There is a reason why Maori Yuan was called the most wise general of the Warring States Period. At this time, there were more than 60 vassal states in Japan, and there were probably hundreds of vassal states of all sizes, and there were even thousands of local tyrants, which means that he changed from a local tyrant to a dominant overlord.

His wisdom was like a monster.

Just like this time, if ordinary people want to use the power of local wealthy families to control Tao Qingxian, the powerful minister of the Western overlord Dane clan.

Just kidding, the Ouchi clan is the seven kingdoms in control. At its peak, it was more than 50,000 people under its command. Even if there were traitors inside, the head of the family was killed by the powerful minister Tao Qingxian. Many local tyrants did not obey Tao Qingxian's control. However, it was quite simple for Tao Qingxian to pull out 20,000 to 30,000 people, while Maori Yuan was the one who was in charge. At this moment, his subordinates had only two or three thousand.

If two or three thousand people are fighting against twenty or thirty thousand people, who dares to get on, even if you have a brain in your mind, you won’t dare to get on!

Even if there are artillery, it won't work, because you can't just use artillery to bombard others. In the end, you still have to let your subordinates rush up to meet them with one hand. Two or three thousand people rushed into the middle of twenty or three thousand people. Can you win?

For example, when Otomo Sorin first bought the iron cannon, he did not go foolishly to attack the Ryuzoji clan because at that time he had tens of thousands of people under his command, and the Ryuzoji clan had at least 20,000 or 30,000 people. Even if he used the cannon, what's the use? They would hide behind the arrows and ignore you, and wait for you to rush up to the city wall, and they would hit one of two or even three, and they would still be able to make you look for teeth all over the ground.

Therefore, Ototo Sorin did not rush to attack the Ryuzakuji clan. He first dismantled the internal rebellion and regained control of the Hiragoku Kingdom. He then expanded his subordinates to an order of magnitude similar to the Ryuzakuji clan, and then began to attack the Ryuzakuji clan.

As for what is less to win more, it is not impossible, but it is generally unlikely.

Unless the quality of the two sides is very different, on one side are serious elites and on the other side are farmers who have just dropped their hoes, they may win. The problem is that Mao Riyuan and Tao Qingxian are both young and strong like Tao Qingxian's subordinates, and their personal strength is not much different. Don't say that one is ten, even if they are one-on-one, the winner will be 50 and the outcome will be 50, and there is no advantage at all.

In addition, there is another possibility, that is, one side has outstanding strategies and far overcomes the enemy, and it is also possible to defeat the more with less.

Maori Yuan belongs to this type of strategy. His strategy is not ordinary. He has been planning for more than a year or two in order to become a overlord of one side.

It can be said that since he became the head of the Maori family, he had already begun to plan.

For example, his marriage to Yoshitaka Ouchi's daughter was part of the strategy.

Why did he marry Yoshitaka Ouchi's daughter?

Most people may think that he is the son-in-law of the Western Overlord, and that identity is very irrelevant. It can be said that based on this identity alone, the local tyrants of the seven countries under the jurisdiction of the Danei clan are all lower than him.

However, his purpose seems not to be for this identity, at least not just for this identity.

After marrying Yoshitaka Ouchi's daughter, he began to actively participate in the Ouchi's external expedition. Yoshitaka Ouchi naturally attaches great importance to this son-in-law, so his troops were obviously more than ordinary local tyrants. Yoshitaka Ouchi not only did not warn him, but instead kept praising him.

His power gradually expanded, and then he sent his two sons to two other wealthy families in An Yiguo, the Yoshikawa clan and the Kobayakawa clan, and helped them slowly control these two families.

At this moment, Yoshikawa Motokura, the head of Yoshikawa clan, and Koshikawa Takake, the head of Koshikawa clan, were actually his sons and their own sons. Moreover, the other wealthy families had nothing to say, because Yoshikawa Motokura and Koshikawa Takakeke are not only his sons, but also their grandson of Yoshitaka Ouchi. Where is the identity, who dares not accept it?

In other words, at this moment, not only his strength, but also the Yoshikawa clan and Kobayakawa clan can also pull out two or three thousand men. He will expand his strength a little earlier. He can still organize 10,000 men.

Of course, this little strength alone is not enough to make him the overlord, so he is still waiting for the opportunity silently.

In fact, even if Tao Qingxian did not plan to seize the power of the Danei clan, he would eventually take action to seize the power of the Danei clan. It was just that Tao Qingxian took action first.

He had been planning to deal with Tao Qingxian for a long time. For example, Gui Yuancheng was a chess piece he buried, and Yidao was the battlefield he had already set up. He wanted to annihilate Tao Qingxian's main force in one fell swoop!

In order to attract Tao Qingxian's main force to Yidao, he tried his best to lead him to the island. Zhou Fangguo and An Yiguo are already bordered. Logically speaking, attacking by land is much simpler than attacking by water. However, he built many defensive facilities on land early, which made people discouraged at first sight.

Moreover, he had never developed a naval army, and he didn't even have a decent warship under his command. The entire waterway in southern Anyiguo seemed to be unprepared.

Therefore, Tao Qingxian tended to attack An Yiguo from the water route at the beginning because the naval forces under him were hundreds of warships of all sizes, while Maori Yuan had no naval forces under him.

As soon as the Yidao guard Kei Yuancheng surrendered, he further strengthened his idea of ​​attacking from the water.

Of course, he also knew that Gui Yuancheng might have surrendered, so he rushed Gui Yuancheng to the island and let others watch the show. In this way, even if Maori Yuan had a thousand plans, it would be useless, because there were no subordinates of Maori Yuan on Itsushima, and Maori Yuan had no navy under his command, so he was afraid of nothing.

Once Ichidao is taken down, the Maori family will basically be finished, because Ichidao is less than thirty miles away from Hiroshima, the capital of Anyiguo, and he can kill him in less than half an hour.

How could he know that this was a pit, a huge pit dug by Maori for him.

Originally, the Maori clan was planning to expand his power first, then form an alliance with the Murakami navy on the island, and then implement the next plan, because he really had no navy under his command. If he wanted to raid Itsukashima and annihilate Tao Qingxian's main force in one fell swoop, he could only gain the support of the Murakami navy.

The Murakami Navy is the most famous pirate in the Seto Inland Sea. Its strength is even greater than that of Tao Qingxian's subordinates. Therefore, alliance with the Murakami Navy is the most important part of his original plan.

However, it is no longer important to form an alliance with the Murakami Navy at this time, because Hou Zhitan said that Gu Kexue, the Minister of the Ministry of Works of the Ming Dynasty, also had a navy under his command, and he was quite powerful. If he needed help, there would be no problem at all.

He even secretly followed Hou Zhitan to the sea west of Kyushu Island to see the strength of the navy under Gu Kexue. That guy, the giant ships in the tower ships were piled up, and the artillery was as numerous as a cow. Compared with others, the warships of the Murakami Navy were simply small sampans.
Chapter completed!