When you realize that you are a humble person, you are no longer a humble person in no time.

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

When the swaying First Roman Fleet arrived off the coast of Sado, Nams, who no longer had to worry about leaks, obtained Wendell's consent to release all the captains he had captured and let them leave with their crews in their own ships.

The captains, who did not expect that they would have a chance to leave alive, first returned to their ships with their cheering crews, and then offered a batch of food, fresh water, gold, silver and jewelry to Naams, and finally drove the ship away from this sea area quickly.

It is said that Nams and Wendell had never met such a self-conscious merchant, but they did not refuse the initiative of the captured captains, because they themselves did not know how long their army's attack on Sado Island would last.

Although the Roman First Fleet replenished the port of Mutsu with a large amount of food and fresh water, the limited hull load and the number of transport ships determined that the Nams could only carry enough food and fresh water in their fleet to survive for a month.

If the war did not go well and the Doge's Guard's landing on Sado Island was blocked, Naams's First Fleet would have to stay in the waters off Sado Island for a longer period of time, and at the same time, the Doge's Guard would not be able to obtain consumption from Sado Island, and would have to eat the fleet's stockpiles.

Each two-lined battleship carried eighty systematic crews and one hundred longbowmen, and each three-lined battleship carried one hundred and twenty systematic crews and one hundred and fifty longbowmen, and these systematic crews and longbowmen consumed no less food than the soldiers of the Doge's Guard.

Therefore, the Governor's Guard, which was about to land on Sado Island, had to land on Sado Island as soon as possible and ensure that it could collect enough food to supply Naams' fleet within a month, otherwise Namus's fleet would have to withdraw to Mutsu after a month at most.

The First Fleet, with twenty doubles and thirty three-columns, was organized into one main fleet and five sub-fleets by Nams, the strongest of which consisted of seven battleships and ten three-columns of battleships, which remained in the open sea to protect the transports.

A detachment of four triremes and four twinships was sent by Nams to the inland waters of Sado Island to clear out possible pirate fleets, and from the moment they truly understood the strength of the Yamato Empire's naval forces, the Sado pirates were no longer taken seriously by Namus.

The first squadron led the way into the inland waters of Sado Island, and two triremes sailed forward side by side at breakneck speed, followed by two twins, each flanked by a triremes and a twin.

Less than 10 minutes into the inland waters of Sado Island, a large pirate fleet appeared in the field of vision of the First Squadron, and when the commander of the detachment saw the prey appear, he immediately ordered his faster twin battleships to outflank him.

The reason why the commander of the First Squadron sent his four twin warships to outflank him was because he was afraid that this weak pirate fleet would flee from the wind, but the fact was that the undaunted pirate fleet had no intention of turning around and fleeing.

In the eyes of these pirates, who were like frogs at the bottom of a well, the eight warships of the First Fleet were nothing more than eight ordinary merchant ships that did not know whether they were alive or dead, and they could easily seize all the goods, gold, silver, and jewels on the eight merchant ships as long as they led the warships to surround them.

The vicious pirates of Sado Island are not the three islands of Nojima, Injima, and Kurijima who are proficient in development, they will make deals with the Uesugi family of Echigo, just to better survive, in other words, they are real pirates!

All ships that dare to approach the waters off Sado Island are likely to be robbed by Sado pirates, and even the fleet of the Uesugi family has been plundered by Sado pirates off Sado Island.

The pirates of Sado Island, who cooperate with the Uesugi family, represent only the vast majority of the pirate forces on Sado Island, not all of them, and it is human that there are always some lawless pirates who will do something uncontrollable.

For this reason, the open sea of Sado Island has never been a safe area, and the inland sea of Sado Island is a paradise for pirates, and any family fleet that strays into this area will inevitably be raided by patrolling pirates.

This is the rule of the Sado pirates, as long as the ship enters the inland sea of Sado Island, it is the prey that will be sent to the door, because the inland sea of Sado Island is too close to the nest of the pirates of Sado Island, and this place is already their forbidden territory, and no outsiders are allowed to break in!

In order to prevent people from sneaking into Sado Island in this way and knowing what they are doing, the pirates of Sado Island will take the most extreme plundering methods against the ships that intrude into the inland waters of Sado Island, all the ships will be burned, and the crew will be killed, leaving nothing alive!

Looking at the pirate fleet rushing in front of him, the commander of the first squadron, who felt a little inexplicable, asked the flag bearer to give orders to the other ships in the language of the flag, while letting the four twin battleships continue to outflank them, and on the other hand, let the three triremes slow down.

Although the speed of the pirate fleet's Kozao and Seki ships was not as fast as that of the two-column battleships and the three-column battleships, they were not slow under the vigorous rowing of the pirates; in order to prolong the time of engagement between the two armies, the commander of the detachment could only slow down the ships under his command.

When the distance between the two fleets was reduced to four hundred meters, on the four three-column battleships that had come to a halt side by side, a full six hundred longbowmen simultaneously released the arrows from their bowstrings, and six hundred flaming rockets floated forward like a cloud of fire.

The distance of 400 meters is the standard projectile range of the Leng Huai longbow, but for the pirates armed with ordinary short bows, this is enough to make them frightened, and the pirate fleet, which was caught off guard, was ignited by the rockets of the longbowmen on the spot.

The reason why the rockets fired by the longbowmen had such an immediate effect was not because the pirates of the pirate fleet did not use seawater to extinguish the flames, but because the arrows shot by the longbowmen were coated with a layer of oil, and a small amount of seawater could not extinguish the fire at all!

The small reserves of fire oil in Rome City were brought back to Rome City by the White Spirit Ring when Bai Feng led the army to evacuate from the Sunset Fortress, and the purpose of Bai Feng taking it out and giving it to Nams was to let Nams use the fire oil to deal with the pirate fleet on Sado Island.

The pirate fleet, which was stunned by this special rocket that could not extinguish the flames, had not yet reacted, and its two wings were attacked by rockets from the longbowmen on four twin battleships; the rockets flying from three sides dealt a devastating blow to the pirate fleet composed of sixteen Xiaozao and seven customs ships, and at least nine Xiaozao and three customs ships ignited a raging fire that could not be extinguished!