Ueda Nobukata can't leave Maeyama Castle for the time being, he needs to renovate Maeyama Castle, but fortunately, Maeyama Castle is a mountain castle, easy to defend and difficult to attack, the main thing is to keep up with the materials.

Then the weapons and equipment that go out of the materials are food, as well as water resources, and when the enemy army comes, he needs to reserve at least a month's worth of water.

The water reserves of this mountain city have no other channels except for the water sources outside the city and the wells in the city.

Ueda Nobukata planned to dig a deep trench outside the castle and use a watermill to divert water inside, which could serve as a source of defense and water at the same time.

Of course, after the waterwheel is destroyed, the water in this moat will slowly seep into the ground and will not last long.

As for the workers who built the defense of the former mountain castle, Ueda Nobukata planned to let the recruits join in and let them build it on the basis of militarized management.

By the time the fortifications of Qianshan City were completed, they had already received a certain amount of modern military training, so that the next drills would be much faster.

Of course, this is also because there is no money to force it, if you really invite someone to repair the city, a hundred workers to repair the city and dig trenches, you will have to pay about 60 yuan a day.

And when those workers are dismissed, once they are arrested by the Takeda family, the weakness of the defense of Maeyama Castle will be known to others.

This time to recruit troops, only more than 1,200 people were recruited, of which 1,000 were assigned to the troops directly under Ueda Nobukata, and another 200 people were supplied to Kamizu Kenra to form a reserve.

Maeyama Castle became a large construction site, and the outer maru castle wall was rebuilt, and Ueda Nobukata had the castle wall replaced with stone to build the castle, and the stones accumulated to three feet.

Even if you don't see the castle tower on some castle ruins, Ishigaki can still be seen everywhere, and it is no exaggeration to say that Ishigaki is also a symbol of a castle.

In order to build a stone wall, in addition to the castle lord needs to order enough technology trees, a large amount of people and money are also needed, so most of the early Warring States castles were built earth ramparts, and after the construction of Azuchi Castle, the construction of stone walls became common.

The appearance of Ishigaki made it possible to build more buildings at the top of the baseline, which made it easier for defenders to attack from above.

The construction of Ishigaki was not just a matter of piling it up. In fact, if you look at the way the stone walls are piled up, you can roughly see the age of the castle's construction.

There are many types of stone in Japan, and it is hard and difficult to repair, and it was difficult to collect stones of the same shape to build a stone wall during the Warring States period, so at the end of the Warring States period, when the stone wall first appeared, the stone wall was built using the "wild noodle kiln" method.

Then the walls were built out of wood behind the stone wall, and the outside of the wood was smeared with mud to protect against rockets.

The wall also had two horse faces on the left and right sides of the gate, and the horse faces were part of the protruding piers of the city wall.

The horse face had two floors, the upper one in the open air and the lower one in the open air, and of course several narrow compartments were built for archery or iron cannons. The role of the horse face is to make up for the problem of dead ends in firepower.

Then there is the castle gate, which is directly connected to the main gate of Toraguchi, called "Otemon" or "Otemon", and the main road leading from Otemon to Honmaru is called "Ote-do". On the other hand, the back door of the castle is called the "Scratch Gate".

The so-called tiger mouth is the entrance and exit of the city, also called Kido, and the focus of the battle between attack and defense. In the Tiger's Mouth, there is sometimes a "horse out" area where the enemy cannot see your cavalry.

The structure of the castle gate is divided into eight types: the turret gate, the Goryeo gate, the buried gate, and the building gate. One of the most noteworthy is the "jié-shaped gate".

The rug-shaped door is effective in preventing enemy troops from going straight all the way, and must be turned at a right angle to enter. There are gates on the outside and on the inside.

The outer gate is a relatively small Goryeo Gate, so that most of the enemy troops cannot pour into the castle at once, and the inner gate is a turret, so when the enemy enters the Kazugata area, you can lock the gate from the inside and deal a blow to the enemy from three directions.

The trench in front of the castle wall was already more than three meters wide and 1.5 meters deep, but Ueda Nobukata planned to expand it to 4.5 meters wide and 2 meters deep.

This is a big project, and when recruits are recruited, veterans also have to join in the process.

In order to improve work efficiency, Nobukata Ueda personally arranged a series of work arrangements, such as who is in charge of a certain area with how many people, and so on.

For the renovation plan of Maeyama Castle, Ueda Nobukata temporarily invested all the money on his body. After seven days of arrangement, the construction of Qianshan Castle entered the right stage.

Ueda Nobukata found Sanada Yutaka and said, "Kotaka, you know the family's finances now, I don't want to let the people in the family scatter, and I don't want to disappoint the Saku, so I didn't tell them the details."

If we continue on this trend, we will hold out until June at most, and we will not need the Takeda family to attack, and our own family will be defeated. ”

Sanada Yutaka bowed his head and said, "Then the lord called the minister to come, did he want the minister to go to Ueno to ask for support?" ”

Ueda Nobukata shook his head and said, "That's not true, I'm not at the point where I'm helpless."

The construction of the aqueduct was also a big project, and there was an urgent need for a sum of money here, as well as the cost of the war later, which was a large amount.

Even if it is the lord, I will definitely not be able to give myself too much at this time, of course, I can't suffer too much, there are more than 20,000 stone territories in Kitasaku, and half of the lord is there, so you can ask for some resources.

I'm going to go to Tennoji Tatsui, and through him, find a loan from Tennoji House. I have a collaboration with Tennojiya, so Tennojiya will be happy to help me through this difficult time.

I'm telling you, I hope you can hold on to Qianshan City during the time I'm away and don't let him mess up. ”

Sanada Yutaka raised his head and said, "It turns out that the lord has already thought of a way out, but if you borrow money, what should you do when the time comes?" ”

Ueda Nobukata smiled, "I started a cooperation with Tennoji House about paper, and the Tsuda family of Tennoji saw a huge benefit in it, so I needed to learn from him." ”

Ueda Nobukata handed over the affairs of the house to Sanada Yukitaka, and Satomi Yuzu was in charge of making cooked rice for the soldiers to eat.

And he took Youzu Masanao, Iwasita Ryu and others to Katsumi Castle to meet Tennoji Tatsuki.

At this time, Tennoji Tatsuki is generally seen by everyone, but Tennoji Tatsuki is very respectful when he sees Ueda Nobukata, because the money is coming.

Ueda Nobukata and Tennoji Tatsui are also old acquaintances, and they didn't beat around the bush, and said directly: "Shopkeeper, you also know the cooperation between Tennoji and me, and now I am relatively short of money and need to borrow money from Tennoji House!" ”