We are not besieged, and not likely to be if the reports are true - supplies will come later. I suspect we will need people more than anything, but blockades, you said? How many troops does the Shogun have at his disposal?!

Information. I have no information!

[There's a short silence and the sound of pacing before he speaks up again.]

If they intend to keep the provinces from aiding one another, that will be the largest difficulty. Travel by conventional means would likely not bring help to us in time unless the groups are already on the roads. The distances are too great and the terrain too varied. But if the survivors are to continue on, they must band together or they will be overrun!