Vietnam, the city is born.

Shioya Akisada is in the castle tower, and the two of them, Saito Riki, the lord of Joseijo Castle, are sitting opposite each other and drinking tea.

As the lord of the castle of Sei Castle, the main transportation route of Hida in Echichu, Saito Riki is still doing well, his clothes are shiny, the tea he drinks is imported from the Ming Kingdom, and there are many famous knives in the assessment room, all of which are from famous knife casters.

Saito Riki saw that Shioya Akizhen was looking at his famous sword, smiled slightly, then shook his two sleeves, stood up and said, "Shioya-sama, do you like famous knives too?" ”

Shioya Qiuzhen lowered her eyes under the bridge of her nose, smiled on her chubby face, and said, "Lord Boqishou, you have forgotten that in addition to being in business, I am also a samurai. ”

Saito Liki secretly sneered at this.

Saito Tsuneki, the ancestor of the Saito clan, was given land in Echichu by the shogunate general Ashikaga Tsuneki because of his meritorious service in the crusade against the countryman lord Momoi Naotsune, and it has been more than 200 years since Yu, and he naturally disdains a grass-headed samurai like Shioya Akisada who was born in the land.

"Mamoru Chikuzen, do you also like to collect famous swords?"

Shioya Akizhen was good at observing words and feelings, and looked at Saito Riki's fleeting disdain expression in his eyes, and said quietly on his face: "I like famous swords, but I know that my martial arts are not proficient, and wearing a famous sword on my body is just insulting a good knife." ”

When Saito Riki heard Shioya Akizhen say this, he smiled and said, "Chikuzen Mamoru is really frank. What you said is right, if you don't know martial arts, holding a famous knife in your hand, it is easy for others to peep at it, and have greedy thoughts, if it is seen by a good martial arts swordsman, thinking that the wearer is a top samurai, he will come forward to invite the fight, so no matter what the situation, it is just a way to bring disaster upon himself. ”

Shioya Akisada, listening to Saito Liki, seemed to have something to say.

I saw Saito Riki next, staring directly at Shioya Akizhen and said: "So a person with insufficient ability, holding a heavy treasure, will suffer from it, Master Chikuzen, do you understand the meaning of my words?" ”

Cold sweat oozed from Shioya Akizhen's back, obviously grasping the meaning of Saito Riki's words.

Saito Riki was very satisfied to see Shioya Akisada's panicked expression, and he next said, "Chikuzen Mamoru Lord, at this moment, don't you still take a stand?" Why do you think I agreed to your request to rebuild the mountain road to Kamioka Castle so easily, is it really just to clear the trade route? ”

After a pause, Saito Riki said again: "Lord Chikuzen Mamoru, in the past ten years, Your Excellency has relied on the Guma family's Shengang Silver Mountain, and you should have made a lot of money, do you think that in the past few years, I will know nothing about the channel of money circulation between you and the Eima family?" ”

When Saito Riki said the four words Kamioka Ginzand, Shioya Akizhen's body stiffened and said, "Lord Boqishou, I understand that the purpose of you asking me to build the road is to send troops to Kamioka Castle for yourself, right?" ”

Saito Riki smiled and said frankly, "That's right. ”

Shioya Qiuzhen shook his head and said, "Lord Boqishou, you are too unwise, for the sake of Kamioka Ginzan, you actually want to start a war with the Takeda family, and the strength of one finger of Shin Xuan Gong is enough to pacify the Saito family." What's more, at the moment, among the Hida forces, the Eima family, the sister Koji family, and the Uchijima family have all subdued Takeda Shingen, and if you send troops, you won't have a chance at all. ”

Saito Riki put his hands behind his back, revealing a look of bamboo in his chest, and said: "Shioya Chikuzen Mamoru doesn't know at all, this time I sent troops to Kamioka Castle with the permission of Huihu Gong and Changzhi Gong. ”

It dawned on Shioya Akihara that Uesugi Kenshin really couldn't sit idly by and watch Hida still be invaded by the Takeda Army, especially after the Sister Koji family and the Uchijima family were severely damaged by the Takeda Army's Hida Army.

Uesugi Kenshin will definitely order Echichu to send troops to Hida subordinate to his own Jimboh family, and the Saito family is now subordinate to the Jimbo family, so it is reasonable for the Jimbo family to be ordered by Uesugi Kenshin to transfer the Saito family, who is familiar with the situation in Hida, to attack Kamioka Castle.

Shioya Akizhen sighed and said, "I see, it is with the instructions of the Kanto Governor and Lord Jimbo, no wonder you are not afraid of the Takeda family and dare to send troops to Kamioka Castle." ”

"Not only that, my Saito family and my sister Koji family are also allies, I sent troops to Hida to eradicate the Takeda family for him, and he also supported it secretly, as for Takeda Shingen's reaction, you don't have to worry, he now has to deal with the army of Hui Hu Gong on Kawanaka Island."

Shioya Akizhen's personal position, of course, is very reluctant for Saito Riki to attack Kamiokanda Castle at this time, so his interests in Kamiokanda Castle will be affected, and the previous investment is likely to be due to the war, and not a penny will be recovered.

However, he has been in contact with Saito Liki for many years, and Shioya Akizhen also knows this person's surname, and he belongs to a person who will not give up until he achieves his goal.

Regarding the news of Shengang Yinshan, he obviously already knew that he had been watching the transactions between himself and the Jiangma family in the past few years, but he couldn't bear it.

This time, Kamioka Ginzan changed hands in the hands of the Eima family, and he saw the opportunity and found the mountain of Uesugi Kenshin as a backing, before deciding to send troops to Hida.

Nominally, he expelled the forces of the Takeda family from Hida, but in fact he took Kamioka Ginzan into his own hands.

It's really calculating.

Shioya Akizhen thought for a moment and asked, "Since Saito-sama is going to send troops to Hida, what is the purpose of coming to me?" ”

I only heard Saito Riki nod and said: "Lord Shioya, we have cooperated for many years, and we trust each other very much, compared to the relationship between you and Li Xiao, we should go further, this time to send troops to Hida, I need your help Shioya, collect intelligence for us, and send people to infiltrate the defenders of Kamioka City, and when my army arrives to attack the city, we will join forces to capture this city." ”

What a vicious strategy, Shioya Qiuzhen said secretly in his heart, but it was difficult for him to refuse, most of his business was in Chengsheng City, and if he refused, his business would soon be retaliated against by Saito Riki.

"Okay, Lord Saito, I'll do my best, but afterwards you have to guarantee all the benefits of my salt house merchants, and the right to trade in Kamioka Ginzan can only be enjoyed by my salt house." Shioya Akizhen took the opportunity to put forward her own conditions.

Seeing Shioya Akisada's agreement, Saito Riki smiled heartily, obviously very proud.

"Very good, I promised everything, but Lord Shioya, don't break your promise, otherwise all your business in Chengsheng City will be over." Saito Riki said lukewarmly.

Shioya Qiuzhen was secretly angry about this, and could only agree with a sigh.

"Lord Shioya, as I said before, Shengang Silver Mountain is like a rare sword to the world, Li Xiao of the Takeda family, is greedy, and he alone occupies it and does not dare to report it to the master's family, so it is like a three-year-old child holding gold to swagger through the market."

"Lord Saito, Li Xiao is a fierce general of the three armies, and Huihu Gong has also suffered a big loss under him."

Facing Shioya Akizhen's reminder, Saito Riki waved his hand and said: "You can rest assured that I will not underestimate the enemy, but no matter how brave Li Xiao is, there is only one person, and he has a territory of less than 5,000 stones, how many peasant soldiers can he recruit, plus the samurai he brought from Kai, this time Lord Jimbo has promised to lend me troops, plus my own horses, I will use more than several times the military strength of the Takeda army to crusade against him." ”

Seeing that Saito Riki was so confident, Shioya Akizhen immediately bowed and said, "In this case, I am here to wish your lord success in taking Kamioka Castle." ”

Turn left! Turn right! Turn back!

Not long after dawn, there was a sharp slogan from the school field outside Kamioka Castle.

The school field where Li Xiao trains is located in a remote place with a mountain road more than one mile (1 day = 4 kilometers) from the town of Kamioka.

At five o'clock in the morning every day, Li Xiao's subordinates had to get up, and then each of them carried weapons and rice balls, and did a five-kilometer armed load-bearing off-road training on mountain roads.

Even Li Xiao himself must participate and run with the standing guards.

Chang Bei saw that the lord of the castle also joined them and trained together, so their morale was very high.

After arriving at the training ground, take a short rest, and after the standing staff finish eating their own rice balls, they start formal training.

The reason why Li Xiao chose such a remote place from Kamiokan-no-cho was to keep it secret, and he didn't want his new method of training the army to be seen by people with ulterior motives.

This 500 standing armor is a sharp sword that Li Xiao painstakingly forged, and he is ready to come up with a blockbuster in the future, and he must not leak the bottom now.

Moreover, the roar of his iron artillery team when firing a salvo could easily reveal the details of how many iron cannons he was equipped.

After nearly a month of training, Li Xiao spent all his time on the infantry's marching stop.

Speaking of which, Li Xiao has to have a headache, a common cultural problem of people in this era.

At the beginning, it took Li Xiao five days to help all the ashigaru to distinguish between the left and the right, and whether to straddle the left leg or the back leg first when stepping.

Seeing this scene, Li Xiao couldn't help but think of military training in college.

What Li Xiao is training now is similar to the content of the phalanx of the military training queue in the university.

The phalanx is a product of the era of cold weapons, famous as the Greek phalanx, the Macedonian phalanx, and the Roman legionary phalanx.

The reason why the city phalanx is arranged is because in the era of cold weapons, the emphasis is on the thicker the platoon, the stronger the killing surname of the array, and there is another important reason, in the era of cold weapons, the general combat significance of the army is very weak, the looser the platoon, once the war on the side is unfavorable, the soldier will easily become a deserter.

In the era of hot weapons when arquebuses appeared, arquebuses also relied on the dense advantage of more people firing salvos, such as the western phalanx, which was a central dense spear phalanx and a two-wing musket team to retreat and reload tactics, and the cooperation of these two arms needed to be arranged in a regular queue to march and retreat.

So both Prince Maurice and Gustav II marched in the ranks of the troops, conducting rigorous training.

Whether it is the army of Gustav II or Prince Maurice, it can quickly form and change formations in various complex terrain conditions.

For example, modern military training often shouts to turn left, turn right, march in unison, and walk in steps, these queue training methods are recorded in detail in the Maurice Dictionary written by Prince Maurice, and the implementation of all-army training has been inherited by his excellent student Gustav II.

Later, with the advent of firearms, flintlock pistols and bayonets, the army continued to innovate in the formation of the line, but the queue training was maintained.

Especially in the hands of the Prussians, who were known for their rigor and rigidity, Friedrich II the Great evolved the ranks to the extreme with strict military training.

Later, in the Napoleonic era, the more flexible column tactics slowly replaced the rigid line tactics.

It was not until the advent of breech-loading rifled guns that the major armies in Europe finally lined up the line surname, and such tactics were eliminated, and the skirmish line tactics began to prevail.

As for modern times, the appearance of airplanes, tanks, and the way of fighting in line has become synonymous with being shot in a queue.

The queue training in the modern army has long been separated from its original military use and has been changed to a kind of training for the discipline and obedience of the troops. Of course, in this era of cold weapons, especially in the western phalanx, queue training is absolutely effective.

(To be continued)