Life is not a pleasure, but a very heavy job.

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

The land went surprisingly smoothly, not only allowing Obwano to capture the small family's main castle effortlessly, but also allowing the Ito naval forces at sea to completely capture all the warships of this small family; within one day, the number of warships under the command of Honma Yuki changed from the original one Seki ship and four Kozao to the current one Seki ship and nine Kozao, and the overall strength nearly doubled!

Another small family that got the news of the destruction of this small family began to prepare for war in fear, and on the other hand, they were anxious to ask for help from the Honma family behind them, and anyone with a discerning eye knew that the Honma family would never sit idly by and watch the rise of the Ito family.

Sado Island is the Sado Island of the Sado Pirates, and the Sado Pirates are the No. 1 pirate force in Hokuriku Province built by large and small pirate forces, which is a fact recognized by everyone in the Yamato Empire; what is not known to outsiders is that Hamo County, one of the three Sado Prefectures, has always been the Hamo County of the Honma family, and the Honma family's rule over Hamo County has lasted for hundreds of years!

A hundred years is not a long time, and it is definitely not a short time, it is enough for the Honma family to manage Hamo-gun as their family's forbidden territory, but there is no enduring rule in the world, and there is no long-lasting ruling power, and the Honma family will not be an exception.

A hundred years ago, the Honma family was not only the ruling family of Hamo County, but also the only family power in Hamo County, and a hundred years later, Hamo County is still the sphere of influence of the Honma family, but the number of families in its territory is no less than ten.

How did these dozen or so modest families come to be born in Hamo-gun under the rule of the Honma family? In the final analysis, it was the Yamato Empire's feudal system that played a role; all the Hamo-gun families, including the Ito family, were a new force formed by the Honma family's division of their family's great merits, and in the end they became a threat to the Honma family's rule.

Kengo Honma, who is quite a hero, after receiving a letter of help from the second small family, although he didn't know why the Ito family, who had been keeping to himself, suddenly became in trouble, he still didn't delay in the slightest, and immediately sent his family's support army!

On land, a Honma family army of 500 samurai and 5,000 ashigaru soldiers flocked to the Ito family's main castle like a tidal wave, and a Honma family fleet consisting of one Ataka warship, six large seki ships, twelve seki ships, and fifty Koza on the sea was also unstoppably rushing towards the Ito family's naval port.

The Honma family, which is advancing by land and sea, obviously wants to take this opportunity to destroy the increasingly powerful Ito family in one fell swoop and reassert their absolute hegemony in Hamo Prefecture, but unfortunately, Brent on the sea and Obwano on land will not give the Honma family a chance.

The reason why Obwano was able to lead a hundred elite soldiers under his command and defeat the thousands of soldiers of the first small family was not to blindly fight hard, but to use flexible tactics;

Thirty elite longbowmen, whose task is to take advantage of the range advantage of the Leng Huai longbow, shoot and kill the enemy's regular ashigaru troops with strong combat effectiveness and better equipment; twenty elite crossbowmen, their task is to use the advantage of the crossbow's lethality to shoot the enemy samurai who are the mainstay; and finally fifty elite soldiers rush forward and slash the enemy peasants and soldiers who are already weak in battle.

The tacit cooperation of the longbowmen and the crossbowmen killed more than 40 enemy warriors and more than 200 enemy regulars, and dealt a heavy blow to the enemy's main resistance.

Attacking the enemy's part with a small elite of his own army was the best way to deal with the Yamato army, which had a large number of peasant soldiers, and Obhuano, who succeeded once, did the same for the second time, defeating thousands of soldiers of the second small family and capturing the opponent's main city.

The two victorious battles made Obwano a god-like presence in the eyes of the soldiers of the Ito family, and even ordinary ashigaru began to use the term 'ghost god of war' to describe Obouino as a sign of awe.

With the rapid collapse of these two small families, the thousands of prisoners captured by the Ito family following Obino's subordinates were all incorporated into the Ito family army; Ito Yuhiro was not a fool, he knew that the Honma family behind these two small families would definitely take the opportunity to intervene.

In addition, Ito Yuhiro can also be sure that with his name as the wise general of the Sado First Navy and the strength of the Ito Navy that should not be underestimated, the Honma family, who will not waste such a great opportunity in vain, will definitely send the main fleet of the Hamo Navy to participate in the battle.

Although the Honma family's Hashimo Navy has an absolute quantitative and qualitative advantage over his own Ito Navy, Ito believes that the Yanhuang family fleet remaining in the Hashima Inland Sea will definitely not sit idly by and watch the main Hamo Navy attack his own Ito Navy.

Even if the Yanhuang family fleet did not intercept the Hamao Navy in time, Ito Youheng was completely sure, relying on himself and Honma Yuki's fleet to drag the main force of the Hamao Navy, waiting for the Yanhuang family fleet to arrive on the battlefield in time to end this war that had long been doomed.

Therefore, Ito Yuheng, who was not very worried about the menacing Hamo naval army, was most concerned about the battle on land, and if the army of the Honma family captured the main castle of the Ito family before the arrival of the Yanhuang family's army, then Ito Yuheng would have suffered a great loss.

Even if Ito had brought all his family with him on his flagship, it didn't mean that he was willing to abandon the city that his family had worked so hard to run for decades, or he wouldn't have left his entire army to Obwano.

Obouno, who won the title of 'God of War of Ghosts' with two clean victories, no one questioned his ability to fight on land, and even Ito himself had to admit that Obwano was the best army general he had ever seen in land warfare.

The only thing that made Ito Yuheng curious was that he didn't know what the status of Obwano in the Yanhuang family was if he could fight to this extent, and if he wanted to say that Obwano had a high status in the Yanhuang family, Ito Yuheng actually didn't believe it, because the other party only brought a hundred people to him, no matter how strong the combat power of those hundred people was, they were only a hundred people after all, right?

If Obwano's status in the Yanhuang family is really not high, it can only mean that the Yanhuang family's talent has reached a very terrifying level, which is not a happy thing for Ito Youheng, because the large number of talents means that the competition is fierce!

It's true that Ito wants to hug the thighs of the Yanhuang family and go to the vast world outside of Sado Island to make contributions, but how can he, who is accustomed to being respected and in a high position, really willing to start from the bottom?