Starting the Teitōken Campaign

[ninja_coder]

Over the past week or two, I have been slowly becoming more involved in the campaign that will take up my next few months at Clan Noriaibasha. It is called the Teitōken Campaign, and it will be a major push by the clan’s armies. Kento has instructed me to make it my highest priority.

I spent most of yesterday in meetings with a pair of samurai who will be handling our operations in the forests. One is Seijun, a warrior who I have heard good things about. The other is Rajan, a new arrival at Clan Noriaibasha. He says that he has no knowledge of urban tactics, and so he will be relying on my expertise for planning our city operations.

There is a single medium-sized city that we will have to capture in its entirety: Ichimen, which is composed of many neighborhoods that we’ll have to take separately. This will involve a good deal of rooftop fighting, which makes me happy. I have already started scouting the alleys and rooftops of Ichimen, and will soon be ready to take on the city guard on their own turf.

However, not all is well. Jōichi, who sits in the same compartment with me, has been involved in some of the high-level planning meetings with the nobles in charge of this campaign. At least one noble keeps insisting we use certain combat techniques — particularly the Bright Square tactic — even though Jōichi has repeatedly warned that this is not in Harmony with the terrain. Indeed, it is probably also not righteous, and may lead to problems with the peasants.

I do not know who this noble is. Even if I did, I understand she is adamant. I hope this will not lead to trouble for the campaign, but I suspect it will.

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