Riding a warship taken from the side of the Loyal Emperor faction and nearly 100 ordinary ships led by fanatical Shintoists when they assembled, a super fleet of more than 300 ships in total, loaded with 50,000 Saiyi Ashigaru and samurai, traveled north along the Bia Inland Sea in the land of the Thousand Islands on the Western Continent, and under the banner of defending Honnoji, the birthplace of Shintoism, they rushed to Shikoku Island in early May, and on May 11, they crossed the waters of the Bia Inland Sea and reached the waters of the Shikoku Inland Sea.

Before the sun never sets, it was the safest place for the Saiyi people to travel between Shikoku Island and Kyoto Island, and it was a necessary place for ships to pass through. Here, the people of Xiyi do not need to be wary of the appearance of those Xiyi Japanese invaders, because the place where the shogunate trains the naval army is near here, and they do not have to worry about storms in the open sea when the shipping route is encountered, because this is an inland sea with a mild climate.

But after the invasion of the sunset, everything here has changed, in order to hit the economy of the Xiyi side, the West Sea Fleet of the sun does not set at the beginning of the war to set a plan to plunder the four internal sea areas, and later its main fleet was besieged by the shogunate and the main fleet of Maori, but the other ships in the West Sea Fleet did not give up this plan, and later Sun Lin sent nearly a hundred Hawk assault ships to cooperate with the Maori family's naval army to plunder here, although it did not take long for this crazy raid to be destroyed by the counterattack army of the Shogunate, However, the defeat of the counterattack force allowed the sun to gain the right to plunder the waters of the four inland seas and even the Bina inland sea.

Although the United Nations in the Xiyi Islands is basically based on agriculture, its military expenditures all come from customs taxes, and without the supply of these two golden shipping routes, the military strength of the United Nations in the Xiyi Islands will inevitably decline more and more with the passage of time, and we must not forget that the important premise for waging war is money, money, and more money. Don't look at how loud the banner of the Shogun's fleet to fight back, the most important of their true goals is to recapture this golden passage.

Although the first counterattack has failed, leaving only nearly 10,000 remnants of the army wandering around Shikoku Island, but this situation did not hit the morale of the new counterattack army of the Zunmu faction, on the contrary, the existence of the remnants of the army also improved the morale of the Zunmu faction, in their opinion, the nearly 10,000 remnants of the army are still active on the island of Shikoku, which means that the strength of the army that does not set the sun has indeed been traumatized in the previous battle, otherwise as long as it is a ruler with a little brain, Neither would allow a hostile army to bounce around in their own unstable territory for so long.

Coupled with the fact that the road was not disguised on its own side, and the side on which the sun never set did not send any fleet to attack and disturb, the side of the Shogunate faction was even more convinced of this view............... Indeed, until May 13th, the fleet of the new counterattack army was surrounded by a fleet on the side of the sun, and the former Koshoku faction believed in it.

What happened on May 13 really startled the New Counterattack Army, but when the sun in the east showed the white of the fish's belly, the Xiyi sailors who were keeping vigil were horrified to find that the shadows of many warships separated from the dense fog on the surrounding sea and appeared in all directions of the New Counterattack Fleet.

The patriarchs of the Zunshoku clan in the new counterattack fleet immediately ordered the alarm to be sounded for all the ships, and changed the formation of the fleet to a defensive type, so that the Kohaya and Sengoku ships in the fleet surrounded the medium-sized warships such as the Sekibune and the Jinglou ship, and then let those medium-sized warships protect the only 4 Ataku ships and 3 Otaku ships.

It didn't take long for the Western Sea Fleet, which had been in a straight line, to be transformed into a circle, like the hedgehog array used by the spearmen on which the sun never sets. During this period, the number of fleets on the side of the sun never set was increasing, and the fleet of the new counterattack army was surrounded, but it was very tacitly staying outside the range of the outer bow Xiaozai.

In the encirclement of the sunset, a small boat suddenly appeared, which was full of flags with Xiyi characteristics, and there were only two people on the boat, one was a sunset sailor wearing steel inlaid armor, and the other was an old man in a cloth robe.

Emissary? To exchange war letters? The Sun Never Sets Empire still plays this tune? All kinds of strange answers were intertwined in the minds of the high-ranking members of the Zunmu Sect, but after thinking about it, the members of the Zunmu Sect still couldn't figure out which play the sun was singing now. However, there is no so-called "do not kill in wartime" in the morality of the Xiyi army, for the sake of safety, the patriarchs of the Zunmu faction in the new counterattack army decided by vote to send someone to kill the two people on this small boat, so as not to have any accidents, but the accident had already happened at this time.

When the face of the old man in the cloth robe appeared in front of everyone's eyes, including the herald who was about to pass the order to shoot the two people on the boat, nearly half of the Xiyi people, including the new counterattack army, instantly fell to their knees, and at the same time, in the new counterattack fleet, under the spread of several samurai whose faces were so ordinary that they could not be found in the sea of people, more and more Xiyi learned that Master Ikkyu, the presiding master of Honnoji Temple, the birthplace of Shintoism, personally rode the ship of the Sun Never Setting Empire, The fleet of the New Strike Force is going to visit these faithful believers.

On the other side, under the encouragement of several Ashigaru, the Shinto believers in the new counterattack army intentionally or unintentionally used medium-sized warships to block the small hayones who were riding and transmitting the information from the front to the high-ranking of the Shogunate faction.

The news immediately shocked the herald's surroundings and caused them to feel intensely uneasy. But at the same time, they found that they could not do anything about it, because the banner of the counterattack was to defend the Honnoji Temple, and it was with this banner that the Shogunate faction was able to gather more than 50,000 new forces, and among these more than 50,000 new forces, nearly two-thirds of the soldiers were Shinto fanatics. Now, if the shogun and a Shinto monk were put together and the fanatics were to choose their own commander, the two-thirds of the soldiers would definitely not be the shogun, but the Shinto monk, and this is the power of faith.

If the news that the old man was the head of Honnoji Temple, the birthplace of Shintoism, shocked the Shogunate, then what happened next horrified them. Because they saw from a distance that after the old man said something to the Xiyi sailors and warriors around him, those fresh troops actually began to draw their weapons and look at their side. Then more and more Xiyi people became like this, and the boats they were in also paddled again and began to move towards their side.

"Mutiny!" This is the closest to the truth that the high-level leaders of the Venerable Shogun Sect can think of at this time.