Although the movement of the Allied transport ships cannot be considered fast, it cannot be said to be very slow, and when Oda Nobunaga's order was issued to the whole army, more than 100 transport ships led by the Allied forces have begun to enter the maximum range .........of the heavy guns of the Ataka ship.

Although the heavy artillery can be adjusted to fire both flat and parabola, in order to reduce the shell consumption of the heavy artillery, each Ataka ship now has only two guns originally located at the end of the warship to carry out the strike mission, and in order to ensure that each shell can accurately hit the enemy's battleship, the gunner of the heavy artillery will not light the fuse until the enemy enters the range and allows the transports to move forward for a certain distance.

Whether it is the transport ship of the Holy Light Empire or the transport ship of the Griffon Empire, its overall structure is almost the same, all of them are based on the common five-sailing ships as a template, and the warships are built after expanding the cabin capacity and reducing the amount of weapons on board, if you want to say that the biggest difference between them and the five-sailing ships is that these warships are more fragile than the regular five-sailing ships.

As a transport ship, you don't need to go to the battlefield, so the transport ship doesn't need to be reinforced like a battleship, and not all of these transport ships are regular transportation.

As early as February, when the time of the war on the Lower Maginot Line entered February, due to the weather factors that increased the burden on the entire logistics line of the Allied forces, the high-level of the Holy Light Empire asked to increase the number of transport ships to reduce the burden on the military transport fleet of the logistics line. Therefore, the development of the maritime industry in the history of the two major human empires was not very good, not to mention the navy, when the Holy Light Empire ordered to increase the number of transport ships. Neither the Holy Light Empire nor the Griffin Empire have many transport ships waiting to leave the port in their countries.

In the end, the Holy Light Empire had no choice but to requisition the private ships of the chambers of commerce from the domestically involved maritime trade chambers to serve as military transport ships, and when the Maginot War turned into March, the Griffon Empire was also forced to requisition private ships for military purposes.

As a result, conscripted ships such as the Silver Eagle were the first "victims" of the battle: more than 30 conscription transports were damaged by heavy artillery bombardment of the sunset in less than 200 meters. The battleship was also torn out by a huge solid shell; And if you're unlucky, it's like a ship like the Silver Eagle that is directly blasted out of a crack in the hull, including the keel, and the shipwreck can be.

The fact that 30 transports were either wounded or began to flood in less than 1 minute was indeed a big blow to the morale of the Allied side. But what makes this even more difficult to accept is that the sun never sets.

Don't look at the great lethality of heavy artillery, but the heavy artillery on this side of the sun never sets may be able to fire the first and second shots, but it is basically impossible to fire the third shell, because the reloading speed of heavy artillery is too slow. Slow enough for the enemy ships to rush in front of them, it is estimated that the shells have not yet been able to get the iron cannonballs into the barrels with their instruments.

"Quick! Fast! Get ready for battle! "The sun never sets, of course, knows that it is impossible to stop the enemy's advance with artillery alone. Amid the shouts of the captains of the warships, samurai warriors in katana armor with swords at their waists and samurai bows in their hands rushed out of the cabins, or rushed to the cabins with shooting holes in the Ataka ship to stand and draw their bows.

Although the Xiyi surrendered to the Sunset Empire, under the unique national relaxation policy of the Sunset, the Xiyi people who surrendered to the Sunset still maintained their families, samurai class, and ashigaru troops, but the essence of these things has changed.

Although the family can be inherited like the nobles in the territory of the Empire, it is also the same as the nobles of the Empire on which the sun never sets. You can't directly stretch your hand to the right that the sun never sets: Article 4 of the Official Law on the Sun Never Sets, all members of the Xiyi family can fight for the position of an official on which the sun never sets. However, those who are not members of Article 103 are all acting official positions, and they can only be regularized unless they obtain a review from the Political Affairs College; According to Article 103 of the Constitution, each member of the Xiyi family can only send one direct or collateral member to become an official of the Sunset, but this member must first go to the Royal Academy of Politics to study for three years before he can enter politics, and this member can replace any acting position in the family after entering politics.

And Ashigaru, which was supposed to be regarded as a mobilized soldier, has become two more red-eyed professions in the eyes of the Xiyi people: the sailors of the Xiyi fleet or the reserve soldiers on the Xiyi Islands, and the ashigaru can also wear samurai armor, but this samurai armor is slightly inferior to the equipment of today's Xiyi samurai.

The samurai are no longer affiliated with the Xiyi families, but belong to the military department of the sunset, but the Xiyi family can train samurai to join the army, but due to the introduction of advanced militarized training of the sunset, the samurai of the family currently only account for 3 points of the overall number of the army1, and the rest come to the martial arts hall invested and established by the military department of the sunset.

First of all, there is a great difference between the samurai armor and the samurai's armor in terms of helmets, because the samurai still use the original samurai helmet, while the ashigaru uses the steel hat helmet mass-produced by the Sunset Military Factory, followed by the katana sword equipped by the ashigaru and the samurai, the former has a black handle and the samurai has a red handle in order to show their strength.

But there is a point that many people, and even the domestic military department that never sets, often confuse samurai with ashigaru, and that is the samurai who are good at using samurai bows: in fact, whether it is a notai sword samurai, a sickle samurai, or an orthodox Saiyi samurai, they all use samurai bows.

The samurai bow is a longbow that is even more difficult to use than the longbow on which the sun never sets, and the actual combat effect is not very good, because the accuracy of the samurai bow is so poor that many longbowmen who never set the sun say that it is the worst bow they have ever used, even the wooden bow in the hunter's hand is much better than this.

But despite this, it can't stop the Xiyi people's love for samurai bows, and Orso once learned that all the Xiyi people in the entire Xiyi fleet said that unless the samurai bow in their hands is broken or all the arrows used in the samurai bow are used up, they will not use the Xinmo forged crossbow that completely destroys the samurai bow in all aspects.

Of course, although the samurai bow is despised by the elite longbowmen who never set the sun, this does not mean that the samurai bow is a junk weapon, and it can also be said that there is a difference between what the samurai bow focuses on and what the longbowman thinks a longbow focuses on.

The sun never sets on longbowmen are warriors who have been trained since childhood, and their arm strength and accuracy in shooting arrows are praised by the world, and the longbow they use is a weapon tailored to their arm strength and accuracy

And what about the samurai bow? The accuracy of the samurai bow is indeed very poor, but he himself can shoot extremely powerful arrows, which is also just enough to penetrate the relatively weak armor of the Xiyi warriors, which makes the Xiyi people think that the more lethal the long-range weapon, the better the effect.

"Draw the bow!" Although the samurai bow in the hands of the Xiyi people has improved after absorbing various advanced long-range weapons of the sunset, the basic situation is still the same, the extra-long samurai bow is almost impossible to be pulled out of the full bow state, and at the same time, the continuous maintenance of the bow not only can not enhance the accuracy of the samurai bow, but also consume the samurai's body.

"Put!" The range of the samurai bow is actually good, the maximum range is between 350 and 400 meters, but in fact, the effective range distance is only more than 100, but this is actually very good in naval warfare, and the samurai bow itself is powerful, and the penetration of the arrow head has been enhanced under the casting of the craftsman who does not set the sun, and the lethality caused by a shot by the samurai is still good.

"Raise your shield! Raise your shield! Looking at the dense crowd on the ship in the distance, all the surviving sailors on the transport ship knew what this meant, and some of the captains and first mates of the transport ship who remained on the ship shouted loudly to the sailors around them, of course, their own hand speed was not slow, but these shouts all revealed a helpless tone.

There is no way, the lethality of the long-range troops of the Sun Never Sets is definitely the most terrifying of all the forces in the King Continent, after all, there are very few troops that can be as wealthy as the long-range troops of the Sun Never Setting Empire, from the beginning to the end of the battle are all using finely crafted armor-piercing arrows, and there are no long-range weapons of the troops, which can be like the weapons equipped with the long-range troops of the Sunset Empire, and the cost of a weapon is even more than a set of battle armor.

The whistling sound of arrows flying in the air was remembered one after another, and the surface of the transport ship that was first taken care of was soon filled with thousands of arrows, and even more, the unprepared Allied sailors were killed on the deck by dozens of arrows whistling in, and at the last moment of their lives, they experienced the idiom "ten thousand arrows pierce the heart" in the idiom that the sun never sets.

Listening to the screams from the transports that were already extremely close to them in front of them, the samurai on the deck did not have the same smug expressions as before, because they all knew that even if they shot all the enemies on the dozens of transports in front of them, they did not cause any damage to the enemies, and the tremors from the deck and the roar around them always warned these samurai that the real enemy had arrived, and the fiercest broadside battle in the naval battle was about to begin. (To be continued......)