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- Mazzini (one of the founders of a unified Italy)

The news of the rebellion of the former ministers of the Southern Family did not affect Bai Feng's mood in the slightest, a rebellion that had already been suppressed was at best a small episode in the development of the Yanhuang Family, it was not important at all, and it was not worth Bai Feng's sadness.

After all the soldiers of the guard battalion had landed, Hakumine was escorted by his entourage to Kunohe Castle, and on the way, Hakumine had been chatting with Sanada Nobuyuki and Sanada Nobuyoshi, learning about the expansion of the Yanhuang family in Mutsu through them.

Based on the area ruled by the southern family, coupled with the strong alliance of the Sanada family, the newly established Yanhuang clan fought with good momentum as soon as the war began, and Sanada Masayuki's army and Izumiyama Koyasu's army defeated one enemy after another on the battlefield.

Equipped with a considerable number of Sanada Red Reserve Army and Izumiyama Ink Reserve Army, in essence, it has not yet left the category of the Yamato Imperial Army, but the progress in combat effectiveness cannot be ignored;

At the beginning, the Sanada family was able to escape the fate of the family's destruction in several blows from the Oda family, not by luck, but by real strength; now that the Yanhuang family has given Sanada Masayuki a stage to perform, of course he will do his best.

If Nanbu Shinnao's goal is to recreate the glory of the Nanbu family under the rule of the Yanhuang family, and Izumiyama Koyasu's dream is to make his family a new family, then Sanada Masayuki's ultimate goal is to take revenge on the Oda family!

As a dutiful son, Sanada Masayuki witnessed his mother being killed by the Oda family's Ashigaru in the chaos, and the name of the family that the Sanada family had fought for for generations was almost destroyed by the Oda family.

Sanada Masayuki, who received 5,000 soldiers, handed over Hachinohe Castle handed over to him by Hakumine to the retainers of the Sanada family to govern, and put all his thoughts into the training of the Sanada Red Army, and he wanted to build a strong army with his own hands to wage war against the Oda family!

The Oda clan was one of the two strongest families in the Yamato Empire alongside the Mori family, and their families had more troops than Rome had in the eastern part of the country.

Don't say that the Sanada Red Reserve Army only has 5,000 Ashigaru soldiers, even if the Sanada Red Reserve Army has 5,000 samurai and 50,000 Ashigaru soldiers, it will not be able to shake the rule of the Oda family; in fact, it is not the Sanada Red Reserve Army that gives Sanada Masayuki confidence, but the Yanhuang family of Shiramine.

The three nominal armies of the Yanhuang family were all composed of the ashigaru forces of the Yamato Empire, but what really made Sanada Masayuki see the hope of defeating the Oda family was the powerful army that came from overseas with the Hakumine family governor.

The samurai class of the Yamato Empire was basically equivalent to the aristocratic class among the barbarians, and was the most core elite class in an army, and the strength of any family generally depended on the number of samurai, not the number of ashigaru troops.

For example, Honganji, a religious force that no one in the Yamato Empire could ignore, could not be ignored by Honganji! Honganji became the largest and most powerful religious force in the Yamato Empire not because of the number of ashigaru troops it had, but because of the number of monks and soldiers under its control.

Based on mad faith and hard training day after day, the monks of Honganji only have a monk's sword as a weapon, but they are more powerful than ordinary samurai, and no force in the entire Yamato Empire dares to underestimate Honganji's strength.

Even the Oda and Mori families had to have a good relationship with Honganji Temple, which roamed around the Yamato Empire, which showed how strong the fighting power of the monks was, and in the eyes of Sanada Masayuki, the army of the Yanhuang family was actually stronger than the monks!

Ruhong's morale, strong soldiers, sophisticated equipment, and powerful battle formations are the evaluation of the Yanhuang family army by Sanada Masayuki, a veteran who has been in the army for more than 20 years.

Why was the Yanhuang family able to easily replace the southern family and become a powerful new and powerful family in the Mutsu Kingdom? In the final analysis, isn't it because the Yanhuang family has an incomparably powerful army? Strength is the law of survival in troubled times!

Determined to gain great strength, Sanada Masayuki did his best to show his loyalty to his governor, and while Izumiyama Koyasu's army was still being trained, his army began to attack the small families who were unwilling to submit.

It wasn't until the war-hungry Sanada Masayuki conquered seven or eight small families that Izumiyama Koyasu, who had received the news, had just begun to lead his army to attack, so Hakumine, who returned to Kunohe Castle again, soon learned of their father's achievements from the Sanada brothers.

The existence of the loyalty attribute table makes Sanada Masayuki's loyalty not need to be proved with these efforts, but this does not mean that Sanada Masayuki's record is useless, at least his courage to attack can let Bai Feng see his ability.

A general who is anxious to attack is not necessarily a qualified general, because whether he can win his offensive is the key; Sanada Masayuki, who has conquered more than a dozen small families one after another, has both the courage to attack and the strength to win, and this is where his value lies.

The reason why those small families are called small families is that on the one hand, their strength is not strong enough, and on the other hand, the prestige of the family is too low, and the fact that such small families can survive in troubled times proves everything in itself.

One of the major features of the Yamato Empire was the peasant army, which was formed by various families to recruit peasants from the villages under their rule in order to strengthen their armament against foreign oppression and to deal with peasant revolt.

Samurai belonging to the aristocratic class are not something that can be owned by a small family on a large scale, and an ordinary small family is only a few samurai at most, and the ashigaru troops belonging to the standing army also require high costs to form and maintain, and a small family can only be hundreds of ashigaru at most.

If calculated in this way, a small family of the Yamato Empire generally has between 100 and 500 ashigaru troops, supplemented by one or two thousand temporarily recruited peasant soldiers, and finally commanded by several samurai, which is the full strength of the small family.

The irresponsible transformation of peasants who could only farm into peasants on the battlefield was of extremely limited effect, and the peasant soldiers who were deployed at the ashigaru front often killed a dozen or so in battle, triggering the collapse of the entire army behind.

One or two thousand collapsed peasants would directly crush the ashigaru troops behind them, resulting in the defeat of an army, and Sanada Masayuki, who was proficient in the art of war, would always be the first to crush the enemy's peasants when attacking, and then take advantage of the victory to pursue and win easily.

Using this most basic tactic, Sanada Masayuki, who led the Sanada Red Reserve Army to take the initiative, conquered more than a dozen small families and captured more than 3,000 prisoners of war at the cost of less than 500 casualties, and all the captured peasants were released on the spot.