Wealth is not a permanent friend, but a friend is a permanent wealth.

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

During the days when Bai Feng stayed in Sanhe Castle, more than 9,000 soldiers of the Governor's Guard under Wendell also came to the open sea of Sado Island under the escort of Commander Namus's First Roman Fleet.

As the fleet sailed from the port of Mutsu to Sado Island, the Roman First Fleet encountered more than a number of Yamato Imperial fleets, all of which were captured by the First Fleet, and some of the most knowledgeable captains were 'invited' aboard the Empire.

Both Nams and Wendell understood the truth that they knew that the other side could not be defeated, so they did not plan to blindly rush to Sado Island, but prepared to obtain some information about the Yamato Imperial Navy from the captured captain.

Facts have proved that among the captains captured by Nams's fleet, there are indeed a considerable number of captains who have a relatively good understanding of the overall situation of the Yamato Empire's naval forces, and under their 'proactive' detailed explanations, the two also have a deep understanding of the Yamato Imperial naval forces.

First of all, the Yamato Empire is not a maritime country, the maritime country describes a country with the sea as the main production and living mode benchmark, and the coastal country with fishing and commerce can be considered a maritime country, while the Yamato Empire is not like this.

The Yamato Empire is just a continental country staying on the island, and the Yamato Empire has always been a country that pursues agriculture, and has nothing to do with the coastal countries and coastal city-states of the Tianlong Continent, and the current Yamato Empire has not really gone to the sea.

The naval armies of the major families of the empire were basically pirates who raided the Seto Inland Sea and the coastal waters of Japan, such as the famous Kuki Yoshitaka and Murakami Takeyoshi, as well as the general manager of Kurishima Streeto, etc., and the daimyo of various places had the power to fight on the water by cooperating with these pirates or recruiting An.

The most famous of all the pirates of the Yamato Empire, Kuki Yoshitaka, was born into a small wealthy family in the Shima Province and was subordinate to the Kumano Naval Army, which at its peak fought fiercely against the naval forces of Kyushu, such as Goto and Tsufang, for dominance of the waters off Kyushu.

However, by the time of Kataka, the Kumano Naval Army had weakened, and its power could not leave the Kumano Beach, and it could only rely on the Kitada clan of Ise Kuniji to survive;

In the 11th year of Astronomy, the second son of the lord of Shima Kunita Castle, Kuki Yoshitaka was born, and the Shima Kuki Yoshitaka family controlled the entire Shima country, and the castle was in the Iwakura area of Kamo Township, and his brother Kuki Jotaka served as the lord of the castle Tajo, and the Kuki Yoshitaka himself served as the lord of Poche Castle.

At this time, the power of the Shima Seven Islands who had been driven away by the Nine Demons Takara gradually recovered, and they led the army to raid the Nine Demons Family's main city, Tajo;

After three years of ambush rectification, the Nine Ghosts Jialong family regained its former military strength, and supported his brother Nine Ghosts Jinglong's orphan, Nine Ghosts Chenglong, to raise troops to counterattack, and the Nine Ghosts family recaptured their family home Tiancheng after a hard fight.

Soon after the Kuki Susataka became the seventh governor of the Shima Nine Ghost family, he suddenly fell ill and died, so he was succeeded by Kataka as the eighth governor of the Shima Nine Ghost Family.

Everyone in the world knows that the sudden death of the seventh generation of the Nine Ghost Family's Governor Nine Ghosts Chenglong is a conspiracy of the Nine Ghosts Jialong, who killed his nephew by any means in order to seize power, and then lied about his illness and died, this kind of cruel behavior was not uncommon in the Yamato Empire.

After mastering the Shima Kingdom and defeating the Shichishima people, the next enemy of the Kuki Yoshitaka was the Kitada family, the Ise Kuniji, and the Toba Castle built by the Kuki Yoshitaka as the family's main city was located in the Ise Jingu sphere of influence, and it can be said that it violated the Kamitsu.

As a result, the Kitada clan raised a large number of troops and joined forces with the other Shima families who were dissatisfied with the Kuki Yoshitaka to invade the territory of the Kuki family, and the Kuki Yoshitaka led the Kuki family army to resist desperately and repelled the combined forces of the Ise Kuniji and the Shima family, and the Kitada army fled back to Isean Nozu Castle.

It didn't take long for the Nine Ghosts Yoshitaka to usher in a turning point in his fate, and under the mediation of the Oda family's important retainer Takigawa Kazuki, the Nine Ghosts Yoshitaka got in touch with Oda Nobunaga, and then the Nine Ghosts Yoshitaka officially joined the Oda family and became the Oda family's naval general.

In the second year of the Oda family, the Kuki Yoshitaka was the forerunner of the Oda family's conquest of Ise, and was awarded the Shima Province by Oda Nobunaga as a reward.

After assisting Oda Nobunaga in pacifying Ise, Yoshitaka Kuki led his naval army to participate in the battle of the Oda family's conquest of Ise Nagashima, and led 14 Ataka ships to be active in the Battle of Nagashima, making great contributions to the Oda family's battle to annihilate Nagashima.

However, the Oda family's elimination of the Nagashima region did not demoralize the disciples of Ishiyama Honganji, and the outcome of the Battle of Nagashima stimulated their determination to resist, and they once again organized a larger group of Ichi-ji.

At that time, Ishiyama Honganji was allied with the Mori clan that dominated San'in and Sanyo provinces, and the logistical support for Honganji's large number of disciples was maintained because of the strong maritime transportation force of the Maori naval forces behind them.

At that time, the Mori navy had control over the sea from the Sanyo Road to Osaka Bay, and the Oda clan's army had to defeat the Mori family's navy in order to break through Ishiyama Honganji, seize the sea power, and cut off the supply line of Ishiyama Honganji.

This time, the Nine Demons Yoshitaka encountered the Murakami and Mori naval forces commanded by Murakami Takeyoshi, and the Oda naval forces that could participate in the battle only had a dozen Ataka ships and more than 200 Kozao and Seki ships, while the Murakami and Maori naval forces had a total of more than 800 warships of various types.

What was even more fatal was that the Murakami, Maori and other naval forces also had the support of the Saiga Army, Awawa and Kishu Naval Army, so that the strength of the Kuki Kataka Naval Army and the Murakami Takeshi Naval Army was very different, and the two sides fought fiercely at the Kizu River Pass, the Oda Naval Army was defeated, and the Honganji Temple was relieved.

As soon as he returned to the Oda family, he immediately ordered the Kuki Yoshitaka and Takigawa Kazuyoshi to supervise the construction of seven new warships in Ise Okochi Castle, which was the most powerful warship in the history of the Yamato Empire - ironclad ships!

Legend has it that this kind of ironclad ship was 30 to 40 meters long, with 60 large oars, and was equipped with 3 large barrels, 24 medium barrels, and 68 small barrels.

Nine Ghost Yoshitaka led six ironclad ships and Takigawa Kazuki led one ironclad ship was approaching the waters near Kishu, and after the Honganji side got the news, they immediately sent Saga, Awawa, Kishu and other auxiliary naval forces to intercept it, and then it was the first time that the ironclad ship showed its combat capability.