Nobunaga spread the rumor that his army was weak in defiance of his usual tactics in which he made his army appear stronger than it was with a show of bravado.
信長は、本来であれば虚勢を張ったりして自軍を強く見せるのが戦の常であるにも関わらず、逆に弱いと吹聴して回ったとされる。