"Call him in!" Hearing the news, I sat up from the couch and urged Ah Xue anxiously.

When I first entered Kii, I received news that Hideharu Hatano took advantage of my presence to send 10,000 troops to attack Wakasa, and the commander of the army was the famous general Akai Naomasa, who was known as the "Red Devil". And the offensive was rapid, and by the time I got the news, they had already invaded Wakasa. This really scared my soul out of the shell, once Wakasa loses it, won't I completely "stop cooking"?

Although I wept and wept at Oda Nobunaga, he was as hard as a stone and sternly rejected my legitimate request to return to Wakasa immediately, saying that "you can't lose the gains and losses of one domain and ruin the world's great things!" "It's really TMD standing and talking without back pain! Although the world is big, it is his, and although a domain is small, it is my own, if I continue to develop according to this trend, one day my family will be completely defeated!

In any case, the army was tied up here, and I had no choice but to order Ishikawa Tadsuna to lead most of the ninjas back, and send a secret order of 100,000 to the Koga Shinobi, telling them to concentrate their maximum strength and rush to Wakasa. Now there is only so much I can do, and all that remains is to pray to God for your blessing! Due to the rapid reduction of the "dark forces" around me, it directly led to the loss of control of the situation in the guerrilla battlefield of Kii, and the current strength at hand is more than self-preservation and lack of progress, at most it is a limited response to the harassment of the Zaga people, and there is no need to think about taking the initiative to destroy the enemy!

After a series of temptations, the Saga people finally realized that I was a difficult bone to gnaw. Faced with reality, they took a pretty sensible approach, and the intense "games" of the night basically stopped taking me to play! I'm quite happy with this situation, after all, my mind is not here at all at the moment.

At the critical moment when I couldn't sleep, suddenly the warbler's bird sent me a message again, which actually said that the matter was over, so I don't have to worry! Holding this silk strip with only a few words, I was confused, could it be that the more than 10,000 people of the Hatano family were so lively for three days and two mornings? This is a bit too abrupt! Or were they annihilated by the more than 2,000 people I left in Wakasa? Although it is a little more difficult, it is not completely impossible, after all, Nagano Yemasa is also a generation of famous generals! But if such news should have spread all over the world a long time ago, such a thing would definitely be shocking! The inside story of the matter...... It's hard to guess!

From the day I received the letter, I began to count the days with my fingers, hoping that the ninjas led by Ishikawa Tadasuna would come back as soon as possible, so that I could understand the situation there and the situation of my family in detail; Second, if the Hatano army is only temporarily retreating, I should also hurry up and think about the next steps!

"Lord, I'm back......" Ishikawa Tadatsuna burrowed into the tent. Looking at his red eyes, he should have been traveling overnight, probably due to the rain, and there were a lot of small crystal droplets on his clothes and even his beard.

"It's been a hard journey!" Although my heart seems to be scratching my heart, for my subordinates who have just experienced the battle and rushing, as the lord, I should first express my concern and condolences. Anyway, I've been the head of the house for so long, and I've always learned something. "How many days have you been on the road? Did it go well? Has everyone else been settled? ”

"Thank you, Lord Gong! The journey was very smooth and there was no trouble during the three days trip! The people who have come back have already stayed and are now eating......" Ishikawa replied gratefully.

"How's the family going?" That's when I started to get back to business.

"Yes!" Seeing my urgency, he didn't make any more detours. "It is true that Akai Naomasa led the army to attack Wakasa, and when we arrived, we were just in time for the Hatano army to descend on Kohama Castle......"

"What?!" I was taken aback to hear this. "They...... They actually arrived at the foot of Xiaobin City! ”

"Indeed it is! But the lord doesn't have to worry about ......" Ishikawa Tadsuna hurriedly comforted me and said: "Akai Naomasa's forces are strong and menacing, and Lord Nagano took the initiative to abandon several cities on the border that are not easy to defend in order to concentrate his forces, and the Hatano army did not vigorously fight for those dangerous strongholds, so it quickly advanced to the foot of Kohama Castle!" It just so happened that our army was waiting for work at ease and had a contest with the Hataye army! ”

"Tell me about it!" I pulled him to a seat by the brazier.

"Yes! Because of the rapid and continuous march of the Hatano army, when they arrived at Kohama Castle, they were already sleepy and tired, so they set up camp first! But we didn't give them a chance to repair, and that night we did as Nagano Boss instructed...... "Ishikawa Tadatsuna told me in a colorful voice. "The ninjas, ninja soldiers, and the Koga people who came to the aid of Kohama Castle sneaked out of the castle in small groups, imitating the sound of horses' hooves around the Hatano camp with wooden bowls and bamboo planks, and the movement was really like thousands of horses running around in the surrounding darkness! You know that the cavalry of this family has long been famous, and Akai Naomasa doesn't seem to be too sure that the 'armor cavalry' has left with the lord, so naturally he doesn't dare to be careless, and the camp in Hatano was so brightly lit that night that night! ”

"It's really enough for Akai Naomasa to do this all night!" I couldn't help but laugh out loud when I thought about it.

"One night?! It's only one night that isn't too cheap for these guys! Ishikawa Tadsuna's eyes widened in surprise as he looked at me. …… For ten consecutive nights, the grass and trees tossed by the Hataye army were all in shape, and Leng never dared to start the siege! ”

"Didn't they have any suspicions?" I'm a little strange, after all, Akai Naomasa is also a generation of famous generals, one day I don't understand, two days I don't know, can I still be kept in the dark?

"Naturally, it's not ......," Ishikawa shook his head repeatedly, but his eyes were full of smiles. In the middle of the night on the eleventh day, a cavalry of about 300 men of the Hataye Army suddenly rushed out of the main camp and kept killing in the direction of the most dense sound! ”

"And how do you do that?" I asked nervously.

"This is something that Elder Nagano had expected......" he said smugly. We have a 100-man artillery team that lies in ambush in a forest every night, waiting for them to come to the door themselves! Seeing that the cavalry had slain us, they were led to the woods by relay and by sound alternately, and just as they were spun around at the edge of the forest by the sudden disappearance of the sound of horses' hooves, a burst of iron cannons knocked them dazed! After several rounds of bombardment, the cavalry was almost completely put down, and from then on the Hata field army never dared to take a single step out of the gate at night! And we continued to do so, sending small groups of cavalry to harass them, and sometimes even getting close enough to fire cannons and rockets into the camp! ”

"Yes......" I was a little stunned when I heard this, this is so similar to the current situation of the Oda army, but the host and guest are a little out of place!

"After a while, Akai Naomasa finally couldn't stand it anymore......" Ishikawa Tadsuna didn't notice the change in my mood and continued to talk with great interest. He moved the camp five miles west to a mountain col, which was surrounded by mountains and had many cliffs, which effectively restrained the approach of the cavalry. And he was very careful to avoid the wooded places, which in turn prevented our troops from attacking them! ”

"What's your next strategy?" I asked with a smile, this question should be difficult for Nagano Yoshimasa.

"Hey, hey, hey, that's funny!" He couldn't help but laugh when he remembered the scene at that time. "The Elder Nagano ordered 2,000 three-foot-square Kong Ming lanterns to be made, and about 30 fist-sized oil cloth bags were hung under each one, filled with fire oil and tied tightly at the mouth of the bag. It took us three nights to get them all up a cliff behind the camp in Hatano! ”

"Oh......" I somewhat understood Nagano Yoshimasa's intentions, but I still didn't interrupt Ishikawa's narration.

“…… It was also the Lord Fortune that we had just prepared for it all to catch up with a suitable evening! It is pitch black, there are no stars and no moon, and there is a suitable wind force and direction......" At this time, he had already said the key point, and his two eyes were shining. "We lit these Kong Ming lanterns at the hour of the hour, and soon they flew directly above the camp in Hatano! In advance, 100 selected archers came to the cliff with the kind of hard bows that the cavalry trained arm strength in, and a rain of arrows shot towards those Kong Ming lanterns, and all of a sudden the broken lamp stands ignited the oil cloth bags below, and a large number of fireballs were smashed towards the Bodo camp! You didn't see it, and those who don't know the inside story will think it's hell! Although it did not have much actual lethality, the morale of the soldiers of the Hatano family was shattered at once. At that time, there was a rout, and the spread became more and more widespread, more than 10,000 people scattered more than 8,000! Akai Naomasa couldn't restrain his troops so he had to flee at night, and we were intercepted and killed several times along the way, and when he ran out of Wakasa, there were not even 100 people with his entourage! ”

"Brilliant plan! With this experience, I'm afraid that within ten years, the Hatano family will never dare to approach Wakasa again! "After the excitement, I fell into deep anxiety, and our current situation is similar to that of Akai Naomasa. Looking at the surprise attack methods of the Zaga people, compared with my ninja army and the Jiahe people, they are at least among the best, and now they just lack the final thunder blow according to the local conditions! Of course, there are also those who are waiting for the perfect time! So what do I do now? "How many people did you bring back this time?"

"In addition to the ones I originally took with me, I also drew a number of good players from the Koga family......" Ishikawa Tadatsuna said in a low voice as he approached me. 120 people in total! Although there are not many people, they are all experienced ninjas with high skills! ”

"Did the teacher have any instructions when you came?" Hearing him say that, I was relieved a little.

"Lord Nagano has some explanation......s," Ishikawa Tadatsuna said mysteriously, "He asked me to tell my lord: Don't take it lightly against enemies like Saga!" Only when you grasp its movements or lay a trap can you take advantage of the weakness of its scattered forces to capture its leader in one fell swoop! But this move can't completely eradicate it, but it will form a life and death feud with it, so please be cautious about whether to use it or not! ”

"I see......" I nodded and mused, "You go and assign the men into several shifts, as long as we can ensure the safety of our own troops!" Others hurry up and rest, and in a few days something big may happen. "I think my strength has increased so much all of a sudden, I should be able to sleep well! Thinking about it, I didn't feel a wave of sleepiness hit me......