Chapter 228: The Weakness of the Rebels

The war went on from morning to noon, and with the strength of the outnumbered people, the army did not stop at all, and continued to launch a tidal offensive against Okazaki Castle. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 infoAccording to the ideas of Sakai Tadashi and others, under such an offensive, Okazaki Castle should be taken down soon, even if it was Oda Yoshinobu who was watching the battle, he was ready to accept the result of Mikawa's return to the arms of the Imagawa family several times.

It's just that the result is beyond everyone's imagination, in the face of the continuous offensive of the army, although Okazaki Castle looks like it may be lost at any time, but in fact, until now, the Matsudaira family crest on Okazaki Castle is still fluttering in the air.

"I can't imagine that the Matsudaira family still has such combat effectiveness in this situation......" Sakai Tadashi sighed with emotion as he looked at the situation that was obviously crumbling, but his own troops could not enter Okazaki Castle for half a step.

"After all, it's just a bunch of civilians...... Matsudaira said disdainfully.

"Oh? Why don't you ask Matsudaira-sama to show off the might of his troops? Sakai Tadashi said immediately when he heard this. In a word, Matsudaira Ieji was silent. The other samurai, who were still trying to say something, also lowered their heads.

Well, although the army has always seemed to be outnumbered, except for the chaotic people who were fooled by religious beliefs, the vast majority of the samurai and the troops under their command had never been out of battle at all, and they had no intention of going into battle at all. As for the reason, everyone knows it, so they are all tacitly silent.

After all, no one wants their troops to fight desperately to take Okazaki Castle while others sit in the back and reap the fruits. And this is one of the biggest reasons why Okazaki Castle has not been able to be captured. After all, relying only on a group of chaotic people with eighteen weapons, the combat effectiveness is still very limited.

However, Sakai Tadashi didn't have much to do about it, so that those samurai sent their own troops into battle? How could they be willing to do it?! Didn't you see that stupid Matsudaira family didn't want to? Who else would want to? Let Tadashi Sakai take the lead? He doesn't want to......

So, in this case, although it looked thrilling, under the desperate struggle of the Matsudaira family, until it was close to dusk, the Ichito-jun still failed to break through Okazaki Castle, but left hundreds of corpses behind.

"Alas...... Let them come back......" Sakai Tadashi looked at the sky and said helplessly. Afterwards, a burst of horns sounded in the main formation of the First Army.

"That's ......" Matsudaira Ieyasu stood on the castle wall, and when he heard this voice, his eyes widened in disbelief, staring at the enemy troops outside the city. It wasn't until the last enemy retreated from the enemy's position that he finally understood that the first day of the war was over.

Matsudaira Ieyasu slowly walked down the city wall, at this time, because of the constant fighting, he did not look like a family governor at all, and all the soldiers of the Matsudaira family looked at him with respect. Because it was this man who, when the enemy's attack was at its most ferocious, did not stand on the high platform to do that senseless command, but directly rushed to the city wall with a sword, and fought desperately with his retainers and ashigaru.

Under the gaze of everyone, Matsudaira Ieyasu slowly walked up to the high platform, and then turned to face everyone. He kept scanning the bodies of the people, and everywhere he looked, all of them were stained red with blood, both enemies and his own. In a clearing not far away, dozens of ashigaru and samurai were lying or leaning on that side, and they had been evacuated because they were too badly injured. And under the city wall, there were also dozens of people, but they could no longer open their eyes.

The sword in his hand was slowly raised, and Matsudaira Ieyasu looked at everyone, and suddenly, he shouted loudly, "We! Victory! ā€

"Whoa, whoa!"

"Oh! Oh! Oh!! ā€

"Oh!! Oh!! Oh!!! ā€

All the soldiers of the Matsudaira family cheered loudly and shouted, as if they didn't seem to be able to vent their emotions at all.

In other words, at a time like this, this victory is just too important and too important. Although Matsudaira Ieyasu has been using various ways to boost morale and reduce the fear of the enemy since receiving the news, the strength of the enemy is still engraved in their hearts no matter what. Now, however, the victory has regained the confidence they had lost.

"We have won! We have defeated an enemy ten times larger than ours! This proves that the enemy, despite its numbers, is not invincible! It also proves! As long as we are united! There's nothing you can't do! Matsudaira Ieyasu kept shouting from the high platform, and he seemed to be very emotional.

Perhaps, at this time, he also needs catharsis, right? After all, since the release of the submission of the Sect of the First Sect, he has hardly been able to sleep for a day. If you dream of Okazaki, you will dream that Okazaki was breached, and the Matsudaira family has completely become a text in the history books in his generation.

After all, he is just a young man who has just turned 20 years old, and he has lived as a hostage since he was a child, and he has finally escaped from it, but he is burdened with the hope of reviving the Matsudaira family. And now, with his continuous efforts, the Matsudaira family has finally made such a little improvement, but it has encountered the betrayal of more than half of the retainers and most of Mikawa.

For such a young samurai, not being crushed is already very, very remarkable.

The cheers in Okazaki Castle rang out incessantly, and could be heard even in the main camp of the Ichijan army and the place where Oda Yoshinobu was resting.

"Humph! What's there to be proud of, see how many days you guys can last! Sakai Tadashi thought dissatisfied. Not far away, Masanobu Honda looked at Okazaki Castle with curious eyes, his eyes flickering, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

"Hehe, Ieyasu, this kid, is really strong enough!" Oda Yoshinobu shook his head and smiled, "It is worthy of being the last old turtle in history to be able to win the world." Of course, the last sentence was just a thought in Oda Yoshinobu's heart.

"Lord, in fact, there is nothing surprising about this, my subordinates have been observing the situation of the rebels today and have found a very strange thing." Fernand spoke. In other words, this kid never seems to know what it means to be low-key, and he has always said whatever he has. Is this true of all the people in Europa? Well, this kid was born in the New World.

"Oh? What's the matter? Oda Yoshinobu asked curiously, he paid more and more attention to Fernand, because this kid was always able to find many places that others couldn't find. Sometimes, Oda Yoshinobu wondered if this kid had such a strong sense of observation because he had been acting as a lookout in the game. Uh, that seems to be the other way around, right?

"The subordinates found that the enemy army had only sent those rebellious people to attack the city all day, and only a few samurai were commanding in the rear. Those units that really belonged to the samurai were not dispatched at all. Fernand said respectfully.

"Well, that's normal, after all, it's only the first day, there's no need to attack with all your might at the beginning." On the left side of the island, the road is approaching.

"Hehe, I'm afraid it's more than that." Li Huamei chuckled and explained softly under the puzzled gazes of everyone, "Although the enemy army seems to be numerous, correspondingly, the composition is also very messy. Among them, the Sect of Eternity is the most powerful, but most of their subordinates are chaotic people. The other Sakai Tadashi, Matsudaira Ieji, Matsudaira Kyoshi, Yoshiaki Kira, Arakawa Yoshihiro and others had strong forces, but they were only a small part of the rebellious retainers of the Matsudaira family. The real combat strength should be those rebellious Matsudaira retainers in addition to them. ā€

"Hmm...... Are you saying that they don't want to let their own troops lose too much, so they don't send troops into battle? Oda Yoshinobu heard this, thought about it and said.

"Not bad! Although they are coalition forces at this time, it is because there is the same enemy, the Matsudaira family! What if this enemy is gone? Naturally, the Zong returned to the monastery to become monks, and the rebels would return to their respective territories to continue their lives. But will the remaining true samurai and noble clans, after the ruler of Mikawa is defeated, live in peace after returning to their own territory? Li Huamei nodded, gave Oda Yoshinobu an appreciative look and said.

"So, they have to preserve their strength so that they don't lose too much in this battle, resulting in being swallowed by other families after defeating the Matsudaira family?" Oda Yoshinobu understood Li Huamei's thoughts and said with a sudden understanding.

"Yes, my lord, you have become smarter~" Li Huamei smiled when she heard this.

"Humph! It's not that it's smarter, it's that it's so smart! Oda Yoshinobu smiled proudly when he heard this, what a shameless guy.

However, after the end of the battle, Oda Yoshinobu had an idea, "Then this point is very worth making a fuss~" Oda Yoshinobu said with a chuckle.

"Yes, since they all want to preserve their strength, then when our army attacks at night, they can go straight to the enemy's main position!" Li Huamei responded, but said something that stunned everyone.

"Directly attack the enemy's main position?!" Maeda Keiji jumped up directly when he heard this, even if he was as brave as him, he was a little unacceptable to Li Huamei's words.

Hawkers, this is also a matter of no choice, you must know that although it is a sneak attack at night, it is already a very courageous thing to attack an army of more than 40,000 people with a force of more than 2,000 people, and now you have to attack this formation directly? You must know that the home of any army gathers the most elite troops of that army. Not to mention that all the samurai units of the Ichijang Army were gathered around the main camp.

However, Oda Yoshinobu did not object when he heard this, but remained silent, and after a long time, he said quietly, "This is indeed a good way, but it is a bit dangerous." ā€

"Lord?!" Everyone looked at Oda Yoshinobu dumbfounded, and their hearts were speechless to the extreme, "What is this a bit dangerous?" It's very, very dangerous, right?! ā€

Looking at everyone's expressions, Oda Yoshinobu chuckled and said, "What Hua Mei said is actually very good. If the main forces of the enemy army want to preserve their strength, what do you think they will do if we force our attack? Unite to fight back against our army? ā€

"Nope! If I were one of the enemy forces and I saw someone rushing into my position with less than a tenth of my own army, it would never be possible to make much effort. Because our army has an absolute advantage in terms of strength! Even if I don't help, I won't be defeated. The Silent Man Island said with a rare opening.

"Haha~ Zuo Jin has spoken, it seems that this proposal is really good~" Seeing this, Oda Yoshinobu immediately joked. In other words, although Shimazuo is a retainer of Oda Yoshinobu, and he is also a retainer entrusted with important tasks in military strategy, but because Oda Yoshinobu has never played any military strategy, there is no way for Shima Zuo to show any talent.

Coupled with his personality, he has always been very silent in various meeting evaluations, and he will never speak unless Oda Yoshinobu takes the initiative to ask. Over time, Shimazuo was given the title of the silent man by Keiji Maeda, a second-year boy. In this regard, the island is still silent.

It's just that before Oda Yoshinobu finished laughing, Shimazuo directly poured cold water, "But my lord, once the enemy army does not act according to our ideas, but blocks the attack of our army head-on, and at the same time mobilizes a large army to surround our army, then I am afraid it will be difficult for our army to escape......" Shimazuo said in a deep voice, his expression was very indifferent, and he didn't seem to think that it would be unlucky to say such unfavorable words before the war.

Okay, I was saying that Fernande's speech was Europa or New World's style, but for now, it seems that it is probably the tradition of Oda Yoshinobu's retainers.

Hearing Dao Zuojin's words, although he refuted his proposal, Li Huamei was not angry, but said in agreement. "The island lord is right, if this happens, our army will hardly have any chance of survival."

As soon as Li Huamei finished speaking, everyone's eyes were focused on Oda Yoshinobu. At this point, the only person who can make a decision is Oda Yoshinobu himself. Ha? Matsudaira kintoshi and Matsudaira Shinichi? Well, they don't have a say.

And what about Yoshinobu Oda? After a long time, he said slowly, "If you only attack the rebels on the periphery, it will be very dangerous, because those in the enemy's own formation can have plenty of time to mobilize troops to surround us...... Moreover, it is impossible for the Matsudaira army to be too far away from Okazaki, otherwise the enemy army can take the opportunity to attack Okazaki Castle. ā€

One sentence made everyone's expressions serious, because they had already guessed Oda Yoshinobu's decision.

"So I decided to directly attack the enemy's main position!" Oda Yoshinobu looked at the enemy army in the distance and said in a firm tone, "I firmly believe it! I'm waiting for the front, and there is no invincible! ā€

"Oh!"

(To be continued.) )