At six o'clock on May 12, Mino Kunimamata was in the territory.

As the commander of the first team to enter the Sumamata, Yu Qiuhei was standing on the shore at the moment, watching the fire dragon composed of countless torches on the Kiso River slowly float down the raft.

"Your Highness! Your Highness! The dragon who followed Yu Qiuping stood on tiptoe and looked at the magnificent fire dragon stupidly: "This fire dragon is so spectacular!" ”

Although Honda Tadakatsu on the side did not make a sound, he also looked at the Kiso River in a daze.

"It's spectacular," Yu Qiuping laughed, "but at the same time you think it's spectacular, all the left-behind personnel of the wealthy clan in Ximino have also seen it." ”

"Really!" Ryuko turned his head in surprise and looked at Yu Qiuping: "Then what should I do!" Your Highness! Aren't we dangerous! ”

"Silly girl, no." Yu Qiuping smiled and helped Long Zi straighten his hair that had been blown by the wind before, not noticing that the latter quietly blushed, "We are nearly 40 miles away from the main battlefield here." After they learned the news early this morning, it was basically dark when they had to rush over, and they could only launch an attack tomorrow, and there was no time at all. ”

Yu Qiuping's plan is completely different from Kinoshita Hideyoshi in his previous life. Kinoshita Hideyoshi's plan is more akin to a raid to build a castle. They drifted down the Kiso River in the dark, and if they didn't carelessly knock down the reef or the shore, it would kill someone. Since he was weak and was no match for Mino's army, he had to rush to work overnight in the middle of the night and finally complete the fortification before the enemy arrived.

But Yu Qiuping doesn't need to worry so much at all. In this life, Oda Nobunaga carried out a massive feint attack for his plan to build a castle, and the Oda family's army pinned down the main force of Nishimino in the area of Konoshima in Michino. Yu Qiuping now has 650 soldiers in his hands, and he is fully capable of destroying the remaining field forces of Nishiminon. They had more than enough to protect themselves, but they were not able to attack Yuqiuping at all.

Therefore, the Sumamata Castle he wanted to build would also be much larger than the simple camp built by Kinoshita Hideyoshi in the legend of his previous life. He was going to build a rough outline directly, and the subsequent expansion of Minamata Castle would be completed on this basis.

"Is it really possible to complete such a large amount of work in one day?" One of the guards beside Yu Qiuping still whispered with some concern.

"Don't worry, when it comes to linear programming, I'm very professional." Yu Qiuping smiled confidently, "Besides, we hired a professional contractor to direct the entire operation this time." ”

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Toshimaru is a farmer from Yeturi County, and this time he went out as an auxiliary soldier of the Yuqiu family in order to serve the conscription. At this moment, the sky was gradually brightening, and the auxiliaries and a large number of unarmored soldiers were busy carrying the fully armed and building tools from the raft to the designated fortification site, and dismantling the raft into logs and transporting it together.

He had also served as a conscript, and had built some rock barricades or fortifications for previous lords. However, the plan for this fortification operation is very novel. They weren't gathered by the lords as usual, rushed to the site of the fortification, and then helped with the work, and some of them could even sneak around.

On the contrary, their hundreds of auxiliaries had been grouped a few days earlier, and they were divided into different squads and platoons like the soldiers of Chang Panbei. Each squad and platoon appointed a temporary squad leader and platoon commander - that is, the head of the ashigaru and the general of the ashigaru. Each of their classes met before the mission began, and each class was given a plan and instructions to complete different things at different times - they didn't know that this was the optimal combination that Yu Qiuping had calculated after linear programming.

At this moment, Doumaru, who was the temporary squad leader, was leading his subordinates to stand next to a pile of materials that they were carrying, looking at each other. Although the author who formulated the diagram, Lan Xiang Huadu, that is, the contractor foreman in Yuqiuping's mouth, took into account that most of the auxiliaries were illiterate and used pictures instead of task instructions, he still couldn't understand what they were supposed to do now.

Lan Xianghuadu, who was patrolling on horseback, immediately noticed them who were stunned. He had only learned to ride a horse for a long time, and now he was still riding crookedly, and he barely leaned towards them.

"What are you doing there?" Lan Xianghua asked loudly.

"It's Lord Lan Xiang! Hello adults! When a few of the auxiliaries found out that it was a samurai, they immediately stood up and saluted—they saw that Tsunebanbei's ashigaru saluted their commander in this way, instead of kneeling and kowtowing, so they did the same.

"Hello." Lan Xiang Huadu also gave them a return gift as usual, and then bent down and asked in a low voice, "Aren't you supposed to have a task, why are you stunned here?" ”

"It's... Adults forgive sins. Doumaru blushed and said embarrassedly, "The villain can't understand this plan." ”

"Didn't you say it once before, alas!" Lan Xianghua complained dissatisfiedly, "If I have to explain it one by one, where will I be able to catch up with the progress?" ”

"Forget it, I'll tell you about it!" Lan Xianghua sighed, turned over and dismounted, took the map in Doumaru's hand, and explained one by one: "You are the fifteenth team, and the task here is written: first transport the equipment and weapons you are carrying to the center of the construction site of Sumamata Castle, and then take the timber transported by the sixth team from there to the northwest corner of Sumamata Castle, and then go to this location - build a watchtower. Finish the construction before noon, rush back to the northeast corner of Sumata Castle for further processing, and go to the center of Sumata Castle for lunch when everything is done, and then stand by, understand? ”

"Yes! My lord! Doumaru and his companions answered in unison, and Lan Xiang Hua Di breathed a sigh of relief, turned on his horse, and searched all the way along the riverbank to see if there were any auxiliary soldiers who did not know what was wrong. The soldiers performed much better than the auxiliary soldiers, because many of them had taken Yu Qiuping's Chinese pinyin class, so they could read simple words and make the transmission of orders easier.

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After receiving the order, they immediately carried several bags of building materials and dismantled wood, and hurried towards their destination. The cavalry units that had arrived early were standing guard at the various intersections, guiding the auxiliary troops moving back and forth. By the time they arrived, the outline of the entire Sumamata Castle had been roughly drawn, and it didn't take much effort for them to find the center of the castle and put down the mustaches they were carrying. And the sixth group did not keep them waiting, and arrived at the center with a large amount of timber.

"Are you the fifteenth group?" The squad leader of the sixth group asked.

"Exactly, are you brothers in Group Six?" Doumaru hurriedly replied.

"That's right, then this wood will be handed over to you, and we still have the task of going to the southeast to carry wood!" The squad leader immediately instructed his subordinates to hand the wood to Doumaru, who did not dare to rest and ran to the northwest corner again.

Along the way, there are well-trained and busy auxiliaries who come and go, everyone has his job, and the whole construction site is like a busy beehive, neat and orderly, completing one task after another step by step. Doumaru felt the huge contrast between the Yuqiu family and other small wealthy families back then, and suddenly had the vague concept of "collective" for the first time. For the first time, he no longer felt lost because of his weakness, but was extremely confident because of the cooperation of so many brothers.

The huge project of building the city in Momata, under the organization of the Yuqiu family and the efforts of nearly 1,000 people, took only half a day and was initially completed. At four o'clock in the afternoon, all five watchtowers outside the castle had been erected, and Yu Qiuping even had the spare strength to further strengthen the civil walls of the castle.

At the same time, he gathered the cavalry in his hands and sent scouts around to prevent the enemy from approaching. However, Sanada Masayuki Military Intelligence Division Hosaku and Tanma both reported that no large army came, and there was no sign of the Nishimino Hao clan even returning to help. The remaining troops of the main wealthy families of Nishimino sent a small number of reconnaissance cavalry to see the situation of Sumamata Castle, and judged that they could not do anything with this force, so they had to withdraw in disgrace.

In the afternoon, heavy rain began to fall as usual in Mino in May, which caused a lot of trouble to the project, but it also objectively hindered the support of the Saito family and made the situation of Yuakihei safer.

On the evening of May 12, the construction of Sumimata Castle was completely completed. The castle walls of Sumamata Castle are made up of civil structures, and a large number of logs are erected around the circle, forming a wall about two meters thick and four meters high. Between the wood and on the outside, a large amount of earth was smeared and filled as reinforcement, and the female wall was built with stone as raw material, and several feet of earth were dug into the ground. Outside the castle, several ditches were built and rows of wooden fences were erected. On the high ground outside Sumamata Castle, Yuakihei set up watchtowers and arrow towers as fortifications. The complete defense system of Sumamata Castle was also completed.

Yu Qiuping then ordered the army to camp in the castle of Sumamata, so that the army who had been tired for a whole day could rest well, and by the way, avoid the heavier and heavier rain. Until now, the Saito family has not made any countermeasures, and it is estimated that they have given up hope of retaking Sumamata. Having accomplished this, Akihei sent an envoy to Oda Nobunaga in the rain at nightfall, informing him that the construction of the castle had been completed.

However, the messenger did not return at noon the next day. And this heavy rain is also intensifying.

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"It's strange, why haven't you come back yet?" Yuakihei, who was hiding in the tent to avoid the rain, was secretly surprised, "It may have been too late last night, Oda Nobunaga had already slept, and I only met him this morning." But it's noon, and it's time to come back. Could it be that he lost his vision on the road due to heavy rain and was ambushed by the Saito ninja? ”

So, he sent Kohata Jiemori with a cavalry squad to go on the road again to report to Oda Nobunaga. With such a strong force, the Saito ninja who could infiltrate the territory of Owari had almost no chance.