"Chapter 59: Attacking the Port"

People break their stomachs and always complain about food. The same goes for those who are dissatisfied with life.

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

As the First Fleet was preparing to attack, Yuki Honma, who thought he had done a great job for the Yanhuang family, brought his uncle Ito Yuhiro to the Imperial and made a proposal to Nams for him to force down the Hamo Navy.

If it had been before the destruction of the First Fleet, Nams would not have rejected this suggestion, but now that the First Fleet had been destroyed, how could Nams let the Hamo Navy continue to survive in the world?

If it was just Naams's cold eyes, then Honma might have the courage to persuade a few more words, but the oppressive atmosphere caused by the angry eyes of everyone on the Imperial was enough to make Honma Yuki dare not say a word more.

A smart person like Ito Yuhiro naturally wouldn't make a low-level mistake like Honma Yuki, who didn't say a word from beginning to end, but after Nams personally asked him for his opinion, he took the initiative to express his willingness to lead the Ito Navy to charge for the Yanhuang family.

Nams, who was going to immediately launch a general attack on Hamo Port, decided to temporarily slow down his fleet's attack on Hamo Port in the face of Ito's initiative and after a little thought, let Ito Yuhiro lead his Ito naval army first.

The reason why Nams made this decision was not because he wanted to take this opportunity to weaken the strength of the Ito Navy, but because he had to make the Ito Navy surrender to the Yanhuang family, and only in this way could the Ito family completely cut off the back road of betrayal.

While ordering Ito to lead the Ito Navy to attack Hamo Port, Nams also issued another order to Ito Yuhiro and Honma Yuki: all the ships of the Hamo Navy will be sunk, regardless of whether they are willing to surrender or not!

This somewhat ruthless order was not so much a warning from Nams to Ito Yuhiro and his Ito navy as it was a warning from Nams to Honma, who, after all, was the son of the Honma family's governor and would inevitably come to the aid of the Hamo naval army.

Ito, who has seen Obwano with his own eyes, will not make a mistake on such a principled issue, not to mention, how can Ito, as the governor of the Ito family, sympathize with the Honma family's Hamo sailor who has been suppressing his family?

In addition to the Ataka warship that Ito Yuhiro himself was in, all seven Sekibunes and thirty Koza ships of the Ito Navy were sent by Ito Yuhiro to attack the port of Hamo, and in order to make up for his mistake, Yuki Honma also led his fleet to participate in the attack.

The Hamo Naval Army, which sank four large customs ships, eleven customs ships, and forty-four small early ships, still has three Ataka warships, seven large customs ships, four customs ships, and thirty small early ships, a total of forty-four warships, and the overall strength is more than one step stronger than the Ito naval army.

Even if the Ito Navy had Honma's fleet as a friendly force, it would not be easy to defeat the main force of the Hamo Navy in one fell swoop, and the Hamo Navy that defended the port of Hamo was afraid of the might of the Roman fleet, but it was not a soft persimmon to be rubbed.

With the orders of Ito Yuhiro and Honma Yuki, all the early days of the two fleets rushed to the port of Hamo at great speed, preparing to storm the Hamo naval forces that were defending with all their might, and the next eight Seki ships were attacking the large Seki ships moored with rockets.

The threat of large sekibunes to ordinary sekibunes and Kohaya was too great for Ito Yuhiro to let himself command the kanbunes of the navy and give priority to attacking the large kanbunes of the Hamao Navy, because in Ito's opinion, these seven large sekikan ships were the real core of the Hashima Navy.

Once all seven large ships were sunk, there were only a few ships left and twenty or thirty Hachimo sailors of Kozai, and as for the three Ataka warships, which were more symbolic than practical, Ito Yuhei did not waste his precious ships on these three ships at all.

Even as they cowered in the harbor, the large Seki-ship and the sailors on board did not sit idle, and in the face of the rockets fired from the Seki-ship of the Ito Seki, they launched a more powerful counterattack, and waves of rockets covered the enemy ships outside the harbor like rain.

The fatal point of the Hamo Navy, which is more superior in quantity and quality, is that their warships have been in a state of stagnation, and their combat effectiveness cannot even exert one-third of the mobile state, while the Ito Navy's warships, which have always maintained their mobility, can use acceleration and steering to avoid the rockets fired by the Hamo Naval Ships, and at the same time shoot their own rockets at the Hashima Naval Ships that cannot be evaded.

Compared to the large Sekibunes and Sekibunes that could not move, Hahaya of the Hamo Navy took advantage of their smaller size to flexibly face the rushing Ito Navy Kozai and Honma Yuki Fleet Kozai, and it was clear that this was an unfair contest.

Whether it is the Kozao of the Honma Yuki fleet or the Kozao of the Hamo Navy, there is naturally a trace of leeway when fighting, but the Kozao of the Ito Navy, when he starts with the warships of the Hamo Navy, there is no room at all.

In less than an hour, the battle took place in less than an hour, and the number of ships in which the Hamo Navy sank more than ten, on the other hand, the Ito Navy, which was rushing and fighting, was only five ships.

In terms of the customs ships and large customs ships, the passive beating of the Hamao Naval Army caused them to lose two customs ships, and two large customs ships ignited a fire that could not be extinguished for a while and a half; the Ito Naval Army, which relied on maneuvering to evade rockets, was so lucky that it did not even lose a single customs ship, and only two customs ships were hit by some rockets because they were not timely enough to evade and ignited a small flame.

If this trend continues, it will only take two or three more hours to fight, and the Hamo Navy, which is clearly superior, will be defeated by the Ito Navy, which is on the inferior side; Nagumo Nakaichi, who is in charge of commanding the Hamo Navy, will naturally not let the battle situation develop like this.

Nagumo Chuichi, who was ready to sacrifice his life for a battle, left behind the order given to him by Kengo Honma to defend the port; determined to fight to the death, he personally led three Ataka warships, five large seki ships, and two seki ships out of the port! The two large seki ships on the ship, which could not be controlled, were left in the port by Nagumo Nagumo Nakaichi to deal with the Ito naval army Kohaya who was rampaging through the port.

Naams, who had been watching from afar for an hour, would not be indifferent to the departure of the main force of the Hamao Navy, and Nams first had a sneer on his face, and then asked the standard-bearer to give orders to Katru and Griffin, ordering them to immediately lead their respective detachments to rush forward!

The fully staffed Second and Third Fleets, with eight doubles and eight triplores, were a powerful fleet capable of crushing the decisive fleet under Nagumo's command.

Half an hour later, the Second and Third Fleets returned to Nams's side unharmed, while Minamimo Nakaichi, the chief of the Honma family's command of the Hamo Navy, sank to the bottom of the sea with his flagship, and all the Hamo Naval ships that rushed out of the harbor sank!