Chapter 239: Something Happens in the North Sea

With the successful case of the Nippon Maru, in order to strengthen the shortcomings of the Xiyi fleet's lack of long-range firepower in naval warfare, with the help of the system, Sun Lin's shipwrights transformed three plans for the three levels of Xiyi ships: medium, light, medium and heavy.

The first type, codenamed Greek Fire, was a program specifically for the small hayafune and the Thousand Stone ships. Due to the structure of the Thousand Stone Ship, the Sunset Boatmen were surprised to find that the Thousand Stone Ship was structurally very similar to the bow part of the Hawker Assault Ship, so since the ramming angle and bow of the Hawker Assault Ship could be equipped with a Greek fire thrower, could the Thousand Stone Ship be completely transformed into a small, moving jet in the water? With such an idea, the light Xiyi warship, which was called the Thousand Fire Ship by the Xiyi people, appeared.

In addition to the single sail that the ship is equipped with, the ship also has an external unshielded paddlewheel installed on both sides of the ship, which allows the ship to move faster than the built-in steel plate protection design of the new Nippon Maru, but its defense is also extremely fragile. However, there will be gains and losses, and there will be gains and losses. At the same time of sacrificing defense, the Thousand Fire Ship has been exchanged for extremely high mobility and the title of Giant Ship Killer, not to mention the small size of the Thousand Fire Ship, and the number of crew members it carries has also dropped to about 30 people, but the Thousand Fire Ship is indeed a nightmare for all heavy warships. The small size of the Thousand Fireships can evade the blows of large forces of long-range weapons, and after the cover of other warships to resist the enemy's heavy ships, they are equipped with Greek firethrower devices that can immediately set the opposing ships on fire and safely evacuate the fire, and in the middle of the Middle Ages, this kind of giant ship killers were very active in the West, Southwest, and South Seas.

As for the new type of small early ship, it is not difficult to guess two points from the name of the glorious ship, first, this kind of ship is a one-time warship, and second, the person who piloted this ship must be a madman. Of course, there are some discrepancies in the facts, and a large part of the reason why there will be glorious ships is because of the appearance of the thousand fire ships, because of the appearance of the thousand fire ships, so the small morning ships can be said to have been useless in naval battles, except for some of the transformation into ordinary civilian ships, most of them are idle over there waiting to be scrapped. It wasn't until later, after the religious issues between Christianity and Mahayana Buddhism, as well as the conflict between the Sunset culture and the Xiyi culture, that Sunset, in order to punish those religious radicals, family descendants, and other personnel, implement the spirit of the Sunset 7 - the rational use of any kind of manpower support, the Sunset Boatman came up with a crazy idea, that is, to first fill the Xiaozawa with burning barrels, asphalt cans, etc. into an explosive ship, and then force the criminals to drive the Xiaozawa to rush to the enemy warship to carry out the last voyage. And this idea eventually led to the appearance of a kind of warship called the Glorious Ship.

Note: The Glorious Ship still existed until the sun never set and entered the Industrial Revolution, when the Glorious Ship was also a small morning ship, but with black powder placed in it, and the race of the pilots became more diverse...............

The second scheme is codenamed Wan Essential Oil, which is also the least changed original ship type among the three schemes, and is applicable to medium-sized ships, that is, Guan Ship and Jinglou Ship. In terms of transformation, the shipwright who never set gave up the oar design of the Xiyi ship, installed a built-in copper defensive paddle wheel on the bow and stern of the medium-sized Xiyi warship, and placed 1 or 2 giant crossbows to defend the city on the roof of the Guanchuan and Jinglou ships, forming a new Xiyi warship named Shuangming Ship.

The third plan is called the sea fortress, needless to say, this set of plans is specially provided to the Xiyi heavy warships such as Anzhai and Daanzhai. Of course, due to the different structures of the Ataka ship and the Otaku ship, the transformation direction of the two ships is also different, the direction of the Ataka ship is similar to that of the Japanese Maru, because the general structure of their two ships is the same, but the Otaku ship due to the larger hull, fewer floors and large deck internal structure, so the Oyaku ship goes to an extreme, that is, it is to eliminate all small firepower, such as the naval scorpion crossbow and the canister bow, etc., and instead install a single long-range fire support ship with 6 gates to defend the city (there are 3 Ataka ships), However, the Da'an Mansion also serves as a giant transport ship carrying various military supplies and thousand-level soldiers, which can be regarded as making up for the shortcomings of its single attribute.

The Maori Navy, which has been comprehensively upgraded in short-range and long-range dual firepower, is fully qualified to go head-to-head with the Atlanta Empire, let alone in a state of night attack. Taking advantage of the darkness of the night, the Xiyi warships of the heavy and above levels used the powerful city-defending giant crossbows to suppress all the actions of the Atlanta side, while the small ships of a thousand fires took advantage of the night to rush into the chaotic Atlanta fleet formation in batches, and moved to the perimeter of the giant whale warship and set it on fire after avoiding the obstacles of ships such as the Swordfish battleship. Due to the cover of the night, most of the Atlantans did not find the existence of a thousand fire ships, only that their own ships suddenly caught fire and the fire could not be extinguished with water, this strange situation caused the Atlantan side to not collapse, but more panicked, the soldiers of the Maori side could see the huge whale warships in the distance with the naked eye in the panic actually knocked their own seagull warships and swordfish warships to be damaged.

Of course, the target of the Thousand Fire Ships is not only those few giant whale warships, including the transport ships protected by the Atlanta Shark Battleship in the center of the fleet are their targets, although in the process, dozens of Thousand Fire Ships were either caught into driftwood by enemy ships, or smashed by manatee trebuchets, but there were still nearly 20 Thousand Fire Ships that became arsonists in the weak defense of the transport ships, and it didn't take long for the skyrocketing fire to spread rapidly from the center of the Atlanta Fleet until dawn, The fires in the center of the two battlefields had become the sun in the water, illuminating the joyful expressions of all the Xiyi people present at the victory.

However, at this time, the nominal commander of these two naval battles, Mori Moto, was not on Nippon Maru, and the one who commanded the Maori naval army on his behalf was the first retainer of Mori Moto, and he was also the Tanegashima Kuniken who commanded naval battles second only to Motosaku, and as for Mori Moto, he had just rushed to the Royal Victory to attend an emergency meeting.

"Are you all there?" Sun Lin stopped his right hand, which was tapping lightly on the table, and looked around to find that Mao Li Yuan, Leo, Soli and a few captains of the two fleets of the West Sea and the First Expedition did not set in the West Sea, Sun Lin got up and said: "I called you to gather this time because the sun does not set on the North Sea and something suddenly happened, due to the issue of power level, I don't know what happened in the road, but one thing is clear, at least in the next 2 months, I, Leo, the Royal Victory and the escort fleet of the Victory will not be able to participate in the Battle of the West Sea, Therefore, I think it is necessary to convene everyone to discuss the outline of countermeasures for the next two months and beyond in the West Sea. So let's start now, first of all, the first, about the entry of the Atlantan Empire into the war. ”