Living with others, don't forget what you learned when you were alone. And when you're alone, think carefully about what you've learned in your dealings with others.

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

Obino, who had obtained all the troops of the Ito family, first dismissed all the peasants and soldiers in the Ito family's army on the spot, and then dismissed the peasants and soldiers of the enemy army that had been captured by him on the spot, and the remaining 3,000 or so soldiers became his combat troops.

With more than 300 samurai from three families and more than 3,200 regular ashigaru from three families, Obuvano used his prestige as a god of war to make these samurai and ashigaru temporarily put aside their family hatred for each other.

The imposing Honma family army was only 500 samurai and 5,000 ashigaru at full strength, which was not much stronger than the army in Obouno's hands, but the Honma family army was indeed stronger than Obouino's army in terms of weapons and equipment.

Fortunately, Obwano was not the kind of rigid commander who would only fight hard, and he decided to use a new way of fighting to carry out this battle, and in order to implement this new way of fighting, Obwano deliberately selected 400 dead soldiers from the army.

The Ombuano was divided into four squadrons, each with twenty-five samurai and seventy-five ashigaru, and eight thousand peasants were temporarily recruited by Obwano with funds provided by the Ito family.

Obino, who never expected the peasant soldiers to play any substantial role, did not tell anyone what his purpose was in recruiting 8,000 peasant soldiers, and even the curious inquiries of the Ito family's retainers were gagged by Obouino on the grounds of military secrecy.

The retainers of the Ito family who did not dare to question Obouano asked Obouno about the 8,000 peasant soldiers not because they wanted to interfere with Obwano's command, but because they did not understand why Obouino wanted to do more.

The first thing Obuwanu did when he took over the Ito army and the large number of prisoners of the two destroyed families a few days ago was to dismiss all the peasant troops in the various armies on the spot, which was not incomprehensible to the Ito retainers.

Because Obouino had proved the truth of the statement that soldiers were more expensive than expensive with his own brilliant achievements, the retainers of the Ito family did not question Obouino's courage or intend to lead the army in his place.

But who would have thought that Obuwanou, who had only been demobilized for a few days after dismissing five or six thousand peasant soldiers, would recruit 8,000 new peasant soldiers; what made the retainers of the Ito family speechless was that the cost of recruiting these 8,000 peasant soldiers was much more than the normal recruitment of 20,000 peasant soldiers!

Half of the Ito family's wealth accumulated over the decades was brought to his flagship by Ito Youheng, and half was used by Obwanu to recruit 8,000 peasant soldiers.

Obuwanu, who was busy facing the army of the Honma family, did not have the time and energy to care about the mood of the Ito family's retainers, anyway, with Ito Yuhen's order before leaving, all the Ito family's retainers would unconditionally meet all his requirements.

The 8,000 peasant soldiers were recruited by Obouino with a lot of money, but they were not as simple as ordinary cannon fodder, which can be seen from the fact that Obouino tried every means to prepare weapons and equipment for these peasant soldiers;

After ensuring that each peasant soldier had a metal weapon, Obouannu divided the 8,000 peasant soldiers into four units and assigned them to the four squadrons of dead soldiers that had been formed earlier, and in an instant, the under-armed Obouannu had five combat units with more than 2,000 soldiers.

After all these preparations were completed, the 5,500 elite divisions of the Honma family were already just one step away from the Ito family's main castle, and Obouannu, knowing that he could not afford to waste any more precious time, decisively sent his first combat unit.

The battle force composed of 25 samurai, 75 ashigaru, and 2,000 peasant soldiers seemed to be impressive, but in fact it had no combat effectiveness to speak of, and the Honma clan army, which had planned to fight hard, was able to defeat the first combat unit of the Ito clan in just half an hour with less than 500 casualties.

The general of the Honma family, who did not expect the Ito family army to be so vulnerable, led his army to launch a moderate pursuit of the defeated Ito family army, and as a result, they could not catch up with the Ito family soldiers who were frantically fleeing for their lives, and another Ito family army appeared in front of them.

The sudden appearance of this Ito family army made the head of the Honma family instinctively tighten, and he thought that his pursuit had ventured into the trap of the Ito family, and with a worried face, he ordered to abandon the pursuit while regrouping and preparing to meet the Ito family's army.

This time, it took nearly an hour for the Honma family's army to defeat the Ito family's army again at the cost of more than 700 casualties.

In order to improve the morale of the soldiers under his command, the chief general of the Honma family gave the order to pursue at the same time, and also issued another order: all the trophies captured by the soldiers of the Honma family in this battle will belong to the captured soldiers themselves!

This order, which was no different from the slaughter order, caused the already exhausted soldiers of the Honma family to burst back into great combat strength, and they rushed at the defeated Ito soldiers with a roar, trying to plunder more of their own booty.

Soon, the third army of the Ito family appeared in front of the Honma family's army, and the red-eyed Honma family's army didn't need an order from their general at all, so they frantically slaughtered the Ito family's army with an indomitable attitude.

The Ito family's army, which was not strong, could not hold out for half an hour under the onslaught of the Honma family's army, and the third Ito family's army, which only inflicted four or five hundred casualties on the Honma family's army, was declared defeated and collapsed.

By the time the fourth Ito family army appeared, the number of intact soldiers in the Honma family army was less than 4,000, and all the soldiers looked out of breath, and even the weapons in their hands were not as stable as they were at the beginning.

However, with their superiority in numbers and weaponry, the Honma family's army still defeated the fourth Ito family's army, but this time they paid a much heavier price in casualties than the previous three, and it took longer.

Just as the general of the Honma family was about to order the entire army to camp on the spot and rest, Aubuwanu himself led his 3,000 elite ashigaru to shout the slogan of the charge, and killed the exhausted Honma family army from all sides of the battlefield.