"I, Hu Hansan, are back again, but I'm still going to attack again!" Sitting in the assessment room of the castle tower at Katsura Kawaguchi Castle, I shouted to myself in my heart.

After nearly two months of busyness, I finally brought all the supplies and soldiers back to Katsura Kawaguchi Castle, but the time was approaching the end of the 10th year of Eiroku (1567). Chaos during this period is also inevitable, and it is not a trivial matter for ordinary people to move, not to mention that I, a "little big name", still have a lot of family background! When I really came back, I found out that this Katsura Kawaguchi Castle couldn't live there! After the houses in the city were filled with all kinds of treasures, ordnance, and reserves, they were stuffed with a maximum of 1,000 troops, and the others had to be arranged in the castle town and a few granges! In view of this situation, I had to hurry, and it was urgent to seize Wakasa.

"Look, how can we take Wakasa as soon as possible?" I was asked for advice at a meeting in the assessment room. Once again, the generals sat together, only this time it was a little crowded. "The Chinese New Year will not be long before the Chinese New Year, and if we don't hurry, most of our soldiers will have to stay in civilian houses all winter, which may have a considerable impact on morale in the future! So for this operation, we must hurry! ”

"What the lord said is very true, but there are also great difficulties in it!" Yamanaka Kanosuke frowned, his expression a little worried. "If you want to get to Wakasa from Katsura River Mouth Castle, you have to pass through the west side of Lake Biwa! The place here belonged to Omi Province, and it was originally the domain of the Rokkaku family, but later several castles in the north took refuge in Asai Nagamasa. Since the Battle of Kanesaki, the strength of the Asai family has weakened, and it is difficult to reach these places for the time being, so they have taken refuge in the family one after another! Therefore, the situation here is quite complicated, no one is sure what these people think in their hearts, or it can be said that among these people, there are several powerful and famous people in the vicinity, and it is almost impossible for our army to pass through here silently! ”

"If our army is lightly armed, is it possible to solve the problem before the Asakura family reacts?" I thought about it for a moment and asked.

"I'm afraid it's not possible!" Murai shook his head with a bitter face. As an internal military general, he rarely attends such meetings, because most of the time he is not in the frontier city, but this does not mean that he does not have a military concept. “…… It's already the winter farming season, and the armies of the daimyo such as Asakura, which are mainly peasant soldiers, have begun to gather for training, and once they get the news, they will act quickly! Even if it takes time to arrive from Ichijo Valley Castle, as long as the defenders are prepared, with the dangerous terrain of the Wakasa Castles, our army will not be able to get down quickly! Besides, our army cannot carry heavy siege equipment if it is lightly armed, and it will be even more difficult to fall into the city. If our army is stuck in Wakasa, we may be attacked from behind by the Hatano army, and then the whole army will be in danger! ”

"If it really doesn't work, I'll lead the cavalry first, and the lord's army will follow!" Keiji Maeda made his own suggestion, which seemed a bit of a desperate gamble. "Although our armoured cavalry is strong, it is no more than a thousand, but the Asakura family has at least 3,000 troops in Wakasa. When I get there, I can pretend to show weakness to lure them into battle, and then find a way to annihilate most of them! In this way, after the arrival of the lord's army, the enemy army is already in danger and without soldiers, and it must not be difficult to quickly occupy Wakasa. Even if the reinforcements from Asakura and Hatano arrive at this time, the location is already advantageous to me, are we still afraid that we will not be able to hold it with the thousands of elite soldiers of our Zhuxing Family? ”

"Is this possible?" Although I think this suggestion of Maeda Keiji is a bit risky, it is very similar to the method of the Three Kingdoms Wei Yan's troops out of the Meridian Valley, but sometimes the use of troops must be risky.

"I'm afraid it won't work!" Nagano shook his head, making his objections clear. "Our army's armored cavalry has been famous in the world since the Great Barrier and Tobuki Town, and this time the battle to pacify the civil strife of the Hatakeyama family and repel the Miyoshi is even more famous, and the prestige can almost catch up with Takeda's 'Akabei'! The Asakura army may not dare to go into battle, even if it goes out of the city to face the battle, limited to the characteristics of many mountains and few plains in Wakasa, our army is easy to defeat the enemy and difficult to destroy the enemy! On the contrary, the cavalry's early action must have disturbed the enemy, and if the lord's own army was blocked on the way, wouldn't it be in a dilemma? ”

"......" Keiji Maeda fell silent for a moment, it seemed that he had been persuaded by Nagano Yemasa's reason. His plan does have a lot of loopholes, and the speculative component is too strong!

"Does anyone else have a plan?" I turned to the others for advice, and we still have so many "cobblers" here! Looking at the past one by one, most of them were doing painstaking meditation, or frowning and bowing their heads or looking up to the sky in silent meditation, only the Takenaka Hanbei seemed to be slightly relieved. "Chongzhi, do you have any solution?"

"My lord, my subordinates' plans are actually not mature......" Takenaka Hanbei said as he spoke, but he wanted to stop talking.

"Lord!" Just when I wanted to encourage him again, Nagano Yoshimasa suddenly spoke again. "The old man wants to ask the lord to give Fu Xiu a chance to listen to his plan!"

"Fuxiu?" When I heard this, I was stunned, and instinctively looked at Gamo Fuxiu, who was sitting behind me. Over the years, he has been listening to the army as my attendant, just listening quietly and watching everything happening, and before I knew it, this "famous general" was already 13 years old! "Then you can talk about it!" I do want to see how much he is doing.

"Kid is ignorant! How dare you ...... in front of His Highness and all the adults," Fuhide Gamo said with trepidation.

"You don't have to be so nervous, no one will blame you even if something goes wrong!" I gave him an encouraging look. "Just speak up, and everyone will add it!"

"That being the case...... Please forgive the boy! He finally threw away his restraints and looked up. May I ask Your Highness, are you familiar with Hasegawa Sohito, a great grain merchant in Kyoto? ”

"It's okay!" I thought about it for a moment and said, "Although we haven't met a few times, we have helped each other a little, if there is anything needed...... As long as it's not too difficult, I don't think he will refuse! ”

"It would be great if that was the case!" Gamo Fuxiu suddenly became excited. "I want to ask Your Highness to rent all the grain ships from him!"

"Rent a boat?" I kind of understand what he's thinking.

"Yes, it's chartering!" He nodded repeatedly. "Hasegawa Munehito owned the largest grain trading network in the region and controlled many of the large trading markets along Lake Biwa. In order to meet the perennial supply of these markets, his men command a river fleet of many ships! Because they are used to transport grain, the size and carrying capacity of these ships are very large! We can use these ships to carry troops, and we can go straight to Wakasa without even noticing! ”

"That's a real idea......," I said, considering the feasibility of the matter.

"What if the Asakura Army finds out?" Nagano said worriedly. "The fact that our army could not all enter the city because of their large numbers is remarkable enough, and it must be even more suspicious to concentrate a large number of ships under the city! Once the Asakura army is prepared, it will snipe when our army lands, so isn't it dangerous for our army? ”

"Nagano-sama is very true, but we can also use this to create a false image!" Gamo begins to break down and dissect his plans. "The news that our army has returned to Katsura Chuankou City with a large number of personnel and materials is already known to everyone at this moment, and we can use this to make an article! Externally, we said that due to the large number of personnel, we must prepare a large number of winter clothes, and that next year we will also expand the castle of Katsura Kawaguchi, and at the same time deal with some surplus supplies, so there is a reason for the ships to gather. Our army can be divided into small groups to leave by boat, and the boat that leaves during the day carries supplies; ships that left at night transported soldiers; Ships that departed during the day sailed to various places; The boat that left at night was heading in the direction of Wakasa! The personnel left behind by our army are constantly moving, and it is bound to be difficult for the enemy to estimate the remaining number. Lake Biwa is hundreds of miles long, and there are many unknown islands in it! Our army found one on the shore near Wakasa, transported the troops in batches, and waited until a certain number of them had been gathered, and then concentrated all the ships for a one-time landing, which would surely catch the Asakura army by surprise! ”

There was silence after he finished speaking, and everyone looked at each other without saying a word.

"What's wrong with the kid, I hope you will correct me!" Gamo Fuxiu looked at everyone nervously.

"Hey!" Ke'er Caizang suddenly slapped Gamo Fuxiu's shoulder, causing his body to be crooked. "I can't see it! You kid still has a set, not bad! Not bad! ”

"This plan is indeed more thoughtful than I thought, it is really terrifying!" Takenaka Hanbei also praised sincerely.

"Then talk about ...... again" Nagano Yoshimasa put forward a new "problem" for the student. "After arriving in Wakasa, our army still has to face the steep and strong city of the Asakura army, do you have any way to defeat the enemy in one fell swoop?"

"That's a bit shallow!" Gamo Fuhide turned to Takenaka Hanbei and said, "I've always admired Takenaka-sama's strategy, so I want to follow suit based on your adult's clever strategy of Ise Kameyama Castle!" ”

"Oh!" Hearing him say this, Takenaka Hanbei suddenly became interested. "What's your plan?"

"I want to ...... first. And then...... The Asakura army is bound to ...... Let's ...... again At last...... What do you think? Gamo Fuxiu finished.

"So be it!" Seeing that everyone had no objections, I made a decision. "Time is pressing, everyone go back and prepare!"

"Lord......" After everyone left, Ishikawa Tadatsuna stayed alone. I have something to report to you! ”

"What's the matter?" I looked up at him, wondering if there was anything special about this mystery.

"That's right......" he said in a slur "I...... Some people would like to recommend it to you! ”

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Bear in Winter: Young and frivolous, he often said, "If I were born in the Three Kingdoms, what would I do!" "What will happen if I am in Napoleon's place!" It's ridiculous to think about it now! When I wrote this chapter today, I racked my brains to come up with this strategy, but after a closer look, I found that it was just a copy of Lu Meng's "crossing the river in white", which was "Ming Xiu plank road, secret crossing Chen Cang." ". The "Thirty-six Strategies" of our ancestors have actually set the formula for all strategies, and the space for us to break through is almost zero!