"Close to the bunker! The sun never sets, the artillery fire of the empire is coming! At the shouts of the griffin centurion, the griffin archers who had been staying on the city wall with a short bow immediately turned around, and then ran down the city wall at the fastest speed in their lives and ran to the bottom of the city wall, and at this time, the Xiyi Anzhai boat, which was advancing in two rows outside the coast, also entered the designated firing area.

Compared with the regular warships on which the sun never sets, the body of this kind of warship in Xiyi is generally larger, which makes the movement speed of the Xiyi warship very limited, but this also leads to the load of the Xiyi warship in the same type of warship, except for the thousand fire ship, the load capacity of any other type of ship is at least 2 times more, so don't look at the hull of the upper part of the Antaku ship's turf is as high as the hull of the Sunset Galie battleship, and only 20% is used to place artillery, However, the number of guns on one side of the Galie is currently only 14 at most, but the number of guns on the Ataka ship is generally more than 18, and importantly, there is a heavy siege gun installed above the hull of the Ataka ship that replaces the Sunset Giant Crossbow.

The aftershocks caused by the launch of the "Boom Boom Boom ......." cannon caused a large number of water ripples to appear around the battleship, but the Ataka ship carrying the cannon did not show the slightest sign of shaking if it was a reef near the sea, and the Demon Flame Castle that was hit by the Ataka ships was not so lucky.

The terrifying power of the cannon is unimaginable to those who have only heard of it, especially after a watchtower is hit by another cannonball and collapses, and the griffin soldiers who see their companions crushed to death by the collapsed watchtower fragments riot, despite their superiors. That is, those griffon centurions contained the source of the riot in time, but the next moment, something happened that made these centurions who had experienced some storms also show a look of despair.

"Boom, boom, boom.........." A huge tremor was felt at the feet of each griffon soldier. Under the horrified gaze of the Griffon Empire, a large crack suddenly appeared in a wall in front of them, and then they saw a huge gap slowly appear on the top of their own - part of it was blasted down by the heavy siege artillery that the sun never set, and the part of the stone that broke away from the wall fell directly and smashed on the scorched earth outside.

"I—I'm going to die! I quit! The air around the griffon soldiers behind the walls froze, and the short, silent silence oppressed the fragile minds of the griffon soldiers around them, for it was now known to everyone that the walls that seemed to protect themselves were as fragile as tissue paper in the face of the guns of the navy on which the sun never set. And as the atmosphere around him became heavier and heavier, finally a griffin soldier couldn't help but scream, and then directly threw away the weapon in his hand and left the team. Run towards the interior of the castle.

"Humph! Coward! However, before the soldier could run a few steps out of the group, a flying arrow shot directly through the griffin soldier's neck, and at the same time, the voice of a middle-aged man sounded in the ears of everyone present: "Whoever is disturbing the morale of the army, this guy is your fate." Isn't it that you haven't fought in the past few years, and the pride of a soldier in the Griffon Empire has been forgotten? ”

Although the people present did not know who the person who made the voice of the Dao was. But since he has the courage to directly pick up a bow and arrow to kill the deserter, this guy is either a legion commander-level figure or a group of guys from the war team, but when everyone reacted, they also spurned this deserter very much, especially after finding out that the guy who ran away seemed to be an officer and a noble officer (the noble officer of the Griffin Empire is the best difference between the noble officer and the battle officer, as long as you look at whether the helmet on his head is blue or red, you can know the way, blue is a noble officer and red is a war medal officer) After all, the army of the Griffin Empire is warlike, Desertion is basically impossible.

"Humph! It seems that after this battle. It's time to take care of those self-righteous aristocrats, who really think that our army is a soft persimmon. "Actually, those soldiers were right. The guy who killed people with a bow and arrows before was a legion commander-level figure, and he was Chris, a staff member who was very valued by the old Duke of Yanshi.

Of course, this is not the Chris from Harbor of Lights, because the full name of Harbor of Lights is Bill. Chris, and the one in front of him is called Chris, because this guy is a mediocre, the so-called battle medal officer, and civilians don't have surnames.

"I've long seen that this group of nobles is unhappy, and it's okay to make a little action at ordinary times, but at this time, they actually came out to disturb the morale of the army, I think the heads of these guys are all stuffed into the woman's stomach." An officer standing next to Chris took the short bow that Chris gave him, and said angrily: "If this guy dares to make trouble after the war, I will definitely pull out the skin of those nobles." ”

"Forget Chino, there's no point in worrying about these things now, we're still ........." Before Chris could finish his words, a faintly audible roar of artillery fire began to sound, which made the two people who were actually talking involuntarily turn their eyes in the direction of the scorched earth.

"The sound of artillery? Could it be that the artillery of the Empire on which the sun never sets can hit the city gates from so far away? Didn't the information given by the front line say so? Chris frowned and said, but then Chris's frowning brows widened again, and said to Chino beside him: "Forget Chino, leave this matter to the old duke, our primary purpose now is to continue to strengthen the defense of the port area, those low obstacles alone are not enough, we must now immediately find out whether the fire of each ballista can control all the alleys, Naga attack time is only more than half an hour." ”

"Yes, sir."

Chris's guess is actually similar to what happened at the main gate of the Demon Flame Castle at this moment, and one thing Chris said is not wrong, that is, the artillery that never sets the sun really can't hit the main gate of the Demon Flame Castle from the landing point of the Xiyi troops, but there is one thing Chris doesn't know, or he doesn't believe that the Xiyi Fleet as a naval force will do this - dismantle the artillery and transport it to the shore and then advance to a distance that can hit the city wall and then carry out a long-range attack on the city wall.

But in fact, the Empire did do this, and one of the reasons for this was because the artillery, although heavy, was indeed a movable device. Unlike other weapons mounted on warships, such as the ballistae on the Griffin Empire's warships and even the city-defending crossbows installed on the fleets of the Sunset Empire, these things basically exist in the way that they are fixed to the battleship. The artillery itself is actually a large black and thick iron pipe, and this iron pipe is still a cylinder, so with a little manpower, these guns and even the shells used in them can be quickly disassembled from the battleship, or directly taken down, and then get to the ground.

And this time the sun never sets is just to get down the heavy siege guns on the Ataka ship, these barrels that are several times larger than the first gun only need to spend a little more manpower, as for the stone base it requires. The Xiyi fleet, which many people didn't expect, actually brought a spare one in a frenzy, and played its role at this time instead of disassembling one from the Ataku ship.

Of course, the most important point is that none of them, including the Duke of Lion himself, thought of it. The sailors in these Xiyi warships actually dared to go ashore to fight them, you must know that the naval battle and the land battle are completely different things, and the most important thing is that there are cavalry, heavy infantry, super-heavy infantry, and so on in the land battle, and in terms of naval warfare, if you only talk about the types of troops. In fact, there were only light infantry. With the archers, because the naval battle basically relies on the naval combat equipment on the battleship, and the archers are only the existence of the so-called auxiliary equipment, as for the light infantry, it is also useful in the case of broadside combat, and the most important thing is that the naval battle is only in terms of troops, not that the more troops, the better, because if there are more troops, it will only increase the burden on the battleship, and you will sink a battleship. Are you sure that the hundreds of soldiers who fell into the water can still be saved? Naval warfare is measured by the quality and quantity of warships and naval equipment.

However, after discovering that Xiyi warriors appeared on the beach one after another on the side of the Demon Flame Castle carried by warships, the people of the Demon Flame Castle fell silent. Especially in the battleship that was exercised in the huge Xiyi warship in the distance, it actually began to transport a soldier with the flag of the Legion that the sun never sets ashore, and after this soldier erected the flag of the 3rd Legion of Xiyi with the help of the surrounding people, the people of the Demon Flame Castle knew that it was not only the naval forces that came to attack today, of course, the people of the Demon Flame Castle wanted to know if the army level troops were transported over from the side of the sun never set.

Of course, maybe these guys will never know what to do, in fact, these guys who belong to the 3rd Legion of Xiyi are actually the Xiyi Navy on which the sun never sets, and these guys don't have time to think about it, because in just less than ten minutes, dozens of heavy siege guns have been deployed and have begun to carry out long-range strikes on the main gate of the Demon Flame Castle.

In fact, after the people inside the Demon Flame Castle found out that the Xiyi people had brought up the artillery, several legion commanders asked the Duke of Yanshi to take the initiative to attack and destroy the enemy on the beach, but in the end, this option was lost by many uncertain factors: the most important thing is actually the division of troops, although the Demon Flame Castle is known as 300,000 troops stationed, and because the sun never sets to attack the navy, the direction of the attack is only on the sea side, so the defending troops can be more concentrated.

But in fact, everyone knows that the 300,000 army really has less than 80,000 troops, because of the remaining 220,000 troops, 3 are aristocratic troops with fluctuating combat value, and the rest are the civilians of the Demon Flame Castle after the weapons are issued, and these soldiers who will collapse at the touch of the battle are impossible to go out to fight, because the premise of these soldiers is to stay within the city walls to fight - the Demon Flame Castle is their home, so they will fight hard for their home, but the scorched earth bank is not, It seemed to everyone that if these guys were sent out, then the rout of the army would create a new problem for them.

And of the remaining 8 legions, 3 of them were mobilized to the port area, because what if the sun never sets, and the navy has a sea tribe force to raid here? Therefore, the only ones who can really go out to fight are the 50,000 Flame Lion Legion belonging to the descendants of Duke Yanshi, but if the Yanshi Legion is allowed to go out, then a new question arises: although Duke Yanshi said that the Naga Legion will attack the castle port area, what if they don't do so? And is it true that the strength of the Naga Legion is only 20,000?

That's right, in the eyes of the Duke of Yanshi, if the Yanshi Legion went out and was eaten by the ambushed Naga Legion instead of defeating the enemy, then it can be said that this battle would not have to be fought, because it was impossible for the Demon Flame Castle, which only had only 3 regular troops left, to hold the castle, so in the end, the Yanshi decided that there was only one way now, that is, consumption, with the help of the tall city walls on his side and the sun never sets.

Obviously, the Duke of Yanshi was correct in thinking that the Naga troops would be ambushed, because the 20,000 warriors of the Naga Army were hiding in the sea in front of the Xiyi Navy landing site at this time, and the Duke of Yanshi might not know the Dao, in fact, the Sun Never Sets side did not want to capture or destroy the Demon Flame Castle at all, because the Sun did not know that the Naga Army could not eat this fortress with 300,000 troops on his side.

In fact, all Xiyi had to do was destroy the port of the Demon Flame Castle, and in addition, including Oda Nobunaga's words about eating the Demon Flame Castle, it was actually just an additional task given to him by Orso: to destroy as many of the Griffin Empire's troops as possible.

As for the real purpose of the Xiyi Fleet, it was actually to attract the attention of the Demon Flame Castle and make them not play a way to go to support the Holy Light Harbor, so in the final analysis, everything the Sun Never Sets Navy is doing now is to destroy the Holy Light Harbor and set up a game. (To be continued......)