"I'll go, Momiji! You're really tough! As soon as he walked out of the gate of the shogunate, Ikeda Hengxing couldn't hold back any longer, and patted Yu Qiuping on the shoulder fiercely and smiled, "Frontal hard Gongfang Palace!" ”

"You kid still have the face to say!" Yu Qiuping was angry when he heard Ikeda Hengxing's voice, "If it weren't for your kid screaming, I would have quietly taken everyone out and sent troops directly, where would I have to quarrel with the Gongfang Palace!" ”

"Oops! Isn't this a chance for you to show your loyalty to the Lord! Ikeda laughed shamelessly, "It's not a secret! I've already figured it out! When the lord knows that you are so loyal, he will definitely praise you greatly! ”

"you! Then why don't you be faithful! You're going to make noise! I don't know how much trouble I'm going to have in the future if I offend the Gongfang Palace. Yu Qiuping tried to take a deep breath, stopping the urge to beat Ikeda Hengxing fat.

"Red leaves, Hengxing, stop arguing." Sen Kecheng, who was walking on the side, reminded in a low voice: "We are now suddenly ordered to send troops south, but the battle plan has not been formulated yet, how can we have time?" ”

"You don't have to worry about this, just leave it to Shigeharu Takenaka." Yu Qiuping smiled confidently when he heard this, and swore like Imagawa Yoshimoto, "You just have to gather troops and go south, before you enter the Minami Omi realm, my plan can be made!" ”

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Yu Qiuping hurriedly rode his horse to his camp, and ordered Naoe Tadahei to be the temporary commander and lead the Yuqiu family's troops to the south immediately. And he turned a corner and came to the camp tent of Shigeharu Takenaka's staff. More than a dozen staff officers of the General Staff Department, who are now on the front line, are gathering in front of a simple sand table of the Minami-Omi map, correcting various data.

"Half-soldier, there's a mission!" Yu Qiuping casually handed over Chidori to Ryuko, who was following him, and strode to the sand table, and ordered to Shigeharu Takenaka and his staff: "The lord ordered our whole army to march to Minami Omi before noon today, and make a surprise attack on the Rokkaku!" Hurry up and make a plan! ”

Shigeharu Takenaka and his staff officers were all shocked when they heard of this sudden order, but after a moment of surprise, none of them asked questions, but immediately began to divide labor and act - to the great satisfaction of Yu Qiuping. One of the basic principles that Yu Qiuping adheres to in the army is that if there is a problem, it must be said out loud, but when an order is received, it must be carried out immediately.

"Zonggang, immediately calculate the traffic volume of the official road from Inugami-gun to Gamo County."

"Maoyong, find out the data on the number of grain stored in our granaries and the number of people in Omi, and calculate a plan to supply 12,000 troops."

"Hachiro, let's summarize the diversion of the trails in Kanzaki County and Aichi County."

"Zhongsheng, you go and sort out the distribution of bridges on all the rivers that can't be waded through the Minami Omi!"

"Kataun, hurry up and go to Sanada-sama's Military Intelligence Division, and ask him to bring me the latest distribution of the Rokkaku family's troops in Minami Omi, and use it urgently."

Shigeharu Takenaka stood on the edge of the sand table and issued orders as smoothly as water, and his staff officers immediately went about their duties and calculated the items they were asked to be responsible for. There was a pen, ink, paper and inkstone on everyone's side, and everyone quickly lined up the vertical form handed over to them by Yu Qiuping on the paper to calculate.

Such a bureaucratic work model is vigorously promoted by Yu Qiuping in various institutions at home. In order to ensure that they can operate normally in wartime, Yu Qiuping has asked the General Staff and the Military Intelligence Department to conduct similar simulation exercises countless times in the past year or so. At first, everyone will be in a hurry, after all, in their old concept, the so-called development of a marching plan is a large number of people to watch an evaluation meeting in a mess, discuss for a long time to discuss a general plan. Then you don't need to care about the specific values of road traffic, bridges, and food, and rely on the experience of the coach alone to estimate whether the plan is feasible, and just make a little repair.

However, when they really mastered the system provided by Yu Qiuping, they found that it was unusually efficient. Every road was fully utilized, and every emergency encountered during the march was prepared in advance, and there was no situation where the army was forced to stop because the food could not keep up. All plans are methodically written on paper in black and white; A whole staff office replaced the commander-in-chief of the cadre program; A systematic system of calculations replaces the manager's decisions based solely on experience and feeling.

And this is also the first time that Yu Qiuping's staff has been put into actual combat, and everyone is full of enthusiasm.

"Your Highness, dare to ask the meaning of the Oda Palace, is it to raid the Rokkaku?" Shigeharu Takenaka asked Yu Qiuping after arranging everyone's tasks.

"That's right, it's going to be a surprise attack." Yu Qiuping nodded, walked to Shigeji Takenaka, and looked at the sand table with him.

"Understood." Shigeharu Takenaka nodded, leaned down slightly, and stared at the sand table made by the Military Intelligence Division—it seemed much more useful than those vague maps, and it would be too helpful to the command. The mountains and hills were simply piled up into mounds of various sizes, the rivers were laid out with strips of cloth dyed blue, and the cities and forests were marked with mock-ups. "Then when I made a plan, it was aimed at breaking the resistance of the Rokkans in a short period of time."

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After the preliminary statistics were completed, Shigeharu Takenaka immediately handed over the further calculation requirements to the various staff officers. which routes to choose to march into; which path each unit took; What is the target again; how to carry out the transshipment of grain and grass; Where to set up camp or set up granaries, every marching plan was calculated methodically and quickly.

At the beginning of the afternoon, Yu Qiuping had already received the proposed marching plan listed by Shigeharu Takenaka's staff. With a group of guards, he rode his horse south quickly, catching up with the Oda family's army, which was already advancing to the border.

"Oh my God! Is it human? That's too fast, isn't it? Ikeda watched in amazement as he saw the march plan that Yu Qiuping had stuffed into his hand, detailing each unit's march route, mission, timetable for completing the mission, grain routes and granaries, camping sites, and the manner in which the various units would cooperate with each other.

"What, the half-guards are still very dissatisfied." Yu Qiuping laughed a little proudly when he heard this, "He feels that the time is too rushed, and there are still many unreasonable places in this plan that need to be improved." Let me give you a message that if something goes wrong, don't be surprised. ”

"What's wrong with this?! I've never used such a perfect marching plan in my life, and it's not always the lord who makes decisions casually, and you can fight wherever you want, and you have to act cheaply if something goes wrong. Ikeda Hengxing's eyes still flashed with unbelievable doubts, and he couldn't put it down and stroked the marching plan: "This Takenaka Shigeji is really the present Kongming, the beautiful unicorn!" You've found a treasure in the autumn leaves! ”

Yu Qiuping just smiled and nodded, noncommittal. Of course, Shigeharu Takenaka is powerful, but it is absolutely impossible for him to have such an efficient and perfect plan alone, and the staff system designed by Yu Qiuping has contributed a lot. However, Yu Qiuping felt that it was best not to spread these things, otherwise everyone would know about them, and he would have no advantage.

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At four o'clock in the afternoon, the planned army of the Oda family moved south into the territory of the Rokkaku family. The troops of Yuakihei, Mori Kasei and Inaba Ichitetsu drove directly to Kannonji Castle, the main castle of the Rokkakuya family in Gamo County. Ikeda Tsuneko, Ando Morisa, and the clan Naomoto separated from the army in Kanzaki Prefecture and went to attack the main wealthy clan of the Rokkaku family.

To Yu Qiuping's surprise, the Rokkaku family, which usually relies on the Koga ninja to have an intelligence advantage and foresight, is panicked like a blind man in the face of the invasion of the Oda family this time. The wealthy clans in Kanzaki and Aichi counties put up little resistance and did not intercept the forces of the Oda family. It can be seen that some of the wealthy families did not even have time to gather their troops, and after seeing the Oda family's army enter Minami Omi, they all took refuge in their own rocks or castles. However, the Oda army did not pay attention to them at all, but drove straight in, and in the second moment of Shin, they had already entered Gamo County.

"What do you say? You repeat? When Rokkaku Yoshiken heard the news of the Oda family's invasion, he could hardly believe his ears, so he got up from his chair and roared at the ninja leader Ishikawa Goemon in front of him, "What the hell is going on?" Tell me clearly! ”

"The Oda family suddenly invaded at noon today, and the wealthy families of Kanzaki and Aichi were caught off guard and had to hold on to the castle. However, the Oda army did not stop at all, and the main force came straight to Kannonji Castle, and now it has entered Gamo County. Ishikawa Goemon had a gloomy face and said coldly.

"What do you mean! Damn! Rokkaku Yoshiji, who was sitting on the side, was so angry that he scolded: "Ashikaga Yoshiteru's guy is really ungrateful, so shameless!" We said okay and let us join the alliance, we will go to Omi tomorrow to meet him to discuss the alliance, but the Oda family came in today! He was kicked out like a dog, and if it weren't for his grandfather, he would have died! Now it's falling into the well like this! ”

"What about Oda Nobunaga? Didn't you report yesterday that others are still in Qifu? Rokkaku Yoshiken was also angry at the moment, and he didn't blame his son's rebellious remarks, but asked anxiously: "Haven't the main forces of the Oda family not yet arrived in Omi?" Didn't the Asakura family also arrive? ”

"Yes, that's right." Ishikawa Goemon replied honestly.

"Careless! I didn't think of it! After thinking for a moment, Rokkaku Yoshiken suddenly realized that he paused again and again: "Oda Nobunaga didn't take the Gongfang Hall in his eyes at all!" He just used the Gongfang Palace to negotiate with us, and then caused us to relax our guard, and before we had time to gather troops, he raided us before forming an alliance, and we didn't have any temper at all! And why did the Oda family march so fast? Isn't there a master behind to point out? ”

"Father, what should we do at this moment?" Rokkaku Yoshiji is now as earth-colored as he is, "We only have 3,000 people on our hands, and it's too late to gather troops to Guanyin Temple City!" ”

"Bastard, do you want to abandon the city and flee?" When Liujiao Yixian heard his son's frustrated words, he was angry, kicked him fiercely, and said sharply: "This Jiancheng Guanyin Temple City is the guarantee for the survival of our Hexagonal family!" Don't give up no matter what! ”

"Order, immediately mobilize all the troops that can be mobilized, and defend the Guanyin Temple City!"

After the hexagonal Yixian roared these words, he took a few deep breaths, calmed his breathing, and said in a loud voice again: "Send an envoy to negotiate with the Gongfang Hall immediately!" Let's just say that we are now announcing that we will join the alliance and go to Los Angeles with him! Let him put pressure on Oda Nobunaga to make the Oda family withdraw their troops! ”