Chapter 729 (2/2)

Moreover, Cuba island can not only produce huge tobacco profits, but also Cuba cedar is a better shipbuilding material than European oak. In 1735, the Spanish government built the Royal astrillo shipyard in Havana. Of the 227 windsurfing battleships built in Spain in the 18th century, about one third of the battleships were launched from the berth of the shipyard

Moreover, Havana is also the base of the Spanish privateer fleet and the famous coast guard, guarding the throat of the entire Caribbean region.

Later, in the seven-year war, the British occupied the island of Cuba. But after the end of the seven-year war, for the sake of the island of Cuba, the Spaniards spared no expense on the whole of Florida and used Florida to exchange the island of Cuba from the British

The importance of Cuba, or Havana, to the kingdom of Spain can be seen.

Now that the Empire wanted to capture the Caribbean, Havana was the first to be defeated.

Whether it's the Spanish upwind fleet, the privateer fleet or the coast guard, if you kill these warships, Spain will become a toothless tiger.

Of course, for the imperial fleet, the main opponent is the long-term headwind fleet stationed in Havana Bay.

This fleet has a heavyweight first class windsurfing battleship, four second class battleships, 22 first class battleships and three class battleships. With cruisers and other auxiliary ships, this upwind fleet has a total of 74 battleships.

Compared with such a large number of warships in the headwind fleet, the Dahua imperial fleet with only seven warships is hardly on the table.

But the naval battle off the northern coast of Havana surprised all the Spaniards who paid attention to it.

The upwind fleet is definitely the trump fleet of the Royal Navy of the whole kingdom of Spain. If you include the privateers and the warships of the coast guard, the number of Spanish warships participating in this naval battle is more than 120.

However, these 120 windsurfing warships were still beaten to pieces in the face of only seven naval fleets of the Great China empire.

What is the gap between windsurfing warships and steel warships? Just look at the gap between the naval guns on the windsurfing battleships and the 122mm dual main guns on the Cherokee class of the Chinese Empire.

”The truth only exists in the range of naval gun”, Shi Xiong forgot who said it, but there is no doubt that this sentence really embodies its meaning incisively and vividly in this era.

The effective range of Cherokee class's 122mm dual main gun is as high as 12km, and the maximum speed is 15 knots. The number of warships in the Spanish Royal Fleet is large, but it's useless!

A hundred ants can never beat an ant eater

Well, that's what it means. If the fleet of the Royal Spanish Navy is compared to ants, then the fleet of the great Chinese empire is an ant eate