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

"What do you mean by this?" was exposed by Goto Nobuyasu's words, but Bai Feng's face did not even have the slightest shock.

"Lord Jiadu, not to mention where the strange weapons and equipment used by these elite armies of your family come from, it is the shipping strength of your family to transport 50,000 soldiers south at one time, which is enough to make people understand something, isn't it?"

"Why can't my Yanhuang family have the shipping strength to transport 50,000 soldiers south at one time?" As soon as he said this, Bai Feng realized that he had made a common-sense mistake, but he did not retract his words, but looked at the other party with a smile.

"Lord Jiadu, this kind of thing can be seen through at a glance, why do you want to come to test me?" Goto Nobuyasu, who mistakenly thought that Bai Feng was deliberately testing himself, said with a wry smile: "All the sailors of my Yamato Empire combined, they may not have such terrifying capacity!"

"General Goto is obviously a retainer of the Date family, and now even the Date family is in a safe corner, but there is a famous general like the general who pays attention to the situation in the world, which is really suffocating!"

"As a member of a samurai family, I should be loyal to my lord and serve my family, which is the belief that samurai like me rely on to survive. Without the slightest hesitation, Goto Nobuyasu bluntly refused: "The lord is not thin in the next place, and he swears allegiance to the lord to the death!"

"General Goto, we'll discuss this matter later, let's talk about the current matter first. "I can't eat hot tofu in a hurry, and before the Date family is destroyed, Bai Feng knows that it is impossible for Goto Nobuyasu to surrender, so he doesn't have any hope for this first solicitation.

"Lord Clan, I know that your family will definitely have an army stationed in the border area between Dewa and Mutsu, and I can probably guess your intention to keep 80,000 elites here, what really makes me curious, how dare you go to war against so many families at the same time?"

"Is it much?" Bai Feng, who was not pretentious, said with a face full of indifference: "The Osaki family, the Kasai family, the barnyard family of Hitachi Province, the Tozawa family in Hazen, the Onodera family, the strength of these five families, all add up to two Date families. ”

"After receiving some assistance from the Uesugi family, the Mogami family may not be inferior to the Date family in terms of overall strength, but it is impossible to be stronger than the Date family, and I believe that the Date family still has this foundation, and in this way, it is the four Date families. ”

"The overall strength is correct, but these families have not lost tens of thousands of troops in your family's Oshu territory like our Date family, and they can only mobilize more troops than our Date family. Goto Nobuyasu said on the matter.

"Yes, the number of troops they can mobilize is not too small, but the soldiers are expensive but not too much. Bai Feng, who was quite disdainful of the Yamato family's practice of recruiting a large number of peasant soldiers during the war, asked rhetorically: "General Goto, what do you think of the combat strength of your Date family's army?"

"This ......" Although he blushed a little, Goto Nobuyasu still said with a shy face: "Compared with the elite division of the Yanhuang family, the army of my Date family is certainly very inferior, but compared to the armies of other families, the combat power of my Date army is no worse than that of other armies. ”

If the Date family's army is really as reliable as Goto Nobuyasu said, then the Date family will not be as miserable as it is today; knowing that Goto Nobuyasu is suspected of boasting, Bai Feng did not directly expose him, anyway, the Date army is not as good as the Yanhuang army.

"All the armies of our Yanhuang family are composed of fully armed and well-trained soldiers, and peasant soldiers do not exist in our Yanhuang army; what this means, I think General Goto himself can imagine, you and my army are no longer the difference in combat strength. ”

"Alas, who can not know the dangers of using peasant soldiers? But what can you do if you don't use them?" Goto Nobuyasu, who was bitter in his heart, said with resentment: "Not all families are like your family, they have resources that do not belong to the empire, and they can do things that others dare not do. ”

"Those who do what others dare not do need are not objective material resources, but their own inner courage and courage, and I always believe that even without me and my Yanhuang family, sooner or later someone in the Yamato Empire would be the first to abolish the peasant and military system. ”

Bai Feng, who took Japan's Warring States as a reference, said these words with the first person in the history of Japan's Warring States to abolish the peasant and military system - Oda Nobunaga, this man known as the 'Sixth Heavenly Demon King', he is the first great man of Japan's Warring States!

Goto Nobuyasu, who did not have the opportunity to have a glimpse of Japan's Warring States history, scoffed at Bai Feng's remarks, and he did not believe that anyone in the empire could really do such a thing as separating soldiers and peasants; in his eyes, Bai Feng's words became a kind of pretext.

Looking at the silent Goto Nobuyasu and Katakura Kojuro, Bai Feng re-found a topic and said, "Otherwise, let's make a bet, bet on whether our Yanhuang family's 50,000 elite divisions can capture Changlu and Shimono within three months, how about it?"

Knowing that the origin of the Yanhuang family was not something that he could lead to in a sentence or two, Goto Nobuyasu was not surprised by Bai Feng's alternative topic; even so, the gambling contract in Bai Feng's mouth still made Goto Nobuyasu and Katakura Kojuro look at each other.

The combat power of the Yanhuang family's army is indeed extraordinary, and Goto Nobuyasu and Katakura Kojuro, who have personally experienced this, have a deep understanding of this, but the Osaki family, the Kasai family, and the barnyard family of Hitachi Province are not soft persimmons, not to mention their own Date family.

Facing the incredulous gazes of the two, Bai Feng, who deliberately did this, looked into the distance and said: "The number of standing troops of the Date family in the nine counties of Shimono should be about forty thousand, and the standing army of the Osaki and other families in the thirteen counties of Hitachi is not less than sixty thousand; ”

"Lord Jiadu, I want to know what your bet is?" Goto Nobuyasu, who knew that the Yanhuang family's army was strong and couldn't help but move, still asked carefully: "Or, if you lose, what can our Date family get?"

The reason why Goto Nobuyasu didn't ask himself what he needed to pay if he lost was entirely because he didn't think that there was anything in him that was worth coveting from the other party;

"If I lose, then I will abandon the attack on Shimono and sign a non-aggression peace treaty with the Date family for ten years. After thinking about it, Bai Feng added: "This peace treaty does not require the Date family to pay any price, it is unconditional. ”

"Lord Governor, I took this bet with Katakura-kun, and we believe that you are a man of his word. Goto Nobuyasu immediately agreed to this bet.