After listening to Beluti's report, Taiyuan Xuezhai looked carefully at the map for a while according to the news brought by Belute, circled a piece in the northwest direction of the point where the village was located and said: "It should be here, it is the army of a local daimyo, lord, I estimate that the other party should have an internal line in the village." ”

Su I Daomu nodded in agreement: "It seems so, otherwise the other party will not move the army at will, after all, the other party is just a local daimyo, and the troops in his hands are very limited, since he has dispatched thousands of troops, he must have some scheme, so there must be their inner line in the village, and they are here for you." ”

Hearing this, Qi Li'er asked a little puzzled: "Why do you want to target us? Do you already know our strength, and are you afraid that we will threaten them?"

Listening to Qi Li'er's words, Caroline couldn't help but sneer and said, "You are wrong, they are afraid that they don't know our true strength, and they think that we are overseas merchants who want to come and loot our goods. ”

In response to Caroline's sneer, Qi Li'er suddenly puffed out her cheeks and said unconvinced: "Then, if they think we are merchants, why should they send thousands of troops? If they really think that we are merchants, they can send a few hundred people." ”

Seeing that Qi Li'er was not convinced, Caroline continued: "First of all, the other party does not know our true strength, and secondly, Lucius submitted to the ronin wandering near the village, this matter is afraid that it will also be passed on by the so-called internal line, out of consideration of our strength, they will inevitably attack cautiously." ”

After analyzing, Caroline raised her chin and cast a defiant glance at Qi Lier, wanting to make Qi Lier understand that she was just a dispensable ornament at this time.

Seeing this, Qi Li'er was naturally annoyed, and still argued unconvinced: "Hmph, these are not enough to make you guess, what the army is here for." Now none of us knows. ”

But as soon as Qi Li'er's words fell, Taiyuan Xuezhai, who didn't know the contradiction between her and Caroline, then said: "Miss Caroline's analysis is very reasonable, I'm afraid the truth should be like this, otherwise the big names in that place, even our group of ronins dare not provoke, how could they suddenly send troops to the village?"

Taiyuan Xuezhai's words can be regarded as a fatal blow to Qi Li'er, which can be said to be a little bit of Qi Li'er's original cautious insistence on the spot, and Caroline grinned to Qi Li'er with a victorious smile.

Watching the battle between Caroline and Qilier, Lucius and the others didn't care. After all, the two of them are just playing tricks.

Most of them focused on how to deal with the approaching thousand-strong army, and the other party mobilized an army of thousands to come, obviously determined to win, and determined to eat Lucius and them, even at the expense of the ronin in the village.

According to the strategy of most of the daimyo of Fuso Kingdom, under normal circumstances, no one wants to provoke the ronin, because the ronin has enough personal strength.

And although most of the ronins are in a state of wandering, it does not mean that they are not connected with each other, and the ronins also have their own organization. Once you are ruthless against the ronin, you will invite the revenge of the ronin organization.

Therefore, even the daimyo with a heavy army is even the great shogun Tokugawa Iehiko who has the highest power. They will not attack the ronin, they will let the ronin roam, and as long as the ronin does not violate the laws of their rule, they will not pay attention to the ronin in their territory.

Right now. The local daimyo not far from the village, since he sent an army of thousands of people, must have known about Lucius's subduation of the ronin. The purpose of sending out a large army is to get rid of the ronins along with them.

Doing so, on the one hand, can prevent the revenge of the profarers afterwards, and on the other hand, he is tantamount to a robber in doing so, and if it spreads, it will also cause damage to his reputation.

Taiyuan Yukisai, Oda Nobumitsu and Soga Iname have the same opinion, they all think that the other party will be ruthless, and even do not hesitate to destroy the entire village to prevent the news from leaking out.

Lucius smiled and said, "It seems that the great name of your Fusang Kingdom cherishes your reputation very much, and you don't want to let your reputation be stained in any way. ”

Oda Nobumitsu nodded when he heard this, and said, "Yes, your lord, you may not know that for the daimyo of our Fuso country, reputation is the key to their retainers, and if a daimyo has a very bad reputation, then he may not be able to even attract a retainer." ”

Hearing this, Lucius asked with some puzzlement: "However, that daimyo sent thousands of people, and he always needs to have a retainer to command, right? And those samurai also participated in this plunder, so he is not afraid that the news will be leaked by the samurai under his command?"

Taiyuan Xuezhai then explained: "The lord does not know, every daimyo will have a group of extremely loyal samurai, most of those samurai are born in their own family, it can be said that they have absolute loyalty to the daimyo's family, so no matter what they do, they will generally send this group of samurai." ”

Lucius smiled when he heard this, and said: "Interesting, there is some smell of the Western Guards, it seems that whether it is the East or the West, there are always some unsightly deeds. ”

As he spoke, Lucius glanced at the crowd and said, "Now, shouldn't you think about how we are going to deal with this army of warriors?"

This time, Oda Nobumitsu was the first to stand up and say: "Your Lord, you can rest assured, those ronin samurai under my command will definitely defend your Lord to the death, even if there are thousands of people on the other side, I and the samurai under my command will never let them have a chance to attack the village." ”

Listening to Oda Nobumitsu's words, Lucius smiled and said, "Oh? You mean, you plan to lead your ronin to take the initiative to block the opposing army's army from the village?"

Oda Nobumitsu nodded: "Yes, I think in this way, I can ensure your safety, Lord." ”

Taiyuan Xuezhai sneered when he heard this: "You are really whimsical, there are thousands of people on the other side, and there are only about a hundred ronins under your command, how can you stop the other party?"

Oda Nobumitsu's face turned red suddenly, but he still insisted: "Hmph, even if you fight to the last person, as long as there are still people alive, you will never let the other party attack." ”

Taiyuan Xuezhai hummed very calmly: "The courage of the horseman, there is no point in you doing this, there is an army of thousands of people, you only need a wave of charge, you can directly tear through the defense line of more than 100 people, you and the ronin under your command, it is impossible to stop people." ”

"You, you, you are clearly deliberately finding fault, do you have a better way? In the current situation, in addition to the more than 100 ronin warriors under my command, are there any other troops?"

Oda Nobumitsu's argument made Taiyuan Xuezhai very helpless, and sighed and said: "Oda-kun, you have to understand that now is not the time to be brave, we must come up with a good way to deal with it, instead of fighting hard with the other party, because we don't have enough strength to fight." ”

Oda Nobumitsu was still unconvinced, so he directly asked Taiyuan Xuezhai: "Well, since that's the case, you should tell me, what can you do?"

Taiyuan Xuezhai raised his head and looked at Lu Xius and said, "Lord, I think we should avoid the other party's edge, evacuate the village first, and when the other party retreats, we can come back." ”

Oda Nobumitsu immediately laughed when he heard this, and said: "Hahaha, I thought you had any good way, it turned out to be to persuade the Lord to escape, Taiyuan-kun, didn't you think about whether it was in line with the spirit of a samurai? Is this a choice that a samurai should make?"

In the face of Oda Nobumitsu's questioning, Taiyuan Xuezhai always said calmly: "The current situation is different, why do we have to fight hard knowing that we are not against the other party?"

Quietly listening to Taiyuan Yuisai and Oda Nobumitsu arguing for a long time, Lucius finally stopped the two and said: "Okay, I have seen your loyalty, you don't have to argue here anymore, in fact, I have a better way to solve our current crisis." ”

When everyone heard this, they all looked at Lucius, wanting to hear what better way Lucius could do it?

Lucius smiled and said: "Actually, my method is very simple, we will directly abandon the village, concentrate all the forces in our hands, and choose to directly attack the opponent's territory when the other party is coming. ”

"What?" Lucius's plan was somewhat unexpected by everyone, and everyone was stunned and amazed.

But soon Du Liniang relieved herself and said: "This is indeed a solution, but how can we be sure that the thousands of warriors sent by the other party are not all the troops in his hands?"

Taiyuan Xuezhai then replied: "It can't be his entire army, there will be at least a few retainers under the command of a daimyo, and there will be some family elders, and they will all have military strength in their hands." ”

Du Liniang shook her head when she heard the words and said: "If this is the case, we take the initiative to attack, I'm afraid we won't be able to achieve the effect you envisioned, those elders and retainers under the command of the other party will definitely not let their homes be breached, and if they are indifferent, we may be attacked by the enemy at that time." ”

Lucius still maintained a confident smile and said, "You are all wrong, I didn't say that I wanted to seize the other party's territory, I just wanted to directly attack the residence of the Daimyo. ”

Hearing Lucius say this, Ying immediately understood what he meant, and interjected: "What does Lucius mean is that we take advantage of the Daimyo to shoot the guards under the command of that Daimyo, and we will take the opportunity to kill the Daimyo's mansion?

Seeing that Shadow understood what he meant, Lucius nodded: "Yes, Shadow said what I thought, I just want to directly attack that daimyo's mansion and give him a salary." (To be continued......)