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| 61 | 53 | "I urged Lord View more quotes about temmu">Temmu to commit more troops to the south," said Lord Okimoto. |
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| 61 | 50 | "Yes," I said, "clearly you must understand that you are surrounded". |
| 61 | 51 | I had arranged that portions of Arashi's men would hover about variously, behind and to the sides, as well as to the fore, allowing themselves to be detected, but not clearly. |
| 61 | 52 | Surely scouts would have notified Lords Nishida and Okimoto of such sightings. |
| 61 | 53 | "I urged Lord Temmu to commit more troops to the south," said Lord Okimoto. |
| 61 | 54 | "Perhaps five thousand?" I said. |
| 61 | 55 | To the best of my knowledge, Lord Temmu could not have brought four thousand men south, even with deserters and recruits, let alone five thousand. |
| 61 | 56 | Indeed, had he emptied his holding and left it vacant, to urts and jards, he could not have brought five thousand men south. |