Yoshitsugu Otani was stunned, shook his head and smiled bitterly.

Maeda is the chief military general in the family, loyal to the sovereign, and the Omi war is related to the safety of several leaders of Spo, and he cannot sit idly by.

The more the sovereign is absent, the more he has to play the prestige of the Sibo family, so as to suppress the discussion internally and deter peeps externally.

But the war is fought with logistics.

Ten times the food and grass for long-distance battles, five times as much food and grass for transit operations, even if it is just to mobilize the army to pull out and walk around, the physical exertion will have to eat two meals.

Japan is poor, and most people have never had enough to eat in their entire lives, and they are half-starved.

Only in the spring ploughing and harvest season need physical support, only to eat dry wheat rice, can boil porridge on weekdays to survive, who dares to waste grain to eat dry rice?

If the army is not well fed, it will really die suddenly if the physical strength is not exhausted, and the hungry army will definitely mutiny.

Iga Province participated in several battles last year, and although it gained a lot, the entire family was also empty, and there was no external input, so there was not much food to fight at all.

And that's just a matter of eating.

Iga Koga has been facing each other for many years, and they don't like each other, why do there are so few wars?

Because I can't afford to fight.

The battle between the two ninjas that outsiders think is that you hide and hide in the mountains and forests, one-on-one, three-on-three heads-up.

This kind of romance doesn't happen in a real war.

The field of view in the mountains is limited, the roads are not smooth, and if the large army is dispatched, it is very likely that a few teams will use the terrain to trap them, and even kill and injure a large number of people.

Therefore, both sides are infiltrating and fighting in small teams, which is extremely cruel. If you have limited vision, your projectile weapon will be doubled.

Bows and arrows are the mainstream, and the ninjas are also the first armed groups to be equipped with iron cannons on a large scale, and the projectile weapons are consumables, that is, to burn money.

The conflict between the ninjas on both sides stems from interests, and they are both evil samurai who follow the path of intelligence and assassination, and their peers are enemies.

But for the sake of the dispute over the mercenary money of the martial family, a large-scale mountain battle was launched, and the dead were burned to eat food? Sick, right?

Just scold a few words, they all come out to mix rice, and they have the strength not to make money, and they are fighting a bad battle that is not beneficial.

In the same way, if Maeda wants to start a war to contain the Rokkaku, he must break through the mountainous area of Minami Omi-Koga County in order to harass the rear of the Rokkaku family.

This requires a lot of food and armaments to consume, in other words, without a lot of supplies, you can fight a puff in the mountains.

Reasonably, Yoshitsugu Ohtani can't refute Maeda's interests.

Whether it is rescuing the family governor or responding to the Kita-Omi Asai family, it is a strategic matter, and she also agrees.

But Qiaofu couldn't cook without rice, and Maeda typed her, and she could only be silent.

I have more than enough heart, but I don't have enough strength.

Maeda's interests seemed to glance at the field unintentionally, and all the villages bowed their heads and were silent, and their morale was low.

She squinted silently, staring into the distance, her pupils out of focus, as if she was thinking about something.

In the middle of the night, a giggling laugh erupted from his throat, striking out in the silent crowd.

"Since we can't fight out without supplies, then guard the entrance of Jiahe and let them fight us."

Yoshitsugu Otani frowned.

"Impossible, Jiahe Zhong is not crazy, how can he do that thankless work?"

The Koga people are quite strange beings in Minami Omi, and they belong to the Rokkaku family's outer people, and they don't enter the country.

The Samurai family of Koga County was in its own right, and twenty-one of the fifty-three families pledged allegiance to the Rokkaku family.

The autonomous group in the county, headed by these 21 groups, is called the county zhonghao.

Three Kashiwagi families, nine Kitayama families, six Nanshan families, three Shonai families, and 53 Koga families belong to the 21 families of these four groups and jointly govern Koga County.

To put it simply, it is a group of people composed of 53 people in the village.

The Rokkaku family also wanted to include Koga-gun in the territory, but Koga is mountainous, and the Koga people are all ninjas who are good at fighting in the mountains.

After several unsuccessful expeditions, the Rokkaku family also fled to Koga Prefecture under the attack of the shogunate, and was sheltered by the local people.

Only then did he give twenty-one names, and he barely reached the contract of monarchs and ministers.

In the Rokkaku family, the Koga people are relatively independent, and they can't be recruited for military service, and the Rokkaku Yixian has to spend money to call them.

If the Iga army does not fight, the Koga people will not provoke a war.

What the Rokkaku family wanted was the Northern Expedition to the rich land of Omi, and the poor and remote areas of Iga were too lazy to pay attention, let alone spend money to recruit the Koga people to send troops.

As long as Maeda's interests do not enter Koga County, he will not be able to deal with Kita-Omi and attract the attention of the Rokkaku family.

So, Yoshitsugu Otani felt that she was whimsical.

Maeda's eyes looked into the distance, as if answering Yoshitsugu Otani's question, and as if talking to himself.

"I promised the Lord that I would guard the territory of Spo for him until he returned.

I won't let him down, I've never let him down! ”

She stood up, her waist straight, and looked at Yoshitsugu Ohtani.

"Ohtani-hime! You have a Minami-Omi samurai under your command, but do you have any people who belong to Koga County? ”

Otani Yoshitsugu was stunned for a moment and shook his head.

"Koga Prefecture is not a territorial country, and there is no conscription for food service.

Although the mountain life is poor, they are not exploited by the Hexagonal family, how can the samurai leave their homeland and come to serve under me.

What exactly do you want to do? ”

She had a bad feeling in her heart, maybe this question was the reason why Maeda Interests had called her from Minami Iga.

Maeda's eyes flashed with a bloodthirsty red light, revealing a mouthful of white teeth, and he smiled.

"It's okay, it's better to follow the original plan, you guard the Katai Pass to Ise Province and protect my rear."

Yoshitsugu Otani squinted, his heart becoming more and more nervous, and asked again.

"What the hell do you want to do?"

Maeda's interests no longer looked at her, but at the various places under his command.

"Can't you fight without money and food? I'm going to try.

My mother is busy with spring ploughing, and when the busy farming season has passed, she will sit in Jiahekou, and I will personally lead the team to cross the border.

Money, food, and armaments, don't the Jiahe people have them? ”

Her face at this time made the hearts of several people who originally belonged to Iga Yuye feel cold, and they suddenly remembered the beginning.

This adult came to Yuye alone and one horse, went into the mountains alone to kill all the rebellious countrymen, swore by the blood of his head, and coerced the ruthless people of Yuye to send troops.

Several people's hearts were beating faster, peeking at each other, and their hearts suddenly became furious.

Maeda said slowly.

"The Koga people will come, and they will definitely come to Kogakou to fight me.

Because, I will lead the team into their village.

They burned down their houses, trampled their fields, killed their old and young husbands and children, and robbed them of their food and armaments. ”

Yoshitsugu Otani said angrily.

"Are you crazy? They will fight with you, and you will have an undying blood feud with the Koga ninjas!

They'll hunt you down for the rest of your life, and your heirs, your relatives, they're ninjas!

Assassination will fill you with the rest of your life, keeping you alive forever in vigilance and fear until the moment of death! ”

Maeda looked at her calmly, and saw that she was cold.

"Then let them come, for what I promised the Lord must be done! I don't want him to be disappointed in me even if I die! Absolutely not!

Koga fifty-three? Nomura's family is forty or fifty, that's two thousand?

Not much, just kill them all. ”

Yoshitsugu Otani only felt a tingling in her scalp, and she thought that she was loyal to Yoshiin Spa and could give her life for him.

But under Maeda's indifferent attitude, she smelled the smell of a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood.

It was the purest and strongest emotion, and Maeda was willing to do anything for that person.

A hundred deaths without regrets.