Although it was originally a role of Tadamasa OKUDAIRA, his older brother, in Kano Domain, to lead warlords of Mino, he died before the departure, and his soldiers just became under Tadaakira's command even without the alternate participation by his father Nobumasa from Kano.
元々、美濃の諸将を率いるのは加納藩の実兄・奥平忠政の役割であったが、出陣前に病没し、加納からは父・信昌による代参陣も無く兵だけが忠明指揮下に遣わされた。