On May 13th, the King's Inland Sea, 40 nautical miles west of the Griffin Empire's royal port, the battle for the Inland Sea between the Sunset Empire and the Central Continent officially broke out today.

As the attacking side of the two coalition fleets, a total of about 500 regular warships and 1,000 irregular warships were engaged in this battle. Among them, there are more than 300 regular warships from the Griffin Empire, while less than 200 from the Divine Light Empire. These warships are basically regular medium warships and improved medium warships of the two countries, equipped with a small number of heavy warships and a negligible light warship and super heavy warships.

The scarcity of the number of battleships of the Holy Light Empire is inevitable, this is because at the beginning of the Maginot Campaign, only the Holy Light Empire participated in the war in the middle of the Central Continent, and the fleet that never sets used the mobility and lethality of the Thousand Fire Ships and shipborne light artillery and Greek fire to give priority to the heavy warships and super heavy warships that disabled the Holy Light Empire. These precious warships, which numbered as many as nearly 40 ships, did not survive under the attack of the light warships of the sunset10 did not survive, and only a few survived before the battleships of the sunset withdrew, and they were basically all severely damaged, and the number of the guides that could be sent back to the central region of the central continent to rescue was less than 4.

The lack of regular warships in the Griffon Empire was partly due to the fact that it had to stay on the Haut-Maginot Line for emergencies. Many of its regular warships, like the warships of the Holy Light Empire, were forever left on the other side of the King's Inland Sea because they underestimated the range and power of the Maginot Line's heavy shore defense guns.

But despite this. The navies of the two countries still have a great advantage overall. First of all, all the warships sent back to Griffon Harbor, with the exception of heavy and super-heavy warships, were warships that had not been hit by fire, and some of them were even warships that had only been launched in recent years, and they were in the best condition in terms of performance.

Secondly, although the battleship is new, but among the operators of the battleship. The sailors from the Divine Light Empire were all sailors who had fought against the Sunset Fleet, and knew anything about either of the Sunset Fleet; And although the sailors of the Griffon Empire have not fought against the Sunset Fleet, they have also learned from the Holy Light Empire's side that if they fight against the Sunset Fleet. It's kind of prepared.

In addition, although the navies of the two coalitions were immediately mobilized to support Griffin Harbor at the first notice, the sailors of the Empire did not participate in the battle before. There were no injuries on the bodies of those involved. In addition, the prince of the Griffin Empire guarded Griffon Harbor very "carefully", and the sailors who came to help did not show a trace of tiredness on their faces.

And not only that, these sailors basically knew and observed the two deadly weapons of the empire - artillery and Greek fire at the Lower Maginot Line, although the artillery in the Lower Maginot Line was different from the ship-based artillery of the Navy, but in general, the sailors of the two countries had understood how to face the two deadly weapons in wartime, and at a certain time could ensure that their morale would not be affected by the roar of artillery and the lethality of Greek fire.

Compared to the Allied side, the side on which the sun never sets does not have the same advantages as it does. Although the sun never sets as the defender is also fully prepared, it is not half a star worse than the allies. And at this time, the strength of Sunset only has more than 500 logistics ships carrying fleet supplies and the Sunset Xiyi fleet that maintains about 200 ships, and the regular fleet of Sunset is still in the port of Agsulfus at this time Judging from the latest intelligence of the allies, the same Sunset Sea Clan troops seem to be in the port of Agathis, after all, from the information shown by the intelligence, there are at least more than 50,000 Naga warriors who are currently storming the port of Agathus.

But is it really the weaker side if the sun doesn't set? Of course not, as the so-called you have a good plan, I have a wall ladder, the Allied Navy's so-called Sunset Fleet that is all exposed to its own encirclement network gave the Allied Navy an incredible start at the beginning of the battle: when thousands of warships met the Xiyi Fleet, the Sunset Xiyi Fleet turned from defense to attack, and suddenly launched a surprise attack on the Allied ship group with the Holy Light Battleship and the Griffin Battleship, two medium-sized warships, forming the spearhead of the attack, and the leader was not the Thousand Fireships that the Xiyi Fleet used to use as cannon fodder, It's a huge Ataka ship.

"Oh my God!" Looking at the mountain-like Ataka ships ahead, the sailors at the front of the Allied fleet turned white, and the sailors on the battleships in the rear also became very troubled, because they found that the sun never set the fleet had placed a pit in front of them that they had to jump into anyway.

Because of the structural design of the Ataka ship itself, the predecessor of the Ataku ship can actually be equipped with shipborne artillery, and what is even more disgusting is that in addition, the top of the Ataku ship is also equipped with at least 4 or more heavy guns, if it is hit by this kind of artillery, even a medium-sized warship will become semi-crippled, and the most important thing is that the tonnage of the Ataku ship is very large, if you insist on continuing to move forward now, then the medium warship at the front end of the Allied warship will inevitably be directly sunk by a part.

With no guarantee that the sun never sets and that there is no other Sea Clan force hiding underwater, the Allies believe that there is definitely a death zone under the sea, and it is almost impossible for any sailor who falls into the water to survive.

And if you choose to divide into two parts to bypass the encirclement, then you will be led by the Sunset Fleet, everyone knows that the Sunset Battleship is equipped with long-range firepower, and it is customary to arrange a large number of guns in the cabins on both sides of the battleship, and the Xiyi Warship of the Sunset Empire has half more shipborne guns on both sides than the number of regular warships on both sides of the Sunset, or even double, and it will definitely be bombarded into a hornet's nest in the past now.

In fact, at the very beginning of the Allied attack. It was because they knew this, and because the sun never set up a bag formation directly outside the port in order to defend Griffin Harbor, they chose to let the fleet raid the sun never set in a spear formation. And the rule of play is to start directly with the broadside battle and then end with the broadside battle.

The idea of the allies is not wrong at all, at least in their thinking, because the fleet of the sun does not set as an expeditionary force, it can be said that it is very difficult to replenish supplies, not to mention the replenishment of soldiers, and now the number of the navy that the sun does not set is completely one less than one, but their own side can rely on the control of the king's inland sea to mobilize troops from everywhere to consume. Even if you use human life to pile up discomfort, the sun never sets, not yourself.

At the same time, the Xiyi warships in front of him now should be warships in the rear where the sun never sets, and in common sense, they are generally located in the rear or are important roles. Either it is the enemy's firepower, like the Adjudicator warship you own, or the archers on the battlefield, and you will definitely make the enemy disarray by raiding the enemy's rear.

If these two thoughts were passed on to the ears of Oda Nobunaga, who was now directing the Saiyi warship to launch a counterattack. Nobunaga will definitely laugh and scold the Allies for being an idiot. Why? Because as the Xiyi Fleet, which includes warships in the Sunset Fleet, it cannot be compared with the regular warships of the King Continent at all.

That's right, the rear of the battleship in the regular warship is indeed the weakest point of the battleship, but the Xiyi battleship is an exception, the Xiyi battleship itself does not have the sails that regular warships have, and the power of the Xiyi battleship also comes from the paddle wheel, the manpower wheel at the bottom of the battleship and even the giant oars used in special situations, so the real point of the Xiyi battleship is actually on the two sides where its firepower is the fiercest, because as long as the huge paddle wheels on both sides of the Xiyi battleship are destroyed. The Xiyi warship's ability to move was reduced by at least 50%, and its bow and stern were two completely interchangeable storage zài.

Precisely because of this. When the enemy attacked, Oda Nobunaga only gave one order and was gone: the whole army assembled in a long snake formation, with the Ataka ship as the head and the thousand fire ships as the tail, and moved forward.

The sun never sets on the first blow to the morale of the allies, especially for the sailors on some regular warships, it is no wonder, after all, although naval battles often break out between the two countries in the middle of the continent, but because of various factors, such as the maritime trade environment of the king's inland sea, etc., they do not attach great importance to the development of the navy, and the sailors are not to mention, the naval forces of the allies put aside the warships and compare them with their land forces, it is completely a comparison between the militia and the elite army.

After a brief period of panic, the Allied ship group immediately made a relative response: in the sound of horns and the roar of griffins, many Allied transport ships on both sides of the ship group all turned from half-sail to full sail and moved forward at full speed, while the Allied medium warships, which were originally the spearhead of the attack, began to slow down.

The Allied response was very simple and clear, that is, to use the transport ship as a meat shield for the ship group, and first absorb a few rounds of firepower from the Sunset Fleet, so that the Allied regular warships full of sailors could approach the Sunset and engage in broadside battles.

In fact, if the allies decided to use the transport ships to gradually consume the materials and bodies of the sunset side at the beginning, the winner of this war would most likely be the allies, because the bodies of the sailors of the sunset empire could not afford to consume, after all, before this, these sunset warriors who fought in many coastal ports in the middle of the Central Continent were more or less in a state of inadequacy and even some were injured, and at the same time, the consumable weapons carried by the sunset fleet could not withstand consumption. The Allies did not know that the sun would never set on this matter, and the most worrying thing about this matter every day was the daily consumption of solid shells.

But it's a pity that because the sun never sets, he put on a posture of not demolishing Griffin Harbor and never returning it, and the high-level leaders of the Griffin Empire, including the leader, have been putting pressure on the fleet, asking it to solve the siege of Griffin Harbor in the shortest possible time and force the group of reinforcements back, even if some wise captains put forward the strategy of using transport ships to consume first, they will eventually be suppressed by more captains who support the idea of fighting to the death with the Sunset Fleet, and the most important thing is that the reason these guys say is still reasonable: Now the Sunset Fleet is divided into two, It was a good time to destroy it, and if the sun never set on the expeditionary fleet and the Xiyi fleet after destroying the port of Agthis, the course of the battle would be unpredictable.

In fact, there is another point, that is, the battleship as the leader has actually replaced long-range weapons with broadside combat weapons, and has freed up more space to accommodate more Allied sailors, if you don't want these battleships full of hundreds of sailors each to be destroyed, and don't want the sun to set to eliminate the disadvantage, you can only sacrifice the transport.

Of course, the Allies did not have the wealth to be ready to give up the logistics fleet and give it up completely, although from the sight of the sailors on the side of the sunset, the Allied warships in front of them had begun to be replaced as Allied transport ships, but if you look at it from the sight of the Allied Griffin Knights, there are only less than 100 transport ships that have been mobilized to the head, and most of them are still in the places where they used to stay, and the sailors in the transport ships that have been mobilized in front of them are basically not one in ten. Each transporter has only a few sailors on board to maintain the speed and direction of movement of the transport.

In the face of the Allied countermeasures, Oda Nobunaga, the supreme commander on the side on which the sun never sets, also looked a little moved after learning about the latest battle situation, because this move of the Allied forces really hit the biggest weakness of the Xiyi battleship - mobility.

To change to peacetime, in fact, this trick is very easy to disassemble, as long as you order the thousand fire ship to go to the front line for a walk, it will be fine, the thousand fire ship as a large warship killer This ability is still there, and the remaining Greek fire on the water can also force the advancing battleship to slow down, this sentence has long been circulated in the Allied army: don't provoke the Greek fire that the sun never sets.

It's a pity that now in the face of these transport ships in front of them, which are neither fighting nor not fighting, the sun never sets is a little constrained.

"In this way, let all the No. 2 guns not fire at first, and wait for the enemy's regular warships to approach and focus on taking care of them; At the same time, bring the transports closer, and we will use heavy artillery to strike at them, and of course, just in case, order all the Xiyi warriors to be ready, and we will meet our enemies with grapeshot and sharp blades. ”

"Hey!" (To be continued......)