As for Ogino Naomasa's situation, Ono Minori had already seen it when he came to this samurai mansion, and it was really difficult for him to do what he did in person, and it seemed that he could only do it himself.

Thinking of this, I only heard Ono Minori say: "This matter is also simple, I don't know who can be fully trusted by the ministers of the Ogino family?" ”

After thinking about it carefully, Ogino Naomasa said: "The loyalty of the retainers of this family, if you say who is the most loyal, I am afraid it is Ogino Masaaki, this person is from the old man's close servant, so he can be trusted." ”

But what Naomasa Ogino didn't expect was that when he finished speaking, he saw Ono Shiyuki shaking his head and saying, "If you're just a close servant, it's not enough to be trusted." ”

I only heard Ogino Naomasa say helplessly: "Although my lord's words are good, but Zhengqing is different, I am ashamed to say that the old man has no heirs, only three daughters, one daughter has married him as a wife, he should know in his heart what the old man meant, is to let him inherit the family business, so if the matter is revealed, then the inheritance of the family business will not be able to talk about, so how can he tell the truth?" ”

Ono Minori nodded after hearing this, if it is according to what Ogino Naomasa said, then this retainer called Ogino Masashi does not have the possibility of high density.

"In that case, please write a letter over there."

Hatano Hideji is more strict with the heads of these wealthy families, but he is not very relieved about the retainers under his command, the reason is very simple, if they make any changes, then they will kill the head of the family first, and they will not be able to do anything under the rat taboo.

So when Minori Ono meets Masaaki Ogino and comes to a secluded place. And no one took them seriously. As long as these people don't leave Ninomaru. Then there is no need to worry, after all, Okada Maru is in the hands of his own family, and it is impossible for the other party to go out or open the city gate.

Ogino Masashi is still a little dissatisfied with Ono Minori calling him aside, after all, if it weren't for the fact that he saved his father-in-law by coincidence, then he is still just a peasant soldier, even if he is a samurai now, but compared to himself, his identity is far worse. But he is not respectful enough to himself at all, how can he look at such a person.

However, when Ono Minori took out the letter, he didn't dare to have such an idea, although Ono Minori's name he hadn't heard, but the weight of the identity of the Takayama family general was much higher than that of his own general, which was absolutely not to be offended, so there was too much of a 180-degree change.

Ono doesn't care about his attitude, he only cares if the other party can obey the dispatch, if not. Then kill it immediately now to avoid leaking secrets.

"Little... Ono-sama. My father-in-law said that everything is subject to your arrangement, and I dare not disobey it, and I ask you to tell me how to act in the next place, and absolutely obey the arrangement of the adults. ”

When it came to the arrangement, Ono had to start to be cautious, so after thinking about it for a while, he asked, "I wonder if there are any cronies in Ogino-sama's army?" ”

"This adult can rest assured, the peasant soldiers dare not say, but these nearly 100 banners will be completely obedient, as long as they obey the order, then they can command the peasant soldiers, after all, they are all from the same village, and the peasant soldiers should still be obedient." Ogino Masaaki's words are true, not to mention that these flags are insignificant, even those samurai in the family also attach great importance to his opinions, after all, this is the future inheritor of the family business, and to maintain him is to protect himself, so although it can't be said to be a word, but when Ogino Naomasa is not there, he can also call the shots.

Ono then said what he thought, and Ogino Masaaki didn't agree. But if this matter is to succeed, fifty flag samurai are indispensable, so after separating from Ogino Masaaki, when the offensive outside the city is over and the peasants return to Ninomaru to rest, they pull a few of the Qimoto samurai led by them to their side, and when no one is paying attention, he whispers: "Ladies and gentlemen, in the next day, Ogino Naomasashi has already returned to bed, and his original intention is to cooperate with our actions, and then they will cause chaos in Ninomaru and incite other wealthy clans to rebel together, so that the attention of the Hatano family will be all on them, We can then take the opportunity to burn the grain and grass in the city, and if the enemy runs out of food, the city will be destroyed. ”

"My lord, the matter of arson is what we are good at, but whether the people of the Ogino family can be trusted, if it can't be leaked, it is small to die in the lower class, and it will be a little bad to delay the lord's big event." Since they didn't know what Hideharu Hatano was going to do with those wealthy families, they asked this question.

I only heard Ono Minori say: "You can rest assured about this matter, I am completely sure of their attitude." ”

"In that case, I don't know when you plan to act."

"Although I have relaxed the surveillance of the Hatano family and the military strength of the surveillance has been withdrawn a lot, there are still five or six hundred people in the elite of the Hatano family in the Ninomaru, and with them, with less than a thousand peasant soldiers, the rebellion may be extinguished soon, so I will have to wait a few more days."

In the main formation outside the city, the people present seem to be a lot less than before the army, and all these people are under the command of Sakuma Nobumori, although Sakuma Nobumori seems to be a little vicious in doing this, but in this era, it is more enough to die for the lord, which is the most sacred thing for the samurai, although I don't know if the samurai who have died in the Sakuma family think so in their hearts, but Sakuma Nobumori does this, and will definitely not let the world have anything to say, if you want to say at most, it can only be said that the retainers of the Sakuma family are waste.

At this moment, Sakuma Nobumori sat on the main seat with a frown, he was not sad because his subordinates had died too much, but because he was irritated that the plan did not succeed.

Now Minoru Ono and fifty Takayama family banner samurai have been in the city for a week, but during this week, the people who have infiltrated the city not only did not attack, but also did not even participate in the defense, so there are only two possibilities, one is that Hideharu Hatano does not trust them at all, so he killed them all in the city, and the other possibility is that they failed to gain trust, but were all watched, but no matter which possibility, it means that the strategy failed, and they couldn't even participate in the battle, How can you open the gates?

Honda Masanobu is full of shame on his face at the moment, this time his own strategy, not only did not succeed, but will harm the general of the family, this is definitely a big mistake, if he doesn't say anything, then the lord will not say anything, but I am afraid that there should be some thoughts in his heart.

So after seeing that no one spoke, I saw him get up and come to the middle to salute and say: "Lord, the strategy to seize the city was made by his subordinates, but at this moment, it seems that not only did it not succeed, but Ono-sama is probably also unable to escape the disaster, this is all the fault of his subordinates, and please punish the lord." ”

Although the clan was a little surprised by the failure of the strategy, and felt a little sorry for Ono Minoruyuki, but he didn't mean to blame Honda Masanshin, after all, as long as it was a strategy, then no one dared to say that it would definitely succeed, and didn't he also fail when he used his own strategy, if he was to blame for this, then who would dare to make suggestions for himself in the future, if so, then the Takayama family would not be far from extinction.

"Why do you say this, although you proposed this plan, but it was approved by me, if I am guilty, then am I not more guilty?"

"Lord ......"

"Okay, don't talk about these useless things, let's think about how to attack the city." After the clan finished speaking, he looked at Sakuma Nobumori, his father-in-law's confidence seemed to have been consumed a lot, if he couldn't take the city again, then I'm afraid that this strategy would really fail, and even the main general would not have the will to fight, can Ashigaru still play with his life?

"My lord, Lord Sakuma, my subordinates think that Hideharu Hatano is not low in intelligence, and as long as his mind is not shaken, then it may be very difficult to take the city by strategy, so his subordinates think that there is only one way to attack now." Sanada Masayuki couldn't help but speak.

I only heard Sakuma Nobumori say with some displeasure: "Changxing, our army has been attacking this city since it came to this city, and that time it was not a fierce attack, but now it is nearly a month, but it still has not been able to take this city, is it caused by the lack of offensive of our army?" ”

"Lord Sakuma, the strong attack you mentioned is different from the strong attack strategy you mentioned below, you are using manpower to attack, and what you are talking about below is using equipment to attack, if there is a weapon as a supplement, then there is hope of taking the city."

After hearing this, the clan's eyes lit up, and he secretly scolded himself in his heart, he only cared about integrating into this era, and even forgot the siege equipment, and according to the historical records in the Warring States period of Japan, there were still simple siege equipment such as ladders and rushing cars, the reason why he didn't think of it was because this kind of equipment had not been used at all, and he had never seen anyone use it, after all, the city of the Warring States period of Japan was still different from the city of ancient China, and the small city was not used at all, and the one built according to the terrain was not used. I'm afraid that the only ones who can really use the ladder are giant cities like Odawara and Azuchi, because there are too few such giant cities, so the siege equipment slowly fades out of the samurai's field of vision.

But as soon as Sanada Masayuki said it today, the clan immediately felt that this method was really good.

Although this castle is not a giant city, after major repairs, the Ishigaki is high, but the slope is greatly reduced, which is why it is difficult to climb the ashigaru, but it is not easy to climb, but it brings convenient conditions for erecting the ladder. And it may be that Hideji Hatano is too dependent on the tall Ishigaki, so it is observed that there is no sword in this city, so it is very convenient to attack the city with equipment, as long as the bottom of the Okada Maru can be captured first, then the morale of our army will inevitably be greatly improved, and then step by step towards the castle tower, this city will inevitably fall to the fate. (To be continued.) )