Mt. Takane, which happens to be surrounded by Suwahara Castle and Koyama Castle in the eastern part of Enoe Province, and is separated from Tokuishshiki Castle behind the Suruga Imagawa family, and across the Oi River, it can be said that it is easy to advance but it is much more difficult to retreat.

"There was a saying in the Ming Chinese language that the cauldron was sunken, could it be that Hojo Tsunashi and the Imagawa clan really had such plans?" Kansuke Yamamoto couldn't help but say.

And the fact is indeed as Yamamoto Kansuke guessed, Hojo Tsunari's move does have some meaning of putting his own side to death and resurrection.

Of course, the choice of Mt. Takane to set up camp also had another purpose for Hojo Tsunari. The location of Mt. Takane is located at the intersection of the Oigawa River, Suwahara Castle, and Koyama Castle, which means that the combined forces of the Suruga Imagawa family and the Hojo family have since gotten rid of the danger of being divided and surrounded by the army of the Toe Imagawa family (it is extremely dangerous to fight between the rivers and rivers), and the height of Mt. Takane is high enough to have a bird's-eye view of the various areas below, so that on the one hand, the logistics team transporting supplies from the other side of the Oi River can be protected in time, and on the other hand, the every move of the Toe Imagawa family army will be discovered by them at any time.

Moreover, if the two sides do not move, then as time passes, there will inevitably be contradictions within the Imagawa family of the newly integrated Enoe country, which will be more beneficial to the coalition side.

Therefore, although it is a bit dangerous to set up camp in Mt. Takane, it also seems to be besieged by the Toe Imagawa family on another level, but the coalition forces can monitor any movement of the Toe Imagawa family, grasp the battlefield shape in their hands, and can use the terrain to confront the other side. Naturally, the advantages outweigh the disadvantages on the side of the coalition forces.

Really. Suwahara Castle. When Nobuya Roche and Kansuke Yamamoto discussed the decision, they had no way to deal with the Suruga Imagawa family and the Hojo family alliance in Mt. Takane.

If they were to ignore them and go directly to the coalition logistics team in Suruga Province on the east bank of the Oi River, perhaps the coalition forces would directly kill them from the mountains and storm Suwawara Castle;

If the main attack is Mt. Takane, this is the commanding height, and the Suruga Imagawa family and the Hojo coalition army have at least seven or eight thousand troops, and there is a water source on it. It is not the same as the Ming Dynasty document that Ma Tan of the Three Kingdoms went up the mountain and waited for death, and if he attacked strongly, he was afraid that he would not be able to take advantage of it at all, and he would be threatened by the defense line in Suruga Province on the east bank of the Oi River.

Faced with such a scene, Roshi Shinra and Yamamoto Kansuke could only stand still for the time being, so the two armies also confronted each other.

Time passed day by day, and the calm appearance of the combined forces of the Suruga Imagawa family and the Hokugawa family made everyone in the Enoe-Imagawa family army a little unable to sit still, and another ten days passed, on the 18th day of November in the fourth year of Eiroku (1561). The Toe Imagawa family convened a military meeting of all the retainers in Suwahara Castle to decide whether to fight a decisive battle with the combined forces of the Suruga Imagawa family and the Kita family.

More than thirty retainers attended the military meeting. These people include retainers who belong to the Luo family under the guise of the Toe Imagawa family, retainers who are directly subordinate to the Toe Imagawa family, and there are also the governors and important ministers of the wealthy families in Mikawa and Toe countries who are subordinate to the Toe Imagawa family.

The meeting took place at Suwa Hara Castle Castle Residence of Takahashi Shoun, a standard Japanese garden surrounded by cherry blossom trees.

The commander-in-chief, Luo Shishi, dressed in armor and a very formal military general, sat on a stacked mat (i.e., tatami mat) in the middle of the room, with two small attendants standing behind him, one holding his sword and the other holding his headband.

On the right-hand side of Nobuya Roche are the retainers of the lineage such as Yamamoto Kansuke, Hyakutake Kenkane, Narumatsu Nobukatsu, and Shimazo Kon (Suwa Hara Castle Castle Daishi Takahashi Shoun was not present because he went to Kanto), while on the left hand side are the local wealthy clans of Toe and Mikawa, such as Ii Naotora and Ii Naokin.

The sliding doors and partitions around the room have been removed, leaving only four pillars, and this rather open design is to facilitate the generals in the courtyard to hear all the processes of the military discussion in the room.

After the retainers sat down, the first person to speak was the always short-tempered Hyakumi Kenkane, who saw him speak: "Your Highness, our army is superior to the combined forces of the Suruga Imagawa family and the Hokuke family in terms of strength and military distribution, and if you are afraid of the tricks of the Jihuang Hachiman Hojo Tsunari and do not take the main attack, you will be ridiculed by the retainers, so you should immediately take the initiative to attack the combined forces of the Suruga Imagawa family and the Hokuke family." ”

Bai Wu Xian Jian just finished speaking, another important minister next to him, who is also an old acquaintance of Bai Wu Xiankan, Cheng Song Nobu Katsu also echoed: "A long confrontation will affect the morale of the sergeants, and the other side's supply lines and reinforcements will continue to arrive at the opponent's camp. ”

The views of Bai Wu Xiankan and Cheng Song Xinsheng unanimously represented everyone's opinions, so after the two spoke, the rest of the people immediately expressed their agreement. Of course, these people are in favor of it for different purposes.

Taking most of the local wealthy clans of Mikawa and Enoe as an example, the reason why they wanted to fight the decisive battle was naturally to return to the territory after the decisive battle, after all, just a few days ago, the Amano family and the Kansuga family who had hidden in the mountains and forests also responded to the call of the Suruga Imagawa clan and jumped out of the mountains and forests, and were heading for the Mikawa and Enoe plains in an all-round way.

Although the lord of the country, Imagawa Bury Zero, has personally led the army to the expedition, but it is inevitable that the armies of these two families will enter their territory during this period to make trouble, you must know that they just led the main forces in the territory here at this time, and the territory can be described as empty, which also leads everyone to hope for a decisive battle.

After the retainers had finished their discussions, Nobuya Roshi also solemnly made a final decision: "The purpose of this campaign is to make the Suruga Imagawa family dare not peep at our Enoe Province again, in other words, we must annihilate the combined forces of the Suruga Imagawa family and the Hojo family here, so I order a decisive battle with the combined forces of the Suruga Imagawa family and the Hojo family tomorrow." ”

"Oh." Hearing that the commander-in-chief, Nobuyoshi Gongzi, had finally decided to fight a decisive battle, the generals were immediately overjoyed.

"It's just that since you have decided to fight a decisive battle with the other party, but you also need to have a decisive battle method, what is your best strategy for this?" Luo Xinliang then asked again.

Being asked by Luo Xinliang, everyone immediately fell completely silent, many people thought that tomorrow's decisive battle was to prepare for a strong attack, but now it seems that this young general does not intend to do so.

"Your Highness, you have a good plan here." Just as everyone was muttering in their hearts, the military advisor Kansuke Yamamoto finally appeared. (To be continued......)