On the morning of October 11, there were more than 200 heads on the Kyoto Temple under Odawara Castle.

In the Wind Demon Ninja Army dispatched last night, the entire army was wiped out.

The huge head of Kotaro Kazema was carried with a spear and pierced into the top of Kyokan.

When the generals of the Hojo family saw this scene, the large cylinder team of the Nagao family once again lined up under Odawara Castle.

Hojo Shiyasu was bitter in his heart...... After the loss of Kotaro Kazemo and most of the ninja army, the ninjas of the Hojo family were only enough to keep an eye on the castle.

When Shiyasu planned to assassinate Nagao Terutoka, Tamu Mototada, who had personally experienced the Second Night Battle of Kagoe, told him...... Nagao Terutora was guarded by a team of 300 iron cannons, and it was difficult for ninjas to get close at all.

As the mastermind of Hojo Shiyasu for many years, Tamu Mototada gave Shiyasu a brilliant advice

- Assassinate Sasa Narumasa!

So there was a battle plan for the Wind Demon to go out.

But they still failed.

Wind Demon Kotaro can only ...... With the three ninja who are skilled in ninjutsu, why did they still lose?

Shi Kang didn't understand, he could only swallow the bitter fruit of defeat and continue to maintain the morale of the defenders with a black face.

Amid the roar of the large tube, Hojo Shiyasu keenly noticed that the number of coalition forces involved in the siege had been greatly reduced.

"The Kwantung Coalition Army originally had 100,000 people, why did there be less than 70,000 people coming out of the formation today?"

Taiyuan Xuezhai asked the two behind him.

Matsudaira Motonobu and Anhara Tadashi looked at each other and couldn't answer.

The three of them finished in a zigzag position, one in front of two behind, and after a long silence, Xue Zhai finally sighed softly.

Matsudaira Motoshin thought it was Yukisai who sighed for their ignorance, and the pair of round faces suddenly became a little hot with shame.

“…… Sasa Narumasa's horse seal did not come out, and there was no flag of the Hokuriku Sasa family, perhaps, Sasa Narumasa took more than 30,000 other people to do something else. ”

After a while, Yuan Xin discovered the problem.

"Hmm...... This son has always done amazing things, and if he goes to take action, the Hojo family's hegemony in the Kanto region may come to an end. ”

Xue Zhai sighed lightly again, of course he didn't sigh that Yuan Xin and Tadain failed to guess Sasa Narimasa's actions, because even Xue Zhai himself admitted that he couldn't guess Seimasa's next plan.

Taiyuan Xuezhai sighed...... After the Hojo clan did not usher in prosperity, it will fall into decline.

Just like Yoshimoto, the governor of the Imagawa family who won the Imagawa family two years ago, Sasa Seimasa is likely to cut the Hojo family's hegemony in half.

More than ten miles outside Odawara Castle, Sasa Narumasa rode a Michinoku horse and led the Rose Knight to patrol back and forth in the team.

"Speed up!"

The soldiers brought by the wealthy clans of the Kwantung region from their respective territories are now being called by Cheng Zheng as a people's husband.

This is the nearest wharf on the east side of Odawara Castle, and Narumasa came here again, doing logistics work, but this time it was not a large cylinder, but a ...... Water!

Inside the rare ox carts and carts, there are full buckets, and the water in the buckets is somewhat muddy, which is the seawater that has been brought up from the dock.

It's normal to hit the water, but it's incomprehensible to hit the sea.

Whether it is food or clothing, you should use clean water.

Although Japan is a small country, it has a well-developed water system and many rivers, and there are several rivers near Odawara Castle that provide fresh water.

Why did Sasa Narumasa go to Sagami Bay to get water?

The 30,000-strong army formed a long line and marched directly from the docks to the farmland several miles outside Odawara Castle.

It's not just a vehicle...... There are also shoulder-to-shoulder people, 30,000 people, almost each of whom carries a bucket of seawater in his hand.

Then they walked to the ridge where the autumn rice had been harvested and poured buckets of seawater into it.

The paddy fields, which had been drying up, had added water almost knee-deep, and the peasants and soldiers who were carrying water and pouring water looked unbearable.

They couldn't bear it, just because they, as farmers in the Kanto Plain, knew what would happen if they poured seawater into the rice fields.

This rice field...... Ruined!

How much power is 30,000 people?

The 30,000 peasant soldiers may not be able to stop Sister Jinghu from hanging with the cart of the Echigo cavalry after opening the aura of the military god, but 30,000 people transported water at the same time, and poured hundreds and thousands of barrels on the rice fields outside Odawara City, and the destructive power was really amazing.

When the news reached Odawara Castle, Hojo was patrolling the garrison defending the castle to boost morale, and heard that Sasa Narumasa was leading more than 30,000 people to water the ground with seawater...... His eyes went dark, and he almost fainted on the spot.

Rapidly...... The entire Odawara Castle was informed of the news.

The curse on Zuo Zuo Chengzheng suddenly increased tenfold:

"Beast!!"

"It's not just a beast, it's a beast!"

"Beasts are not as good as beasts!"

"He's going to hell!"

"King Yama won't take him back!"

…… But beyond the gambling curse, the peasants and lords also began to worry:

"My field is in the east of the city, will it be filled with seawater?"

“…… Even if the Kwantung Coalition Army runs out of food and retreats, the coming year will be a year of no harvest! ”

After the anger and swearing passed, fear swelled in people's hearts.

"Even if I was blown up by the Nagao family, I don't want to be starved to death!"

Taibei, who came from Heyuan Village in the east of the city, sighed with a sad face.

He undoubtedly represented the ideas of the vast majority of peasant soldiers.

"In troubled times, why do people fight?"

Taiyuan Xuezhai asked the two behind him again.

Since retreating to Odawara Castle, Yukisai seems to have deliberately tested Matsudaira Motonobu, and many things are no longer said, but to ask Motonobu's opinion.

“…… It should be fame and fortune. ”

Motoshin was born into the Matsudaira family, a famous family in Mikawa, and was a traditional samurai. Although Motoshin was deeply influenced by Imagawa Yoshimoto, Matsudaira Motonobu still could not stand above the average Warring States military general.

Taiyuan Xuezhai was silent, with some regret in his heart.

He had been among the common people, of course he knew why people fought in troubled times, and he did not have many disciples, among whom the late Imagawa Yoshimoto and Matsudaira Motonobu in front of him were the most talented.

Imagawa Yoshimoto has the ambition to swallow the sky, but his mind is not stable and cautious.

So when Yoshimoto was raided by Oda Nobunaga in the barrel saga, he did not choose to retreat, but fought to the end.

Yoshimoto died at the hands of Sasa Narumasa because of his ambition to annex the world, and because of his willfulness.

But the Matsudaira Motoshin in front of him is very different.

Compared with Yoshimoto's great ambition and ease, Matsudaira Motoshin is much more cramped and restrained.

We must look ahead and backward when we do things, and every time we say something, we must first consider whether it is reasonable.

Although he decided on one thing, he would stick to it without looking back, but Xue Zhai still missed that reckless and talented Fang Ju Maru even more.

"What Yuan Xin said is not wrong...... It's just that fame and wealth are like a passing cloud. For generals, perhaps, for civilians...... But to survive. ”

Yukisai said to himself, and he didn't mind if Matsudaira Motonobu behind him could understand,

"Sasa Seimasa understands this, so he adopted the 'desperate plan' recorded in the ancient books, and his heart is vicious, and his person can be described as a devil. Irrigating the fertile fields outside Odawara Castle with the sea water of Sagami Bay would break the fighting spirit of the Hojo Army more than building a Kyokan......"