Creation depends on wisdom, and life depends on common sense; common sense but no wisdom is called mediocrity, and wisdom without common sense is called clumsy. Wisdom is the most powerful of all forces, the only self-conscious living force in the world.

- Gorky (proletarian writer of the former Soviet Union, founder of socialist realist literature)

The 200,000 troops marched for three months and sent the grain and grass from Gaoshui Temple Castle and Bian Shi Imperial Palace to the barracks of the Second Banner Regiment as quickly as possible.

Letting the Shogunate Spear Ashigaru, whose combat effectiveness far surpassed that of the Yanhuang family's standing army, act as a grain and grass soldier to escort grain and grass, this kind of overkill arrangement was also a helpless move by Bu Weixin and Andong Ietada, because the Second Banner Regiment was more suitable than the other armies.

The First Banner Legion was the most combat-ready army in the southbound army, and it was certainly impossible to use them to escort grain and grass, and the soldiers of the Second Essini Legion and the Third Lucy Legion were all simple-minded and well-limbed barbarian warriors, and it was certainly unrealistic to expect them.

Sanada Masayuki's Sanada Standing Army and Kunohe Yasumin's Kunohe Standing Army are suitable, but the number of soldiers in their two armies is not large, and if one of these two armies is used to escort grain and grass, then the selected army will basically become a grain and grass army.

On the premise that the troops in his hands were sufficient, Bu Weixin and Anton Jiazhong discussed for a long time, and finally decided to focus on the overall situation of the decisive battle in the south, and did not make any decisions that were not conducive to the unity of the army;

On the afternoon of the day when all the grain and grass were transported into the barracks of the Second Banner Army, 60,000 officers and men of the Yanhuang Standing Army led by Sanada Nobuyoshi also arrived at Takasuisji Castle; after a simple meeting of high-level generals, the specific time for the army to move south was set for the early morning of the next day.

Tomorrow morning, the army will need to march south, and the various armies will naturally have a lot to do; in particular, Yubu Weixin and Andong Jiazhong, who are the commanders of the army, must not only make preparations for the expedition of their own legions, but also consider the next battle arrangements of the army.

While the barracks were busy, the barracks of the Sanada Standing Army were unusually quiet, and thanks to Sanada Masayuki's consistent and strict style of commanding troops, the Sanada Standing Army, which was always in a state of readiness for battle, completed its preparations for the expedition with a slight adjustment.

Because the family governor specifically noted the arrangements for Sanada Nobuyuki in the military order, the newly built Sanada Standing Army that stayed in Takamizuji Castle was handed over by Sanada Masayuki to his family's humerus henchman Nezu Shihachi, Miyoshi Kiyoshi, Umino Rokuro, and Miyoshi Izo.

Because the new establishment adopted by the Yanhuang Family Standing Army is a division, brigade and regimental system, the four-member Sanada family generals who were left by Sanada Masayuki in Takamizuji Castle to command the new Sanada Standing Army are basically the four brigade commanders of the Sanada Standing Army appointed by Sanada Masayuki himself.

In addition to the four brigade commanders, the Sanada Standing Army, which has a full strength of 40,000 soldiers, should also have two division commanders of higher status; for the two vacant division commanders, Sanada Masayuki, who has not yet had suitable candidates for the time being, has decided to leave the opportunity to the generals who have made meritorious contributions in the southward battle.

Each of the Ten Warriors of Sanada was both a humerus retainer of the Sanada family and a confidant of Sanada Masayuki himself, and the reason why Sanada Masayuki, who had no idea of taking one over the other, appointed four generals such as Nezu Shibachi as brigade commanders was purely because their military exploits were truly outstanding.

Of course, if it weren't for such a strict father who took military discipline as his family law, there would not have been a son like Sanada Nobuyuki and Sanada Nobuyoshige who had already performed well at a young age, and this may be the reason why the Sanada family was able to survive in troubled times.

After settling the soldiers of the Yanhuang Standing Army under the order of Yubu Noshinobu, Sanada Nobuyoshi and his brother Sanada Nobuyuki went to the castle lord Jujo in Takasuiji Castle, and their father Sanada Masayuki was still in the castle at this time.

"Xin Fan, are you saying that the brigade commanders of the six brigades and regiments under the Yanhuang Standing Army are all served by the generals of my Sanada family?" Sanada Masayuki, who had just asked two questions about the situation of the Yanhuang Standing Army, said in a solemn tone: "Is this appointed by yourself?" or was it appointed by the lord?"

"Father, when the Yanhuang Standing Army was expanded, the lord meant that I should appoint generals at all levels, but I only appointed two brigade commanders, Izuura Morikiyo and Kazawa Heiji, and one-third of the officers at all levels, and I reported the rest to the lord for appointment. ”

"If the four people appointed by the lord himself, such as Suzuki Shigenori, Miyashita Wisteria, Kawahara Tsunaya, and Ikeda Shigeyasu, are the brigade commanders, then it will be fine. Sanada Masayuki, who was very satisfied with his second son's explanation, was silently grateful to the lord for his trust in his family.

"Father, although the lord has appointed the general of our Sanada clan as the commander of all the brigades of the Yanhuang Standing Army, I can feel that the lord seems to have the idea of reducing the influence of our Sanada family in the Yanhuang Standing Army. Sanada Nobuyoshi said with a serious face.

"Is there something abnormal that the lord wants to reduce our family's influence in the Yanhuang Standing Army?" Sanada Masayuki, who was shocked, asked Sanada Shinfan rhetorically: "Or you tell me, in your opinion, whose army does the Yanhuang Standing Army belong to?"

"Father, of course I know that the Yanhuang Standing Army is an army that belongs to the Lord and the Yanhuang family. Knowing that his father was already angry, Sanada Nobuyoshi hurriedly remedied: "I just think that there are more people from our family in the Yanhuang Standing Army, and the combat effectiveness will be stronger." ”

"Bastard thing!" Sanada Masayuki, who was completely enraged by Sanada Nobuyo's explanation, habitually stood up and wanted to slap his son, only to find that his son was already taller than himself.

Sanada Masayuki, who couldn't draw his son, slowly put down his raised right hand, and said with a long sigh: "Shinshi, since you were a child, you have been smarter than your brother, and I also think that you are more suitable than your brother to inherit our Sanada family, but today, you make me very disappointed in you. ”

"Father, everything is my fault, please punish me!" Looking at the disappointment on his father's face, Sanada Nobuyoshi was full of self-blame.

"It's not that I'm going to punish you, but you have to always remember your identity!" Sanada Masayuki said with an extremely solemn expression: "You must always remember that you are the retainer of the Yanhuang family first, and then the heir of our Sanada family, you have to think about the Yanhuang family in advance." ”

"Thanks to my father's teachings, my son will not disappoint my father's expectations!" Sanada Nobuyoshi instantly understood what he was wrong, and then thanked his father with joy and sincerity.

"Xinfan, Xinxing, you two brothers must understand that people of my age have not many years to live, and you are the future of our Sanada family; ”