Chapter 226: Battle for Shikoku Island: Landing on the beach

"Kill!" As the light fleet on the side of the sun never set began to enter the range of the ships of the Xiyi Zunshogun, the warships of the Zunmu faction finally began to move forward. The Xiyi Navy, which is more familiar with the naval battle tactics of the Sunset Empire, already knows that in naval battles, it is absolutely idiotic to play long-range weapons with the Sunset Empire, so when the day-free assault ship is about to enter the range of its own samurai archers, it begins to paddle forward with all its might.

However, this assault ship is used as a landing ship, and Sun Lin will not let those early mornings slow down those Hawker assault ships full of Changyi's team. I saw a few horns sound, and under the puzzled gaze of the Xiyi people, the Hawk assault ship at the forefront of the Sunset Navy suddenly began to slow down, and then, the samurai Koza and Sengoku ships that were originally hidden behind the assault ship immediately appeared, and rushed towards those light warships such as Gong Kozao of the Zunmu faction.

Due to the tactics of the previous Hawke raiding troops, the Maori navy acquired no less than 50 light warships in just two weeks, with the small early ships being the most numerous. In the previous battle of the Zoran Maru Castle Guard, because of the surrender of the Mori Moto, the Mori family only lost more than 200 sickle warriors and nearly 1,000 ashigaru in that battle, and after the Zoran Maru Castle Guard, there were more than 1,500 samurai, and the Mori Navy did not participate in any battles before the battle for Shikoku Island began, so the loss of the Zoran Maru did not hurt the Mori family, on the contrary, because the sun never sets on the empire, although the defense of the armor has been improved. But in terms of weapons, the Maori family, whether it is the navy or the army, wants to ride a rocket, and they are crazy to improve it.

The most significant thing is that all the troops of the Maori family, including Ashigaru, have been replaced with steel weapons, and the samurai swords worn by the samurai troops are specially tailored for them by the Quartermaster Department of the New Delhi Peninsula, although the workmanship is much worse than that of the Shoyoshi team, but it is still extremely lethal to deal with those samurai armor that is equivalent to decorations, and it is even rumored that the Quartermaster Department has begun to prepare for the development of a 1/4 plate armor type samurai armor.

Of course, in addition to changing the material of the weapon, the Sun Never Sets Empire has also made efforts in other aspects, such as the Quartermaster Department used the principle of the composite bow to study and improve the samurai bow in the late Warring States period, although it could not change the range of the samurai bow, but it had a significant improvement in stability and power; In another example, Sun Lin decided to equip the Maori Navy with a canister bow.

"300 meters ahead, launch!" The Maori navy, which was not beaten by the navy on which the sun never sets, after a new round of military reform, those who drove the small morning boat no longer had bow and early age. Samurai Kozao and other distinctions, currently collectively referred to as Samurai Koza. There were 14 sailors, 2 canisters, 10 samurai archers, and 14 Saiyi samurai. As the two sides approached, the first to strike was the Maori navy, which was equipped with canister bows.

When the clay pots that were set on fire burst open on the small morning boats of the Zunsho faction, the small morning boats were immediately set on fire, and the Xiyi soldiers of the Zunmu faction tried to extinguish the flames, but to their despair, the flames were as if they had been enchanted, let alone extinguished. In this way, before the two sides began to engage in broadside battles, the small early fleet of the Maori Navy did not suffer much damage to the hull itself, except for the sacrifice of dozens of soldiers, while the Zunmu faction had to abandon a few small early ships to turn into fire lotus in the water because of the throwing of the canister bow, and the victory scale of this battle had begun to tilt towards the imperial side of the sun from the beginning.

Later, the Sengoku ships from the rear of Kohaya also began to join the broadside battle, and with the help of sophisticated equipment and slightly more warriors than the shogunate, it was not long before all the light warships of the shogunate were dragged by the Maori navy. In this regard, after a few war drums, the medium-sized warships of the Zunmu faction, nearly 30 Guan ships and Jinglou ships, began to join the battle.

These medium-sized ships, each loaded with more than 100 Xiyi soldiers, immediately boosted the morale of the Shogunate faction after joining the battlefield, and the originally crumbling warriors of the Shogunate faction immediately burst out with stronger morale than before, but this situation did not take long to disappear, because what appeared in front of the ships and manhole cover ships was actually the heavy armor-class warships of the Sunset Navy, and the Azuku ships of the Maori Navy. This also explains why Sun Lin would give the other party a morale boost first: because the movement speed of heavy ships is indeed very slow. You must know that the dispatch that Sun Lin believes in can be called a combo, that is, to hit the enemy while feeling that he will not let the enemy take any breath.

The sun never sets so quickly to press forward all the heavy ships except for the Royal Victory, the flagship of the West Sea Fleet Soli and the Daian Mansion where the Maori Motoshi is located, which really disrupted the order of the Zunmu faction, Sun Lin could clearly see a trace of panic flashing on the faces of those Xiyi people with the help of wooden binoculars, and at the same time, when Sun Lin used the telescope to find that the color of the water near the coast of Ueno Port became more dark blue, a smile finally appeared at the corner of his mouth: "This time is too accurate." ”

Suddenly, the sound of the waves near the port of the Ueno castle tower suddenly became louder, and immediately after, Naga warriors over 4 meters tall armed with giant tridents burst out of the water and charged at the ashigaru who were adjusting the fire bomb trebuchets brought by the Hojo family. In the final analysis, no matter how strong the combat effectiveness of the ashigaru is, they are still a conscription militia rather than a samurai, and the ashigaru under the surprise attack left in chaos, and nearly 10,000 Naga warriors broke through the coastal defense line in an instant under the leadership of Karaka, the leader of the Naga Second Foreign Legion.

Prior to this, the Xiyi people did get accurate information, and learned that there was a sea tribe soldier in the navy of the Sunset Empire who was more than 4 meters tall and as strong as a mountain, so the Ashigaru of the Shogunate faction had already begun to cut down the bamboo forests and trees around Ueno Castle on the day they were stationed in Ueno Castle, sharpening their heads as roadblocks. Their starting point is good, Naga warriors are also flesh and blood, it is impossible not to be stabbed by these sharp barricades, but the problem is that they have not thought about whether the Sun Never Sets Empire has provided weapons and armor for these Naga warriors. As a result, under the education of the officers on which the sun never sets, these learned Naga warriors used the trident in their hands to knock these barricades into the air. At present, the heavy ships of the Zunmu faction are also encountering problems, because the Saiyi sailors on the Ataka ship do not know what to do, and at this time they should choose to disembark and return to the coastal defense line, or go to the front naval battle battlefield to put out the fire.

At the same time, something happened that made the Shomu faction feel uneasy, those Hawkgar fleets of the Empire that never set the sun actually ignored the ships on both sides in their routes, and used their huge size to force out several passages, and the Hawk assault ships in the rear finally moved at this time.