Fighting a battle after finding an opportunity to win would have been the intention of both Nobunaga's and the Sakuma's, but continuing to adhere to any protracted battle based on your own arbitrary ideas was frivolous and in poor judgment.
勝敗の機を見極め一戦を遂げれば、信長にとっても佐久間親子にとっても本意なことであったのに、一方的な思慮で持久戦に固辞し続けたことは分別もなく浅はかなことである。