Just in such a late night with stars, relying on the help of a group of old ministers and the prestige it has established for a long time, Masayuki Sanada almost took Numata Castle without any effort and completed the first task assigned to him by Hideo.

Long before he rushed to Aijin, Hideopo sent someone to contact Masayuki many times. In addition to promising him a series of post-war rewards, he naturally had to make some requests.

"Everyone, I think the victory of the Right Prefecture is a foregone conclusion. The current Tokugawa Army and Shinno's generals are just struggling to death and cannot change the situation." In the meeting hall, Masayuki took a folding fan and drew back and forth on the map, and the retainers on the side listened carefully to his analysis of the current situation.

At this moment, a scout staggered into the hall, knelt in front of the generals with a panic expression, and shouted loudly: "Report to the lord, just now, the Tokugawa army suddenly set off the camp and sent about 5,000 vanguards to quickly follow the Numata Street, and they could reach the city at dawn!"

"Five thousand people?" When the generals heard this, they were all uproared, and they were talking, exclaiming, and the emotion mixed together, and the atmosphere in the hall became tense instantly.

Masayuki looked down at the terrain around Numata Castle and asked slowly: "Did you see clearly which general is leading the troops?"

"The villain saw that it was Yasushimasato Yasushima's horse seal, but there were also battle flags printed with Sakai and Okuhira family patterns in the team." The scout replied respectfully.

When they heard that Yasuhara Yasumasa was fighting the vanguard, the quarrel in the hall became fierce in an instant. Some retainers suggested that they immediately dispatch troops from Ueda Castle to cooperate in defense; others also felt that it was not only too late to mobilize troops, but also in front of nearly 30,000 Tokugawa troops. It would be better to burn the food and grass with one fire and withdraw Ueda Castle to avoid the edge.

Masaki listened to the analysis of both parties patiently, but in fact he had made up his mind: "It seems that someone told the inner palace about the incident in the city, otherwise according to my previous calculations, the Tokugawa army would have to arrive at Numata tomorrow night at the earliest."

"I plan to mobilize a thousand troops to ambush outside the suburbs of Numata, and wait for the Tokugawa army to fight tomorrow night to destroy its morale, force it to give up the siege and go south, and then harass it along the way, delaying its marching speed, and buying time for the right army."

It has to be said that Masayuki's plan is still very practical. After all, with the little force in his hand, he has no chance of winning against the Tokugawa Army head-on. The decision to focus on harassing war is also considering the key location of Numata Castle, but it is not an easy-to-defense and difficult-to-attack place. As a hill city, Numata does not have the geographical advantages of Yamata Castle. After many wars, the city defense is not very strong, and it is not suitable for cage cities. The most important point is that Masayuki saw Ieyasu's intentions clearly, that is, he only wanted to fight quickly. There was still a long way to go to Shinno Komoro, so he would not be willing to waste time here. Therefore, he would never waste time siege the city, so harassing along the way became the best solution.

But now the Tokugawa army has noticed the strangeness of Numata Castle and sent Kazuhara Yasumasa to lead a large army to attack. I guess things are no longer as simple as Masayuki thought.

"Genjiro, when did Ueda's army set out?" Masayuki asked.

"According to my father's intention, we will set off two hours later. We should have arrived in the area of ​​the famous Hutao City." Sanada Nobuhima replied.

The Ming Huta is the branch of Numata, located in the northeast of Numata, and is very close to Numata Street. Masayuki thought for a while and immediately ordered: "You set off for Namata immediately and inform Tadashi Suzuki that he would not come to Numata anymore and set up ambush in the mountains on both sides of Numata Street. If you see the Tokugawa Army, don't act rashly for the time being, wait for my signal."

"What signal is it?" Xinfan asked, and the generals were very puzzled.

Masayuki raised his head, pointed to the direction of the Imperial Palace with a folding fan, and said solemnly: "When you see the raging fire lit up from the Imperial Palace illuminating the sky, that is the time for you to act!"

"What? The lord is planning to set fire to the city?!" As soon as Masayoshi said this, everyone was uproared, and even the old minister Kamahara Chongharu was very puzzled: "The city I just captured was just burned like this? Besides, this is the young master's residence..."

Masayoshi looked at the nervous expressions of everyone and suddenly laughed: "Who said I want to burn the city? What I want to burn is just the Imperial Palace. If you want to take the enemy lightly, you will always have to sacrifice some things."

Masayuki explained his plan in detail to everyone: "Let's go to Chung-ku, you will bring some dry firewood around the city. After the Imperial Palace, you will also ignite the firewood pile and disguise it as if setting fire to the city. As dark today, the enemy is still a distance from here, and you will never be able to see the truth here clearly. The only thing you can see is the blazing flames. You will definitely think that we will lose our own way and destroy the city and escape, so you will lose your vigilance. At this time, Genjiro led his troops to raid, and he will definitely achieve twice the result with half the effort, and perhaps you will have unexpected gains."

Hearing this, the generals suddenly realized and praised the plan. But someone still asked: "Just put a pile of firewood in the city, why should we burn the Imperial Palace?"

"The firewood pile outside is nothing more than using fire to cover up the truth about the city defense. If you really want to create the illusion of burning the city, then the fire is not enough. If you want to cause a raging fire in a short time, you can only sacrifice the Imperial Palace."

"What should I do after that night attack, how to face the attack of the Tokugawa army the next day?"

"Calling as usual." Masayuki said calmly: "The inner mansion sent these five thousand people to attack the city, which was a bet that we were not prepared. If we could defeat this attack and the city defense was still intact, then the main force of Tokugawa would definitely be surprised when he arrived during the day. The day is a good time to march, and the inner mansion is a smart man and will not waste time siege the city again. In this way, we can still harass him along the way as planned and nail him to the road as much as possible."

At this moment, everyone was deeply impressed by Masayoshi's strategy, no one raised any objections, and they all immediately acted according to his deployment. Nobuki led a few or two guards to ride a horse to Minghu Tao. He didn't know that this night attack would eventually make him famous all over the world.

At this time, a tragic siege battle was about to begin in Kita Shinono surrounded by mountains. With the 10,000 troops of the Hori family arrived at Zenkoji Temple and preparing to cross the Xichuan the next day to advance into Hachimanhara, Ishikawa Yasunagata from Katago Castle also led his 3,000 troops northward and arrived at Nangonghama, located on the southern foot of the Wife and Daughter Mountain.

Wife and Nude Mountain is an important stronghold to defend the south of Haijin City. Once captured, the Nanman Datong can directly bombard the key points in the city. The result can be imagined.

Because of this, Pu Sheng Laixiang decided to mobilize 400 people to station his wife and daughter mountain, and another 200 people to deploy defense along the Qianqu River to block Hori Hideki's attack.

Originally, according to the plan of Pusheng Laixiang, he planned to set up defense along the Xichuan River, and the entire Kawaakashima (Hamanhara) was included in the defense zone. However, due to insufficient troops, Masayuki of Ueda Castle mobilized troops to support Numata and had no extra troops to support him, so he had to narrow the defense circle. The result was that Hori Hidege could directly meet with Ishikawa Yasukara on Kawaakashima, and completed the three sides of the siege castle without a single soldier. Since there were mountains and ridges in the east of the castle, Pusheng Laixiang was completely in desperate situation, and he had to fight the battle in the castle with the determination to die.

As the Sanada family's main castle, Ueda Castle is not much better than Hitotsu. After 1,000 troops were drawn to reinforce Numata, there were only more than 1,200 people left here, but they had to face the attack of 6,000 people from the three Daming families. In addition, Sanada and his son were all in Numata to control Tokugawa's army, leaving only Masayuki's son-in-law Oyamada Shigemaki to defend the city, and the situation was very serious.
Chapter completed!