Toyota Castle, Tsugawa family honjin.

Soji Tsugawa sat on the main seat wearing a Nanban carcass, Sanada Yutaka sat on his right, Miki Naogo on his left, and the rest of the army commanders also sat in turn.

Akai Naomasa was holding a map of Tanba with a calm face, and was explaining in detail to Tsugawa Soji and others the details of the Hatano family and the Naito family.

"Yashang City is located on Gaocheng Mountain, and the terrain is steep and difficult to capture! The strength of the Hatano family in the castle is about 4,000 people after the investigation of the main family, and there are 6,000 reinforcements from the Naito family in the south of Yagami Castle in the east of Yagami Castle, so it may be difficult to storm Yagami Castle! ”

"According to the Evil Right Emon Temple, then the number of enemy troops in the entire Tamba country is only about 10,000?" Sanada Yutaka touched his chin and asked quietly.

Akai nodded straightly, "Exactly! ”

"But don't underestimate the strength of these 10,000 troops. If these 10,000 troops fight with our army in the field, they may not be the opponent of our army. But as long as the enemy army insists on Bashang City and Yanjing City echoing each other, our army will not say 40,000 or 50,000 people, even if 500,000 people want to capture Bashang City, it will not be an easy task! Akai Naomasa pointed to the silhouette looming over Mt. Takajo in the southwest direction, and replied with a straight face.

Everyone present thought that Akai was talking nonsense, but Tsugawa Soji knew that Akai was telling the truth.

The place of Bashang City is indeed a fortified city that is easy to defend and difficult to attack. (The specific bigwigs Baidu, Jiliang doesn't want to count the words..... ）

However, Soharu Tsugawa had been prepared for this.

"Don't worry too much about the evil right emon, the family dares to conclude here, within half a month, the Hatano family will open the castle and surrender!" Soji Tsugawa said confidently.

Not only Akai Naomasa, but even Sanada Yutaka and others on the side didn't know where Tsugawa Soji's confidence came from.

Seeing everyone's gaze at him, Tsugawa Soji had no choice but to continue to ask, "Excuse me, what does Cage City need to prepare?" ”

"Enough water and food!"

"Arrows, rolling stones."

"Ordnance ....."

For a while, there were all kinds of answers in the formation.

Soji Tsugawa nodded, "What you said is correct, but what this family wants to say is that the most important thing in the conditions required by the cage city is food!" Especially for a mountain city like Yashangcheng, food is the top priority! ”

"Although Bashang City is easy to defend and difficult to attack, as a mountain city, it is inevitable that there will not be too much food in the city. All mountain cities have such limitations, so the family has already made some efforts to deal with the food in Bashang City! ”

In the expectant eyes of the retainers, Tsugawa Soji glanced at Yajima Jiman behind him, who immediately understood and went to the outside of the main camp to bring a few people in.

After seeing the few people brought in by Yajima Jimitsu, the retainers of the Tsugawa family in this formation were even more puzzled, because everyone had never seen these people before.

"I guess you're all curious about the identities of these people, right? Let's introduce yourselves one by one! Soji Tsugawa gestured to several people.

A middle-aged man at the head hurriedly saluted everyone in the camp, and then said slowly, "I've seen all of you, in Shimokuya Zenemon, Wakasa Province, Kohama Port, Tsukawaya Grain Commission. ”

"Shimotakeya Shichiro Guard, Kyoto Tsukawaya Grain Agency!"

"In Shimokuda Kansuke, Omi Kannonji Castle Tsukawaya Grain Agency!"

"In Shimokusakari Kanbei, Tanba Tsukawaya Grain Officer!"

"In the next ......, Tango Tsukawaya Grain Agency!"

When everyone in this formation reported their names one by one, the retainers of the Tsugawa family suddenly came to their senses. However, a new question has surfaced in everyone's minds, what does it have to do with the Hatano family in Hagami Castle whether they surrender or not?

Of course, there are also some active-minded retainers who are keenly aware of one thing that these people have in common, that is, these people are all food practitioners of Tsugawaya.

As a large chain of super shopping malls that was famous throughout the country at this time, there were dozens of various commissions alone, and the grain store was only responsible for the grain trading. However, at this point in time, so many food practices suddenly appeared, and the information revealed in them is somewhat intriguing.

At this time, Tsugawa Soji finally stopped selling Sekiko, "In fact, as early as last year, the family had secretly ordered the Tsukawaya general in Tanba, Wakasa, Omi, Yamashiro, Kawachi, Izumi, Settsu and other countries to purchase grain in the territory of the Miyoshi family and its allies!" ”

"And the grain in Tanba, Settsu and other places was bought out by the main family at a price three times higher than that of the market owner three months ago!"

Just kidding, Soharu Tsugawa is no fool. When Akechi Mitsuhide and others were blocked in Echichu, Tsugawa Soji was not idle in Goseyama Castle.

The advantage of the traverser is evident at this time, because the traverser is more or less involved in various historical events, and Tsugawa Soji is even more familiar with the tactics of Kinoshita Hideyoshi's attack on fortified castles such as Tottori Castle and Miki Castle in history.

Tsugawa Soji's strategy of wanting to divide his troops into two ways was not suddenly proposed, but the product of a long time of secret planning, and the reason why Tsugawa Soji dared to divide his troops was because of the various foreshadowings he had secretly planted before.

Grain procurement is one of them.

Many of the castles in Tanba, Harima, Settsu and other places are fortified castles that are easy to defend and difficult to attack, and all of them are stuck on the road to Joraku, which is a nail that the Tsugawa family cannot avoid. And if you want to capture such a city, it is obviously impossible to rely on siege alone.

Not only is it time-consuming, labor-intensive, but also inefficient.

Historically, Kinoshita Hideyoshi once fought a beautiful battle when attacking cities such as Miki Castle and Tottori Castle, and Tsugawa Soji also learned from this experience and copied Kinoshita Hideyoshi's tactics by drawing a gourd.

Didn't you Hatano family just want to waste time with Lao Tzu with a fortified city like Yagami Castle? But if you have a few thousand people in the city to eat and drink, then I will buy all the food near your Bashang City in advance.

And then there is a surprise attack, no matter how much supplies you Hatano wants, how much food can you store in the city?

That's why Soji Tsugawa dared to say such a big thing as "the Hatano family will open the castle and surrender within half a month". At this time, Soji Tsugawa also had to sigh that he could really do whatever he wanted if he had money.

After listening to Soji Tsugawa's explanation, everyone present was stunned, why did they still operate like this?

Sanada Yutaka was even more dumbfounded and said, "I originally planned to work the food of the Hatano family and the Naito family, but I didn't expect the lord to be even more far-reaching than I thought!" ”

"I sent people to buy food in Tamba more than half a year in advance, and it was at a high price of three times the market price! Haha, I guess the retainers of the Hatano family at that time were very active in selling grain! ”