973 Green Army Overcoat

In the evening, the streets of Hakodate suddenly erupted in a roar like a tidal wave...... On-board ...... ......Countless samurai knelt outside the castle tower to salute Ryuye, and many wild samurai even sang and danced excitedly.

"Count the number of people, set up ten registration offices on the streets of Hakodate, and count the number of wild samurai immediately!" "There are more samurai of the daimyo family in Inoyama, and they are beginning to restore order in the crowd, and no one knows how many wild samurai there are in Hakodate now, but everyone knows that the number is far more than a thousand.

Yujiro Maeda and the two samurai of the Date family sat behind two tables, and the samurai in front of them were crowded and chaotic. Date Hakusa and Date Kitano slashed the samurai in front of them with their swords and sheaths.

"Order, maintain order, come one by one, line up immediately!"

"Damn, you fat man from Shikoku, get to the back of the line, who told you to cut the queue ......"

"I really don't understand why the Shogun took in these wild warriors, is it because they have traveled thousands of miles to do this? If I had known that this was the case, I would have asked my brothers to come with me......

Yujiro Maeda pinched the brush and registered his name on the roster, and he said without raising his head, "Needless to say, General Xiang carried out the orders of the prime minister, and the prime minister's wisdom is like the sea, which is not something we can understand...... In addition, the courage of these samurai to follow them all the way from southern Japan is really commendable!"

The Date family was also a daimyo in the Warring States period, and the one-eyed dragon Masamune was also a hero praised by both Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu, and the pride of the Date family was no less than that of the Maeda family.

This kind of samurai naturally looked down on lowly wild samurai, and when they looked at the tattered straw sandals on their feet and their patched clothes, they said disdainfully, "I don't even have a single armor, and the sword is about to rust, and such a person is just a ...... to die when he goes to the battlefield."

The wild warriors who lined up to register glared angrily one by one, but when they saw the shiny armor that represented their identity, the sense of oppression brought by hundreds of years of hierarchical society made them dare not refute.

At this moment, Inoyama ran to the registration office with a group of samurai holding stacks of thick clothes in their hands: "Who has already registered? The registered samurai will follow me to carry the new military uniforms! The new military uniforms sent to you by the prime minister ...... you."

The crowd suddenly became agitated, what did the military uniform represent? The military uniform represented that the prime minister had officially accepted them, and the wild samurai, who had already registered and received the number plate, rushed over like crazy, grabbed a green military uniform and shook it, and the whole audience was stunned.

It was a long green cotton coat stuffed with thick cotton, and the inside and outside of the garment were sewn with various pockets, which were worn down to the knee below.

What is the most effective weapon for fighting in Baishan and Heishui? It is not an advanced foreign gun and cannon, but to keep warm, and the well-known green military coat in later generations is simply a representative of practicality, and the king of cost performance in cold zone combat, if Xiao Lotian does not imitate this thing, it will be really blind.

However, the aesthetics of the military coat are really a bit of a serious departure from this era, and all the samurai feel that their aesthetics have been completely shattered, and not a single ugly word can describe their mood, at least three ugly words must be used.

"How do you wear this? How do you fight when you wear it?" Is the prime minister joking with us?"

Pig Shan Chip took the lead in setting an example, he put the military coat on his body, and then got a fur dogskin hat and put it on, standing in the crowd and shouting, "The place where we fight is three times colder than the coldest Ezo, if you want to live, put on the military coat, and if you don't want to wear it, get out of the house and go home......"

"All the samurai who have armor, immediately remove the armor and hand it over to the defenders of Hakokan for safekeeping, and you write your name!"

At this time, the two samurai of the Date family were immediately furious: "How can this be? The armor is my ancestral heirloom, how can we go to the battlefield without him? This is a chaotic ......?"

At this time, Maeda Yujiro stood up and began to unload his armor, "Don't say more, didn't the general say it, it's just a unified safekeeping, and it's not confiscated, what are you afraid of......?

"If you don't want to be frozen to death by your armor in the cold winter, take off your ......armor right now," Yujiro Maeda yelled and shocked Date Hakusa and Date Kita's ambitions, and they didn't dare to say a word of nonsense, so they quickly took off their armor and put on their ugly military coats.

People are creatures that have to rely on external objects to set off their identity, when these daimyo samurai wear the same uniform clothes as the wild samurai, the class resistance that has always existed has actually faded a lot, and the samurai of those daimyo are no longer interested in laughing at and satirizing this group of wild samurai, and the atmosphere is actually three points harmonious.

As it got dark, all the registrars began to speed up, and in the light of the beating torches, Yujiro Maeda wrote the names of the samurai in front of him on the roster, and at the same time wrote them on a piece of bamboo, and when the record was completed, the Date White Demon would split the bamboo with a knife, half of which was kept for the file and the other half handed to the soldiers.

"Put it away, put it on with a rope and wear it around your neck in the future, many of you can't write, and you will use him when you need to get things and verify your identity in the future, remember to find an officer in time to make a new ...... Okay, next!"

Darkness has now enveloped the land, and Hakodate has become a city of torches under the starry sky, and all the remaining dock spaces on the dock have been filled with fishermen near Ezo except for the boats that are ready to transport soldiers in the later stage.

The problem of eating for thousands of people must be solved, and the dragon master brought a large amount of military expenses, which came in handy at this moment, and the quartermasters shuttled between the dock and the camp one by one, and the whole ship of sea urchins, shrimps, crabs, kelp, and sea fish...... They didn't bargain at all, and such a generous gesture made the fishermen of Ezo remember it vividly ten years later.

Not only that, but the dragon also provided them with a lot of sake, and soon the samurai eating seafood and drinking fine wine began to dance excitedly around the bonfire, and some drunks even played sumo wrestling, and the samurai in green military coats were like two bears.

Long Ye looked at those excited warriors and sighed in a low voice, "Enjoy your last meal in your home country, you won't have any possibility to return to your hometown in ten years, of course, there will be many people who won't be able to go home for the rest of their lives, enjoy it!"

At that moment, someone on the beach suddenly shouted, "Look at the boat coming from the sea? What kind ......of boat is that?"

Sure enough, a ship came from the south in Hakodate Bay, and not only the lights were bright, but there was also a faint sound of taiko drums, which seemed to be the drums of a shrine.