Life is not a game, and as such, we don't have the right to give it up of our own volition.

- Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy (one of the most outstanding writers in the history of world literature)

With the addition of one Guan ship and four Xiao Zao's first fleet, the number of warships has changed from eight to thirteen, which looks a lot more majestic than before;

In front of the double-lined battleships and three-column battleships with crushing advantages, Kohaya and Sekifune did not even have the qualifications to call them warships, but in the Yamato Empire, where shipbuilding skills were relatively backward, Kozao and Sekifune were still the main warships and the backbone of the naval armies of the major overlord families.

The main warships, such as the large Sekibune and Ataka warships, were the mainstay of any naval force in the Yamato Empire, after all, not every family had the resources and skills to build more powerful ironclad ships like the Oda family.

The original intention of Nams in deciding to recruit Honma Yuhui was to use Honma Yuhui to form a subsidiary fleet belonging to the First Fleet, because the First Fleet was the fleet of Rome City, and this subsidiary fleet belonging to the First Fleet would be the fleet of the Yanhuang family!

The Ito Navy and part of the Hamo Navy who were counting on Honma Yukei to persuade Ito to surrender were actually not much different from the fleet loyal to Honma Yuki that he had sent to the door now, and Honma Yukei, who was the middleman, would sooner or later be reused for this.

If Honma could not succeed in persuading Ito Yuhei to lead his Ito navy to surrender to the Yanhuang clan, then the barely good Ito navy would be annihilated by the First Fleet, which was not a difficult task for the powerful First Fleet.

The crux of the matter is that the Akita Navy has been heavily damaged by Aimar's Fourth Fleet, and the Kamo Navy has also been severely damaged by Babst's Fifth Fleet.

With Brent's support, Honma Yuki took more than 400 sailors under his command to his own fleet, and with such a fleet belonging to Honma Yukei, there was no need for Brent's first fleet to send Honma Yuki to the Ito family.

However, the fleet of one ship and four small ships was too small to accommodate Obwano and his 100 elite soldiers, so Brent could only send two twin warships to transport Obwano and his elite squadron.

In fact, one twin battleship was enough to carry Obino's squadron, but Brent, in order to ensure the absolute success rate of the landing, specially sent two twin battleships to transport Obino's squadron to land, and also to supervise Honma's fleet.

Honma's fleet was at the lead, followed by Brent's first fleet, and after about an hour of movement between the two fleets, the coastline was already looming in front of them, so Brent ordered his fleet to halt and let Honma continue to advance.

Two twin warships, a seki ship, and a mixed fleet of four Kozai, walked alone for less than ten minutes, and encountered a pirate fleet flying the pirate flag, and this time, the fleet that appeared was indeed the real Ito naval fleet.

The fleet composed of two seki ships and twelve Kozao is not large, but the flag hanging on one of the seki ships makes Honma Yuki very excited, and this flag representing the governor of the Ito family shows that Ito Yuhiro himself is on this seki ship!

More than an hour ago, Yuki Honma, who had lost all his ships, once again had his own fleet, and more than an hour later, he took his fleet to Honma near the coastline and met his uncle after a long absence.

The relationship between the Honma family and the Ito family has never been close, partly because there are too many people in the Honma family who don't want their family to get too close to the Ito family, and partly because Ito Yuhiro doesn't want his family to be too influenced by the Honma family.

Honma Yuhui's background determines that the Ito family is both his help and his shortcoming, and the Honma family retainers who support him think that his ascension to the throne can make the Ito family become a vassal of the Honma family, and the Honma family retainers who oppose him think that his ascension to the throne will only make the Ito family slowly grow bigger, and even the resourceful Ito Yuhiro may gradually overthrow the Honma family by manipulating Honma Yukei.

When Honma was a contender for the governor of the Honma family, he had been troubled by this kind of controversy more than once, but now, when Honma Yuki had walked on the edge of life and death, and saw his uncle Ito Yuhiro again, his heart was full of excitement and emotion.

Monoma Yukei, who is not a stupid man, understands in his heart that if he is not the nephew of Ito Yuhiro, the first wise general of the Sado Naval Army, he has been thrown into the sea by the fleet commander of the Yanhuang family to feed the fish;

Even with his own nephew present and having never seen a twin battleship in the shape of a twin battleship, Ito Yuhiro maintained due vigilance against the two twin battleships on the edge of Honma's fleet, and as a result, the fourteen warships of the Ito Navy were always in a state of readiness.

After coming to his uncle's temporary ship, Honma Yukei, who found spiritual sustenance, told Ito Yuhiro about what happened to him two days ago, and when describing the scale of the Yanhuang family's fleet, Honma Yuki regarded the 100 transport ships of the First Fleet of Nams as unfathomable warships, which made Ito Yuhei's eyes almost pop out in shock.

Ito Yuhiro, known as the first wise general of the Sado Navy, naturally his strategic vision was far from being comparable to that of Honma Yukei, and after listening to Honma's narration, he rejected Honma's suggestion to betray the Yanhuang family after landing with him.

Not only that, Ito also persuaded Honma not to hold a grudge against the Yanhuang family, but to take this opportunity to hug the Yanhuang family's thighs, and for Ito Yuhyung, who aspires to become the first general of the Yamato Empire, the Yanhuang family is a good choice.

Yuki Honma, who did not expect his uncle to make such a choice, was silent at first, and then locked himself in the cabin for four hours, which was not too long, but it was enough to make Obwano on the twin battleship realize that something was wrong.

The two twin battleships that had been on the edge of Honma's fleet quietly retreated, widening the distance between them and Honma's fleet; if it weren't for the fact that he didn't have the authority to give orders to the two twin ships, Obwano would have had the heart to do something to the Ito navy.

The most annoying thing for the proud soldiers of the Doge's Guard was this worthless waiting, for whom everything should be settled by the simplest and most direct battles, and the painstaking negotiations, persuasions, and forced surrenders were just a waste of time.

Honma Yuki, who had been thinking about it alone for four hours, finally agreed to his uncle's persuasion, because Honma Yuki had to admit that the truth was as his uncle said, even if he could take the opportunity to escape now, he would still be unable to escape death when the Yanhuang family captured Sado Island. Therefore, instead of waiting until that time to lead the neck and kill, it is better to take this opportunity to hug the thighs of the Yanhuang family!