Elder Jin's Limitless Stalling

The Han Tribe's Two-Masted Sailboats were river vessels with low freeboards. Each had only one hold below the waterline and a single canopy above the deck. With such a design, they could not transport many people. Even packed to capacity, each could carry only eighty to a hundred people.

By that calculation, Two-Masted Sailboats were not suitable for transporting soldiers. However, considering that they might be needed to deploy troops along Bamboo Island's inland rivers during battle, quite a few had joined the transport operation. There were three hundred such Two-Masted Sailboats in total. Only two hundred carried soldiers, totaling fifteen thousand men, while the remaining hundred were loaded with supplies.

The rest of the personnel and horses were transported on Three-Masted Tower Ships. They were called Tower Ships, but were actually nothing like the historical vessels with low freeboards, shallow drafts, and extraordinarily tall superstructures. The Han Tribe's Tower Ships had a standard ocean-going design. All six decks above and below were beneath the freeboard: two and a half levels below the waterline and three and a half above it, not counting the sterncastle.

The interiors of these ships had continuous decks throughout. With a length of forty meters and a width of ten, they had nearly two thousand square meters of total floor space. A single ship could transport several hundred people with ease. With a limit of five hundred people per Three-Masted Sailboat, they needed only fifty ships to carry away all the remaining soldiers and warhorses.

Adding the Fubo Guard fleet's eight warships, the entire expeditionary fleet consisted of three hundred and fifty-eight sailing ships.

After the several hundred ships filed out of the estuary in a long procession, they began forming up and heading toward Bamboo Island. All the small Two-Masted Sailboats were concentrated in