Although the Nihonmatsu Domain is a little smaller, it will not be left without a few hundred feudal soldiers, and the reason why the old people and children all have to go to the battlefield is because of the system. During the Edo period, a strict class system was enacted, and the people were divided into four categories: Shinong, Sho, and Sho, whose status was hereditary and could not be changed. The samurai belonged to the ruling class and occupied all official positions and military forces in the shogunate and feudal states, and the other three positions were not allowed to participate, which was a guarantee of oligopoly and occupation.

It's not that there are no more samurai in the Nihonmatsu Domain, but there are no samurai anymore, and these old people and children are also samurai, so they are qualified to fight. Even if he was loyal to the shogunate and feudal lords, he was not a samurai, and he did not have the right to participate in the war. A large feudal clan like the Aizu Domain, which incorporated all the men of the samurai class who could be recruited into the army, was only more than 3,000 people, and a small feudal clan like the Nihonmatsu Domain was naturally even less. Although the integration of old men and young soldiers into the army was a last resort in the feudal kingdom, the samurai did not resist it, and they also saw it as their duty and a sign of their samurai loyalty.

The new government forces, which were mainly from the Satsuma Domain, Nagasu, Tosa, and Hizen, did not have such a problem, and they were very quick to invade. Because most of them accepted the idea of equality between the four peoples, they allowed the peasants to join the army for training a few years ago, such as the Choshu Domain's Odd Soldiers, which were a mixture of samurai and peasants, and their combat power was also extraordinary. From the very beginning of the war, it was already doomed, don't say that the combat effectiveness of the shogunate army is not good, even if their combat effectiveness is bursting, in the face of endless new government troops, they will have limited troops, and sooner or later it will be over. Asano Munehide didn't think about these esoteric questions, but he ran into a very philosophical problem, his younger brother Asano Muneshige and father-in-law Ono Jiro, who were not going back to Manchuria with him, and they were all incorporated into the army to fight to the death for the feudal lord.

Asano Munehide broke away from the domain and became a ronin, but he did not give up his ancestral ashigaru position, but gave up this position to his younger brother. In this way, Asano Munehide can go out to earn a living, and the underage Soshige can also stay at home to receive a salary. At that time, in order to eat, the method he came up with has now become an obstacle for Asano to take his family away. Somo is now a vassal of the Nihonmatsu Domain, and he is obligated to be loyal to the lord of the domain. As for Jiro Ono, who has been mixing rice porridge in the Nihonmatsu domain all his life, there is no reason to leave when the clan is in trouble. With the exception of the Uesugi family, who lost their ancestral position, this was the case in the families of almost every officer who returned with Asano, and some of their younger brothers or nephews were incorporated into the army.

"If you stay, you will definitely die, you must go!" Asano didn't want to watch his relatives die, so he gathered the officers together and discussed countermeasures, and of course his opinion was to go.

"They're all vassal warriors, how did they go!" The officers were all dejected, and their loved ones could not be left in principle.

"Take people away directly, no one may dare to stop them, if they don't know what to do, and they don't have to wait for any new government army to do it, we will destroy his two pine clans!" The boy in the miscellaneous department is ruthless.

"Not yet, not yet!" Asano listened to the bloody words of the miscellaneous department, and immediately waved his hand again and again.

"Let's just take someone away! It's going to be fine, the clan is in chaos now, and they won't be embarrassed by us. Uesugi supported the Miscellaneous Affairs Division's opinion, but he felt that there was no possibility of using force.

The weight of the opinion of the miscellaneous section was already heavy, and with the support of a few officers, a strategy was soon decided to forcibly lead people out. After the opinion was decided, everyone prepared to go home, and after gathering relatives, they left this place of right and wrong as soon as possible. Although the Nihonmatsu Domain is their hometown, they already have a better home and a new owner, and there is not much to be nostalgic for here.

"Brother, I'm not leaving!" Before everyone left the table, Asano Muneshige, who had been listening to the sidelines, suddenly walked to the middle of the hall, and after bowing to his brother in a special formality, he expressed his opinion.

"What did you say?" Asano has never been confronted by his own brother.

"Brother, I am also a samurai, and a samurai should be loyal to his master. The second pine domain would rather die than surrender, and the younger brother should fight to the death for the feudal country! "Muneshige Asano is very calm.

"Are you a samurai? You can't even pull out a knife! Asano didn't want to hit his younger brother, he was too young, but now was the time to leave. Soshige Asano was only twelve years old and less than 1.5 meters, and his arm span was not enough to pull out a blade that was 80 centimeters long.

"From now on, it's the age of muskets, and the blade is no longer the only weapon of the samurai!" Zong Mao was sophistry.

"Can you use a good gun? You can't even do a good job of reloading! Asano had to fight his own brother.

The mainstream equipment used by the Nihonmatsu clan army was still front-loading rifles, and half of them were smoothbore guns. But whether it is a rifled gun or a smoothbore gun, the total length of the whole gun is about 1.4 meters, and a teenager of 1.5 meters wants to load ammunition from the muzzle, which is really a very difficult thing. If you put on a bayonet again, there will be a situation where the gun is higher than the person.

"Even if you use this as a blade, you will fight to the death for the vassal country!" Zong Mao had nothing to say, so he could only resolutely express his attitude.

"You little rabbit cub...... Asano couldn't do it in a hurry.

"Zongxiu, take Haruko and the ladies and leave! Somo and I will shed our last drop of blood here for the honor of the Nihonmatsu samurai! "The old man, Jiro Ono, didn't know when, appeared at the door of the hall.

"Father-in-law...... "Asano hates this old stubbornness, what kind of fun is coming out at this time!

All the officers were also in trouble, and Asano's two relatives were in this situation, and their relatives were not much better. They are also samurai, and they understand very well what Jiro Ono and Muneshige Asano are insisting on, and their actions are not stupid, and the soul of the samurai is noble in this. They care about the lives of their loved ones, but how can samurai flee in order to survive, and fighting is the purpose of their existence.

"Sect Chief, I want to go and see you, Mr. Wang Zifu!" Helpless, Asano Sohide could only turn his head and bow to the Japanese boy Zong Haichen in the miscellaneous department.

"I'm a member of the Miscellaneous Affairs Section, and the people in the Miscellaneous Affairs Section don't have any personal feelings, and how touching the situation today is, it won't interfere with my judgment! I would like to state to you, Commander of the Asano Division, that the General will never allow any Manchurian army to go to war against a foreign country at this time for reasons that have nothing to do with the national economy, and that is to say, you must not take part in this war. As for the fact that you want to see Wang Zifu, it is your private matter, as long as the regular army of Manchuria does not participate in the senseless war, you can do other things at your own discretion. But everything that happened here today, I will truthfully report to the peak! "Zong Haichen's attitude is very bad.

"Thank you!" Asano bowed to the living father again, but the officers in the hall all cheered.