Although the Hida country is a small land, the stone height is no more than 38,000 stones, compared to the two neighboring countries in the north and south, such as Mino 570,000 stones, Vietnam-China 400,000 stones, and even less than one-tenth of the other party.

However, although Hida Country is a poor and remote country and the people are poor, it has to be said that this place is rich in minerals.

In addition to the famous Kamioka Silver Mountain, two copper mines, a gold mountain, a silver mountain, and a gold and silver associated mountain were also found here after the Warring States period.

The amount of mineral resources that is distributed among everyone is staggering.

Li Xiao bargained from the Uchijima clan, and after some bargaining, he won the copper mine located in the territory of the Uchijima family at a price of 1,200 yuan per year.

Anyway, this money is not worth mentioning at all compared to the 20,000 yuan that Li Xiao knocked on the inner island family at the beginning.

However, Uchijima did not feel at a loss, his copper mining capacity was limited, and there have always been many copper mines in Japan, so the price of copper mines has been kept very low.

But the meaning of this copper mine to Li Xiao is different, Rui Costa casts copper cannons, and needs a lot of bronze, especially this time Li Xiao asked the other party to build a larger-caliber mortar cannon and a six-pounder cannon for direct fire.

Rui Costa, a pure amateur player, failed several times, consuming Li Xiao's manpower and material resources.

However, Rui Costa didn't care about this at all, looking at his appearance, he almost blurted out to Li Xiao, our lord, it's not bad for money.

Li Xiao was helpless about this, but he would immediately set a deadline for Rui Costa to build two six-pounder direct-fire guns by at least March next year.

That's right, Li Xiao's purpose in giving Rui Costa a deadline was precisely to drive this direct-fire cannon out to participate in the siege of Gujo Hachiman Castle next year.

Unlike Guiyun City, although Guiyun City is dangerous and the road is difficult, it is a small city after all, at best, it is only a city where 300 people from the Inner Island family are stationed.

And Li Xiaoneng used seven mortar cannons to capture the city in one go, mainly because the other party had never seen this kind of big barrel and this kind of weapon. That's why they surrendered under deterrence.

However, the Gujo Hachiman Castle is different, this castle is a newly built castle, and it is a castle that Endo Morishu built not far away in order to capture Todenyama Castle.

Later, as the main city of the Endo family, it has undergone several years of maintenance and reinforcement, although it is not as good as Guiyun City in terms of hardship and danger, but the scale of the city is far better than that of Guiyun City.

And his sister Xiaolu Ryōgang is also in this city, in the battle of Tianshen Mountain, he suffered a big loss from his mortar cannon, and his father and sister Koji Ryōrai was killed by the mortar bombardment.

So it's impossible not to take precautions against Li Xiao's big tube.

If Li Xiao wants to capture this city, he can't expect to take it with a large barrel of random bombardment, as for the purpose of the two six-pounder direct-fire cannons that Li Xiao asked Rui Costa to build, in addition to being used in field battles, it can also directly bombard the city gate.

The wooden gates were enough to be broken under the bombardment of the six-pounder cannons.

As for the larger caliber mortar, I didn't think about it for a while, Li Xiao mainly took into account the mountain road of Hida, and the large-caliber mortar was not suitable for transportation in the mountain road at all, even if it was barely delivered, the siege would have been over long ago.

Thinking of the inconvenience of Hida's journey, Li Xiao's brows furrowed again, this time he sent troops to Mino, which was different from fighting in Hida's country, in a sense, it was 'going abroad' to conquest.

In such a medium-distance operation, the first consideration is not the number of troops, but the logistical support must be given top priority.

Before, Li Xiao was only fighting with the wealthy clan in Hida Country, and the so-called combat distance was only half a day and a day away.

At that time, the so-called logistics was the rice balls that Ashigaru had for ten days a day, and the rest of the materials were taken care of by the small lotus teams of each reserve team.

But this time when he entered Mino and went to Hachiman Castle in the gun, Li Xiao expected to dispatch at least more than 2,000 troops to be sure of leveling the Endo family, so it was Li Xiao's big problem to be in charge of the logistics of the 2,000 army.

The inconvenience of the Hida Mountain Road has greatly restricted Li Xiao's mobilization of large-scale troops to enter and exit the bottleneck of Mino.

Therefore, it is even more necessary to build the Gujo Hachiman Castle in Mino as a bridgehead for the transfer and supply of the army.

After discussing with the Uchijima clan for a while, Li Xiao decided to hand over the matter to him, and the three Hida clans of Nabeyama and Hirose were in charge.

Uchijima hesitated for a while and asked Li Xiao why he didn't hand over this matter to Baba Masafu, and Li Xiao explained that Baba Masafang had more important tasks to do, so he was appointed to do this. …,

Uchijima said yes only after hearing this.

At the same time, Li Xiao was ready to wait for the beginning of spring next year, and ordered his sister Koji Takazuna to speed up the construction of Takayama Castle and Hida Road, so as to realize the material transfer from North Hida to South Hida.

After Li Xiao and Uchijima's negotiation ended, it was already dawn.

Uchijima said goodbye and went back to rest.

And Li Xiao rearranged the matter that Fang had just explained to the Uchijima clan, and after confirming that there was nothing wrong, he was relieved.

When Li Xiao got up, he heard someone shouting outside the castle tower: "It's snowing, it's snowing." ”

Suddenly, the sound of the wind whistling outside the window.

Li Xiao walked to the windowsill and saw that among the reckless mountains that Hida had once grayed and white, snow was flying all over the sky, and fine snow powder was falling from the sky.

Li Xiao stretched out his hand out of the window and held up a piece of snow, and the heat in his hand instantly melted the snow into water.

"It's winter in a blink of an eye, the first snow of the year in Hida." Li Xiao couldn't help but sigh, remembering that at this time three years ago, he was still worried about whether he could build Shengang City when the first heavy snow came.

And three years later, he was watching the snow at Sakurato Castle, and the whole Hida was already under his feet.

Then another year will pass in the blink of an eye, and next year will be the tenth year of Yonglu, 1567 A.D., which will determine the watershed of the pattern.

The troubled times of the Warring States that lasted for nearly a hundred years, at this moment, the situation has gradually become clear.

A few great names who have the hope of dominating the world will continue to devour the small forces around them, and if they continue to grow stronger, they will eventually decide on a final person in the world among themselves.

And the fate of the Xiaohao clan is not to devour, but to be subordinate.

The situation in the world will be like entering the Azuchi-Momoyama era, which is like a prosperous city, a short period of prosperity and then annihilation, or an unprecedented new era.

Li Xiaoyuan looked at the snow scene, and at this time, he saw a road of people slowly driving towards Shengang City from a distance.

There were only a dozen people in the group, and there was a shoulder in the middle that two people were carrying back and forth, and the speed slowed down even more after encountering the wind and snow.

But the shoulder man stopped, and from the shoulder, a person walked down.

Li Xiao waited to see it clearly, and his expression was happy, and the other party was Yuzhen Kohata.

The other party raised his sleeves to keep out the snow and looked up at the castle tower.

Li Xiao and Yuzhen Kohata looked at each other and smiled.

Minong Country, Northern City.

The same heavy snow also fell quietly on this city.

Ando, the lord of the northern city, picked up the long chopsticks with one hand and gently flicked the charcoal fire in the fire pit.

The stove was now clamped between the stands on the firepit, and the boiling water was rattling.

At this moment, under Ando's head, there are two people sitting cross-legged, these two people have similar appearances, and it can be seen that they are a pair of brothers.

The younger man, holding a folding fan, stared at the charcoal fire in the stove, revealing a deep contemplative expression.

His older brother, on the other hand, was coughing incessantly with a handkerchief over his mouth.

At this time, Mamoru Ando raised his head to look at the older brother and asked, "Shigeji, this time the new general of the Takeda family, the new general of the Takeda family, Li Danma Mamori invited you to join the Takeda family, how do you plan?" ”……，