"Chapter Seventy-Seven: A New Ambition"

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After sorting out the relationship between the Oda family and the Sanada family, and figuring out the internal contradictions of the southern family, Bai Feng, who felt a headache, really understood why the southern Harutsugu of the southern family was desperately attacking the remnants of the Sanada family.

Although this Yamato Empire has countless similarities with the Warring States period of Japan, which Bai Feng is familiar with, based on the two facts in front of him, Bai Feng still attributes it all to the coincidence of fate.

The first fact is that there are no other unknown continents outside the four archipelago where the Yamato Empire is located, or in other words, the Yamato people living in the Yamato Empire have no contact with any overseas forces, and Bai Feng is the first person in a thousand years.

The second fact is the distribution of family power within the Yamato Empire; during the Warring States period of Japan, the Oda family and the Sanada family were obviously not families of the same period, and this was also the essential difference between the Yamato Empire and the Warring States period of Japan.

With these two irrefutable facts, Bai Feng, who couldn't believe it in his heart, still had to believe that all this was indeed a coincidence, but no matter whether the Yamato Empire was connected to the Warring States period of Japan or not, it could not change Bai Feng's dislike for the Yamato Empire.

As a Han Chinese with strong roots, the education he received since childhood made Bai Feng full of hostility towards the country of Japan, and the name Yamato is precisely the name of the Japanese nation. So, the Yamato Empire of this world lay down its guns.

Bai Feng, who originally didn't plan to intervene in this matter, was determined to expand the strength of Roman City to the Yamato Empire at this time, and the Sanada family of Sanada Masayuki would become the first Yamato Imperial family to conquer Rome City, but it was definitely not the only one!

After confirming his ambitions for the Yamato Empire, Bai Feng, who had changed his mind, generously accepted Sanada Masayuki's allegiance, and asked the medical staff of the Roman army to help treat the wounded soldiers of the Sanada family's army.

Since Sanada Masayuki's submission was accepted by Bai Feng, the identity of the Sanada family's army was also taken prisoner and turned into his own people, and under Bai Feng's order, Licini quickly returned all the weapons and equipment he had collected before to the soldiers of the Sanada family.

After a fierce battle with the southern Haruki, there were less than 100 samurai left in the Sanada clan who could still fight, and the total number of ordinary soldiers such as spear ashigaru and bow and arrow ashigaru was more than 900, which was not much stronger than a brigade of the Roman army.

The southern family, which is relatively strong, still has at least 15,000 or so troops to fight, which is a force that should not be underestimated, and if the city of Rome wants to gain a foothold in the Yamato Empire, it must first eradicate this inferior southern family.

In fact, from the time Licinius's army defeated the army of Haruhi in the south, the city of Rome was already on the opposite side of the southern family, after all, the southern family with the support of the Date family was not the exhausted Sanada family, and they would not surrender to Rome easily.

The surrender of the Sanada family has made their family's army a systematically recognized Roman city army, so that Hua Mu, a war doctor who has been following Bai Feng's side, can use his miraculous healing powers.

After the previous turbulence on the sea made the soldiers of Rome very tired, and after simply building a temporary military camp large enough to accommodate 30,000 troops, Bai Feng let the exhausted soldiers rest, and he left Sanada Masayuki in his military tent.

The southern family of the Mutsu Kingdom is still a completely unfamiliar force to Bai Feng after all, and in order to launch an attack on this force, Bai Feng needs to know Sanada Masayuki of the Southern Family to help him formulate an attack plan.

Sanada Masayuki, who was already angry with the southern family, naturally would not refuse to give advice to Bai Feng; he first informed Bai Feng of the current situation and distribution of troops in the southern family, and then cautiously put forward his own attack plan.

The southern family, headed by Minami Harumasa, currently ruled over a total of four castles, including Sanhe Castle, the main castle of the family, a wild border castle located directly north of Sanhe Castle, Hachinohe Castle directly south of Ichiza, and a Kunohe Castle due east.

The main city of the southern family does not have a city lord, and it is directly controlled by the family governor Nanbu Qingzheng, and the city lord of the other three cities is also served by the henchmen of the southern family.

Next, the Roman army was about to attack the castle of Kunohe, which was the closest to the landing point, and this castle was dominated by the henchman of the southern family, Masashi Kunohe, and was garrisoned by about 3,000 troops of the southern family, and the combat effectiveness of the defenders was not as good as that of the army of Haru in the south.

With the fighting strength of the Roman army, it should have been an easy task for more than 20,000 Roman soldiers to capture a city guarded by 3,000 defenders, but Sanada Masayuki's attack plan was to send only 5,000 men to surround Kunohe Castle and besiege it without attacking it.

As soon as he heard Sanada Masayuki say this, after a little thought, Bai Feng understood his intentions, this is a typical encirclement point reinforcement strategy, by besieging the nine towns of the nine households, to attract the main army of the southern family to gather in the nine cities, and then annihilate the army of the southern families in one fell swoop.

Once the main army of the southern family was completely annihilated by the army of the Roman city, the southern family that lost the army was reduced to a lamb to the slaughter, and at that time, the Roman army could not only successfully capture the nine cities, but also take the other three cities of the southern family.

Adhering to the principle of employing people without suspicion of suspicion, Bai Feng, who decided to implement this plan, officially appointed Sanada Masayuki as an adviser to the attacking army.

Licinius would lead the First Wing of the First Legion and the two Longbow Wings to besiege Kunohe Castle, while Hakumine himself would personally command the remaining forces of Antio's Second Legion and the First Legion, awaiting the arrival of reinforcements from the main army of the Southern Family.

At the same time, the 1,000 remnants of the Sanada family, which was named by Hakuho as the Sanada Red Reserve Army with the characteristics of the Yamato Empire, was jointly commanded by Sanada Masayuki's two sons, Sanada Nobuyuki and Sanada Nobuyoshi, and was under the command of Licini.

The day after the landing of the Yamato Empire and the return of the Sanada family to the city of Rome, the rested Roman army began to march in the direction of Kunohe Castle, and the landing fleet of Ike and Allen also set sail again with the departure of the army.

Because Kunohe Castle is not only one of the four major cities of the southern family, but also the most important port city of the southern family, as long as the army of the Roman city can successfully capture the nine cities, the port of nine will become the best docking point for the landing fleet of the Roman city.

Of course, the task given by Bai Feng to the landing fleet was not only to sail to the port of Jiuhe, their more important task was to send warships to find a route back to the mouth of the Cangluo River, and that was the most important thing!