Although the name is still Nippon Maru, its appearance is generally similar to the Nippon Maru of the previous shogunate's main fleet. But in fact, what appeared in front of everyone was no longer a Japanese pill that was the same as an ordinary otaku ship in addition to its large size, but a Japanese pill that had been reborn after half a month spent by all the shipwrights of the sunset, and was frantically exchanged with Sun Lin with the war value obtained from the previous uninhabited island battle, and this ship is now not only the flagship given by Sun Lin to Maori Motoku, but also the first paddle steamer that the Sunset Empire researched and transformed.

Today's Nippon Maru has also replaced the keel used before with a longer and stronger one, which also leads to the fact that the length and width of the Nippon Maru's hull have reached 3/4 of the standard destroyer of the original world, and the height of the hull is nearly 4 stories high, and now the Japanese Maru usually carries 700 people, of course, this includes the sailors who rowed, the Saiyi samurai who engaged in the broadside battle, and the bow ashigaru who shot the enemy with a modified samurai bow.

On either side of the New Nippon Maru's hull, there is a pair of giant wooden wheels wrapped in steel and embedded in the inside of the hull, the radius of this wooden wheel is one story high, and the steel pillars that connect the two giant wooden wheels lead to the bottom of the hull, where there is a special device for sailors to climb up and step on with their feet, which looks like a complex wooden version of the internal pedals of the original world pedal ship, this machine requires at least 20 sailors to pedal at the same time to operate, but when fully operational, only 10 people are needed to maintain a constant speed.

At present, 70% of the moving power of the Nippon Maru comes from this pair of giant ships, as for the remaining 30%, it is the giant paddle on both sides of the Nippon Maru, each of which requires more than 3 people to operate, and the new Nippon Maru also retains the tools used by the Xiyi warship when moving, and there are 9 on the left and right sides of the new Nippon Maru, and these paddles are also the only escape tool for the new Nippon Maru when the wooden wheel is damaged.

On both sides of the outer deck, dozens of canister throwing bows were installed, and the four-story high ship building was the same as the old Japanese maru in terms of design and construction except for being larger than the original, of course, Sun Lin also followed the style of the Royal Victory, and the four sides of the hull were equipped with naval scorpion crossbows.

The top of the shipbuilding is the most unrecognizable part of this renovation, there should have been a small building like the roof of a house here, but now it has been replaced by 4 huge city defense crossbows, yes, city defense crossbows, and there are as many as 4 of them. This design led to the new Nippon Maru compared to the old version, although it was equipped with paddle wheels, its speed was still nearly 30% lower than the original, but the combination of high-quality wood and steel skin made the new Nippon Maru's defense nearly 3 times higher than the old one, coupled with strong firepower, so that the ship won the reputation of a sea fortress in the next few years in the naval battle.

The appearance of the new Nippon Maru shocked the thoughts of everyone present, the people of the sun did not set were attracted by the four huge crossbows on the top of the ship, and the Saiyi people of the Maori family were proud that their family had such a huge ship, and the number of people who committed suicide every minute on the side of the shogunate doubled again, and as for the mutiny, except for the samurai who were still fighting on the seven Ataka ships, most of the ashigaru fell to the ground. The samurai began to chant words, and Master Ikkyu, who had been escorted to the New Counter Fleet by a soldier who had never set sun, returned to the small boat and sailed to the New Nippon Maru.

Later, when the new Nippon Maru and the sailors of the Maori naval warship behind him boarded the new counterattack warship, these people immediately began to rescue the ashigaru and samurai who collapsed on the deck, and the most surprising and touching thing for those mutineers was that some of the Xiyi people who came down from the Maori warship were actually monks who had appeared in the previous battle of Honnoji, and at this moment they were dissolving sugar water with cane sugar cubes and fresh water to distribute to these exhausted Saiyi soldiers, and they began to recite Shinto scriptures in their mouths.

On the other side, a Maori navy appeared again in the gap where the new Nippon Maru appeared, and unlike the previous one, the fleet was equipped with samurai armor and samurai with katanas, and some monks with scythes, and as soon as they appeared, they went straight to the 7 Ataku ships, and after dozens of minutes, with the cooperation of nearly 1,000 samurai on the mutinous side, the retainers and patriarchs of the 7-hand Ataku ships were slaughtered.

At the same time, the sun had set in the sky, and the Maori sailors who had come to rescue the wounded began to light the paper lamps on their ships, and re-routed the ships that had previously belonged to the Loyal Emperor, and used them to transport the mutineers on both sides of the deck railings to Gangpo Castle on the island of Shikoku, where the sun never set on the field medic would treat their wounds.

As for the fleet that never sets, it is assembling in the direction where the new counterattack force came from, and in the direction of Gangpu City, there are beginning to appear one after another, including some large 4-sail transport ships full of the army that never sets.

"Well, the results are not bad, right?" Looking at the bright lights on the water behind him, Sun Lin smiled and said to the commander-in-chief of the Maori Navy beside him, Maori Yuan, the owner of the new Nippon Maru.

"It's not just good, it's a miracle, this time we didn't spend a single soldier, so that the enemy's nearly 40,000 ashigaru and samurai all defected, and after the war, we also obtained the allegiance of 10,000 ashigaru and more than 6,000 samurai, plus the warships captured in this battle, as long as these ships are repaired, and those ashigaru and samurai battle wounds are all healed, the strength of the Maori naval army will be doubled as a whole." Mao Liyuan said very excitedly.

"No, to be precise, it should be quadrupled, don't forget that when all the battle wounds of these ashigaru and samurai are healed, the 7 Ataka ships in front of us and the Ataku ships we had before should also be transformed, and the Ataku ships with the city-defending giant crossbow and paddle wheel facilities are like the giant whale warships built by the Atlanta Empire, and they have to be weighed when they are one-on-one." After speaking, Sun Lin stepped forward and patted Mao Li Yuan and continued: "Yuan Yuan, now the rear will be handed over to you, I don't want to hear that the rear area will be destroyed when I capture Kyoto Island." ”

"Don't worry, Your Majesty, I have already transferred the first batch of renovated Anzhai ships and their escort fleet to the eastern seas, if the Atlantan Empire really dares to drill Confucius, we will let their fleet go and never return."

"Very good, then next, the positions of the offensive and defensive sides will be switched here, I hope the current Kyoto Island will not be a crispy, otherwise it will be too boring............"