"Xiyi transport battleship?" Hearing the proposal made by the Xiyi officer, Asal said with a surprised expression: "I remember that the strategic arrangement mentioned that Commander-in-Chief Solly had not sent the West Sea Fleet and the First Expeditionary Fleet to the southern coastal area of the Western Continent, and the First and Second Fleets of his Xiyi Servant Navy were not now concentrated outside Atlantis City and Itana City, how could there still be warships here in Haichao Fort?" ”

"This ...... If you don't suggest it and there are still some incidents in the army, I hope you can go with me to the port area of Haichaobao. After a moment of contemplation, Asal agreed to the Xiyi officer's request, and then led him to the harbor area of Haichao Castle, where he met many of the ships that were not customs ships.

The reason why these Xiyi medium-sized ships are Guanchuan is because the appearance and hull size of these ships are the same as those of Guanchuan, and they are also equipped with paddle wheel design; The reason why these ships are not Guanchuan is because these Guanchuan are not equipped with crossbows on the deck of the top city like the Guanshu equipped by the Servant Navy.

"This is the Xiyi transport battleship, Your Excellency the Commander-in-Chief." The Xiyi officer explained with a smile: "In fact, due to the generosity of Sun Lin's crown, all Xiyi craftsmen have learned how to make paddle wheels and install them on ships, and with the development of marine transportation in the land of a thousand islands, the Guanchuan has almost replaced the original Xiaozao boat used for transportation and has become a new generation of inter-island transportation. Because we are all on board the newly built transport-type customs ships in the docks of these Thousand Islands. ”

"In other words, almost all of these customs ships were dispatched from civilian transport ships, right?" Asal said with a shocked face: "Our Lady is above! Has Xiyi's ship technology developed to this point? ”

"Because we Xiyi people have never lacked good sailors, there will be a shortage of good shipwrights." As he spoke, the Xiyi officer puffed up his chest proudly, because he finally waited for the day when the sun never set and people valued the Xiyi people. Although there is no so-called racial discrimination among the people who never set the sun, and Sun Lin has repeatedly emphasized in the constitution that there can be no racial discrimination in the great empire, otherwise he will be severely punished, among which the main race of the great empire where the sun never sets is the most severe. But in fact, before that, the Xiyi people had always felt inferior to themselves as the people who contributed the lowest to the empire in the great empire on which the sun never set.

And the main reason is that the Xiyi people had almost no special skills to help the empire before this, such as the Lanster and Mars, these hunter-friendly races can provide a large source of leather for the empire, and the Warsaw, they can cultivate excellent commercial talents for the empire, the Mishals and those who are exiled to the colony of the North Continent can provide hardy soldiers, and the orcs can not only provide the same fierce heavy infantry as the orcs, Because of his stature and innate divine power, he has become a master builder in the city building of the Great Empire, and even those Atlantans who have recently surrendered to the Great Empire can provide excellent shipwrights to the Empire. On the other hand, what about Xiyi?

The people of the sun do not believe in their bushido spirit, and their fishing skills have been overpowered by the fishmen under the rule of the empire, as for their original shipbuilding skills, can they really be compared to the ship skills of the sun never sets or the current ship skills of the Atlantans? Maybe the sailors of Xiyi are indeed strong, and the samurai-type soldiers are also extremely strong, but the problem is that the current physique of the Xiyi people is destined to be impossible for them to fight in the cold war zone like the soldiers and sailors of the sunset, and obviously most of the areas attacked by the great empire are cold areas, and only the war zone of the Western Continent is suitable for Xiyi to fight.

The limitations of the war zone participating in the battlefield, coupled with the fact that there are no good talents in the country to provide to the empire, it is strange that the Xiyi people have inferiority complex within the empire, but fortunately, the sky is endless, just like the current Xiyi officer, he suddenly in fact, Xiyi's shipbuilding skills are not useless, but because the ships made by the Xiyi people's shipbuilding skills are only suitable for battles with river-type waters, and the current battles where the sun does not set are all far-sea naval battles. This is the reason why the Imperial warships almost did not use the Xiyi shipbuilding technique. However, Assal's comment made him suddenly realize that for the sake of the Xiyi people, they had to entangle their shipbuilding skills in the military aspect, and couldn't they promote it to civilian inventions? Moreover, among the warships currently built by the Empire, it seems that except for the Hawk assault ship, the rest of the warships are almost unable to participate in the battle in the river.

This Xiyi officer would never have thought that his flash of inspiration this time would lead to the ships used by the Sunset Empire in the future water warfare in the middle continent of the King Continent are almost all new versions of Xiyi-type warships, and until the appearance of steamships, the civilian transport ships in the river of the Sunset Empire are almost all the so-called Xiyi transport warships that appear in front of Asar at present, and he will not believe that this idea has made him a legend in the commercial history of the Sunset Empire. A legend who relied on the river transport trade industry to establish the Sunset National Waterway Transportation Company, and a legend who was nominated by Sun Lin to become the honorary president of the Royal Academy of Finance and Trade of the future Sunset Empire.

Of course, now, this Xiyi officer is just a petty officer who proposed that Asal choose to transport about 10,000 soldiers to Haichao City by sea, and he is only an inconspicuous supporting character in the personal biography of Assar, one of the tragic heroes of the great empire in front of him.

"Xie Lu, thank you for your reminder, I have to admit that your proposal has shortened our army's march by at least one-third." Watching a group of orc warriors in bright armor and a resolute Lancester hammer soldier move to the Xiyi transport battleship, Asal said with a grateful face: "Your proposal can even reduce the sacrifice of more than 10,000 people for our side in this battle. ”

"Just do my best, General, then, I wish you a smooth journey!"