Chapter 978 Panama Canal

Then the shores of Lake Nicaragua, and finally Panama. This has been brought to the fore by Zhang Fan's team building. Panama is very important, because Acon and the book demon have an ambitious plan to build the Panama Canal in advance! In this way, China's ocean-going fleet can go straight from the Pacific Ocean into the Caribbean Sea! Fight for the dominance of the Americas with European powers!

This plan did not have before. When Aken saw the giant sea turtle, he came up with this idea. The scene will not randomly arrange such a powerful turtle, but just make himself use him as a cheap cross-ocean vehicle. Through communication with the giant turtle, Aken found that it might not be as difficult as he thought to build a canal with the help of this giant turtle. At least a lot of valuable labor can be saved.

Therefore, there are some water conservancy officials in the Daming Marine Division this time. You should know that no nation in the world knows how to use water conservancy projects to serve themselves better than China. And Aken has long asked Captain Stoke to network a group of water conservancy researchers all over Europe, some of whom are still aristocrats obsessed with geology and technology.

In fact, as early as 1534, King Carlos I of Spain ordered an inspection of the Isthmus of Panama, and the Spaniards paved a cobblestone along the ridge to prepare for the canal. Due to technical limitations, the Panama Canal that Aken and the book demon are going to build this time is different from the original canal. Later generations of canals are gradually raised sluice canals. The technology is very complicated. It is necessary to build a dam to store water first, and then build a step-by-step sluice gate.

The reason for this is that the sea level of the Caribbean Sea and the sea level of the Pacific Ocean are not on the same level, with a drop of nearly 50 centimeters! This is caused by the east-west rotation of the earth, as well as the salt concentration of seawater and monsoon tides. In this way, it is impossible to build a Haiping canal. However, with the current technical means, it is impossible to build a sluice canal.

However, the appearance of this giant turtle has solved this problem. The giant turtle with super soil ability has the ability to change the seabed geological environment. By fine-tuning the changes in the seabed geological environment, it can change the sea water concentration on both sides, thus leveling the sea level on both sides of the Isthmus.

Similarly, giant turtles can also change the geology of the Isthmus of Panama, making it relatively easy to build this canal. Even in the current situation of insufficient manpower, this is no longer difficult. But Zhang Fan's team paid a small price! The giant turtle asked for a large number of water-based and earth-based demon internal elixirs, and the old guy actually robbed here.

At the call of the book demon, all the indigenous people in this area were recruited. Even many Inca and Maya came from afar to respond to the call of Death to build this sacred river.

Daming sailors consolidated the city defense here and built large forts in the towns on the Caribbean side to consolidate coastal defense! Daming's newly built 'Zhenhai' and 'crop' cannons are not vegetarian! At this time, Panama was officially separated from the control of the Spanish colonists and incorporated into the territory of the Ming Dynasty!

In order to protect the safety of this area, the Daming navy, under the leadership of Zhang Fan, decided to bypass South America and go to the other end of the Panamanian isthmus to attack the Spanish fleet that dared to invade because they knew that their colony had been captured. Along the way, he first occupied the Inca Empire colonized by the Spaniards!

The famous legend in history, Francisco Pizarro, the governor of the Spanish colonists, the occupier of the Inca Empire, did not have many armed forces. Because tens of thousands of Inca troops here have long been conquered by him. But after the arrival of Daming sailors, the feeling of being invaded came like a nightmare.

Under the iron-blooded order of Acon, the Daming sailors mercilessly killed all the Spanish colonists here, leaving 3,000 Chinese here to enjoy the colonial achievements laid by the Spanish. The gold in the Inca temple was looted by Acan!

The Ming sailors continued to sail to the Strait of Magellan, and Acon and the book demon knew that there should be a Spanish fleet guarding there to intercept ships trying to pass through this route from Europe. It was they intercepted by the British looting captain Drake that discovered the Drake Strait between South America and Antarctica.

These Spaniards want to turn the Pacific Ocean into Spain's inland sea. However, the Spaniards never dreamed that a powerful fleet came from the other side of the ocean, and now it is like a tiger...

This battle will be the first naval battle between the Daming Marine Division and the Spanish fleet! Although with the current strength of Daming sailors, victory is inevitable. But Aken's request is to be completely annihilated! Not a boat can let them run back. He doesn't want this fleet to be exposed yet. Because Daming sailors have more important tasks.

If the Ming navy fights against the Spanish Royal Fleet as a result, it is obviously not in line with the strategic interests of Aken and Zhang Fan. Isn't this cheaper for the British and let them benefit from the fishermen?! To be honest, even if you want to have a big fight with the Spaniards, Zhang Fan's team will drag England into the water!

Therefore, in fact, there is another important task for the Daming sailor's voyage to the Americas this time, which is to establish direct contact with England through Zhang Fan's position in England. This is the plan of Aken and the book demon, and he also wrote a letter with Hu Zongxian to ask Emperor Jiajing to make an envoy to England on behalf of the Ming Dynasty to appease Queen Elizabeth I of England.

After all, America is now the object of competition for the whole Europe. Although China has become very powerful with the improvement of the technology of book demons and its own national strength. But to compete with European powers tens of thousands of miles away, we must unite some allies. England, which has been suppressed by Spain and the Holy Roman Empire for a long time, is the best object of alliance.

Two scouting gunboats left the fleet to spy on the situation of the Spanish fleet. Aken and Zhang Fan also took Muyuan to explore at high altitude. However, the southern tip of South America belongs to the weeze belt, which brings rain, fog and storms all year round. It is a famous storm strait. Scouting missions are not easy. After half a month of exploration, the Spanish fleet was finally deployed here. And let the subdued indigenous people pretend to be local Incas go deep into their colonies and learn about the Spanish colony.

Zhang Fan Aken and the book demon and Qi Jiguang Yu Dayu discussed the detailed strategy to deal with these Spaniards overnight. The three treasure ships took the main force of the fleet and circled the Drake Strait from Drake's discovery a few years later to the Atlantic Ocean and blocked the eastern end of the Strait of Magellan. Then another main gunship unit went deep into the strait from the front and attacked the Spanish fleet. In addition, under the cover of this gunboat fleet, the Daming Marine Division sent 2,000 troops to take transport ships to land in the Spanish colonies and kill them all!