Forgive all people forever, forgive others countless times, because there is no one in the world who is innocent, no one who does not need to forgive, and therefore no one has the right to punish or correct others.

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

Before Honma's fleet officially separated from Brent's First Fleet, each warship had a white background banner painted with a black eagle, and the flag of the Hamo Naval Forces that had been hoisted on their ships was thrown into the sea by Honma himself.

The white banner with a black eagle was slightly altered from the black eagle flag on a white background of the Roman City Navy, and Brent gave it to Honma Yuki for the purpose of clearly distinguishing between friend and foe so as to avoid accidental injuries.

After Yuki Honma, who did not carry these long flags with him, decided to really join the Yanhuang family with his uncle Ito Yuhyung, he sent the sailors around him to return to his temporary ship in a small boat to fetch these military flags for the Ito navy.

When Ito's two ships and twelve Kozao all hoisted the black eagle flag on a white background, the captains of the two twin battleships finally let go, and in their opinion, all this was the credit of Yuki Honma, who persuaded his uncle.

As everyone knows, Honma Yuki was the one who tried to betray the Yanhuang family, and his uncle Ito Yuheng became the one who persuaded him to let go of his mind.

Compared with the long sigh of relief for the two captains of the twin battleships, Obuwano, who had never let down his guard against Honma Yuki, had raised his vigilance because of the unusual four hours, and even the hundred elites under his command were ready for battle.

Although Ito Yuhiro and Honma Yuki had both become retainers of the Yanhuang family and were related uncles and nephews, they did not have a close relationship with each other, so their fleets did not merge directly, but remained independent.

The Ito Navy, whose strength has not been traumatized, is a flagship of an Ataka warship, and there are seven Seki ships and 30 Kozao fighting forces below, and in comparison, one Seki ship and four Kozao under the command of Yuki Honma are quite shabby.

Honma Yonghui made two promises to Nams before, one was to persuade his uncle Ito Yuhiro to lead the Ito Navy to surrender to the Yanhuang family, and the other was to rebel against some of the Yumao Navy to follow him to surrender to the Yanhuang family;

Because Honma Yuki, who was accustomed to commanding more than a dozen warships, really couldn't stand the fact that he only had four or five warships under his command; even if he knew that no matter how many warships he commanded, he would not be able to pose a threat to the Yanhuang family's fleet, and he could not even play a role in improving his status in the Yanhuang family, but he still desperately wanted to have more warships.

Ito Yuhiro, who is known as the wise general of the Sado First Naval Army, naturally cannot watch his own nephew continue to do nothing, but as the governor of the Ito family, it is impossible for him to transfer the warships of the Ito Navy to Honma Yuki.

After all, the Ito family will not be Ito Yuhiro's family alone, and none of the retainers of the Ito family and the generals of the Ito Navy will agree to give the warship of their family's own navy to Honma Yuki, because Honma Yuki is a member of the Honma family after all.

In fact, Ito himself had no idea of giving his own naval ships to his nephew, because no matter how close his nephew was, he could never kiss his son, and Ito had several sons who were about the same age as Honma Yuki.

In the absence of a better way, Ito came up with a way to harm others and benefit himself, that is, to attack two small families near the Ito family, which was an excellent way for Ito to kill two birds with one stone.

First of all, the naval fleets of these two small families could not pose a threat to the Ito naval army, and could be captured by the Ito naval army or forced to surrender to Honma Yuki;

The reason why Ito Yuhiro did not destroy these two small families blocking the door of the Ito family in the past was not because the Ito family did not destroy their strength, but because the supporting forces behind these two small families were the most powerful Honma family in Hamo County.

In other words, these two small families are the tools used by the Honma family to restrain the development of the Ito family, and even the seemingly close marriage between the Honma family and the Ito family was originally a way for the Honma family to try to annex the Ito family.

It's just that the lucky Ito family gave birth to the amazing naval commander Ito Youheng, which made the Honma family's annexation plan unable to come to fruition;

The crux of the matter is that before the incomparably powerful soldiers of the Yanhuang family came to Sado, Ito Youheng had no other way but to forbear;

After the discussion of Ito Yuhiro and Honma Yukuri, the Ito family's attack on these two small families was divided into two parts: the sea part was naturally carried out by the Ito Navy and the Honma Yuki fleet, and the land part was handed over to Obwano and his elite by the two.

Of course, it would be a bit unkind to entrust the task of attacking the two small families' own cities to Obuino, who only has a hundred elite soldiers under his command, and Ito Youheng, who intends to completely defect to the Yanhuang family, would not do such a foolish thing without foresight.

In order to curry favor with the Yanhuang family, Ito Youheng took out 100 samurai and 1,000 ashigaru of his own family and handed them over to Obwano of the Yanhuang family for unified command.

It was not difficult for Obuno, who was already the captain of the Governor's Guard, to command 1,200 soldiers, but on the second day after he was given command of the Ito family's army, he led his army directly to attack the first small family's main city, without even the slightest hesitation.

The samurai and ashigaru of the Ito family are no stronger than the samurai and ashigaru of the first small family, and even slightly inferior in terms of weapons and equipment; after all, the latter was supported by the Honma family to specifically restrain the Ito family, and it will definitely not work without the corresponding strength.

But the real main force under Obuino's command was not the samurai and ashigaru of the Ito family, but the hundred elite of the Doge's Guard brought by himself, and the projectiles of longbowmen, the sniping of crossbowmen, and the onslaught of barbarian warriors directly crushed the army of this small family.

A single charge of a hundred elite soldiers of the Doge's Guard easily crushed thousands of soldiers of a small family, and such a terrifying feat not only broke the resistance of this small family, but also made the soldiers of the Ito family who were watching feel close.