Chapter 787: Battle of the Inland Sea (5)
"Fire! Fire! ”
Dozens of Allied transport ships have been left in this sea forever, and the Sunset Fleet, which is equipped with sophisticated weapons, is like a spear that breaks the army, tearing apart the forward troops of the Allied forces under the leadership of the Ataka ship.
The sophisticated No. 2 gun, under the control of the experienced Xiyi gunner, continuously sprayed ammunition at the Allied battleships, and directly drowned the distant enemy warships with a continuous stream of solid shells, and for those Allied warships who dared to approach, a salvo of more than 20 grapeshots was enough to turn a fully loaded battleship into a ghost ship in a breath, of course, provided that these grapeshots flew accurately.
For those Allied warships that are moving faster and trying to circle behind, the guns that never set on the sun also have a way to punish the opponent: each battleship equipped with guns that does not set the sun does not only carry a large number of solid shells and a certain number of grapeshot, but also equipped with several boxes of chain shells, which are basically handed over to the best gunners and the best guns in each battleship, because this kind of shells have only one effect, which is to destroy the opponent's sails and make the enemy lose mobility.
After discovering that there was no hope of circumambulation, the Allied side had completely dismissed the idea of making small moves, and instead focused on how to face the fleet head-on.
Although the strength of the fleet that never sets makes the allies feel a little fearful, it arouses the ferocity of the Allied soldiers. Since the Allied war began, the Allied soldiers have been fighting more and more, which is not to say that the Allied side is at a disadvantage. But the problem is that they never thought that a force that had just risen for less than 10 years could actually fight with them, and it was still fighting on two fronts against two great empire-level forces.
Advanced thermal weapons, sophisticated equipment, and elite soldiers who are forbidden by order. A qiē and a qiē made the soldiers of the allied forces think that this is not worthy of the explosion of wealth of the empire on which the sun never sets, to put it bluntly, this is a kind of jealousy mentality, but it seems that the allies really have this jealous capital on their side.
In fact, Sun Lin has never understood why the King Continent has not entered the era of thermal weapons after so long, isn't it the war that is the primary productive force of scientific and technological development? Moreover, although the Central Continent presents a posture of triviality, both the Holy Light Empire and the Griffin Empire are still in a relatively peaceful state as a whole, after all, there is a human enemy of the Heavenly Dragon Empire. But even these, until the allied forces that never set the sun exposed most of the hole cards, the Central Continent and the Central Region, which is known as the most technologically advanced place in the King Continent. Only the Judgment Blade, a primitive thermal weapon similar to a heavy siege cannon, was taken.
But even so, the people of the Central Continent have the proudest capital among the human race, because they sit on the richest land (in fact, the best and most reasonable land), with a population of more than 100 million. There are more than 100 large cities, enough to accommodate hundreds of thousands of people. With tens of millions of troops and incredible productivity, the most important thing is that they are the descendants of the true masters of the Human Alliance.
And the sun never sets, although I don't know how they appeared, but the predecessors must be those people who defected from the human alliance and fled overseas, anyway, the people of the mainland think so, so even the navy, which can only rank second-rate in the overall military strength of the alliance, hopes to kill those people who never set in front of them at this moment.
The combat effectiveness of the Allied Navy did not look very high. But this is because it is compared to the Sunset Fleet, which has the most elite warships and the most elite sailors, and looks at the entire King Continent. In fact, the fleet level of the two major Allied empires can all be ranked above the top 5.
"Brothers, don't be afraid! The sun doesn't set, that's it! We can drown them with a single spit! "With the help of ship-to-sea tactics, the huge Allied fleet surrounded the perimeter of the Ataka ship after sacrificing nearly a hundred recruited transport ships, relying on the huge griffin battleship group and the Holy Light warship group.
Grapetear bullets do have great lethality to the enemy in the enemy's battleship, but their reloading speed is slower than that of loading solid bullets, and now the allies have been red by the sunset, and they all have turned into mad dogs and rushed to the Ataku ship, and the Xiyi warriors are also mortals, and it is impossible to intercept the other party.
"Bump!" A violent sense of impact came, and the griffin battleship that was speeding forward approached the huge Ataka ship in the most violent and direct way: using the bow to hit the side of the Ataku ship, this method was a way to damage others and not to oneself, because the griffin warship that hit the Ataku ship was likely to damage the keel as a result, and in order to ensure the paddle wheel on the side of the Ataku ship, Xiyi craftsmen directly put a layer of iron on the side of the battleship. No matter how hard the wood is, can it compare to the iron plate? And in the eyes of the Allies, at least the deadliest cannon port was blocked with the hull of the ship on their own side; Not to mention that the sun never sets, as soon as the huge impact came, all the captains of the Ataka ship smiled bitterly: "The patina wheel is broken, and now it wants to move forward." ”
The captains have the troubles of the captains, and the sailors also have their own troubles, but the troubles of the sailors come later: thanks to the design of the Xiyi battleship, the hull height of the Anzhai ship is a few meters higher than that of the griffin battleship, and the allies are not to attack the stern of the Xiyi battleship: the bow and stern of the Xiyi Anzhai battleship are the landing ports of the soldiers, and the design looks a bit like a simple "city gate" with a "drawbridge", the city gate is actually the entrance, and the drawbridge is actually a pedal, In this way, the pedals and other weapons prepared by the sailors and soldiers on the griffin warship are meaningless, and even the method of flying to the Ataka ship with ropes is useless, because the hull of the Ataku ship is too high!
And the only thing that can be used is those hook ropes, the sailors can only use the hook rope to climb up, which can be bitter for the Allied sailors, although their water is good, but this does not mean that they will all climb up and down like monkeys, and the personnel on the griffin battleship, sailors only account for a part, most of them are the Allied lightly armed soldiers attacking the Maginot Line, including the Red Swordsmen of the Holy Light Empire and the Eagle Army of the Griffin Empire.
Whether it is the Red Swordsman or the Eagle Army, they are the most famous light troops in the two imperial armies, the Red Swordsman is called the "Pope's Blade" on the battlefield, and the best light armor breaking troops, and the Eagle Army is more familiar, its leader is the master of the port of Agthis, Galen, who only used 50,000 lightly armed troops to bury twice as many cavalry troops as himself, and this force is the Eagle Army.
The combat effectiveness of these guys feels that it is comparable to the combat effectiveness of Miguel's assault soldiers, and even much higher, but this does not mean that they can adapt to the way of climbing up and down in naval warfare.
"Shoot the arrows! Shoot these guys! In the face of the enemy, the Xiyi warriors did not hesitate at all, and the Xiyi bow warriors who were originally staying in the upper echelons of Class A directly pulled their bows and began to throw arrows.
The arrows used in the samurai bow were not only powerful in armor-piercing, but they were also heavier than ordinary arrows, and even the light rattan shield that the Eagle warriors above the deck of the griffin warship had raised in the rain of arrows suffered heavy losses after these arrows fell from the sky.
Seeing this situation, the griffin knights hovering in the air immediately became not calm, as early as the beginning of the war, these griffin knights who took the battleship across the ocean and returned to their homeland knew that their task in this war was to cover the attacking warships to capture those huge warships, because of the number of people, the griffin troops did not dare to approach at all, but now that the Xiyi warriors on the first class have been attracted, then there is a chance to do a little damage.
From the very beginning of the battle, these griffon imperial warriors who watched from the air knew that it was these huge dark cylinders that could inflict the most lethal damage on their own ships.
However, the sun never sets on this side has long been prepared, and Oda Nobunaga has issued an order that none of the heavy guns of each Xiyi battleship will be affected until all the shells have been exhausted.
When the eagle's cry sounded, a Xiyi with a sickle gun and a heavy samurai armor also ran out of the cabin of the Xiyi warship, they were officially the hook and sickle warriors among the three legions of the Xiyi army! (To be continued......)