A monster born from a dog is a daimyo, and a monster born from a cat is a strategist. From a human worldview, it would be strange——
From a conventional perspective, shouldn't cats be the masters and dogs be loyal ministers?
But in the world of Hyakki, strength is the first element. Nekomata is not naturally suitable for frontal combat, and he does not have the gorgeous power of Peng Hou to control the five elements. In the ranking of Hyakki, he is indeed behind Peng Hou.
Although Peng Hou has stronger overall strength, he is self-aware - his brain is far less agile and changeable than Nekomata. Peng Hou only knew how to fight, but was not good at thinking about how to fight. Maomata was proficient in both.
When he first competed with other Hyakki daimyo for territory, Marquis Peng relied on Nekomata's wisdom to grab the current territory: the location was not close to the central area, and it was not as remote as the down-and-out daimyo lords such as Hanba; the comprehensive resources could not be said to be the most comprehensive. It's good, but it has no shortcomings in any aspect, and the whole thing is extremely balanced.
From that time on, Marquis Peng took Maoyou's opinion as the criterion for looking forward. He ignored small matters and listened to Maoyou first on big matters. In fact, not only Peng Hou, but every general in Peng Hou's territory is a "fan" of Mao Mata. Everything is waiting for Mao Mata's decision. As for Peng Hou... just be a spiritual leader.
The two sworn enemies, Fengli and Shanhao, have always been supported by one side and opposed by the other side. Only Nekomata's words can make them stop together and agree unconditionally.
"The enemy's army is extremely large." Nekomata gracefully walked out of the seat on the left side of the hall, then stood in the middle of the hall.
As soon as she took action, the hall immediately became quiet, and everyone listened to her analysis. Some people with a more reckless temper simply enter the stage of closing their eyes and recuperating, waiting for her to give orders after the clouds are clear, and then execute them directly.
The most typical one is Peng Hou.
Marquis Peng recognized Maomata's wisdom, but he couldn't bear Maomata's delicate thoughts and always felt impatient - what's the use of talking so much, wouldn't it be the same if he just knew how to fight?
"Military power, at the bottom of our Gaotian Plain, has always been a lie." Maomata signaled to the generals in all directions to be calm.
"They don't know how to fight at all. They basically only play the role of cheerleaders. But this group of enemies is different. Their military strength is very powerful. Let's not talk about strength. Their morale and cohesion are very different from the strong militiamen we recruited. .”
Fengli nodded secretly - what Nekomata said was reasonable and very consistent with the information he had gathered. It can be seen that... Nekomata is not only outstanding in intelligence, but also has a very powerful intelligence network, not inferior to him!
"This group of enemies can subvert Hanba's power, which shows that in addition to military strength, there is still no shortage of high-end combat power. No matter from which aspect, this group of enemies is our strong enemy." Maomao concluded, then turned to Peng Hou.
"I hope His Highness the Daimyo can lead the army in person. We must do our best."
"So powerful?!" Peng Hou heard Maomata's final decision and exclaimed unnaturally. Then he scratched his cheek with his tail, "I can be the vanguard, but you have to prepare the troops..." "
"This is my honor."
Nekomata didn't shirk it. She had worked with Peng Hou for so many years, and she was very familiar with the character of this fighting sect daimyo. We all had a happy division of labor and cooperation, and there was no need to care too much about it.
Unlike Hanbao's group of hundreds of ghosts who went straight to the city wall in a chaotic manner, Maomata divided the generals into three teams, with 12 people in each team, forming the vanguard army, the middle army and the reserve army.
Peng Hou led the vanguard army. She was in charge of the central army, and the reserve army was cruising on the side, ready to support the vanguard army at any time.
"Comrades, although it is a little late now and part of our territory has been lost, we still hope that you can gather the lower-level samurai generals under your name." Mao Mao glanced at the excited, hesitant, indifferent, and hidden scheming generals. , said sincerely.
Her words were more like suggestions, even requests, than commands.
In Maomata's heart, this was an uncertain war related to the life and death of Penghou's territory, but neither Penghou nor the other generals understood this.
She was determined to analyze it one by one, explain it in detail, break down the enemy's strength and crush it into pieces, and then instilled it into these people, but these people had no intention to listen carefully.
The pride and arrogance that has been cultivated for a long time has made these people from Peng Hou down to never think about the word "failure".
"How could the war not fail..." Mao Mao watched quietly as Peng Hou geared up and took the lead. His momentum was truly heart-wrenching and eye-catching——
The five elements of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth surround its body, and derive advanced elements such as thunder, electricity, wind, light, and poison.
"But the enemy defeated a daimyo's main castle, dozens of towns, and villages in one day, aiming directly at the second daimyo's main castle. Their momentum will only become more powerful, and their strength is immeasurable..." What worries Nekomata the most is that This is "immeasurable".
Since the Taiyi Allied Forces are invincible and invincible, all enemies are like chickens and dogs in front of them, and Maomata cannot calculate the true strength of the opponent at all.
Neither the lower limit can be seen nor the upper limit can be deduced. Such an enemy makes Nekomata's head hurt when thinking about it, and the hair on his head becomes fluffy.
"No matter what the enemy is, I have tried my best and used all the power in the territory. Now I just ask the generals not to take any chances..." Mao Mao shook his head.
She did everything she could, and the rest: doing her best, regardless of fate, no matter what the outcome, she was content with it.
"This group of enemies is much stronger than the Hanbao territory..." After watching Taiyi listen to the short stories of "Penghou, Maoyou, Fengli, Shanhao..." and others, Daji immediately seemed to be uninterested. She stopped asking about the war and took the initiative. Advice.
"Can you defeat our coalition forces?" Taiyi suddenly interjected.
Daji was silent for a moment. After holding it in for a long time and her face turning red, Daji replied in a voice so low that she could not hear clearly: "No!"
Not to mention her mosquito voice, Taiyi could sense what she was saying even if she just gestured and didn't make a sound.
"That's alright. I guess we won't encounter any decent battles until we reach the three generals' home cities." Taiyi saw that Daji was a little embarrassed and quickly explained why he was not interested.
Daji acquiesced, because she thought so too, but just wanted to show off her talents, so she said a few more words.
"But you're right, the enemy has some abilities." Taichi looked at Nekomata's formation and found that the opponent did not seek victory with a quick attack, but mainly wanted stability, and was slightly surprised.
"It should be the work of the military advisor Nekomata." Daji was able to speak again, "She is very famous among the hundred ghosts and is called a wise ghost."
