When the main fleet of the shogunate was completely wiped out and the young master of the shogunate was killed in battle, and the news that the Maori naval army, which ranked second in the comprehensive strength of the Xiyi navy, had defected to the empire of the sun never setting was transmitted back to Kyoto Island, the United Nations of the Xiyi Islands immediately divided into two factions, as Sun Lin and Mori Moto expected, one faction was loyal to the shogunate's rule, and the other was the loyal emperor faction that had been suppressed by the shogunate's power and gradually surfaced after a huge blow to the shogunate's power.

The former agreed to the Shogun's proposal to declare an all-out war on the Sunset Empire and use all means to drive the Sunset Empire out of the Western Continent and even march into the New Delhi Peninsula by all means, while the latter believed that peace should be negotiated with the Sunset Empire to stop this senseless war, and as for the Maori family who defected, if they could be recovered, they would be redeemed, and if they could not be recovered, then the Oei Maori clan should be eliminated from all the family trees of the Xiyi Islands.

With the help of the ninjas provided by the Maori family, Sun Lin learned that there are about 10,000 samurai troops gathered near Kyoto Island, and 30,000 ashigaru, and more than 500 ships, including 40 heavy ships, that is, Ataku ships and O'an Otaku ships, as many as 30 ships with low combat capabilities in all aspects, and more than 100 ships with seki ships, and the rest are used for reconnaissance, pursuits, riots, assaults on the small hayafune and the thousand stone boats. Of course, only two-thirds of this can really be used by the shogunate, because there are still 3 points and 1 in the hands of the loyal emperor.

On the other side, that is, the Atlanta Empire, the old hegemon-level power of the Western Continent, also divided into 3 parties after learning of this, the first is the main battle faction, advocating open cooperation with the United Nations of the Xiyi Islands, first driving the sudden rise of the sun from the Western Continent, the second is the main peace faction, asking to cooperate with the Sun Never Setting Empire to kill the United Nations of the Xiyi Islands that has been causing trouble for the Atlanta Empire for hundreds of years, and the last one is a conservative, It is believed that the empire should not focus its energy on this issue at present, and that it should choose to stand by and wait for this matter at this stage.

However, what made Sun Lin curious was that among the three parties in the Atlanta Empire, the strongest was not the main battle faction that had control over the navy and navy, let alone the main peace faction that controlled the empire's finances and military logistics, but the army command itself in the Atlanta Empire, and behind it stood the conservatives of the old families in the Atlanta Empire.

The reason is very simple, although the Atlanta Empire is a big empire, its army is really so bad that it can only be compared with the kingdom-level army, just like the Mongol Empire, which had super-first-class cavalry, first-class archers and infantry, the Atlanta Empire is one of the largest empires in the navy of the king continent, but it can reach the bottom in terms of road army, which leads to the fact that the reputation of the Atlanta Empire Army in its country has not been very good, and the strength is also extremely poor, and the whole country adds up to only 10 regular army corps, In addition to the fact that they can be equipped with heavy armor, any recruit who has been in the army for more than one year can be selected from the navy for more than one year, and the veterans who have been in the army for more than five years can be called without even recognizing the number of the unit. As for the so-called old families, at best, they are just the old antiques left behind to protect the so-called intangible material heritage of the Atlanta Empire, and the beauty is infinite on the surface, but the rights they have have have been completely weakened, and the highest power among these family members is the assistant next to the director of the Atlanta Empire's imperial history library.

The conservatives formed by the harmony of such two weak scumbags, the Zhuzhan faction and the Zhuhe faction, not to mention Sun Lin, even the Atlantan emperor was very puzzled, and because of the strength of the conservatives, he was forced to choose to turn a cold eye to this matter, including the fact that he secretly provided steel to the United Nations of the Xiyi Islands before.

It wasn't until later that Sun Lin and Maori Yuan's subordinate army on the Western Continent of the Western Continent of the Empire were preparing for the march into the Atlanta Empire, and after learning about the feudal system of the Atlanta Empire, Sun Lin realized that the reason for this situation was not that there was any mysterious power in the Atlantan Empire, let alone because the conservatives had the support of some Atlantan princes behind them, but a very common force in various empires - the aristocratic class.

If Atlanta wants to help the Empire of the Sun Never Sets or the United Nations of the Xiyi Islands, it must use the army and collect materials from within the empire, and everyone knows that collecting materials is equivalent to selling the materials in the territory to the empire for free or cheaply, and at the same time, they also need to provide free manpower for the empire to use, which is obviously not in the interests of those feudal landlords and nobles who own the territory, so these people unite and secretly support the conservatives.

Don't look at the strength of these nobles, but the network they have can definitely make people's scalp tingle after understanding, for example, a general of the main battle faction has multiple identities such as the husband of a certain viscount woman, the brother-in-law of a certain baron, the nephew of a certain duke, etc., and the strength cards that people fight and advocate playing are all right; And the conservatives are all playing the family relationship card, and the card players are still full of bombs that can't be stopped, and even the fathers of several imperial concubines of the Atlanta Empire, that is, his father-in-law, are on the side of the conservatives, the main battle faction, the main peace faction is not cold, but the Atlantan emperor can?

And Sun Lin is also even more glad that he didn't use the method of becoming an imperial nobleman to win over others at the beginning of the year, otherwise the current empire where the sun never sets is estimated to be a miasma.

And after learning that the Atlanta Empire would not participate in this competition for the owner of the Thousand Islands, at least for the time being, Sun Lin also began to let go of his hands and concentrate on dealing with his Xiyi people. During the period when Sun Lin and the First Expeditionary Fleet of the Sun Never Set Empire were stationed in the uninhabited island group, Sun Lin not only exchanged 5,000 people for the system with his military exploits, and wrote a letter requesting that the West Sea Fleet send a fleet to transport them to the uninhabited island group after obtaining these 5,000 people, but also ordered that the expeditionary fleet and the West Sea Fleet send nearly 100 Hawk assault ships to the territory of the Xiyi Islands United Nations, and cooperate with the Maori naval army to plunder the warships of various families moving towards the shogunate as much as possible to expand their naval strength.

This eventually led to the battle for the island of Shikoku, which erupted in late April, just as May was about to begin.