Of course, it is impossible for Master Saburo to launch a direct attack. The Asai family has obviously been prepared for a long time. To attack the formation at this time is undoubtedly to fall into a trap.
It would be reasonable to say that he has thousands of troops, but the actual situation is that Master Saburo only has more than 300 people, not even half of the Asai family's troops.
Therefore, if you want to raid this formation, you can't just go there. If there are no conditions, then create conditions.
What Master Sanlang is planning to do is to confuse the enemy and exhaust the troops.
It's easy to understand to confuse the enemy, it's just false and true, so that the people of the Asai family don't know when they will make a surprise attack. The exhaustion strategy was to keep the Asai family's troops in a state of mental tension all night long. After a night of repeated efforts, Master Saburo believed that the Asai family's ashigaru would definitely relax.
As long as the Asai family relaxes, that's when Master Saburo really launches a surprise attack!
Even a well-trained regular army cannot resist such a savage operation, let alone a group of miscellaneous soldiers from the Asai family.
"Master Saburo Hall, can this really work?" Akao Kiyotsuna stood beside Master Saburo and asked doubtfully.
Master Sanlang nodded affirmatively, "It won't go wrong."
This strategy was inspired by a certain plot in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms". Combined with the actual situation, Master Saburo was confident that the Asai family would suffer this hidden loss.
"Let Chef Endo and Gensuke get ready and do this again in a quarter of an hour!"
"Ha!" Since Master Saburo was so confident, Akao Kiyosuna could only suppress the doubts in his heart.
"Lord, no enemy troops have appeared, not even a single figure!" A samurai from the Asai family's main camp came to report inside the tent.
Asai Ryomasa's face darkened, "What a hateful bunch of cowards!"
"Let everyone not relax and beware of another surprise attack by the enemy!" Master Saburo's words immediately made Asai Ryomasa sleepless, not to mention how annoyed he was.
Just as the samurai nodded and was about to walk out, there was a loud cry of killing again.
"Oops! The enemy appears outside our formation again!"
"What!" Asai Ryomasa suddenly stood up, "Give me more torches, and release arrows as soon as you see the enemy's position clearly!"
"ha!"
After a while, the samurai who came before returned to the formation again.
Looking at the gloomy Asai Ryomasa in the main seat, the samurai hesitated to speak.
"Needless to say, did the other party retreat again?" Asai Ryomasa asked.
The warrior nodded quickly and said, "That's right!"
"Bang!" Asai Ryomasa immediately slapped the table in front of him and said angrily, "A bunch of clowns, where is the dignity of a samurai? Aren't you ashamed of such behavior?"
"My lord, I think this may be a trick by the enemy to lure them!" the warrior said tentatively.
"Don't go on." Ryomasa Asai touched his chin, suddenly becoming interested.
The samurai quickly continued, "The enemy is just trying to wear down my patience, provoke me, and lure me to attack. Just now, the enemy has attacked twice. I noticed that the number of enemy troops is not too large. This means that the enemy has other troops." The troops did not appear.”
"This must be the enemy's ambush! Once we attack, we will be ambushed by the enemy!" the samurai said with certainty.
"Yes, that must be the case!" Ryomasa Asai's eyes lit up, and he glanced appreciatively at the eager samurai in front of him, "What's your name? I think you're a little strange to me!"
Upon hearing this, the samurai was overjoyed. This was an opportunity to leave a good impression in front of the head of the family. "I have been working in the clan for three years in Shimokai Kitzen'emon."
"Zen'emon? You go down first." Asai Ryomasa didn't seem to be very interested and didn't say much.
"Ha!" Zenemon Kaiboku felt a little disappointed. It seemed that he had missed another opportunity?
Not long after Kaikita Zen'emon walked out of the formation in a complicated mood, several samurai who were also wearing the Asai family's tōmaru looked at Kaikita Zen'emon with sarcastic expressions and said mockingly, "Zen'emon, people like you If we can get ahead, maybe the Kyogoku family on the opposite side can win this battle! Hahaha!"
"Hahahaha!" A series of laughter suddenly sounded from all around.
Kaiboku Zenemon, 18 years old this year, has been serving the Asai family since he was 15 years old in the Yuan Dynasty. However, he has never been reused, and his popularity in the family is also very poor.
The Kaihoku family is the headquarter of Kuao Township in Sakata County. Kaihoku Zenemon's father died in the previous confrontation between the Asai family and the Rokkaku family. Kaihoku Zenemon inherited his father's knowledge and practice of 150 koku, and he also brought it with him in this battle. Five peasant soldiers in the territory participated in the battle and were incorporated into Asai Toshimasa's queue.
The name Zenemon Kaiboku may not be very eye-catching, but his original name in the original server is Tsunayika Kaiboku. One of the famous "Three Generals of Kaisame", he was praised by Toyotomi Hideyoshi as "the master of my art of war". He is a famous general with both wisdom and courage.
However, because he was too upright, he offended many people. In addition, Kamikita Tsuna's intellectual wealth was only 150 koku, which was the lowest among the Asai family retainers, so he has always been discriminated against and ridiculed.
"Zen'emon, don't be angry. Sooner or later you will become famous." Returning to his post, a samurai who had a good relationship with Kaiboku Tsunachika comforted him.
Uboku Tsuna nodded gratefully, "Thank you very much for Katagiri-den's kindness, I don't take it to heart."
After hearing what Tsunauchi Uboku said, Katagiri Naoshige also stepped back and said nothing.
Katagiri Naoshige, like Kaiboku Tsunayika, is also a lower-level samurai of the Asai family. His place of knowledge is 100 koku, Takatsuki Village, Ika County. This time, only two of his relatives accompanied him to the battle.
The Omi Katagiri clan, where Naoshige Katagiri belongs, is a branch of the Katakiri clan in Ina County, Shinano Province. They moved to Omi when Naoshige Katagiri's father, Katagiri, was born.
The situation of the Katagiri family when they first arrived was not good at first. Sometimes they couldn't even afford food. In a battle, Tsunayika Ubita's father saved Katagiri's life, so the relationship between the two families is relatively close.
Naturally, Naoshige Katagiri had a relatively good relationship with Tsunayika Kaiboku, or it could be said that they were brothers in need. The grandson of Katagiri Naoshige was Katagiri Kyumoto, who later became the elder of the Toyotomi family and one of the seven guns of Kiyue.
Ryomasa Asai is going crazy.
Within an hour, more than ten killing cries rang out from the Asai family's main formation, but all of them were loud thunder and small raindrops. I could hear the sound of the enemy charging, but not even a single figure could be seen.
Not only was Asai Ryomasa very angry, but the Asai family's ashigaru were also beginning to feel exhausted.
And Ryomasa Asai increasingly believed that this was the enemy's trick to lure the enemy, so even though he was extremely annoyed, he still gritted his teeth and controlled himself.
"Instruct everyone not to attack without permission. This is the enemy's strategy!" Ryomasa Asai called over Toshimasa Asai, who was guarding the formation, and ordered.
Asai Toshimasa nodded, "It seems that the enemy army will not really attack. When it gets bright tomorrow, I will make sure to make Mitamura Tamasa look good!"
