When you feel that everyone needs you, this feeling will give you a lot of energy.

- Gorky (proletarian writer of the former Soviet Union, founder of socialist realist literature)

In the demise of a great empire, there will always be a large number of martyrs with them, and although the Uesugi family is not a great empire, it is also a hegemonic family with a lot of glory.

Assam asked out of curiosity about an Uesugi prisoner of war who was reluctant to sign up, and the ashigaru, who had just put down his farming tools a few months ago, said something that made Assam feel emotional: it turned out that the reason why he was reluctant to fight for the Yanhuang family was not because he had much loyalty to the Uesugi family, but because his father and grandfather had fought for the Uesugi family, and he was used to fighting for the Uesugi family.

Habit is a terrible thing, just think of a person who is used to writing with his left hand, even if he knows that most people write with his right hand, he has no way to allow himself to write with his right hand, this is a habit, and it is difficult to change unless something particularly major happens.

As a very famous warrior in the Aceni Kingdom, Assam has barbarian blood in his bones, warlikeness, bravery, and loyalty, which are his unswerving qualities, so he prefers this ashigaru, who is used to fighting for the Uesugi family.

Overnight, Assam selected 86,000 soldiers from the surrendered army and prisoners of war who were willing to fight for the Yanhuang family, and in the face of such a large number of soldiers, the overly upright Assam carefully selected the 22,000 soldiers in his mission, and at the same time sent someone to report the situation here to Bai Feng, asking Bai Feng what to do with the other 64,000 soldiers who were willing to fight for the Yanhuang family.

Before Assam's report was sent to Sanhe Castle, the registration of the surrendered army and prisoners of war, as well as the handling of Assam, had been reported to Bai Feng by the Yanhuang Ninja Army, and Bai Feng's decision was to increase the number of soldiers who were replenished to the Sado Standing Army by another 20,000!

He did not expect that there would be so many surrendered troops and prisoners of war who were willing to fight for the Yanhuang family, and he did not waste such a good opportunity to expand the army, and in one fell swoop he increased the supplementary number of troops of the Sado Standing Army from 22,000 to 42,000; in this way, the total strength of the supplemented Sado Standing Army will reach 50,000, which can be regarded as having the capital to compete with the 50,000 Oda Army under the command of Yushiba Hideyoshi.

As for the remaining 44,000 soldiers who were willing to fight for the Yanhuang family, Bai Feng originally planned to personally lead the Second Lucy Army to the south, and now that these soldiers were actively joining the Yanhuang Army, Bai Feng just used them to form a new auxiliary army.

The Yanhuang family, which was seriously lacking generals at all levels, could not find enough qualified generals to command these 44,000 soldiers, and the loyalty of the most advanced generals such as Tiantong Xinxin, Aooka Nobumoto, Muto Tachitora, and Inoue Shuzawa could not be guaranteed after all.

After thinking about it for a while, Bai Feng decided to promote the twelve military police squadron leaders of the gendarmerie brigade to the rank of family generals; except for Suzuki Tadashige, who was obsessed with martial arts, who was officially appointed as the commander of the military police, the task of the other eleven military police squadron leaders was to take their respective military police squadrons to the new army and serve as independent wing commanders of the new army.

Due to the lack of commanders, Bai Feng formulated an establishment for the new army of 44,000 soldiers into 11 independent wings, each of which consisted of eight standard ashigaru brigades, twice the size of the standard wing, and the independent wing commander was responsible for commanding them.

Although the temporary promotion of Nanbu Rizhi and others to the post of independent wing commander did solve the problem of commanding these 44,000 soldiers, the actual combat experience of Nanbu Rizhi and others was too small after all; in comparison, the actual combat experience of the most advanced generals such as Tiantong Trust was not bad.

Aooka Nobumoto, Muto Tachitora, and Inoue Shuzawa are all the most advanced military ashigaru generals from ordinary samurai families, and his promotion to the rank of general of the Yanhuang family is already the greatest praise for their voluntary surrender;

According to the results of the investigation of the Yanhuang Ninja Army, the true identity of Tiantong Trust should be the only son of Tiantong Yorizhen, the lord of Tiantong City of the Supreme Family, because of a conflict between father and son, Tiantong Trust left Tiantong City, and then he joined the army as a samurai.

With such a special chess piece in hand, will the lord of Tiantong City, Tiantong Laizhen, still be loyal to the Mogami family to the end? Among the eleven independent wings of the new army, eight wings will be assigned to the command of four generals including Tiantong Trust, and three wings will be assigned to the command of Rokuta Yusei of the Liuda family.

More than a hundred years have passed since the era of belonging to the Eight Shields family, and the once prestigious Eight Shields family is now not worth mentioning; what really makes Bai Feng value is not the strength and reputation of the Liutian family, but the person of Liutian Xiongcheng.

With the Mogami family's fear of the Hachidun family, how did the Rokuta family develop 500 samurai in Hasedo Castle of the Mogami family, and was it just because of the cover of Shimura Mitsuyasu? Rokuta Yucheng himself has a rich experience that is different from that of ordinary samurai.

From leaving Hasedo Castle alone at the age of 16 to sneaking back to Hasedo Castle at the age of 36 with hundreds of samurai, Rokuta Yusei has done far more than ordinary people can imagine, in order to achieve the revival of his family, he first became the Shimazu family's Ashigaru general, then the Otomo family's shogun, and finally left as a Maori family general, and fought in the army for 18 years!

Two years of ashigaru group leader, four years of ashigaru general, eleven years of service general, one year of general, such a rich experience in the army, the Yanhuang family only Sanada Masayuki can be compared with Rokuta Yusei;

Handing over the 12,000 soldiers of the three independent wings to the command of Rokuta Yusei was only the first step for Bai Feng to reuse him; if his performance satisfied Bai Feng, Bai Feng would continue to reuse him in the future; otherwise, the post of brigade commander would be a cold bench for Rokuta Yusei for the rest of his life.

Time passed little by little, and Assam, who had returned to Minohe Castle with 44,000 soldiers of the New Army and 25,000 prisoners of war, had not had time to catch his breath, and Bai Feng gave him a new task: to integrate the Uesugi Army prisoners of war into the labor force composed of Date Army prisoners of war.

When new POWs first began to clear wasteland, build roads, and expand towns, they were always aggressive, especially since the Uesugi prisoners of war also included a large number of Uesugi samurai and standing ashigaru, whose destructive power should not be underestimated.

In order to avoid some unnecessary confusion, the task of suppressing the labor was entrusted by Bai Feng to the Second Essini Regiment of the Assam Division, which had no military mission for the time being, and his main energy was to focus on the formation of the new army and the guidance of the southern Lizhi and others.

Organizing a new army seems simple, but in fact it is a very complicated and cumbersome matter; Nanfang Li Zhi and the others have no experience in commanding an army, and it is not easy for them to suddenly command 4,000 soldiers, and in order to train them as soon as possible, Bai Feng can only do his best to help them.