The higher-level unit is the "many", which is equivalent to a division or brigade, so similar to the names of the Mino, Ise, etc., each division can be named after the place of conscription, such as the Kumamoto Division, which is known as the Beast, and the Osaka Division, which is good at battlefield business.

One level higher, it is the "potential" of the army, which is equivalent to the army formed in wartime later. The first army to be formed was the First Army and the Second Army formed during the Qing War, and the commanders were Youpeng and Dashanyan in Shanxian County, respectively, and they were disbanded immediately after the war. It was not until later, after the establishment of the Korean Army, the Taiwan Army, the Kwantung Army, and the Chinese Garrison Army, that the army became a formal establishment.

In addition, there is a temporary unit, that is, the "hand" of the "first hand", which is equivalent to the later dispatch detachment, and the establishment can be large or small, depending on the scale of the war and actual needs...... Look back at the present. Throughout the Warring States period, in formal positional warfare, there were few large-scale corps composed of a single branch of the military. Because in addition to the troops directly under the daimyo, each reserve team only has one or two hundred war horses or hundreds of iron cannons at most, and it cannot be centralized for command. This is not even as good as the wild way of the Zaga people, they don't have so many rules and regulations.

The samurai forces that broke this rule were only two sides in the Battle of Nagashino, one was the Takeda family, and Takeda Shingen created five red cavalry of thousands of people; On the other side was Nobunaga, who concentrated on using 3,000 iron cannons.

Of course, I am a bug-level existence, so my three reserve teams, each detachment can be freely combined, or organized into a unified command of spear, cavalry, and iron artillery teams.

I don't know how the Yuan relatives will feel after seeing such an ironclad spear formation of 3,000 people. But I can assure you that the visuals are absolutely stunning. Moreover, the spear formation has extremely strong melee combat ability, and the commander is the experienced Wasuka Masakatsu, which is suitable for dealing with the army of the Nagamune family who is poorly equipped and lacks long-range strength. If you still attack with the reserve team as a unit, you won't be able to achieve that kind of crisp and neat defeat effect.

Seeing that the enemy troops on the other side of the river were retreating, I ordered my close attendants to blow the conch and order the iron artillery detachment to pursue it.

The three fleets on the river bank quickly lifted anchor and sailed to the opposite bank. After a short time, the 1,000 Saga iron gunners on the left under the command of Kira Hidekei and Shigehide Suzuki, the 800 naval army iron gunners under the command of Iwamatsu Keitada, and the 1,200 reserve iron gunners on the right under the command of Tsubouchi Toshinori and Zhezhi Kiyohiro went ashore and advanced together. The 3,000 men of the Saga were a close combat force on both flanks and in the rear.

Subsequently, I and two hundred guards and five hundred Izumi people also crossed the Niyodo River, backed by a fleet of nearly 1,000 naval troops, and set up a formation, sending Monomiban to the battlefield to reconnoitre.

After more than half an hour, the envoys sent by Monomi Bantou and Hideki and Wasuka Masakatsu came to the main camp at the same time and reported the news of the victory ahead.

"How's the result?" I asked with interest.

"Lord Lord, the front of the army of Changzong and my family has been defeated, and the rear formation has also collapsed on its own. However, the main camp fled into Kira Castle and suffered almost no damage, numbering about 2,000 people! Momimi replied.

"Joshita-cho...... It must be miserable! I sighed quietly and asked him, "Have the townspeople fled?" Are there many people fleeing? ”

"There are very few people who have fled. It seems to be controlled by the people of the Chozong family! ”

"Is that so?" I nodded.

Judging from the preservation power alone, it is correct that Motojin fled into the castle town, with our large forces to the east and west, and the sea to the south, and only Kira Castle to the north to escape. However, if you hastily open the gate and enter the castle, you may be caught up by our side, and even Kira Castle will be taken advantage of the opportunity to fall, so it is better to scatter into the castle towns outside the castle and rely on those townsmen and machiya to block our spear formation, so that they will not be able to pursue smoothly.

However, if the 2,000 troops were invaded in this way, the entire castle town would be miserable. And the townspeople must not have expected that they would be destroyed by the forces of their own Changzong and my family, and then used as a human shield.

It seems that the family of Changzong has decided to give up this Wuchuan County. Not only the samurai who were treated unjustly, but also the peasants who paid the heavy annual tribute, but now even the townspeople are distracted from the Chosamune family.

Wasuka Masakatsu's envoy respectfully half-knelt on the ground: "Wasuka-sama ordered the villain to ask for instructions, whether to enter the castle town to search?" ”

"Let Masakatsu restrain the army and monitor the periphery of the castle town. The camp will pass over at once. I ordered.

When the battle is fought like this, all that remains is negotiation. There are two or three thousand townspeople living in the castle town, and they are the subjects of my old domain, and now they are equivalent to the hostages of the Nagamune and my family, and I cannot abandon them. What's more, fighting in the castle town with the two thousand highly effective direct troops of the Yuan family will definitely bring a considerable degree of battle damage, unless I ruthlessly attack with fire and destroy the center of my old territory.

I can't do either of these things, and the Yuan relatives obviously figured out my surname.

……，…… In the afternoon of the same day, after simple negotiations, I withdrew most of my forces to the west bank of the Niyo River, and all the naval forces were confined at the mouth of the Niyodo River, leaving only 4,500 men on standing, auxiliary, and reserve to monitor Kira Castle and Joshita Town; Subsequently, Kira Castle's Kira Kinsada surrendered, and I led 1,500 standing guards to enter and control, and the rest of the auxiliaries and preparations were led by Xiujing and Jingyi Naotoro to retreat to the shore of the Niyodo River, and let the head relatives of Nagamune return to Nagaoka County.

When he withdrew from the castle town, I naturally would not be polite, and the auxiliary and preparations by the river immediately followed closely behind, eliminating more than 500 people after the break, and asking for the fierce general Fuliu pro-government. However, under the response of Xiangzong's pro-Tai, the Yuan relatives still escaped Jiuwanchuan smoothly and returned to their own territory.

Such a result, almost in my estimation, Yuan Qin is not so easy to hang up, and even if he hangs up, I don't have so much time to clean up the mess now.

The Chojong family had a strong control over Nagaoka and Tosa counties, and Komi was also very stable under the rule of Komune's pro-Tai; And Anyun County is very chaotic now, and there are still resistance forces in the east, no matter who governs it, it will be a headache.

When the Moto-kins fled for their lives, I met with the Kira family in the main castle tower of Kira Castle.

Born in the same year as me, Kira had a typical samurai appearance, with a ruddy face, thick black eyebrows, and a two-pronged mustache. My cheap sister Kira Wei is two years older than us, with a fair complexion and a beautiful appearance, but there are already thin crow's feet at the corners of her eyes, and in addition, she is not very similar to Baoxinyuan, it may be a relationship of temperament. Hoshinin is very assertive, and she gives me the impression that she is a little woman with low eyebrows, typical of a samurai wife. In addition, there was their child, later Kira Qinshi, who had just turned seven years old this year, probably heard something from adults, and peeked at me from time to time, and his little face was full of curiosity.

"In ShimoKira Yagoro, meet my righteous brother!" Kira took the two of them to salute together.

"You call me brother-in-law?" I find it strange. This man is obviously married to my sister.

"Yes. I heard Ah Wei say that the age of the rebel brother is two months older than that of Zaixia. He replied.

"Really?" I smiled, "Today is the first time the family has met, please don't be polite." ”

"Yes." Kira and the three of them raised their heads together.

I took a closer look at Kira's relatives, and suddenly asked, "Are you and Brother Yazaburo Yuanqin very similar in appearance?" ”

"This ......" Kira Qinzhen was a little stunned, and replied thoughtfully, "Compared with Zaixia, Brother Yuan is more handsome. ”

"I think so. Since it's called 'Himeruko', it's not going to be a samurai like you! I laughed.

"Brother Yi laughed." In the face of my obviously positive and deprecating words, Kira had no choice but to say.

"So, this is Sister Awei," I looked at Kira Awei and lowered my head slightly, "I'm Keijiro...... Although I should have seen it when I was a child, my sister was less than three years old at that time, so I thought it was the first time we met. ”

"Yes. Thank you for your first meeting. She said deferentially.

"Xiujing will come over tomorrow. You haven't seen each other in over a decade, haven't you? ”

Ah Wei showed a blank expression.

"It's Jiro Sakin of the family of Komune," I explained, "and it's called Kira Hidekei now." ”

"It's Jiro's left!" Only then did she react and showed a smile, "It's been a long time since I've seen you!" …… However, I really didn't expect to meet you in this situation......"

"Ah Wei!" Kira kissed his words lightly, bowed his head and apologized to me, "Please forgive me, my husband and wife lost their words." ”

"It's okay, you can say anything...... Brother Ling must be a very strict person, right? I am different from him, and I don't have to worry about it in front of me. I smiled and comforted.

"Yes." Kira agreed. However, looking at his expression, he was still very respectful. Even Ah Wei showed a very restrained appearance.

I had to tease their children: "What's your name?" ”

"My name is Shinjuro!" He replied loudly.

Shinjuro...... Kira gave him this name, but it was somewhat interesting.

As far as I know, the eldest son of the Yuan family and the eldest son of the Qin Tai have inherited their respective common names, one is called Yasaburo (Nagamune Ibu family Shinkin) and the other is called Yashiro (Xiangzong Ibu kinji). But what Kira gave to his child was neither Keijiro, the common name of the Kira family, nor his own common name, Yagoro, but the word "new".

"Shinjuro, do you know who I am?" I asked again.

He looked at Kira's kiss.

"I'm asking you...... Don't worry, I won't be angry, last time the child of the Satake family shot me with a bow, I wasn't angry, and I adopted him as an adopted son!"

"I've heard from the Hayama family's Gorouemon!" Speaking of this, Shinjuro was much bolder, and there was a slight expression of admiration in his eyes, "However, in the past, my grandmother said that you were my uncle, but my father said that you were an enemy; I asked my mother, and she said she didn't know ......."

"The dog has no form, please forgive my brother!" Kira kissed and fell down again.

"It's all said that you don't have to be restrained!" I smiled and waved my hand, "You're a very good kid, I like it very much!" ”

"Yes, I understand," Kira's face darkened, "I immediately let Inuko Yuanfu inherit the position of city lord as the adopted son of my righteous brother, and then live in seclusion with Ah Wei......"

"Wait, who said you gave up your position and seclusion?"

"What do you mean?" Kira asked strangely. In his opinion, when I say I like Shinjuro, I hope that he will inherit the castle lord.

"You can rest assured that you will continue to be your city lord. However, Shinjuro might as well be subdued, and I must preside over it! ”

"Under the order," Kira Kinzhen observed my expression and asked tentatively, "Isn't my righteous brother worried that I will join the Changzong family again?" ”

"Is there any need to be worried?" I asked him rhetorically, "You are a member of the Kira family, and now that my Kira family is coming out, the Changzong and my family have been repeatedly hit hard by me, will you not be able to see the situation clearly?" Or, would you rather learn from Xiangzong and lead hundreds of peasant soldiers to defend the lonely city, rather than lead thousands of elites like Xiujing and command the half-national wealthy clan on my behalf? ”

"This ......" Kira hesitated visibly. Xiujing has been stationed in Xia Hequan on my behalf for a long time, and he knows it; He also knew that he had led 6,000 men last month and captured the city of Lotus Pond, which he had been adjusting for several months; And Xiujing is leading the 3,000 troops that are pursuing Yuan Qin, which is much more elite than Yuan Qin's direct forces, not to mention the one stationed in the city.

"Even if you were willing to take refuge, would the retainers in your family agree? Will the town council under the castle agree? Will the samurai and peasants who are making a fuss agree? Like the Yuan Qin, you can't win the hearts of the people. ”

"I heard that you robbed the castle town of Okatoyo Castle last year!" Shinjuro suddenly interjected.

"Well, because that's the enemy." I coughed a little embarrassed, and continued to persuade Kira to kiss him, "In short, as a member of the Kira family, I hope you can treat the people well, immediately restore order in the castle town, and reduce the annual tribute ratio to calm the ...... As for the Yuan Yuan, even if I leave now, he won't have anything to do again in a year or two. Moreover, the name and territory of the family of Chozong and my family may be inherited by you or Shinjuro's children! If that's the case, I think I will be glad that the Venerable Nation knows about it! ”

"Brother Righteous is right. I understand it in the next surely. Kira agreed convincingly.

……，…… On the 11th day of September, Gangfeng City was surrounded by me again. In the city were more than 2,000 people of the Yuan family, and outside the city was an army of 12,000 people. The next day, Kira Shinsada also came, and he entrusted the affairs of the domain to Katsugano Motonobu and Hayama Yasuyujo, and led 300 men to join the siege himself. Although the number is small, it represents a break with the Changzong family.

But I am not in a hurry to attack the city. According to the information, Nobunaga's side still has a huge advantage, relying on the newly built buildings opposite Noda and Fukushima Castles and Kawaguchi to attack the Miyoshi family, while Miyoshi Yoshitsugu and Matsunaga Hide have occupied Urae Castle on the west bank of Fukushima Castle, and the 15,000 people are still at the disposal of Hatakeyama Akitaka. It wasn't until Honganji Xianru personally went out to attack Nobunaga's 5,000 people who stayed at Moriguchi that Nobunaga would give up attacking the Miyoshi family, and then Neraiji Temple and Mt. Hiei echoed Xianru one after another, and all the people of Nerai turned against the water, and Nobunaga slowly fell into the quagmire.

In other words, in ten days and a half, Nobunaga will not miss me.

But the people of Sakaga are not calm. On the 15th of September, the third day after Honganji Xianru officially left the battle, Shigehide Suzuki may have received some order to insist on withdrawing the troops first, and asked me to send 1,000 Kumano sailors back to Kii Province as agreed.

"His Royal Highness Xuanjing still has nine thousand troops left, plus the people from Gaogang and Wuchuan counties, which is enough to pacify Changzong's family." He said.

"Since the Suzuki boss insists, then let's do it!" I agreed to his request, "I hope to work with both of you in the future." ”

“…… Then please take care of His Royal Highness Xuanjing. Shigehide Suzuki said, his face a little complicated.

Shigeji Tsuchihashi opened his mouth, as if he wanted to say something, but finally he didn't say anything and left my main account with Shigehide Suzuki.

Looking at their departing backs, I felt a little sad. The next time we meet, it's an enemy, and it's going to be an enemy for a long time.

Fortunately, the 1,500 people of Hequan are firmly in my hands. For me, a guardian generation with outstanding military achievements and generosity, although they mutter, they can't disobey.

While sending off the Saga people, I loaded all the military supplies and rations from Usaio Port and transferred them to the Urado Bay side, but they were not unloaded on the shore again to prevent the destruction of the people of the Chomune family.

But in fact, the head of the Changzong clan is still tightly surrounded by me. The wealthy clans in his territory have just experienced a fiasco, and they have no ability to take the initiative to provoke trouble, nor do they have the courage to provoke trouble.

And I was not in a hurry to attack the city, but I took advantage of this time to summon the wealthy clans and commissioners of Gaogang and Wuchuan counties many times to preach or reward. In particular, most of the wealthy samurai who participated in the Ichiwa Clan in Gogawa County had territorial disputes with the people installed by the Nagamune family, and now those people either fled from Wuchuan or died in bliss, so I gladly handed over the vacated territory nearby to them as appropriate, and at the same time added about 2,000 koku to Kira's kinsada, who was the lord's family.

I even gave the name of Kira Nobunada, the child Shinjuro Motofu, in advance, Kira Nobunada (which should have been called Kira Kinshi).

Getting the hereditary character of the Kira family, Kira Awei was very happy. However, abandoning the word "pro" of the Chozong family in this way, Kira's feelings were a little complicated, but in the end he still accepted it with a smile.

By late September, I had finally received the long-awaited news.

The Miyoshi family's Shinohara Nagabo and Miyoshi Nagaji finally made up their minds when they heard that Nobunaga was slowly getting into trouble, and that Asakura-Asai had already gone out to attack Usayama Castle. On September 18, the two led 20,000 troops from Awa and Sanki to the front line of Awaji Island to support the Miyoshi three. The next time, this army broke through the castle of Settsu Koshisui Castle, and won the castle lord Varin Mikawamori, and went to Settsu Osaka to join the three people.

In other words, Awa and Sanki are already empty.

(To be continued)