Life, life, only at this time can people feel its beautiful connotation, which is often ignored in ordinary times. In fact, the true meaning of life lies in being able to freely enjoy the sun, forests, mountains, meadows, rivers, and ordinary contentment. Others are irrelevant.

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

The Oda Naval Army was lured by a single ironclad ship, and when the small boats of the Honganji Naval Army came into range, they were immediately devastated by the large cylinders of the other ironclad ships, and the Oda Naval Army was easily defeated by the ununified command of the Honganji Naval Army.

Soon the ironclad ships arrived at Osaka Bay and once again controlled the sea control of Osaka Bay, after which more than 600 warships of various types of Maori naval forces attacked again, and the two sides once again engaged in a fierce battle at the Kizu River Mouth; this time, the Maori naval forces, which mainly relied on bows and arrows and broadside battles, were only cannon fodder in front of the well-equipped ironclad ships of the Oda naval army, and were powerless to fight back.

The Second Battle of Kizu Kawaguchi was almost wiped out by the Maori Naval Army, and due to his outstanding performance in the Second Battle of Kizu Kawaguchi, Kuki Yoshitaka finally changed from a naval army general to a daimyo and was named the lord of Shima Toba Castle, and received 35,000 stone in the two countries of Ise-Shima!

The Nine Demons Yoshitaka, who became the famous pirate daimyo, also served as the chief general of the Oda family's navy, while the Oda family's navy was based on seven powerful ironclad ships as the core, supplemented by dozens of Ataka ships and hundreds of seki ships, becoming the strongest naval army in the Yamato Empire!

The second male of the three pirates of the Yamato Empire after the Kuki Yoshitaka was Takeshi Murakami, who fought fiercely with the Kuki Yoshitaka in the Battle of Kizu Kawaguchi, and Takeyoshi Murakami was born in the Noshima Murakami Naval Army on the Seto Inland Sea, and his father was Murakami Yoshitada.

Murakami had a long history, and since most of the islands in the Seto Inland Sea were too narrow and infertile to provide sufficient food for the islanders, the islanders used their knowledge of waterways to become the dominant force in the local seas.

The Murakami navy, which was no different from pirates, set up a private customs office to collect sail money from the incoming and outgoing ships, supplemented by smuggling, looting and other piracy activities as a livelihood; later, the Murakami navy split up and was divided into three families: Nojima, Injima, and Laijima, which developed separately and aided each other.

In the fifth year of Yongzheng, Murakami's grandfather Murakami Takatsu was killed when Murakami Takeshi was young, and after the death of his father Murakami Yoshitada, Buji, who was still a child, was already involved in the turmoil with his half-brother Murakami Yoshiyoshi for the throne of the family governor;

As a last resort, Murakami Takeyoshi was forced to go into exile on Kyushu Island, and fled into the territory of the Hizen Kikuchi family to avoid Murakami's pursuit.

After the death of Murakami Yoshiyoshi, there was a tradition of the three concentric alliances of the three Murakami families, and Murakami Takeyoshi decided to consolidate the two alliances with the two parties in order to mend the relationship with the Murakami family, so he married the daughter of the current governor of the Murakami family.

After succeeding as the governor of the Noshima Murakami family, Murakami Takekichi not only continued to run the old business of the navy, but also set his sights on actively promoting the development of Noshima's overseas trade, and the Maori family, which owned several coastal countries, was his key trade target.

Soon after, Yoshitaka Ouchi, the current governor of the Ouchi family, who had been the backing of the Murakami family on Noshima, was murdered by Tao Qingxian, a major minister of the martial arts faction in the family.

After becoming the governor of the Ouchi family, Ouchi Yoshinaga wanted to pay a tribute of 2,000 koku to the Emperor of Kyoto, so he ordered the Yashiro Shirai Naval Army under the command of Tao Qingxian to pass through the sea route.

Upon receiving the message, Murakami Takeyoshi was furious and quickly launched an ambush at Kamagari, the road he had to pass, and the fierce battle ended in a crushing defeat for the Shirai water army, and the 2,000 koku of rice that Yoshinaga Ouchi wanted to offer to the emperor on board was confiscated by Murakami Takeki, and the relationship between the two sides deteriorated.

A few years after this battle, the increasingly powerful Maori family governor Maori Yuan had a full-scale duel with Tao Qingxian, and lured Tao Qingxian to lead a large army to attack in the castle of Itsukushima Palace.

At that time, Murakami Yoshimitsu of the Murakami family had promised to assist Mori Mototsu very early, sent his family's important minister Suenaga Keimi to help in the war, and sent Murakami Takeshi's in-law Nami Sokatsu to lobby Murakami Takeshi on behalf of the Mori family;

At that time, both the Maori family and the Tao family came to ask for help from the current governor of the Murakami family, Murakami, although Tao Qingxian's strength was relatively strong, but because Murakami's main family, the Kono family and the Ouchi family, were old enemies, they expressed their support for the Maori family, so Murakami Tongyasu also agreed to support the Maori family.

Since two of the Mishima Murakami family had already defected to the Mori family, Murakami Bukitchi also agreed to send troops, but he only promised to help the Mori family for one day, and when it was time to withdraw his troops, he soon broke out a major battle between the Maori army and Tao Qingxian's army on Itsukushima, which became known as the Battle of Itsukushima.

Only 3,500 sailors of the Maori navy launched a surprise attack on the Tao Qingxian army with a total strength of more than 20,000 people in the rainy night, among which the 300 ships led by Murakami Takeyoshi were particularly brave, and in one fell swoop the main force of the Tao army, the Shirai navy, and made a great achievement!

After the Battle of Itsukushima, the Maori family and the Iyo-Kono family formally formed an alliance and gave Yashiro Island, the territory of the original Yashiro Island naval army Shirai family, to Murakami Mitsuyasu, and Innoshima Murakami Yoshimitsu, who was the first to join the Maori family, was also given a backing island, and after the war, Murakami Takeshi, who also helped the Maori family occupy Zhou Defense Nagato and block the sea route to capture Ouchi Yoshinaga, only got a few small islands, which made Murakami Takeyoshi very dissatisfied.

Two years later, Murakami passed away and was succeeded by his fourth son, Mr. Murakami, as the fifth governor of the Kurushima family.

Murakami Takeyoshi, who was originally subordinate to the Maori family, has always been resentful of the unfair rewards and punishments of the Maori family, and then he was lured by Otomo Sorin's huge profits from sea trade, so he chose to lure Gogo and the Maori family as enemies, and sailed his naval army to Zhoufang Port;