Everyone knows that it is much more difficult to translate words into action than to put them into words.

- Gorky (proletarian writer of the former Soviet Union, founder of socialist realist literature)

It only took a few days for the Yanhuang family to start from scratch, and it only took a few months to go from being confined to the central part of Mutsu to dominating Oshu, and the Sanada family, the Nanbu family, the Kunohe family, the Quanshan family, and other vassal families of the Yanhuang family were also enemies of the Yanhuang family.

The retention and importance of the surrendered family is the key to the rapid development and growth of the Yanhuang family, and it is also Bai Feng's consistent employment criterion; as long as the surrenderers sincerely serve the Yanhuang family, and they themselves are capable, Bai Feng will not mind their identity.

Including Sado Taishou Hattori Yashiro, whose position is not known to outsiders, all the six existing generals in the Yanhuang family's Taishou and army are surrendered;

The voluntary surrender of Kantai Tsuta, Yasuma Kunohe, Iwashimizu Yoshikyo and others may not be repeated in the retainers of the Date family, but the surrender of the Tsugaru family's retainers is a good reference value if it is placed on the retainers of the Date family.

Date Masamune, the governor of the Date family, is much more trustworthy than the Tsugaru family's governor, both in terms of his ability to rule the family and his courage to control his retainers, but the Tsugaru family is not without strengths, at least their retainers are more loyal.

Kanehei Tsunori, Ogasawara Nobuki, and Moritsuna Nobumoto, who were also known as the 'Three Elders of Oura', and Yumitsu Numata, who served as Tsugaru's military advisor, were not the humerus ministers who had been loyal to the Tsugaru family for decades? Hattori Yasagi, known as the 'incomparably good minister', was a model of samurai whose reputation for loyalty spread far and wide; even these people surrendered to the Yanhuang family after the demise of the Tsugaru family, could the retainers of the Date family be diehards?

Date Terumune, who took over a mess from his father, will inevitably use some unusual methods to restore the glory of the Date family, such as using his own brother to annex the left-behind family and the Watari family, which were originally close to the Date family.

The lord of Yonezawa Castle, the capital of the Date family, was originally the younger brother of Date Terumune, and later succeeded to the childless Left-behind Family Governor Liu-Hyeonmune, and after he changed his name to Left-behind Masaki and succeeded him as the Left-behind Family Governor, the Left-behind Family naturally integrated into the Date Family.

The current governor of the Date family is Date Masamune, the son of Date Teizune, and the lord of Yonezawa Castle, Ryō Masaki, and the lord of Watari Castle, Watari Motomune, are his own uncles, so no matter what the surname of Ryū Masaki and Watari Motomune is, they will not be unfaithful to their own nephews.

At a time when the Date family was united and happy, didn't the left-behind Hyunjong, who was nominally the lord of the Date family's Rifu Castle, have no guilt in his heart? It is a fact that the left-behind Hyunjong had no children, but this does not mean that the left-behind family necessarily needs to have step-sons from other families; because the left-behind Hyunjong had brothers and sisters, and he himself had as many as four or five nephews, so why should he inherit from the Date family?

In the final analysis, the succession of the Date family to the left-behind family and the Watari family is not that the Date family cares much about the inheritance of the left-behind family and the Watari family, but that the Date family needs to use this softer way to annex these two families and expand the power of their own family.

Now, the previous governor of the Ganli family has passed away for many years, and the bloodline members of the real Ganli family are nowhere to be found under the deliberate suppression of the Ganli Yuanzong;

The Watari family, whose bloodline members are scattered everywhere, will sooner or later follow in the footsteps of the Watari family, these two families that can't have much loyalty to the Date family are the targets of persuasion carefully selected by Bai Feng.

The Yanhuang family was responsible for attacking Changlu and Shimono with the six Roman legions, the Tenglong legion, and the southern standing army, among which the supreme commander was the sixth Roman legion's commander Marcus;

The left-behind family has the core figure of the left-behind sect, and it is still relatively convenient for Marcus to deal with it, and it is not a simple matter for the Watari family, which is almost no different from the annihilation, to reappear on the land of Shimono Country.

After all, Watari Motozong was the nominal governor of the Watari family, so he did not blatantly exterminate all the people of the Watari family, but controlled them in the countryside near Watari City, and neither allowed them to return to Watari Castle, nor allowed them to leave Watari Castle too far to go elsewhere.

In order not to attract the attention of Watari Motozong and even the Date family in advance, Hakumine asked Hattori Hanzo to send some ninja soldiers to secretly lurk in the village where the people of the Watari family were controlled, and once the Yanhuang family's army arrived, the ninjas would come forward to rescue them.

When the time comes, the army of the Yanhuang family will give priority to capturing the city of Ganli and Lifu, and then support the people of the Ganli family and those who remain in the family to regain control of their own families; it is best to let the people of these two families have some blood on their hands, so that the loyalty of the Ganli family and the left-behind family to the Yanhuang family will naturally be guaranteed.

The reason why Bai Feng went to such great lengths to separate the Watari family and the left-behind family from the Date family was because he wanted to use this to scandalize the image of the Date family and win the reputation of a benevolent and righteous teacher for the Yanhuang family, and on the other hand, because the emaciated camels of the Date family were bigger than horses, and the large number of Date retainers had to be divided into several parts that were hostile to each other so that Bai Feng could use them with confidence.

Otherwise, once a large number of Date retainers form a powerful political group within the Yanhuang family, then Bai Feng will have a headache;

The coercive order from above may have made the newly descended Date retainers dare not easily hold each other together, but over time, this coercive order can play an extremely limited role, and is far less effective than using the power of hatred to divide them.

How to divide and use the Date retainers, Bai Feng already has a general framework in his heart, as for the specific implementation, it will depend on the actual development of the battle situation;

One of the more important things that was more important than the use of the Date retainers was Bai Feng's plan for the future of the Yanhuang family's standing army; compared to the former's slight tricks that could be successful, the latter had to consider more and more complicated things, and even Bai Feng had to deal with them carefully.