Mito Castle, outside a modest courtyard.

Yoshizawa locked them up and went out humming a little song.

This small courtyard was bought by him for two silver yuan, and in the troubled times, the city is the safest, and it is a very proud and enviable thing to have a courtyard of his own in the city.

Today, Yoshizawa Bright is in a good mood, because he is going on a blind date, and with the house, he is naturally going to marry a daughter-in-law.

A few days ago, when he was looking at the house, he accidentally met a girl, the woman was petite and lovely, and her figure was very wow, and Yoshizawa fell in love with it at a glance.

After many inquiries, he finally figured out the origin of the girl, it turned out that she came from a village outside the city, and went into the city to accompany the old mother to sell chickens.

In order to observe this girl closely, Yoshizawa Liang bought three chickens in a row, which attracted the attention of the "mother-in-law".

He also took a roundabout route and chatted with the aunt who sold vegetables next to him, and after Yoshizawa Bright gave a chicken as a reward, he officially entrusted the vegetable seller aunt to be a matchmaker and proposed to the girl who sold chickens.

In order to increase the success rate, he mentioned many times that he had a house in the city and a lot of savings.

The aunt is a good person, and she is also a master who has received money to do things, and after accepting the chicken with a smile, she will send a message the next day, asking Yoshizawa to buy something tomorrow morning and go to the girl's house to meet and discuss marriage.

Yoshizawa was happy in his heart, and the night before he left, he fantasized about a hundred scenes of marrying a girl, and the whole person was a lot haggard because of it.

After greeting the neighbors, Yoshizawa went to the street, ready to buy something on the street and take it to his mother-in-law's house.

The street was bustling, passing by the vegetable market, he bought a duck and carried it in his hand, walked a few steps, and then went into a familiar shop to buy some rice and silk.

After tossing for two quarters of an hour, Yoshizawa's hands were full of large bags and small bags, and the smile on his face was even worse.

Due to the needs of the war, all the horses and donkeys of the Mito Domain were conscripted into the shogunate army, and Yoshizawa had to walk out of the castle.

The environment outside the city is very dirty, there is sewage and garbage everywhere, and there is human feces and urine, and from time to time you can see people squatting on the side of the road, excreting shamelessly like animals.

Yoshizawa was accustomed to this, and he didn't think it was strange, so he just kept his head down, occasionally glancing at the side of the road to see if there were any women hiding in the grass......

On a secluded road, Yoshizawa suddenly spotted several shogunate soldiers carrying guns wandering around, as if waiting for rabbits.

His face changed, and he cursed secretly: "Fuck, it's a big bad luck!" ”

The past flooded back to his mind, and Yoshizawa thought of the days when he was caught.

He was just about to turn around and dodge, only to see a shogunate soldier staring at him with sharp eyes, as if he had seen a fat sheep.

Yoshizawa trembled all over, hurriedly laughed, and strode away.

"Eight squares! Hold it! ”

A man next to him who was squatting in the grass on the side of the road to relieve his hands was startled, and ran away in a panic with his pants on.

A crisp gunshot rang out, and the biao-shaped man running in front of Yoshizawa was knocked to the ground by a firearm, followed by an earth-shattering scream, and the big man rolled on the ground in pain and convulsed, dripping with blood.

Yoshizawa only felt that his hands and feet were numb, and his body trembled for a while, and he subconsciously stopped running, and he didn't dare to make the slightest movement there.

Two shogunate soldiers chased after him, and he came up at Yoshizawa with a heavy butt: "Fuck, be a soldier and eat food, serve the country, you run a fart!" ”

Ji Ze grinned and touched his aching shoulder, and said with a cowardly face: "Master Jun, I'm going on a blind date, can I wait until I marry my daughter-in-law and leave a seed before going to the battlefield?" ”

"Fucking marrying a daughter-in-law, it's extravagant!

At this time, the shogunate soldiers found out that Yoshizawa was carrying a large bag and a small bag, and they snatched it up one by one with a smile on their faces.

"Master Jun, this is my thing, the ....... for marrying a daughter-in-law"

"Less nonsense! Pull your daughter-in-law to the barracks and be a daughter-in-law for your brothers! ”

It was another heavy butt, and Yoshizawa felt that his bone frame was almost falling apart, so he quickly kept silent and did not resist.

He knew that this was the third time he had been arrested, and the next thing was to go to the front line as cannon fodder and continue to fight with the Ming army.

He wants to cry, the ups and downs of life are also miserable, at the fork in the road of life, why is his fate so passive, always cannon fodder?

Not surprisingly, Yoshizawa Akira was pulled into the barracks again and became a glorious ashigaru soldier of the Shogunate Army, commonly known as cannon fodder.

In addition to Yoshizawa, there were also a large number of captured strong men who became his comrades-in-arms, and most of these were caught in the countryside, because the shogunate army did not dare to catch rich people in the city......

According to the instructions above, this time, they were to arrive in Sekigahara within half a month to stop the Ming army from advancing eastward.

.......

At the end of September, Sakai Tadashi led a large army to Sekigahara.

Zhu Cihong, who got the news, immediately ordered Xu Qingshan to take Yangen Castle before the shogunate army arrived.

Hikone Castle, also known as Castle, is located on the eastern shore of Lake Biwa, about 50 kilometers northeast of Kyoto, and is the seat of the Hikone Domain, the choke point from Kansai to the Kanto region, and the forefront of the Tokugawa shogunate's defense.

He was worried that after the Ming army occupied Hikone Castle first, the shogunate army was afraid that the Ming army would be strong and would not dare to suppress the army in the area of Guanyuan, so they would go all out to defend the Kanto Plain and fortify it layer by layer.

If this is the case, the Ming army must attack city by city, so that the war will be protracted.

Moreover, in addition to the serious attrition of the Ming army, the supply line will also become longer and longer, and it will be caught in the war with Japan for a long time.

Instead of lengthening the supply line by itself, it is better to let the enemy stretch the supply line, and take advantage of this month, the Ming army can just replenish logistics and reorganize the men and horses of the daimyo of each domain.

After Empress Meisho issued an edict against the Tokugawa shogunate, many daimyo made the choice to rush to Kyoto with their own troops and officially form an alliance with the Ming army.

There were also some daimyo who, although they did not send troops, refused the demands of the Tokugawa shogunate and chose neutrality, and there was no shortage of suspicions that they would take advantage of the fishermen.

The Ming army landed in Japan with a total of 60,000 troops, and excluding those who were killed and wounded in several battles, only 55,000 people were able to go to war.

The army assembled in Kyoto was nearly 100,000 troops, and these troops came from more than 50 different daimyos, and without a unified dispatch, a war would have been a great disarray.

Therefore, Zhu Cihong first held a meeting and referred to all the fallen armies as the appeasement army, with Li Shaoyou, the protector of the eastern capital, as the commander.

During the Anti-Japanese War, a Chinese traitor army supported by the North China Front of the Japanese Army was called the North China Security Army, also known as the "North China Appeasement Army", commonly known as the "Imperial Cooperative Army".

Zhu Cihong's move was obviously to use these big names as dogs' legs.

The appeasement army consisted of five divisions, which were respectively commanded by Maori and others, and the divisions were divided into brigades and regiments according to the establishment of the Ming army, which were led by the lords of each domain, the big domain, the brigade commander, and the small domain, which spoke by strength.

Some of the big feudal lords with many fiefs brought 10,000 or 20,000 horses, while some of the small feudal lords had only eight or nine people under their command, and in the era of the jungle, they temporarily formed a bureau, which was the best distribution system.

On September 29, Xu Qingshan was ordered to send troops and led an army of 60,000 to attack Dayangen City.