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Originally Posted by willx
Frankly, most of the roads were terrible during this time period and horses were somewhat scarce.. just moving armies around would take a lot longer than anyone admits, let alone the entire economy was agrarian, so NO FIGHTING DURING WINTER!
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That, and no war during harvest, which is one of reason for Nobunaga's quick rise to power as well. By separate soldiers and farmer, he was able to wage war when others weren't able to. Though to be fair, while there might not be as many as large scale battles and people believe, there are small encounters that rarely get recorded in history. For example, Honda Tadakatsu was believed to have fought in 56 battles and be injuries-free, but you'd be hard pressed to find records for all 56 battles.
And take Three Kingdoms for example, everyone tend to think Battle of Guan Du is this one huge battle where Cao Cao's force eliminates Yan Lian and Wen Chou, Yuan Shao's top two generals and goes on to burn the supply camp. When in reality it was a campaign that covers over 8 month and there is a 6 month break between the death of Yan Lian and Wen Chao and raid of Wu Chao. In between, Yuan Shao was still making solid progress despite the lost of two generals. He advance went as far as to the point that he almost split Cao Cao's territory in half.