Ideals are the guiding light, without ideals there is no firm direction, and without direction there is no life.

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

Nams, who wanted to kill all the people of the Honma family, considered that Honma Yuki was also a member of the Honma family, so he did not kill all the people of the Honma family after all, and among the more than 100 old and weak women and children of the Honma family, ten of them were not killed because of Honma Yuhui's relationship.

Of course, Nams's mercy was limited, and in addition to the ten lucky ones left for Honma Yuki, the other more than a hundred people from the Honma family and everyone in the Nagumo family, regardless of men, women, and children, were all ordered to be executed on the spot by Nams.

The Honma family and the Nagumo family were destroyed, and the Governor's Guard took full control of the three prefectures of Sado, and Namus, knowing that his First Fleet would no longer have much effect on Sado Island, led the First Fleet, which had lost its first fleet, to set sail back to Mutsu.

The combined fleet under the command of Ito Yuhiro and Honma Yuki is now the only naval fleet on Sado Island, and Sado Island, which was originally guarded by the three major naval armies of Hashige, Kamo, and Wakita, should now be guarded by the Combined Fleet.

The established strategy of the Yanhuang family is to operate Sado Island into an overseas military base directly under the city of Rome, that is, the bridgehead of the Yamato Empire that the city of Rome blockades with its navy, but it is impossible for the main fleet of the city of Rome to be permanently stationed on Sado Island, because the future enemy of the city of Rome is no longer the barbarian forces that do not even have warships, but the forces of the Celestial Dragon Empire, whose overall strength is stronger than the navy of Rome City!

The military center of gravity of the First Fleet of Nams will be transferred back to the Celestial Dragon Empire in the future, not to mention the First Fleet of Namus, even if the Roman City only sends a detachment to be stationed on Sado Island, it is reasonable.

In this way, in order to ensure the absolute security of Sado Island, Roman City must have a sufficient number of garrisons and a naval fleet that is not weak; Wendell and Namus, as the senior core generals of Roman City, are also the executors of the Roman City responsible for the specific implementation of the strategy of Sado Island, and the army of Obino and Ito Yuheng's fleet are the garrisons of Sado Island that they have deliberately cultivated.

The army of Obwano, which was formed on the basis of the Ito family's standing ashigaru and samurai, successively absorbed dozens of samurai and standing ashigaru from dozens of large and small families in the three prefectures of Hashimo, Kamo, and Wakita, and the total strength of the army reached more than 10,000 people not inferior to the governor's guard.

An army of 1,500 samurai and 9,800 standing ashigaru, supplemented by 100 elite governors' guards as mid-level tactical commanders, would not be inferior in combat effectiveness to the standing armies of any of the overlord families of the Yamato Empire.

Not to mention the newly established Combined Fleet (Sado Naval Force), the naval fleet consisting of five Ataka warships, eight large seki ships, nineteen seki ships, and seventy-four Kozao naval fleets is no less powerful than the Kumano Naval Forces ten years ago.

Compared with the famous Ito Yuhiro of Sado Island and the Nine Ghosts of the Megatron Yamato Empire, the former's reputation is indeed more than a star and a half smaller than the latter, but there is no comparison between the two of them, who can know the result?

Kuki Yoshitaka's Kumano Navy can develop into the first navy of the Yamato Empire with the support of the Oda family; Murakami Takeyoshi's Nojima Navy can develop into the second navy of the Yamato Empire with the support of the Maori family; and the Sado Navy, which is about to receive the full support of the Yanhuang family, may not be without the possibility of growing into the top three powerful sailors of the Yamato Empire.

However, a truly powerful naval fleet has never relied only on the quantity and quality of warships, unless it is a comparison between the Roman warships and the Yamato warships that widens the gap between the times, or a hard push with quantity like the encirclement and annihilation of the first squadron in Nangumo, otherwise, the strength of the fleet commander's personal ability is definitely one of the most important factors influencing the combat effectiveness of the fleet.

Although Nams himself still recognizes Ito's ability, Nams is not qualified to decide Ito's status in the Yanhuang family, the appointment of Ito Yuhiro and Honma Yuki, the future of Obino's army and the combined fleet, Nams and Wendell only have the right to suggest, and everything must wait for Bai Feng to decide personally.

The First Fleet, which was carrying the Governor's Guard and the food and supplies needed for the battle, returned with a load of all kinds of loot from Sado Island, and I have to admit that the accumulation of Sado pirates over hundreds of years is indeed quite an astonishing astronomical amount.

In the process of unifying the Mutsu Kingdom, the Yanhuang family destroyed the spoils captured by the Spo family and the Tsugaru family, all of which added up to less than one-fifth of the booty on Sado Island, and with this batch of booty, even if the Yanhuang family expanded the number of standing troops to 200,000, there would be no need for Bai Feng to use the Yanhuang family's funds to support the Yanhuang family's army within ten years!

In fact, when the First Fleet returned to the port of Mutsu, the 100 transports laden with booty did not immediately dock to unload the booty, but turned around and set sail back to the port of Rome under the escort of two detachments of the First Fleet.

Before sending the First Fleet and the Governor's Guard to secretly attack Sado Island, the reason why Bai Feng did not inform the retainers of the Yanhuang family about this was because he did not want his secret control of Sado Island to be known by anyone or any force.

If the First Fleet was allowed to unload the loot they had captured from Sado Island at the port of Mutsu, the news of the Yanhuang family's capture of Sado Island would soon spread, after all, many of the trophies captured by the First Fleet were plundered from the sea fleet by Sado pirates.

Once these treasures that obviously have the colors of other families appear in large quantities in the Yanhuang family, as long as the people of the other families, especially the Uesugi and other families who are close to the Yanhuang family, are not stupid, they will definitely be able to associate the Yanhuang family with the Sado pirates.

Perhaps no one of the families would think that the Yanhuang family wiped out the Sado pirates in one fell swoop and occupied Sado Island, which was originally occupied by pirates, but as long as the Yanhuang family was linked to Sado Island, Bai Feng's layout on Sado Island would be meaningless.

In order to prevent this from happening, the booty captured by the First Fleet and the Governor's Guard on Sado Island was directly ordered by Bai Feng to be sent back to Rome City, and at the same time, Bai Feng also sent the Flame Sword Master to send an order to Namus, strictly ordering him not to bring anything ashore on Sado Island!

With Bai Feng's clear order, Nams naturally would not do anything to disobey the order, and even the Muramasa Treasure Knife that he had originally planned to give to Bai Feng and was captured from the Honma family was left on the Empire without him with him.

Because this Muramasa sword, which has been passed down by the Honma family for more than 100 years, is a stolen item that the Honma family stole from the Uesugi family before ruling Hashima-gun, and it was also one of the tokens of the Uesugi family's family governor, such a special trophy is exactly within the scope of Hakumine's order.