After the clan and Oda Nagayi finished discussing, the sky had already darkened unconsciously, and at this moment, except for the city wall and the city gate, and the samurai mansion of the clan, which was still brightly lit, the rest of the city was already dark.

After sending away the satisfied Oda Nagaki, the clan did not have time to rest, and if he wanted to pacify the Ota Prefecture within three months, then there could be no delay.

And there are only more than 1,000 troops under his command, and there are tens of thousands of thugs outside Okazaki City, in the case of such a disparity in military strength, if you don't plan carefully, let alone defeat it, even if you don't wipe out all the troops under your command, you can be thankful. Therefore, as soon as Oda Nagayi left, the clan immediately summoned his retainers here to discuss the strategy of defeating the enemy.

Now, although there are 800 more elite spears under the available military strength, plus the light under his command, if he is cut to defend the city, he can probably dispatch 950 troops, but if compared with the army of tens of thousands, this military strength is a little insignificant, so it must be surprisingly victorious.

After all the retainers arrived, he only heard the clan sect speak with a gloomy face: "Ladies and gentlemen, the lord has decided to marry the Matsudaira family, and has given a death order to Lord Oda Nagaki, so that he must complete this matter within three months, that is to say, we need to open the road from Nishio Castle to Okazaki Castle within three months, and solve the mob outside Okazaki City. Let's put it bluntly. ”

The clan is now depressed, he has been thinking about this problem for a long time when he was waiting for the arrival of his retainers, but he can't think about it, this is also because the clan has higher requirements, and he wants to exterminate the thugs who have always been in Eda County, and he can't let the army under his command lose too much, otherwise even if it succeeds, it will be difficult to explain to Nobunaga.

"Lord, what's so difficult about this, now that the main hall has reinforced eight hundred banners, the battle strength of the family has broken a thousand, even if it fights the enemy head-on, it will not be defeated, so the subordinates think that it is enough to fight the enemy head-on, and please make a decision."

Maeda Toshiya didn't think about it, and said directly, in his opinion, since the family became an army, there has never been an opponent, every time the battle is fought, the family wins more with less, although he also knows that the road has always been a huge army, but when he thinks of those peasant soldiers who just put down their hoes and pick up arms, he can't help but feel contempt, even if there are tens of thousands of people, how to be afraid. As long as the iron spur cavalry under his command strikes a few more times, the enemy will inevitably break and flee. So he was full of confidence in the military situation at home.

And Kazutoyo Yamauchi, who was sitting next to him, didn't think so. Yamauchi knew that no matter how hard he practiced, he would not be able to reach the level of Maeda Toshiya and Wasuka Masakatsu in martial arts, and even the new retainer Watanabe Moritsuna was more than a few chips better than himself, so since Honda Masanobu left the family, as long as he had free time, he would ask him for advice and learn military law, and for many days, he also had some results.

Yamauchi Kazutoyo said that it is not wise to fight the enemy head-on, if it is really according to what Maeda Toshiya said, although he can hurt the enemy, but he also hurts himself, so he hurriedly persuaded: "My lord, my subordinates think that if you fight the enemy head-on, even if you can win, it will cause huge losses, if you can't win, if you are surrounded by the enemy, the consequences will be unimaginable, so please also ask the lord to put his own safety first." Don't rush out of the army. ”

The clan was also not interested in a head-to-head confrontation with the enemy, otherwise he would not have gathered his retainers so late to discuss countermeasures. The clan thought to himself, Lao Tzu is just a reinforcement, if you let Lao Tzu rush to the front line with everything, wouldn't it let the old turtle pick up the cheap, you must wait for the old turtle to take the lead, Lao Tzu at most waved the flag and shouted in the back.

But I want to think about it, but then again, who knows when the old turtle plans to have a decisive battle with the thugs, this old Wang Ba's forbearance is famous, in history he only fought a decisive battle with the thugs in 1564, Lao Tzu doesn't have so much time to spend here with you, it seems that he has to think of a way to urge the Matsudaira family to send troops as soon as possible.

Thinking of this, I only heard the clan said: "Everyone, we are reinforcements, if we attack directly, it will be a bit noisy, so my strategy is that this battle should be dominated by the Matsudaira family, and our army should be supplemented." Let's follow this line of thought and discuss. ”,

After listening to the retainers, who can not understand the mind of the lord, the lord has already made it very clear, if you go out of battle according to the lord's will, you can not only preserve your own strength, but also destroy the enemy army, and weaken the Matsudaira family. The retainers said in a loud voice: Since the lord has made a plan, his subordinates are willing to listen to the lord's dispatch. “

Seeing that the retainers had no objections, the clan nodded, limiting his secret thoughts, this matter is easy and easy to operate, and it is difficult to say that it is difficult, and the easy thing is that as long as you send someone to Okazaki Castle and agree with the Matsudaira family about the time to send out the army, but now that Okazaki Castle has been surrounded by enemy troops, it is not easy to enter the city and return to Nishio Castle. Now that the ninja army under his command is all under the ninja, and when it comes to such an important task entrusted to them, the clan can't rest assured, and it seems that he can only let Wasuka Masakatsu personally run it.

"Masakatsu Wasuka!"

"The subordinates are here." Seeing that the lord called his name as soon as he came up, Wasuka Masakatsu couldn't help but be overjoyed when he knew that he had a task to complete, and he hurriedly replied.

"I order you to go to Okazaki Castle and make an agreement with Matsudaira Motoyasu that at noon in three days, we will join forces to retreat from the enemy." Clan Zong ordered.

"It is the lord, and his subordinates will live up to the trust of the lord." Wasuka Masakatsu was about to get up and leave after speaking, but he was stopped by the clan, he couldn't help but think that Matsudaira Motoyasu is always cautious in doing things, if he directly sent Wasuka Masakatsu to go, there is no basis for his words, how can Matsudaira Motoyasu easily believe that if he refuses to send troops at that time, it will delay the big thing.

Therefore, the clan is also known as Honda Masatin ghostwriting, and wrote a short message to Matsudaira Motoyasu, in addition to signing the name, but also using red paint to press flowers, so that Matsudaira Motoyasu's doubts can be dispelled.

But just as the clan was dictating and Honda Masanobu was writing, Wasuka Masakatsu felt something strange, he suddenly felt as if someone was hiding somewhere, snooping on this place, he couldn't help but look around, but when he just raised his head to look, this feeling disappeared without a trace.