"Young Master! This letter is from the Family Head, instructed that only you can read it!"...
"Ah! A letter from my father, Lord Nobuhiro... Very well! I have received it..."
As the second batch of troops arrived, the mountain camp was already overcrowded, stuffed with two hundred Samurai, three hundred peasant soldiers, and over a hundred able-bodied young men and craftsmen. Kaozaki Yoshihiro intentionally divided the reinforcements into two teams, the three hundred peasant soldiers continued to reinforce the fortifications on the perimeter, not allowing them to idle aimlessly. As for the hundred or so able-bodied young men and craftsmen, they were separately guarded by a team of Samurai, with enough food supplied daily, but preventing them from contacting the outside.
Only after Kaozaki Yoshihiro arranged all this did he, somewhat nervously, take out and open the letter from his father, Takeda Nobuhiro, as if he had received a verdict on paper.
