The inclusion of a merchant as a retainer was just passed on as a joke for a while and then disappeared, and no one associated it with the sudden popularity of folding chairs in Tokaido. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info But for Fanxiu, after having a lot of financial support, he can start thinking about building a main army.

The three of them have nearly a hundred people and horses, all of whom are elite in a hundred battles, so don't worry too much, just use them with confidence. And all the young people in the territory are the experimental fields for improving the military system.

The lack of youth and vigor was the most difficult problem to solve, even if the low tax rate was used to attract the chaotic people of the Three Rivers, but most of the people were reluctant to leave their homeland as long as they survived, and only about 30 families eventually moved in. The new families were housed in six separate villages to prevent them from forming groups. As a result, more than 160 people were eligible for conscription.

Originally, among the nominal 250 men, there was no shortage of old, weak, sick and young men, but this time it was further screened, and seventy young men between the ages of sixteen and twenty-five were selected from within the direct collar to serve as the flag guards, and were directly promoted to the names of the samurai family and registered in the roster, and did not give them additional land, but established economic ties by regularly distributing grain and money. Although the original land was retained, it was all managed by the government and leased to other families for cultivation. The other 100 were still peasant soldiers in the military service, and half belonged to the territories of the retainers, and generally remained under the direct command, working as farmers in peacetime and soldiers in wartime. Fortunately, the Oda family did not pay attention to the law, so they were able to allow their retainers to reform the military system.

It's not that no one objected to this, but in the face of the annual treatment of five kanwen plus five stone of grain, most of the soldiers were very satisfied, and those who hesitated also accepted the conditions under the ridicule of the group. This system is designed to allow them to slowly adapt to life disconnected from the land and then become professional soldiers. If the popularity of professional soldiers is immediately popular, it may be shocked, and the rules will be changed at a lower level, so it will not receive much attention for the time being. Those lower-class samurai who had just left the land, although they were also professional soldiers, most of them only relied on individual martial arts to fight, and there was no way to achieve the overall effect of cooperation.

Seventy professional soldiers, forty gunners plus thirty iron artillerymen. The gunmen naturally used the famous three guns of this era, holding a long-handled iron spear of more than four meters, which could not show individual strength, but dozens of people could get together to form the effect of a gun formation. However, holding this kind of spear, the physical consumption is very large, and the formation of a gun formation requires good discipline, so I am afraid that it will not work without a long period of training. The weapons of the thirty iron artillerymen were still home-grown arquebuses, which were not very powerful, the interval between shots was long, and they could only be aimed at the target within thirty paces, which was a bit of a problem for the time being, but it would not be long before they could meet the Nanban, and perhaps some more advanced weapons could be obtained from there. In order to make up for the shortcomings of iron cannons, the lords of this era often put bows and arrows and iron cannons on the same team, Fanxiu originally wanted to adopt this kind of arrangement, but he found that he only had popular soft bows on hand, most of which were made of rattan, and this kind of bow was easy to carry and had a fast rate of fire, but the power was too small! In the past, when I went to the battlefield, one or two arrows could heal in two or three days as long as they came down and wrapped them slightly, and this kind of weapon obviously should not appear in the flag team.

Fusang generally does not have the habit of raising livestock, a small number of cultivated cattle are treasures in the village, and naturally there is a lack of materials such as cowhide and horns, so the composite bow is seriously lacking, although the performance of a small number of bow tire bows is good, but the price is almost as good as the knife, and there are not many channels to buy, so it is obviously difficult to popularize. As for the crossbow, it gradually disappeared due to the high cost and technical sophistication, and now even the technique has been lost. In the end, Owari could only purchase a mediocre heavy wisteria bow, the price was 20 shots, and the range was about 150 steps.

In addition, Hirano Jinemon was assigned dozens of young children from nearby villages to teach him the art of throwing shuriken, and promised to promote the best to become full-fledged samurai. For example, in places where long weapons are not suitable......

The basic idea is to meet the enemy in front of the gun formation, put iron artillery in the back, and destroy the enemy's morale and formation with the fire of iron cannons, while the archers snipe the enemy's head at close range, and then fight head-on with the group attack of spearmen. Although 70 men are not enough to accomplish this task, as long as the number of troops is expanded to more than 700 and this system is still adopted, it should be effective in the current experience of warfare. In this era, there was neither high-quality large-scale iron artillery nor organized cavalry, and the quality of bows and arrows was generally low, and regular spearmen had a great advantage over ordinary peasant soldiers. Moreover, the pikemen will be an irreplaceable main force for at least a few decades, and all that needs to be done in the future is to further strengthen the equipment.

With the expansion of the territory, most of the retainers also had surplus money to buy war horses, and there began to be seven or eight samurai on horseback in the territory, and more than a dozen high-ranking ashigaru who had previously made war exploits were also promoted to cavalry, because the number was small and the quality of the war horses was not satisfactory, it was impossible to concentrate on fighting, and Ashigaru's yearning for cavalry was more just a symbol of status. Although he was dissatisfied with this, there was nothing he could do about the whole era, and Fanxiu asked the cavalry to avoid dismounting and becoming pawns on horses in joint battles, and to establish the habit of fighting on horseback.

Because of Oda Nobunaga's "favor", the work of training can be entrusted to the three yoriki. Hashimoto Kazuba has more than 20 years of experience in iron artillery, Daisuke Ichikawa is a master of kyudo, and Hirata is a force that can be relied on in the art of war, which is good at spearmanship.

After the affairs of the collar were settled, Fanxiu did not stop, and immediately went to the commercial town of Tsushima to meet the Nanban merchants who had been determined. Because it was within the Oda family's sphere of influence, he only had Asano Nagayoshi as an entourage and four cavalry as guards. After Xiujiang recovered from his injury, Fanxiu immediately changed into this war horse and walked on the road, which was very conspicuous.

Originally, the meeting place was chosen at the temple in Atsuta, as was customary at the time, but the European, who was a Christian, was reluctant and instead proposed to meet at the commercial town of Tsushima, to which Hohide did not object much.

It's a little farther away, but if you have all the horses, you can get there in a day.

Yuyue Thirty Lang naturally wanted to go with him as an intermediary, and the Nine Ghosts Jialong was also called out by Fanxiu.

"Nine Ghost Palace, how is your family doing?"

Fanxiu asked straight to the point.

The latter looked delighted and nodded.

"For the sake of your face, the Kitada family has returned the residences of hundreds of people in this family."

Although the tie does still have some face, but I am afraid that it is more due to the power of the Oda clan.

"Residence? Does that mean the land is still occupied? ”

"There's no way around it......"

"How's business at sea?"

"Alas! Since the attack on the family, many sea routes have been cut off, and the merchants who hired us to escort have also doubted the strength of the Nine Ghost family. None of our hundreds of brothers are single, and we have wives and children to support, and to tell you the truth, many of us want to go back to our old jobs! ”

Returning to the old business is to return to the era of pirates who plundered everywhere and openly caused chaos.

Fanxiu shook his head lightly and smiled slightly.

"Then I can give you a way out."

"This ...... Thank you so much, Your Highness! Now, even if we pull it to the land and give it to you, we will have no complaints! ”

The nine ghosts obviously had the wrong intentions, but Fanxiu was noncommittal, smiling and silent. (To be continued, if you want to know what will happen next, please log in to the www.qidian.com, more chapters, support the author, support genuine reading!) )