Although the quality of the new army was still very worrying, the enemy would not give them more time to continue training. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

In the early autumn, Nobunaga couldn't wait to inform Lorraine that it was time to gather the team and go out to compete with the female tigers of the Uesugi family.

Of course, Lorraine objected to this, "Your Excellency Nobunaga! Less than three months have passed since the formation of the new army and the start of training, so why should they be put on the battlefield now? ”

"Because after the autumn harvest, the Uesugi family will definitely order soldiers and horses to come directly to the door." Nobunaga said this, then sighed and handed Lorraine a stack of intelligence papers.

"Your Excellency the Admiral, let's see for yourself, the Uesugi family's military division has already begun to move."

Lorraine didn't know what the result was, and he broke out in a cold sweat halfway through it.

This information is all important information that scouts, spies, and ninja soldiers have paid countless lives to find out.

The problem is that if the information above is 80% correct, then after the autumn harvest, the Uesugi family will have 30,000 more mercenaries on the original basis, and a pirate fleet to serve them.

The 30,000 Songyue mercenaries alone were already terrifying, and those were the well-armed guys of the Silk Continent, not to mention the super-fast pirate raiding fleet, which would definitely make a mess of the area controlled by the Oda family.

"Indeed...... We must interrupt this Li Qiwei's deployment, once they have so many new forces, it is really difficult to do. ”

"Yes, that's the tigress of Uesugi Kenshin, the most trusted and powerful military advisor, so I decided that I must bring a large army to interrupt their plans!"

“…… Well, I agreed, but the artillery of the new army has not been contacted by the arms dealers, and only a third of the new muskets are in place......"

"Don't worry about this, just let the rest use the old-fashioned iron cannon first, and after that, leave it to me!"

Seeing Nobunaga's confident appearance, Lorraine couldn't help but nodded, since the landlords are like this, what else can he, the guest army, say?

So five days before the autumn harvest began, Nobunaga set out with his full-time professional soldiers, the Toei New Army, and the Britannian Eastern Expeditionary Force.

The total number of troops exceeded 60,000, and the army of 100,000 was marching towards the border area, with 10,000 new troops in the Middle East and 5,000 people from the Eastern Expeditionary Force to assist.

It's just that the seemingly mighty and majestic army is really not very reassuring, although the people along the way will not run in panic, but the border of the army is always very worrying.

After all, the army of an agricultural country usually has to rob all the way to ensure supplies, even if the Oda family is in an advantageous position in Toei, it cannot be avoided.

Seeing that the soldiers of Dongying would take grain and grass from the people's homes every time they went to a place, they called it "collecting grain for His Majesty the Emperor's just war", but in fact it was not a robbery!

This is only one aspect, Lorraine has been a soldier for so long, and he has developed a black heart, and he will never rob himself.

However, at a very low price, he buys young children and beautiful girls from farmers, and this kind of thing is not less, and he will help if he sees someone who can't survive.

Although it was an act of love by foreign friends, it was an act of love for foreign friends to help contact slave traders, leaving them alone, leaving their young sons and young girls behind.

In any case, twelve days after such an army of locusts was launched, they finally arrived at the Sanhe River, the border area between the Oda family and the Uesugi family.

Located in the Kanto region of the island nation, the Mihe River was in the hands of the Tokugawa family twenty years ago, but the Oda family quickly built the majestic Ishikawa Fortress at a high cost.

It's a pity that the Oda family was attacked by the Uesugi family, and the Ishikawa fortress in the chaos was also taken away by the other party, resulting in Nobunaga not being recaptured until now.

"But Nobunaga, why don't we consider other routes into the Uesugi family's controlled area?"

"This is due to the environment of the Sanhe River, except for the area where the Ishikawa Fortress is located, which is more convenient to cross the river, the rivers in other areas are really fast, and if you are not careful, there will be a boat wreck."

"But it's a fortress after all...... No matter what kind of fortress it is, it is really not Korean without artillery troops, so why don't we consider cutting off the Sanhe River? ”

"Truncate the Sanhe River?" Nobunaga touched his chin, then shook his head to indicate that it was impossible.

"Admiral Lorraine still gave up this idea, if you want to cut off the Sanhe River, you have to go upstream, but the most suitable place there is guarded by the temple forces, and they will definitely not let us do this."

"That's ...... so"

Lorraine didn't have much of an idea, but it was a bit strange that the temple monk could make Nobunaga dare not do it.

Perhaps seeing his doubts, Nobunaga explained it to him.

It turns out that in Dongying, in addition to the strongest Imperial Three families on the bright side, there are other forces distributed all over the place, ostensibly obeying the orders of the Imperial Three Families, but in fact they are still the Earth Emperor.

On this side, there are temples, shrines, powerful daimyos, clans, ninja villages, yokai, natives, etc., and hundreds of large and small forces exist.

Among them, the temple is the largest of them, and almost all the temples in Dongying are now in a state of cooperation.

They united to control the minds of the Dongying people, and greatly influenced a series of important activities such as medical treatment, weddings, festivals, waterway dojos, and sacrifices in their lives.

At the same time, they also have their own land and buildings, and there are also canonizations from the imperial court and Gao Tianyuan (Dongying Divine Realm) and the Buddha of the Western Continent (although they have long been brought by dogs), which are properly powerful.

"I see, it's really a trouble to get into, and it seems that we still have to think about how to capture Ishikawa Fortress."

"That's it, I'm looking forward to the performance of the Forces nouvelles and the Britannian mercenaries."

"Let's wait and see."

After saying goodbye to Nobunaga, Lorraine immediately returned to his camp, and although he verbally asked the other party to wait and see, he really couldn't feel at ease when he thought of the current situation of the troops.

However, this season and the accommodation conditions of the Dongying army caused Lorraine to be very distressed: the earthy smell of tents, the enduring mosquito bites and the undue heat wave.

The devil knows why it is so hot here in the Sanhe River, and the sudden heavy rains in the summer caused the river to overflow, and most of the old military camp site was washed away, and the Oda army was forced to move the main camp to a hill far away from the Ishikawa fortress, and the living and supply conditions were naturally not as convenient as before.

Not to mention that the new army has not been able to fight independently until now, the training time is too short, and the fact that he knows how to drill the ghost girl's tent every day, there are ten fools who have died these days, which is really unfortunate!

But there was no point in Lorraine complaining, and he could only hope that this group of inferior poor, ghostly prostitutes, and greedy foreign mercenaries would transform into a real army in war.

The cost must have been terrible, but it was something they had to accomplish.