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Today on Guanqian Street in Suzhou, I had a so-called authentic Japanese cuisine "Asahiya".

The taste of the sake aside, the freshness of the sushi and sashimi is a hard injury......

Here in Tezuka, it's already afternoon.

After a morning of fighting, it was still in a stalemate, and it was impossible to tell the winner for a while.

People are iron, rice is steel, and if you don't eat a meal, you will be hungry.

Fighting, an activity that requires a lot of physical strength, is difficult for soldiers to continue fighting without a lunch that can fill their stomachs.

To sum up the above two factors, at about two or three o'clock in the afternoon, the two sides blew their own conches and withdrew their troops.

During the battle, Hideharu Hatano kept close to Akai from beginning to end.

It's not that the old enemy is really reconciled.

What he thought in his heart was that this Akai was already fifty years old, and he was still so capable of fighting! The older you get, the stronger you get!

After knowing Akai Naomasa for so many years, he always thought that he had understood this mortal enemy well enough, and he also experienced Akai's martial arts, but it wasn't until today that he discovered that Akai's energy was beyond his imagination! (Advertising words?) ）

It would be great if you could make better use of this guy's power.

So as the main general, he has been hovering around the first formation.

When the wise army saw that the enemy's main generals had come out, could they not be excited? One by one, the farts swarmed up.

Because the distance between himself and Akai is not far, there are more people surrounding Akai.

Thanks to him, Akai Naomasa's physical strength was depleted very quickly today, and after cutting down an unknown number of enemies, this fierce general, for the first time in more than ten years, tasted exhaustion.

After retiring again, Hideharu Hatano and Naomasa Akai each regrouped and ordered the army to rest in turns.

It's a spring afternoon, and if you're a "conscious person", you'll realize that it's a great time to close your eyes and meditate!

Since the dispatch of the troops, the Tambo coalition has been in a highly vigilant and extremely tense atmosphere, although there is plenty of sleep every night, but the nerves have been so tense that it must be unbearable.

After a big battle, I couldn't hold it physically, and then I was illuminated by this warm sunshine, and I suddenly felt sleepy and dizzy.

The Akai Division, which has always governed the army with an iron fist, is nothing, but the subordinates of the people of the country, such as the River Division, the Hebei Division, and the Nakazawa Division, have already slept in a large area.

Even in the Hatano Army, there are people who have entered the "Inception".

Of course, those "big guys" will definitely not sleep, physical strength is the same thing, they think about whether to fight again today? When to play? Hit ...... there. These questions are all about one's own life and death, and they must not be sloppy.

The Akechi army on the opposite side was also motionless, listening to the report of the ninja who went to investigate, Akechi Mitsuhide also ordered all troops to take turns to rest.

"It seems that we can relax for the time being," and when everyone heard this "good news", their hearts settled down, and nothing could happen for a while.

After the army was collected, Akechi Mitsuhide ordered that all departments should not eat rice balls and other dry food without permission, but ordered the ministers to be responsible for cooking everyone's steaming lunch, and to be honest, the formal military meal would indeed make people feel "fulfilling" more than ordinary dry food.

"Everyone, take a moment to rest," he said at the military meeting, "Shen Shi (three to five o'clock in the afternoon) is out of battle at one moment!" ”

In the afternoon of the same day, we all gathered in the main formation to discuss the military arrangements.

With the experience of the last attack on Yagami Castle, his father Akechi Mitsuhide said:

"My plan is to end the war as soon as possible, and it is better to have a few more field battles to annihilate the main force of the Danba coalition army."

"Why should the general be like this," Saito Toshizo said: "In terms of troops, although Akai and Hatano are slightly inferior to our army, they are not pan-rats, and it is a little unrealistic to want to eliminate them all through field warfare in a short period of time." ”

"Yes, General," said Yoshiaki Naito, although he wanted to see his sworn enemy unlucky, but from his own point of view, he did not agree with the "quick victory theory", "the strength of the enemy and us is equal, and if we insist on blindly 'strong battle', it will be quite disadvantageous to ourselves." ”

"Kogoro, what is your opinion?" My father pointed to me who was closest to him.

I followed Naito Yoshiaki's words just now and said, "I think Saito and Naito are right, our army does not have an absolute advantage in front of the enemy, and even if we can force a quick victory, I am afraid that we will lose a lot of ourselves. ”

"Okay, let's stop attacking for the time being, and wait and see how the enemy's dynamics change."

Seeing that we all thought so, my father no longer insisted on the original policy.

The reason why my father proposed a quick battle strategy was because he originally thought that when he came this time, the "popular will" of the Tanba people should all belong to him, and abandon Hatano and Akai.

In this way, he can easily "kill" the enemy in seconds with the "Wang Shi".

In fact, it was indeed as he expected, and there were many people in Tambo who saw that these two guys were not pleasing to the eye and wanted to join the "imperial army", and not long after he issued a letter in Milan, most of the people in Tambo sent autumn spinach.

However, "most" does not mean "all", and there are still many people who were forced to fall to them under the radical and violent "revolutionary terror" of Akai and Hatano, and these two men actually gathered an army of more than 10,000 men, not counting an army of 3,000 people not far to the north.

In this way, in the absence of superiority in forces, his "quick battle" becomes less realistic.

Second, he didn't want to be like last time, under the Eight Castles, fighting a protracted tug-of-war with the enemy, which was quite uncomfortable, and the food and grass might not be able to keep up.

However, when he returned to Kyoto to raise food and grass, the chief of the family pursued the wise Chang'an, and so far, his work has been carried out smoothly without encountering any problems.

In terms of food, it seems that there will be no problems for a while.

In that case, let's go down with the enemy with peace of mind.

Then there is the discussion of the question of when to conduct the "second round" with the enemy.

Regarding this, the Four Heavenly Kings Masataka, who was more familiar with the Hatano Army, put forward the idea of "Dawn Attack", which was approved by us and adopted by my father.

Now that the time has been discussed, the next step is to arrange the military formation.

Everything else is easy to say, with the family as the main force in the center, and the people of the country are separated from each other.

This was the principle and practice of the daimyo in commanding the battle of the wealthy clans.

The only question is who will be the pioneer.

The three of them are really "long-faced" today, and they were bluffed by the enemy casually, as long as the three of them are still a little shameless, they will no longer be entrenched in this position.

Sure enough, the three took the initiative to ask for their men to be pulled back a bit.

In this way, the place of the vanguard is vacated.

As a result, everyone wants to grab this position closest to "making meritorious contributions" and arguing endlessly about it.

However, my father had an idea in his heart.

"Uchizosuke, it's up to you to be the single-arrow spearhead, at the forefront, okay?"

"I will live up to the general's trust!"

If this came from someone else's mouth, it might be a big statement, but if it came from the mouth of Saito Toshizo, everyone felt that it was appropriate, because he had the ability.

This Saito Rizo, and his father's distant cousin, as early as a young man, as an ashigaru general, followed Saito Michizo to attack Owari, and made military exploits, for decades, no matter who the lord served, his "military merits" have not decreased.

One more thing, Saito Michizo and Saito Rizo have nothing to do with each other in blood, Saito Rizo is a descendant of the Saito clan in the Ashikaga Prefecture era, the descendant of the Saito clan of the Mino Guardian Dai, and the heir of Saito in the Eight Classics, and Michizo just got this surname from the guardian Toki Yoriyi, and set up a separate door, which has nothing to do with the original Saito family.

"Okay, I'll leave it to you," the father nodded, "In the second formation, the left is in charge of the left army, the right is in charge of the right army, Dengoro (Fujita administration), you are in charge of the middle army, and the three of you are ambushed behind Uchizosuke!" ”

"Yes!"

"The third formation, Shobei (Mizuo Shigerao), Taro Saemon (Matsuda Masaka), Kogoro, and Ichiro, will be handed over to the four of you!"

"Yes!" For the first time in his life, he was given the opportunity to lead the troops into battle, and Hosokawa Tadashi, who had the opportunity to lead the army, was extremely excited.

"That's the general configuration.

Tomorrow morning, I will prepare for battle, and when the battle begins, I will be in the shogunate of the Chinese army, blowing the conch.

When the time comes, you will be followed by Uchizosuke, and your men will start the action first, near left, near right, and Dengoro, and the three of you will follow closely behind Uchizosuke.

At two o'clock in the morning, I will blow a second spiral in the camp, which is the order for the whole army to charge, and when you hear this voice, you will attack with all your might.

As for the changes on the battlefield, you will deal with them in accordance with your own abilities and needs.

When I blow the third conch on the camp, everyone must withdraw their troops immediately, and do not fall in love with battle. ”

He finished all the configurations in one go.

"That's all the arrangement, if there's nothing to do, let's break up."

"Big brother!" As soon as I walked out of the camp, Hosokawa Tadashi said to me excitedly: "I can finally go and capture the flag now, and leave a name in history. ”

"That's really congratulations, but the battlefield is dangerous, not as good as the heavy guards in this formation, when the time comes, you have to be more careful, of course, if I have that ability, I will also take care of you according to the situation."

"That's thank you, tomorrow I must make a meritorious achievement, so that my father (Hosokawa old fox) will impress me! I lost Tanbo a while ago, but I really lost our family......"