@Panino @pdonk
He's targeting psychological stress. It's the same thing with holding mock executions of prisoners/hostages; each time the subject's nerves are drawn tight expecting to die, until it snaps and they literally become a broken doll.
Also, despite your assertions, only one Sengoku commander has been referenced with studying the Art of War, and that was Takeda Shingen.
Remember, this is a military treatise likely kept as confidential as possible, in a country as large as China, that has to cross the sea into Japan, cross over land into the hands of Oda clan, and is either translated into Japanese or Oda clan having to study Chinese, with Japanese Kanji and Chinese Hanji being very different with certain readings.
He's targeting psychological stress. It's the same thing with holding mock executions of prisoners/hostages; each time the subject's nerves are drawn tight expecting to die, until it snaps and they literally become a broken doll.
Also, despite your assertions, only one Sengoku commander has been referenced with studying the Art of War, and that was Takeda Shingen.
Remember, this is a military treatise likely kept as confidential as possible, in a country as large as China, that has to cross the sea into Japan, cross over land into the hands of Oda clan, and is either translated into Japanese or Oda clan having to study Chinese, with Japanese Kanji and Chinese Hanji being very different with certain readings.