"Chapter 111: An Agreement is Reached"
The most whining people are those who are incapable of resisting, unable to work, or unwilling to work.
- Gorky (proletarian writer of the former Soviet Union, founder of socialist realist literature)
Because the dawn was approaching, after discussing the conditions for the surrender of the city, Tiantong trusted to let the generals in the military tent go back to the camp, and he himself took Aooka, Muto, and Inoue to the military tent next door, and discussed in detail with Shimura Mitsuyasu and Rokuta Yusei about the surrender of the city.
The two conditions put forward by Tiantong trust, Shimura Guang'an, who had long been in contact with the Yanhuang family, can agree to the former condition without reporting, but the latter condition, it is not for Shimura Guang'an to decide, and even he feels that this condition is very excessive!
What is the concept of a settling-in allowance of 50 kan per soldier? Shimura Mitsuyasu, who has been the lord of Hasedo Castle for more than 20 years, almost didn't cry when he heard this figure; you know, this is a huge amount of money that can make a samurai family live a good life for three years!
In other words, with Shimura Mitsuyasu's status, his entire family property added up to only 3,000 kan, and 1,200,000 kan meant that the total worth of 400 Shimura Mitsuyasu, the lords of a city, could be enough to meet the requirements of the supreme army.
After some painstaking persuasion, he also knew that the price he quoted was too high, and he reduced the settling-in allowance of each soldier to ten yuan; even so, Shimura Guangan still admitted that this price was too high, and it was unlikely that Yan Huangjun would accept it.
With a huge sum of 240,000 kan in exchange for the surrender of 20,000 ashigaru and 4,000 wounded soldiers of the Mogami army, plus a Hasedo castle that still needs a bloody battle to capture, Shimura Mitsuyasu believes that as long as the commander of the Yan and Huang army has no problem with his brain, then he will definitely not accept this condition.
Yunari Rokuta, who was already dissatisfied with the trust of Tendo and others, was even more outspoken, and he clearly pointed out that if the Yanhuang family was willing to give 240,000 kan during the peace period between the Mogami family and the Yanhuang family, then the Mogami family would definitely be willing to sell Hasedo Castle.
The total annual tax revenue of Hasedo Castle, which had no more than 40,000 or 50,000 people in the city, would never exceed 30,000 guan a year, and after deducting the necessary expenses, the actual net income of Hasedo Castle was about 6,000 kan, and 240,000 kan was the total income of the city for 40 years!
No matter how Shimura Mitsuyasu tried to persuade him, Tiantong Trust and others, who knew that they had little capital to speak of, were unwilling to let go of their settling-in expenses, and as a last resort, Shimura Mitsuyasu and Rokuta Yusei could only leave the barracks with their two conditions.
The people of the Yanhuang family who were in contact with Shimura Mitsuyasu and Rokuta Yusei naturally could not be the generals of the Yanhuang Army outside the city, and Hattori Hanzo, who had contact with Rokuta Yusei due to coincidence, played a role in persuading the Rokuta family to surrender this time.
Although the Hachidun family, which was loyal to the Mogami family, no longer existed, the strength of the Rokuta family should not be underestimated, at least the strength of the Shimura Koyasu family was not as good as the Rokuta family;
Seeing that the power of the Mogami family in the city was about to be eliminated, and it was impossible for the Uesugi army that forcibly occupied Hasedo Castle to be able to defeat the Yanhuang army outside the city, Rokuta Yusei naturally would not refuse the persuasion of the Yanhuang ninja army to surrender; as for Shimura Mitsuyasu, he just happened to meet him.
Even without the addition of Shimura Mitsuyasu, there will be two days at most, and Yusung Rokuta, who has already secretly taken refuge in the Yanhuang family, will find a way to open the city gates and create an opportunity for the Yanhuang army outside the city to capture Hasedo Castle and annihilate the Uesugi Mogami coalition army.
The addition of Shimura Mitsuyasu has, to a certain extent, created an opportunity for Rokuta Yusei to make greater contributions, and Rokuta Yusei, who had already decided to devote himself to the Yanhuang family, was willing to come to the Mogami military camp with Shimura Mitsuyasu and contribute his family's guards.
Rokuta Yusei, who did not know whether his trip was a success or a failure, immediately informed the person in charge of the city of the Yanhuang Ninja Army's request after returning home of the request of the generals of the Yanhuang Ninja Army; such a major matter, even the upper ninja of the Yanhuang Ninja Army, was not qualified to make a decision.
Soon, the information about this matter was sent to Anton Jiazhong by this Shangnin through the special channel of the Yanhuang Ninja Army; the fighter plane was fleeting, and under the premise that there was no time to report to the rear family governor, the Yanhuang Ninja Army could only send the information to the nearest commander.
After Anton Ietada learned of the situation in the castle, it was difficult to make a choice for a while, and the surrender of Yunari Rokuta and his family gave him full confidence that he would capture Hasedo Castle and completely annihilate the Uesugi army, so that the role of the most senior army was not so important.
Excluding the thousands of wounded soldiers, the Mogami army is only 20,000 feet in full battle, and with the difference between the combat power of the Mogami Army and the Yanhuang Army, Anton Jiazhong felt that any wing of the Third Lucy Army under the command of Valk could defeat the leaderless Mogami Army.
The Uesugi Army, which was personally commanded by Uesugi Jinghu, was indeed more than a step stronger than the Mogami Army in terms of combat effectiveness, but it was still far from the Yan and Huang Army; Anton Iezhong, who was confident, was confident that he would use his Second Banner Army to completely annihilate the Uesugi Army, which had 30,000 troops.
After clarifying his thoughts, Anto Ietada replied with two letters, the first of which was how Rokuta Yunari in the castle should cooperate with the Yan and Huang forces outside the castle to launch an attack on Hasedo Castle without considering the Mogami army.
The second letter was the appeasement condition issued by Anton Jiazhong, that is, the settling-in allowance for each Ashigaru group was consistent, the settling-in allowance for the head of the Ashigaru group was three times, and the settling-in allowance for the general Ashigaru was five times; if the most senior army was unwilling to accept it, then the Yan and Huang troops would not mind annihilating the most senior army.
In less than two hours, Rokuta Yusei and Shimura Mitsuyasu received two letters from Anton Ietada, which had to make them sigh at the great power of the Yanhuang family; after reading carefully, the two decided to ask the ninjas of the Yanhuang ninja army to help send the conditions to the barracks.
Because Shimura Mitsuyasu and Rokuta Yusei did not dare to appear in the city during the day, let alone go to the Mogami army that was full of eyes and ears of the Uesugi army, and they also knew the ability of the Yanhuang ninja army, and they were the most relieved to leave this matter to the ninjas of the Yanhuang ninja army.
The settling-in allowance for each Ashigaru is consistent, the settling-in allowance for each Ashigaru group leader is three times, and the settling-in allowance for each Ashigaru general is five times, such a condition is very reasonable for Tiantong Trust; if the commander of the Yan and Huang Army directly agrees to the conditions they propose, Tiantong Trust will feel cheating.
Among the more than 50 ashigaru generals and nearly 500 ashigaru group leaders in the most advanced army, the vast majority of them felt that the conditions offered by the Yan and Huang troops were acceptable to them; people like Aooka and Muto who insisted on settling in for ten times were only a minority after all.
The final result of the gathering of all the Ashigaru generals and the leaders of the Ashigaru group was to accept the terms offered by the Yan and Huang Army, and in this way, the key to the battle of Hasedo Castle became the joint action of the Mogami Army, the Rokuta family, and the Yan Huang Ninja Army to rescue the families of the Mogami Army.