After taking care of his own family, Sabei kept up with the pace of the brigade with siege equipment. Sabei personally went to Sakuma Nobumori and Naomasa to explain his situation. After listening to Sabei's words, the two simply gave Sabei a few words, and then asked Sabei to continue to return to guard the siege equipment.

Later, Tsuda Nobusumi, who learned the news, also came to ask Sabei about the situation. After listening to Sabei's description, Tsuda Nobusumi invited Sabei to the side of the team and said to Sabei: "It is indeed what you should do as a lord to prevent your subordinates from causing chaos due to estrangement, but you must also learn to use such contradictions to control them and prevent them... Mess around. ”

After speaking, Tsuda Nobucheng said: "This matter is your 'family matter', I shouldn't say more, but I hope that you will use more power tricks to balance your important ministers and ensure your absolute authority." ”

After listening to Tsuda Nobusumi's words, Sabei shook his head and said: "There can be contradictions, but once the contradictions between the retainers overshadow your original intention of conniving at the contradictions, this contradiction will become the deadliest poison, Nanabei, let me ask you, if you send your two ministers to attack the Takeda family, because the contradictions between the two are too great, they will not support each other during the battle, and even have the idea of abandoning each other, do you think such contradictions dare to condone them?" ”

Tsuda Nobusumi was speechless for a moment when he heard this, glanced at the Sabei in front of him, and then said goodbye and returned to his army.

Looking at the departing Tsuda Nobusumi, Sabei sighed and returned to the team. At first, he didn't think of taking advantage of the contradiction to make the two sides attack each other, so as to ensure his own power and perfectly suppress his retainers. It was only because of Sabei's own personal experience that he knew that this contradiction could only be exploited in a peaceful environment.

Just like when the first time the Oda family captured Echizen, if the two could cooperate with each other without barriers, where would the later series of events happen, although the Oda family finally won Echizen, it also took twice as much effort. It is good to have healthy competition, but once it develops into a vicious contradiction, the consequences are not conceivable. Sabei had no capital to take risks, so he could only try his best to press the contradictions.

Due to the great momentum of the Oda Army, some ground servants who did not have a firm position fell to the Oda Army early. The rest of the land servants and the wealthy clan were also crushed by the Oda family's chariot without resistance.

And the landlord who took refuge in the Oda family consciously followed behind the Sabei army. Sabei looked at the large number of ground guards who followed behind him, and after communicating with them, he sent them to the flanks of his own army to scout and guard.

After advancing for a day, the Oda army had already appeared under the heavily defended Wakae Castle. Looking at the Miyoshi nail pulling out the flag on Wakae Castle, Sabei, who had already set up camp, ordered Fujido Takatora to take Ashigaru and the collected people to go and cut firewood for the army to keep warm. Sakuma Nobumori also asked Sabei about the firewood, and then returned to the main camp with peace of mind.

Sabei's appearance this time was completely used as a panacea. When he went to the Miyoshi family, he was used as an envoy for negotiations, and when he went to war, he was used as a logistics officer.

Just after Sabei commanded the people to hurriedly send the chopped firewood to Sakuma Nobumori's main camp and the camp of other military generals in batches, Sakuma Nobumori summoned Sabei to the main camp.

Originally, Sabei thought that Sakuma Nobumori had an opinion on his firewood allocation, but after Sakuma Nobumori, Sabei was told by Sakuma Nobumori that he wanted to stay in the main camp instead of him. Before Sabei could say anything, he saw that Sakuma Nobumori had already taken advantage of the last ray of sunshine in the sky and left the camp with his attendants. He left several large military flags for Sabei.

Seeing this, Sabei somewhat understood what Sakuma Nobumori meant, but with Sakuma Nobumori's cautious and calm personality, such a risky action was somewhat inconsistent with his combat style. In order to create the illusion that the camp was heavily guarded, Sabei had to pull some of his troops and the local servants who had taken refuge as garrisons, and lit a lot of torches around the camp.

Sabei, who was sitting in the main formation, looked at Wakae Castle, which was full of "flames" not far away, and couldn't help but think back to the hostages he escorted that day. The humble tone and haughty eyes are really unforgettable. It should be the previous head of the family, Sabei guessed as he looked at the "flames" jumping up and down.

Suddenly, the "flames" not far away began to swim violently in the pure black curtain of Ruojiang City, and the shouts of killing suddenly rose. Zuobei got up and walked outside the main formation, and under the escort of a group of local servants and wealthy clans wearing various armors, they watched the "flames" swimming back and forth on Ruojiang City.

These landlords and wealthy clans who had just surrendered today looked at the Sabei who were looking at Ruojiang Castle from the side, and unconsciously locked their eyes on the sparse torches under Ruojiang Castle, and talked in a low voice.

"How could the Oda army attack the city at night like this, how could it be possible to break through the defense of Wakae Castle!"

"If I've been to Jiangcheng, it's a big strong city, I don't know how much bigger than my mountain!"

"The Oda Army is going to lose a lot!"

......

After listening to the whispers of the surrounding ground attendants, Sabei stopped them and retreated into the camp.

Watching Sabei retreat to his main formation, the ground attendant and the Hao clan began to talk again, and brought together what they knew about Sabei's identity, background, and past.

Sabei, who returned to this formation, had not yet sat down on the maza, when he heard Fujido Takatora, who was accompanying him, say: "My lord, it is particularly inappropriate for Lord Sakuma to attack the castle like this, and listening to what those ground attendants say, if Ejo Castle should be a strong fortified city, Lord Sakuma..."

After hearing this, Sabei smiled and said, "Sakuma-sama is a military general who has been famous for a long time, and he is also a military general with a cautious and calm personality, will he attack the enemy without being prepared or even gaining a firm foothold?" ”

Fujitang Gaohu was silent after hearing this, and raised his head to look at the "flames" on Ruojiang City. Sabei looked at Fujido Gaohu who was a little confused beside him, and his cognition of Fujitang Gaohu in his heart was one step closer, and he also felt that he was more like a retainer next to him, rather than a famous military general on the altar. How could a low-level officer who had no knowledge of the detailed battle plan guess what the commander-in-chief was thinking about now, and what he was going to do next.

Seeing that the flames of Wakae Castle gradually stabilized, Sabei said to Fujido Takatora on the side: "The first round of temptation is over, and with Youemon, inform the people outside to light some torches." ”

As soon as Sabei finished speaking, he saw that countless torches were lit in the surrounding Oda military camp at the same time, echoing the dense "flames" on Wakae Castle. For a while, Sabei was also a little confused by the light of these fires.