Chapter Ninety-Nine: Military Training and Martial Arts
Autumn has been known as the season of slaughter since ancient times, not only because everything withered, but also because it was the time when soldiers were used since ancient times. Because after the autumn grain was harvested, the people had a rare time to spare, and the lords also got enough supplies to start a war. After the alliance of Uesugi Kenmasa in Nikkoyama, he issued an order to reprimand the Hojo family, accusing them of disrespecting the orders of the Kanto governor and disrespecting the superiors, so he raised an army to fight. For a while, the war clouds in the Kanto region were thick, and even the Tsukahara family, who had already achieved the separation of soldiers and peasants, seemed to have a hint of tension about the war.
However, just after Uesugi Kenmasa issued a crusade against the Hojo family, the Takeda family and the Imagawa family did not begin to oppose it, and Tsukahara Moryū ordered a general mobilization in the land of the Three Kingdoms! In an instant, the daimyo who planned to beat the water dogs in Shimono and Hitachi were startled, and they all died down, not daring to respond to Uesugi Kenmasa. And the hearts of the Hojo family that fluctuated because of the previous drastic changes and Uesugi Kenzheng's crusade order were settled down by Tsukahara Moryū's mobilization order: as long as Tsukahara Molong didn't nod, Uesugi Kenmasa would never dare to send the main force to attack the Hojo family, otherwise the Uesugi family would be unable to protect itself. At the same time as the situation in the Kanto region was tense, Takeda Harunobu and Imagawa Yoshimoto worked together, and while asking the emperor and the shogun for an edict to adjust, they began to transfer troops within the domain, and there was a great posture for the safety of the Hojo family and the Uesugi family.
Uesugi Kenmasa saw that his order to crusade against the Hojo family had encountered such great resistance, but he was not angry or restrained. Under the attention of everyone, the Nagano industry was ordered to dispatch 15,000 troops from Ueno Province and Northern Musashi Province to attack Hojo. However, as soon as Takeda Harunobu and others saw the scale of Uesugi Kenmasa's troops, they had a rough idea in their hearts: this was just a temptation by the Uesugi family, so they began to send envoys to Minowa Castle to mediate the dispute between the two sides, and gradually calmed down the internal troop mobilization. The only thing that made everyone nervous was that Tsukahara Moryū had no intention of backing down for the sake of Uesugi Constitutionalism, and the Three Kingdoms General Mobilization Order still showed no signs of stopping.
Just after a large number of war preparations and tens of thousands of standing troops gathered in Xiaojincheng, Tsukahara Molong issued an order for military training and military exercises. In the past, the 29 reserve units were all running in and training within themselves, but after the grassroots officers were basically complete, Tsukahara Moryū was determined to start a large-scale cooperation exercise between the reserve and the reserve. At first, it was just a contest between two reserve units and two reserve units, and then gradually increased, and by the time the 15,000 army led by Nagano Yoshimasa and the 17,000 army under the command of Hojo Tsusunari were engaged in a bloody battle in Musashino, the scale of military training and military exercises had gradually reached the confrontation between ten reserve units and ten reserve units.
Such a large-scale formation of a standing army and the act of brazenly carrying out military training outside his own city was unprecedented in Japanese history, but Tsukahara Muryu was very enthusiastic about it. In his eyes, every soldier of the standing army is a valuable resource, although it is said that war is the best experience, but he does not want to see his standing army cause senseless sacrifices because of training. Through this kind of military training and military exercises, the warriors who have come out of the martial arts hall have been able to combine theory and practice with evidence without paying the price of blood, thus improving the level of military command in the shortest possible time. However, Inukai Yoshio, who was responsible for coordinating the logistics, almost turned white: Anything else is good, but the iron cannon is too expensive to use, and gunpowder is also a very expensive thing these days. And although it is said that military training and martial arts exercises, but every time you practice, it is rare to not kill a few people and cripple more than a dozen, after all, you have a fever in the brain, who cares if you are really in war? Even if you get cut with a bamboo bag knife, it hurts.
Although large-scale military training and military exercises are very rare in Japan, after watching them for a long time, the novelty has passed, and people have begun to turn their attention to the Musashino joint battle.
Due to the dissatisfaction of all parties, Uesugi Kenmasa did not dispatch too many troops, but they were all elite troops when mobilized, not to mention the terrible proportion of samurai in Ueno Province, which was already high, so for the Musashino battle, all parties were not very optimistic about the Hojo family, who was disabled by Tsukahara Moryū. However, under the threat of annihilation, the Hojo family also burst out with quite amazing strength, and even dispatched an army of 17,000 people to meet the battle before the vitality was restored. Hojo Tsusunari led the newly formed five-color bei in Musashino and the Uesugi army in a fierce battle, but as soon as the battle began, the Ueno samurai regiment let those young warriors of Hojo who only had a lot of blood but were seriously inexperienced hit their heads and bloody, and Shimizu Yasuei led the newly formed Shirabi almost on the first day by the Minowa people under the command of Nagano Yoshimasa, but fortunately Tominaga Naokatsu led Qingbei to the rescue, and only then did he snatch back Shimizu Yasuei from the mouth of the "Kamishu Yellow Spot". And the Red Reserve Team under the command of the Hojo clan is also newly formed, although there are a small number of veterans of the former Red Reserve Team, but they can only fight evenly with Oishi Tsunamoto's Mo Long Bei, far from reaching the power of the Red Reserve Team at the beginning. Hojo Tsusunari still blocked the way of Nagano Ye's southward under such difficult conditions, and the two sides fought several fierce battles, and after 43 days of confrontation, Hojo Clan led Odawara to rush to support, and personally waved his sword to the battlefield, so the morale of the Hojo army was greatly boosted. Nagano saw that it was difficult to break through the defense line of the Hojo Army, and that the goal of draining the strength of the Hojo family had been achieved, so he retreated and returned. However, Uesugi Kenmasa was very dissatisfied with Nagano Yoshimasa's record, and he fought hard several times, spent countless money and food, but failed to expand a single land! However, Nagano is a general with heavy troops, and Uesugi Kenmasa also knows how good his opponent Hojo Tsunaru is, so he is not harsh, but in his heart, he is more and more dissatisfied and jealous of Nagano Yemasa. Kohata Kenshige, who did not have the right to command the army, was also very disgruntled, and saw that Nagano was returning in vain, but his heart was very comfortable, and he was young and boasted of his bravery in public many times, and said that this time Musashino battle, if he led the troops, what should he do. After Uesugi Kenmasa learned about this, instead of reprimanding and mediating the conflict between the two sides as usual, he rewarded Kohata Kenshige with his saber and continued to provoke the relationship between Kohata Kenshige and Nagano Yoshimasa.
Nagano Ye, who was suppressed, sighed secretly, but he was helpless, he knew that because Tsukahara Moryū was too close to him, so Uesugi Kenmasa had a separation from himself...... Fortunately, he knows how to make a living on weekdays, and Uesugi Kenmasa has nothing to grasp. When he was suppressed, the young and frivolous Kohata Kenshige was only afraid of planting a bigger heel. If both himself and Kohata Kenshige are excluded, who will deal with Hojo Tsunari?