When eating dinner, Mochizuki Chiba always felt weird and awkward.

The Sasa family is not like any of the lesser daimyo families, at least not when they eat.

According to the rules, and as is the accepted practice of the world, everyone should put their food on a plate in front of him, eat their own food, and sit in the same room.

But Sasa's house eats together at a large table, not only with Sasa Naruma and his concubines, but also with guests such as Mochizuki Chiba.

The richness of the meal is also surprising, Sasa Narimasa himself is already a well-known "gourmet" who is despised by the samurai, but now Narumasa has invited a chef from the Ming Kingdom from Li Huamei with a high salary, and in his own words - "I finally don't have to eat ramen sushi teppanyaki every day", and the world's delicacies such as "Sasa Sushi", "Narita Ramen" and "Hakaze Teppanyaki" have become commonplace food in his eyes.

However, it is worth mentioning that the dining table and high chairs made by Sasa Chengzheng are good, quite comfortable, and much better than kneeling.

Because of this or that kind of discomfort, and because of the crowd of people, Mochizuki Chiba was not able to talk to her aunt Chiyoyo more.

After dinner, because of the reason that "Mochizuki Chiba left the Shihonjia as Chiyo's nephew", Sasa Narumasa immediately arranged a residence for Chiba in Ninomaru in Sakado Castle.

The next day, Chiba got up early, took a heavy wooden knife and began to do morning class.

When he didn't know whether he had slashed nine hundred and ninety-nine or one thousand and one, a young man with a huge wine gourd hanging from his waist, his hair was messy, and his stubble was thick.

"Morning, Lord Mochizuki."

Chiba's movements stopped, he had been wandering around Sakado Castle for nearly a month before he officially asked to see Sasa Narumasa, and of course he knew who this young man was.

"Early."

"The lord said that you should serve as an iron cannon team with me...... Abu, the instructor who is always on hand, so there are a few words that may not sound very good, so I have to pick it out with you first. ”

…… Is it really a demonstration?

Chiba quietly put away the wooden knife and stood upright, waiting for Suzuki Shrub's next step.

"First...... You and I are both instructors, but you can't interfere with the training I give them, in other words, the training of standing ashigaru is divided into 2 parts, you and I are responsible separately, and the well water does not interfere with the river water, Okai? ”

"Hay."

"Second, this force of 100 people, although it is now called Standing Ashigaru, but in fact it is not like this, according to the plan established by the lord, I am the positive, you are the deputy, do you understand?"

Can only be a deputy yourself?

…… It doesn't matter, in short, being an instructor is such a thing, and I am also lacking in interest, so it's casual.

"Hay."

"Third,...... Let me think. ”

Suzuki shrub patted his head, forgot the third one, he crossed his hands on his waist, one leg trembled and shook for a long time, and then untied the huge wine gourd on his waist and poured a few sips, but he still didn't seem to remember.

"Forget it, I'll tell you when I remember."

Mochizuki Chiba stared at the sloppy and unobtrusive Suzuki shrub in front of him, and the corners of his mouth twitched slightly.

…… It is rumored that this guy is a master of iron artillery, but in other aspects, he can only hehe.

"I'm leaving, don't forget to gather later, 9 o'clock!"

While pouring his head up and pouring wine, he avoided all the roadblocks and the maids who came and went, and left in a hurry.

Chiba only then walked down the hallway and picked up a round object from his sword.

"Nine...... Dot...... Bell...... One, two, three, four, five, six...... Eight...... Nine...... Oh, there's still half an hour. ”

This is a pocket watch given to him by Sasa Chengzheng, and the retainers of the Sasa family at the level of the head general and above have one for each person, although he is a newcomer, he is no exception.

It's just that the compass-like structure of this clock is not very familiar to Chiba, but isn't the timekeeping method of the hands of the clock very similar to the compass?

Nonsense...... Mochizuki Chiba has never played with a compass, so how can he be familiar.

Half an hour later, Chiba had breakfast and arrived at the training ground outside the city on time.

A hundred people stood in a 10x10 phalanx, and Suzuki Bush patrolled back and forth around the phalanx with an iron cannon on his shoulder and a grass root in his mouth.

"Listen to me, little bunnies! This posture is called standing! Army! Appearance! ”

"Don't tell me how strong your martial arts are, how accurate your archery is, how powerful your line is, and how profound your sect is.

"War, two words: one horizontal and one vertical.

"Wrong, lie down, stand to be qualified to speak. Do you hear me? ”

The eyes of a hundred soldiers were puzzled, some of them were from mountain hunters, some were from ronins who had traveled around the world, and some were down-and-out swordsmen or disciples of swordsmen.

Suzuki Bush won't let them mention this, won't let them mention that, I don't know what they can mention?

One horizontal and one vertical?

Either to live or to die?

Chiba Mochizuki stopped not far away, and he wanted to observe the training method of Suzuki Shrub for himself.

He knew that the Suzuki shrub came out of the Shisa Sadasa very early, and when Sasa Narumasa was no longer personally responsible for the training, he could also understand Sasa's way of thinking by observing the Suzuki shrubs.

Everyone had their own thoughts, but no one answered, just stunned and nailed to the spot.

"Yaga! I ask you if you hear me! ”

Suzuki suddenly let out a loud cry, and a jackal-like and dangerous aura burst out of his body, almost making the few recruits beside him unsteady.

"I hear you...... Listen...... I heard ......"

The recruits responded sparsely.

Filling the earth suddenly changed the iron cannon to his left hand, took out the flint and steel, lit the iron cannon with two clicks, aimed at the feet of the recruits, and fired a cannon with a "bang":

"I ask you, do you hear me!"

"I heard you!"

Despite some tinnitus, everyone shouted in unison.

"That's it, the morning training station military posture, you just stand like this, now it's nine seventeen, wait until twelve o'clock, let you go to dinner."

With that, he tinkered with the iron cannon in his hand and reloaded the ammunition, and then went to the shade of the tree and leaned against the roots and lay down.

After cleaning the iron cannon in his hand, he took out a paper shell bullet from another bag, held the iron cannon in his left hand, and bit it with his teeth in his right hand.

It wasn't until he poked into the chamber of the gun with a slender iron rod and compacted the projectiles and gunpowder that he sighed with ease, and took a few sips of the small waist holding the wine gourd.

Mochizuki Chiba, like those recruits, stood under the scorching sun and never moved, and he couldn't help but be secretly frightened as he watched Suzuki's actions of clearing the soil and loading the iron cannon.

Even the most skilled cannon shooter he had ever seen would have had to take four or five breaths (one minute) to complete this series of movements, but Suzuki's movements were extremely fast, only three breaths at most.

In this way, Chiba, along with the soldiers, stood motionless under the scorching sun for three hours.

Compared to Chiba's meticulousness and immobility, the soldiers obviously couldn't last long, and in just a quarter of an hour, there were already many people who had small movements.

Although Suzuki Bush squinted and slept under the tree, he was always the first to notice the small movements of the recruits.

"Yaga! You, you, and you! Dequeue! ”

Under the scolding of the soil, the recruits who couldn't hold on to moving were named by him.

"From here to the tree at the foot of that mountain, turn back fifty times!"

The soldiers were unwilling, but they could only obediently obey orders.

In this way, the phalanx continued to attrition, from the initial 100 people, to the end, only one person remained.

There is only one person, and Chiba Mochizuki is not far away.

Suzuki shrub glanced at the time...... 11:56 a.m.

He smiled and got up from under the tree, walked behind the last soldier, and slowly looked around him.

This person looks quite young, but I don't know why he has a shaved head and eyebrows, and his appearance can only be regarded as ordinary, which is too far from "rough" and "brave".

"Report your name!"

"Little monk...... Oh no, the villain Jie Shan Yunsheng! ”

Hearing this little guy call himself a "little monk", Suzuki Bush couldn't help but laugh.

"It turned out to be a little monk! But...... I didn't ask your name, I asked your name! ”

"The little monk is a young man, there are no seedlings, after becoming a monk in Iiyama, the host named me Jieshan Yunsheng!"

"Iiyama?"

Chiba's eyebrows raised slightly.

The Iiyama area was originally led by the Kitashinano Takanashi family, but during the Echigo riots two years ago, the Takanashi family surrendered to the Takeda clan and led troops to participate in the attack on Kasuga Mountain Castle, and was removed by Uesugi Terutora. Today, the lord of the Iiyama area is the Kakizaki Kei.

"Since you're from Iiyama, why don't you go to Takeda, why don't you go to the Kakizaki Keijia who is 'invincible in the Seven Counties of Echigo'?"

Filling the soil and pretending to be angry, the little monk immediately replied:

"The little monk did vote for Kakizaki and Izumi Mamoru, but ...... But ......"

The little monk became a little distracted.

"It turned out to be a deserter!"

The iron cannon on Suzuki's shoulder was lowered, and the muzzle of the black hole was aimed at the little monk's face.

"The little monk was kicked out!"

"Why?"

“…… They think I'm eating too much and eating too much! ”

"It turned out to be a rice bucket! Ahahahaha! ”

The earth shook off the iron cannon and laughed.

After that, Chiba Mochizuki found the "weapons" to ration these recruits under the tree where Suzuki shrub was reclining.

It's a weapon, but it's probably just training equipment...... A wooden stick about one meter three long, the head of the stick is sharpened, it is said to be a wooden knife, which is also too long, it is said to be a wooden wild knife, and it does not have the arc that a wild knife should have.

The daimyo of various countries are constantly lengthening the length of the spear, and the so-called three-and-a-half spear comes from this, and the three-and-a-half-room spear is six meters and three as long. So Chiba thought about the possibility in N, but he didn't think that this thing would be a wooden gun, because it was too short.

Turning his head to look at the Suzuki bush lying under the tree drinking, a possibility suddenly flashed in Mochizuki Chiba's heart.

Suzuki is good at iron cannons, is this a ...... Iron Artillery Team?