"What a god!" I looked at the moon in the sky, which was not very round, but as clear as a mirror, and I couldn't help but sigh. "I don't know what tomorrow will bring!" I began to figure out the situation at hand.

It had been three days since Oda Nobunaga's three-way army had entered the territory of the Minami-Omi Rokkaku family, and none of the castles along the way had put up a decent resistance. The best is to shoot a few feathered arrows and abandon the city, and most of the others are left with the gates wide open! Such a situation has made the morale of the coalition army higher and higher, at least psychologically, the hexagon Yoshixian has already lost. According to the news sent by Ishikawa Tadsuna, the Rokkaku family is not stable now, and many important ministers have begun to make their own small calculations. Today I finally met the main force of the Hexagonal family, and the Hexagonal Yixian personally led 35,000 troops to set up a position against the small city! Nobunaga considered that it was getting late, so he set up camp on a hill five miles away from the enemy, preparing for a decisive battle tomorrow!

Tomorrow's battle will not be my first battle, but I have never participated in such a large-scale battle before. The total number of troops invested by both sides is as much as 80,000 or 90,000, and it is exciting enough to think about it! From a distance, the camp of the Hexagon Army was also full of lights. "I don't know how many people will die here tomorrow?" I pondered silently.

"Can't sleep?" Akechi Mitsuhide walked around a tent and toward me, the light of the campfire shining on his armor. At this time, he had already transferred to the Oda family as the elder of the family, and he accompanied him as a general of the Chinese army on this expedition.

"yes!" I said to him with a smile. "It's the first time I've participated in such a large-scale battle, so I'm a little excited! How's that, you think I'm pretty unproductive, right? ”

"Don't say that!" He shook his hand and pulled me to sit down on the wheel of a large cart. "Anyone can be nervous about the unknown, and there's nothing to be ashamed of! As long as you are familiar with it, you will feel that it is nothing more than that. Then he smiled again. As a samurai, some things are also very helpless, and after a long time, feelings will inevitably become numb. Especially in this troubled era, in the end, you will be unaware of ending the life of a fellow kind with your own hands. It's sad to think about! ”

"Have you reached this stage?" I asked while he wasn't looking.

"This ......," he thought for a moment. I don't think it's there yet! In the future...... It may be unavoidable! ”

"That's right," I muttered...... muttered.

"You know what?" Akechi Mitsuhide said as she stared at me with her eyes. "I think you're really lucky!"

"How did you get influenced by that kid from Ikeda? I'm ......," I said helplessly.

"No, you misunderstood me!" He hurriedly stopped me. "Your first big battle is such a must-win battle, and it won't be so fierce as it stands! This will help you gradually get into the situation and slowly develop the psychological quality of a commander. If the first time you participate in a bloody and fiasco, even if you can leave no psychological shadow afterwards, there will be a long recovery process! ”

"You really look up to me! I'm a lazy man who can be a commander, you're not kidding me, are you? I touched my face with my hand and swayed from side to side laughing self-deprecatingly.

"I believe in my own vision!" Akechi Mitsuhide didn't smile, his eyes sparkling in the night. "I've watched you for a while, and you have the two most important conditions to become a commander!"

"Two conditions? What is it? I asked, confused. I asked myself if I was not a very modest person, how could I not find out that I had such a great advantage?

"Then you can listen up......" he snapped his fingers very seriously. First, you can gain the trust of your subordinates very quickly. This is something that many people can't do even if they work hard all their lives! ”

"Could it be so?" I quickly remembered it in my head. It seems like this, but I always feel that the admiration of people such as Katsutaki Shima stems from misunderstandings.

"Second point......" Akechi Mitsuhide continued to say to himself. …… The first feeling of your person is a little superficial, and if you continue to contact you, you will feel that you will always find novelties from time to time, and you will inevitably have a strange feeling after a long time! ”

"What's that?" I hurriedly asked.

"It's mystery!" He said with great certainty. "You must know: it is a necessary condition for a commander to make his subordinates unable to figure it out, and it is bound to be difficult for a commander who can be seen through at a glance to establish a high prestige! Only when you have this and make your subordinates feel that you are much, much better than him, can your orders be carried out unconditionally from beginning to end! Let your subordinates understand: do what you understand and what you don't understand, and deepen your understanding in the process of implementation! ”

"Huh?!" I exclaimed softly, not surprised at how novel this theory was, but because I was impressed that Akechi Mitsuhide actually knew the essence of "Chairman Mao's Quotations". As a society with highly developed material, culture, education, and communication, blind obedience is undoubtedly deplorable! But as a society with underdeveloped and unbalanced productive forces, and the people's wisdom is not yet developed, blind obedience is definitely beneficial! And in an army of all times, blind obedience becomes a must! As a superior person, I don't want to be seen through by my subordinates, and the words of Akechi Mitsuhide really reminded me that it was time to review my attitude towards Oda Nobunaga!

"That's it! Don't overthink it and go to bed early! He got up and patted me on the shoulder. The days are still long, and tomorrow is just a new beginning! With that, he walked forward.

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Amid the sound of orders one after another, bursts of golden drums sounded from time to time, and tens of thousands of troops gradually formed into nearly 100 phalanxes of various sizes and slowly advanced forward. On August 20, Eiroku 8, at 8:10 a.m., Oda Nobunaga's army marched out of Sasaku Castle. In this battle, Oda Nobunaga himself commanded the central army, Asai Nagamasa was the right wing, and Tokugawa Ieyasu was the left wing, and at the same time, in order to make up for the lack of military strength on the left flank, Nobunaga transferred 4,500 people from Inaba Kazutetsu and Ando Mori.

I was standing by the banner of the shogunate of the Chinese army, and three steps in front of me was the high-spirited Oda Nobunaga. Looking down from the hill where we stood, a large field of gun flags spread out one after another from top to bottom. A variety of horse prints and flags of different colors and emblems divide this "ocean" into several different areas.

Looking up at the west of the city, the large camp under the small city also slowly opened up one army after another, and there were cavalry reserves of about 100 people shuttling back and forth from time to time between the phalanx with the spear and foot light as the main body, and soon the formation was formed, the front army, the middle army, the reserves, the left wing, and the right wing were all in their places, and the commanders and banners of each army gradually stopped moving.

"Your Highness!" A herald galloped into the Chinese army, came to Oda Nobunaga, rolled into the saddle, dismounted, and knelt on one leg. "The front team of our army has been deployed, Lord Shibata, please announce it!"

"Have the enemy shown intent to attack?" Oda Nobunaga asked majestically.

"Back to my lord!" The herald replied in a deep voice. "There are a large number of archers and iron cannons in the front of the enemy, and the position is relatively prominent, not like the intention of taking the initiative to attack!"

"That's ......," Oda Nobunaga said after a slight groan, "Tell Shibata that I will give him the Ikoma Archer Reserve and the Hirate Iron Artillery Reserve!" Ordered him to lead with ranged troops, pikemen to follow and protect, ready to attack at any time! ”

"Yes!" The herald took the order and departed.

"Someone!" Oda Nobunaga shouted.

"In!" A Chinese herald came up to him.

"Please ask His Highness Asai and His Highness Tokugawa to send small teams of cavalry to test and attack the enemy's two wings!" Oda Nobunaga said.

"Yes!" The herald rode away, and a great battle was about to begin......