In this mountain castle, since it was already midnight, everything seemed extraordinarily silent, except for the crackling sound of burning firewood at the city gate. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Zuobei is a native of Liuxiang, and when the Tsugawa family ruled Liuxiang before, although life was also difficult, but the agricultural tax of 6 Gong and 4 farmers allowed the farmers in the territory to have at least a little surplus grain every year. However, everything dissipated from the invasion of the Yamada clan. Since the Yamada clan defeated the Tsugawa family and occupied Rokugo, the harsh 8 koku and 2 farming system was implemented, and most of the people in the domain could barely survive, while those with a larger family like Sakubei were stretched to the limit. In desperation, I can only go to be the Yamada family's standing ashigaru to talk and get by.

"As a guard, speaking of which, the gang of bandits last time was still very ferocious, and Sun Jiulang, who was next door to my house, was killed in that joint battle," said a man next to the guard. "Who's to say it isn't? I thought that the Yamada clan was the largest wealthy family in the neighborhood, and there should be no fight in the ashigaru who joined the Yamada family, but there were still casualties, so the gang of bandits should still come, right? Zuo Bingwei said helplessly.

The other ashigaru nodded helplessly, indicating that he agreed with this statement. At this moment, he looked at it, huh? What is that?

"It's not good, as a guard, that group of bandits is here again, quickly notify the lord of the city" Zuobei was shocked, and after confirming that the person who came was undoubtedly a bandit, he hurriedly retreated to the city with another ashigaru and closed the door, and then said: "You call the surrounding ashigaru to come to the city gate to support, and I will report to the lord of the city." ”

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"What do you say? How dare the bandits come? Yamada Yoshinobu had just been woken up by a nearby attendant from inside the bed, and when he heard that the bandits were attacking again, he said angrily, "Go and inform Otakamasanoru to organize the gathering of Ashigaru, and the guards in the castle tower will immediately go to the gate of the castle to defend."

With Yamada Yoshinobu's order, there was a commotion in Motoyama Castle. And outside the city, Shigeharu Waga has ordered the bandits to start attacking the city. This kind of small town in the countryside is only made of wooden planks, so it is easy to storm the castle, and only the slightly higher castle tower is the hard one. However, Waga Shigeharu still underestimated the mobilization speed of the Yamada family's ashigaru, and just when he was about to break through the city, the Yamada family's ashigaru general Otaka Masanori arrived with the ashigaru in the city, and because it was difficult to mobilize the militia in a hurry, he could only organize more than 20 standing ashigaru in the city, and the cage city could still hold out until the arrival of the militia.

"I didn't expect it to come so quickly, send more people, don't wait for the militia of the Yamada family to arrive, it will be difficult to do" After speaking, the bandits under Hega Shigeji once again launched a charge. After several attacks, because the bandits are well-armed, most of them have swords, and a few of the ashigaru people of the Yamada family have long spears, most of which are bamboo guns (bamboo guns are the regular weapons of the conscripted militia, and it is impossible to equip Ashigaru with too good weapons like ordinary countrymen)

For a while, the bandits' offensive gradually became sharper, and Da Gao Zhengze was miserable, and he was usually pampered. , it's a little uncomfortable to come here all of a sudden. Just when Masanoru Odaka was about to lose his hold, Yoshinobu Yamada finally arrived with the militia.

"He He Chongzhi, you have violated the territory of your family several times, and I, Yamada Yoshinobu, will give you no return today" He He Chongzhi heard this, and he was also angry, Ma De was the first person you came to disturb Lao Tzu's good dreams today, and now it is reasonable, and immediately responded: "The horseman of the Yamada family, you have the ability to come out and fight!" Will only hide behind the crowd and be cowardly as a mouse! "Hahahaha" The bandits laughed too.

Yoshinobu Yamada is gone, and Madejin is one of those soft persimmons in Kakurayama Castle to pinch. "Da Gao Zheng, go out of the battle, kill and retreat the thieves Everyone has a reward" "Yes the lord" Da Gao Zhengzheng responded: "Kill, kill the thieves and the lord has a reward" "Huh" Ashigaru roared excitedly.

The flowers bloomed two and one on each branch, and Soji on the other end had already taken the ashigaru to the outside of the bandits' lair.

"Rush in, and if there is resistance, shoot and kill." Zongzhi waved his hand, and he was still quite stylish. "Yes," the Kuroda family said, and rushed in with the ashigaru.

At this time, the bandits who stayed in the nest ** also seemed to hear some movements. A strong man with a scar on his face walked out with a knife. As soon as he came out, he was obviously frightened by the situation at the gate of the cottage, and suddenly stopped by the gate, and then several other thieves also walked out one after another, and for a while the people and horses on both sides confronted each other. Zongzhi glanced at the gang of bandits in front of him, there were five people in total, each of them was covered in black ashes, and it seemed that the fire just now was still burning very fiercely.

"It's from the Tsugawa family in Kadoyama Castle", one of the thieves let out an exclamation, looked at the more than a dozen people under Soji, and said that he was not afraid that it was fake. But it's a bandit on one side anyway, and it's still a little bloody. The bandits immediately pulled out their swords and rushed over, although the number of Zongzhi side was larger, but the bandits who knew the combat effectiveness of these peasants and soldiers knew that as long as the momentum suppressed the opposite side, they still had the strength to fight.

Soji was still scared when he looked at the bandits rushing over, so I'd better hide. Otherwise, he died before he got out of school, what else would he talk about..... Kuroda Iekane said he didn't see anything about the "shameful" behavior of his lord. However, he also hurriedly brandished a bamboo spear and beckoned his subordinates to rush over.

The bandit who led the way was the one who came out first with a sword. He rushed over and slashed first, and several of them were powerless to fight back, and they all retreated. Later generations can only complain about the combat effectiveness of the RB war national militia in the post bar forum, etc., and finally experienced the low combat effectiveness of the ashigaru. It seems that if you have the strength, you still need to separate the soldiers and peasants and make a standing army.

is worthy of being a genealogy retainer of the Tsugawa family, the Kuroda family does have two hands, he brandished the bamboo gun in his hand, and killed 2 bandits in a row under the left and right strikes. Seeing the tragic death of his companions, the bandits at the head knew that the Kuroda family was a hard stubble, so he left a few ashigaru who were fighting with him and came to find the Kuroda family to fight.

The Kuroda family understands the thief's intentions, but it is exactly what he wants. Kuroda Iekane brandished a bamboo spear and stabbed at the bandit, and the bandit flashed sideways, and the ether knife was crossed. Kuroda Iekan didn't wait for the old move, closed the gun and blocked it sideways, kicked the thief to the ground with a strong kick in his right leg, and then stabbed the thief with a gun, stabbing into the thief's abdomen with a stab.

"The enemy will be taken by my Kuroda Mabei family" Kuroda family roared loudly, and the two remaining bandits saw that the strongest bandit had been trapped, and they were immediately in chaos, and they were not paying attention to the Tsugawa family's ashigaru from the front and back and left and right bamboo spears.

Seeing that the battle was over, Zongzhi hurriedly stepped forward and shouted: "Leave the corpses alone, find the thieves' warehouse as soon as possible, move to the yard, and move away when the follow-up people come."

"Yes," Kuroda replied, and then instructed the ashigaru to search for the various bandit houses. Soji also entered the largest room in the middle, hoping to find something good. After all, this kind of perennial raiding bandit's lair, maybe there is something good to rob!

Looking around, in addition to a few ugly clothes, there are only two knives that can attract the attention of Zongzhi, Zongzhi took out a knife and slashed at a wooden case, and the case was broken, well, it is a good knife. Although it can't be compared with a famous knife, it is much stronger than a bamboo gun. You must know that there is only one sword in the entire Tsugawa family, and this sword, as the saber of the previous family governor of the Tsugawa clan, was lost with the defeat of the Tsugawa clan when Yamada Yoshinobu snatched the grain last time. Speaking of which, the Tsugawa family is not ordinary miserable, and they are also a wealthy family, but they are not even as good as bandits.

Not long after, a call from Kuroda Iekane came from outside the door, and Soji hurriedly walked out.

"Report to my lord, the warehouse of the bandits has been discovered," Kuroda said with a grin. "Oh? Something how? Take me to see" Soji hurriedly asked the long-awaited question. "I didn't have time to take a closer look, so my subordinates brought the lord over."

After some inventory, the harvest is not bad. The entire bandit's lair was scavenged, and there were a total of 7 knives, about 30 stones of miscellaneous grains, and 16 pieces of money. There are some other foods, and it seems that there is no need to worry about food all winter.

In addition to being happy, Soji said to Kuroda Iekane: "Yes, this time the harvest is quite rich, all thanks to everyone's concerted efforts, each battle is a reward of 5 buckets of food, 100 Wen, and Zhenbei, this sword is for you, you killed 3 enemies this time, and you have contributed a lot." In addition, you are appointed as the head of the family, and the annual salary is 5 stones" Soji handed a sword to Kuroda Iekane.

"Thank you for the reward" Kuroda said excitedly, Admiral Ashigaru, that's a big official position (for a small wealthy family like the Tsugawa family), and the other Ashigaru people are also very happy, a bucket of rice is enough to eat for a month for an adult man. (To be honest, I don't know much about the weights and measures of the RB Sengoku period, so that's probably it...... ）

After a short time, some peasants in Jiaoshan City also arrived, and they were all overjoyed when they saw the grain in the yard. Zongzhi waved his hand: "Move"

In this way, the first battle of Soji to come to this era ended in victory. On the other side, the battle between Shigeharu Waga and Yoshinobu Yamada will also come to an end.

The bandits came in a hurry, although they were surprised, but the Yamada family had a certain advantage in numbers after all, and the two sides fought fiercely for an hour, although the bandits attacked the mountain castle, but they were indeed blocked by Yamada Yoshinobu and Otaka Masanori with Ashigaru outside the castle tower, relying on the terrain, barely held the attack of the bandits.

Seeing that the Yamada family could not be defeated for such a long time, and considering that the Yamada family's Iwatani Castle was not far from the main mountain castle, it would be troublesome to drag it any longer, so he had to withdraw his troops. "Withdraw" and He Chongzhi gave the order weakly, and the bandits retreated one after another as if they heard Xianle, and Yamada Yoshinobu did not dare to pursue, so he could only watch He He Shigeji leave with the bandits.

Both sides paid a heavy price. More than a dozen bandits were killed in battle, and many were wounded. The Yamada family is the only few standing ashigaru who can barely stand, and the others are either killed or seriously injured and fall to the ground. However, although Waga Shigeharu failed to capture the castle tower and annihilate the Yamada family's forces, the bandits still looted the warehouses in Motoyama Castle when they left, taking everything they could, and the Yamada family also lost a lot of food and coins.

A weapon fight ended, and Yoshinobu Yamada of Motoyama Castle looked at the chaotic castle and the castle tower and cursed, and exploded several foul mouths in a row. However, Soji of Kakuyama Castle looked at the grain piled up in the warehouse and smiled. As for the bandits, there is no need to mention it, but when they return to their lair, one by one, you look at me and I look at you, as if they are compared.

"Who is it? Who did it!! Waga Shigeji looked at the empty warehouse and the corpses of the five bandits in the courtyard, and raised his head to the sky and roared...........