from a distance and you can see that their warships are all standard... In Europe, no country can do this, even Spain cannot.

Among the thirty-four warships assembled by the Marquis of Santa Cruz were large gallopy warships coming from the Mediterranean Sea, and the Portuguese Calavere ships. There were only seven Galen ships built by the country, including four of them small Galen ships.

This setback made Bazin not only serve as the soundtrack for "killing the chicken to warn the monkey" when meeting Philip, but also made more demands to Philip: "Your Highness, our naval shipbuilding industry urgently needs reform, including the shipbuilding industries of Spain, Sicily, Portugal, Jerusalem and Naples, which should be unified in specifications, just like the Ming Dynasty."

Such a proposal made Philip frown: "Unified specifications, forest materials are different in different quantities. Some places can build large ships, some places can build small boats, some places are close to workshops for making artillery, and some places have many villages that can make muskets. Why do we need to unify specifications?"

"Your Highness already knows the Ming army fleet. They only have two types of ships, warships and merchant ships; there are only three types of warships, four hundred materials, one thousand materials, and one thousand five hundred materials. Their materials are units of shipbuilding wood; this makes their ships the same, warships of the same specifications have the same troop setting and the same artillery device. Even if they change an officer before the war, they only need to know how many ships they have, how many soldiers there are on the ship, and how much ammunition and water and food should be equipped."

"We are different. Different ships have different soldiers and weapons. The same ships have to use different sizes. Just like the Galen ship, we used the configuration of one sailor every five tons and one army soldier every four tons. This year we used the configuration of one sailor every six tons and one army soldier every four tons, which puts a lot of calculation pressure on the officers."

Bazin, the Marquis of Santa Cruz, said, and signaled Philip to take paper and pen from the table to make a simple calculation, list the table for the king, and compared it: "In the fleet assembled in Lisbon, our Garen ship weighs 3,186, and there should be 1,182 sailors and soldiers, and the quarantine officers also prepare materials according to this number, but there are always passengers on the ship, and the supplies are always insufficient. This is extremely dangerous during the long voyage."

"Maybe Your Highness thinks such calculations are not difficult, but we also have Clark ships, galley warships, Calavere sailing ships and a considerable number of armed merchant ships, which do not apply to such calculations."

"If each of our shipyards built ships of different tonnages with the same specifications, used warships and clutches to distinguish ships, set three or more standards for Galen ships, stipulate the number of soldiers, equipment artillery and various weapons on ships of different specifications, and strictly implement this standard, we will have more advantages in long-distance voyage and naval warfare."

Philip quietly listened to the naval commander's understanding of the shipbuilding industry in Daming, frowned and thought about the pros and cons, but did not agree directly, but asked, "What's next?"

The Marquis of Santa Cruz looked at Philip for a moment, stood at the top of his head, nodded, "In the next three years, warships of various specifications will be built by Spain to join the fleet. In addition to the Galen ship and Philip ship, we will also have a fast communication ship that can arrive in the New World within 28 days, further strengthening the contact between His Highness and the Indian Affairs Commission, and striving to obtain the opportunity to divide the Atlantic Ocean with the Ming army."

"The Atlantic Ocean without much interest." Philip's expectation gradually faded, and he waved his hand: "What about England, the Netherlands, and the Ottomans? I will need ten or twenty years to build a new navy?"

"No!"
Chapter completed!