Revenge Underway III

Pan Yun and the others spent only a little extra time on the first village. As for the remaining villages, they swept through them with the force of dead trees collapsing before the wind.

Because the Yamana clan's policy of waiving payments had already spread, the villages had little will to resist. In several villages, when Pan Yun's group charged in, the villagers even secretly pointed out where their ringleaders were hiding.

They seized territory at an extremely small cost.

That extremely small cost was Yamana Hidehichi spraining his ankle because he had charged too quickly.

For the first time, Masuda Shinta directly experienced the shock brought by waiving payments.

Yamana Mochitoyo had not expected the results to be this good either.

He muttered, "If I'd known this method could reclaim our territory so easily, why did I wait until now? There would have been no need for Pan Yun and the others to act at all..."

Yamana Mochitoyo might not have understood such matters, but Otagaki Iekaku did. He said, "As expected of people from a superior nation. What makes them precious lies not only in their martial strength, but even more in their wisdom."

He said solemnly, "Family Head, the superior nation possesses foundations built over thousands of years. Miss Pan and the others have studied the wisdom of their ancient sages since childhood. Their wisdom far surpasses ours. Being able to cooperate with them, using their wisdom to build the Yamana clan and resist the Ouchi clan, is far more worthy of praise than using their martial strength."

Yamana Mochitoyo could not feel the truth of that, but he was good at listening to the words of his elders.

The clan elder was already so old. Surely he would not deceive him.

Seeing his reluctance, Iekaku said,